CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893 — Page 420

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My Lord 17 ( 35

Broadoaks

Byfleet

Surrey.....

13th October 1893

I venture to address.

by

you upon

the

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subject of a Bill proposed to be passed_ the Governor of Hong Kong to suppress administration and injection of Morphia by unqualified persons -

I enclose a print of this Bill and would ask your Lordship to consider the effect which it will have spon the population if it pass into law -

I am the only son of the late D. J. Collis Browne who was

Medical Officer i

Her

in

ellajesty's Army for many years, and who, whilst

with his Regiment

in India, inverting

in India, invented a preparation which he called "Chlorodyne and which has during the last 40 years, proved of inestimable benefit if administered at

persons suffering from cholera.

once to

The medicine. has had an enormous sale and the

dysentery or diarchæa

enclosed extracts from the very many Certificates which I hold

anen will shew

from

Medical

you that those best

opinion upon

competent to form.

arr

the

subject consider the medicine invaluable

as a

which I have referred -

a remedy for the complaints to

Chlorodyne contains a small portion of allorphine - although that drug.

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