New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-07


v Call Things by their Right Names.
y We take the following from yesterdays Pic
e ayune:
IS Webster, the photographer in his " Great In
abridged, ~ ESQ called because it contains heap
g of unabridged nonsense,) defines the word
quack, thus; A boastful pretender to medical
I I skill; an empric; an ignorant practitioner a
Il charlatan; mountebank ETC., etc.
! Next, he defines the word noShunl thus A
medicine the ingredients of which are kept secret
for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to
the inventor or proprietor; qtacb or patent med
icine.
The word quacb, above, is no doubt defined cor
reetly, the detiner having been of the biggest
quacks who ever attempted to remodel the Eng
lish language certainly should have known how
to define the word; but why nostrum, or patent
medicine, should be called quack medicine - is
more than any maker of big dictionaries can as
, sign any good reasons for
Nostram is derived from the Latin and sig
niles ours" or our own" and there is no good
reason why odidm should be attached to the
word.
Making "quack medicine" synonymous with
hostrum" and patent incidence then shows
that the defners notions were much confused. or
his cue from some regular practitioners =" who.
In his day. denounced every medicine, the fngre-
dents of which were not made known to the pub-
lie, and endeaVored to fasten a stigma upon every
patent medicine, simply because it was sucb
without regard to qualities or virtues. All were
denounced as quack medicines" and Webster
did not stop to inquire whether rightfully OF mot
but so put it down in his big book" Well,
there it stands, " so recorded !" although during
his day, and since his day. it has been demon
strated over and over again. that many of the
most valuable remedies in use, come under the
head of patent medicines, or nostrums ;, IL
you please
| Because an individual who has at great expense
and labor got up a remedy which is truly valu. !
able, it is none the less SO because he chooses to
patent 1t and keep the secret of its manufacture to
himself. Not at all. This is his privilege, and in |
most instances his daily bread and calling it q
| quack medicine" does not make it so, any more
| than calling man model photographer makes
him so.
The medicinal virtues of several remedies in
popular use known as "patent medicines are
100 well known, and their reputation too well
established, to admit of argument longer concern
ing their value. They answer the purposes for
which they are recommended, and the people are
satisfied with them
There is a druggist in this city who has given
the subject of patent medicines much attention
for years. He has done this for the purpose of
Winnowing the grain from the chat, with a view
of selecting such as were truly valuable and dis
carding the worthless. James CONCEAL. No %
ST. Charles street. is the druggist referred to- He
is agent for greater number and better class of
medicines than any other man in the South and t
this branch of his business is daily expanding.
He accepts the agency Of no remedy that has not .
been fairly and thoroughly tested and pronounced
valuable by those who have given it a fair trial,
Prominent among these are RUSS St. Domingo L
preparations, Hubbells Golden Bitters and Cabinet v
Brandy Gardeners Rheumatic and NeuraIgic Com. Il
pound, the " Martha Washington" Hair Restorer i
DR. Jaynes preparations, DR.. Davis Pain Killer w
Buchu, Hurley's Sarsaparia, Wheat g
'n's Itch Ointment, all of the beverages manufac
'ured by Russ 81 Co., Mrs. Winsow's Mystic Pills D
or diseases peculiar to the female constitution u
hrs WinsloW's Queen Hair Restorer, etc, Ii
All the above named remedies have wide repu tie
atlon IN the North and West, and most of them ps
AVE become pretty generally known in the South. III
.ach OF them the best in the market for the cases
hey were designed to meet. nc
Among the list above mentioned, the reader will "
otce these words: "All of the beverages manu- af
actured by Russ & Co." The writer would add su
omething further concerning these
Many years ago several importers oR vv;nos and w
quors, in order to meet the demands of those tn
mo could not afford to purchase importatons nv thu
le pipe, hogshead barrel OF cask, conceived the Gu
Ian and carried il mt S'e SCI
'yeral choice wines and liquors and selling them an
the case, Of one dozen bottles each This busi pc
ess soon became popular and profitable one
eyefal fortunes were thus rapidly made. Then w. w.
was host of INSCRIPTIONS manufacturers of of
rushed into the market with their pa
lie compounds, and such was the character of the !
'ndors and their commercials that dsrepnte was a
ought upon the entire bottItpg business. and for
ars the demand for liquors put up in this manner tina
rs comparatively limited. IN (
mus the matter stood when Russ It Co. of New si
DIX entered the field with unlimited captal and pflI
determination to run out of market these adul the
rations, by Offering in their stead the same class
beverages the importers first offered, at a living
oh1 ana nothing more. BY producing positive
ooi Vuat they used none but genuine liquors and
lIsrldis' Chey soon had matters their own way ,
they now bottle more beverages of various ma f
JUS ana cordials, than all other similar estab bet
lmenta in the United States. II
tae following are the names of the articles erat
ch they bottle: nov nov
3 Rus, g. Domingo punch, Russ St. DOMINGO Pari
s oni hus5 ~. Domingo wine Russ imperial 22d
a aek punch Russ messina punch, Russ, mint Ci
~ npss London cordial gin, cocktail bitters Gull
So0AiS9"' bourbon cocktail, brandy cocktail Frer
NJ o I5 cognac brandy purest blackberry Afri
nbs glu enefry brandy, ginger brandy Bour ginia
NV WHISKY Scotch whisky, choice Madeira wine requ
,loi @ Wlae choice port wine, choice Loui
nnrost Iolce 81 Croix rum choice Holland regir
All Iasoerfy syrup sirop de CONNIE ginger gage
GIs annlsete cordial, annisette, perfect love Mr.
Ln a. rose, noyau, peppermint marasc6ino he at
nh maui sauterhe' ansynthe, curacao, YER who
aTti
ames CONCEAL is agent for all of these. and Ger
ps full supply ALWAYS ON hand "Au he "
--s1S, - pence
oTroE DETHRoNED!- AN AsTorr,,rT,,. r.. Franc
HE CAsE or T,,,.,, ~, c. NDi't DECISION him t.
ded that fine Irish linen, such as Msssrs mot
eyer segman sell at 10, rs and 10 CAM. No. his