The Arizona Gleam

WARNS AGAINST USE OF FAKE MALARIA "CURES"

Fake malaria cures have given government food and drug officials trouble for more than 20 years, according to F. J. Cullen, of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Distributed largely in the Southern states, many have been manufactured locally and sold within the borders of a single state, so as to avoid Federal jurisdiction. Quinine and other cinchona alkaloids have been recognized for years as the most, if not the only, valuable treatment for this serious malady. In the enforcement of the Federal food and drugs act, government officers have encountered upon the market preparations falsely recommended for malaria, which contained little or no quinine. These have been seized and manufacturers have been prosecuted.

"The standard quinine treatment recommended by the National Malaria Committee and approved by the United States Public Health Service has for more than 10 years been recognized as the approved treatment for this disease," says Doctor Cullen.

"The treatment, well known to all physicians who treat malaria patients, prescribes a certain number of grains of quinine a day for a period of eight weeks. Physicians are interested not only in the cure of one malarial patient, but aim to treat the patient in such a manner as to prevent him from remaining a carrier or a potential carrier of infection to others."