The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-08-10
HIIIGLY IMPORTANT
TO THE PUBLIC;

! boStVi " thc iiHpTOFeu treatment OIL
Fever and Asue, and Bilious Fevers--
Great atiicacy of DIR. Brags's sugar
Coated Pills further confirmed by
Medical men-- Removal of the injunc.
ton Of secrecy called for--Dr. Brags,s
-answer--No protection of q ssPatent
Rleht' desired by him!
ROCKY FoRD, ARK, July Both, 1847.
DEAR SiR.-l am physician and hane
always bitterly opposed every medicial
offered to the public under the protection
OF secrecy or patent Indeed, | have are
ways had mortal hatred Of what We
termed 'Qnack Medicines, Patent Nos
trums, &C., and have uniformly discour.
aged their use among my patients and
friends. But one Of yonr agencies found
Is way into this place last year, just. as
Fever and Ague and Congestiye Fever
began to spread extensively among the
reople. There being no other Doctor in
the place, | could not attend TO half the
sck--and the result was THAI hundreds
we're compelled to make trial Of your Pills
both the Anti,bilious and Tonic.
Their speedy cure of all cases was so
astonishing, and so much extoled by ev.
cry one, that | wasinduced a last to make
trial of them in my practice-and the re-,
suit has been to convince me, much dgainss !
my prejadices, that they possess a SPE-
ClFlC CONTROL over Fever and Ague
and other Bilious diseases, not known tH
any other medicine belonging to the msc
terra medica.
SO convinced am Of their great vic
tues, that think you ought; in Justice te
suffering humanity, TO make public the
recipe from which they are made-or at
least, to furnish your pill mass to physic.
lana in small jars, to be used in their
practice. Your Anii.biiious Pills are Ger
tain to AXE the place of Calomel, and
Tonic Pills the place of uuinine, very
sonn,in the Agues and Fesers of the South
and West. Very respectfully,
II. MCDOWELL, M. d.
DR. BRAeG, St. Louis.
0- Ia publicly replying TO the above
Dr. Bragg takes the occasion to SAY to
his numerous CORE spondents 10 all the
Southern and Western States, who writs
similar letters, that his Indian Quae9
Vegetable Sugar Coated Pills claim none
OF that protection supposed tofarise from
The humbuggery of a PATENT RIGHT,
His ills are not patened medicine; ha
never asked for patent TO protect their
manufacture or sale. II any one were to
make and sell counterfeit Pill with his
name, the public would not be slow to ind
out the imposition. The want of virtue
IN such pill would al once expose il as
the offspring of BASE FRAUD. DIR,
Bragg has no dea that ii will fall TO the
lot of man, in the next FIVE and twenty
years, to discover a med lcine OF edual or
greater virtues than his. Ii it should, he
will be the frst to rejoice at the increas>
ed blessings thus bestow ed upon mankind,
lie advocates the glorious advantages and
results of an untrammelled competition
In all the concerns of life--in the science
and practice and compounding of medi:
cine, as well as In commerce and the arts
and manufactures. 1t was on this &C.
count that he did not ask MONOPOLY;
through the boasting protection of pat
ent Right 1t is on this account, too.
that he is not constantly clarnoring at
the top of this voice as oes one alright,
ed sugar-coating gentleman who leans
upon patented protection--) 'CAUTION;'
'BEWARE;' LOOK OUT FOR COUN.
TERFEITS;' &c Sci! /.
The Cure of $4,000 Persons AnnualIyIs
OF Fever and Ague, is all the protection
Dr.. Bragg desires, from the FRAUDS OF
Counterfeitcrs. His Pills combine,
concentration of medicinal extracts here.
tofore unknown to the world. Away,
then, with the humbuggery Of patent
rights'--when the consumption OF these
Pills has already reached
HALF A MILLION BOXES ANNUAL,
LY!!
In regard to making public the recipa
from winch they are made, DIR. Bragg
conscienc ciously believes that, instead OF
subse rpng the cause OF humanity. it
would act as a perfect ontpouring of Pan.
dora's Box. This has been fully exem-
ph6ed in the publication OF the rebipe OF
,SAPPINGrON'S PILLS'--there being
now scarcely box of the genuine Pills
% be found! They are put up now by
Tom, Dick or Harry out of the cheap
and POISONOUS DRUGS of the shops
such as A ARSENlCand WHITE VtFROL
to take the place of Qulnine, formerly
used in them--causing more destruetloh>
of human life, than all the yellow Fever
or Ship Fever Of the same period! Who
then, can wonder at the loss Of public
confidence which has befaien this one
popular Pal.
For sale BY the following agents in WyS
andot.
D. & w. Ayres, Upper Sandusky.
VIM. III. Harris, Wyandot House.
Sholb & Martin, Little Sandusky;
John Bevngton, Wyandot.
Mm. ID. Whitney Bowsherville.
Drew Straw, Brow wnsviila.
Day Pugh, Mersaflies
John McMutrie, 1Cfow tordsvillei
Spencer ST. Jopn, Tymochtee.
j. T.. James. Cary.
August, lS, lS48.-45-ly.
Petition for DirOrce.