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MORE:
SECRET REMEDIES.
WHAT THEY COST & WHAT THEY CONTAIN
London
1912.
COPYRIGHT.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia ...
II. Preparations for Eczema and other Sliin Affections
III.
Nerve Tonics and " Elixirs of Life "
Chapter I. Kemedies
for
IV.
Medicines for
v.
,,
etc.
71
...
87
102
a " Flesh Producer "
112
X.
...
The
XIII. Medicines for Amenorrhoea,
XII.
152
of
Bad Legs
Specific
184
etc.
Medicine "
210
XVII.Unqualified
222
...
XIX. The
XX. Some
...
Echoes
of
Volume
231
241
XVIII.
Index
178
XV.
XVI.
167
XIV. Wallace's
128
147
XI.The
^4
...
VIII.
30
252
...
256
259
1
...
265
PREFACE.
The
under the
What
of
publication
title
they Contain
some
most
of the
"of
perhaps
medicines put forward for the cure of disease, has
done more than anything else to open the eyes of the public,
regard
the authorities, and the Legislature to the true facts in
such articles and of the enormous traf&c
At the time of the publication of
that goes on in them.
a
this second volume, a public inquiry into the matter by
to the nature of
its
much amendment.
in this department
is
But the
surest
enemy
of
room
quackery
made
the medicines.
present existing
is
so vast that
The number
it is
of
those
at
VI
It will be recognised at
is a very wide
variation in the degree of exaggeration
in the claims put
forward.
In a few cases a small minoritythe advertisements appear to consist of very little but an indication
of the
is recommended.
At the
other end of the scale there are nostrums put
forward with
the greatest assurance for even the most
serious disorders,
including consumption, smallpox, cancer, etc.,
etc.,
many
same
and in
a cure
every disease to which the human body is
liable.
As a rule, the more extravagant the claims made,
the
for almost
more
ful, for
all
The medicines
gradations.
other,
it
The
the
is
analyses
greatest
open
its
(and
very
cases),
it
described
the
to
alter
care
here
published
during the
maker
composition
great
is,
of
of
alterations
may have
last
been
few years.
time
have been
possible
altered
made with
been
proprietary
any
at
course,
have
that
Since
medicine
without
proved
some
since
made and
the
it
to
warning
in
of
some
those
analyses
VII
certainty, even in
sufficiently pains-
complex mixtures, by
but this
is
not the
of
approximate
such
in
results,
defined characters
and
may
of a secret medicine
is
can
analysis
cases
give
no
well-
having
constituents
escape detection.
in
only
no wise limited
to the
may
Pharma-
employ, for
it is
if all
is
recognised as a
the constituents of a
characters by
means
of
possess
well-defined
identified, it will
The
'
book as the
'
estimated cost of
refer
only
to
the
analysis
are
not
sufficiently
Where
definite
for
sold, or
the results of
the
cost of
ingredients to be estimated with reasonable fairness,
the
figure is omitted.
of
his
analyses
of
various
nostrums sold
of his results are here included.
in
MORE
SECRET REMEDIES.
WHAT THEY COST AND WHAT THEY
CHAPTEE
CONTAIN.
I.
some
of
complaints.
They show
methods
of
drops,
and mixtures
to
feet.
is
for
example,
and
less civilised
it is
an ideal liniment.
'
went back to
wrest from it the
'
In the course
of his searches
he was favourably impressed with the healing properties of
many herbs used by native tribes," etc. in another, " this
;
wonderful preparation
is
the discovery of a
Hindu
doctor
in the
Thus one
states
thnt
A
"
No
power exerted
a physical
which
principle
may
purity
'
'
selects
and
stomach by a conscious
in the
and which in
rejects,
its
message
of discovery
subtle extract
fire
another that
it
sets out
natural
its
upon
light-
or life of plants
Quint-
'
essence of Life.'
Among
the claims
made by
is
known
nothing
the
include
in
in medicine
efficient
mutually exclusive
following
medicine
which
will
compare
for
Most
all
be true.
seem unable
to
resist
their
advertisements.
which
done
this is
the one
is to
in
to vilify
fools, or both.
'
'
sion
'
and
'
'
exemplified by
'
'
certain medical
is
poisonous
men
....
latter is
Those who
Box's Golden
poison
'
stock-in-trade
poor victims
same it
is
their
It
perish by thousands."
One preparation
described
below
Bengue's
Balsam
way
as others,
it is
it is
useful to include
HOFFMAN'S
DR.
advertised in
it
here.
RHEUMATIC
POWDERS.
is
There
is
Narcotic
manufacture
Its
is
it.
They
that are well suited for the purposes for which they are designed.
are valuable powders for rheumatism, gout, and kindred complaints. These
powders are free from narcotics, poisons, or undes'irable constituents, but
are powerful uric acid solvents.
and effective medicines.
I consider
them
to
be perfectly safe,
reliable,
A 2
'
....
acid
H4
Phenacetin
Caffeine
13
Sugar
Moisture
20.1
0.8
Acetyl-salicylic acid
is
Xaxa,
is
also
known by
the shortened
name
of the
etc.
acid,
Id.
EADE'S
These
ment
pills
it is
PILLS.
In an advertise-
instantly relieve and rapidly cure the worst form of gout, rheumatism,
rheumatic gout, pains in the head, face, and limbs.
The
They
are specially
from experience,
recommended
improved state of
efficient
for these
disorders.
These Pills have repeatedly succeeded after all the usual internal and
remedies have failed
and it is their peculiar property that
the first dose completely arrests the frequent tendency of those diseases
to attack some vital part while, if attacked, the symptoms are immediately
and effectually removed.
external
l^d.
bottle
known
composition.
Barbadoee aloes
Extract of oolchicum
Powdered oolchicum corm
10 per cent.
ig
35
27
in
Treacle
Gum
The formula
as follows
and dextrin
pills,
fd.
The
price of each
package
of the
is Is.
and
l|d.
N.B.
On
the
former appears
And
it is
strongly
recommended
to use
It
Sciatica,
strongly
is
recommended that
for
it is
stated that
"Uricura" Liniment and Drops (Hammond's -Specifics) Cure RheumaLumbago and Neuralgia When All other Remedies
directed.
For Colds
Uricura Drops.
The
directions
are:
to
contain
oil
of
turpentine,
per cent.
Terebene
47.5
Oil of turpentine
47.5
Oil of
amber
fluid ounce,
M.
Uricura Liniment.
To
The
directions are:
aJid morning.
be gently rubbed in for 10 to 15 minutes, night
The liniment
Oil of turpentine
Acetic acid [B.P.)
In estimating
the
cost
of
2.3
9.0
,,
2.0
,,
0.01
100
ingredients,
the
alkaloid
is
if
cost
CHAMELEON
OIL.
is
Medicine
It
is
made by
a limited
Known."
When
translated,
Roman
literally
of
what
... it was left to Dr. Chas. F. Roberts to bring the word back
to its
original meaning, as being an ointment whose sole
method of action would
consist of simply anointing the affected part, and
thus painlessly effecting
the cure. The task he had set himself was to produce
an external application which, to the two other virtues of being
"soothing and painkillmg " should add a third, and the most important
of all, " a healing
power." As an advanced medical man he realised that
the ideal of the
healmg art should be to relieve human pain by natural
means. And so
like the ancient physician, he went back to
the heart of Nature in an
endeavour to wrest from it the secret of an ideal
liniment.
In the
course of his searches he was favourably impressed
many
properties of
The
action
The general
Shake the
directions are:
3
of the Oil) until
the Oil gently into the affected part (use plenty
begins ; then
sweating
and
any
more
take
to
refuse
skin
the pores of the
material, and fix with
porous
other
or
flannel,
wool,
of
layer
cover with a
with hot water and
a bandage. For Steongeb Effect, wash affected part
Rub
wash first
apply on as above after drying. For Very Powerful Effect,
with
bandage
and
drying,
with very hot water, apply Oil as above after
Keep
it.
of
solution
or
Oil
the
flannel or absorbent cotton wool soaked in
on bandage as long as possible note that if kept on too long it will raise
;
a blister.
the throat,
between meals.
1 to 2 in the other.
The
mean composition
figures given
on the next
of the two.
The
to
fractional
mixture
distillation,
By making a mistur
in the
chameleon
oj].
10
The amounts
of
all
much
with ae
oil of
Essential
oil
Essential
oil
Essential
oil
of
spearmint
pimento
0.45
1.5
of cassia
of
camphor
15.0
Oil of turpentine
,
parts by measure
1.5
15.0
7.3
8.0
Water, to
1.6
,,
100.0
'
Assuming the resins to be of the nature indicated, the estimated cost of the ingredients for 3 fluid ounces is
pence
if rectified spirit were used, and about 2|d. if non-mineralised
methylated
spirit
were used.
LEVASCO.
The address given on the package of this article is merely
" Levasco Depot, Dover " it is described as " The Great Indian
;
in the
package
who
for
many
sufferer.
Levasco will
effect a
11
Gout cured
in a
Is.
ounce.
the original
Oleo-resin of ciipsicum
3 grains
Camphor
Oil of
lavender
Oil of
rosemary
,,
3 minims
Soap
,,
^ grain
1 fluid
ounce
DYXOL.
supplied by a firm in a small town near
stated on the package that:
This preparation
London.
It
is
is
in
the
Head,
Headache,
Stiff-neck,
bottle,
This
is
all
kinds
12
of Pains.
parts of
Pain.
Most
of these are
the body.
Dyxol has the power, above all other known preparations, of almost
instantly dispersing congested blood.
Its efficacy in this direction can
be easily demonstrated. Rub one drop of Dyxol on the face, when, in
than one minute, the spot will temporarily redden through the flow
of 'blood to the suriaoe.
less
In another advertisement
Is.
l|d.
The general
directions are
Essential
oil of
mustard
Cottonseed oil
Liquid paraffin, yellow
Kerosene
,,
6
17
33
oz., 2d.
POND'S ARTHRITI'CUS.
This preparation
on the label that it
is
It
is
stated
Rheumatic
Liver and Bowels removes the offending matter from the System, the
Blood ia purified, the Liver and Kidneys are relieved, the Joints become
supple, and there is a general freedom from pain. The Skin, participating
in the improvement, loses any Gouty Eczema which may exist, and
assumes a healthy appearance.
;
13
the title:
pamplilet enclosed in the package bears
cure, and prevention.
Gout and Goutiness. Tlieir cause, treateat,
By
1857.
of
No
food or drink
gout; that
for
good
are
since
practice
The degree
may
In
M.P.S., Sunigeon-ChiTopodist.
Pond,
P.
Geo.
is
is,
anti-gout;
it
is
so.
physical
one can reasonably deny an instinctive knowledge and a
and
selects
which
principle
conscious
power exerted in the stomach hy a
of
nerve
a
as
ranked
be
may
purity
natural
rejects, and which in its
No
...
sense.
of
Air, again, is as necessary with every mouthful in the process
digestion as the gastric juice itself ; it mixes with the saliva which pours
out of four different glands of different kinds and forms a powerful solvent
for the food.
Water, like
air,
is
nourishing.
is
death,
warmth
is life.
mended
The price
same maker
are recom-
in the pamphlet.
effervescing.
is
affections of the
Lithium citrate
Potassium citrate
Sodium
Sodium
1.4 parts
In one dose,
approximately.
5.0 grains
0.9 part
3.0
citrate
0.2
0.7 grain
salicylate
1.5 parts
,,
5.3 grains
Potassium bromide
Potassium bicarbonate
1.6
,,
5.6
8.0
,,
28.0
Glycerine
Chloroform water, about
5.1
Water,
to
10
100
18.0
,,
,,
,,
by measure
14
of ingredients for
is
the
name by which
Magic Foot Draft Company, London, the price being 46. 6d.
per pair.
In addition to the numerous advertisements of the
article by name, others have appeared recently, offering
in the
name of R. A. Oliver to send "my Celebrated External
Treatment [for Rheumatism]
to try free " to anyone
sending his name and address.
On sending a name and address
a pair of the " Foot Drafts " was received (differing from
those
sold in the ordinary way by bearing no revenue stamp),
together
with a long letter and a printed sheet of ttstimonials. The letter
.
states
the Drafts cannot be purchased for less than 4s. 6d. per pair anywhere,
and you can see that we could not afford to send them on approval if
they did not really cure.
of experience, that this number of Drafts will effect a cure in nine out of
ten patients, because it nearly always takes all the power of the first two
pairs to open up the clogged pores and start the removal of all poisonous
acid urates.
It is the third and fourth pair that invariably bring that
sense of relief and freedom from pain that every poor sufferer is looking
for.
for
We
take a sincere interest in your case [no case had been even mentioned
sending for the " cure "], and we are going to cure you. Now that the
cure has been started, every day's delay makes it more difficult for the
Drafts to do their work, and we trust that we shall hear from you by
in
return post.
15
money
in your case
frankly, because
we were
interested in
it.
cure you.
The
from
further printed sheets of these were
letters
quoted
freely
We
IB
alleged
testimonials,
and
On one of these
also sent.
guarantee Magic Foot Drafts
'
!
Thus
marvellous cure has been effected in the case of Mr. James Bodman,
The Mount, Frome.
Mr. Bodman writes
"I have suffered from
Rheumatism for the past seven years, and was almost a hopeless wreck. I
tried all sorts of remedies and dootors, but to no avail, and was sinking
fast when I tried your treatment.
I am glad to say that it has cured all
8,
my
am
The following
is
printed on on of the
sheets
mentioned
above
8,
Co.,
1st Feb.,
/09.
Dear Sir, I received your letter of recent date, and am pleased to give
you the following account of my case of Rheumatism. I have suffered
from this complaint for the past seven years, and was almost a hopeless
wreck.
was
pitiful sight,
it
16
me how
my
cure.
I got so well.
It
makes me
James Bodman.
Yet again,
nights, but I
became worse
after this.
I had given up all hope when a
me, stated that she had received wonderful results
from Magic Foot Drafts, and asked for permission to send for a pair for
me. I am now delighted to tell you that after wearing three pairs of
Drafts, I have not an ache or pain, and I am completely cured of all my
sufferings.
I am in my 72nd year, and I feel as supple now in all my joints
as a young man.
I cannot estimate the value of your Magic Foot Drafts,
and I can never thank you enough for the benefit they have given me."
friend
who caPed
to see
This had been " just received " on June 2nd, 1910.
The
phraseology has not changed much in the interval of sixteen
months but as the gentleman is still in his 72nd year, evidently time stands still with him
curiously, though, in the
letter first quoted, which appeared in a newspaper advertisement on May 18th, 1910, he is already 72 years old.
;
his
letter,
ment."
The same
is
differences are
name
to send three
'
'
shown in other
of J.
W.
letters; in
one place
name
is
thankful that I tried your Foot Drafts, for they are worth a
good many times th money that I paid." All this appears to
17
are ve^
writers of the testimonials
suggest either that the
tha
else
varying readings of them or
obffgTng in supplying
unless
them according to his fancy;
the advertiser alLrs
manufactured.
indeed, they are entirely
"Rheumatism
Its
entitled
booklet which is also sent,
plain and coloured pictures
various
Cause and Cure," contains
leg and
nerves, arteries, etc., of the
Tjrofessing to represent
"
supposed
"
are
Draft.
an account of how the
and gives
to act
The rheumatic
becc^e
Ltic
sufferer
:-His
acid
^^^^ma^^
may
poison
^alW
3om
spread on a sort of
measuring about 5 m. by
jaconet backing, of oblong shape and
about 3j in. by
the darker central portion measured
3i in.
grains of sticky
2A in" The margin was coated with about 10
chemical characters of
material, which had the physical and
" Venice turpentine " ; the darker portion, or the plaster iteeL,
be a mixture of
weighed about 80 grains, and was found to
white hellebore
Stockholm tar and the powdered rhizome of
album); determination of their proportions showed
The "drafts"
consisted of
plasters
;
'
(Veratrum
the formula to be, approximately
No
40 per cent.
Stockholm tar
^0
Estimated cost
of ingredients for
CELMO.
London.
This preparation is supplied by the Celmo Company,
contained
bottle
2s.
9d.
which
a
of
It is in the form of tablets,
B
18
thirty-six
In a booklet contained in
are deecnbed as
' f^^V^^'"""'''
Gour Luml.'"
Gout,
Lumbago, Gouty
Dyspepsia,
Eczema, Suppressed Gout, etc.
Sciatica,
tlie
Rheumatism, Rheumatic
Eczema, Neuritis, 'jouiy
Gouty
^C^^'J
^""^
^^^'^
We
find,
...
6d
size, sufficient.
The
tablets
is
published, which
is
as follows:
is
" the
Liniment."
l9
The
directions are:
an ordinary glass
In oommencing treatment, take two tablets with half
six tablets
making
meals,
of water just before or after each of the three
taken
at a dose
be
can
tablets
In very severe cases three
per day.
to
one-half
dose,
child's
A
above.
two
as
until pain is relieved, then
one tablet at times stated.
They had
5^ grains.
was
a slight smell of oil of juniper, but the amount present
as
a
far too small to be determined, and can only be described
The
tablets
of
trace.
acid
acetyl-salicylic
maltose,
monly added to tablets as a lubricant to facilitate their producThe alkaloid and extractive did not show
tion by a machine.
any characters by which they could be certainly identified
behaviour to various
any of the alkaloids in ordinary medicinal use.
alkaloid did not agree, in
The proportions
its
the
with
as accurately as practicable,
mula
testa,
for-
Acetyl-salicylic acid
Powdered
charcoal, about
18.0
Magnesium
14.5
,,
2.8
,,
sUicate
Water
12.3
Alkaloid
Extractive, about
0.5
8.0
Oleo-resin of capsicum
Oil of juniper
DR.
This preparation,
and London,
,,
differs
,,
trace.
,,
BENGUE'S BALSAM.
made by a firm giving addresses in Paris
from most of those dealt with here in the
: ;
20
is
"A
it ie,
to
Dr.
be the most effective scientific remedy.
"
Various
forms
Facial,
part and
Lumbar
Intercostal,
Ovarian, Sciatical
be
with
applications
should
Saturnine Colics;
Nephritic Colics;
the
parts
with
cleansed
water so as to
affected
warm
tion of the
Peritonitis
Gastralgia
;
Zona.
"Balsam"
The
cover up carefully
cotton wool.
Locomotor Ataxy
Various forms of Hyperaesthesia
Torticollis
Neuralgia,
of
is
supplied
in
collapsible
tubes;
2s.
package contained
oz.
On the label, following the
name, are the words "Menthol, MethylnSalicylate, Lanolin,"
and these three substances were found to be present. Analysis
showed the composition to be
Menthol
Methyl salicylate
Lanoline, anhydrous
fat,
18 percent.
20
,,
54
apparently lard
,,
BOX'S
PILLS
AND GOLDEN
FIRE.
These preparations are supplied from an address in a southThe " Golden Fire " is more especially reco n-
coast town.
mended
for
'
advertisements
Box's Golden Fire is a New Discovery for the removal of diseases,
being an Electric Fluid of Intense Power in rapidly attenuating, dissolving,
and removing obstructions in any part of the system.
Box's Golden Fire, which is used internally and externally, is a subtle
extract from the vegetable kingdom, the hidden fire or life of plants
and flowers, the " Quint-essence of Life " Call it, if you please, " Bottled
"
Fire " " Bottled Health " " Bottled Life
!
21
its
They have
'
perfect
filled
The
full
direc-
a sample
Take as directed on the la.bel. Also make a strong tea of Elder Blossom
and Peppermint Herb, and drink a pint at bedtime. Repeat the tea at
bedtime for two or three nights, if necessary. It seldom requires repeating.
This will save when on the brink of death.
The
thrilling
may
be
judged by an extract:
My
for life.
did,
Hat.
I advised
in
him
He
jammed
Another circular
As Your
states
As certain medical men have done their best by tongue and pen to
persuade the public that Box's Golden Fire is poisonous, the said Golden
Fire in consequence has been submitted to a rigid Chemical Analysis. The
following Report from the Eminent Analyst will effectually sew up the
lying lips.
22
ingredients, which combined (as in the mixbe taken internally or applied externally without fear
or hesitation."
ture)
may
The
circular continues
Those who raise the cry of "Poison" are wholesale traffickers in the
same it ie their stock-in-trade Poisons bring grist to their mills, while
the poor victims who swallow them perish by thousands.
The
is
For toothache, apply Golden Fire to the Tooth and rub it well into
the gums. For Neuralgia, Bruises, Sprains, etc., rub it briskly over the
seat of pain. For Polypus, apply with a camel-hair brush, and rub in on
the outside twice a day.
Is.
Analysis
2 J fluid ounces of liquid.
acetic acid, sodium chloride, volatile
starch, dextrin, extractive,
The mixture
showed
oils,
this
to contain
little
alcohol,
appeared to consist of
After
oils of camphor, eucalyptus, rosemary, and amber.
determining the quantities of the other ingredients, the amount
left to be described as starch, dextrin, and extractive was about
7 per cent, of the liquid ; this part possessed no characters by
which its source could be determined, but the liquid contained
solid particles which appeared to be due to defective straining,
and microscopical examination of these showed them unmistakably to consist of barley, lobelia, and capsicum, and the liquil
appears, therefore, to be a decoction of these, with the addition
The pungency was just
of the other ingredients named.
the proof capsicum
decoction
aqueous
an
that
of
to
similar
the
determined;
portions of barley and lobelia could not be
sicum.
of essential
oils
23
in the follow-
ing formula
amber
rosemary
0.16
eucalyptus
0-32
of
Oil
Oil of
Oil
of
Oil of
camphor
,,
1-3
(essential)
6.4
Sodium chloride
Glacial acetic acid
6.4
,,
Alcohol
Decoction of capsicum.
Decoction of barley.
Decoction of lobelia.
1-0
A
sizes
is
Is.
and
age weight of
" Dose
grains each.
2-J
The
directions
on the
label are,
35 parts.
15
15
20
5
to 100
Flour
Aloee
Soap
Water
is
It
For
is
West
9d.
England at
was found to
of
24
Circulars encloeed in the package also contained recommendaof the use of the Balm for colds, congested nostrils,
catarrh, whooping-cough and croup, lumbago, stiff-neck,
tions
cancerous sores,
It
is
The most
Lady
delicate
or Child,
a^ well
as
the
strongest Athlete,
Scald,
or
Burn
is
Inflammation
Balm on
Inflammation of
tihe
It
till
relieved.
internally, for
we read
efficacious
when administered
it.
The Balm
pleasant
is
to
operation.
consisted
25
amount
a very small
of
ammonia, and
a little of a resinous
Lard
Cocoanut
35
35
oil
Tallow
Rape
10
oil
Lanoline, anhydrous
Balsam
per cent.
of
Peru
Oil of eucalyptus
Terebene
,,
4.5
,,
,,
,,
1.5
Essential
oil
of
Essential
oil
of
Solution of
camphor
lemon
1.5
0.5
ammonia
Annatto colouring
a sufficiency.
OZONIA.
This
The introduction of Ozonia marks a new era in the treatment of Rheumatism, Gout, and allied complaints. This remarkable preparation
is ured
in the bathing water, where it reaches tlj^ ggufpe pf the trouble through
26
the pores of the skin. The whole body is treated at once, and not the least
trouble is entailed to the sufferer.
The system is fhoroughly cleansed
the poisonous uric acid is neutralised, and the patient is reinvigorated. The
method
is
new, tut
many
it
its
credit already
cause.
of the bath,
How
to use
is
most gratifying.
"Ozonia."
Dissolve one packet in an ordinary bath of hot water, and immerse the
body in it, keeping the face and back of the neck sponged.
Remain in the bath at least 15 or 20 minutes, even longer if desired.
Number
is
of
Baths
advised, but
to
be taken.
is Ibefore
going to
'bed,
but this
is
or twice a
cent.
cent.
a trace.
Potassium salt
In view of the statement, quoted above, that ozone is liberated in the bath, special search was made for any ingredient,
such as percarbonate, perborate, or peroxide, which could yield
oxygen, but no trace was found of any such substance. Commercial sodium carbonate commonly contains a
such as the quantity found.
little
chloride,
This preparation
tin,
price Is.
on the package
is
as
27
is
desirable.
as anhydrous
2.70
trace
Chloride
Potassium
salt
Perfume
EHEUMSOL BATH
This
is
SALTS.
contained about 5
Uric Acid Solvent.
oz.
It
is
A tin, price
Is.,
etc.
Directions for use. Add the contents of this tin to a full-sized bath of
hot water.
For a smaller bath less in proportion. A bath should be
taken every third night for a month.
Potassium
as
anhydrous
...
11.18
considerable trace
salt
trace
28
The directions for use are that the essence should be taken in doses
from 4 to 6 teaspoonfuls according to the severity of the case, diluted
a tumblerful
of
in
sugar water.
It is claimed that it contains a new
chemical substance namely, ammonium iodatum salicyl. soluhl. as well
as other ingredients which the medical profession has found to be most
useful during the past decades. Among these is mentioned " diaethyldiamin," aromatic extract and brandy (cognac). It is sold in bottles, containing 135 c.cm., at 6s. the bottle. The fluid, which is dark brown and
bitter, was found to contain ammonium salicylate and iodide, but not a
trace of the " new " chemical substance, which Zernik points out has long
been recognised in chemistry, piperazin, which is diaethylen-diamin and
not diaethyl-diamin, as well as alcohol and some extractives and perfumes, the nature of which could not be identified. Orudon Salt is supposed to act well in the same conditions as the essence. A bottle of this
of
powder
and
stated
is
The
and
fully 40
ipeir
of a substance
a bitter extract.
No
trace
was found.
/. Vdllner's World-renowned Rheumatism Cotton-wool is, it is stated,
manufactured by W. Vollner, Hamburg, London, and New York. It
is claimed by the manufacturers that it produces five times as much
warmth as ordinary cotton-wool, being impregnated with the finest kinds
of resins.
The packet costs Is. and contains 86 grams of a cotton-wool
sheet, measuring 1 cm. in thickness, 36 cm. in width, and 80 cm. in length.
On analysis Zernik found that the cotton-wool was ordinary raw cottonwool, which had been superficially singed on one side and which was not
even fat-freed. There was nothing else in the wonderful rheumatic wool.
lithium carbonate, 0.1 gram salicylic salt, 1 gram and acetic salt, 0.4
gram. The first-named ingredient is merely a synonym for piperazin, the
second name on the list is used instead of phenocoU, while the salicylic
The
salt has the same form as the substance usually knov.'n as falocoU.
;
senna,
Tinavelly
rhamnus
contain
tablets are stated to
purshianus, and frangula, of each 20 parts liquorice root, rhizoma root,
of each 10 parts ; peppermint, marigold, and poplar tree leaf, of each
The action, therefore, would depend on the senna, cascara
5 parts.
sagrada, and frangula. The manufacturers have, it is stated, repeatedly
been punished in courts of law for the puffing nature of the advfertise-
laxative
pjienji^
29
kind.
ascribed to it."
CHAPTEK
II.
selection
articles adver-
including
ointments,
It will
be seen from
claims
made
extent contradictory and mutually destructive, as, for example, " sulpholine lotion is the only external skin remedy,"
'
eczema and
all
'
'
Lotions, besides containing mercury, must necessarily contain some alcohol or water, which are irritants and should be
rigidly avoided."
contain mercury
is
all
It is not
lotions
always
sometimes quite
page
it is
stated that
'
there
is
is
not one
where on one
same
pamphlet " several of the medicaments used in the ointments and blood tablets are very rare and not in use in Great
doctor's
Britain, and do not form any part of the British
31
One
medical outfit."
course,
of the
commonest
inconsistencies, of
is
place,
first
guarded statements made when the patient has paid for the
article
and
is
powers amount
curative
The
to.
preparation
first
'
for
its
men-
in a Press adver-
just a drop or
Eczema and
two of
Skin
all
D.D.D.
stop
guarantee
it
and
irritation
all
but
immediately
pain
stated that
is
we
'
'
familiar with
his disease
.
and spread
germs from
a few
...
his skin.
Is
it
company, which uses the name of "Dr. Cassends a list of questions to be answered and endeavours
limited
sell,"
he
is
first
deals with
them
just as a quali-
"When
would do:
Upon
it
all
the
We
symptoms and
diagnosis,
indications.
which in turn
up."
The
when you
trifling
omis-
J2
circumstances, as in the case described, wEere having received the answer " Eczema " to the question " What are
'
'
'
and after
'
carefully studying
'
'
the
answers
to this
D.D.D.
name
tliis
is
supplied by a firm
cure
when everything
"
package, entitled " Cause and Cure of Skin Diseases
D.D.D.
is
the
In spite
stops
all
of
against discouragement
IS
BEING UPROOTED.
the sufferer
is
in
the early
to
33
...
...
malady ?
"The germs"
that there
is
an
air
knowledge
of scientific
The reader
are, of course,
It oniglit be interesting to
dis-
"
D.D.D. is put up in two forme, called " D.D.D. Ordinary
and "D.D.D. Strong"; the "Ordinary" was taken for
The directions for this are
analysis.
The remedy may be applied
rub the skin as
little
in various
as possible while
acid
Salicylic
Phenol
Methyl salicylate
1.18 parts
(oil
of wintergreen)
65.10 parts
Water, to
It
had a
100
sliglit
The
mated
1.00 part
9.28 parts
Glycerin
Alcohol
by measure
parts by measure
to a
wintergreen.
alcohol
is
costly ingredient,
is
and the
esti-
3fd.
c
34
HOMOCEA.
This preparation
is
made by
Is.
Homocea
Ointmen*
is far and away the best remedy
known for Open Wound Sores, Cuts, Ulcers, Bad
Legs, Burns, Scalds,
Chaps Wasp, Bee, and Insect Stings, Earache,
Inflamed Spots, Skin or
.
It affords
cures
is
recom-
Hay
Homocea.
Homocea will cure the Bites and Stings of Mosquito, Gnats, Sand Flies,
and, better still, will prevent these pests from attacking you, if the face,
neck, hands, and other exposed parts of the body are smeared with the
Ointment.
It is impossible to bring within the
Homocea
dental to the
human frame
that Homocea,
if
oil
in consider-
35
25
Beeswax
Fat
25
49
Solution of
per cent.
0.2
ammonia
,,
0.8
An
ointment
prepared according to this formula was practically indistinguishable from the original.
Estimated cost of ingredients for 2i ounces
(2s.
9d. tin),
2id-
ECZOLINE TKEATMENT.
This "treatment" is supplied by a firm at Swindon, and
consists of ointment, tablets, and soap; the two former were
taken for examination.
An
nected expressions
A wonderful Remedy. Eczema, Eashes, Pimples, Spots, Sores, Ringworm, Chaps, Chilblains, Rough Skin, Bad Legs.
Stops all irritation at
Cured by the Eczoline Treatment. Worth its weight in gold.
once.
Eczoline Ointment
Is.
all
ounce.
skin diseases.
The
39
Glycerin
13.5
Lard
Water
39.8
Oil
of
per cent.
3.7
lemon
a trace
1
ounce, id.
tablets,
Dose One
c2
or
36
Analysis showed the tablets, from which the coating had been
removed to
consist of
Ferrous sulphate
Sulphur (precipitated)
Talc
Starch
Extractive
56
3.4
7.3
16.8
,,
The. extractive was bitter, and showed the reactions of extract of cascara sagrada, but it was not bitter enough or dark
enough to consist only of this extract, and appeared to be a
mixture of cascara sagrada, and an inert extract, the former
as being of the
DR.
is
same
the
price
ingre-
^d.
CASSELL'S
MEDICINES.
An
"
When you
ment.
do exac\ly the same when you return the examination form filled
up we carefully examine it, and from the answers you give to the questions
we are able at once to select for you, from the numerous Ointments,
Powders, Mixtures, and Medicated Tablets manufactured for this Company
from the formulas of that world-famed specialist, Dr. Cassell, a treatment
perfect in every detail with the requirements of your case.
We
:
37
It
is
There
is
Which seems
is
not
page that::
Several of the medicaments used in the Ointments and Blood Tablets
are very rare and not in use in Great Britain, and do not form any part
of the British doctors' medical outfit, yet are of euch incalculable value
as to constitute the basic strength and great (healing virtue of the treat-
ment.
as follows; the
words in
filled in
Questions.
