After 75 years disturbedonly by babies crying for it, Fletcher's Castoria (soothing, laxative) was last week in the biggest dither in the drug trade. A mysterious emetic had cropped up in some of the medicine and nauseated a few takers. The preparation's makers, the Centaur Co., a division of Sterling Drug, Inc., temporarily withdrew Castoria from the market.
First warning came when two North Carolina doctors told the Food & Drug Administration that tried & trueCastoria had made their little patients ill. Centaur Vice President Joseph Bohan at once ordered up a bottle, tasted it, got...
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