Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-25
FOREST HOME, 1858.
The Retired Physician-Hfs Aliases,
SwindIes and Profits.

The New York Leader is out in an expose of
the Retired Physician. whose sands of Life
have nearly run out" The advertisements of
this person have been circulated widely over
the country. Many of the journals with whom
he dealt, being totally ignorant that the differ
ent names assumed by him all belonged to the
same person. The Leader says of him:
"About two years and half ago, a COM
raratively young journeyman printer. born in
Vermont but reared and instructed princi-
pally in Connecticut, having failed in various
newspaper enterprises. (among them the En-
pre Gin, the Golden Dollar, and the Cheerful
Visitor, which was anything but a cheerful
visitor to many of the subscribers, who paid
their money, but did not get their paper,) con-
ceived the brilliant idea of going into new
style of business. He selected the patent
medicine trade, as that offering the greatest
inducements, and employed literary man,
connected with the Sunday press, to write him
scheme. The scheme was written. 1t was
that of the "Retired Physician, whose sands
of life have nearly run out" The basis of
this medical scheme was Cannabis Indica or,
in other words East Indian Hemp, a powerful
drug, which can only be procured in small
quantities, and then merely at intervals, and
at great expense. A skillful story, which our
readers have often perused was contrived to
old or young DR.. III. James, who was in the
East, or even in the West Indies; there is no
Cannabis Indica in the medicine sold it being
merely a compound of cough simples, Iii
quorice, slippery elm decOctions, and honey
prominently costing, the bottle included, six
teen cents.
The real Dr. H. James is the printer afore-
said-Oliver p. Brown. He hires an old man
named Kuyper to represent DR.. III. James,
and pays him mere stipend for the persona
ton. Here is the proof but other is ready if
wanting:
MAYORS OFFICE JERSEY CRY,
March Is, 1858.
A. HARMON, Eso.-Dedr Sir: | am in receipt
of your favor, and in reply would say that
there is no such person as Old DR.. James re-
siding in our city, but an old man is employed
to personate him. The whole matter is well
understood here as an imposition.
Respectfully yours,
SAM'L WEsTcOTT, Mayor.
But is Mr.. Brown content with this arrange
ment? Oh no! He has gone into partner
ship with fellow who devotes his attention
ostensibly to private Diseases" aud is called
III. Monnett. The firm is Monnett-& Co.. Gin
other words Monnett * Brown and the head
quarters is at the northwest corner of BroOme
and Mercer streets, New York city, opposite
the Mercer House. They have published a
paper and book, respectively bearing the titles
Ger. The paper is sent to all parts of the
South and West, and of course advertises the
book. The book advertises the business. One
of the departments is on "Magic
Dr. III. James Brown Monnett is not con-
tent with these names, but he also advertises |
to Danish fevers, fits, agues, and dyspepsia by |
the use of ''Clairvoyant" remedy-that is, a |
remedy discovered by young girl while in |
a magnetic trance. These are put forth I'M |
der the name of DR.. Tracy DeLorme, who |
is to be addressed at the New York Post |
Office. viii the Mayor make note of these |
facts?
We also find Brown figuring under the |
alias of Professor James 7. Horn. The "Pro- |
fessor" advertises in all the country papers |
that he will teach anybody to make s 900 a |
year, if not more, upon the receipt of a Ger |
tain sum in postage stamps. The niddlers |
are sent in reply to their application re-
ceipe for the manufacture of artificial honey, |
and the right (bogIs)to sell it in any country |
which the dupe may select. The receipt and |
right cost the dupe So.
Brown travels in petticoats, too. He also |
sports in the advertising columns of various |
papers as Madame Julie Melville This lady |
has just received from France some splendid
one of which, 1.-The Mixture of |
Roses and Extract of Elder Blossoms" is
naqnifcent 1t is, according TO our analysis,
made of magnesia and alcohol. Brown
charges So for bottle of it. 1t costs him
about eight cents. His Cannabis Indica
costs sixteen cents, bottle and alas we
have before shown, His DR.. III. James
Regulating and Purifying Pills." and the
Excelsior Ointment of India, all made
upon the same principle-he gets as many
dollars for as they cost him cents. OF course
it is needless to say that the virtues claimed
for them are as mythical as their inventors
Oliver =. Brown has accumulated a fortune
in less than three years. 1t is said that he
is worth from $4,000 to 100000; but the
Sunday writer. who has consented all the
while to do his writing, declares he is not
worth more than $4,000.