Date
Name
in
Address in
Age. 57.
Occupation.
19
fulS
full
Sex Male.
Groom-Gardener.
Stout or thin?
Medium.
What
What
Eczema.
?
Good.
Arms worst;
your trouble? /
affected?
What
also nech
and
shoulders.
don't know.
do doctors call
Have you been treated for it ? Not hy doctors. If so, how ? I have
used some lotions.
Have you attended any hospital ? No.
Is ,your general health good ?
Yes.
Are you constipated? No.
Have you indigestion? No.
Do you stand much ? Yes.
Are yon in contact with much heat? No.
Do you perspire freely? Yes.
Are your Lands much in soap and water ? No.
Do you use much soda ? No.
Does your employment entail contact with gritty or irritating material,
and ,if so, what? No.
Have you much itching? Yes.
Have you a scaly eruption? No.
Is the part red or inflamed?
Yes.
Is there any discharge ?
Sometim^es.
If so, what colour is it,
it
smell?
and does
LiJce water.
the part?
Do you
No.
Yes.
No.
38
Do
Do you
eat
much
No.
If so '
oatmeal porridge.
good deal of
As the
from?" wae answered by the word " eczema," it was not altogether surprising
to be told in tbe letter wbich. was received in reply
Your Examination Form has been duly received and carefully studied
are suffering from a severe and disagreeable form of eczema.
You
The
letter proceeds
it is
most
brilliant results.
Although
it
may
quite confident,
treated now,
The
it
sist of a
As no
later with
9s.
We
up your mind
make
39
The sum required was then sent, and the articles named
were received. The powder, in a pill-box, weighed a little
than 1 ounce; the bottle of tablets contained 90, of average
weight 6 grains; and the pot of ointment contained just over
1 ounce.
They were accompanied by an intimation that a
further supply would cost 9s. 6d., and the following directions
less
Ointment. Wash the hands thoroughly clean in hot water and apply a
the Ointment to the affected parts every night on retiring. It is
not necessary to use a great quantity, the chief thing being to have it
evenly distributed on the parts requiring treatment.
little of
Powder.
small portion should be dusted on with a piece of clean lint
every morning on arising.
Tablets.
One
to
be swallowed whole
in
meals.
the otEer two estimated as accurately as possible, and the formula given below was obtained. A powder prepared in accord-
ance with this formula agreed in all respects with the original,
except that the latter had a faint perfume and a creamy tint;
the traces of colouring matter and perfume were far too minute
to be identified.
Powdered talc
Powdered boric acid
Powdered maize etarch
Powdered slippery elm bark
"Price
60 per cent.
20
17
3
1
Tablets.
,,
ounce, ^d.
The
label
was marked
6d. a bottle," and, as stated above, the bottle contained 90 tablets of about 6 grains each.
4s.
Sugar
Talc, approximabely
81
11
Water
Extractive
40
If th extract present
as extract of
for 90 tablets
is
|d.
labelled
"Ointment No.
2,"
ounce.
Analysis showed it
to contain oils of wintergreen and eucalyptus, lanoline,
a fat
or oil, soft paraffin, boric acid, a small quantity of alkali,
and
a powdered vegetable tissue.
The latter appeared to consist
chiefly of a bark; it was carefully compared with
a number of
1
powdered drugs, but was not found to agree with any drug in
ordinary use it showed a good deal of resemblance to powdered
krameria root, and agreed exactly with it in the colour changes
caused by various reagents, and while not identical with either
;
Boric acid
8 per cent.
Borax
Oil of eucalyptus
2
2
3
4
8
63
7
3
..
Oil of wintergraen
Anhydrous
Oil
(?
at
lanoline
olivej
Soft paraffin
Powdered drug
Water
-with
SULPHOLINE LOTION.
Tliie lotion ie
Eczema and
This preparation
is
adver-
41
And
in a
pamphlet enclosed in
tlie
package
it
is
further
stated that
Sulpholine Lotion
There
is
no phase
is
of
scaly, or pustu-
and
The
Analysis showed
it
to contain
Sulphur, precipitated
Zinc oxide
parts
2.1
Calcium sulphate
0.6 part.
Glycerin
Strong rose water, to
parts.
CADUM.
Supplied by Omega, Limited.
over 1 oz.
This
is
Is.
Cuts,
The discovery of Cadum, the wonderful new skin remedy, was not the
mere chance or accident, but of patient, painstaking investigations, extending over a long period, by an eminent chemist who
became possessed of the conviction that the old method of taking internal
remedies
to cure external diseases was erroneous.
After a careful study of all the
best-known products, it was discovered that an extract from a particular
part^ of a well-known tree possessed superior antiseptic and
curative properties, and exerted a powerful, beneficial effect on the skin
tissues.
It
result of
desirable qualities
42
Ins
umque combuiation
of ingredients, possessing
to a
therapeutic properties, the like of
which lias never
tliis
preparation in some
and
from exact.
not
The formula
arrived at
n,
Zinc oxide
,
Flowers of, sulphur
Boric Acid
,
J-1.3
Salicylic acid
^'ar
is
,
per cent.
g q
^^.-^
q g
Oil of cade
Hard
paraffin
2q
gQ
Soft paraffin
ounce, Jd.
POSLAM.
This
2s.
It
is
New
York.
all
Some
been
by the medical
Eczema
43
Doctors, in
a blood trouble, only curable by internal remedies.
either
given
have
for
disease,
specific
the
recognised
the absence of any
which
of
both
soaps,
special
the
use
of
ordered
internal remedies or
courses sliow that the average medical man is helpless to combat the
that
it is
growing trouble
of skin diseases.
"
EEMEDIES."Me
fotent in-
The
anything yet used, and as a remedial agent in skin diseases, may be said
Hitherto there has been a common
to be positively infallible in its action.
base to all ointments and salves that were supposed to be " remedies " for
eczema. Poslam has a base of its own, and contains no grease, poisons,
mercury, or any other harmful constituent.
The
daily,
affected.
Do
paraffin.
Since
oil
of birch tar
and
oil
and
soft
Zinc oxide
Flowers of sulphur
12 per cent.
8
Maize starch
Salicylic
18
acid
1.5
Oil of cade
15
Anhydrous lanoline
25.5
Soft paraffin
25.5
| ounce, Jd.
CHAPTEE
III.
and
chapter.
restoratives
of
lost
Some
them
of
way
LIFE."
become purchasers is usually aroused by a small advertisement with a bold headline to catch the eye such as Lost
Manhood Restored " in which a free book is offered, to be
sent by post on application. The applicant is not only urged
by the contents of the book which is sent to place himself at
'
'
him by
further pressed on
letters at intervals.
is
Medicines
of this kind are not usually sold through retailers, but only
direct
to judge
from the
list
to the
consumer.
The
latter is
of questions to be answered,
examples
described
when
and
he has
is likely to
is to
be made.
to "
our con-
sulting physician," or
specialists of this
as those indicated
but even
if
45
manner
over, jio satisfactory diagnosis could be made in the
circumpretended, and the paying of a fee for advice in such
attena very different thing from paying for the
his cases.
tion and skill of an expert who really investigates
stances
is
In regard
through
retailers,
it
will
compared
^at
scientific
red
corpuscles
(C2H5N.) "
only
phagocytes,"
to display to
as,
for
example, "the
"a
and
vital
extract
The
the articles
dealt with has been very extensively advertised as a " brain
and nerve food " our advertisement shows that the daily
last of
and a wineglassful
of
skim
milk.
PHOSFERINE.
This widely-advertised preparation is supplied at Is. l^d. and
Is. l|d. bottle
9d. by a limited company in London.
was found to contain 2 fluid drachms, and a 2s. 9d. bottle just
26.
is
described in an advertisement as
The Greatest
A
Nervous
Debility,
of all Tonics.
Influenza,
Indigestion,
Sleeplessness,
Exhaustion,
46
stated that
it is
The public cannot be too strongly warned against the many purging
medicines advertised for indigestion, etc., which are not only
a fruitful
source of piles, but injure the coating of the stomach and
sap the very
Nature is straining herself to supply.
other tonic medicines, Phosferine does not injure the teeth
or
upset the stomach and cause constipation; on the contrary,
it will be
gastric juice
UnUke
found beneficial
Phosferine
in tliese conditions.
may be
formula larrived at
Quinine
Diluted
Diluted
Alcohol
Water,
sulphate
sulphuric acid
phosphoric acid
is
0.67 part
2.5
parts by measure
54.6
,,
8.1
to
,',
100
The estimated
bottle)
is
fluid
ounce
(2s. 9d.
^d.
GUY'S TONIC.
This
Is.
is
a liquid prepared by a
London
package
it is
firm
a bottle priced
stated that
47
(Sickness),
Sluggishness,
Congestion,
Constipation, Biliousness, Despondency, Dizziness, Sallowness of the Complexion, Blotches on the Skin, dull pains between the Shoulders, variable
Appetite, Headache, disturbed Sleep, Lassitude, and Irritability.
Vital Fluid.
General Diseases
Force.
Influenza,
The dose
is
stated on
tlie
label to be:
Under 9
years,
one dessertspoonful.
Under 2
Analysis showed
it
to contain
small
quantities
of
hydro-
and phosphoric acids, alcohol, bitter and aromatic substances and colouring matter, and a trace of chloroform.
No
alkaloid was present; the bitter and aromatic substances prechloric
amount agreed
compound infusion
two acids and the alcohol were determined, and the amounts of
the other ingredients estimated by methods of comparison. The
following formula gives an exactly similar mixture
Diluted hydrochloric acid
Diluted phosphoric acid
Alcohol
Compound
0.59 parts
by measure
infusion of gentian
Chloroform water
Cochineal colouring
Water, to
The estimated
a suflaciency
100
parts by measure
is
^d.
48
VITAE ORE.
The article sold under this name is supplied by
company in London, price 4s. 6d. per package.
An
offer
to send
month, to be paid
advertised.
a limited
benefit
if
is
received,
largely
is
The advertisement
by
discovered
ceeding anything that Homburg, Harrogate, Aix, Bath, or any other spa
can show. Some untraceable element defying the chemist's analysis is it
Eadium? enters into the rock. Whatever the element may be, its effect
cam be distinctly felt when the drink made from this deposit, which I
Those who use
call Vitae Ore, or "life-rock," is taken as a beverage.
energy,
which
they never,
buoyant,
cheerful
degree
of
it say that it gives a
Everyone knows a few people with health and vigour to spare the men
whose breezy personality carries all before it, so that no one can resist
them the women whose warm bloom and feminine grace capture all hearts.
Well, Vitae Ore will give tliese things to all, if used as I will tell you
how to use it. No artificial drug enters into it. No artificial drug can
;
or
weak
all
Catarrh
Gout
Indigestion
health, turning
makes
it
...
to people of
them
How
case.
to use
you
Exhaustion
will give
Nervous
Sciatica
Liver, Blood,
Ore
Constipation
Anamia
and
Vitae
herself cures
mere ordinary
Vitae Ore.
You simply
to yon as a box of powder.
drink
mixture
tliis
of
and
water,
dissolve it in a pint of cold
and
day,
a
times
three
water
of
a teaspoonful in a half-tumbler
to
according
later,
or
week,
a
days,
few
a
In
at bedtime, for a month.
strength, better
greater
notice
to
begin
will
you
your present condition,
a-ppetite. These
higbeir spirits, a cka-rer complexion, a heaKthier
Vitae
Oto
comes
digestion,
new
49
substance;
package contained 137 grains of the
basic but soluble iron
analysis showed it to contain a slightly
water the quansulphate, magnesium sulphate, and combined
and found to be as
tity of each constituent was determined
4s
6d
follows
Ferric oxysnlphate, calculated as anhydrous
Magnesium sulphate, calculated as anhydrous
Water,
No
in
...
36.54
combination
The
iron,
magnesium,
and, as
sulphate, and water were all determined separately,
much is left for
the figures add up to 100.00 per cent., not
"some untraceable element defying the chemist's analysis."
If the directions,
contain
0-47 gram.
Magnesium
sulphate,
The estimated
age
is
0-15
anhydrous
one pack-
COCAPHOS.
This preparation is supplied by a firm in London.
priced 4s. 6d. contained 94 tablets.
box
composed of the
Medical Profession to be
The dose
is
acknowledged by the
One
tablet after
each
meal."
D
50
The
...
0.78 grain.
...
0.10
...
2 grains.
Sugar
Talc
11
The estimated
most
costly ingredient
is
the extract of
is
The
8Jd.
damiana, which
is
also,
is
liberal estimate.
DAMAEOIDS.
under the name " Damaroids " are supplied
by a limited company in London at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. per box
A 2s. 9d. box contained 36 tablets.
The
tablets sold
"Damaroids "
They
Wonderful
Do
cure.
: One
to be-
The
3.9
tablets
grains.
51
as
" Cocaplios " and showed the same composition, with eome
the ingredients.
The
figures
arrived at are:
In one tablet.
Iron hypophosphifce
Quinine sulphate
Extract (probably damiana) about
3.4
50
...
0.55 grain.
...
0.13
...
2 grains.
Sugar
16
Talc
and
the cost would be approximately the same, about 3d. for the
ingredients of 36 tablets.
INVIGOEOIDS.
under the name Invigoroids are supplied
from an address in Yorkshir at 2s. 9d. per box containing 54
The
tablets sold
tablets.
in a circular
Invigoroida are a pure and powerful nerve and organic tonic and food,
designed to replace (at a reasonable, price) the highly priced and pernicious
remedies that are so common. With results much more beneficial and yet
with no evil after-effects, Invigoroids are worth their weight in gold to
suSering, sorrowful
men, and are regularly prescribed by leading
specialists.
Invigoroids create blood, nerve force and energy. Fill weak
and worn-out men with healthy life and rampant vigour. Make existence
a perfect pleasure, and render the system disease-proof and capable of
sustaining prolonged exertion in any form.
for Impotence in
Men.
We
etc.
In a newspaper advertisement
Invigoroids contain free phosphorus
it is
stated that
The
and
rare
daily."
directions
The
label
the preceding.
The
52
2.8 grains.
In One Tablet.
...
...
0.028 grain.
2.4
...
0.067
,,
18.0
,,
...
0.60
,,
9.0
,,
...
0.25
Sugar of milk.
The estimated
IS
Jd.
MORGAN'S RADIO-VIMETTES.
DR.
Sir,
We
is
53
on the other baud, you had not regarded the first signs of disease and
suffering we
wrote us only when nature positively demanded relief from
such
is your
if
and
cured,
entirely
be
possibly
know that you cannot
all such
For
firm.
continues
still
eradication
its
in
interest
ailment, our
suffering
ailments our primary desire is to relieve, and should you still be
"
cured,"
not
we beg you to let us know at once, not merely saying I am
giving
feel,
you
but by writing a quiet, friendly letter saying just how
If,
result.
The
leaflet
No.
2.
Special Strength for mild cases, lis. per Course, Carriage Paid.
No.
21s.
The
of all charge,
and
is
is
confidence.
list
The dose
follows
was
of questions to be answered
is
also sent.
:,
The Ordinary Strength Eadio-Vimettes will be found sufficiently powrerful for all mild cases of Nerve trouble, such as. Nervous Dyspepsia,
Headaches,
etc.
Eadio-Vimette
should
Reduced
70
iron
Quinine sulphate
Phosphorus
The estimated
per cent.
11.8
0.13
Pill.
...
2.6
grains.
,,
...
0.44
grain.
...
0.005
54
How
Lost,
How
is
of a
Regained," which
is
men on
Preserve Strength and Retain the Powers."
A Brief Treatise
on Nervous Exhaustion, Loss of Strength, and Debiltiy in Men.
This
book not only contains valuable remarks on how to preserve Strength and
retain the Powers to an advanced age, but points out the best means of
restoring Exhausted Vitality, Poverty of Nerve Force, Mental Depression,
and will especially interest those who wish to create Vitality, increase
Nerve Stamina, renew the Vital Forces, or fit themselves for business,
study, or marriage.
Intereeting and instructive remarks to young and middle-aged
"
How
to
The pamphlet
"
is
further entitled
Generative Weakness,
cocele,
Debility,
Special
Diseases
and Urinary
Derangements
in
" P.M.B. ," it may be noted, does not represent any known
medical qualification, but is of unknown signification, and is
probably intended to suggest to the ignorant some sort of
medical degree.
a booklet of 43 pages, with sections on Onanism, SpetMarriage, Varicocele, Impotence, Gonorrhoea,
matorrhcea.
An " advice form " was also sent, conGleet, Syphilis, etc.
It
is
taining a
list
medicine.
f ollowing
Vital Sexualine
" for
Restorative
(described
as
On
lis.
per bottle.
and
it is called:
55
Nerve Lorce
Nervous Fluid, Braia Matter and
restores
faculties
mental
and
memory
Brightens the intellect, improves the
proven
A
system
entire
in
the
life
of
renewal
strength, and promotes a
the
upon
system dependent
remedy for all weakened' conditions of the
Creates
Vitality,
in colour,
In One Dose.
Iron hypophosphite
Calcium hypophosphite
Sodium hypophosphite
Potassium hypophosphite
0.50 part
..
0.27 grains.
0.50
,,
..
0.27
0.60
,,
0.50
0.90
Citric acid
(approx.)
Sugar
Glycerine
Colouring matter
0.27
,,
0.<8
51
parts
36
parts by measure
to 100
Water
0.07
0.14
Quinine sulphate
0.32
The estimated
is
lO^d.
is
is
advertised as
follows
EVERY MAN
from General and Physical DEBttiTY should send for a
Valuable Pamphlet explaining how all Nervous and Organic Derangement
may be successfully treated without stomach medication. The method
Sent
is easy and pleasant, and will effect a perfect and permanent cure.
in a plain sealed envelope post free 2 stamps.
Suffering
56
Local Absorption,
tlie
scope of
wliicli is
indicated by
tlie
follow-
ing extracte
product of our
modem
civilisation.
In issuing
this edition of
result expected or
treatise,
is
papers, and a
case.
have any doubt as to the advantages of rectal treatcase, possibly owing to some complication that does not
from you,
enter within the scope of our treatise, we shall be glad to hear
Consultation
confidence.
fullest
in
the
treated
be
and any letters will
personally or by letter free of charge.
Should you
ment in your
In
still
We
are well
Diseases.
From
it
appears that
five
kinds of treatment
etc.
57
,p.c. Coue f
't!Lr:r;:uuo
T"'jLic or
c..
.o,
.ou...
Lc.
o.
Su.l
Vigour,
p-...
G..na,
Wtoe.. D*iMy,
Nervous Diseases.
Debility asociated with
The
l ls
is
letter it
To convince you
we JiU send you a
namely
for three months
all caeee,
the same in
2s.
to
of our confidence in our Treatment
^^^^\y^^y^'l'
rec^pt of One^
upon
treatment
of
course
three months'
balance
and you need not pay the
Half the Regular Price, namely, 21s.,
satisfied with the reeults.
of 21s. unless you are perfectly
months' supply of
guinea was accordingly sent for a three
a request for answers to
the Nervine Tonic Course; this elicited
and a sample of urme for
the printed questions that were sent,
paper was there"our Consulting Physician." The question
imaginary case of nocturnal
fore filled in with particulars of an
normal healthy urine tx>
emissions, and sent with a sample of
added. Three boxes
which some glycerine and water had been
with a letter, of which the
were received,
principal parts were as follows:
of
suppositories
We
to convince
par,
and
case for
it is absolutely necessary in your
in
ordered
you
which
Course
Tonic
the
to
you to undergo, in addition
Course
Graded
the
of
treatment
months'
three
a
your previous letter,
nightly
to permanently check all losses either at stool, in your urine, or by
You
58
,T
^ month.
M 3 the third
and box No.
advice and use the Graded Course
'
fee of 2l8.
If
at night
...
bv analysis was
No.
1.
Per
Cent.
Calcium hypophnsphite
Pjwdered gentian and powdered cinchona bark
.
No.
Grains
One.
in
Per
Cent.
No.
2.
Grains
One.
Cent.
in
Per
3.
Grains
One.
in
C-4
0-07
0-3
0-05
0-3
0-05
2-1
0-35
3-7
96-0
0-61
27
0-45
97-5
97-0
quantities.
The estimated
suppositories
is
advertised as follows
BOON TO MAN.
All
Men
suffering from
Allied Troubles,
my
Illustrated
all
On
The
first
entitled
The Comhined
59
is
the pamphlet,
entitled Varicocele: Its Symptoms and Cure; and
Venereal Diseases
of eight pages, is entitled A Treatise on
Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture,
The "Treatment"
is
etc.
thus explained:
be
present therapeutic methods of treating Nervous Debility may
Stomach
the
by
Treatment
:
viz.
systems,
distinct
described as three
The
or opening
is
From
the book
it
appears that
five
namely
The
The
The
The
a long
cure.
The
The
fee for
fee for
is
Is.
2s.
60
...
method
am
of cure, I
its
use.
Twenty
the same
sample of
Not only was the result the same, that is, a discovery
that an additional course at an additional
feewas necessary,
sent.
but
it
It is evident
indicated,
is
first letter
full particulars to
...
The general
directions
it
may
be neces-
from box No. 1 first day, box No. 2 second day, and box No. 3 third day,
recommencing with box No. 1 again on fourth day, and so on in this order
day after day. The Stomach Gelatinoids are to be swallowed and in same
alternative order as Rectal Treatment.
The
after breakfast."
6]
Gelatinoids No.
grain
of
1.
quinin
partly
eulpliafce,
No
salt.
other
Gelatinoids No. 2.
The contents
of one
of 1.35 grains,
and contained
Ferrous phosphate (Fe32PO^,8H,0)
Quinine phosphate (Q^OSjPO^j&HjO)
Strychnine.
Talc
Milk-sugar.
26 per cent.
35
11
The contents
of
The estimated
is
l^d.
The Suppositories.
All the three kinds of suppositories had the same constituents,
only showing such small variations in the amounts as would
No
Calcium hypophosphite
Powdered gentian and pow-
No
1.
Per
Grains
Per
cent.
in One.
cent.
No.
2.
Grains
One.
in
Per
cent.
3.
Grains
One.
in
4-05
0-7
3-54
0-6
3-70
0-6
3-90
92-05
06
4-30
92-16
0-7
5-30
91-00
0-9
The estimated
Sjd.,
and therefore
of the entire
is
62
SEQUARINE.
Sequarine
is
a bottle, holding
F.R.S."
It
is
serum has been given various names, such as " Sequard Fluid " and
" Spermine," etc., tut the registered and generally
recognised name of
Professor Browm-Sequard's discovery is " Sequarine "a name derived
from that of the discoverer himself, thus Sequar ine.
it
'
'
'
nostrums.
The following
is
of the Serum.
Within every animal body there exists a " power of disease resistance,"
the principle of " natural immunity " ; this power resists the entrance of
any disease into the body, and if it is of normal strength readily repels
In treating disease doctors
the disease even after it has gained entrance.
The homoeoare aided greatly by the principle of "natural immunity."
paths rely on it almost entirely and in a great many instances drugs
when
it.
The
which subsequently
proved to be the hasis of the jwwer of natural immunity from disease.
exists in the blood infinitesimal quantities of a fluid
This
fluid is the
in bie honour.
63
Wiat Sequarine
is a euro for any ailment
power or an accumulation of
SequiiL-ine
of
nerve
The attempt
Cures.
any part
imjpiuiitiea in
name
by lack
of tlie body.
now
sold as Sequarine,
is
is
very obvious
an extract:
The
directions
on the
label are
To be taken
course, be isolated.
NEUKOVRIL.
The preparation known as
Xeurovril Company, London.
The
is
price
Neurovril
is
for
supplied
by the
per bottle,
a smaller bottle,
21s.
bottle
was found to
64
And
the
first
There
is
important do British scientists consider this matter, that they are making
every effort to place the information at once in the hands of those who
are ailing.
The amazing successes that have attended the application of this wonderful new health discovery have aroueed on all hands the question;
the Elixir of Life at last been discovered?"
"Has
After
much more
of the
same
It
Melancholia,
Headache,
Irritability,
ExihauiStion,
Slackness,
Nervous Prostration,
Partial Paralysis.
Nervous Weakness,
Brain Fag,
It
sort, it continues
is
Ansemia,
Impoverished Blood,
Eheumatism,
Kidney Troubles,
Sciatica,
Disordered Liver.
is
Weak
the first dose will be a delightful senthe vigour of full manhood or woman-
hood.
booklet
is
When
is
it
all
disputing.
The
65
Further experiments proved that the new basic serum not only supplied
and strength to the body, but could ^e prepared in such a way as
to prove an anti-toxin, a means of resisting and curing illness ....
To say that Neurovril contains protoplasmic life is no rash assertion
it is a perfectly true statement proven by exhaustive laboratory tests.
vitality
Teeming with
duced
into
the
label
20
,,
The
2
,,
virility.
calcic.
water.
directions are
Taike of
itfhdis
Tonic, reguliaiiy,
dialf of
witJli
diluted alcohol.
66
OSOGEN.
supplied by a firm in London at 2s. 9d., 7s. 9d., and
bottle price 2s. 9d. was found to contain
lis. a bottle.
1 fluid ounce, and a bottle price lis. 5 fluid ounces.
Osogen
is
An
Mysterious Sertt-Phos.
Scientists.
Some
Amazing
Elemejntal
Combination
Startles
extracts from
Scientific discussion
is
it
are
new combina-
"
Osogen "
is
described as
67
The
directions
on
tlie label
are:
and a
Not
iron,
trace
of chloroform,
little
2.14 parts
Sodium glycerophosphate
0.90
Spirit of chloroform
3.8
Glycerine
Water
0.75 part
0.77 part
73
,,
parts by
,,
measure
,,
100
to
DK.
LECOY'S VIGOROIDS.
These consisted of sugar-coated tablets, coloured blue exterAfter removing the coating, the tablets had an average
weight of 2.2 grains. The dose is stated to be two, three times
nally.
daily.
vegetable extract.
Sugar.
Starch.
Talc.
E 2
68
is
being
It appears that this article was sold in Germany before
introduced here, and it was included in the series of proprietary
According to Zernik's
analysed by Dr. Zernik.
preparations
analysis,
it
egg,
contained twenty-four
30i grains each. The directions are:
even
if
Antineurasthin contains no
delitherefore absolutely harmless to the most
'day
is
between meals.
69
Analysis showed
tlie
presence
of-,
Protein
Fat
Sugar
of
milk
Ash
Water
Gum
about
Aromatic substances
Potato starch (by diffexence)
'.
about
nearly white, with yellow paricles like dried egg-yolk distributed through it ; extraction with
appropriate solvents proved a fair trace of lecithin to be present
ta^blets is
cent, of fresh liquid yolk in the tablets; this accounts for 1.3
eggs,
to
5.4 per cent, of dried, or about 38.6 per cent, of liquid, eggalbumen in the tablet; a further 5.1 out of the 26.4 per cent,
This leaves 20 per cent, of
of protein is thus accounted for.
and this stands in about the same ratio to 32.8 per cent,
milk sugar, and about 5 per cent, of ash (deducting the ash of
the egg and gum), as corresponds to the composition of a dried
separated milk. The ash consisted principally of calcium phoBThe aromatic substances appeared
phate, like the ash of milk.
to include a trace of vanilla and of some other substance that
could not be identified ; these are probably added to serve at the
same time as flavouring agents and preservatives.
protein,
of
to be very
abundant,
would be approximately
Dry yolk of egg
Dry -white of egg
Dry separated milk
Gum
Potato starch
Moisture
Aromatic substances
The
to this formula,
70
and 43 grains of
these
is
little starch.
A GERMAN NOSTRUM.
According to Dr. Zernik
Dr. J. Schdfert's physiological nutrient (nerve) salts for neurasthenia
The prospectus states that it is comis a preparation made in Barmen.
posed of glycerine phosphate compound with certain physiological salts,
which act on the formation of the red blood corpuscles and improve the
circulation igenerally 100 grams of the salts put up in a glass vessel costs
of
It consists of 40 parts of glycerine phosphate of calcium, 30 parts
4s.
with
a
chloride
sodium
parts
of
glycerine phosphate of sodium, and 20
;
trace of iron.
CHAPTER
MEDICINES
IV.
COUGHS, CONSUMPTION,
CATARRH, ETC,
FOE
pill
etc."
put forward for catarrh, but here, too, the net is cast rather
wide; in one case, asthma, whooping cough, croup and consumption are among the diseases for which it is put forward
as a cure, while in another the comprehensive, if awkward,
description of those to whom it is recommended is
all who
wish to quickly cure Catarrh, Asthma, Adenoids, Polypi,
or other Nose-breathing, 'Chest or Lung, and Voice or Hearing or Throat Bronchial Trouble."
Needless to say, theii
'
'
72
be
modestly
with
equal firmness that there are no preparations for similar
object which can compare in effectiveness with those
supplied by me."
Two of the treatments are supplied at somewhat high prices; and, although no exact estimate is given
of the cost of the ingredients, it is evident that it is
quite out
of proportion to the amounts charged for them.
FENNINGS' LUNG-HEALERS.
The article advertised under
and is supplied by a firm
pills,
this
name
is
in the Isle of
in the
form of small
Wight
at
Is.
IJd. a
pills.
The Dose
is
all ages.
To Cure
"be
evening.
...
73
Chemical
practically
other ingredients, and comparison with powdered ipecacuanha, showed nothing else to be present but the trace of
Estimated cost
excipient used to bind the powder into pills.
for
is
Jd.
PEPS.
These much-advertised lozenges are supplied by a firm in a
Yorkshire town in boxes at Is. l^d. and 2s. 9d. per box.
2s. 9d. box was found to contain ninety-eight lozenges.
The
name of the article appears to be derived from the initial letters
of " Pine extract pastilles."
The nature of the claims- made is
shown by the following extracts from a booklet issued by the
makers
In the course of
disease
facts
made
itself
apparent.
novel tablet, containing the richest pine extracts that is, with all
the best pine essences and odours held captive in them was eventually
perfected ; and these tablets, or Peps, as they are called, undoubtedly
supply a long-felt want in the family medicine cupboard. The need is one
that has never yet been properly met by any of the cough mixtures,
lozenges, jujubes, and gums, which no medical attendant can conscientiously recommend, chiefly through the pernicious drug habits they
encourage and their sheer inability to grant real, lasting relief. " A Pine
Forest in every Home " aptly and pithily describes this new remedy.
.
.
As
74
expected to possess
The
much
medicinal value.
may
be thus summarised
about
about
Sugar
Extract of liquorice
Resinous matter
Oil of peppermint
70 per cent.
25
,,
0.7
,,
trace.
Oil of anise
j>
about
Talc
In a circular enclosed
in the
package
it is
Is.
Ud.
stated that
" Brown's Bronchial Troches " or Cough Lozenges, allay irritation which
Bronchial, and
induces coughing, giving instant relief in Consumptive,
Asthmatic complaints.
first
1850.
...
of
immediate
75
The Troches
common with
this disorder.
The
lozenges
of 11.3 grains.
Cheonical
WHITE'S KOMPO.
DR.
This
and
is
2s.
9d.
2s.
9d. bottle
Is.
l|d.
fluid
ounces.
It
is
is
is
As
Bad
Pure Stimulant
it is
cating Drink.
The dose
is
given as
in a cupful of
warm
The
bottle contained a brown, somewhat turbid liquid, smelling of cloves and cinnamon.
Analysis showed it to contain 6.42
per cent, by volume of alcohol, and only 2.4 per cent,
of solid
matter; this consisted largely of a tannic acid resembling
that
of red gum.
No alkaloid was present, but constituents of
The
::
76
gum
Eucalyptus
(red
gum)
I.5
Caustic soda
Oil of
cinnamon
froiji
part.
q gg
0 25
(or cassia)
Oil of cloves
0 25
Tincture of capsicum
Salicylic acid
7 5
parts
0.07 part.
Rectified spirit
2 5
Decoction of cinnamon and cloves to ICQ parts by measure.
The estimated
i.s
about 6d.
GL ye: ALINE.
This
is
drachms.
It
Is. 1-^d.
bottle
firm of
1,
jmceopathic
fluid
described in an advertisement as
is
And
London
a liquid supplied by a
chemists.
all
etc.
Rapid and
Hay
Fever, Influenza,
Checlcs a slight,
package
it is
stated that
no medicine
There
is
is
unpleasant systems.
