TY  - JOUR
T1  - OVersupply of medical products.
Y1  - 1899/09/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450640054017
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 740
EP  - 740
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 12
N2  - Our English brethren are evidently suffering to as great an extent from an overabundance of ready-made medical preparations as we are. And the same determination to crowd the stuff down the throats of the physicians—figuratively speaking, of course—is as much in evidence on the other side as on this side of the Atlantic. Every week or two our English exchanges contain letters crying out against the evil of free samples, of traveling representatives of proprietary drug houses and other evidences of an oversupply of medical preparations. The last number of the Medical Press and Circular prints a communication which is unique in that it proposes a remedy. "I say that if a stop be not put to this"—the deluge of medical preparations— "the treatment of disease will be taken out of our hands altogether. The public come to know what is ordered and then proceed to order for themselves," is
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450640054017
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450640054017
ER  -