The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-17
An Extensive Medical EstabIfsh-
ment--The Scan dinavian Remedies.

ment--The Scan iinavian Remedies.
A few days since, we paid visit to the
extensive medical labratory of Dr. Roback,
the well known founder of the Scandinavian
System of Practice, in this Country. Few
of our citizens are aware of the extent OF the
sales of these remedies throughout the South
and West, for the diseases incidental to which
sections they appear to act almost as Sow
ereign specific For the benefit of our read
ers we will furnish a description of the
premises.
The building appropriated to the prepara-
ton of the Scandinavian Remedies is very
large and commodious tenement, fitted
throughout with view to the speedy dis
patch of business, which is so systeEatized,
that its entire operations move like clock
work. Entering upon the first floor, the
attention is attracted to large number of
young persons seated at regular intervals,
the entire length of the apartment, and all
busily engaged in counting, boxing, wrap
ping and labelling the Blood Pills. We
found here most ingenious contrivance for
boxing the pills. it being so arranged that
by a simple movement, some forty or fifty
boxes are filled at the same time, all contain
ing precisely the same number oflittle round
from hand to hand among the operatives,
each of whom adds to its completeness,
until it reaches the last, when they are neat
ly put up in bundles of a gross each, and
ready for market.
Passing into the basement of the building,
a large and well ventilated apartment, we
found ourselves surrounded by large num-
Der of tanks fitted up in an Improved man
ner as filterers. These tanks contained
about $500 gallons of the Blood Purifier all
in an active state of preparation. Here we
saw any number of implements, of the names
of which we are ignorant, but all, we pre-
sumo, used in the manufacture of the reme-
dies. This department is under the exclu-
sive control of the Doctor himself, who
gives his personal attention to the medicines
i'll the different stages of their manufacture.
Another apartment we found used as a dry
ing room, where, ranged upon shelves, we
saw what we would have supposed to be a
sufficient quantity of pills to physic all Gre
alton. To our surprise, however, welearned
that this was less than a month supply,
even at the rate of last year sales the pres
ent demand indicating a great increase ON
those of last year.
The third aud fourth stories we found
appropriated TO packing, and containing
vast quantities of strange looking roots and
herbs, in their crude condition, and i'll a
concentrated state, with machinery used
for various purposes in properly and expe-
ditiously carrying on the work of the labra-
tory.
From Il conversation with the gentleman
who politely showed us through the premi-
ses, we learned that not less than 5000
agents are engaged in disposing of the Scan
dinavian Remedies in different portions OF
the Union
The Doctor is certainly thorough going
business, as well as scientific man, and he
is determined that his remedies shall be, not
only extensively circulated but widely
kAown, and to this he extends his advcrtis-
ing to over 470 new Srapers. He allows no
means to be left nntried by which the
| World may know of the remedies he offers,
and throughout the entire country his Al
| manacS can be found, sent gratuitouSly
! through his agents, to all who may desire
! them. The number of these AlmanacS sent
! out during the past year was about 48O, 0O0,
/ all of which are gotten up neatly and filled
with useful and interesting Information,
/ either complied or composed by DR.. ROhack,
| who among his other manifold duties still
/ has time for scientific researches i'll that
| quarter.
We do not entirely share in the popular
delusion that all proprietary remedies are
"Quack Medicines for we car see no reas-
on why medicines, the composition and eff
fects of which have constituted the life study
of those who have given their undivided
attention to them, should be SO termed
Such remedies must be tried and judged ac-
cording to their merits. We have ourselve:
tried the Dr. 5. remedies for certain heredi
tary disease and, the happy effect that they
had in our case, is the cause of this notice
The Doctor is IA man of great attainments
has travelled, not only extensively, but t.
some purpose, paying liberally for any in
formation he might desire in regard to ever.
quality of the ingredients used in the Scan
dinavian Remedies, in regard to the bene
fetal properties of which he is quite an en-
thusiast
In regard to his establishment, as we sal,
before, it is systematized thoroughly in ever
department, and whenever the Doctors per
sonal attention is not needed it is superin
tended by able assistants, presided over b.
Mr.. j. j. Joslyn, who although quite
young gentleman, still possesses every qua
ity OF thorough business man. All appea
to feel an interest in common with its pro
prietor, in performing their duties with til
greatest ability.
Those who have never penetrated til
mysteries of a Medical Labratory, would
well to pay this extensive establishment
, visit Cincinnati Daily Times, Jan. 81.