"No weight reducing compound in any form should be used unless the patient is under strict observation by a thoroughly qualified physician." So declared Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia to the American College of Physicians, meeting in Chicago last week. To such talk, patent medicine manufacturers and many a layman reply: "Humph, doctors trying to make more business for themselves!"
Dr. Bortz was talking specifically about the latest weight reducing drug, Dinitrophenol, which burns up fat by speeding the body's metabolic processes. In so doing it may also produce nausea, itching, rash. Taken in overlarge doses, it brings violent illness and...
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