Medicine: Sapient Lawson

Commenting on the death of Victor F. Lawson (see Page 29), The Journal of the American Medical Association last week called attention to the fact that ten years ago Mr. Lawson went to the expense of having analyses made of patent medicines offered for advertising in the Chicago News, and then submitted the chemists' reports to his physicians, who passed on the claims made for such medicines before they could be advertised.

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