The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-08-31
HIHGLY IMPORTANT
TO THE PUBLIC

Remarkable Conversation of another
| Doctor to the improved Treatment Of
Fever and Ague, and Bilious Fevers..
Great afiicacy of DR.. Brags,s Sugar
coated Pills further confirmed by
Niedicat men--RemOval Of the iniunc.
ton ofsecrecy called for--Dr. Brags,s
! ahsWer--No protection of a ssPatent
Risht'' desired by him!
| ROCKY FoaD, ARK, July 3oth, 1s47.
Dean SIR.--I am physician and hana
/ 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 ve
termed 'Quack Medioines,' Patent Nos
trums, &C., and have uniformly dscour.
aged their use among my patients ana
friends But one of your agencies found
Is way into this place last year, Just az
Fever and Ague and Congestiye Fever
| began to spread extensively amopr the
,eople. There being no other Doctor in
( the place, could not attend to half the
slck--and the result was that hundreds
were compelled to make trial of your Pills
both the Anti,billious and Tonic.
Their speedy cure of all cases was so
astonishing, and so much extoled by ey.
cry one, that wasinduced at last TO make
trial of them in my practce--and the re-
sult has been TO convince me, much dgains I
my fr9uaices, that they possess a SPE-
| ClFlC CONTROL over Fever and Aeue
and other Bilious diseases, not known to
any other medicine belonging to the mt !.
terra medica.
SO convinced am I Of their great wife
tues, that think you ought; ia Justice te
suffering humanity, TO make public the
recipe from which they are made--or at
least, to furnish your pill mass to physic.
ians IN small jars, to he used in their
practice. Your Anti bilious Pills are Ger
tain to take the place of Calomel, and
| Tonic Pills the place Of Quinine, very
soon, in the Agnes and Fevers of the South
and West. Very respectfully,
r. MCDOWELL, M. D.
DR. BRAaa, ST. Louis
| OF In publicly replying TO the abovs,
Dr. Bragg takes the occasion to say to
his numerous spondeDts 10 all the
Southern aud Western States, who write
similar letters, that his Indian Queen
| Vegetable Sugar Coated Pills claim none
Of that protection supposed to arise from
the hunbuggery ofa'P ATENT RIGHT.
His Ills are not a patened medicine; he
never asked for a paient to protect their
manufacture or sale. lfany one were to
make and sell counterfeit Pill with his
name, the public would not be slow to 6nd
out the imposition. The want of virtue
IN such pill would at once expose it al
the offspring of BASE FRAUD. Dr..
Bragg has no idea that it will fall 10 the
| lot OF man, in tue next FIVE and twenty
/ 4. q
greater virtues than hiss. II il shoald, he
will be the first 10 rejoice at the iacreas.
ed blessings thus bestowed npon mankind,
| lie advocates the glorious advantages and
results of an unirammelled competition
IN all the concerns Of lfe--in the science
and practice and compounding of msdi.
| cine, as well as IN commerce and the artc
and manufactures. 1t was on this ac.
count that he did not ask MONOPOLY,
through the boasting protection Of sPat-
ent Right 1t is on this account, too,
that he is not constantly camoring at
the top OF This voice. as does one alright
ed sngarscoaling gentleman who ean5
upon patented protection--) 'CAUTION;'
'BEWARE;' LOOK OUT FOR C0UN,
TERFElTs,' &c Rel!
The Cure of $4,000 Persons AnnuaIly!i
Of Fever and Ague, ID all the protection
Dr. Bragg desires, from the FRAUDS of
Counterfeiters. His Pills combine i
| concentration ofmedicinaI 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 n MILLION BOXES ANNUAL,
~
In regard to making public the recipe
from winch they are made, Dr. Bragg
conscienciously believes that, instead Of
subservlng the cause of humanity, it
would act as a perfect outpouring of Pam
dora's Box. This has been fully exem.
pl6ed in the publication of the recipe of
'SAPPlNGrON'S PILLS'-thete being
now scarcely a box of the genuine Pills
10 be found! They are put up now by
Tom, Dick or Harry out of the cheap
am POISONOUS DRUGS ofthe shops,
snoh as ARsENiCand WHITE VITROL
Ito take the place of Qulnine, formerly
used in them--causing more destruction
of human life, than all the Yellow Fever
or Ship Fever Of the same period.! Who
then, can wonder al the loss OF public
confidence which has befallen this QUE
popular PAIL
For sale by the following agents in Wy.
andot.
ID. 61 w. Ayres, Upper Sandus,ty.
VIM. II. Harris, Wyandot House.
Shoib S5 Martin, Little Sandusky.
John Bevington, Wyandot.
Wm. d. Whitney Bowsbervile.
Drew Straw, Brownsville
Day Pngh, Versailles.
John McMutrie, Grow fordsviile:
SPENCER ST. Jonn, Tymochtee.
J. Il. James. Cary.
August, 1S, lS48.--45-1y.
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