Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-12-17
ra A patron sends a remonstrance to

rA-A patron sends remonstrance to
Mr.. Greeley, Of the Tribune, against the
publication of "Quack Advertisements"
to which Mr. G. very pertinently replies,
that the term quaekis altogether indefinite,
particularly as regards medicines. There
are many so-called Irregular" medicines
and Irregular" doctors, which too often
prove themselves useless or worse than
useless; while medicines and practitioners,
denounced as "quacks" in one quarter,are
Incorporated with Irregular" practice In
another. Many of our most common med
icines, formerly sneered atas ''quack," are
prescribed regularly by the successors OF
those by whom they were formerly pro-
.cribed. We doubt whether many if any
of the new medicines offered to the public,
are injurious, Except in one Respectfully
cause ovcr-dosin9, but that objection lies
against all prescriptions, whether mineral
or vegetable j while many are undoubt-
edly composed of the ingredients confded
in by all practitioners for the purposes re-
commended. "The less, the better" is
our motto as regards medicines and every
one must make his or her own selection
from the Regular, Homeopathic, Eclectic,
Thomsonian, or Hydropathic systems of
remedies and cures. So long as they are
decent, and not known or probable imposi-
tions, we as chcerfully advertise rival
schools in medicines, as rivals in mcrchan-
die or mechanics Impostors abound in
all trades and professions but travelling
instead of located physicians should always
be avoided as doubtful characters. Every
one should deal in medicines as in other
articles-use those the best known and
having the most established regulations
for honesty and success.
Our charge is $50 per col. per year for
advertising, with a deduction of one-third
or one-half on stereotype plates, which are
no cost to US to put in type, and do not
wear out our materials by using them.
We wish it distinctly understood,
however, that the disgusting advertisements
which emanate from the brothels and sinks
of iniquity in the cities, can find no place
in the Chronicle. We have On hand
orders for those obscene devices, to the
amount Of 500 or 5000, but if We can not
get living without abusing respectable
families by thrusting before them such
nauscous, false, pernicious matter, We will
renounce the business. Yet there are
found, in almost every town, beings de-
PRAYED enough, for little money, to do
the filthy work of these pimps of licenti-
business, who, by dcluding unthinking
youth into the hope that they may violate
the unchangable laws Of chastity with i'm
punity, seduce them into the practice of
that vice which taints the very life-blood,
and corrupts and ruins body and soul Of
thousands and thousands, who might be
good and happy citizens, but who people
early and dishonored graves. We have
seen papers with these cards in their first
No., and renewed after every visit made
by their proprietor to the cities , Very
many of the deaths, especially among the
young and middle-aged, which are ascribed
to other diseases, are in reality the result
of licentious practices: and there are no
more bare faced robbers than the smooth
tongued but really unqualified banditti
who infest the dens where secret diseases
are tampcred with-never cured 1t is
not alone loss of money to encourage
such villains-it involves loss of honor,
peace, health and happiness, widespread,
and not the less fatal because often con-
cealed or attributed to other causes.
We again request our City Agents not
to insult US by offering such adyts. send
them to the cheap printers who patronizc
such charlatans.