Excerpt from Thirty-First Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Health The Food and Drug Law requires that all preparations con taining narcotics, such as cocaine, morphine, opium, etc., be plainly labeled to that effect. In general such preparations have been properly labeled. The sale of cocaine, however, in spite of the declaration of the contents on the package, continues. It is our belief that a law should be enacted restricting to the physician or dentist who finds in his practice a legitimate use for it, the dis peusing of cocaine. We believe that such a law Should provide that every sale of cocaine should be recorded and that its illegal sale be made an ofiense punishable by imprisonment in the State's Prison. The Food and Drug Law as amended at the last Legislature of 1911, adequately meets the purposes for which it was enacted. By its enforcement, food adulterations have largely been stopped, and the sale of misbranded and mislabeled products reduced to a mini mum. The labels of drugs and patent medicines conform to the law and carry no false or misleading statements. Nevertheless, the sale of fraudulent, patent and proprietary medicines continues. This is made possible only by reason of the fact that the drug law in no way regulates the character of advertisement which may be used in the sale of these so-called remedies. We believe that legis lation is necessary, first to prohibit fraudulent advertisements, and second to require that the manufacturer of all preparations intended to be used for the cure or alleviation of diseases of man or other animals should be so regulated that those engaged in the business must have passed a stringent examination to determine their qualifications to prepare medicinal preparations. An exam ination is required before physicians, dentists or pharmacists can practice, but at the present time there is absolutely no regulation governing the manufacturer of medicinal preparations. In our experience by far the greatest number of preparations marketed and sold in' immense quantities in this State are manufactured by those who have little or no knowledge of the science of medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.