The dose
'is
77
Each dose would contain approximately 1-350 grain of potassium iodide, with a trace of organic matter, which may be
derived from some drug.
The
which
contains, or about
is
-^-d.
LIQUFRUTA MEDICA.
The preparation sold under this name is supplied from " The
Liqufruta Laboratory."
There appear to be two varieties of
the medicine, the one being called simply " Liqufruta," and
described on the label as " cure for consumption cough, whooping
and every other cough," while the other is called " Liqufruta
Medica," and is described on the label as " The Great ConsumpThe price of the latter is 2s. 9d., and the bottle
tion Cure."
contain
found
was
to
12i fluid ounces.
Other particulars given on the label are
Liqufruta Medica ihe Only iSafe Cure
Ohronic Asthma, 'Brondhiitiis, Catariili.
for
as f ollows
Pulmonary iConsumption,
Certain of the germicidal constituents contained in this remedy are otherwise unobtainable throughout the world.
Liqufruta 'Medica heals the chest, lungs, and 'throat, arrests the inflammation, loosens the phlegm, and effectually destroys the bacilli of consumption, etc., which no other medicine can readh. Whilst the cough will
be eased at once, the expectoration will be more profuse for a short time.
Directions.
One dessertspoonful every two hours ; in severe cases every
hour, and also during the night whenever cough is troublesome ; take a
When symptoms
desired.
On
mixture
of garlic or
mint.
distilling,
distillate closely
these,
2.05
parte were of
mvicilaginous
or
pectinous nature,
3.44 parte were glucose, and 2.28 parts were cane sugar.
decoction of onion was found to contain a mucilaginous substance somewhat similar to that obtained from the mixture.
78
The
cent.
Tbe
showed:
Oil of peppermint
[traces
Alkaloids
Potassium bitartrate
0.4 part
Glucose
Cane sugar
Mucilaginous matter
3.44
Tannin
,,
2.05
,,
>.
Extractive
[together
Eesin
1.9
Water
No
parts
2.28
to 100 parts
and no metallic
salts
by measure
HYOMEI.
The preparation
a firm in London.
consists of
name Hyomei
is
supplied by
79
these
Mr. E. T. Booth, who issues the following announcement, is the worldfamous temiperance orator, who some years ago, in co-operation with euch
friends and co-workers as the late Eev. C. H. Spurgeon, Eev. F. B. Meyer,
and (the late Rev. Newman Hall, Archdeacon Wilberforce, Lord Mount
Temple, and others, founded the Blue Eibhon Army, which ultimately
This glorious work was cut short by acute
led a million to temperance.
catarrh and threatened consumption, whidh sent him, by the order of
There he made
the late Sir Andrew Clark, health-seeking to Australia.
his great discovery of Hyomei (pronounced Hi-o-me), which not only
cured him, but has since cured multitudes of other sufferers. Hyomei is
an inhalant which, being a powerful germicide, cures by just breathing it.
it is
thus described
of Cure.
Is.
Hyomei
It
is
What
Hyomei
cures
"
Hyomei"
Does.
diseases of
80
The
letter
if you ar a
form of skin trouble
is
sufferer
oil.
Analyeifi
of eucalyptol,
small
the remaining 80 per cent, to be oil of eucalyptus.
quantity (under 0.2 per cent.) of solid matter, not resinous,
was obtained on distilling the Hyomei, and this could not be
obtained
identified, but agreed in some respects with the solid
wood
in a corresponding way from a mixture containing a little
tar.
is
statements
sufficiently indicate the nature of the
made
Nose-Breathing Difficulty.
Free Information tow to cure Catarrh and
It is the hearty
a cure
found
they
Patient and Physician tell of how
suffer from the
who
all
that
cure
new
the
desire of the discoverers of
ihave
-gratis copy of the hodk they
a;bove complaints .^lould wiiite for a
Re-Education
" Rhycol Respiratory
just published, under the title of
81
for Catarrh, Adenoids, Polypi, and other NoseBreathing Difficulties, Catarrhal Deafness and Head Noises, Loss of
Sense of Smell or Taste, Coated Tongue, Bad Breath, Asthma, Bronchitis,
and Weak Chest and Lungs."
is remarkable, inasmuch as it calls for no sprays or injeono powders to be snuffed no lozenges or tablets to suck no operacauterizing (burning) of the inflamed mucous
tions, and no painful
membrane.
The cure
The
tions,
the
nose
The layman
it
were led
and
to
as
its iresipiratory
How
Firsl.
fimcitions.
singer, he discovered
first
enlightening discovery.
f reed.
discovery has been built tihe new " Rhycol " cure,
the details of which are given fully (and illustrated) in the book.
Upon
fitrst-sitep
(this
In the ibook
is
Nasty Dropping
Head
expQained
in the
how
ito
stop
Catarrhal Deafness,
Gurgling in Ears,
Bad Breath,
Snapping Noise in Ears,
Voice Troubles,
Hay-Fever,
Throat,
Stuffiness,
Nose Stuffiness,
Throat Dryness,
Loss of Smell,
Spitting of Thick Phlegm,
Discharge from the Nose,
PhysioaJ.
and
arrisdng
from
Mouth
Mental
Respiratory
Dulne.s
Ineffi-
ciency.
...
all
who
-wish
(to
septic Solution."
The "
open at both
ends and along one side, to be placed in the nostrils to form a
"R"
"L"
and
respectively, and
the sides intended to lie against the septum and the outer wall
respectively were shaped rather differently; it was not easy.,
lining.
however, to
shown
The
feel
in the description
i^
outfit
skilful
82
unaffected
by oxidation.
The
is
inner
side
that
part
modelled,
exquisitely
inclined
so
as
to
to
the
adapt
the sinuosities and flexuations of the central cartiaud, by a most skilful couformation, the curroat of air on each
inspiration is most favourably directed through the spongy nasal passages
to the air-openings (nares) at the upper and back of the pharynx.
itself perfectly to all
lages
is
elaborately described in a
The
The tube
price of the
tampons alone
is 8s.
of
one-third of
small quantity of carbolic acid.
to the inspirators
to
facilitate
directed to be applied
their introduction into the
It
is
nostrils.
quantity to
The Rhycol Antiseptic is to be added in small
inspirators are to be laid,
water, to make a liquid in which the
The bottle contained U fluid
after washing, when not in use.
solution of formaldehyde.
drachms of the antiseptic, which was a
for the 17s. 6d. consists
Thus the actual medicament supplied
essential oils, distributed on a number
of some 6 drops or so of
wool, the other articles being merely
of small wads of cotton
inhalation of this
accessories to facilitate the
oil.
83
It
or,
is
is
anywhere
Any
can obtain
my
treatment
In a booklet whioli
Information- concerning
is
My
Book of
me.
It
F 2
84
is
is
so plainly
...
that large,
" protection "medical ethics. If a registered
erstwhile stupid form of
his name is soon struck from the register.
advertise,
medical man dares to
frank, straightforward, outspoken, and
am
I
independent
My nature is
men, who choose to
I may be considered as outclassed by medical
honest.
but I know
etiquette
so-called
;
remain fettered by the barbaric bonds of
letters by
of
shower
whose
patients,
that I am near to tihe bearts of miy
gratitude.
sincere
of
outpouring
every posit represeoots an unparalleled
stand aloof from medical societies and their oWoure^nd tihe worid is the
faahioned rfes of ^dtiquette. I advertise I
This
is tlhe
better for
Since
reason
why
it.
medical societies
of
consist
qualified
medical
prac-
qualification
may
ing aloof.''
The "outfit"
amount
is
usually asked at
first.
sent comprised:
An
Two
boxes of
Nebular
21.
containing
box of "Gargle Tablets,"
" Atomising Fluid," containing
bottle of
box of pearl-coated
pills,
containing 21.
1 fluid
ounce.
85
..
chloride
sufficient to impart
28.7
,,
29 5
12.3
3 1
The atomising
liquid .paraffin,
...
Sugar
grains.
87 0
40
Talc
about
2.1
::
1.5
,,
;;
alkaloid extracted
hydrastis rhizome.
of
The
from
it,
fully analysed.
''
86
The following
extracts
no comment:
C'olinan, Erasmius,
Edward Manr
Under
poses as a
'
catantih specialist,'
15s.
at
first,
and
Ibut
eells
in
'
this
name
an appliance
folTiow-up
for
letterB
Shirley."
A GEEMAN NOSTRUM.
According to Dr. Zernik
are put up by the "Victoria Apotheke " in
be taken in doses of from 25 to 50 drops during
Berlin, and are supposed
25 drops regularly three times a day as a
and
half-hour,
an attack every
a brownish-yellow fluid, which was found
contains
bottle
The
preventive.
of opium, liquor ammonii anisatus,
tincture
lobelia,
of
tincture
of
consist
to
Victoria
Asthma Drops
to
acetic ether,
and potassium
iodate.
CHAPTEE
V.
results
obtained on
pills
and
form of
composition
and
is
pills,
aloes or aloin
is
a constituent of all of
series of
them,
drugs
in regular use,
comprising colocynth, jalap, rhubarb, podophyllin, ginger, capsicum, cardamoms, soap, and oils of
The
would be damaging
but this
Two
is,
to
of course,
any
facts
if
which
revealed
of tablets,
found to
The lengths
of
mendacity to which advertisers may go when the real composition of their wares is unknown is well illustrated by
another nostrum dealt with in this chapter, which is stated
to be composed of the active principles of rare
herbs growing
on the Himalaya mountains, and to have the magical property,
when swallowed,
of the
body which
to cure
it.
is
in
of seeking out
It is further asserted,
88
italics,
that "
it
The
booklet in which
puffed shows the most gross ignorance on the part of the writer, who gravely asserts that
tongue,
tiger's
spider's web, crab's eyes,
beetles,
this
pretended treasure
is
"
sion," and that
all
it.
chapters;
the combinations that are dealt with in other
and
and it is not possible as the result of any reasonable
be impossible of
constituents will escape detection, or will
any
It is, therefore, better to avoid naming
identification.
even when the
quantities of the different ingredients found,
quantitative determinations
(which have
been
made
amount
in
of
doubt as to the
combination.
some particular substance present in a given
of the pills
And it must be remembered that with several
have been present
other ingredients than those named may
detection, though it may
in small quantity and escaped
apply to powerful or very
fairly be said that this does not
left
very
important ingredients.
little
89
MER-SYEEN.
This consists of powders which are supplied at 2s. 9d. per box
of twenty by Mer-Syren, Ltd., London.
There are several
indications that the claims
The
progi'essive evolution.
before us
is
made
have undergone
advertisement of it which is
earliest
Mersyren
is
Mersyren
is
not a Drug.
Sj-ndicate,
Singapore.
little later
is
headed
Try
this
"quick cure"
for Biliousness
and IndigestionFree
of Cost.
Here
is
Here
is
'
And drug
.
way
(and a free way) by which you can absolutely cure youiDigestive trouble by a remedy which is neither a drug nor a
purgative.
absolutely cm-e
Biliousness,
Indigestion,
Sick Headache,
Dyspepsia,
Liver Trouble,
and other
Digestive Disorders.
Gastritis,
Free
of Charge.
Here
who
unburdened
spirits, to
You
it
as a non-drug, non-pui-ging
for
Stomach and
realised
remedy
is
tasteless
powder.
It is neither a
drug
It is pleasant to take,
noi-
an aperient.
And
cures in one
90
little later
London
daily
" Remarkable
New Book on
Health
by Dr. Pearson.
'How
and the remainder
is
Itself.'
"
headed
part
first
summary
is
The book
unable to
tells
his
tell
is,
for
many
reasons,
patients.
is
Layman Needs^and
" Mer-Syren " is the name of a tasteless powder derived from a herb
which powerfully aids the health-reparative power of the body.
It is not a pill
not a purgative not weakening not stomach-upsetting
but just a "Mer-Syren 10-Minute Health-Lesson" to that part of your
body which needs it.
.... first of all, get and read Dr. Pearson's book. How the Body Cures
Itself (by means of the "Mer-Syren 10-Minute Health-Lessons").
.
The book
You have
itself is free.
Health-Lesson" Powders.
as
North Bhangulpore
in India.
91
"
may be judged
This pamphlet has been compiled for the benefit of the myriads of
every part of tlie globe, who, after trying the ordinary means
of cui'e at present obtaining to no purpose, are casting about to discover
a method of treatment for disease virhich shall cure their ailments and
restore them to their former healthy condition.
afflicted in
The plain
Profession
fact
that,
is
pretty
is
much
We
are,
diseases spring
This
for
common
want
of
from one
a better
definition,
partial or general.
waves
cause,
we
Systems and
the sea, but the trend of medical opinion is setting in this direction, and, to the opinion expressed by the Father
of Medicine, aU Schools
of Medicine must come at last.
of
Nitric, Hydrochloric
new era
Mer-Syren ushered in a
phcenix-Iike, arise
all
'
92
-Mer-Syren
composed
which
is
floui'ish in
Europe
Thus the
'
lierb
'
'
of the
newspaper
'
the cure-all
Mer-Syren possesses the wonderful property of permeating evei-y part
Moreover, although its
of the organism with the same good influences.
throughout the entire
felt
are
powers
strengthening
and
stimulating
gentle
any part
organism, yet its specific healing actions are principaUy directed to
for
The
dry upon
For Indigestion and Dyspepsia Upon rising place two Powders
Bilious
For
water.
hot
of
draught
the tongue and wash down with a
and
severe,
very
be
attack
if
the
two
Headaches Take one Powder, or
wash down with cold water.
:
a complete recovery
In chronic cases it is obvious that in order to effect
cured.
the Powders should be .taken regularly until
Analysis
of 25| grains.
material to consist principally of starch, with^ a
showed the
Microscopical examination
vegetable tissue.
little broken
histological
showed the starch to be that of the potato, while the
those of the
elements of the tissue also agreed exactly with
Some raw potato was therefore dried without heat and
potato.
behaviour to
oowdered, and the two powders compared in their
93
by means
of the microscope.
The potato
could be detected.
CICFA.
This medicine, which has had four different names, but
appears to be called Cicfa at present, is supplied at Is. l|d. and
26. 9d. per package by a London limited company.
Is. l^d.
package was found to contain 21 tablets, and a 2s. 9d. package
63.
was changed to "Cicfa." The derivasupplied by the phrase which occurs freely
it
as
recently
The preparation
You may
eat
is
as your Indigestion,
Flatulence and Constipation are not merely Eelieved but
permanently
cured by "Mother's Advice" (Formerly called "Cicfa").
Purgatives
often relieve Indigestion and make you feel better for
a few days.
"Mother's Advice" cures absolutely and permanently, because
while
purgatives simply remove the undigested food, " Mother's
Advice "
completely digests everjiihing you eat.
Why
Case.
digested
94
You do not
digest the food becauBe you have not enough digestive juices
" Cicfa " contains just enough digestive
material to make sure that the albuminous food like meat, egge, etc., will
in the
One
with the early part of each meal three times daily. Severe
take two with each meal for a short time, and then reduce the
dose as the cure proceeds.
Dose.
cases
may
Tlie
s^th
grain.
CELMO
This
is
Chapter
NO.
2.
A bottle,
95
may have
been added
WHELPTON'S PURIFYING
PILLS.
They ar advertised
Indigestion
subject.
relieve
is
ills
to which
we
are
will
Purifying
stomach to action, promote the flow of gastric
juice and
give tone to the whole system.
Headache flies away.
Biliousness,
Kidney Disorders, and Skin Complaints disappear,
while cheerful spirits
and clear complexions follow in due course.
The occasional or
regular use of Whelpton's Pills, by assisting
Nature to get rid of superFills arouse the
...
ton
tXlirZZV
'
'"'"^
^^^^.^^^
These
compS ^
The
96
These
described as
In a circular enclosed in the package they are
" absolutely unequalled" for biliousness and other complaints,
including anaemia, piles, inof which thirty-eight are named,
etc. It is further
fluenza, despondency, blackheads, rheumatism,
stated that:
Degeneration of the Liver,
Chas Forde's also cure Fatty and Waxy
the host
(Cirrhosis),^ and
Liver
"Hob-nailed" or "Gin-drinker's"
assimilation,
digestion,
impaired
in
origin
of ailments having a common
Cha^.
of the excretory organs.
and secretion, and in defective working
peculiar to
Bismuth,
As
As
require.
to four beans as occasion may
a General Aperient. Two
going
upon
one
bean after .the midday meal, and
a
Tonic-One
to bed.
The
black.
being coloured
were coated with gelatine, the coating
the coating was
The average weight after removal of
pills
2.3 grains.
be
are devoid of aloes appears to
prerefer to aloes itself and not to
Complexion,
ui
TT^r TT<.adache
Fo""t:on.
as
For Dizziness.
For Biliousness.
ForMoSUi.
F..e
97
and
designed to act upon the Liver and Bile in such a manner as to secure all
the benefite of a prompt and active medicine, without any of the unpleasant effects which usually attend the use of ordinary liver remedies.
HOLLOWAY'S
PILLS.
is
box,
They have positively no equal for thoroughly cleansing the system and
putting the liver and kidneys in functional order, without pain or griping.
A Key
Among
the comprescribed are gout, rheumatiem, sciatica, paralysis, liver complaints, asthma, inflammation of the kidneys, bronchitis, quinsy, bad legs, bad breasts,
plaints for
this
"system"
is
ulcers,
life,
which
floodings
ringworms, scrofula,
mended
pills
ague,
heads and
The dose recomfrom two pills a day to seven
diarrhoea,
etc.
The
98
PILLS.
These
pills
package
The Most
Cure
The
of Disease.
...
In
a,ll
ance with the following directions, effect a positive and permanent cure in
the most stubborn and deep-rooted cases.
The
be taken daily.
examination showed the presence of aloes (Barbados) or a preparation of aloes, a little ginger, a little soap, a trace of
capsicum, and oils of peppermint and cinnamon; some other
vegetable tissue was also present, but it did not possess any
No mercury or
characters by which it could be identified.
SCOTT'S PILLS.
Scott's Pille are supplied
price
Is.
pills is
l-|d.,
by
containing 24
W.
in boxes,
Lambert, London,
pills.
headed
Loss of Appetite
and Liver Complaints, Indigestion, Costiveness,
effectually
etc.,
Lumbago
Rheumatism,
Worms, Gout, Inflammations,
Prepared
Pills.
Liver
and
Bilious
removed by tAe use of Dr. Scott's
Kent.
from tihe Recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley,
their employment include the
Bilious
The recommendations
following
The
for
intemperance will
evil effects arising from
or drinking.
to them after excess of eating
Prevented
if
recourse
P-P^^^J^^^^^^^^^
had
by taking a PiU or two ^or
particularly necessary
are
they
Bathing
Cold
crudities that
bowels will be cleansed from any
a few nights previous the
for the prestate
proper
them, and the body rendered in a
Lay adhere
most ercelthe
also
are
complaints. They
vention of many uncomfortable
obstructions
by
caused
sallow complexions,
Lnt alterative and cleanser of
as
is
-commended
To seafaring persons they are particularly
thfL^ve
a life, wiiich
such
U>
incident
disorders
tL use them will prevent many
of
99
frequently prove fatal. Pregnant women will
find them a most efficacious
medicine in preventing Bilious Vomitings, Nervous
Headaches, and other
complaints peculiar to their situation.
The
pills
Chemical and
grains.
KER-NAK.
Ker-Nak, or Ker-Nak
Leeds at
Is.
the package:
''"""^y "^^''^
important
^ ""."^fl
t.^Tn^?
step
advance
of oM-fashioned purges and drastic
mineral pills. These
latter with their mercury,
bismuth, and other crude ingredients,
only
irritate, inflame and,
the end, seriously injure, the
delicate linings of
the stomach and bowels.
All uch mineral drugs, doubtful
in fhel
physiological action and paralysing and
harmful in their eventual effect
indirectly, enter into the composition
7^^'
of
Ker
Ker-Nak,
which, on the contrary, contains
certain ^essences and oils
the valuable constituents of fresh
ripe fruit,
^T'^^
FpIi
y^s Pnes""
tions,
T fl
Influenza,
The lengthy
(-/-^h'
motherhood,
and most
middle-age,
Shortness of Breath
^^r^^''"^^'
and
its after-effects.
vLml
and
declining
Rlieumatic Affec-
Free Advice.
Any
own
hpr-
^Llkd
a;irv,
^'^^
Med^^^^^^
no hesitation in
statin<^ fullv
anv mnHot
i!
L
^
'
100
Tlie directions
Dose 1
and repeat
to 3, or in severe cases,
after the next
two doses
mid-day meal.
The
pills
which appeared to be
There was no evidence
of the presence of
mercury or calomel.
COCKLE'S PILLS.
not given, but they are
accompany them as being
described in the circulars which
" Prepared by the late James Cockle, Surgeon and Apothecary,
box, price Is. Ud., was
4 Great Ormond Street, London."
also stated that:
found to contain IG' pills. It was
of these is
These
pills consist of
meTo
tT
--^^^X'
JtheJ
composition.
They
are not
recommended
as a panacea, nor
apeneni
a mild and efficacious
to all complaints; but as
irregula.%
intestmal
with
Indigestion,
in the various f orms of
and
be an exaggeration to state that
perhaps,
not,
will
it
use,
admittrg their
of diet, changes of climate,
systems
all
thev hive been resorted to under
degree of ucce.s, for
extraordinary
with an
o^ L^:i;heric Alternations,
over more Oian half a century.
Jliev
IdaptTd
^rmc
a period extending
The
before
The
of 4 grains,
^hem.c.l^nd
Z
No
101
first
of Burgees'
cine.
is
stated that
mercury or calomel.
of
Invigorator.
as
The
are
...
'
CHAPTEE
VI.
KIDNEY MEDICINES.
The
oil of
juniper.
Of the four
pills
now
reported on, only one contains these ingredients; two concarbonate, and the fourth
sist chiefly of soap and sodium
contains copaiba as the only active substance found; this,
one of these,
of
with only
per cent, of alcohol and 46.5 per cent, of sugars,
appeared to be
2.4 per cent, of vegetable extractive, which
trace of oil of winterpartly derived from cascara sagrada, a
Needless to
green giving an aromatic flavour to the whole.
combination do not show
say, the claims advanced for this
cases, including as
more modesty than is displayed in other
Bright' s disease, expels
they do the assertions that it cures
drives malarial poison out of
gall stones, cures impotence,
for liver complaint, torpid
the system, is the best remedy
103
liver,
and
electric
The
mag-
little
sweet
spirit of nitre
with a very
citrate,
carelessness with
The extraordinary
of
nostrums
may
be
shown by comparing the contents of different bottles one contained five times as much magnesium
sulj)hate as the other.
This preparation is foisted upon the
thrown together
is
pubhc
as
tion
it
pub-
is
an item of informa'
only to
'
chemists of
well-known standing," in order to avoid some other ingredient being substituted for one of those named; probably
chemists of well-known standing
scription
'
'
recognised preparation of
now
member of
being
who
may
a secret
allow of a
a series called
of
the
'
'
pre-
known composition
One
given.
was
to
received such a
little
further information
pills
reported on
is
one
illustration of the
advantage to the
name
of
an individual
measurements,
is
company
limited
claiming
though
to be " Specialists
etc., in order to
"cure"
the rupture.
In this
way
large
numbers
of
applying are not only furnished with particulars of the rupture "treatment," but also in due course
with the par-
104
'
ticulars of
'
'
'
for
various
ment
of complications interfering
their manufacture,
and
how
still
is
may
be seen by
HOLDEOYD'S GRAVEL
PILLS.
as
A positive cure for Gravel, Pains in the Back, Dropsy, Diseases of the
Kidneys, Gout, Sciatica.
Some
Dropsy,
Wind
in the
and
Water
Complaints,
Rheumatism,
Gleet,
K:dney
etc.
The
Two
directions are:
Pills three times a day, morning, afternoon,
and night.
The
pills
105
as possible,
Soap
Dried sodium carbonate
Powdered rhubarb
40 per cent.
20
20
10
10
Oil of anise
Syrup
DR.
These
|d.
pills are
supplied by a firm in
They
pills
London
pills.
De
as the
generally..
And
is
stated that
restored to health,
considered a voluntary affliction, as no one need suffer these
excruciating torments if they
will only have recourse to these Pills,
which are confidently recommended
by the proprietor as the only real specific, and being
entirely free from
colchicum, mercury, and other injurious
ingredients, may be taken with
perfect safety by sufferers of either sex.
For weakness "across the loins,
sandy or other deposits, discharges, and
diseases of the urinary organs
generally, they are altogether unrivalled.
They correct acidity of the
f the kidneys, thereby preventing
stone in
fv."'uf'
the bladder and many other serious
disorders to which these important
organs are liable.
Many complaints, long supposed to be nervous, often
arise solely from contamination of
the blood with certain impurities which
should have been carried off by the kidneys.
Several unsightly eruptions
of the skin and face also arise from
the same cause, and ,may be as
readily
icauiiy
removed by these
Pills.
ing from
either
The
pills
powdered liquorice.
weight was 4.5 grains.
of
and
106
RED CROSS
Red
PILLS.
pool.
advertisement of the
An
pills is as follows
Eed
box of the
pills
was sent
for,
by post
We think
package
and Lumbago, take the Red Cross
you suffer from pains in the back
their use.
thousands have been cured by
Pills
Inflamation of the Bladder,
Grav.1, the Kidneys, and
If you .uffer from
use.
thousands have b^n cured by their
If
takl
Red
Cross Pills;
their use.
is
generally
known
to
107
If
you
suiler
accidontaJ,
Eed C ross
recent,
;
Analysis
which appeared to
much
PILLS.
advertises largely a
We
108
The
men
of
Wo,
high standing.
We
The
price
Is.
is
no
possessing
as
nearly
approximately
.
3 per cent.
Oil of juniper
Potassium nitrate
Magnesia
Powdered capsicum
Sugar
o
Soap
Starch, gum, moisture,
Estimated cost
DR.
^
2q
1
^
etc., bo 100.
pills
of ingredients for fifty-three
about ^d.
KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT.
109
An
advertisement in an
And
Englis'li periodical is
TJiousands of
headed
have Kidney
It.
alarming increase and remarkable prevaWhile kidney disorders are the most common
diseases that prevail, they are almost the last recognised by patients and
physicians, tvho content themselves with doctoring the effects, while the
original disease undermines the system.
In taking 8wamp-Root,
you afford natural help to Nature, for it is the most perfect healer and
realise the
...
On
How
To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or
hours
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver, and bladder remedy, fulfils every
wish in quickly relieving pain in the back, kidneys,
every part of the urinary passage.
And on
the package
it is
liver,
bladder, and
stated that:
Gall
Stones,
Diabetes,
Dropsy.
It cures Enlargement of Prostate Gland,
Seminal
Weakness, Spermatorrhoea, Impotence, Generative Debility,
and General
Languor. Drives Malarial Poison out of systm.
Gravel.
It removes
the causes producing Nervousness, Sleeplessness,
Headache, Neuralgia
Shme
have
failed.
The contents of
when
all
other remedies
doses,
110
The
liquid was
brown
in colour
sagrada.
liquid containing
could not have been detected in presence of so large a proportion of sugar and the bitter substance.
Definite active constituents could, of course, have been found.
The sediment of the original mixture, when examined with the
weeds,"
etc., if present,
KAROX COMPOUND.
Company from
This is supplied by the Karox Manufacturing
one
containing
an address in the north of England, in bottles
fluid ounce, price Is. l^d.
The method
of advertising chiefly
employed
in this case
is
the
The
We
^t.
ingredients being apparently substituted
accurately dispensed, one of the
As it is essential
sake of extra profit.
by other cheaper drugs for the
Ill
to be beneficial,
substitution,
we
desire to
Syrup
of
Lemons, 2
oz.
Dose
One teaspoonful
in a wineglass of
water
On
the wrapper
of
the
is
described as
is
not a cure-all.
CHAPTEE VII.
OBESITY CUEES, AND A
A
good
many nostrums
FLESH PEODUCEE."
"
extensively are
now
but
little
in evidence,
if,
indeed, they
" cures " for obesity have increased, there have recently
article
appeared numerous and lengthy advertisements of an
of
excessive
intended to cure the opposite condition, that of
In the present chapter we give an account of some
leanness.
also of
former
was shown by the analyses published in the
of several
volume that extract of bladderwrack was the basis
same substance appears
of the medicines described, and the
It
in
nearly
all
vesiculosus)
is
those
a
shores, and, in
in sea- water, in
considerable quantities of the salts occurring
of iodine the extract
eluding a small quantity of a compound
effect in reducing
was at one time credited with having some
;
113
tuent and
sibility of question,
The plan
it
of giving
away
a free
are
characteristic of nearly all the
advertisers dealt with
It is
moreover, quite in keeping with
what we are accustomed to'
find that each should
advance the claim that his
own pre
paration, though found on
nostrums described
anvTtl
extant,
'r^r^
.
and they
is
"
"''^^
"
"
-^like
'
'
case
114
" my
remedy
is
woman's cure
women
for
only.
Nobody
be allowed to the
statement,
failure)
syncope."
A.
Thifi
is
advertised by A.
It
is
the
priced at one guinea for a
amount
supplied free, the actual
first fortnight's medicine is
The following extracts from adverto be paid for it is 10s. 6d.
claims advanced :
tisements will show the nature of the
Famous
Tgly de
ft
gout
elln
your physical
must
" be-by superfluous
flesh,
which generally
rheumat'isn,,'or Palpitation, or
"fatty"
carries
its train
famous Obesity
profit by this advice from a
ferio^as ailment, read and
Specialist.
...
to the patient's
115
what
has done for thousands of others and I know it will do the same
All you need do is to write to me to-day, and you will receive
my book, which will be of invaluable service to you, by return post, free
of charge.
I will send securely and privately packed, to any
reader who forwards me 3d. for postage, a full-size fortnight's package of
my remedy free of charge.
You will not have to wait for weeks,
or even days, before deriving benefit.
You will experience at once a
wonderful feeling of lightness and brightness ; you will be able to walk
longer distances without being fagged ; your heart will beat more
regularly; and your breathing will be better.
it
for you.
...
is
letter,
a part
The second
portion of
my
emphasise
to
was
Treatment.
also sent; it
entitled
is
a small
"Obesity:
By A. Gordon
paper
Cause and
is
In Plain Language.
is apropos for me to here
mention that I am a physician holdincr
diplomas by examination, and I have made
the cause and treatment of
Obesity a special study.
My methods of treatment are based on sound
physiological grounds, and not merely tentative
or empirical.
It
hZ
My
los't
m,h'pnf=! n
Nerve-Fore^ an^N!;':
to
eat
what you
like
e:
IZeir^'^'''^'
yor^ like.
116
At
this
rate the
wholesale at about
a thousand.
Is.
DR.
These
pills
London, at
this
" famous
XIX.
to contain 38
to
and
by Dr.
Vincent's
2s.
Medicine Co.,
box was found
pills.
In an advertisement of these
pills it is stated
that
One
2s.
Box
pleasant to take,
Dr. Vincent's Anti-Stout Pills are small, harmless,
flesh as much as
superabundant
reduce
will
diet
of
change
and without
10 lbs. in a week.
of superabundant, flesh
is
now
well
known throughout
117
world.
known
to fail.
Wliere a fair
...
The
has
trial
been given
it
pills
Shillinc.
Box
(The
letter,
"
Dose-Two
Pills
also
every night
'
of the coating
grains.
Nearly half the
mass consisted of " extract
"-apparently a mixture' about ^5
r"""and
chiefly
chTeflTof
of The
the tissues
---ted
contents of powdered
ve^^etable
substances.
The nature of these was
investfgated with the at
of the microscope, and
from the histologicaf characters
of the
powder, together with the results
of test, applied to
the
p Fl '
evidence was obtained of the
^
presence of
cell
Jalap
Colocynth
Cloves
Aloes, or extract of aloes
The
last
for Its
identified as fullv a. in
fl
WeVL ^
being present in no
admixture with the other drugs
named, bTt
presence appeared adequate.
its
^^^^^^^^^^^
thfeviaence
ev de,l
It
is not possible in
such a mixture to give
with anv certain
near approximation the
proportions in
the umerent
dlfferen m-
"
wLh
PHATOLENE TABLETS.
