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Article: Buying 'off-shore' drugs may be risky business.
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
- Author:
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John Hoxsey had a horse.
One of the horse's legs developed a sore, which the local veterinarian decided was cancerous. Several months after putting the horse out to pasture, John noticed the sore disappeared.
John then gathered all the plants the horse had eaten from and rubbed against in the pasture and combined them into his "Hoxsey Herbal Formula."
--Hoxsey Family Folklore
No one knows for sure if this story is true, but Hoxsey's formula is being sold by mail order throughout the United States as an alternative cancer therapy, according to Donald Leggett, a compliance officer in the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug ...