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- Diamond Dinner Pills, 1895-1930 - Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act of 1909, the Canadian government restricted these medicines' content, required appropriate labeling and instructed manufacturers to register their medicines with the proper agency.
- 1895-1930
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Diamond Dinner Pills, 1895-1930
Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act of 1909, the Canadian government restricted these medicines' content, required appropriate labeling and instructed manufacturers to register their medicines with the proper agency.