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Secret drugs, cures and foods. : recommendations made by Messrs. Liddell, M. P., Maloney, M. P., Salmon, M. P., and Wilson, M. P., in reference to omitting certain portions of the report by Royal Commission, together with a reply by the Commission
Bib ID 7897532
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline [text, volume]
Author
Australia. Parliament. issuing body
 
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Description [Melbourne], Victoria : Printed and published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria, 1907 
1 sheet (2 pages) : 34 cm 
Series

Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 1907, no. 139

Biography/History

This paper is an amended version of: Secret drugs, cures and foods - Report of the Royal Commission on. (PP 28/1907; originally tabled on 8th August 1907). Debate on 11th September caused the original paper to be withdrawn, and reviewed by four medically qualified MPs, chaired by Charles Carty Salmon. On 20 November, they recommended a small number of changes. The printer was instructed to reprint page 9/10, removing three paragraphs, and obliterate three lines on page 15. The sections on page 10 were an intemperate attack on the Review of Reviews and Annie Besant (quoted in paragraph 7) and the lines on page 15 concern the use of whalebone or wire to induce abortions. Pages 9 and 10 were further extensively rewritten and pages 9 to 19 were completely reset. Australasian Pharmaceutical Notes & News (January, 1931) notes that "copies were recalled as far as possible and ... destroyed." A revised version of the report was tabled on 13 December."

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At head of title: The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Nq 328.94 AUS copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2772321336

Subjects Drugs -- Law and legislation -- Australia.  |  Poisons -- Law and legislation -- Australia.  |  Patent medicines -- Australia.  |  Contraceptives -- Australia.  |  Abortifacients -- Australia.  |  Australian.
Other authors/contributors Beale, Octavius C. (Octavius Charles), 1850-1930. author  |  Australia. Royal Commission on Secret Drugs, Cures, and Foods. issuing body  |  Revision of Australia. Royal Commission on Secret Drugs, Cures, and Foods. Secret drugs, cures and foods - Report of the Royal Commission on

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