Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-04
Receipts for Making DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy and DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.

Something over a year since, periodical
issued in Berlin, Prussia, and laying claims to
a scientific character, published what was rep
resented as being the formul9 or receipts for
making DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and DR..
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery The peO-
pie were left to infer that these had been de-
Quoted from careful chemical analysis Of
the medicines, which are rapidly growing in
popular favor in that as well as in this and
most other civilized countries. The receipts
were evidently invented by those jealous of
the reputation and large sale which these
medicines are rapidly acquiring and who are
pecuniarily interested in endeavoring to check
their sale. So ridiculously preposterous are
those receipts that medicines compounded
after them could never have gained any repu-
tation or sale in any country for they would
be so caustic, poisonous, Immediately and pos
ltlvely injurious, as in every case to be prompt
ly condemned by the people on the first trial
as miserable, dangerous and wicked hum
bugs. Whereas it is a well-known fact that
all my medicines enjoy the reputation, hon-
estly earned, of being not only effcaciOus,
but perfectly mild, pleasant and harmless in
effects. Notwithstanding however, that the
bogus receipts were so ridiculously pre-
lieved by the most unscientific, thought
less and unsuspecting people, yet,
strange and incredible as it may seem, a paper
of high scientific pretensions, published in
this country, copied the fictitious receipts
from the German paper. This they evidently
did without moments reflection, for that
much consideration given by an intelligent
mind to the receipts and the properties and
effects of the mixture that would result from
such compromising of well-known caustic
and poisonous chemicals and drugs would
have condemned them as bogus fabrications,
and the pretentious publishers of the paper
that originally inserted them as either lnaves
Or oft hair 1o6 tffh a
matter, in order that some thoughtless and
over-credulous people might not be deceived
and misled by seeing such an announcement
in paper laying claims to a scientific char
acter, as well as to clear myself of the impu-
tation of being guilty of perpetrating a
wicked fraud upon the people, as such an
nouncement, if uncontradicted, would imply,
|, as proprietor and manufacturer of the
aforesaid celebrated medicines, went before
magistrate ard made oath to the fact that the
said receipts were utterly false. My affidavit
was sent to the publishers of the paper into
which the bogus receipts had been copied, and
in a subsequent issue an editorial notice was
given of my denial But, Notwithstanding
such correction and denial, made under
oath, certain individuals who lounge
around and infest our large cities,
gaining a livelihood by perpetrating
all kinds of catch-penny frauds upon the
credulous, were thereby given the hint that,
as my medicines were universally popular, by
advertising for sale bogus receipts for making
them they could get lots of ignorant people
to o. bite at their bait; One Frank NJ Reed, Of
" Love and Courtship Cards." q Fortune
Teller and Dream Book" 'sThe Mysteries of
Love Making" q How to Woo and How to
VIM" and various other swindles, sends his
dupes the following in exchange for their
stamps. 1t is copied from the papers alluded
to and is as follows: "For DR.. sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy, take eight grains, Carbolic
Acid, seven grains of Camphor, and two and
a half grains of common Salt, the whole to
be colored with little Prussian blue" This
makes powerful caustic mixture as unlike
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy (Which is perfectly
nniirritating, mild, soothing and pleasant as
light is from darkness: As - burnt child
breads the fire" if any have been SO foolish as
to have burned their noses sore with this
eaustic compound, thinking king that they y were e
tarrh Remedy. they will, it is to be hoped,
profit by the lesson thereby taught them and
not be SO ready next time to bite at every