Star.
London, England, 1818-04-02 00:00:00

DR. JAMES'S FEVER POWDER AND ANALEPTIC

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PILLS.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
MJI-
R. NEWBERY, my late Agent for the sale of
these invaluable Medicines, having failed in an attempt
he made in the Court of Chancery, founded upon an untenable
claim of Joint-Proprietorship, to compel me to continue supply-
ing him, (notwithstanding my disinclination, originating in bis
conduct towards my family), and consequently being no longer
supplied with them from me, is now issuing forth to the .world,
compositions of his own manufacture, under the same titles. I
feel, therefore, that I owe it to the Public, to caution them
against the consequences of taking such compositions, under the
erroneous impression of their being Dr. James's ; and-to apprise
them, that as a certain mark by which to distinguish the genuine
each jacket and Box will in future bear a label
signed with my name, in nay tarn hand-writing.
I beg further to state, that the Medicines of Dr. James with
which the Public have been supplied, through Mr. Newbery
and his father, for seventy years, were never prepared, or could
be prepared, by any person but the Inventor, my grandfather,
and his Sons, my father and my uncle Mr. G. James, (by the
latter in trust for me, until I arrived at the age appointed for
the recipe being handed over to me). I feel assured, therefore,
that no thinking person will venture on taking Mr. Newbery's
novel and untried compositions, which, in bis advertisement,
Mr. Newbery confesses he has only prepared for the last few
months : any one who may unfortunately have tried them, will
be quickly sensible of the difference of their effect, from that of
the genuine medicines, now prepared by me, as they were by
the late Dr. James, my grandfather, himself. And this will be
the best refutation of Mr. Newbery's insinuations and laborious
endeavours to persuade the Public of their identity.
Since the facts I have already published, thereby clearly de-
monstrating that my grandfather never communicated to any
person out of his family the secret of preparing the celebrated
Medicines in question, I deem it unnecessary for me to notice
any thing that Mr. Newbery has stated, but his assertion in a late
Advertisement, " that the Analeptic Pills have for some years
been prepared in a negligent and imperfect manner."
This is an assertion not founded on fact, the Pills having been
prepared invariiibly in the same manlier by the above-mentioned
persons successively. No complaints were ever made by the
purchasers in Bruton-street ; nor did Mr. Newbery himself ever
make any complaint, ur.tA the time of the Chancery suit. Mr.
Newbery's object in commencing this snit was to compel me to
toddy him perpetually with those very Pills which he now erukewours
to deprociate.—The truth is, that Mr. Newbery, finding himself
incapable of making his Pills, (even in appearance] similar to the
genuine Analeptic Pills, rather than adihit his incompetence to
imitate them, affects to say, the genuine are incorrectly manu-
factured. The Public will readily perceive the reason of the
anxiety manifested by Mr. Newbery thus to account, in some
way or other, however absurd, for his Pills being of a different
colour from the genuine : indeed they are so unlike, as well in
their properties as colour, that with peculiar propriety may pur-
chasers (as his Advertisements request) ask for " Mr. Newbery's
Pills," for they are certainly not Dr. James's.
Why does not Mr. Newbery disuse the name of Dr. James al-
together, and introduce his Pills and Powders to the world as his
own oust-ums (which they are) under his own name?
Dr. James's genuine medicines continue to be sold at the house
in which my grandfather, Dr. James, and the family have re.
sided and prepared them for seventy years, No. 33, Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square, and by my now sole Agents, Messrs. BUTLER
and SONS, Chemists and Druggists, No. 4, Cheapside, corner
of St. Paul's Church-yard, London, and No. 34, Sackviile4trelts
Dublin ; who are now supplied with them from me, as Messrs.
Ncwbery formerly used to be. R. G. 0. JAMAS
September, 1817.