Connecticut western news., 1874-09-11
Receipts for Making Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce's Golden
 Medical Discovery.

Something over & year since periodical
 issued in Berlin, Prussia, and laying claims to 8
 scientific character, published what was repre-
 sented as being the formule or receipts for
 making Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr.
 Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. The
 people were left to infer that these had been
 deducted 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-
 tatlon or sale in any country, for they would be
 so caustlc, poisonous, immediately and posi-
 lively injurious, as in every case to be prompt
 ly condemned by the people on the first trial
 as miserable, dangerous and wicked humbugs.
 Whereas, it is 8 well-known fact that all my
 medicines enjoy the reputation, honestly earn
 ed of being not only efficacious, but perfectly
 mild, pleasant and harmless in effects. Not
 withstanding, however, that the bogus receipts
 were so ridiculously preposterous as scarcely
 to have been believed by the most unscientifio
 thoughtless and unsuspecting people, yet
 strange and incredible as 1t may seem, a paper
 of high scientific pretensions, published in this
 country, copied the fictitious receipts from the
 German paper This they evidently did with
 out 8 moments reflection, for that much con-
 slderation, given by an intelligent mind, to the
 receipts and the properties and effects of the
 mixtures that would result from such a com-
 pounding of well-known caustic and poisonous
 chemicals and drugs, would have condemned
 them ss bogus fabrications, and the pretentious
 publishers of the paper that originally inserted
 them as either knaves or fools. On my atten- tion being called to the matter, in order that
 some thoughtless and over credulous people might not be deceived and misled by seeing such an announcement in paper laying claim fa oaioY1 onhor rootnr
 self of the imputation of being guilty of perpe- trating a wicked fraud upon the people, as such announcement, if uncontradicted, would imply, l, as proprietor and manufacturer of the aforesaid celebrated medicines, went before a magistrate and 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 subsequent issue an editorial notice was given of my denial. But, notwithstanding suob correction and denial, made under oath certain l individuals, who lounge around and infest our l large cities, gaining & livelihood by perpetrat- ing all kinds of catch-penny frauds upon the | credulous were thereby given the hint that, advertising for sale bogus receipts for making | them, they could get lots of ignorant people to | bite at their bait. One Frank M. Reed, of 139 l Eighth street, New York, who publishes Glove | nra.1 and ooqrsshp Pta cards Fortune Teller and ing" " How to Woo and how to Win," and | various other swindles, sends his dupes the | following in exchange for their stamps It Is copied from the papers alluded to and is as fol- lows: |" For Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy. take eight grains Carbolic 'Acid, seven grains of Camphor, and two and half grains of common Salt, the whole to be colored with little Prus- sian blue." This makes a powerful caustic mixture as unlike pr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy (which is perfectly unirritatng, mild, soothing and pleasantly as light Is from darkness As Ca burnt child dreads the fire" if any have been so foolish as to have burned their noses sore with the caustic compound, thinking that brated Catarrh Remedy, they will it is to be hoped. profit by the lesson thereby taught them and not be 80 ready next time to bite at every catch-penny advertising dodge that swindlers may offer them. For Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the bogus receipt reads: Take four draohms purified Honey, fifteen grains extract poisonous Lettuce, thirty grains of Opium, three and 8 fourth ounces dilute Spirits, three ounces water. Mix" Of the bogus formula I will say, as did | under oath, not one of the medicinal or poison ouS ingredients therein gioen enters into tbe | composition 0f ny Golden Medical Discoueru And furthermore, will say that defy all the | chemists i'll the world to ascertain by chemical | analysis, the composition of any of my Family | Medicines as they cannot be analysed so as to determine their ingredients, many of which are new in medicine and, like nearly all vegetable | extracts, there are no known reagents or chem AOuA IootH " WAlCu tuolr presence can De dot9f- mined. If any forthur proof is wanted to satisfy any person that the receipt given above is utterly false let that person have the mix ture as given, compounded and, not only will It be seen to be entirely unlike my Discovery in appearance, but if further test is wanted, by taking dose of it, it will be found to produce drowsiness and stupor, whereas my Discovery, in ever so large doses, produces no such effect. Others, located in different cities and engaged in advertising for sale bogus re- ceipts for making my medicines, send those that bite at their bait other and various ridicu- lous formula. One sent out by villainous ingredient of Dr. sage's Catarrh Remedy as being Blue Vitriol, which is only equaled in absurdity by another issued by parties in Phil adelphia who say that the ingredients compos- ing Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy are burnt Alum, white Vitriol. Sugar of Lead, and Prus- sion of Iron," and that my Golden Medical Discovery is '' simply Syrup and tinture of Ginger" 1n refutation of all the various and