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From Mount Gilead each year, the Drs. Robinson ship thousands of gallons of medicine concocted from a secret formula which they purchased from respectable old Dr. Tucker before he died in 1920. The medicine, which contains small amounts of cocaine, is sold, complete with atomizer and carrying kit, for $12.50 to any asthma sufferer, sight unseen, who mails in a questionnaire...
Last week the U. S. House of Representatives devoted an afternoon to discussing asthma, its cause and cure. Said Congressman Frederick Cleveland Smith of Ohio: "Mr. Chairman, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, is located a laboratory that puts out a certain medicine known as the Nathan Tucker Asthma Remedy. A Food and Drugs Act passed last year would compel firms of this sort to cease prescribing by making a diagnosis through the mails. . . . I have practiced medicine for a good many years and have myself prescribed this remedy many times. . . . I know physicians who use it themselves. Just before I left...
...Yale Medical School) to continue their business of diagnosing and prescribing asthma medicine through the mail. Under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, this practice is illegal. To comply with the Act, which goes into effect next June, Robinson patients will have to come to Mount Gilead for treatment...
...American Medical Association and anti-Tucker Congressmen (who last week defeated the bill) object to the Balm of Gilead. Asthma is a disease which may be due to any one of a score of causes. No one "specific" can relieve the disease, says A. M. A., and no "long-distance treatment" can diagnose conditions which require the personal attention of a physician...
Displaying an attitude that is nothing if not cleemosynary a group of kind hearted Harvard students have adopted a pursuit that is balm in Gilead to the most dejected, the most completely submerged human beings in the United States, those people who write to the 'agony column'of the Saturday Review of Literature. Bringing a note of cheer into the drab lives of these people who have been denied a soul-mate by an unkind fate, the Harvardians pen notes of hope and encouragement every week...