T
London,
at 6d., 4s.,
and
Phatolene Co
10s.
per box.
Ltd
'
118
An
is
The
Don't be fat when Phatolene Tablets will cure you absolutely.
Thousands
Registered by Government.
only safe and certain remedy.
Phatolene Tablets are guaranteed to cure you of stoutof Testimonials.
ness without starvation, aperients, or interference with your ordinary
Phatolene Tablets are the most remarkable scientific
method of living.
Phatolene Tablets are an aid to health,
age.
present
discovery of the
We are so conproduce
a charming figure.
and
younger,
look
make you
that we offer
daily
weight
reduce
your
will
Tablets
Phatolene
that
fident
order only.
postal
sixpenny
return
for
a
box
in
trial
large
a
you
send
to
sent bore no patent medicine stamps, and go
presumably "registered by Government" refers to the name
registered as a trade-mark; it is clearly intended to sug-
being
gest
this.
box
"
was headed
The Phatolene
Co., Ltd.
Remedy),
(Sole Agents for the Discoverer of the "Phatolene"
F. Lawrence, Manager and Certified Chemint.
been personally
As a chemist of over 20 years' practice I have often
obesity and local overconsulted by my clients of both sexes in regard to
those
But it is even more pleasure to me to come in touch with
fatness.
who
...
if
...
ance.
may
point out
conditions.
following quantities according to these
From
a second letter
To
119
JOUENAL
The Treatment
To attempt
corpulence.
The Practitioner says " Taken three times a day reduced the fat of a
lad who had suddenly become corpulent."
The British Medical Journal: " Given to lessen fat with good results."
" Given with good results and does not
Again, the same Journal says
A lady lost 20 lbs. in 9 weeks when
produce dyspepsia or diarrhoea.
8
lbs",
in 3 weeks without bad results."
taking this, and a gentleman
:
Medical Journal
The
Dose. For the first week take one tablet three times a day, and after
wards increase the dose to three Tablets three times a day, one hour before
Can be swallowed whole or allowed to dissolve in the mouth.
meals.
pills,
6d.
trial
Box
of
my
That
120
It Doesn't Matter
of
my
My
4/rBox
digestion
and assimilation of
^ ^^nndred haven't got. and that's why they
^
I?e
f-it
On
may produce
results without
You have a right to feel sure that Kellogg's Safe Fat Reducer
You can depend upon it that it is positively safe, and you need
is
safe
never fear
that
will reduce
it
Now
I will send
from the heavy burden you are now carrying, and the terrible
dangers of apoplexy and paralysis, which threaten all fat people, are lifted
relief
From
I
make each
blank
filled out, so
employ the means that will most rapidly, and at the same time safely
reduce your fat and make strong, healthy tissue and muscle. ,
.
121
The price of the treatment is but 2 la. Id. Order it to-day, and be free
from your heavy weight in a few weeks. Don't stop to figure or argue with
yourself.
I hope to receive your order by return mail, but if you cannot
order write me frankly what stands in your way of securing a reduction.
From
the third
cannot understand why you do not order my wonderful treatment, and begin at once to reduce your fat that has so long been a bother
and annoyance to you.
I have given much thought to your case
[no case had been even mentioned in sending for the sample] and I
feel
sure if you still had any doubts of the splendid power of my remedy
to
reduce you of fatness, you would have written me fully at once. As I
have
not received any letter from you, I have concluded that
you do not feel
that you can afford to take the treatment at present.
I believe so
positively that I can reduce you, and I feel so sure
that you would appreciate fully the splendid reduction I will give you,
that I am going to make
you a strictly confidential proposition, by which you can
secure the treatment you so much desire, and at the same time do me
some good.
I really
...
You
certainly
know
by
fat,
....
The^"
beans,
sugar
and
compound containing iodine
as
together with
microscopical examination of the tissue,
showed that the tablets
consisted principally of wheat flour
from which much of the
starch had been removed, made into
a coherent mass by
means
of malt extract or glucose; traces
of the germ or embryo
th
whea. were found. All this is, of
course, a vehicle'^for
the
organic substance containing iodine;
both thyroid gland (or
it!
extract) and extract of bladderwrack
are characterised by
con
a,ning iodine
combination in small quantity,
and man^
tests
ZT
tW
122
amounting to
positive
is
and
would convey no
real information
may
as preparations of thyroid
if
it
could be given,
"
differ so
NORMAL "
PILLS.
Too Stout
Simply follow our instructions and we will guarantee a perfect cure.
Our treatment is in every way as scientific and complete as that for which a
London Specialist charges 21.
Feee Offer
To prove the
14 days' supply
Free on
we
will
trial
box
and
postage, etc.
The
6d.
your
requested.
liquorice
label,
contamed
{Fucus vedcido.ns), such as are
that the
indicated
Various tests
extract of this substance.
bladderwrack
123
Powdered
liquorice (adulterated)
and
Talc
^ grain
^
^
^
moisture
in
one
pill.
This
An
offer
st.
covered
and
it,
it is
offered to
women
only.
my
free
...
book,
am
My
presentuig 5,000
Obesity in
me now and
Women.
The passages which follow are from the " book "
in question
women
is
syncope.
Obesity
makes
is
Up
eaten
to a
transformed
mto the constituents which make up the various parts of the body)
is
practically the same in women as in men.
Beyond that point it is
obviously an entirely different process, for the generative
organs then
become involved.
Now
the
all-important
secret
is
whole subject of
caused as the result of a species of
mal-elimmation in those stages of the nutritive processes
wherein the
organs peculiar to the sex are involved. In other words,
the unhealthy,
fat-forming process is set up because of the imperfect
disposal of those
nutrient elements with which the menstruous organs are
concerned.
obesity in
women
is
this
Obesity
is
You are certain to have noticed how any marked stag or change
in
the functions of the menses will influence fat
formation.
For instance
girls who from childhood are inclined to
fatness invariably become of
normal proportions on attaining puberty, while at
least 70 per cent of
the cases of obesity in women occur at the
menopause, between the ages
^
of 40 and 50.
124
Now there are changes connected with the organs under consideration
which occur without any outward or visible signschanges which induce
obesity.
These are changes which result in the fat-loading of the blood,
and the depositing of fat in the different parts of the body as the blood
circulates.
Please remember that
cure for corpulence in men.
.
The
treat
women
only.
have no
Bust.
Hips. 50 in.
long have you been about this weight? Gradually increasing for
a year or two.
What parts are fattest? Abdomen and bust. Consti
pated ? No. Have you backache or any kidney trouble ? No. PalpitaJf2 in.
How
No.
tion?
Age
No.
tion
If married,
of youngest
Had
now
5.
how long?
Any
miscarriage?
H. years.
How many
children
?5.
Fair.
169
number.
as follows
There are
you
to
take
sufficient tablets
two
If
125
I have just one other suggestion to make in your case, and that is in
regard to food. You will find on page 15 of my booklet particulars of
the foods and beverages I avoided during the first month of my cure,
and I strongly advise you to do as I did in this matter. I also advise
you to eat only bread, calces, etc., made from gluten flour; that is,
flour from which the starch has been removed.
Masticate your food
thoroughly.
Always stop' eating just before you feel you have had
enough, and wait until you have finished eating before you take anything to drink. Drinlt as much hot water as you can between meals.
The
and
nally.
After removal of the coating tlieir average V7eiglit was
found to be 4 grains. Examination showed that they consisted,
wholly or in part, of roughly ground up sugar-coated tablets or
pills, the coating of which was coloured pink
since the coating
of these had been ground in with the tablets, it was not possible
to separate it, and the mass accordingly contained a good deal
of sugar and starch ; besides these, an extract was found agreeing, as far as its characters could be ascertained, with extract
of bladderwrack
a trace of iodine in combination was present,
such as is found in preparations of bladderwrack and of thyroid
gland; also a very small quantity of boric acid, and a little
vegetable powder.
Part of the last-named showed the characters of the debris of a seaweed, though it could not be definitely indentified with Fucus vesiml osus ; a further small portion, amounting to an extremely small proportion of the whole,
consisted of woody tissue which did not agree in characters with
any drug in common use. The boric acid points to the probable
presence of an animal gland or a preparation of such, and some
collateral evidence was obtained of the presence of thyroid in
small quantity, but definite proof of the latter is impossible
in such a mixture.
;
A "FLESH PRODUCEK."
SARGOL.
preparation
persons
who
advertised
of
Every Person
in
126
is
We
how many
or
ineffectual preparations
tion to you.
you have
Remember until the discovery of Sargol, nothing has ever been known
which could be depended ujpon to put 10, 15, and even 30 pounds of permanent, healthy tissue on a thin person's body.
;
As w-e receive so many letters from people who say they have been
disappointed and deceived by .so-called fatteners we thinlc it is best to take
you into our confidence and give you some of the inside facts relative to
Sargol.
By a recent discovery it is now possible to reproduce chemically
a very important natural fatty substance which is found in the yolk of
eggs, in the roe of fishes, in the blood, also in the brain and nerve tissue
of human beings.
This substance can now he obtained in a highly concentrated form in combination with other valuable vitalising and tissue
building agente.
Each dose of Sargol contains a generous amount of this newly discovered
substance, the very element which thin folks lack.
Each time you take
a Sargol tablet you are introducing directly into your system in concentrated form the actual fat forming substance which you so sadly need,
and yet this is but one of the component parts of Sargol.
Five other
strength giving, fat producing elements of known and acknowledged
merit and great potency are carefully combined to form this peerless
preparation.
box
tablets
Sargol,
of
it is
strongly
equal to six
4s.
being 21s.
The
1.
Take one
able as regards
price 4s.
6d.,
recommended that
directions are:
2.
Be
reason-
127
After
were sugar coated and coloured pink.
removal of the coating they had an average weight of 5.3 grains.
Analysis showed them bo contain lecithin, hypophosphites of
The
tablets
calcium, sodium, and potassium, zinc phosphide, sugar, albumen, and insoluble protein, with talc and kaolin or similar
In the course
mineral matter, evidently added as excipient.
it
Zinc phosphide
Lecithin
Calcium hypophor>phite
Sodium and potassium hypophosphites
Albumen
1-9
12.9
...
7.7
,,
4.2
(soluble)
Insoluble protein
(?
coagulated albumen)
Sugar
10.8
18.0
CHAPTEE Vm.
MEDICINES FOR ALCOHOLISM AKD EOK THE
TOBACCO HABIT.
The " treatments " for the drink habit described in this
chapter inchide some which have only recently been advertised in this country
two of them are of American origin.
With these we include an account of a " cure
for the
tobacco habit, supplied by the same limited company as one
;
'
'
Each
is
of the pre-
to
taken
be
be
administered
obviously,
can be
if
without
the
patient's
for secret
same
administration was
will in the
cinchona bark,
carbonate
diluted
of this
it
is
with
The
first
of the
merely of powdered
to consist
asserted that
of
'
'
it
cinchona
is
mineral
knowledge
which
is
given
is
only
^ grain of alkaloids, it is
scarcely to be expected that any great result will be obtained
In the next
from the administration of this preparation.
article described, which appears to be of American origin,
129
powders and
What
tablets.
is
found in
ingredient
active
evidently aimed at
is to
the
pro-
remedy which
is
Monday
tion
but
when
the
be discouraged
if
the medicine
for the
In the advertisements,
plishment of a cure.
preparation
it
but
it
is called,
is
really a limited
The
it is
and they
etc.
and
ness tablets,"
accom-
letters
co-opera-
is
easily be received
is
might
"asthma
,as
"anti-deaf-
"rheumatism remedy,"
reported on is made in America, but
third article
tablets,"
the
medicaments,
no doubt,
drink.
parations
is
ingredients
negligible.
is
shown
of
is
Ito
be so small as to be practically
130
who
patient
that
it
appears
it
we
did
The medicines
the
way
in
to be
the directions as to
enema,
In
this case, as in the others, the price charged is such that the
it.
Some
are as
21s., for
sent.
"treatment"
follows
inconvenience.
131
and
reason, can be cured Secretly, against their own free will, and without
their co-operation, hy any member of the family, with the special course
prepared
for both
endorsed
of cured
Either course
is
patients.
Application to
tlie
The following
The treatment
_
i-,iQuiD
I
prepared in
is
extracts are
Two
himself
and
Pauotttto
CAPSULES
J
I
The treatment
and
is
The
course,
either
the
Liquid or
Capsules,
Two
is
It
cost per
Guineas (2/2/0)
^^^^^ Pounds
(S/lO/Sr^^'
Each
and
Ten
or
Shillings
is
m any individual
We are indeed surprised not having received from you an order for the
treatment prepared by this Association.
There is only one conclusion we can arrive at, namely, that financial
circumstances make the
cost of a treatment prohibitive to you.
Should this be the
.
case
we would
I
132
Name
Age?
Sex.
or initials of patient.
34.
M.
Married
How
Any
Yes.
long? 7 years.
children? 2.
Height?
"
6ft. 11.
Weight? 12
Complexion ?
stone.
Fair.
Occupation? Clerk.
Works hard ? Yes.
Secretly.
Is the patient to be treated secretly or voluntarily ?
How long since he commenced drinking ? Four years.
Nature of liquor used? Whisky; and other spirits.
Quantity per day, or as near as possible? Varies from 2 glasses to a
bottle or more.
Does he drink during the night? No.
Before breakfast? Sometimes.
Does he ever become drunk ? Yes.
Does he drink daily or periodically? Daily; but to excess only
periodically.
If iperiodically, how often ? and how long
times every week, sometimes once in several
When did he have his last bout? A week
What mental effect does he suffer with
from drink?
Excitement;
sometimes delusions.
How
is
and
digestion, both
when drunk
or sober?
drinking.
Rather irritable.
Is he nervous, irritable, or phlegmatic?
stouter
Not
changing.
thinner
or
?
Is he getting
Constipated ? No.
Does he ever complain of heart trouble ? No.
Any disease he was or is suffering with ? No.
If so, what was the doctor's advice?
at present, and for what purpose? No.
of the parents or grandparents addicted to drink? (state which,
Any
and
if
No.
How
often,
and when
Two
what form,
quantity, and
he inhales)
Does not inhale.
if
133
if
treated
vohzntarily,
how
P.S. Write fully on the other side any additional information regarding the patient's past and present condition that the physician should
know
of.
Two
For the
two days take three capsules daily, four the third day,
and then six every day until the course is finished.
first
sules over.)
The way to take them is in either hot tea, coffee, or soup. Empty
the contents into the cup, not put the whole capsule, and thoroughly stir
until
dissolved.
fruit,
The best time for taking the powders is on rising in the morning,
mid-day, and before retiring at night.
Should you find it difficult to
give the six daily, two may be taken at one time, but not more, as they
might taste, and they must be well stirred and dissolved.
Both
results
EDWARD
J.
WOODS TREATMENT.
134
Consumed quart
If
periodically, let
I
....
additionally!
" did
up, and
it
me
no good.
was
regarded
But now
as a
hopeless case.
for
While drifting from bad to worse, as all slaves of King Alcohol do, I
unexpectedly found a true cure. It was (and is) genuine. It saved my
My health was quickly restored, I Ibecame and am a respectable man,
life.
enjoying very benefit of freedom from the accursed alcohol. I speedily
I began to
I took less and less.
lost all desire for drink.
prefer tea, coffee, and other non-alcoholic liquids ; the craving for liquor
ceased, I could sleep perfectly, my stomach became well, and I recovered
and naturally
my
to
indulgence in strong
drink.
WONDERFtrii.
my
marvellous.
What
I rejoiced so greatly at
drinking.
to devote
if
life
.
promise
decided
is
or periodical drinkers.
On
My
application
to the
address
given,
the
"Confession"
From
referred to above and various other papers were sent.
"
"
origin,
American
of
is
Treatment
the
these it appears that
and the business seems to have attained considerable dimensions
Two sets of
in America before being established in England
135
laim unless
printed in
italics
M.
Sex?
Age?
years.
Married? Yes.
lbs.
Approximate weight? 12 stone
Height about ? 5 ft. 11 in.
Steady drinker, or does he (or she) drink in a bout (spree) after keeping
sober for some time? Steady drinher in slight excess; howt occasionally.
What kind of alcoholic drink mostly taken? Wliiskey and other spirits.
About how much every 24 hours? Varies from 2 or 3 glasses to 2 bottles.
Ha,s person ever
had delusions
Yes.
No.
Fits?
Delirium tremens?
3 times.
No.
Apoplexy ? No.
Will remedies be given with
Insanity?
or without person's
knowledge?
Without.
of alcoholic
about 4 years.
Does person sleep soundly through the night ? Usually.
All his life; only
drinks?
to excess
to drink alcohol
Not
as
rule.
Yes.
What
is
occupation
usually taken?
Here
(or
is
Clerk.
chief rule
is
that
them up.
should seem to be too strong, it can be reduced by giving a
Powder or Tablet. But do not increase the doses until
have
sent
me
the report, which should come at the end of your having
you
given 42 each of the Powders and Tablets, i.e., about two weeks.
If it
takes a longer period to give these, then your report can be delayed
If the dose
half or quarter
accordingly.
Be
cheerful
temper.
surely.
and
optimistic.
Success
136
This
somewhat
home
Even i,f six months are required to accomplish the desired purpose
it is a
highly satisfactory reward for the expense, time,
and effort used.
I beg of you, therefore, to treat this matter with
calmness. Do not write
me that you are utterly disappointed, that you feel as if nothing can
ever
do any good, and other simOar remarks, but keep perscveringly
on.
From another
11.9 grains.
'.
96.4
,,
of 1.6 grains.
Tartar emetic
Boric acid
Sugar
No
Analysis
,,
76.1
,,
of millc
grains.
The estimated
js
3.bout
!(}
powders
^.nd 68 tablets
137
ALCOLA.
Alcola
is
it is
1.
The method
this case
is
My
dear friend
Mr. Anderson was a '^ard drinker for over 20 years and the disease had
got such a firm hold th,;u il ^ .is impossible for him to shake it off and it
continued to grow worse and worse with no sign of ev-er stopping.
Just about this time I received a letter from a lady telling me about a
called Alcola which she said kad never been known to fail and she
urged me to send for it at once as slie knew it would certainly cure.
remedy
had already
tried
managed after some trouble to get the money and took her
advice and sent for it and gave it as directed and in a very short time
he lost all the terrible craving for liquor that he had had for so long. His
health improved in every way too.
This was about eight years ago and
he has never drank since.
The Physicians Co-operative Association.
are the only ones who prepare and sell Alcola and I will write them to-day
possible so I
to
little
Alcola
obtain.
is
the very best treatment for drunkenness that you can possibly
...
It cures all stages of the disease, from the beginner to the one who has
drank for years, and is thought beyond hope. It makes no difference
whether the disease was inherited or acquired, nor what kind of liquor
138
short
list
of
also
eent
the
italics
How
'
IMPORTANT.
Will tablet be given twice a day or three times
Will you begin treatment at once? Yes.
Twice.
Tablets Nos. 1 and 2 are to be given as follows One tablet three times a
day at meal time. Give alternately, that is, tablet of No. 1 at one meal.
No. 2 at the next meal. No. 1 the next, No. 2 the next, and so on.
:
After you liav been using the treatment three weeks fill out the enclosed
report blank carefully and fully, and send it to us.
This is a most
important point, for in this way we can judge how your patient is getting
and if necessary can give you further advice that we are sure wdl
be of great assistance and value to you.
along,
the
amount
of
The length
medicine
it
wQl
requir.e to cure
time or
.
.... we
of
No. 1 Tablets.
of a pale yellow
Analysis
of
Strychnine
Caffeine
4.72
86.9
Sugar of milk
4.1
Talc
gum
and a trace
of coloui-ing matter.
With
starch, a little
Each
or dextrin,
and
approximately
Strychnine
Boric acid
Sugar of milk
Talc
4.4
,,
82.8
3.0
A trace
be separated from the strychnine; hence the figure for the latter
is
approximate only.
Each
would
tablet
thus
contain
about
0.011
grain
of
strychnine.
Taitar emetic
Calcium sulphate
Talc
With
trace of a
,,
is
about l|d.
140
treatment "
it
removed before
it
of a light reddish-
no intoxicating
It
is
use
liquor.
Eat
of
like.
And:
N.B.---AIthough a cure will apparently be effected in a few days, it is
absolutely necessary in order to ensure a Permanent Cure that a full
course
of 24 days' medicine (24 bottles) shall be taken without a break,
so that
the alcoholic or drug poison may be thoroughly eliminated from the system
and thus prevent a return of the crave.
Qualitative
141
The
A
A
by volume
soft resin
non alkaloidal
-
volume
,,
bitter
principle
Ash
fair trace
0.1
2.3
,,
,,
common
bitter drugs.
It agreed in
impure
in newspapers
"Ltd."
habit.
TOBACCO HABIT
Conquered
I offer a genuine guaranteed
hours.
It
is
mild,
pleasant,
in 3 Days.
142
My
Inexpensive, reliable.
is entitled "How to Speedily and PerConquer the Tobacco Smoking and Chewing Habits, also
the Snuff Habit"; it is a pamphlet of thirteen pages, chiefly
fectly
effects of
enlist his
few extracts
all
There are several kinds of cigarettes that are prepared with opium,
cannabis indica (hasheesh)^ or cocaine. Thus, another very insidious and
killing poison is
why
oculists
and opticians
nicotine.
is
a reason
flourish.
Tobacco causes enfeebling of the mind and too often it leads to insanity.
tobacco is a frequent cause of heart failure and premature death.
I have been told by medical men that there is a belief, becoming better
founded from year to year, that tobacco is a cause of appendicitis.
Falling of the hair, followed by baldness, also the turning of dark hair
is due very often to the poisoning of the blood nerves by
to grey shade,
nicotine.
The nicotine must be removed from the blood, muscles, nerves, membranes and all other parts of your body. Do not waste time in trying to
accomplish this by the power of the will.
No doubt you can make a
gallant fight, but the poison will remain and will continue to do its
mischief, like the uric acid of the rheumatic.
Thus far, over two hundred cases of leprosy in the United States have
been traced to cigarette smoking.
143
more than a hundred disorders of various kinds, with the stateno tobacco user can escape one or more of the
ment that
harmful consequences mentioned in the list." They are of very
"
miscellaneous nature, " anxiety " and " softening of the brain
'
'
"amau-
same price:
The result is
Treatraient is one guinea.
should be
any
form
in
tobacco
All
craving
for
absolutely guaranteed.
accomplished
will
be
result
this
in
most
cases
and
completely eradicated
in only seventy-two hours.
My C Treatment (regularly) for the Tobacco Habit is to be taken by
Obviously, lie knows that he is
the person who desires to be cured.
The
taking
cost of the
Woods C
it.
am
to be taken
It was accompanied by a letter, in which it was stated that " the preparations are very potential," and a postscript runs thus:
that I
The materials
tablets and one
sent
lot
consisted
of
pills
of
seven different
kinds
of
numbers
as
follows
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
301
302
303
304
305
305
307
308
is
total includes 125 doses for the 72 hours requisite for the cure;
the elaborate 3-day time table sent, however, only provides for
one to be taken at every hour from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and one
on awaking in the morning and one at 'bedtime, and " if awake
in the night or early morning, a No. 302 tablet may be taken
144
two
each
hours.
To
induce
sleep,
if
necessary,
take
one
beginning
at 7 p.m.,
four hours.
Every dose
water
(to
Nos. 302, 303, 306, and 308, of which the supply was the
largest, were analysed as fully as possible; for the others, the
small quantity available did not permit of much more than a
qualitative analysis.
this
makes a
total
two
to be
taken
and four in
of nine, but only seven were sent.
in the second,
No.
little talc
it
According to the directions, seven are taken during the daytime in the first twenty-four hours, seven in the second, and
four in the third, and three during each night if awake. There
is,
No. 303 (pills). The average weight of one pill after removal
Analysis showed the principal
of the coating was 0.9 grain.
constituent to be aloin, with a small proportion of strychnine.
According to the directions, four of these are to be taken in
the first twenty-four hours, three in the second, and one in the
third.
145
'
solve
'
extract of
nux vomica.
third.
No. 307
be swallowed whole).
One tablet weighed 2
grains, including the thin coating.
Analysis showed the prin(to
which agreed in
its
general
No. 308
its close.
showed the
146
of
these
taken
to be
ie
and three
in
the third.
It appears very evident that suggestion
intended to play
a considerable part in the treatment.
The booklet is written
in such a way ae to strike an impressionable reader with a
strong conviction of the terrible results to be expected if the
tobacco habit is continued, and the emphatic guaranteeing of a
cure in a very short time would, no doubt, assist the patient's
determination to give it up. The medicines having to be taken
every hour, sometimes chewed, sometimes swallowed whole, and
sometimes dissolved, would ensure the mind being kept well
occupied with the cure and the full directions include the use
of an enema daily, dieting, breathing exercises, bathing, etc.
The medicines themselves appear to be of three classes
aperients, tonics, and those intended to produce a subjective
effect, like asafoetida and methylene blue, the colouring effect of
which on the urine might perhaps lead the patient to ask an
shows
explanation or to guess for himself that the colour
the nicotine being driven out of the system."
further set of remedies, the " E set," price 2 2s., is reis
'
'
commended
" intended to
set,
and
is
CHAPTEK
IX.
ous " soothing powders " for infants v^ere given. " Soothing
syrups " also are very largely used, and are probably usually
pounded
are,
in accordance with
sometimes com-
some domestic
There
recipe.
of this class
sale,
The
etc., or
and in
some
this chapter
shown
one or more
to be anethol or carvone,
and caraway.
dill,
we
Two
is
of the three
The
on the gums,
by the child
;
mon
The
after
this
salt, saffron,
which
is
it is
is
directed to be rubbed
and honey.
them, claiming
com-
is
that one of
it,
and in
it
contains
Now, however,
as
our
148
Which
bromide.
of these
two
is
is,
for the
moment, not
which continues to be sold under the old name and with statements as to its having been made for sixty years, shows how
utterly the public
preparations,
who
is
at the
mercy
taining
is
at Is.
fluid ounces.
it is
stated that
The Bowels.
We
have put up and sold this article for over eixty years, and can say
and truth, of it, what we have never been able to say of any
other medicine Never Has It Failed, In A .Single Inst.ance, To Effect
A Cure, when timely used. Never did we know an instance of dissatisfaction by anyone who used it.
On the contrary, all are delighted with
its operations, and ispeak in terms of highest commendation of its magical
effects and medical virtues.
This valuable preparation is the prescription of one of the Most
Experienced and Skilful Nurses in America, and has been used with
never failing success in Thousands Of Cases.
in confidence
label
may
be used
ment that "this preparation contains, among other valuable ingredients, a small amount of morphine," and the presence of
morphine to the extent of about 0.08 grain per bottle was
proved in court in cases where unqualified persons were prosecuted for selling the syrup. The labels now in use do not contain any such statement, and the analysis shows that morphine
But the extracts quoted above, as to the
is not now present.
149
of a straw colour,
it
Potassium bromide
2.0 parts
Alcohol
4.3 parts
Essential
oil
(anise),
about
by measure
0.1 part
Sugar
56.5 parte
in small quantity.
This substance
for
may
The
present.
dill
or
essential oil
caraway,
separated.
may have
the
much
positively proved.
The
directions are
fuls.
old, one or
two teaspoon-
Analysis showed
it
1-08 part
Sodium bicarbonate
Essential
about
oil
Alcohol
0.03
parts by measure
3.8
parts
20.5
Sugar
No
by measure:
with a
The
appeared to be
essential oil
and possibly
also
of anise.
bottle, this
Is.
l^d.
medicine
entrusted with
recommended to all Parents, Nurses, and others, who are
efficacy,
approved
and
of real
the management of Children, as a Medicine
their
m
Children
which
to
disorders
in preventing and removing those
of
redundancy
from
a
proceeding
early infancy are most liable, principally
ConGripes,
Dry
and
Watery
the
Wind,
acidity in the first passages, as
children faU victims, but which
vulsions the Frog, etc., to which so many
I* is also
of this Medicme
use
the
by
prevented
may in general be
Children
which
excruciating pains
happily calculated for allaying those
render
used,
judiciously
will, by bemg
suffer in Cutting their Teeth, and
is also
It
danger.
from
mild and free
this operation of nature perfectly
as
liable,
are
Children
which
to
efficacious in many other disorders
Is
equally
the Rickets,
The
etc.
...
Children up to a month
1 to 3 months
',
to 6
months
6 to 12 months
12 months to 3 years
...
20 to 30
Analysis showed
it
1-75 parts
Potassium bicarbonate
Magnesium carbonate
Essential oH
Alcohol
Sugar
Colouring matter
by measure
5-45
about
0.06
"^-O
P*^^'^
^-^
trace.
"
measure
151
No
The
essential oil
appeared to con-
The colouring
but showed a
JOHNSON'S AMERICAN
MRS.
SOOTHING SYRUP.
This syrup
is
now
minims.
It
is
The
Eub
directions
the
etc.
gums with
minutes.
Analysis showed
it
and had a
to contain in 100
parts by measure
Sodium chloride
Hydrochloric acid (B.P.)
Reducing sugars, calculated as glucose ...
about
Extractive, colouring, etc
5.66 parts.
2.33 parts
66.6
,,
5.0
,,
by measure.
was present, but the amount was not determined. The reducing sugars appeared to be present in the form
of honey, representing about 85 parts of this the extractive was
derived from saffron, and would include the nonpartly
little
alcohol
CHAPTER
X.
show the
principal ingredient in
with in
uncommon
of
to find that
from making scornful references to the usual medical treatment, and intimating that their own preparation owes its
marvellous virtues to some new or different substance. In
the present instances the usual claims are made
of the cure
of " frightful cases of long standing,
which had been pronounced hopeless by eminent physicians and hospitals, and
after everything which had been tried had utterly
failed,"
and so forth, but analysis does not show the presence of
anything but drugs in everyday use two of the preparations
examined consisting of ammonium bromide and potassium
;
of
153
Potassium.
Bromide of Potassium
In the case of the third, which is shown
ill
effects of
to
of
ammonium bromide
more
effrontery
is
in each fluid
shown
The
of these preparations is
6d.
consumer
These two
comcidence
J.
This preparation
address
London.
but
It
for the
appears, as
is
supplied by J.
IMPERATINE."
medicme by the
of charging a
"
monthly
supplying thi
154
is
that
is
My
And
it is
This will give you a month in which to demonstrate the merits of the
Of course it must be understood that the subsequent supplies must
cure.
be paid for at the ordinary price.
.
keep this offer open for one week from this date. Since you first
I have received several striking testimonials from people who
applied to me at the same time as yourself, and who commenced to take my
I will
wrote
me
remedy
at once.
'
Free."
it is
stated:
My
155
...
The method appears to be Do not sit for a medical examination (requiring long and expensive training), but set up as a
:
Specialist in
from
all
From
Another of the pamphlets was entitled Epilepsy and its TreatThe similarity between this and the pamphlet sent out
by another firm and referred to below is remarkably close, as
a few extracts will show
ment.
Of the very many diseases which afflict humanity, few, if any, are more
dreadful than Epilepsy, or Falling Fits.
This disease has existed for
centuries, for we read in St. Matthew's Gospel, chapter 17 (revised version),
verse 15, "Lord, have mercy on my son
for he is epileptic, and suffereth
for oft times he falleth into the fire, and oft times into the
grievously
water." Also in St. iMatthew's Gospel, chapter 4, verse 24, we read, "And
:
they brought unto Him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and
torments, possessed with devils, and epileptic, and palsied, and He healed
them."
Epilepsy has claimed for
as of the lowest.
Some
it.
afflicted
by
I honestly believe
It is not a Cure-all.
is all
I claim for
it.
it
It cures epilepsy
.
this
"Imperatine"
to epileptics as
156
pamphlets,
etc.,
stating that
We
do not, however, charge for medicine, but Mr. Gilbert Dale charges
and medicine
We
shall be glad if you -will fill in and return the enclosed form and your
case will then be carefully gone into, and a fee for treatment will be
quoted.
In reply to
this
Sir,
Under the circumstances if you would send the enclosed form filled in so
that the medicine may be prepared we are willing to send a special bottle
I should strongly advise you to take the Treatment at say
at the 4s. 6d.
Ids. 6d. for a
all
Yours
faithfully,
W. Bunn,
Secretary.
bottle.
