Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
Receipts iOr Making DIR. Sage's
Cniarrh Rem edy aud DR.
Pferce's Golden Medical Dis.

Something over year since. periodical
issued in Berlin, Prussia and laying claims
10 n scientific character, published what was
represented as being the formula or re-
ceipts for making DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy and DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. The people were left to infer that
these had been deducted from n 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 in-
vented by those jealous of the reputation
and large sale which these medicines are
rapidly acquiring AMI 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 re-
putation or sale in any country. for they
would be so causiic. poisonous, Immediately
| and positively injurious. as In every case to
be promptly condemned by the people on
the first trial as miserable. dangerous and
wicked humbugs. Whereas, il is n we'll
known fact that all my medicines enjoy the
reputation, honestly earned. of beng not
only ethcacious. but peri, ely mild, pleasant
and harmless in effects. Notwithstanding,
however, that the bogus receipts w're SO
ridiculously preposterous ms scarcely to
have been believed ny the most unscientihc.
thoughtless AMI unsuspecting people, yet
strange and incredible as it may seem.
paper of high scientific pretensions, put-
lished in this country. copied the fictitious
receipts from the German paper. This they
evidently did without a moments reflection.
for that much consideration, given by an
intelligent mind. TO the receipts and the
properties and effects of the mixtures that
would result from such n compound,ng OF
well-known caustic and poisonous chemicals
and drugs, would have condemned them as
bogus fabrica'iOns. and the p-eieniious
publishers of the paper that originally in
serted them, as either knaves or fools. On
my attention being called TO the matter, in
order that some ihougitless and over cre-
dulous people might not be deceived and
misled by seeing such an announcement in
a paper laying claims to a scientific char
acter. as well as to clear myself of the i'm
put,iion of being guilty oil perpetrating a
wicked fraud upon the people. as .uch an
nouncemen', if unconiradicted. would imply,
I. as proprietor and manufacturer Of
the aforesaid celebrated medicines. went
before a magistrate and made oath to the
fact th,t the said receipts were utterly
false. My affidavit was sent to the publish
ers Of the paper into which the bogus re-
ceipis hal bern copied. and in a subsequent
issue an editorial notice was given OF my
denial. But, norwirhs aniling such correc-
tion and denial, made under oath. certain
Individuals, who lounge around and infesr
our large cities. gaining livelih pod by
perpetraling 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 re-
ceipts for making them. they could get lots
of ignorant people to bite at their bait One
Frank NJ. Reed. of l39 Eighth Street. New
York, who publishes Love and Courtship
cards" Fortune Teller and Dream Book"
THE Mysteries Of Love Making" "IIow to
Woo and how to win," and various other
swindlss, sends his dupes the following In