The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

CAUTION TO INVALID&

Recent investigations have exposed to public observation the
deceptions practised by a certain class of apparently respectable,
but not over scrupulous, chemists and druggists upon the
Medical Profession and their confiding customers. Amongst
these " tricks of trade" are the culpable efforts to injure the
repute and check the demand of a popular, safe, and pure
remedy, extensively recommended and highly estimated by the
Faculty in this and other countries—Dr. deJongh's Light Brown
Cod Liver Oil—by disparaging observations and the intrusive
recommendation or secret substitution of a Pale, Yellow, or
Coarse Brown Oil, entirely inactive or seriously pernicious in
its effects. The motives for this exceptionable conduct are too
obvious to need explanation ; but it is right to caution purchasers
against a possible imposition, as well as to prevent disappoint-
ment and maintain the reputation of an unquestionably valuable
addition to the Materia Medics.

Dr. de Jongh's Light Brown Cnd Liver Oil is sold ONLY in
IMPERIAL ttaltpints, 2s. 6d.; Pints, 4s. 9d.; Quarts,
capsuled, and labelled with his stamp and signature, WITHOUT
WHICH NONE CAN POSSIBLY BE GENUINE, by many respectable
Lo Chemists throughout the Provinces, and Ix rtnoN by his Sole
British Agents,
ANSAR,

By whom 1
Metropolis,

HARFORD, & CO., 77, STRAND, W.C.,
the 011 is daily forwarded to all puts of the'
• •

.DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6id. and 7d. per lb ;
genuine Sperm, 2s. ; Transparent Wax, 2e. 2d.; best
Wax, 29.64.; fine British Wax or Sperm, Is. bid. ; German Wax,
Is. Sid.; Botanic Wax, Is. Old. ; Patent Wax or Sperm, ls. Old.
per lb.: Composite, did., 944., and 1044.; Moulds 9id.; Pal
mem Metallic, one or two wicks, 94. ; Magnums, 9 id.: Yellow
Soap, bee., 429., 465., and bOs. per 112Ibs. ; old Brown Windsor
19.9 d. per packet; common Brown Windsor. Is. ; Honey, 18.444
White Windsor. 111.44.; Rose, 2a.; Almond, 2s. 6d.; eolza Oil
4s. 6d. per gallon: French, 49. ; genuine Sperm, Bs. 64.
for Cash, At M. P. DAVIES and SON'S,
63, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, Charing-cross, London. 14 C.

THE FOLLOWING is an EXTRACT
from the Second Edition (page 188) of the Translation of the
Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians in London, by
Dr.G. F. Coiner, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the pharmacopoeia)
that we have no purgative mass but what contains aloes; yet we
know that luetuorrhohlal persons cannot bear aloes, except it be
in the form of COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consist of
aloes, scammony, and colncynth, which I think are formed into
a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which is obviated, I
suspect, by an alkaline process, and by • fourth ingredient
(unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic nature. I think no better
and no worse of it for its being a patent medicine. I look at it
as an article of commerce and domestic convenience, and do not
iresitate to say it lithe best made pill in the kingdom ; a mus-
cular purge, a mucous purge, and a hydrogogue purge com-
bined, and their effects properly controlled by • dii igent and
corrigent. That it does not commonly produce haemorrhoids
like most aluetic pills, I attribute to its being thoroughly so.
brble, so that no otiadissolved particles adhere to the mucous
inembr.we."