157
filled
asked,
follows
Consultation Fobm.
It
up
this
sufferer to
fill
is
fom.
Date
Name
Address
1
{in
full)
Age 1SS.
Weak
Height
Weight 110
or strong
?5
ft.
st.
Pale.
Fairly strong.
8.
7.
From
fits
when and
in
what
158
If
so,
to
what extent?
Dnt
If so,
Yes, about
li oz.
What
34
April 26th.
how long?
None.
What
35
results
from them ?
Give any further particulars which you think necessary. If you have
a recent photograph, please send it. I will return it with the medicine.
If you have not a pliotograph, it does not matter.
Answer these questions
as well as you can, and describe as far as possible the character of the
patient's fits, according to the statements of those who witnessed the
attacks.
It will help me if you will also say what is the patient's mode
of life such as, what time meals are taken, and what they consist of
what time the patient goes to bed, and the time of getting up ; and so
;
forth
Rises
butter,
7.30.
tea.
0.30: Plain
only) cocoa.
Breakfast,
1.0
tea.
Dinner
9.30
vieat,
vegetables,
fish,
etc.,
cheese,
bread and
pint
beer.
to
Bed about
bacon or eggs, or
11 to 12.
tlien
received,
with
little
book
of
The
159
it
In one dose
(2 drachms)
Potassium iodide
Ammonium bromide
1-7 grains
1-55 parts
17-4 grains
15'78
....
sulphate
Alcohol
Sugars
Burnt sugar
1-1 grain
part
4-15 parts
by measure
minims
6 parts
Oil of sassafras
trace
Water
to
The estimated
of this mixture
4d.
is
FITZKUKE.
" Fitzkure "
An
is
this firm
commences
of "Fitzkure,"
careful consideration.
The reason
is
not at
first
apparent; but the fact that the London Medicine Co.'s booklet
and the composition of their medicine are so similar to those
of J. Gilbert Dale, described above, and that this circular was
may be
There
is
am now
and
am
only too pleased to speak for "Imnever erpected to wake again. But
the fits stopped with the first dose of your medicine, and I was soon able to
get up, and am now able to go anywhere by myself with comfort.
I
peratine."
in perfect health,
When
went
to sleep I
160
am
went
in perfect health,
to sleep I
imposture
The
Epilepsy
is
which humanity
when, as we read
in the
suffered
Duke of
the Great, Mohammed, Byron, Henry IV. of England, the great
so
Wellington, all of whom, among others, are said to have been
afflicted.
..
161
Fitzkure
epilepsy,
is
fits,
not a Cure-all for every disease, but it does and will cure
falling sickness, if steadily persevered with from 18 months
...
It is not so
much a medicine
we
....
Fitzkm-e
eat,
these have to be
is
and Poison.
developed
is
way
in
these pages.
The
inventor
is
not a Doctor.
No
" Consultation
'
'
sent to be
'
filled
When
taking,
Be
sending for "Fitzkure" please say what the patient has been
and with what result.
name and
patient.
2s.
woman
was sent
for,
gla;sfi
162
case.
In one dose
drachms).
(2
Potassium iodide
Ammonium bromide
Potassium citrate
calculated
Iron,
as
1.11 parts
1.22 grains
26.63
29.3
,,
1.1
,,
,,
part
1.0
ferrous
sulphate
q.s.
0.5
0.55 grain
Alcohol
1.7 parts by
Oil of aniseed
trace
Burnt sugar
Water to
2 minims
measure
The estimated
is
4^d.
RENEWER.
is
In a Press advertisement
it is
fluid,
ounces.
stated that
Dr. Niblett's Vital Renewer is the result of the most exhaustive research
by a London Physician, who for upwards of 35 years made epilepsy his
especial study.
Confidence can be placed in this remedy, which for years
has 'been used with the greatest success in all parts of the world. The One
Remedy
that cures.
pamphlet
is
S.
Practical Treatise
B. Niblett, M.D.,
On
caries,
Lond."
of the treatise
is,
to
163
subject to it, therefore it was denominated the Herculean disease; but Galen
says it was on account of its form or magnitude.
The Romans termed this affection "morbus oomitialis," because it frequently occurred in crowded assemblies in which the passions of the people
were often much excited, and it was customary to dissolve the comitia if
during the sitting any person should be affected by it.
whom
is
out,
...
And
so on.
The
section
Epilepsy "
of
commences
Few higher duties can devolve on the medical man than to make obscure
diseases his special study.
It should always be the aim of the physician
to cure the disease as rapidly and effectually as possible.
The general
.
tendency of epilepsy,
to worse.
if left
to Natui-e,
Efficient treatment
is
is
My Vital Eenewer is a real vital antidote, really stopping the development of the attacks and absolutely cm-ing the disease.
Under the
use of my Vital Renewer the fits will immediately become
less severe and
.
less frequent.
my
Patients taking
.
Vital Renewer will receive explicit
directions as to the natura of the food desirable to be taken
at each meal.
I am prepared to prove, beyond all fear of contradiction,
.
.
.
that
Vital Renewer has cured the most inveterate cases of
epilepsy. .
.
The
success which has attended the administration of
my Vital Renewer, 1
believe, to be due not only to the pecuUar form
in which it is prepared, but
also to the unremitting care taken in the skilful
.
my
manipulation which
is
required.
In a circular
is
letter sent
it
stated that
many
as
Bromide
so
unhappy
the
sufferer
164
The
to use.
after
meaU
may
then be
N.B. If tbe attacks occur at night, one dose of tbe medicine should be
taken at bedtime and twice during the day.
Analysis showed the liquid to contain potassium iodide, potassium bromide, ammonium bromide, a little alcohol, and a very
little
results is
In one dose
drachm).
(1
Potassium iodide
Potassium bromide
Ammonium bromide
Chloroform
Oil of aniseed
Alcohol
3.75
parts
30.88
,,
...
15.6
,,
7.66
,,
...
4.2
,,
...
2.07 grains.
trace
,,
2.6 parts
by measure.
Burnt Sugar
Water
to
BROMOCAKPINE.
165
title
(vertigo)
is
abolished,
and there
is
It is further stated
that " The nervous system can be quieted by the methodical
use of Bromocarpine, continued for many months if necessary.
This preparation, of which Pilocarpine is one of the principal
factors, determines copious diuresis, free perspiration, and an
this
form
the
intensive
The
Potassium bromide
g.g
Alkaloid
0.0035
Sugar
Glycerine
p^j.
The
q^u*
54.0
iq q
for
it
is
hydrobrom."
16G
A GERMAN NOSTRUM.
According to Dr. Zernik,
Roller's
is
supposed to be a remedy
for epilepsy,
ohorea, hysterical attaoke, cramp of tho stomach, and of the chest, etc.,
3.40 the box.
and is sold by the Dresden " Diakonissenanstalt " for
sealed paper
5-grams
in
three
powders
-wrapped
up
contains
Tha package
capsules. The powder is black, a.nd has the odour of a rancid animal
is
an ancient superstition.
CHAPTEE
THE
"
XI.
TEEMOL TEEATMENT
"
of the
and Infirmary
for
and an account
We
is
Bad Legs
also give
patients,
The
insti-
tution has been in existence for several years, but has re-
become very
cently
active,
thousands of cases.
are
is
open
to serious criticism.
It
to attract patients
is
it is
to be noted that
registered practitioner
is
known
and
he
at
is
to have
anything to do
It
'
'
found
Cautionary List
On
turn-
is
les
Broughton,
'
We
This
is
who,
shown
well
The
much
Is
it
scepticism
Is
it
doubt ?
Is
Tell
me
let
way?
This
reply."
am
letter of entreaty
it
me
help you as
it
am
seems
to
them
to
cession
make
have had no
full
my
result,
sent, saying
of Directors I
am
instructed by
The
would be sent
Board
it is
con-
One
" I
am
personally
it
name
trace the
or near Manchester.
169
XVII.
'
John Bull
who came away
periodical
a special investigator,
'
printed
is
is
satisfied
John
'
The
'
'
'
roam-
ing over the whole of the carefully kept records of the thousands of cases treated " and apparently accepting every-
not a very
scientific
method
of investi-
may
The
depend.
investigator
disease
(diseased bone)
(phlebitis, etc.)
and we
and
(4)
(2)
tuberculous
among
every description;
varicose veins
(3)
told,
is
(1) ulcers of
was
and
(2)
composition
was
freely disclosed to us
beneficial drugs
indeed,
known
and the
some
to the
of the
medical
new."
One would
like to
new;
know which
of the in-
cannot be the
pepper-
mint water.
As
combination
mixture of anything that might possibly
be of use, regardless of chemical combinations
that mav re-
is
a heterogeneous
170
and we
suit,
fail to
new
drug.
We
it is
Legs.
the place, he
liable to
certainly acting in a
is
full investiga-
and Hospital
man
way
for
Bad
connected with
that
makes him
and,
if
the public.
An
attempt to purcliase
Form "
to be filled
up, with a letter stating that the fee for the full course of
is 2 2s.
A publication was also sent, enGood News about Bad Legs; or " Cwes by the Cured,"
Tremol treatment
titled
much
as well as
The Board
this
was a conspicuous
separa-te
who undeTgoes
is
under the
Man.
For centuries Bad Legs have ranked with Cancer and Consumption as
one of the diseases over which the power of man could not prevail. For
generations thousands of sufferers have lived lives of misery, become
thoroughly worn out, and have gone do^wn to their graves before their time
through sheer exhaustion all human skill being powerless to save. Their
resources exhausted, ignorant of any agent in Medicine or Nature com:
171
ptnt to cure,
it
cam
was a confession of
itself
failure
and
no
of
avail.
has been computed that Bad Legs have caused mor misery and
wars ever undertaken by the world's rulers. And
why? War is but an incident in a nation's history, but the evil of Bad
It
Legs is ever present, ever constant, ever taking its toll of suffering
humanity. In the face of all this. Medical IScienc fell back, helpless,
baffled, and beaten.
basis.
Scientiflc
Chemistry
is
th
io
is
to the
Alchemy
old
of
bility of failure.
As sure
Remember, in
is it t/hat this
to
which
new and
great
it is applied.
left off.
futile.
These
last
is
to be in harmony with
" Inrather conspicuously
the back page appears in large
made
On
letters
No
is
no Guess-work.
Operation.
claims or statement
Witnesses.
is
made
that
is
172
"
Legal
We, the National College of Health, Limited, hereby Agree and Undertake to refund on demand to you the whole of the money paid by you to us
for our Treatment, if we fail to cure you after we have applied the Tremol
Treatment for a reasonable length of time. This Guarantee is subject to
the Conditions set forth on the back hereof.
Then
Director;
it
is
"E. F. Guest."
The conditions
set
are as follows
shall be
Act, 1889.
Since this " Legal Guarantee to Cure " is sent with the medithe person receiving it would naturally suppose that it
cines,
would apply to
his case;
and
it is
treatment (as long as the patient will pay for it) in any case in
which a claim is made. Not even the most ignorant person
could regard snch a " guarantee " as of the slightest value if he
understood the conditions. It would appear that it is not the
" bona fides of the patient " that needs to be ensured.
173
an
as follows; the
imaginary
case
words in
that were
supplied
1.
Date.
2.
Christian name.
3.
Surname.
4.
5.
Male or Female. F.
Married or Single. Widow.
6.
Full Address.
What
What
What
7.
8.
9.
10. Is it
is
Eif/Iit.
12.
Tremol Treatment?
acquaintance in Yorkshire.
Thro'
an
^""^
^"'^
"^^thods you have
'^^'^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^-i ^P^ yo-^r leg? At
^^-^^2/
ointment. Practically n!
effect,
^"^"'^^^ ^ liles in your Right Leg
or is it a
adfpted\Tpfftr"''' """"fT
^""^
tTcoldl f
^
21 IreTheT
r.f'-'rl or .caly
red,^tchy
fail
S -
pZT
dlwn
24. Is there
^
^5.
26.
flesh in the
free
leg?
Free
No.
wound
No
174
27. Did your Leg first begin to trouble you through a hurt, after confinement, or how ? It came on gradually without apparent cause, at first as a
29.
half-way down.
aboiit
33.
*
34.
35.
No.
36.
private.
This was sent with two guineas to " The National College of
Health, Ltd."
The medicines sent in return consisted of a
bottle of " Tremol Blood Mixture," a bottle of " Tremol
Lotion," a box of "Tremol Ointment," and a box of "Ointment No. 2," with two' bandages. Two typed sheets of directions accompanied these, headed " Instructions for applying
No. 14 course of Tremol Treatment." Each of the four preparations is priced separately at lis., by post lis. 4d.
bottle contained 8
fl.
oz.
and
there was nothing on the label to suggest that it was in any way
modified for the particular case for which it was intended. The
directions on fhe label were the same as those given in the para-
sheet,
is
well.
175
ferric chloride,
positively identified.
lowing formula.
mixture prepared according to this formula
agreed very well in regard to the vegetable drug, and perfectly
in other respects.
Calciumi chloride
Solution ai fsTric ohloride
Dilute hydiodhloric aoid
(1-7)
Water
to
is
224 grams
300 minims
200
100
,,
2 fl. oz.
R
decanted.
TEEMOL LOTION.
The bottle contained 8^ fl. oz. ; it bore a printed label, and
there was nothing on the label to suggest that it was in any
way modified for the particular case for which it was intended.
The directions on the typed sheet were the same as those on the
label, as follows:
and
on the wet
side.
Analysis showed the liquid to consist of solution of chlosoda containing 2.9 per cent, of available chlorine
(which is slightly above the minimum strength of the ofiicial
rinated
found in
it.
17S
TEEMOL OINTMENT.
This was in a wooden box containing 14 1 oz. it bore a typewritten label " The Tremol Ointment. To be used as directed."
;
The
directions
How You
as follows
soft lint
slightly laxger in circumfeirence (aJbout i in. larger all round) than the
Lint on which the Tremol Lotion is applied. Spread the Ointment thickly
on th plain suirfiace, then place it on top of the Lint on which No. 2
Ointment is spread, but over the Ulcer, and therefore covering the Lint
whioh is isoaked in the Lotion. You -will therefore have over the Ulcer
Lotion.
iFlrst, two layers of Lint containing
three layers of Lint.
and
is
spread,
Ointment
No.
2
the
Second, the layer of Lint on which
which
on
Lint
of
the
layer
Third,
tpairt.
inflamed
covering the Tod and
Tremol Ointment is spread and covering the portion where the Ulcer is
Therefore over 'the red inflamed pairt there is one layer only,
situated.
No. 2 Ointment is spread, but over the Ulcer there are
which
that on
that
three. When you are dressing your leg do not remove Ointment No. 2
Apply
'fresh dressing
on the top
of
the adhetrent
Prepared chalk
'Soft
29.0
paraffin
OINTMENT NO.
2.
How You
oxide, a lead
Analysis showed the ointment ix) contain zinc
benzoate,
compound which appeared to be the carbonate, sodium
which
matter
colouring
sodium acetate, water, lard, and a pink
177
No
Zinc oxide
Leaxi carbonate
Sodium benzoate
Sodium
Water
acetate
19-8 pa-ts.
^-^
"
"
0.7
,,
Colouring matter
9-6
"
traces.
Lard
P^'^^-
"
CHAPTEE
XII.
series of preparations
afford a
dealt with in
chapter
this
made
for
them.
may
of curative
power
when not
it
for a cure,
to obtain proper
may
have reached an advanced stage. In the present case, however, the danger is not only to the person employing the
nostrums, but to others as well; for the claims advanced
are not merely that the articles offered will cure a
of very serious diseases,
number
tious disease.
It is hardly necessary to
shown
in the assertions
introduced
fifty
abscesses,
but
is
is
one
have been
'
179
it
In typhoid, "
presents.
if
the head
is
stiff
contained
own homes.
their
pneumonda,
pileiuinisy,
midar
etc.,
the remedies.
Tbe
finst
suicoees
of
ifche
eorapimg,
bed,
or
Ordartfioai
Cross
Ointmeaifc.
and
Joints,
-splints.
It (has
Absoessiea.
It ouires 'wittihout
saved tondjreds
imm
outtimg,
being Ibopelees
As
time, wemit
on
POWE'RFUL
GEBM KILLER,
is
applied.
One
ibbe
iCuRE or CoNStTMPTION.
"WMte
^ph^
foo^^^o
coZT^
tlbe first
Z.
180
Itttermal Diseases of
Woanem can be
ouired wit/bout
SPECIAL TREATMENT.
Opeimtiom or Exanikia-
Full parbioulaire
on, appMcatiooi.
The
illnesses.
chief feature
is
Om
Colds.
tlhe
fiir^t
Ointment on the iface of the poultice until the acute symptoms are gone,
then rub the chest, sides, and round the shoulders with the Ointment
the
once OT- twice a day umtil quite well. Take tih me'ddmie mad from
directions.
to
a/ocordimg
Fever Powder
Acute Bri'giht's disease of tJhe
Typhoid oh Enteric Feveb.
accompany or foLLow
frequiently
Ithe
lungs
fcidnieys and inflaniimaJtdon of
Cuee, and poultice
Kidney
Cross
Crimson
iormior
give
lor the
tyiphoiid
for the
O.intmeint
amd
meal
liinseed
(hot
with
iback
the lower part of th
Ointment,
itlhie bead is not we-1 soaked with
If
given.
idireotioms
latter seie
Mixtitre end
an abscess is liable 'to form on ihe brain. The Fever
times
a day, al
aiteraaitiely
thiree
iKiDNEY Cure may botih h taken
idose.
let two hmim elaipse between adh'
neoeesafl-y
poultices, apply
Diphtheria. Spread No. 1 Ointment on hot linseed
.
lia'ble to
unexpected syncope,
it
the following paragraph in one of the circulars,
"
his
confine
"
not
does
Captain Feilden
would appear that
preparations
activities to the selling of these
From
Please
addiressed
w*
list is
9d
Ointment, Special Ointment, and
and Influenza Powder, No. 1
Kidney Cure.
together for Is. 3d., post
The first two of these were supplied
to 2s
free.
181
Add
on the
to one
label
were
cost,
about gd.
OINTMENT (CAPTAIN
FEILDEN'S).
This was also in a "chip " box, and the quantity was about
2^
oz.
Analysis showed
it to
contain
Copper oleate
1.1 per
0.4
Beeswax
E^siiai
6.5
29.5
(coloplhiomy)
Linseed
ceaiit.
,,
52.4
oili
was
2s.
9d.
devoted to this preparation, and the statements made include the following
special circular
is
of
manv
182
An irribable rash may appear, and this ds a good sign, though some
patients give up using the Ointment because of this irritation. This should
not Ibe done the irritation will die away, though the rash may remain.
To relieve the irritation discontinue the Special Ointment ior a day or
two
bathe
warm
with
little
Olive Oil.
rub a
little
Heaet Disease.
stoniach, round
0.8
'.
Beeswax
,,
3.5
Resin (colophony)
Oily base, chiefly or entirely linseed
oil
46.8
43.0
.,
The
It
Is.
IJd.
is
Dose.
Children.
One teaspoonful
to one
four hours.
dessertspoonful,
according to age,
It
is
a remedy really worthy of the name. It is natural in its comnatural in its action, it does not coerce nature as in the
It assists and
case of poisonous drugs and drastic metallic medicines.
stimulates the recuperative energies of nature in the system, thus enabling
her to throw off the effects of this insidious and alarming disease. Every
reader of these lines who is troubled with backache, nervousness, dimness
of sight, lassitude, or any symptoms of Kidney trouble, should immediately take this remedy, and obtain that relief and cure which seems
This
is
position,
possible
it is
time.
183
Whilst
Note
facilitate
CHAPTER
XIII.
and
may
evils
The
is
In
the
place
first
all
very large
is
these medicines
many
them
of
high.
many
as
is
very
is
while
etc.,
these
often of only a few lines, with perhaps some one word, such
as " Ladies," in large type to catch the eye.
third attrac-
done directly
with the consumer through the post, and there are, therededucted; payment
fore,
no intermediate
made
off
the
profits to be
the
than usually
is
sus-
what
is
promised,
and behind
still
far
money on
'
'
the nostrum,
specially strong
this
is
usually
'
'
variety
third, or
number
is
ever,
185
of a
nostrum of
less surreptitiously,
very high
rate
of
profit.
So
much
purchaser
least
The harm
is
important
is
is
to the
Perhaps the
in very
many
from
less.
Much more
serious
is
take medicines of
to
derangement which
lightly.
It
more
is
may
if
induced
known
that cessation of
Further, a large
of
it
value,
little
is
number
be
obtained.
of these
to
of
pregnancy, there
is
will
It
would be tedious
advertisements of
in other chapters.
all
to
A few
of
them
is
done
which the
others.
sample
is
sent
for,
the
186
applicant
is
on
to
is
strongly
is
another at a
still
higher
price.
Since
pills,
many
such as
which
is
extremely small.
tions 'from, but
a slum
it
An
address
is
if it is
that of a garret in
There
is
is
will
be any wiser.
possessed of a few pounds from buying from a firm of pillmakers at a few pence per gross " female pills " in bulk,
or ready boxed, with coatings of three different colours to
represent
"strong," and
"ordinary,"
"extra
strong,"
putting small advertisements in a few weekly or other newspapers, and after laying out some small further
sum on
ments.
Adeline Dumas's
pills
'
'
To
Mainried Ladies.
Not
.a
Never
I^ails.
Pairiticxilliairs
Free to
all
Applicants.
AddTess,
M.D.,
London, N.E."
" M.D." may, of course, stand for Madame Dumas, but it can
hardly be doubted tliat it is intended to suggest that the
" secret invention " is supplied by a Doctor of Medicine.
187
pills
Tbe
Ooir.ibdmtaoai
What
is
Bairis
Pdils.
Remedy
(Piriatected).
Paris) is
tJhe
explanation of
producing the desired effect is absolutely assured, the
conrtained in
dirmg
epecific
.ajny
If
followis
this reimirkabk tresuJit ibeing as
piarttaculatr i.em;aJle origandzathe Paris Pill be not aiotively snitable for
whdiclh, firom tftiir vamed
pretsein*,
inigT-ediieinits
ac4ive
otiheir
tion, ithane aie
and iseaircdidnig natare, aire in every wiay icaiauilated to ait once girap.plo with
and oveoicome tlhe moist ofcatimaJte ciase. In itihe face, thiereifore., of such a
rem-edy lae ihere desoribed, it oain be "well unideirsitood ihaJt tlher-e need be no
of
la,
fear of a fadlnre of
effe-cit.
The
clause
" protected by
guarantee
of value.
An
letter,
We
yeit
shall be glad
if
they. Fully
that
188
amd
Yotj.
The pills were stated to be Is. l^d. per box, and this amount
was sent with a request for a box. This brought a box containing twenty-four white-coated pills, bearing on the label the
words " Nurse Powell's Popular Pellets cure Ansenaia, Debility,
Constipation, Headache, and all Female Ailments " ; the words
" Poplete, Registered," were printed across the label in red
ink.
A circular was enclosed on which it was stated
It ishoiild Ibe partiaularly not.ed thait
l^d.
and
2s. 9d.)
Constipation,
The
in
Two
Ansemia,
box
of the
Whilst it is quite true that Nurse Powell's Popular Pellets cure all
but the more obstinate cases, we find it occasionally necessary that a
stronger treatment is required. For this purpose, we supply two preparations prepared from the prescriptions of a celebrated physician, and which
he relied upon to cure where every other means had been unavailing.
189
mixture, either
These remedies are prepared in tlio form of a pill and a
the very best
obtain
to
order
in
but
of which will be found effective,
in alternate
mixture
and
pills
take
the
is
to
method
results, by far the best
doses.
the utmost
These exceedingly valuable preparations we recommend with
from the
chemists
qualified
fully
They are prepared by
confidence.
The
these remedies
price of
is
Prices
In a
Home
little
Many women
To all such, we
best means to obtain a cure.
Advice Free if full particulars are given to us
offer
our Experienced
If
in a letter.
Nurse
looked carefully into youT case, and advised you to persevere with our
remedy. It seemed to us that your ailment was similar in almost all
respects to many other cases which we have had, and in practically all
OF these the treatment we advise has been taken with entire success,
With all
as the grateful letters we have received plainly show.
good wishes, and again assuring you of our sympathy and aid, we remain,
.
dear
Madam, yours
faithfully.
Another advertiser
is
Co.
" Irristum " never fails, that is the marvel of it. On " Irristum "
To it women may turn with
is stamped the seal of unequivocal success.
the brightest confidence and hope, assured of health and happiness, instead of that wretched depression of animal spirits, and possibly life-long
misery, which accrue from a blind confidence in the nostrums of unscrupulous quachs.
190
Nothing conceivable can be worse or more contemptible than for confiding and suffering women to be the dupes of plausible and unscrupulouB
Not merely is it the pocket, but the paramount question
adventurers.
which may be imperilled and here it is that the
health
of life-long
never-failing efficacy, the privacy, the simplicity, and the rapidity of
action characteristic of the " Irristum" medicine, come as a challenge to
the world in this most important branch of the healing art.
;
It
is
We
" A Woman's
In the case of a medicine wkich is advertised as
Cure for Women's Ills," an account is given of the evolution
of the remedy, in the course of which it is stated that
seldom necessary
look for help from a
for
is
and ailments
So,
of
sister
women
after a time,
tihe
is
when physicians
Surely if this lady could relieve and cure
been the other way round
failed, the consultation should have
claimed, with a
Sometimes a French or American origin is
the
as
better,
therefore
suggestion that the preparation is
following
" To
Ladiieis.
all En'glisfh
preparatdons
to steel
and pennyroyal,
r.
bitter
a
Compound
NoKse Grey's Eenowned Am^er.can
If you do. mad for
even
results
surprising
A truly wonderful discovery, affording
Tablets.
most obatinaAe oaie*.
Prices Is. 3d. and 2s. 9d.
in the
191
is
The
plete Tedief.
worth
thoixgQi
tihis
supply
may
Miixtuires aire
to act
is
The way in which " guarantees " are given and then ignored
shown by " Nui-ee Mann's Remedy," advertised thus:
Free to Ladies.
A Sample
of
tike
Most
Reliiabl
Bemedy
-ever
'and
suppressdonis
Apparently
this
Dear Madam.
If the
iMb
not prove strong enough to oorrecjt the irreguyou to send at once for my spaoial No. 3
treatment at 21s., which takes effect in a few hours and saves all further
worry and expense.
(sihould
It is perfectly harmless.
Yours faithfully,
Ntiesb Makn.
this
is
often of the
192
in
many
cases
if
besides those
any
this is so, in
unnamed
named may
cases it is
constituents are of an
definite
since
active
4s.
of
38 grains
Powdered canella
Powdered liquorice
Powdered jalap
Powdered ginger
22
22
12
,,
,,
,,
"
12
2 minims
^
Barbadoes aloes
Flour
Oil of pennyroyal
Excipienfc
In 100
Estimated cost
pills.
(SPECIAL).
t&blets.
These are sold at 4s. 6d. per box, containing forty-five
bright
The tablets were coated with sugar, dyed externally to a
was 2.8
purple; the average weight after removing the coating
aloes,
Analysis showed the preseoice of sulphate of iron,
starch and kaolin.
canella, ginger, oil of pennyroyal, with
grains.
193
of iron
Dried sulphate
Socotrine aloes
67
>>
Powdered canella
Powdered ginger
56
,,
Oil of pennyroyal
12
Maize starch
Kaolin
Excipient
16 grains
,,
minims
50
,,
In ICQ tablets.
The
PILLS.
containing forty-two
pills.
Dried sulphate
of
ron
Socotrine aloes
Powdered
Powdered
100 grains
140
14
80
,,
10 minims
10 grains
,
jalap
liquorice (adulterated)
Oil of pennyroyal
Starch
Excipient
In ICQ
pillfl.
pills,
^d.
price of this
is
13s.
ounces.
compound
it to be of the nature of
decoction of aloes, without saffron, with a trace of
194
chloroform;
decoction
it
of
IRRISTUM.
The "extra strong" preparation was obtained for analysis.
The 10s. bottle of medicine contained six and three-quarters,
ounces.
formula
Quinine sulphate
Ferrous phosphate
Dilute phosphoric acid
Sugar
grains
10
6
,,
fl.
drachms
3 oz.
220 minims.
Eectified spirit
Cudbear
Water
6.75
to
fl.
oz.
MRS. LYDIA
The price
package
is
of
E.
this
marked,
is
2s.
"Made
9d.
in
Analysis showed
it
of
no
distinctive characters.
1S5
at Is. 3d.
and
2s. 9d.
per box.
The wholesale
price of 5-grain
Blaud
pills
coated
is
about 3d.
per gross.
price of this
this contained
48
is 4s.
6d. per
box
'
pills.
in this case
iron pill
official
of iron
aloes
and
oil of
price of these
is Is.
and upwards
a Is.
Ud
'
pills.
About 43 per
cent,
of
the
pill
consisted of
powdered
N 2
,
'
U6
capeicum, and no other active ingredient was found, the
remainder being excipient and moisture. The formula is thus,
approximately
Dried sulphate of iron
Powdered capsicum
Oil of pennyroyal
Excipient
14 grains
86
In 100
Estimated cost
DR.
,,
minims
pills.
PILLS.
letters
patent
Examination of the
letters
A similar pill is
given by the
10 grains
of iron
48
Powdered senna
Powdered canella
Powdered jalap
,,
27
17
Aloes
>
2 drops
Oil of pennyroyal
Excij)ient
In 100
pills.
pills,
FEMALE
T'ne price of these
The
pills
is Is.
PILLS.
of 3-8 grains,
pille.
197
to
exsiccated
salt),
(equal
iron
contain eulphate of
sulphur
(2.7
per
to
per cent,
29
the
powdered
with
cent.),
of
Powdered liquorice
Powdered turmeric
Excipient
In 100
pills.
DE.
The
pills,
-^d.
FAMOUS FEMALE
DAVIS'S
is Is.
PILLS.
three.
The
^_
Dried sulphate
46 grains
1^4
,,
of iron
Powdered savin
Extract of colocynth
Excipient
In 100
Estimated cost
DR.
The
of drugs, in
twenty-three
pills,
Jd.
DAVIS'S
price of this
pills.
is
28.
two
fluid
ounces.
198
is
ounces.
(1
4)
and the
cardamoms,
alcohol
paration,
of
is
different makers.
(1
to
3), 1
part
Estimated cost
of
is Is.
six.
The
pills
199
gave a similar
pill
34 grains
72
,,
Powdered liquorice
Barbadoes aloes
142
,,
Excipient
In 100
pills.
pills,
^d.
4s. 6d.
pills.
The
pills
after removal
Reduced iron
10 grains
150
,,
12
,,
75
,,
55
,,
Barbadoes aloes
Apiol
Powdered cinnamon
Powdered cardamom
Excipient
In 100
pills.
pills,
|d.
price of this
is
lis. Od.
ounces.
200
of iron
the
amount
Estimated cost
of ingredients for
twenty
MONAID TABLETS.
The
price of these
is
2s.
9d. per
box contfeining
fifty-nine
tablets.
no characteristic smell,
SANOL CONES.
Two
varieties of these
were examined,
viz.
201
gentian
roofcj
formula
is
oil of
theobroma.
Thf
thus
22 grains
87
,,
26
theobroma
1,200
,,
In 100 cones.
Price
containing
thirty-six cones.
These were similar in size and shape to the
Analysis
preceding, but differed in being of a green colour.
lis.
per
box,
Sulphate of quinine
72 grains
Powdered gentian
Oil of theobroma (tinted green)
52
1,200
,,
In 100 oones.
I.E.S.
so-called gold
After removal
paint,
of ferrous sulphate
202
two
fifths of
The formula
thus approximately
Dried sulphate of iron
Dried sodium carbonate
Excipient
gg grains
25 grains
In 100
pills.
MRS.
Tliis
is
is
pills,
J^d.
SHAPFER-BENNYON'S REMEDY.
supplied at
48.
per
8d.
box,
containing
fourteen
On
Ouinse
The fourteen
grains each.
suppositories
Quinine sulphate
Boric acid
Oil of
They had
per cent.
4_g
theobroma
2.75
fl
oz
grain,
boric
is
Id.
