Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-03-01
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extensive medical laboratory of DR.. Ro-
back, the we'll known founder of the Scan
| dinayian System of Practice, in this
Country. Few of our citizens are aware
Of the extent Of the sales of these reme-4
dies throughout the South and West. for
the diseases incidental to which sections,
they appear TO act almost as a Sovereign
specific. For the benefit of our readers
1--WE will furnish a description of the
premises. -3
The building appropriated to the prepa-
ration of the Scandinavian Remedies, is
very large and corninodious tenement fitted
Throughout with view to the speedy dis
patch of business, which is so systemized,
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 80 arranged
that by simple movement, some forty or
fifty boxes are filed at the same time, all
containing precisely the same number Of
little round health restoratives. These
boxes then move from hand to hand among
the operatives, each of which adds TO its
completeness, until it reaches the last,
when they are neatly put up III bundles OF
gross each, and ready for the market.
Passing into the basement of the build
ing, large and well ventilated apartment,
we found ourselves surrounded by large
number of tanks, fitted up i'll an improved
manner as tilterers. These tanks contained
about 1000 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 presume, used in the manufacture of
the remedies. This department is under
the exclusive control Of the Doctor him
self, who gives his personal attention to
the medicines in the different stages of
their manufacture.
Another apartment we found used as a
drying room, where, ranged upon shelves
we saw what we would have supposed to
be sufficient quantity of pills to physic
all creation. 10 our surprise, however,
we learned thatthis was less !han months
supply even at the rate of last years sales,
the present demand indicating a great in
crease on those of last year.
The third and fourth stores we found
appropriated to packing, and containg vast
quantities of strange looking roots and
herbs, in their crude condition, and in a
concentrated state, with machinery used
for various purposes in properly and ex-
peditiously carrying on the work of the
laboratory.
From conversation with the gentleman
who politely showed us through the pre-
misses, we learned that not less than 3, 500
agents are engaged in disposing of the
Scandinavian Remedies in different por-
tions of the Union.
The Doctor is certainly a thorough-going
business, as well as a scientific man, and
he is determined that his remedies shall be,
not only extensively circulated, but widely
known, and to this end he extendes his ad-
vertising influence to over 47O newspapers.
He allows no means to be left untried, by
which the World may know of the remedies
he offers, and through out the entire,
country his Almanacs 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 480, 900, all of which are gotten
up neatly and filed with useful and in
teresting information, either compiled or
composed by DR.. Roback, who among his
other manifold duties, still has time for
scientific researches in that quarter.
We do not entirely share in the popular
delusion that all proprietor remedies are
"Quack Medicines" for we can see no
reason why medicines, the composition
and effects of which have constituted the
life study of those who have give their un-
divided attention to them, should be so
termed. Such remedies must be tried and
Judged according to their merits. We
have ourselves tried the Dr's. remedies for
a certain hereditary disease, and the happy
effect that they had in our case, is the
cause of this notice. The Doctor is. a man
of great attanments, has travelled, not only
extensively. but to some purpose, paying
literally for any information he might de-
sire n regard to every quality of the in
gradients used in the Scandinavian Rene
dies, in regard to the beneficial properties
of which he is quite an enthusiast.
In regard TO his establishment, as we
SAID before, it is systematized thoroughly
in every department, and whenever the
Doctors personal attention is not needed,
it is superintended by able assistants, pre-
sided over by Mr.. j. j. Joslyn, who, al
though quite young gentleman, still pos
sesses every quality of thorough busi-
ness man. All appear to feel an interest
f in common with its proprietor, in perform
ing their duties with the greatest ability.
Those who have never penetrated the
mysteries of a Medical Laboratory, would
do we'll to pay this extensive establishment
a VISIT Cincinnati Daily Times.
FoRG1vENEss.-"There is an ugly kind