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Bill Taft: “The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by…”

On the recordJune 19, 1911
The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while their diseases progress unchecked.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the Congress Concerning the Pure Food and Drugs Act

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