4s. 6d.
saries.
nnd the style and wording of all the circulars, are very similar
The chief difference is that the cones are
in the two cases.
placed in the rectum in the one case and in the vagina in the
other, but it can make no practical difference where the ones
203
On
and
conitain
Saiilplhi.
Quina.,
etc., etc.
The
" Pelloids
taste;
myrrh or
no
oould
be
detected.
Each
" Pelloid
The estimated
ie
Id.
and 16
of
an
8-oz.
piile.
medicinal substance.
The Pills. Sixteen pills were sent. They were coated with
talc, and after removal of tbe coating had an average weigbt of
Analysis showed the principal ingredient to be
2.9 grains.
ferrous carbonate, which formed 17 per cent, of the pill
; other
ingredients were soap (1 per cent.), powdered liquorice root,
wheat starch, sodium sulphate (formed in the production of the
ferrous carbonate), and excipiente.
No alkaloid or other active
The
pills
iron
pill.
204
price of these
contained twelve
The
is
pills.
and
soap
DR. PATTERSON'S
FEMALE
PILLS.
These are supplied in boxes at 2s. 9d. ; " special extra strong,"
4s. 6d.
2s. 9d. box contained twenty-seven pills.
The
After
average
weight of 3.2
removal of the coating, they had an
Analysis showed them to contain sulphate of iron,
grains.
pills
talc,
Barbadoes aloee, soap, powdered ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon. All these ingredients except the soap occur in the official
aloes and iron pill ; the amount of iron found corresponded to
about 70 per cent, of the latter mass in the pills under examiua-
20S
tion.
slight
evidence of
its
price of these
is Is.
l^d.
and
2s. 9d.
per box.
Is.
l^d.
pills.
of iron
Is.
bwenty-four.
The
pills
amount
this substance are not suflaciently well defined for the
The soap was 3 per cent,
to be determined quantitatively.
of the pill,
the apiol
iron pill,
to assist in incorporating
l|d.
pills
are supplied at
l^d.
The
Is.
pills
PILLS.
2s.
after
removal of the
Analysis showed
and
pills.
talc,
and
of 1.9 grains.
206
PILLS.
7.. 6d.
The
di.eoted.
,fo.
ilihe
.naly'd
5s
No
No
No .
'
9c
fi^
a 3s
r 2
bodv
T^""
^"^'^
^^^^^^
a box a. o.c.;tins^;ti:t:'
"
quantity,
alkaloid,
powdered gmger,
little
powdered
a trace of
liquorice,
and
aloes, soap,
or
No
207
pose from
MATROZONE.
This
a preparation supplied by a firm in a northern seaport at 5s. 6d. per package containing two bottles marked
is
fluid ounce.
ment on the
first
Biauifciikil,
and Easy
Ratpid.,
Comfiinieanenifc.
state:
Ensu-rcis
medicine.
stated that
of Religion
to
qiualiifyirig
Ube
deiat'h
for
of a
a Minieiter
When
'tine
young wife,
comfinemieint.
and
he
be girven to the^ motbor by appropriate drugs ^if her system could be gently and scientifically prepared
for tlbe igireat sibrain, to be birooiglht lupon it.
Wibdllie tnTnimg from tlbe
medical -professiion Ito enter ttlbe Qbrisltiam, MiinilsltTy, Ibe did not for a
moment TOlimquisIb ihiiis scdieaitifio lamd meddcali studSies, or abandon his quest.
Through one pastorate extending over thirty-three years, he kept his
purpose in view.
t.uimod to
seie
lif
amy
But
in a
appears thus
" Maytrozone ") is (fabe neeult of
bbe prolonged
patient imvestigaUon of a Scientiist.
When a youin.g m?<n, pumiing
his studies with a view to qualifjdng for the Medical Profession, he was
Maitirozone (pronounced
a-iid
And
Drug
drag
w^as
208
His fimt
taons
qixrte
me
great inajorilty of
obUmod
tlbe
d&licajte.
They had
to he
v/iih ekill,
It.
made not
be
admiiUBtaned dn a
pharmacists
could ppQpar tihieam, and without oveTsdghit or check,
they might he prepaa^d carelessly, and so remdeired aborrbive.
The
gneat fuinotion of
first
parturaition
or,
...
"
m othar wonds,
which
of
iM)tes
...
ments.
Leoiigithi
To
of Treatment.
obtain
much
its best effects in tJhe hour of (labour it should (be used daily
least 'a monith hefore the aoooudhemenit is expected.
It would be
safer, however, to- commemc dite luse six weeks before, especially
where
difficiutees
for
alfci
firat
comfiiiements.
Dose.
" MQ.tmzone "
may
be-
better
desori'bed
as an
elega-nt
and
scientahc
stowed it to
Anaylsis of tlie liquid in the bottle marked
water. The
and
alcohol,
volume)
of
cent,
(by
68.9
per
contain
total solid matter was too small in amount to be weighed (unless
by working on a large amount of the liquid), and might easily be
accounted for by tap water having been used to dilute the
No trace of alkaloid was shown by the most delicate
alcohol.
The residue showed a minute trace of organic matter, but
test.
to an
it was, of course, impossible to say whether this was due
and
dust
or
to
etc.,
extract,
plant
infinitesimal quantity of some
other chance contamination of the liquid.
209
The
cent,
by volume
of alcohol,
marked
but
in
The
would be
about 3^d.
A GERMAN NOSTEUM.
Dr Zernik
states that:
for
use
are
as
follows
tablespoonful
of
the extract
is
to
to allow
tlhie
bottle,
siuffioieinit
for
tlhire
weeks.
CHAPTEK
XIV.
etc.,
given
in
this
it is
asserted to cure.
chapter of
all
set
of
some
The
so-called
and adult
itself
life
name
of
to get
to be
Wallace, one of
is
211
many
cannot impress
containing
no
aUcaloid
is
an
and
many
an aconite tincture
" absokite
specific,"
of
the
might hesitate
to display.
The
it is
from
all
professed that
all
made
were found
to contain
one or more
stated
to
be tincture of
these facts
is
that
These
Diseases
Speoifi.os are
^inoideiirtal
amd Fumotional
and admit life,
Wallaxje.
The medicines
Leigh
Hunt
price of
o 2
212
2s.
It
own
is
realisation
of
their
'
publications
are
The
sufiicient
'
system
is given in a book of
about 170 pages, entitled " niysianthrofy or, The Home Cure
and Eradication of Disease. By Joseph Wallace (Lex et Lux)
and O. Leigh Hunt Wallace," which is sold at 6d. and Is. The
date of the eighth edition of this, now being sold, appears to be
1901 or 1902 ; this is supplemented by a pamphlet dealing only
with the specifics, dated 1906, and described as
of the
'
'
Second Edition;
revised
By
wihicii
may
be corrected and
Uip-ito-daJte.
The book
is
being experimental.
But we
and dootors,
This anvaluafble system he has only divulged to clengymen
tlhenLseives,
boumd
and
gdineais,
Immdxed
lliim
a
paid
.gOadly
who each
prepai-atiou of his
method
the
oi
or
names
tIhe
revead
to
not
legally,
213
medicines,
till
woulil give to
a/flter
.llbe
be
ihntl
aod
is
full beinefiits
.oif
mcdiiuail
work, wibicb
his disTOveries.
It is leivdtl'eint It'baJt tibose who say 'tJbis 'booli ifi written for the pui'poiso of
advertising tbe sale of quack medicines utter a false and slanderous asserticra
one
upoai
w'hose
desiires
and
interests of bumanity.
The
'
'
Specifics
'
'
Tbe Medicines, here introduced to tbe public for home use and private
purchase for tbe first time, consist of
Twelve Absolute
Specifics.
of the body,
requirement.
At present
fusel
Although
may
Specifics to be
tive,
214
labelled " Poison,"
it
In regard to
The law
mode
of action,
The chief action of " No I." is over the whole circulatory and nervous
systems, controlling them when diseased, in a most marvellous manner,
without causing any unnatural suppression of the vitality.
It has a
wonderful power of jDaralysing the white, or yeast corpuscles in the
blood, and thus staying their power of reproduction, or growth, and
multiplication ; reducing the fermentative abnormal heat of the blood
in a corresponding degree, thus relieving congested and inflammatory
states, and 60 causing the skin pores to become more elastic, open, and
The mucous
membranes
excretions from the blood, which the microscope reveals to be one mass
It is by virtue of this wonderful power of clearing
of white corpuscles.
out this effete matter that the normal circulation becomes rapidly estab-
and the yeasty impurities of the blood, or death force, which was
locked up in the brain, or upper parts of the body, has to descend
outwards, and downwards (according to Nature's law of cure), thus
cooling the head, and, by balancing the circulation, warming the feet at
" No. I."
also possesses the curative property of
the same time.
lished,
names
The
f or
diseases
of
Bronchitis.
Consumption.
painful
and
Inflammatory
Asthma. Heart, stomach, and
bowels.
and
bladder,
kidneys,
womb,
pancreas,
diseases of the spleen,
Measles.
Hydrocephalus.
Mumps. Abscesses. Scrofula
Organic debility.
Fevers of all kinds.
Small-pox.
Tubercular diseases.
Insanity.
Dropsy.
liver diseases.
An-ina
pectoris.
Bidding
Diphtheria
Erysipelas.
skin.
.
Boils.
Whooping cough.
Hysteria.
Tooth,
Pleurisy.
Neuralgia. Lumbago.
Sciatica.
iaw, and face-ache.
difficult parturition
and
prolonged,
Painful,
Epilepsy.
menstruation.
Difficult, deficient, painful, or suppressed
Sore throat. Cold
Sunstroke.
Squinting.
Leucorrhoea.
Amaurosis
Catoract.
Diaibeites.
Briffht's disease.
the head.
Short-sightedness.
.
215
Can anything be
do?
it
to the non-poisonous nature of this tincture,
With regard
is
left
explained that
made k
the peculiar
electTiicaJ effects
'Two
large winedassfule
much
The dose
for adults
is
frightened."
stated to be " 20 drops to 40 drops,
according to temperament."
non-poisonous nature,
to read that the antidote to overdoses of " No. I." for adults
" No. III." in 30-drop doses. It is added that " the poisonis
ous aconite sold at the chemist's needs port wine as an antidote."
It
is
somewhat surprising,
in
view of
its
No.
II.
The action of
"No.
this
described as follows:
is
buaining or
eating
aveilted, wihan
ulcers,
wheireiby
can be aipplded
.it
lall
paiai
dinedted.
is
afcyed and
Oominig
diraictly
completeilry
in-
conitact
,aill
and keep
heialtliy, .gramilationis
ihiais
toi
espel
by that
"
It .has another
out
wonderful .power, a0
heo-editaa-y lamd
allopathic
diseases,
acquired
if
diseaees
w.Ul
It
in rootiin.g
subsequent
216
the surface the rotten bene with otihcr offemdaing maitteitilwia enabling
nature ito ,reiouporait.e, and resiorc tilic lost parte. With seemingly lart^oit, ot
;
and ovarian
their elow
growth, but, by neutrnJiMng the vi/rulemce of the cotrrosive or putrefactive
iohor excreted from the degraded yeast or ofiher geirms in the affect<;d parts,
enaibles nastoine to disperse graduaJly and surely, as a foi^ign
but inoffensive
substance, .tJhe effete matter witibout injury to the vitality, aind with
buit
corapairativeily little general distiwibajicc.
In burns,
.scaldis,
cauteries,
is aJi
and corrosive
miimerals,
powerful in allaying
tihe
pain!
The
all or
list
of diseases
some of
"for which
it is
rotting
of
Diabetes.
bones.
fluent Bma.ll-,pox.
.
Hemi.a;.
Itich.
.
Effects of poisoning
EsoriaisiLsi.
Vacricose
Eczema.
veia^s.
.
Ane.uriams.-
Tendency
Con-
bo niiscarrdiage.
Cystitis
by
it is
aflmoist
stated that:
IboDt
aire
or
persisted in
dasicTLbed,
is
is
" twenty drops to one half -pint of water (preferably hot)," and
a medicated oil
" twenty to fifty drops of the tincture to each
fluid ounce of pure Lucca oil."
of
what may
217
seuce of
and
alkaloidfi berberine
blie
being
Borbeiinie
0.05
Hydiraisitane
0.11
32.3
Al'cohol
Extraotive
2.7
Ajsih
0.3
oent.
ipeir
,,
by voluime
i>er ocmt.
extracts.
and berberine)
this,
oil,
whidh
commonly
The
aittributed to alcdboil
diseases
Seasiokiiiess,
f or
alcobolic
indulgence.
Diaimhoea.
....
and
Delirium
and
Megrim.
trem'enis.
is
biLious
Faltty
iiii
ipiroiliiicing
tihiis
tihose'
appaevils
to be taken include
vomitinig,
vomiting of
from
moimaaiig
.si'ckneiss
Ddabeteis.
factor
.alorie.
bilioiusnieisis,
drunkardis, monniiing
oliieif
degenieTiatioin
Poiisoaing
the
oif
Short-isight'edDeisis.
by
deleitepioiUis
heart.
.
Acine.
Dipsomania.
clhemical products
iherbs.
Among
Parched tongue.
EumhlLnig im stomach and bowels, with
.
Weak action of
sickening poin. .
.
heoirt.
meianness.
218
The dose
Analysis showed
it
to contain
Caffeine
Oajne sugar
...
...
1.7
...
0.6
Aah
','
0.52
AlcoiicJ
Extraoiive
No.
specifics,
No.
being for small threadworms and long round worms, and No. VI
No. V alone was examined. The dose is stated
for tapeworms.
to be seven to ten drops in a wineglass of water three times
Analysis showed it to contain
daily.
30.5 per cent,
Alcohol
Ash
0.2
Reducing sugars
2.9
,,
Extractive
I-'''
>y
No
by volume
any
sort could be detected, and the extractive and ash showed no
are
distinctive characters by which the plant from which they
The tincture
active principle of
219
No. VII.
It
is
" No. VII " is the (Specific for gout (and is a tincture of Nux Moschata
[Nutmegsl, prepared according to a special formula and from specially
selected fruits).
it
to contain
51.05 per cent, by volume
Alcohol
Ash
0.22
Reducing sugar
Fat and extractive
2.1
1.0
tincture of
'
to a special
The
No. VIII
in the book,
No.
The
IX
is
is
whooping-cough ; but
was not examined.
for
and
it
little is
said about
it
described, as
specific for
is
aloes,
prepared accord-
It
'
oi'dinaTy credibility.
The "
for
diseases,
which
'
'
'
'
tLght-lMing
effects
oif
shocks (electric or
Cornfi resulting
Effects of
etc.
othiei-'wise)
oif
the bowels.
Pain'fui
.
Effects
220
it
to contain
per cent, by volume
26.6
Reducing sugars
0 55
27
Extractive
"
"
characters and
behaviour to tests. The official tincture
of arnica contain.^
nearly three times as much alcohol as this
;
tincture,
sherry to
quantity in a
No. XI.
extract
is
is
'
three to
teii
It
is
In the
hias
stated that
Cholera, when purging, ot purging amd vomiting
a B'hart time, three or fouir doses at five-minute intervals
learly stages of
commenced
for
aifter.
would
and
The formula
is
given as follows
XI." showed
it
to contain:
Caffeine
0.1
0.7
Ash
0.26
per cent.
,,
Alcohol
Extractive
2.1
,,
in
CHAPTEK
PREPARATIONS
The number
XV.
F0]{
THE HAIR.
is very considerable.
They include
preparations for increasing the growth of the hair
or cunng
baldness, and preparations for altering the
colouring of the
hair.
The hne
of division,
however,
some of these it
growth of the hair.
for
is
and
more convenient to
arrange hair preparations in three groups
namely, hair
growers, hair "restorers," and hair dyes.
In this chapter
the results obtained by analysing a small number of preparaIt is, therefore,
them by the
letters, or
proprietors, either
on the
labels or in circulars,
newspaper advertisements.
A. HAIR GROWERS.
TATCHO.
(THE
"
GEORGE
R.
SIMS
"
HAIR RESTORER.)
It appears from the label that there are three varieties of thk
much-advertised
"Tatcho"
oily,
preparation,
non-oily,
described as "
free
from
all
223
It is thus described
The
There
is
no
other.
" loss
of hair
is
" to-day.
It will
your hair .has 'become i&canty ot grey, get " Tatcho
give
and
you,
of
being
bring 'biack the hair of your youth, make a new
Iif
The
label
life.
made according
to the Formulae
Tecommended by me.
Geo. R. Sims.
The
directions are
Sprinkle a few .drops on the head each morning, and brush the hair
thoroughly
aifter
application.
Borax
Glycerine
2.5
parts
,,
0-006 part
Quinine
Formaldehyde solution
0.38
and perfume...
part
tracer
The estimated
5| fluid ounces
is
|d.
EDWARDS' HARLENE.
Some
of the
of
a firm in
London,
must be met
...
in the precise
measure-
224
" Harlene " alone answers all requirements; it has the
property of
penetrating direct to the roots of the hair, stimulating them to renewed
vigour, cleansing the cells which line the way; and, albove all, it conveys to
the ibair-bulbs the peculiar .food which they require the only food I^Jature
has ordained can .act a/s nourishment for them, the food ithey otherwise
obtain i'Toin ithe blood. No other prepai^ation contains thijs ingredient,
successful.
The proprietors
of
the
as to the
in whic'h a
way
0.5 part
0.04
0.12
Glycerine
0.4
Brown
traces
Alcohol
Water,
5.7 parts by
sufficient to
The estimated
measure
KOKO.
This preparation
4s. 6d. bottle
is
sold
contained
by a limited company
in
London
bottle
Eradicates iSom'f. Promotes Growth. Prevents Hai-r Falling. ConNo Dye. Will positively Stop Hair from Falling Out, and prevent
it turning Prematurely Giey.
Will certainly Increase the Growth of the
Hair, and if consistently used will make it Bright, iSoft, and Wavy
tains
selleirs
225
camnot be saiMy taken as genuine unless
We often"
tlie position of the writer places him or her above suspicion.
"
best
the
This
is
thinli that .the public must be sick of seeing the eternal
for
and
sale;
for
offered
attached to every conceivable -article which is
on,
and testimonials, as a
this reason
we
usiially refrain
The
Tule,
day.
is
on-
to
glow
it
Koko
freely,
Analysis showed
it
to contain
Borax
1-4 parts.
Glycerine
l-"^
Formaldehyde solution
Perfume
>i
0.1 part.
a trace.
3 parts by measure.
Alcohol
measure.
parts
by
produce
100
Water, sufficient to
The estimated
is
cost
of
Id.
B.HAIR RESTORERS.
LOCKYER'S SULPHUR HAIR RESTORER.
This article is supplied by a limited company in London, who
The price of a bottle conalso sell other proprietary articles.
Is.
It
is described as
is
6d.
ounces
fluid
12
taining
The
Best.
The
Safest.
The
Ciueapest.
Restores the coIout to Grey Hair. Instantly stops the Hair from
Occasionally used, Greyness is impossible. If the Hair is actufading.
ally Grey the iSulpiiur Restorer in six or seven days effects a great
By a gradual action, scarcely perceptible even to watchful
alteration.
In a period of three
observers, several darker is'hades will be attained.
weeks a complete change occurs, and a coloar exactly resembling that
lost will
became manifest.
is
and
a sense
Directions
bottle, and immediately apply the Restorer to the roots
the Hair. A very small sponge is convenient for this purpose.
At
first it should be used daily, but when the required shade is obtained,
two or three times a week wiU suffice.
of
2^6
Analysis showed
it to
contain
Precipitated sulphur
1.3 parts
Lead acetate
Lead sulphate
1.6
,,
0.4
,,
Glycerine
9.6
,,
Rose water
euflicieut to
The lead sulphate was probaibly due to eome reaction having occurred
between the lead acetate and sulphur, with oxidation assuming this to
be so, the amount of lead acetate originally present would be 2.1 parte.
;
The estimated
is
2d.
It
is
For
For
For
For
described as
it.
on bald
spots,
and
it
new growth
'
an occasional use
Analysis showed
it
to contain
Precipitated sulphur
Lead
acetate
is sufficient.
1.4 parts
O-l-^
19.0
Glycerine
,,
,,
Rose water
sufficient to
227
VILIXIR.
stain-
method.
reawakened.
less
Instead,
.
the
hair's
pigmentary
sleeping
procees
is
of
making
people's hair
is,
happily, an
inexipensive one.
of
...
At
Hydro
not necessary
w,e
Hydro
in
the
if
vou
ha^y
It
is
'
"^^'^t-^i^"*
is
absolutely
non-injurious either
The
directions
bi^^e
hour
for
few seconds
ni^
with
and morning
tflxe
to the scal^
moLtened
228
Tih bottle of liquid that was sent in return for 12s. 6d. was
accompanied by about J ounce of shampoo powder, for shampooing the head before the first use of " Vilixir." This powder
was found to consist of
4.6 per cent.
Borax
Powdei-ed soap
Partly exsiccated sodium carbonate
24.4
,,
71.0
,,
3.2 parts.
Lead
1-8
aceitate
Glycerine
Rose water, sufficient
,,
5.7
(to
produce 100
paarte
by measure.
fluid
ounces of the
C HAIR
DYES.
W. SEEGER'S HAIR DYE.
" W. Seeger," and
This preparation bears a copy of signature
the words "made in Germany" on the paokage, but uo
address.
fluid ounces.
walnut to
clean
-each
The dye
is
"
black; the
and
prepared in three shades, for blonde, brown,
brown " was taken for examination.
Analysis showed
it
to contain, in
PyrogaUic aoid
Cupiic diloride (anhydrous)
Hydrochloric acid {B.P. strength)
Sulplhuric aoid
3.8 pants.
1-8
n 07
"
prepared
darker than a solution freshly
dyeing effect of the two was
according to this formula; but the
The
liquid was
much
229
appearance appeared
to be due to decomposition of a part of the pyrogallic acid having
taken place in the original.
and
practically identical,
e diflfereuce in
ti
The estimated
SHADEINE.
This preparation, sold from an address in London, was in a
bottle which contained 3^ fluid ounces, and was priced Se. 6d.
It
is
thus described
...
Wash
the hair,
if
This preparation
made
is
it
in seven colours.
labelled " Brown."
Pyrogalldc aoid
Oupa-ic
by measure
2.1 pairts.
dliiltairiide
Hydi-oohloric aoid
The estimated
1.5
(ainliydlrouis)
{B.P. strengtli)
,,
0.3 paiii
is
f d.
JUVENIA.
The hair dye called " Juvenia" is made in Paris, and supplied
by a firm having addresses in London and Birmingham.
A
package, price 4s. contained two bottles, Nos. 1 and 2, each containing about 2 J fluid ounces; the liquids to be mixed .at the
,
time of using.
It
is
thus described
"Juvenia"
instantly
resitoree
auburn to
wlhite
itibe
most
hair
and
gi-ey
it
is
beard to their
230
We
It
is
word
for woi^d.
well knowin
eczema ougdut
ito
absoilutely intact,
healed.
Liquid No.
2,
itself,
was found
Paraphenylene-diamine
iSoloition
of
ammonia
to contain:
0.6
alkali,
,,
The estimated
The danger
is
cost of the
l^d.
well known.
When
used in this
way symptoms of poisoning are sometimes quickly produced,
but in other cases they do not occur until after it has been used
is
for
CHAPTEK
XVI.
SEA-SICKNESS.
to time,
both as preven-
tives
is
shown by
analysis to be
ZOTOS.
supplied by Zotos, Limited, London
9d. per box containing twelve capsules.
This
2s.
is
It is described
on the outside
the price
is
that
Zotos is an infallible remedy against sea sickness, train eickness, etc.
Zotos not only prevents sickness but stimulates the appetite.
Zotos contains no injurious drug and produces no bad after-effects.
contained
activity."
Somewhat lengthy
being as
The
directions are
given,
f ollo'WS
capsules
232
Take a capsule half an hour before the steamer sails, another just ae the
steamer leaves, and a third (tliough this ie rarely required) half an hour
lateT.
Afterwards, if any uneasiness bo caused by the movement of the
vessel, capsules may ibe ta;ken from time to time up to 6 per day.
If
travelling by night, take a capsule on going to bed and another half an
hour 'before get/ting up.
The proportions
Chlorbutol
Lactose
No
The estimated
traces of colouring
is
5d.
is
addresses in
words "
It
is
company giving
The package bears the
supplied by a limited
it
nausea
3d.
233
of
the
Pinli
Sugar
of
contents of
Powder.
33.3 per cent.
miUc
8.2
Caffeine
Stearic
18.0
acid
,,
40.1
Ohlorbutol
Cblouring matter
a trace.
Brown Powder.
29.4 per cent.
Powdered cinnamon
8.4
Caffeine
The
Stearic acid
17.4
Ohlorbutol
44.5
The estimated
is
is
of the ingredients
cost
for the
six
capsules
2Jd.
A CUKE-ALL. KORPUSDOON.
In addition to the many proprietary medicines which are
widely and generally advertised, a very large number are advertised only or principally in some particular locality, and such
preparations sometimes attain a very considerable local sale.
The claims made for these medicines do not show any more
modest pretensions than those more widely advertised, while the
ignorance of the makers is sometimes even more evident.
medicine of this
class,
made
in a Lancashire town,
is
called
"
morning.
The nature of the claims made for it is shown by the following extracts, the first of which is from a newspaper advertisement, and the second from the label on the bottle
Why
suffer
all
diseases originate,
all
poison-
234
and
clears
all
the
Magnesium sulphate
624 grains.
550
Oil of sassafras
Aniseed water
Water
to
,,
5 minims.
,,
fl.
oz.
25
A EADIUM SALVE.
Long advertisements have appeared recently in the daily
papers of a radium salve stated to have been discovered by Dr.
The salve is
S. Saubermann, who gives an address in Berlin.
sold in this country
by
company which
describes
itself as
235
It
sell.
is
impregnated
in 500,000," a
is
The company
A medical
and an elixir of life. A certificate purporting to have been given by Dr. Saubermann in December, 1907,
states that the ore which the company has acquired was
" uranium refuse concentrated from the mines at Joachimsthal."
leading scientists on
In the advertisement a list is given of
not
so
far
as to say that any
radium," but the advertisers do
go
of them have anything to do with the radium salve. There is also
a quotation from The British Medical Journal, which we need
hardly say had no reference whatever to the salve or its manu-
'
'
facturers.
The
is
"sold at
ing to radioactivity."
the following
is
his report
" I received the two pots of radium salve you sent me, and
have examined the radioactivity of the stronger preparation
namely, that marked Strong, 5s.' The alpha radioactivity of
'
and
about one-hundredth
part of that of uranium. The beta radiation is too feeble to be
For comparison I might
detected by a sensitive electroscope.
mention that the residues from the uranium ore of Joachimsthal,
which forms the initial raw material from which radium is
extracted, have an alpha radioactivity about four times that of
uranium."
the preparation
is
just detectable,
is
236
It is advertised in the following terms
Tms
Preparation
hiaa ibeen
of
An
in
No
a few
applications of "Dethblo."
It is Fajrmiliess to
arms
The
ihianre
Appiv with
bruish enclosed,
youngest diil'drem
tihe
many
infants
occasions.
with
in 100 parts
by measure :
Ferrous sulphate
Aoeitic lacid
33.7 parts
(calculated as
11.9
gJiaciail)
by meosnre
Careful search did not reveal the presence of any other ingredient.
fluid
drachms,
3-\jd.
Germany
diseasies,
The
bottlfl
a turbid
espeoialJy
for
dipihtheria,
brovm
triohinosis,
Is.
whooping-cough, etc.
about 30 c.cm. of
3d.) contains
It contains
(or
Its
237
cOTutiainttnig
"a
is
ihaghlly
active
oxygen combined
wiith
was
by sodium per20 parts of
TIhe ohief conebittuentis of this pTOpiaraiion were
borate.
and 60
oxide,
zinc
of
parts
10
acid,
iboric
parts
of
sodiium nerborate, 10
carbonate.
magnesium
and
starch
of
traces
with
tail'c
a.
of
mixture
parts of
no dry
a diry
fiatty
eubstajnoe
reipres'cait&d
to the Dlatstor.
Jehnol
of
is
alilayi.Tit^
all
also
cajeput
30 pfemnnV.s.
costs
Epocol
is
No
It/hlEut
ithis
"oeiw"
detail^s
Zemok
two
composit/ion.
238
mnetta
strangtheimixg
mmous
flour
similar
preparation.
It
It
is
described
consists
of
as an Oriental
a powdeix^d
Wu
^
flour,
saWed
agar-agar.
with
It is sup-
few minutes
It thus
appears very doubtful whether the peroxide
would not be liberated in
the stomaah.
spite of the fact that the nmnrafaoturers
claim as an
advantage of the preparation that the H,0, is not
liberated until the
intestine ns reaohed, and them only slowly.
is
all infectious
It consists of
According
chemist
powder (ammon.
tasting
headache
puriss.),"
sodium mercury
as
any chemist
is
It
Eulatin is a white, almost odourless, mildly acid-tasting powder.
dimethyl-phenyl-pyrazolon.
is supposed to be an amido-bromine-benzoate of
(for
Dr. i'riedmann has described this preparation as a useful remedy
or
three
every
gram
to
0.5
0.1
doses
of
given
in
whooping-cough when
to be
found
was
antipyrin
or
Dimethyl-phenyl-pyrazolon
four hours.
present, but the analysis failed .to reveal a trace of amido-bromine benzoic
acid, a
cular proportions were present to each one part of the latter, also with
The mixture thus differs very
antipyrin in molecular proportions.
materially from the supposititious chemical compound descriibed by the
manufacturers.
The value
240
John
P. Haig>'s "
Core
"
for Goitre.
CHAPTER
XVII.
that
observed
have been
It will
various
articles
through
public
ordinary
the
The second
retailers
post,
maker or
pro-
as
prietor to the
such
channels,
retail
retail
price,
'
medicine
'
is
sent,
list
of
questions,
it
is
is
in
by
will
be
nature
goes
to
the
patient,
on
"modified"
of
the
the
case;
or
the
questions
pretext
and
again, the
with
can
be
full
the
to
retail
the
price
particulars sup-
letters urging
made more
filled
additional article
be
to
"selected," according
here,
proprietor,
"symptom form,"
or
continuance
some stronger or
effective;
no doubt,
242
chapter some
further particulars are given of
advertisers of these ^wo
classes.
or
of
case of
article first
where the
In
many
cases
followed at intervals by a
a sensational
manner
number
of others,
for
w^as
emphasising in
This
offer of
reduced price
is
sometimes made
persons
known by him
to be suffering
names
of other
in
243
question; so that
if
The
letters sent
com-
shown
who
frequently
is
(or Mrs.)
,"
or as
name being
inserted afterwards.
"
when no
symptom form
up.
filled
In
'
'
and
your
the
fact, there is
way
of the
medicine sent
may
is
in no
be given as
examples.
We
We
we earnestly desire.
To effect a permanent and
what
lasting cure, it
is
is
a reasonable period.
Q2
244
The
date,
name
Dear Friend,
Do you or any of your friends stand in need of medical treatment?
We make a speciality of kidney and bladder trouble and rheumatism, in
fact all complaints arising from uric acid poisoning.
.
To
introduce these
Sample Treatments.
are one of the ten thousand selected to receive a Proof Sample Treatment, because we believe that if they cure you your influence in your
You
...
245
up with the
filled
an im-
details of
no medicine or answer
reason,
THE
One
J.
of
any
sort
was received.
W. KIDD COMPANY.
we
W. Kidd Company,
sidering
is
are conof
Fort
particulars of
any other
although established in America,
Besides newssedulously cultivates business in this country.
paper advertising, it appears to obtain the names and
addresses of persons to whom it seems worth while to write.
It has been asserted, and so far as we know without any contradiction, that in America, at least, there is a regular trade in
old letters, orders, etc., from purchasers of nostrums, and that
a firm desiring to push a preparation for any particular disease
can purchase from a broker thousands of letters from people
who have bought some other preparation for that ailment, in
order to bombard them with letters recommending the new nostrum. Perhaps that is how the Kidd Company gets names and
addresses; one of tEe letters sent by the company states that
" I have decided to favour you because I am informed that
you need expert medical attention, and because I believe you
will tell your friends about my successful treatment after I have
cured you." Of course, modesty in advancing the oomjsany's
claims would be absurd, as diffidence in disparaging legitimate
practitioners would be out of place.
single extract may serve
as a specimen
successfully treated
doctor."
more
This company,
246
cases
IS
my
great success.
Simply mail me
a-dded
I
am
mark (X)
Rheumatism
Piles
Lumbago
Constipation
Dropsy
Pimples
Neuralgia
Diarrhoea
Indigestion
Scrofula
Lung Trouble
Chronic Cough
Heart Disease
Female Trouble
Kidney Trouble
Bladder Trouble
Prostatitis
Partial Paralysis
Headache
Malaria
Nervousness
Torpid Liver
Impure Blood
Dizziness
Epilepsy
Eczema
Asthma
Catarrh
make
under
"
Kidd,
'
Dr.'
James
in
given
case
are
In Truth Cautionary
William," appears the
following
Advertises profusely
all
all
diseases,
and to send a sample of his treatment " free." The remedies appear to
be absolute humbug, and are supplied in quantities at extravagant prices,
as much as 4 having been obtained from victims in some cases.
company out
circulars.
SPECIALIST."
advertisement which is to be found in very many newsis that of " Mr. Thomas Ison, oculist and aurist, Ison's
Eye and Ear Dispensary, Limited," inviting consultations by
post for all diseases of eye .and ear, which are stated to be cured
without operation. From one of the circulars sent it appears
that the advertiser also attends at certain times at given hotels
papers
247
An
be consulted.
The charge
is 10s.
is
Established
1871.
Ison's
I son,
new method
Rapid Cure
of Diseases of the
without Operation.
Attendance at Leeds every
Tuesday and alternate Saturdays.
Hours
10 to 7
By this new system of treatment nine cases out of ten can be cured
without a personal interview or the patient leaving home or business,
thus saving time and expense. The postal arrangements are now such
that persons may be treated in the most distant parts without delay.
The special remedies applicable to each case are forwarded in a portable
compass to any part of the world, with full directions.
Each patient
is
1.
2.
3.
4.
How
is
formed regularly?
5.
only.
weak? Strong.
Ave the functions
34,
Clerk.
Good.
of tJie
body per-
Yes.
Eight
eye,
248
6. How long have the eyes or eye been affected?
has been steadily
coming on for about 3 months.
7. Do you feel any pain?
If so, where?
At the back of the eyes,
across the forehead, in the temples, or over the eyebrows ?re5,
at the
8.
biit
Are the
eyelids affected?
10.
What
11.
Is
the
iris
(the
Has
12.
has
changed?
If so,
changed from
it
No.
13.
Do you
what
14.
use spectacles?
colour,
What
treatment
(if
you know.
if
No.
it
Is
Any
Note
It
early as possible,
This was sent wifch the 10s. 6d. required, and the package
received in return contained a 2-drachm bottle of " Drops " and
a 1-ounce bottle of " Lotion," and a dropping-tube of the kind
supplied wholesale at about
a letter
which stated
Is.
send herewith remedies to be used according to the printed instrucPlease persevere and you wiU do well. Write me a day or two
before the remedies are finished, and I hope to have a good report.
I
tions.
printed sheet of instructions for use was sent, giving direcThe Drops," " The Lotion," " The Embrocation "
(for forehead and temples), and " The Ointment " (for edges of
eyelids).
The two latter were crossed out; the others were:
tions for "
The Drops.
Two
Drops
to
249
The Lotion.Linen
Boric acid
Glycerine
2i grains
Water, to
2
fluid
drachms
The
lotion was
more.
It is not necessary to comment on the value of such
treatment " ; it is sufficient to contrast it with such statements
'
'
from the
Many
circulars sent as
as incurable,
have been brought under his special treatment, and, to the surprise of
their friends, they have recovered their sense of hearing or seeing after
This is not accomplished
having been deaf or blind for many years.
by means of painful operations, poisonous drugs, or compounds, but by
means of a special treatment he has introduced, as the result of thirty
years' practice and the experience of his fore-elders.
.
A " HEEBAL
An
advertisement which
SPECIALIST."
many
papers is
that of a Mr. J. George, medical herbalist, usually beginning
with a reference to " Lost strength restored," offering a free
book which should be read by all men suffering from loss of
nerve power, etc., and concluding: "No Drugs or Minerals
Nature's Remedies only. 30 years' success. The Treatused.
ment that Cures." Application to the address given brought a
circular resembling a typewritten letter with the name and date
typed in, a "consultation form," and two pamphlets. These
were both entitled llie Treatment that Cures Lost Health and
Strength, one being marked " 18th edition " and the other
" 26th edition." Both contain a number of testimonials, and
the one marked " 18th edition " contains several dated 1911,
including one of March 2nd, 1911.
As the pamphlets were
obtained in April, 1911, the interval between the 18th and 26th
editions would appear to have been a short one, but it seems to
have sufficed for a marvellous extension of the powers of the
Herbal Remedy. In the " 18th edition " the following appears:
in
250
Special Notice.
long before their time. If space would permit, I could print such statements from men that have suffered (but whom I have cured), that would
convince the greatest doubter. Therefore, I ask you to read these testimonials which are from living persons, daily in communication with me,
and think, if you are a sufferer from any of the symptoms mentioned give
the Herbal Remedy a trial, and avail yourself of a Safe, Sure, and Speedy
Cure.
In the " 26th edition " appears a simiUr paragraph, but the
disorders following the words " in all cases of " has been
changed to
list of
it is
stated that:
In placing your case under the treatment of Mr. J. George, the Herbal
Expert, you are placing yourself into the care of a Practitioner that has
had upwards of 40 years' experience in diseases of the urinary and generative organs.
human
system.
But a
ten out of the forty years were given to failure.
is supplied by the letter, in which it is
further inconsistency
said that
is one that I have used with the greatest success during the
previous
to which it was used by a near relative (a wellpast 20 years,
known Herbalist in the South of England with over 50 years' extensive
The Remedy
practice).
251
The
8s. 6d.
The
two mouths',
" consultation
Remedy
15s. 6d.
is,
up with particulars of an
A box of 29 powders
6d.
filled
CHAPTEE
XVIII.
by the proprietors of
and various. Some employ
of advertising adopted
medicines
are
many
an
names
increasing
of their
number
nostrums; almost
It is
impos-
it is
stated that
have already largely increased our advertising, and over 800 newspapers and magazines, embracing the whole of Great Britain, are regularly
carrying very effective advts.
Ten million leaflets have been ordered to be insetted in all the principal
periodicals and magazines during the next three months;
Booklets will be distributed from house to house throughout the Country
We
ments."
While the
undifferentiated
"man
(and
woman)
in the
253
and nature
such advertisements as
we
are considering
may
on the other,
striking illustration of
the monthly magazines, or the Times and some of the halfA reference to the current issues of the
penny dailies.
Fortnighthj
first
the
Strand
News
con-
occupying three columns, the Daily Express eleven occupying three and a-quarter columns, the 'Evening
close connection
may
News
five
four
occupy-
easily be traced,
palmists,
"astrologers" who
offer
to
foretell
a person's
future from the date and hour of his birth, preparations for
removing superfluous hair, preventing blushing, or develop-
in
those
pubhcations
favoured by the proprietary medicine maker.
Some
tions
of the
show a very
full
most
large circula-
a
;
254
of these
which
before us con-
is
gai
less
amount
of space
and sensational
it is
of proprietary
nostrums advertised
most undesirable
in
them belonging
classes.
to the
of the forty-one
com-
at
hazard
contained eleven of female remedies, along with advertisements of " rubber preventives," " chic female pictures,"
and the
like.
ground
weekly
we
tions, along
In one
of these
Is. for
conduct
it,
and
also
good deal
God upon
those
who
The
as a rule a
few
which from
is
their headings
feature which
is
often to be
like
worded that an
255
importance in
of very little
evil of
press which thus passes into the hands of the owners of the
ways
articles is to publish as
assistance
is
imposed on by such
to be
and
real value
it
The
great con-
hands
of a
for
newspaper
it is
company owning
The importance
of this consideration
can be
at
once seen
in
or the
findings of the Parliamentary Committee
of Inquiry into
the subject of " patent " medicines.
CHAPTEE
XIX.
volume
first
made
for
is
quali-
to be qualified
is
by a
It
made
a life-
know
far
more about
it
We
his
inquest at the
on the kind
some
Hammersmith
'
of
'
expert
'
'
knowledge placed
at the disposal
of those deluded
who
says, " I
whom
died
am
suffering, arising
myself a
257
of the
whole subject
offer
of corpulence,
hut that
life
study
guarantee to
effect a cure of
shown by his
own evidence at the inquest referred to. The following is
from a report of the proceedings in the
est London
Observer
" Mr. Frank Derry, the proprietor of Nelson
ledge of the disease he guarantees to cure, are
'
person.
say,
'
man who
ness.
joint effort.
He
Lloyd? Yes, it
book first pubhshed? In
said to be Nelson
When was
the
is
the
'
? That
man who
assisted me.
Obesity, you
say, should only be treated by a speciahst? Yes.
You also
say that you have made a life^study of it.
Is that correct ?
As
for
he was
America, but not in this country.
As an employee of Mr. Derry he went over the
consultation
forms and ordered the treatment." The
statement
a quahfied medical
man
in
of the
responsible for the letters and
pamphlets
sent out concluding, " I am, yours truly,
"
J. Nelson
proprietor,
who
is
Lloyd
and hr the
"of rourse
25a
Nelson Lloyd
is
to
show a
'
"Wallace, A. Gordon. A mythical speci^ilist in fatproducing and fat-removing, originally the joint creation of
a Mr. Alfred John Warner and a Dr. J. H. Hart.
Warner
'
'
possession of
which
the
International
Remedies
'
Co., Limited,
CHAPTER. XX.
first
volume
I.
a very large
SEIGEL'S SYRUP
We
from
explanatory
letter
the
them
The correspondence opens with
makers of this
nostrum, which
is
self-
Deair Sir,
of the British
As you seem
humbug
T r?
much more
Tt^ i of "l,
than
Id. for 3 fluid ounces; That
it is actually worth
more than
It seilfi for as am effective curative
remedy; That
is not a "humbug "
Tht humbugs do not la.st forty yeai^ and
still contimie a* h-u^me^,
sue'
cessee in aU parts of the world as our
preparatio.n does.
From your penniau^hip we thin.k it not uuhkoJy
that 'you are a medical
practitioner, in whaci evit youaanimus becomes qu,ito intelligible.
If
it
costs
;:
260
yaa
a.r
D-nialysis
Prac-ti Honors'
humbug
meirely
is
aai
effort of
or
Don't
"Medical
let them
Yott!
The
The
And
Most
there
tlhese
of
to this in
a long
We
And
As
T^igards
have issued
your remedy
yew
is
patent.
Briltidh
you
a;nd
Medical Association
to your concoction,
,
i.v
tibe
10/,
14
and
all tihe
to
261
in the issue of
January 8th, 1910, draws attention to the differences between the formulae of certain proprietary medicines
published in Secret Remedies, Vol. I., as the results of analysis,
and those .printed on the labels of the medicines when these .are
imported into France or Italy. The first instance taken is " Dr.
Williams's Pink Pills
the formula for these given in Secret
Remedies is
Exsiccated sulphate of iron
0.75 grain
0.09
Powdered
0.66
liquorice
S^g"
In one
1_4
grains
0.2
grain
pill.
it
is
given on the
label as
Pot. caub
Ferri sulph
0 07
0 80
0 02
qq^
Sacchar
...
Ext. gentian
^1^^
n'n-r
0Q25
0.009
from
pills
having
was
262
lialf
the
pill,
but none
is
shown
it is
well
known
of
many
of these preparations.
The
facts
adduced
in the letter
country, as
show very plainly how desirable it is that in this
should require the composition
in France and Italy, the law
263
proved
that
they
formula.
has sometimes been shown. Thus in the case of powders sold for
the cure of drunkenness powders having an average weight of
grains varied individually from
| grain to 3 grains, and in
another inebriety "cure," variations from 2.9 to 6 grains were
found among
would appear
was merely "
or measured.
bromide, and
^vains
264
"it
is
'
to the pharmacists to
whom
it is
addressed.
dispenser
who
could not weigh to within 0.7 grain would not remain long in
any good pharmacy." It is not unimportant to recollect,
'\cr.-
INDEX.
The contents
The
Roman
of
Volumes
both
the
denote
numerals
1.
and
the
and
volume,
are
II.
page.
PAOE
PAOK
System
Absoluite
Miedidne,
of
An
210
ii.
i.
Absorbit Reducing Paste
Treataneinit,
Pile
Absorptive
i.
Van Vleck's
...
i.
Aicetic acid...i.
15,
78;
ether
Acet'oealic
i.
154
TeetoHa Trealtmemt
Teraiperianciia Treatment
Woods' Treatment
i.
2, 5, 6, 37,
ii.
263, 264
7,
23,
[see
16 ;
Aoetyl-
...i.
ii.
Allan's Anti-fat
i.
Allspice, Oil of
77, 81
Act, Stamp
Advertising
Medicines,
ii.
i.
of
19
214
213
182
4,
ii.
ii.
252
&8
238
65, 127
ii.
32, 44, 47, 52, 73, 74, 78, 80, 86, 87,
92, 103, 111, 118, 121, 127, 135, 160,
10, 11. 23,
ii.
AJ'cola
Anitidipso
Coza Powder
,,
oiil
137
92
ii.
oi
ii-
151
23
135, 138
i.
117,
192,
196, 199,
195,
ii.
ii.
7,
,,
166
130
133
10, 12
ii.
Proprietary
The
Albumen
i.
ii.
Aethylenimin
Agar-agar
ii.
ii.
Aconite, Tiincture of
Aconitum napelhus
167;
ii.
Alcola
extr.aict
^54
168
140
aciiid).
Alcohol
182,
236
ii. 86
i.
acd'd
saJicylic
ii.
Dipeocuir
87
Acetanilid (antifebrin)
(coiit.)
ii.
i-
i.
128
137
165
162
piU...ii.
decoction
Aloin
196,
204,
205
193,
198,
199
of...ii.
i.
ii.
85, 96,
Alum
51, 120
i.
Alujminium oleate
i.
120
i.
145
6,
23
...ii.
184
206
sulphate
,,
Amber,
oil
of
ii.
Blanchard's
Apiol
and
PiUs
Davis's Female Mixture
Female
Pille
Steel
ii.
205
ii.
197
ii.
197
266
I'AOK
ATnenorrhrea,
Medicines for
{corU.)
Dodd's Con-ective
ii.
{qq
Female Pills
ii.
193
Dumas's Paris Pilk ....ii. 186, 192
Fournier's
Hygenique Mix^^ure
ii_
Hammond's
(Nurse)
ii.
Eeme-
die
ii.
ii.
ii.
ii.
Fema/le Pills
Kearsley's
Welch's
ii.
ii.
196
206
191, 195
ii.
Female
Pills
ii.
ii.
Compound
Powell's
Pills
200
204
ii.
193
...ii.
193
Popular Pellets
ii.
Reimedies
ii.
19M
187
ii.
200
Sanol Cones
-
199
ii.
190, 194
Corrective
(Nurse)
Bennyon's
ii.
Stafford-Broolces'
(Mrs.)
202
Pel-
loids
ii.
202
ii.
(Widow)
Weilch'is
Pills
ii.
son's
ii.
. .
.ii.
.4immoniiacum
i.
18;
ii.
carbonate
chloride
Antexema
^nthylla
ii.
151
224
106
125
ii.
181
,-
citrate
i.
87
,,
ii.
28
i.
13
i.
14
ii.
234
,j
25
j^Qg
^^^j^
li.
i.
Anticelta Tablets
j.
Anti-corpulent Preparation, Russell's
Medicine,
lor's
i.
i.
i.
Anoimony oxide
..
Antineurasthin
jgg
126
129
92
i.
64
j.
132
68
86
238, 239
ji.
^ntipon
Antipyrin
i.
ii.
Anti-rheinnatic
Pearls,
Baring-
Gould's
ii.
55
116
ii.
26
i.
and
7
153
Tay-
Anti-epileptique (Uten)
Anti-ifat, Allan's
Apiol
146
j.
Antidipso
Steel
Blanii.
196
19
powdered
Powell's Balsam of
water
"
Annatto
Appendix
Arnica montana
i.
i.
Aniseed,
195
Ammoaia
chard's
Female
28
28, 238
spiric. puriss
ii.
238
sulpho-guaiacolate ii. 237
Animal extract
63,
65
A.ni&eed, oil of i. 12, 14
:i.
74 105
(Mrs.)
Remedy
ii.
ii.
>i
Anti-epileptic
Steel
PiUa
iodide
talicylate
ii.
Monaid Tablets
ii.
Patterson's Female Pills ....ii.
Pinkham'e (Mrs.) Vegetable
Shaffer
20I
198
198
Female
Pille
Lilly's (Nurse)
>>
203
196
205
139^ 194
ii.
204
190, 195
ii.
Ammonium
Pills, .Martin's
205
ii.
199
i.
182
219
ii
Assmann's
Whooping
Cough
Infants'
Remedy
i.
Preservative
Augenwol
Automors
19
ii.
150
ii.
84
168
i.
i.
ii.
146
239
267
36
114
115
114
116
23
i.
Balsam of Peru
Bakam
i.
of tola
19
ii.
25
ii.
Balsamic
Mixture,
Cough
Crosby's
i.
Balsamic Elixir, Congreve's
i.
Baring-Gould's
Anti-rheumatic
Pearls
i.
ii.
ii.
ii.
77
ii.
i.
i.
i.
Bell's Fairy
ii.
Cure
Pills,
Horton's
Balsam
Benzoate, Sodium i. 180 ii.
Benzwin, compound 'tiiiictuire of
;
Berberine
Berendorf's
lepsy
Be tony
ii.
19
for
177, 237
i.
15, 27
ii.
i.
77;
i.
of
217
Epii.
Bile Beans
oil
80
i.
Powder
ii.
39
205
i.
Bengue'fi
Pills
ii.
id.
129
63
96
43
7
i.
Birley's Anti-catarrh
i.
62
Bishop's 'Gout Varalettes
253
ii.
Blackwood's Magazine
Bladdervvrack i. 83, 84, 89, 91, 92, 93,
ii. 112, 116,
94, 100, 102, 103, 104
123, 125
121,
122,
119,
117,
44
46
i.
31
Punifier
Siarsa-
Ameiriican
i-
parilla
118, 119;
i.
7.
i.
i-
Toiwnsend's
129, 138
Boric acid
ii.
i.
43
145
ii.
224,
225
39,
ii.
Eye Ointment
Bowden's Indian Balm
Box's Golden Fire
Bostock'iS
i.
163
ii.
164
ii.
ii.
Brandy
Brixa Talblets
Broimoicarpine
and
Cojisumption
Cough
ii.
143
23
20
20
28
i.
ii.
Pills
,,
Bromipton
i.
Birch tar,
239
23
25
237
96
104
18
175
....ii.
Batih Salts
Bauch's Busennahrcreme
Beans, Bile
i.
Bearberry
Beecham's Cough Pills
Pills
Benedict
55
122
i.
Barium Sulphate
Beeswax
15
26
i-
Munyon's Cure
Phelps Brown's
Blue dye
Borax i.
i-
of
iSarsaparilla
Hughes's
i.
42
42
i-
Blood Purifiers
Clarke's Blood Mixture
Harvey's Pills
Hood's Compound Extiiact
Specifiic
i.
27
74
Brown's Bronchial Troches ...ii.
ii.
66
Brown^Sequard
62, 63,
lieis'toriative
Vervain
Brown's
i.
Assimilant, 0. Phelps
127
Brucine
ii.
145
Biyony
Buckthorn
i.
63
i.
104
Buer's Mul'la
Buer's PUes Cure
i.
i.
Burdock
li.
Burgess's Lion
i.
Pills
^,
Ointment
ii.
Busennahrcreme, Bauch's
ii.
Biisteria
ii.
149
149
45
180
101
237
238
Blair's
50
206
Cade,
oil
of
ii.
43
41
139,
218,
221,
233
42,
ii.
Gadum
Caffeine
i.
38,
39;
ii.
4,
205
ii.
145, 195,
Blaud's Pills
i.
Blood Cure, Munyon's
i.
Mixture, Clarke's
203
Pills, Hart-vey's
Hughes's
44
42
i.
44
i.
48
Calcium carbonate
i.
6,
109
ii.
39,
145, 176
,,
,,
chloride
glycerophosphate
hypophosphite ii.
ii.
...ii.
175
70
127
268
Calcium phosphate
sulphate
Calomel
113,
...1.
Camomile
Camphoo-
i.
28/ 109;
i.
131,
ii.
132,
41,
139
148,
151
a.
oil
Cancer Rem&dies
OturdiigEun
Ganistics
...i.
117
d.
121
i.
122
Cauiceir Cuo^ers
amd Cancer
Grdmeon
Cross
Special
Oint-
ment
Wallace's iSpeoiiic No. II.
Ca-nella
19k;,
ii.
Canexia preparations
Capsicum i. 14, 35,
177
132
39,
Carbolic acid
Cardamom
96,
156, 161
ii.
ii.
175
ii.
175
i.
163
Chloroform
i.
i.
115
114
Munyon's
Rhycol Treatment
Van
Vleck's
No. 2
i.
80;
164;
i.
ii.
96
ii.
147
10,
ii.
i.
Lane's
Cinnamon
decoction of
...i.
Colman Method
Hyomei
Cinchona
i.
167
Cinchonidine sulphate
Cinchonine sulphate i.
oil
70
36
39
39
40
71
,,
Cocaphos
Cochineal
Cod-liver
200
122
i.
i.
61
ii.
17
ii.
94
86,
87;
28, 55
42
i.
136
ii.
117
ii.
76
ii.
120;
Cocoa
76
76, 98
i.
i.
i.
84,
Cockle's PilLs
Cocoanut
ii.
199, 204,
205, 233
ii.
81,
205
decoction of
oil of
78
6
ii.
195^
ii.
64,
i.
2,
ness
Cloves
83
80
57
ii.
i.
93
i.
ii.
ii.
ii.
ii.
ii.
i.
112
ii.
67
ii.
m,
i.
of
Citric acid
76
3
43;
...i.
Ciniicifuga
>,
Dusting Powder
ii
Blood Cleansing Tablets ii
Ointment
ii.
Chloroform, Spirit of
Chlorophyll
Cicfa
,,
ii.
74,
234
88
104,
16,
i.
i.
ii.
ii.
14,
17,
i.
74,
CasseU's Medicines
CaulophyUin
Caustics and cancer
C.B.Q. Tablets, Post's
Celmo
125
12, 13,
i.
205
121
Birley's
ii.
Cliloreton
Chlorinated soda
i.
35;
Catarrh Balm, Van Vleck'e
Catarrh Cures
i.
238
j.
168
232, 233
ii.
232
Chlorine
Cassia, oil of
I33
i.
ii_
196
149
,,
Powdere,
215
Cascarilla
,,
Cooling
Fenning's
Chinosol
Chiretta
Chlorbutol
22, 32
i.
193,
Phenol)
(see
ii.
Chijitse
Children's
96
ii.
...ii.
19, 145
ii.
181
Caraway,
Charcoal
i.
172;
Chas. Forde's Bile Beans
ii.
ii.
ii.
49
ii.
47,
ii.
181
100
i.
41
oil
of)
oil
ii.
Oil,
Pastor
of
218,
Honey
Coffee,
i.
tincture
ii.
220,
Goffoea cruda
CoJchicine
i.
Colchicum
i.
51, 63;
Cold Cures
Keene'.s " One Night"
Maokeffiaie's
25
Felke's
"One Day"
56
221
ii.
220
61,
54
ii.
a.
i.
...i.
269
Nervlettes
CoUemplastTum Ga-pedcum
237
57
83
117
96,
197
ii.
CoMie'a Ointmeiirt
i-
Colmaji (Method
Colocyn-tih
iiii.
extract of
CoJophony
ii.
181'
ii-
135;
Co'DistipaAion,
Remedy
Becjcham'e Couigh Pills
25
207
Blanks
Symiptom
(see
FoiTmis).
,,
Forms
Symptom Forms).
(see
Consumption Curee
20
i.
Bacilientod
Brompton
71
ii.
i.
36
27
...i.
26
i.
specific
Honey Cod-laver
Kefyr Ferment
Felke's
i.
Tea
i-
Pohl's Family
Tea
Star Toniic
(Sacco,
Stevens's
Tuben-cuJozyne
i.
Conpulenice
cines
(see
Beecham's
Brompton
,,
Pillis,
,,
iSpecific,
Coza Powder
i.
23
28
21
32
23
i.
152;
113,
,,
i.
132
ii-
107
35
182
198
ii.
195
ii.
12
Reaohel's
i.
27
i.
162
80
ii.
178
181
,,
ii.
181
,,
Kidney Cure
...ii.
182
Cubeb
Cummin
i.
170
Beecham's Pilis
Korpusdoon
15
ii.
75
i.
164
i.
176
ii.
170,
233
175
233
163
175
176
172
174
Syrup
Therapiom
WiUiams's Pink
i.
38
i.
ii.
Martin's iMinacletts
Nervlettes
i.
i.
iSedgel's
16
19
19
135
i.
xMolher Seigel's
Cure-alls
15
'
i.
28
ii.
,,
18
i.
104
...ii.
28
28
181
No.
Curaitive Syrup,
i.
oil
75
In-
'for).
Cottonseed
19
16
ii.
Medi-
19
181,
Corpulin
14
i.
ii.
135
73
Ointment ii.
Ointment
Specdal
,,
15
19
13
Po'wder
fluenza
130
i.
Obesity,
10, 11,
Creosote
21,
18,
15,
i.
36
and
ii.
in
"77
1.
Teetlhing
13,
9,
Opium
i.
Fever Powders
Copaiba
Copper in Tuibenculozyne
Copper oleate ...i. 120;
1'^
i.
ii.
Lungsava)
i.
Pritchard'e
36
36
i-
Liquifmta Mediica
12
i-
i.
i.
36
24
00... i.
Koriber's
Lieiber's
76
...i.
i.
Owbridge'e Lung Tonic
ii.
Peps
Powell's Balsam of Aniseed...!.
i.
Beichel's Drops
i.
Tussothym
i.
Lightning
Cure
Veno's
ii.
White's Komjpo
Cough Medicines, Morphins in
for).
Comfi-ultatiotn
ii.
..-ii-
Lauser's Drops
Mediicineis
etc.,
19
18
74
15
72
Keating's Lozenges
Kilmer'is Indian Cure
26
71
i.
....i.
Compound
Linseeid
Kay'is
17
i.
...ii.
Lung Healers
Glyk aline
Inidaigestion,
(see
Constiijpa,bion
i.
182
ii.
Colza oil
Confinements, Medicine for securiiing easy
iCongreive'is Balsamic Elixir
88,
i-
I'^S
i-
ColeiTirain's
d.
i.
Pills
...d.
Cuxdc Wafea-*
270
Cuticum Temedies
Cysfcaimin
Cystogen
(see
110
.i.
Duty
on
Secret
Remedies,
Formamine).
(see Formiamiine).
^''^'"P
^y"^^'
222, 228
ii.
^y^ol
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daisy
Express, The
Mail, The
ii.
News, The
ii.
Powdeirs
38;
Dale's Treatment for Epilepsy
i.
ii.
ii.
Tea
Damaroids
Dalloff's
Dami'aiia,
253
253
253
264
153
ii.
104
50
i.
,ii.
extract of
173;
ii.
50,
51, 61
Daturine
ii.
155
197
197
ii.
32
i.
134
j.
ii.
Pills
D.D.D
Deafness, Remedies for
Clifton's Treatment
Grompton's Specific
DeUar's Essence
i.
Nazaisepti-c
i.
Oiiraseptiic
OliTsorb
136
135
135
139
139
i.
i.
i.
Compound
138
237
135
105
Dethlblo
ii.
235
Diabetes, Medicines for
i.
76
A Lanoasiliiire nostrum
i.
80
Dill'is Mixture
i.
76, 77, 79
Pesqui's Uranium Wine ...i. 76, 77
Diabetic Foods
i.
81
i.
Dealin Powder
ii.
DelJar's Essence for Deafness ..4.
De Roos' Compound Renal Pills ii.
Mixture, Dill's
Diaethylen-diamin
Diagnosis Forms (see
Forms)
Diastase
Dill, oil of
Mixture
Dipsocure
Doan's Kidney PiUs
28
u.
Symptom
149,
...i.
150,
i.
Pile Ointment
Dodd's Corrective
Female Pills
Kidney Pills
Ifal
76, 77, 79
i.
i.
ii.
ii.
i.
154
69
151
198
198
69
Drug Cures
for Inebriety
Duboisine
ii.
Gout
and
140
i.
168
i.
168
186, 192
ii.
Ear disease
(see
Deafness, Reme-
dies for).
Eczema and
tions,
otjier
skin
Preparations for
affeci.
105
Antexema
ii.
Cadum
30
jqS
i_
ii
OasseH's Medicines
35
39
39
ii.
Dusting Powder
Tablets
,,
Ointment
Cuticura remedies
D-D.D
ii.
ii.
40
ii.
no
32
35
113
;;;::;.;ii;
Eczoline Treatment
Ekzemin Orean'
ii.
i.
Homooea
ii.
34
i.
113
Jumiper preparations
Paciderma preparations
Zip Ointment
Eczoline Treatment
Edwards' Harlene
Egg-substance
i.
lOo
i.
113
ii.
42
i.
113
ii.
40
i.
no
i.
112
ii.
i.
3S
223
59
113
i.
64
Zam-Buk
ii.
ii.
Ekzemin Cream
Electricum
Nerve
7,
Tonics).
slippery
ii.
Eosin
i.
Epilepsy, Medicines
for...i.
Antiepileptique (Uten)
BerendoTif 's Powder
Bromocarpine
Dales's Treatment
Fitzkure
Imperatine
124;
ii.
i.
Osborne's Mixture
Ozerine
Phelps Brown's Vervain
storative Assimilant
91
152
129
129
ii.
164
ii.
ii.
Renewer
39
i.
ii.
Lamma Powder
Niblett's Vital
ii.
Rheumatic
Pills
Elm,
95
11
ii.
94,
ii.
ii.
Dill's Diabetic
76, 77, 79
...i.
Eade's
182
i.
Hair
i.
ii.
i.
i.
I57
159
153
129
162
126
125
Rei.
127
271
PAGE
(cont.)
Powder
Roller's
Taylor's
ii.
Medi-
Anti-epileptic
cine
i.
Trencli's
Remedy
i.
Epocol
Essence for Deafness,
Euoaly.p'tms
ii.
Dellar's...i.
gum
ii.
oil of
... i.
112;
4,
166
Figuroids
lepsy and
127
i.
Fitzkure
ii.
159
126
Flesh prodTioer, A
ii.
Flour
ii. 23,
121, 192, 251
Fluorescein
70
i.
Forde's Bile Beans
ii.
96
Formaldehyde ...i. 129; ii. Ill, 223
225
ii.
ii.
Exalgin
ii.
239
253
238
256
246
142;
ii. 246
Augenwol
i.
146
Bostock's Ointment
i.
143
Ison's
ii.
246
"New
and
Marvellous
Remedy "
i.
144
...i.
Okterin
i.
Opthalmol
i.
Pomies' Aniti-cataract Mixture i.
Singleton's Ointment
i.
Wisbech Remedy
i.
Eye Ointment, Bostock's
i.
Singleton's
i.
146
146
146
142
144
143
142
Honey
Felke's
i.
ii.
Cod
Liver
Remedy
Trench's
Epi-
for
Fomiamine
Fucus
Pastor
i.
Reducing Treatment
i.
Female Mixtures and Pills (see
Amenorrhcea. JMedicines for).
Mix-
Children's
28, 236
ii.
vesiculosus
[see
BJaddeir-
wrack)
Galeopsidis
i.
Gall stones
i.
79
i.
155
Galls,
powdered
of
oil
i.
,,
Lung Healers
Fenugreek
Fenric chloride
i.
oxysuliphate
ii.
phoephate
sulphate
...
ii.
72
i.
68
Vro
ii.
49
145, 195, 203
ii.
Feirrous carbonate
121
i.
oxide
133
ii.
i.
174;
61,
ii.
67,
194
36, 159,
Gentian
62,
i.
20,
lii.
63,
161,
infusion of
,,
George's Herbal Eemedy
Germicides
Ginger i. 49, 88, 89, 109,
ii.
204
ii.
i.
60
i.
60
173,
179;
95, 97,
98,
99,
ii.
47
ii.
251
j.
3^
110,
175,
192,
193,
Gloria Tonic
53
52
Gluten Flour
i_
81 82
'Glycerin i. 17, 30, 32,
35, 73, 74 78
,,
i.
i.
'
Glykaline
Goitre, Haig's
236.
84
ii.
18U
73,
Gelsemium
Genoform Tablets
180;
i.
36
Cooling
Powders
199
ii.
.'.
ii.
36
97
253
ii.
ture
Frangula
85, 96
i.
Oil,
Fell
Fenning's
39
180
71
i.
Fits,
94
135
76
Eulatin
132
Fitch's
Eye
i-
i.
126
127
237
23, 25,
ii.
Cure for
Golden Fire, Box's
ii.
240
20
2f2
PACR
Vital
Gk>rdon'fl
Sexualine
storative
ii.
Gordon Wsdlace
Gordon Wallace's Treatment
Obesity
GossypiTiini, extract
Re-
otf
ii.
for
ii.
114
ii.
198
Bath Salts
Dengue's Balsam
ii.
Fill*, Blair's
i.
50
51
Portland
Varalettes, Bishop's
6k!
i.
62
103
,,
25
Grey's
American
(Nurse)
ii.
19
Bishop's Varalettes
i.
62
pound Tablets
Grindelia robusta
Blair's PiUs
i.
50
ii.
20
Guaiacum
ii.
20
Guarantee Bonds
23
Guarantee... i.
Guy's Tonic
Box's
Pills
Golden Fire
Bowden's Indian Balm
Gebno
Chameleon Oil
Collie's Ointment
,,
Dyxol
Eade's Pills
Electricum
Genoform Tablets
Gloria Treatment
Limosan
Magic Foot Drafts
Oquit
Orudon Essence
ii.
17
7
i.
57
ii.
11
ii.
i.
64
i.
60
i.
i.
i.
ii.
10
ii.
28
i.
i.
Rheimia Tabakolin
Rheumisol Bath Salts
Tissander's Cure
Uricedin
Uricura Drops
Liniment
,,
Vollner'e Cotton Wool
Weigand'e Spirit
-
61
Hair Dyes
222, 228
ii.
Edwards'
.ii.
Harlene
ii.
Koko
Lockyer's
Sulphur
Hair
,ii.
.
.ii.
.ii.
ii.
,ii.
Vilixir
,ii.
Hair Restorer,
Sims
,,
Restorer,
The
.ii.
.
64
Hamm's Rheumatic,
i.
64
ii.
ii.
ii.
28
i.
65
i.
58
Sciatica
225
226
228
229
222
227
R.
Geo.
Lockyer's
222
223
229
224
Re-
storer
ii.
ii.
45
116
65
27
29
i.
30
172
OvaJe,
,,
i.
ii.
Capsulated
..i.
115
Hsemorrhoids (iee Piles, Medicines for).
Haig's Cure for Goitre
240
,,
Shadeine
Tatoho
i.
149
i.
14
ii.
17
ii.
ii.
59
27
62
12
62
195
i.
i.
i.
28
25
190,
Haemoglobin
56
ii.
i.
Rheumacid
i.
56
Com-
ii.
ii.
Pond's Arthriticus
Portland Powder
Post's C.B.Q. Tablets
52
56
51
3
64
64
ii.
ii.
Powdens
;ii.
id.
Salt
Ozonia
Zox
i.
Pistoia
ii.
62
i.
222
225
226
249
ii.
152
149, 152
.ii.
.ii.
Gout, and
Cure
i.
ii.
ii.
51
205
6, 7
91
223
41
273
Harvey's Blood
Pills
Bell's Fairy
Cure
Wafers
i.
Daisy
Gold "
Hoffman's Harmless
Kaputine
Betailers Supplying
Stearns's Cure
Healine Treatment for Rupture
-white
Hemlock Pitch
Hemotora
Henbane
Herbal Remedy,
Hexameithylieaie
tetramine
153
ii.
23
etc..
Medicines for
ii.
87
ii.
101
...ii.
95
94
93
100
41
40
Celmo No. 2
i.
41
Ciofa
ii.
39
Cockle's Pills
ii.
i.
i.
i.
Constipation,
Indiigestion,
177
i.
160
17
68
153
69, 71
i.
i.
ii.
i.
i.
Specialist,
Imjperatine, Dale's
ii.
George's
140, 151
i.
Humanity
i.
as
HeJleiboTe,
38
Ichthyol
IMs of
38
41
i.
Good
Herbal
39
i.
Headache Powders
"
i.
i.
Cure, Stearns's
Curie
i.
44
37
39
37
i.
Headache
...ii.
251
ii.
249
Beans
Forde'is Bile
Hood's VegetaJble
ii.
101
ii.
Mer-iSyren
ii.
99
89
98
95
96
Pills
Scott's Pills
ii.
..ii.
Pills
ii.
Alcoholism, Medi-
(see
cines for)
237
Drug Cures
Inelbriety,
42
96
97
Ker-Nak
Inebriety
Hoffman's
ii.
ii.
HoUoway'is Pills
Woodcock's Wind
[see
Formamine).
ii.
Infants,
Infants'
Powders
for
168
I30
i.
for
i.
Atkinson
Preservative,
Hoffmann's Rheumatic
Powders
Holdroyd's Gravel Pills
ii.
104
HoUoway's
ii.
96
Forms)
169
Inspirators
ii.
81
Invigoroids
ii.
51
Home
ii.
Pills
Homatropine
"
and Barker's
168,
i.
Doctor "
Backache and
Kidney Pills
Doctor" Remedies
ii.
107
Information Forms
Iodine
Homocea
Honey
Hood's
Compound
Extract
107
Ipecacuanha
ii.
34
151
Iridin
of
Sarsaparilla
103,
ii.
tinctuire of
Hydrochloric
acid...i.
ii.
121,
i.
i.
46
,,
caxlboTiiate
chloride
ii.
196
205
,,
48
217
85, 240
217, 221
169,
176,
ii.
14,
73, 101
157
i.
Iron
101
i.
28;
18,
i.
ii.
136
i.
ii.
ii.
Symptom
tinciture of
,,
ii.
[see
...ii.
i.
"Home
150
147
ii.
121;
glycerophosphate)
ii.
203
175
ii.
67
145,
,,
Teduioeid...ai.
,,
sacchara'ted carbonate
,,
Milphate
67, 194
53,
145,
199,
206
i.
10.--,
i.
175;
ii.
52
36,
195, 196,
199, 200, 201, 202, 204,
205, 236
s
274
Irrigal Tablets,
Barkowski
Irristum
239
...11.
139^
ij.
^94
I.R.S.
lets
\i
Ison's
Preparations
Ey6
for
ii.
Kidney medicines
Munyon's Cure
Red Cross
201
246
Pills
j.
75
ii.
105
the
ii.
{cont.)
Warner's Cure
248
180;
ii.
49,
55,
100,
57,
101,
69,
117,
70,
192,
Jal^p resin
Jaundice
35
i.
72, 79
Jefferson Dodd's Corrective ....ii.
198
Female Pills ...ii. 198
Jeiinol
ii.
237
John Bull liaivesbigation
ii.
169
Johnson's (Mrs.) American Soothing Syrup
ii.
151
Juniipeir,
oil of
,,
19,
ii.
108
i.
113
ii.
2291
i.
87
15
108
i.
32
Kleinertz's Quidestin
ii.
209
Koko
Kompo, White's
ii.
224
ii.
75
i.
36
233
Korpusdoon
Krameria
i.
Compound
Kay's Linseed Compound
Linum Catharticum
Pills
Kearsley's
Female
Elarox
Welch's
i.
110
12
i.
12
ii.
Pills
ii.
198
i.
17
Cold
Cure
Kefyr
i.
i.
2b
119
id.
Kerosene
ii.
Co.,
The
J.
ii.
Dodd's
i.
Pills
Fitch's
Kidney
....i.
and
Cooler
40
Kupfinn, "Dr."
i.
139
Lamma Powder
i.
129
ii.
237
Karox Compound
Kilmer's
Swamp Root
...ii.
ii.
ii.
ii.
i.
Lammersdorf's Chilblain
Cream
Lancashire nostrum, A
i.
80
Lane's Catarrh Cure
i.
2
LanoJine i. 149, 154; ii. 20, 25, 40, 43
Lard
Laxatol
Laxen
Laxoin
(see
{see
(see
Lazarus Gout
Soap
and
35,
acetate
19
i.
104
11
i.
64
Rheumatic
i.
carbonate
99
oleate
12
244
oodd
:78
102
i.
64
i.
122
152;
226, 228
ii.
ii.
113,
i.
119,
i.
plaster
sulphate
subacetate
Lecithin
i.
181
ii.
226
127
69, 127, 238
ii.
i.
i.
i.
65;
ii.
25,
35
74
Leptamidlrin
107
110
108
Levasco
ii.
Female
Pills
i.
84
113
i.
71
104
Lilly's (Nurse)
181
144
i.
grass
oil of
177
143,
Lemon
Lime Juice
177
i.
ii.
Lead
67
69
25,
Pbsnolphthalein)
Phenolphthalein)
Phenolphthalein)
,,
105
20,
ii.
Cough Drops
Lavender
oil of
Liver
i.
...ii.
Ker-Nak
Kidd
40
ii.
32;
ii.
Lausieo-'s
Kaolin
Kaputine
72
ii.
68, 71;
pnepaffations
i.
i.
Swamp Root
Kino
48,
i.
70
74
...i.
,,
Jalap
i.
i.
...ii.
77,
10
36
206
81
275
PAGE
Limosan
ii-
ii.
Liqufxuta Medica
61,
55,
11,
i.
102,
91,
116, 119,
103,
ii.
204,
205,
Liquorice, extract of
Lithium carbonate
citrate
Liver
(Cooler,
62
182
101
180
77
86
54,
133,
199,
206
234
ii.
28
13, 28
ii.
Kiidaiey
iFi'tch'e
and
i.
71
ii.
Lloyd, J. N'alson
256, 257, 268
Lloyd Reducinig 'Treatment, Nel100
son
i.
ii.
Lobelia,
23
,,
tincture of
ii.
86
London
Medicaji'e Co.'e
MarshmaJlow
?Iar6ton Txeatment
Martin's Apiol and Steel
225
Fitzkure
ii.
159
(see
Mixaoletts,
ii.
i.
73, 180
i.
82, 85,
i.
4
14
i.
citrate
ii.
glyoeaiopibaspbatB
ii.
silicate
ii.
sulphate
ii.
Magnesium carbonate
49,
111,
ii.
133,
Magpies
Malachdfce gxeen
Malt extract
ii.
M.andelyl-tropetin6
150
28
57
19
Mmn's
i('Nurs6)
Remedy
ii.
ii.
148
ii.
Mother's Advice
Mother .Seigel'e Cuxative Syrup i.
Mothexsill's Seasick Remedy ...ii.
176
Tabletfi
Miuico-Food
Marmola
i.
i.
ii.
Vdmieittes
i.
13,
Cones,
15,
Van
18;
232
Vleok's
148,
155
i.
149
Cure
Catarrih Tablets
Blood Cure
Kidney Cure
Pile Ointment
,,
Murray's iCoomibined Txeatment
Mustaxd, essential oil of ...ii.
,,
93
i.
i.
44
75
i.
150
ii.
58
10, 12
i.
i.
166
National
i.
Ill
Limited
ii.
166, 243
Nazaseptic
i.
139
Nebular Tablets, Colman's ....ii.
84
Nelson Lloyd, J
ii.
256, 257, 258
Nelson Lloyd Reducing Txeat-
Homaii.
171
ii.
tropinie)
Maxigold
69
i.
234
150
(see
226
ii.
126
200
52
(fox
Monaid
Mninyon'is 'Catiaxxh
ii.
238
145
86
Foxmiamine).
i.
i.
239
89
Mnl'la, Buer's
Cuxe
Magic Foot Drafts
Magnesia, calcined
239
20, 33,
ii.
Martin's
Epilepsy, Ofiboxne's
Mixture
13
1'^^
ii-
i.
"
i-
ii.
40,
Meitriamine^
Mackenzie's
ii.
ii-
salicylate
28
71
i.
perchloride
i.
158
172;
156,
Mergandol
Mer-Syxen
Methyl alcohol
Methylene blue
Methyl orange
I'^l
207
182
1^1
238
20
i-
i.
Lungsav;!,
i.
i-
ii-
Menthol
Moxphane
i.
199
Treatment,
Mercuric oxide
Mercury, ammoniated
89
Lyoopodium
ii.
i|-
Meligiin
i.
Lymplioll, Rice's
1^0
^5
Oxien
Mongam's Radiio
Pills
li-
i-
Miiracletts
Mat/rozone
Medicine Sfcamip Act
Pile
Mcdii-cone
74,
ii.
i.
12
28, 97,
197,
193,
192,
45,
19,
18,
14,
89,
69,
ii.
28
191,
195
ii.
28
85,
93
College
ment
Nexve Stimulators
of
Health,
i.
100
i.
61
276
PAGE
" Elixirs
of
Antineurast/hin
Cooaphos
Damaroids
GrOTdon's
Vital
ii.
44
68
ii.
49
ii.
50
ii.
Sexualine
(covt.)
Corpulin
DaUoff's Tea
Fell Treatment
Jie-
st>orative
ii.
54
Guy's Tonic
ii.
Invigoroidfi
ii.
46
51
Figuroids
Gordon Wallace's Treatment
Marstoa Tireatment
ii.
Morgan's Radio- Vimettes ....ii.
Murray's
Combined
Treatmenb
ii.
55
Graziana Treatment
Hargreave's Wafers
52
J.
58
Marmola
Neurovril
ii.
63
Osogen
ii.
Bhosferine
ii.
Nervlettes, Colenian's
i.
66
45
70
62
48
175
Nefbtle
i.
36
Sc'liafert's
Nerve Salts
ii.
Sequarine
VitsB
ii.
Ore
ii.
Renewer
;...ii.
Ninetta
Nitrous Ether, 'Spirit oi
" No Oure No Pay "
i.
" Normal " Pills for Obesity
ii.
ii.
5, 29,
...ii.
63
144
95
122
Normyl
190, 195
203
...ii.
206
191, 195
Powell's Corrective puis ii. 193
ii.
193
Mixture
,,
187
ii.
Remedies
,,
,,
12
iiNutmeg, oil of
219
ii.
tincture of
,,
Nux Vomica,
,,
extract of
...ii.
...ii.
tincture of
i.
83
52,
145
ii.
141
ii.
i.
i.
112
87
92
86
i.
104
i.
104
i.
i.
97
94
114
103
i.
91
ii.
i.
87
119
Z. Tablets
85,, 93
i.
Phatolene Tablets
Russell's Anti-Corpulent
i.
100
ii.
122
ii.
117
Prei.
87
123
paration
Ohrsorb Compound
Oil
of
90
116
89
103
87
139
i.
10,
ii.
,,
almond
,,
almond, essential
,,
amber
anise
,,
birch tar
cade
camphor
caraway
35;
i.
14;
151
ii.
6,
ii.
12,
138
135,
i.
i.
138
12
i.
allspice
74,
ii.
23
105,
140
80
i.
i.
Ohraseptic
162
238
Ill
163
i.
Antipon
ii.
ii.
cassia
43
43
ii.
10, 23, 25, 82
149, 150, 151, 240
10
ii.
i. 35
42,
ii.
,,
cinniamon
,,
cloves
,,
coooanut
ii.
di.
76,
ii-
,,
cottonseed
dm
,,
eucalyptus
ii.
4,
i.
150,
149,
ii.
9ci
112;
ii.
25
12
151
23,
juniper
,,
lavender
,,
demon
linseed
mustard,
oTutmeg
,,
OU, olive
...i.
68, 71;
li.
19, 108
ii-
i.
65;
ii.
ii.
essential... ii.
181,
35
182
10,
12
25,
ii.
12
ii.
40
277
PAOB
Oil of onion
onigaaium
pemmyroyal
78
i.
160
196,
193,
192,
ii.
ii.
peppermint
81,
14,
i.
160;
94,
pimanto
10, 12
ii.
pine
101
98,
4
88, 135 ii. 25
ii. 11, 23
195, 204, 205
i.
Oil of rosemaxy
rue
,,
sassafnas
,,
ispeajrminit
theoibroma
ii.
ii.
PoweU's Popular
ii.
192
ii.
202
Pellets,
and
Pennyroyal
Towle's
i.
...i.
159, 234
ii.
ii.
10
152,
154,
160;
148,
ii.
,,
tTiTpen*ine
,,
wintergreen
...i.
136';
...i.
122,
113,
65,
10
7,
ii.
180;
73,
i'.
Ointment, Cassell's
Collie's
Crimson Cross
,,
ii.
i.
ii.
Tremol
ii.
Okterin
Oleic
i.
acid
115,
i.
Oleo-reein oi Capsicum
Opium,
i.
i.
tincture
of
ii.
Onohitic fluid
di.
Oirigajiium, oil of
Crudon
62,
i.
Esseai'ce
ii.
Salt
oi.
Osogen
ii.
i.
Ox-bile
i.
i.
i.
Oxygar
ii.
Ozonia
57
181
176
146
161
11, 19
ii.
Opthalmol
Oquit
40
ii,
146
59
86
67
160
27
28
126
66
13
88
151
125
238
25
Paraffin
...
i.
i.
4, 70, 100,
170, 174
ii.
176, 240
Paraphenylene-diamine
Paris Pills, Dumaa's
230
186, 192
ii.
ii,
Pills,
195
ii.
...di.
Peppermint
oU oif
94,
28
ii.
...i.
160;
14,
36,
69,
ii.
63,
74,
71,
81,
78,
96,
98, 101
,,
156
oil otf
Steel
44;
...i.
245
204
i.
Oil, (Tiape
25
i.
ii.
78,
63, 74,
ii.
96,
71,
69,
55,
names, obtaining
Patients'
water
127
i.
Peps
Pepsin
73
94
76;
ii.
25
i. 76, 77
i. 58,
156
ii.
i.
Peru, balisam of
Pesqui's Uranium
Wine
Peitroleaim jeJly
Phatolene Tablets
Phelps Brown's Blood
ii.
tive Assimiidant
Phenaoetin
i.
127
i.
39
38,
PhenocoU
...
117
46
ii.
Purifier... i.
Vervain Restora-
Phenol
175
di.
ii.
ii.
i.
151
1, 3, 4, 7, 120,
enlphate
,,
Phenolphthalein
ii.
i.
...
i.
97
39, 144
ii.
i.
Phosferine
ii.
...i.
id.
i.
46, 47,
176;
ii.
i.
Picrotoxin
ii.
33,
239
239
4
28
i.
Munyom's
i.
Medicines for
Buer's Mul'la
Doan's Ointment
Piles,
113
45
194
66
54
141
151
150
147
149
i.
151
Hemotora
i.
I53
Muco-food Cones, Van Vleck'e.i. 148
Munyon's Ointment
i.
150
Oxien Medi-cone Treatment...!. 151
RoUo's Remedy
i.
153
Van Vleck's Absorptive Treati.
i.
ment
i.
Pilocarpine
Pimmto,
oil of
ii.
ii.
10,
154
165
12
278
rAOB
Pine baJsams
.
73
ji.
62;
i.
Gout Powders
Pistoia
ii.
i.
28
62
237
Potassium
ibioaalbonate
ii.
'bitarfcrate
bromide
127,
i.
89,
128,
90,
129,
cdtrate
,,
hypophosphite
ohloride
i.
a.
13,
dodide
43,
45,
47,
,,
52,
71,
ii.
phosipba'te
ii.
,,
sulphate
ii.
,,
siulpho-graaiaooOiate
di.
"Good
as
Gold"
ii.
valerianate
86
54,
66,
Potato Flour
Powders, Headache
Daisy
167
,,
i.
73;
ii.
ii.
i.
i.
i.
Hoffmann's Harmless
i.
Powders for Infants, Soothing,
Teething, and Cooling
i.
Fenning's 'Children's Cooling i.
Pritchard's Teething and
Fever
i.
Stedman's Teething
i.
Steedman's Soothing
i.
Powell's Balsam of Aniseed ...i.
(Nurse) Corrective PiRs ii.
,,
Mixture
ii.
,,
Popular
Pellets
ii.
,,
72,
108
63
145
237
92
37
38
41
41
176
i.
Ra;dio-vimetts,
Morgan's
Radium Salve, A
Rape o,il
Red Cross PiUs
130
131
14
193
193
192
60,
1.
202
172
ii.
52
234
ii. 25
88, 135
ii.
106
ii.
i.
Gum
,,
,,
Reichel's
Cough Drops
ii.
i.
i.
i.
76
87
89
97
i.
103
i.
100
...i.
91
i.
19
ii.
Report Forms
Forms)
(see
Resin (colophony)
d.
plaster
supplied
58,
'by
i.
41
di.
28
ii.
Rheuma Tabakolin
i.
Rheumacid
Rheumatic,
Cure,
i.
Gout,
and
Hamm's
Rheumatic and
Weigand's
28
65
64
Sciatica
i-
Gout
119
powders
pursManus
,,
112
181, 182
i.
Headache
Retailers,
254
Syroiptom
ii.
Rhamnus frangula
132
61
46,
ii.
67
,,
130
133
67
203, 223
126,
...i.
ii.
STilphate
di.
68,
Quinine
263
144
209
ii.
'
,,
146 ;
nitrate
78
ii.
d.
(see Phenolphthalein)
Pyrogallic oicdd
ii. 228, 229
ii.
127
iodate
Purgen
id.
162
132
69
i.
ii.
55,
150
ii.
ph<>siphaAe
111,
ii.
Powders
Protein
glycerophosphate
125
187
ii.
,,
90,
89,
Fever
166;
164, 165
174,
175
i.
133
i.
Barker's Infants'
Pritchard's Teething and
150
125,
dhloT-aJte
and
ii.
13,
165,
149,
ii.
carbonate
51
Spirit,
i.
65
279
PAGE
Rheumatic
and
Pills,
Gout
BJaiir's
i.
Rheuiindtifim
and
matism,
Gloria
for
i.
Rheumsol Bath
Salts
ii.
Rhiizama root
Rhubarb
i.
ii.
,,
Rioe'fi
,,
52
27
29
oif
ii.
ii.
Lubricant
ii.
Tampons
ii.
Treatment
Lyimphol
Treatment for Rupture
ii.
i.
i.
Mothersill's
ii.
232
Remedy
Zotos
175
82
82
82
80
158
158
i.
231
74
ii.
228
ii.
ii.
Rhubarb, iniusion
Rhycol Antiseptic
..ii.
ii.
Treatment
Syrup,
Curative
Seigel's
Mother
i.
dies
ii.
Form
Self-examination
tom Form)
Senna ...i. 19,
(see
104;
74,
28,
ii.
149,,
Rue,
Singleton's
oil
of
195, 204,
ii.
i.
Healine Treatment
i.
Rice's Treatment
i.
205
158
160
158
87
,,
medy
ii.
Eye Ointment
i.
Skin Diseases (see Eczema and
otiher
skin
affecbionis.
i.
196
149
62
123
229
205
142
Pre-
parations for)
Skin Paste, Pheun
Soap
259
Symp-
syrup of
ii.
Sequarine
ii.
Seymour's (Mrs.) Treatment for
Obesity
ii.
Shadeine
ii.
Shaffer-Benmyon's
Re(Mns.)
176
Seigel's iSyrup
235
Rino Ointment
i.
113
Rock Rose
i.
46
Roller's Powder if ot_ epilepsy ...ii.
166
Rollo's Remedy for Piles
153
i.
Rosemary, oil of
ii.
11, 23
Rose water
ii.
41, 226, 228
ii.
70
61
168
98
231
i.
i.
Scott's Pills
]\l6dicines for)
Rheumatism,
ii.
Hamm's Rheuma-
"Sciatica Cure,
RheuNewalgia,
Gout,
(see
Nerve Salts
Scihafert's
50
ii.
115
39
ii.
Saocharin
Sacco
11, 172
i.
Saffron
Salicylic
acid
...i.
92,
methylene-glycol
.,
ester... i.
61
ii.
28
43
SalocoU
i.
Sanol Oones
Sargol
ii.
ii.
compound
i.
...i.
44;
ii.
Savin
Scammony
i.
i.
44
46
43
159, 234
ii.
197
80, 180
i.
,,
i.
ms, tic
,,
64
64
145
ii.
175
177, 239
177, 237
i.
142,
i.
ohloriiUated
Sodium acetate
ii.
benzoate ...i. 180; ii.
70, 80,
200
125
solution
of
Antigouit
Soda alum
Sal volatile
Sarsaparilla,
28
151
113;
93,
ii.
i.
ii.
ii.
86,
150, 240
bromide
chloride
citrate
i.
carbonate
ii.
129
228
146;
i.
ii.
glyceax>plhospihate
ii.
...ii,.
13^
67,
28
70
280
Sodium] hypophosphite
55,
ii.
perborate
ii.
pliloephate
d.
74
ii.
salicylate
i.
52;
ii.
sulphate
i.
SooHiing,
182,
181,
28,
i.
i.
Pritehaird'fl
Powders
i.
Stedmian's
Powidei-s
i.
Powdere
Soothing SjTu.ps
Atkinson amd
i.
ii.
eenrvative
Woodward's
Spearmint,
ii-
ii.
203
130
133
132
130
131
Forms...!.
167, 178;
ii.
132, 135,
138,
150
151
ii.
148
...li.
149
ii.
10
'Gripe
Water
i.
Deafnieiss,
160
Simple
,,
Tabakolin,
Tablenes
Talc
Tallow
Tannin
i.
i.
65
93
39
i.
i.
Taylor's
ii-
202
i-
182
on secret remedies
i.
The
ii-
182
253
Starch
23
iStar Tonic
i.
39
Stearns's Headache Cure
Stedman's Teething Powdere ...i. 130
Steedman's Soothing Powders...!. 131
Stevens's Consumiption Cure i. 21, 28
i46
Stillingia
Stockholm Tar
ii-
8,
62,
ii.
9
i.
27, 115
Storax
" Stramonine "
168
i.
253
ii.
Strand Magazine, The
Strychnine ii. 61, 67, 139, 141, 144, 145
ii238
Sulfopyrin
ii40
SuJplholine Lotion
Sulphur i. 88, 109, 113, 140, 150;
;
16
ii.
46,
ii.
78,
288
239
244
96,
97,
ii.
13
222
i.
126
i.
104
Lieber's
36
36
i.
i.
Fever
Powders,
Pritchard's
132
130
Teetolia Treatment
i.
166
Temperancia Treatment
i'.
130
Terebene ...i. 118, 119; ii. 6, 25, 82
Testimonials
ii.
15, 16, 159, 160
Theobroma, oil of i. i48, 152, 154,
156; ii. 58, 61, 201, 202, 203
28
Theobromine sodio-salicylate ...ii.
i.
Teething Powders,
Stedman's
i.
Therapion
172
i.
Thermal Bath
tury"
Cabinet,
"Cen99
237
19
i.
Thiocol
.ii.
Thyme
i.
Thyroid
i.
ii.
113,
125
253
29
121,
Times, The
ii.
Tissander's Cure
Tobacco Habit, Medicines for
ii.
Tolu
225
ii.
Anti-Epileptic
Medicine
228
ii.
119;
ii.
Pohl's
Teething and
Stamp Act
204
17
45, 66, 71, 73
ii.
139
136,
i.
Tartar emetic
Tartaric acid
,,
25
ii.
Tea, Dalloff's
Pel-
ii.
78, 194
ii.
Tansy
Tar
Taraxacum
ii.
loids
109;
...i.
Sutton Medical Co
65
ii.
SpiTibol
Sulphuric acid
176
ii.
238
236
Sulphuir
i.
ii.
Eiheuma
135
ii.
173, 242,
247, 251
i.
ii.
158,
Syrup, Seigel'a
li.
Star,
157,
Tatcho
Cromp-
ton's
,,
147
Anieirioan...iii.
oil of
for
Specific
Pre-
Barker's
Johnson's (M's.)
Winslow's
Symptom
237
63
13
and ooolimg
teetlhiiixg,
iSteedman'is
127
i.
Owbridge'a Lung
141
128,
Tonic, Gloria
ii.
i.
i.
Star
i.
,,
Veno's Seaweed
i.
ii.
9
52
13
23
74
81
PAGE
PAGE
Towle's
and
Pennyroyal
ii.
Townsend's
Steel
Pills
American
195
Saxsai.
43
Tragacanth
i.
Treatment Forms {see Symptom
Forms)
TremoJ 'Blood Mixture
ii.
10b
parilla
Lotion
Oiutment
Treatment
Treoi'ch'a Reimedy
and OFite
,,
Trilene
ii.
174
175
176
ii.
167
ii.
Epilepsy
for
i.
TaJbleits
List,
28;
i.
167.
TuboTCulozyne
ii.
258,
246,
21,
i.
Tumenol
i.
Turanefric
70;
i.
oil
of
i.
ii.
ii.
260
32
140
197
Vilja
i.
19
32
241
76, 78, 79
i.
win, Pesqui's
76, 77
i.
Uiiea
tTricedin
Uricura Drops
Liniment
,,
UrisoJ [spp Foxmamine).
Lrotropim (se; FoTiar, amine).
Cream
Ore
Vital
Renew er,
Vollner's Cotton
ii.
28
i.
64
ii.
ii.
Absorptive
Catarrh
,,
Muco-'fooid
,,
Pile Pills
Wool
238
127
127
ii.
65
196
ii.
95
White hellebore
ii.
Spirit
,,
,,
Plasm^a
i.
preoiipitate
...i.
113,
Kompo
143,
ii.
Williams'
...i.
mann's
i.
i.
155
155
-..i.
70
i.
62
i.
Pink
PUls
People
Wind
148
258
210
114
72
23
164
i.
38
91
109
i.
Cones
Niblett's
Pile
Balm
,,
Varalettes,
i-
172
i.
Treatment
1"^
127
86
227
239
ii.
116
ii.
76, 77
48
ii.
153
ii.
28
ii.
i.
Wafers, Curie
..i.
Reducing
Hargreave's
i.
Paciiderma Blood
,,
ii.
Wallace, A. Gordon
ii.
Wallace's Specifics
Treatment for Obesity ii.
i.
Warner's Saife Cure
WeidhaAs Hygienic Institute ...i.
White's
Vaieiianates
Vleck's
16
74
ii.
,,
Van
l"^
17
nitrate
6,
ii.
86,
Vilixir
194
Venice
Tussoithym
Uranium
90
i.
Truth Cautionary
Turpentine,
127
ii.
190,
ham's
iiVenice turpentine
Veno's Lightning Cough Cure ...i.
i.
Seaweed Tonic
,,
iiVeratrum album
Verbena officinalis ...i. 124, 125,
ii.
Verophen Mouth Water
i.
124, 125,
Vervain
Vervain Kestorative Assimilaiiit,
i.
0. Phelips Brown's
ii.
Victoria Aaithma Drops
17
144
75
19
Pale
for
i.
Woodcock's
170, 174
ii.
98
77
ii.
148
PiLLs,
Winterigaieen, odl of
ii.
i..
73, 180;
Wood
tar
ii.
183
144
98
go
282
rAGIC
Woods'
Tiiea.knie(nrb
ii.
))
Zam-buk
for Alcoholieon
133
Tobacco
>,
Habit
ii.
141
ii.
149
1.
Zeihrkur
Zinc
dblodde
oxide ...i. 109, 129,
ii.
Xaxa
and Lotion
Yolk of gg
Yonkerman's Tuberculozyne
i.
ii.
....i.
i.
156
122
148,
151;
phosphide
52,
127
6ulphat.e
i.
120
,,
vale!ria/nat<;
i.
172
i.
112
,,
Pills
103
i.
,,
X.L. Reducing
i.
89
69
Zip Ointment
Zoteide
Zotos
32
Zox
ii.
ii.
87
231
i.
68
i.
obtained
or from
in"?-
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