The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-10
Receipts for Making DR.. Sage's Ca.
tarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.

something over year since, rcrloulcal
! issued in Berlin, Prussia. and laying claims
| to Il scientific character, published what was
| represented us bcin" the formula or receipts
| for making Dr. Sagc'S Catarrh Remedy and
DR.. Picrcc's Golden Medical Discovery. The
people were left to infer that these had been
| deducted from Il careful chemical analyst of
the medicines, which are rapidly growing in
| popular favor in that 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 arc rapidly acquiring and who are
| pcclniarilv interested in cndcavoring to check
their sale. So rdiculou>ly prcpostero,ls are
those receipts that medicines compounded
after them could never have gained any rcpu-
tation or sale in any country, for they would be
so caustic. poisonous. immediately and posi-
lively I'M furious. as in every case to he prompt
| ly condemned by the people on the first trial
aS miserable, dangerous and wicked hum
bugs. Whereas, it is wcll-known fact
| that all my medicines enjoy the reputation,
honestly earned, of being not only cfli-
cacious, but perfectly mild, pleasant
and harmless in effect. Notwithstanding,
| however, that the bogus receipts were SO ri
| diculOuSly prcposternus as scarcely to have
been believed by the most unscicntiiic,
thoughtlcss and unsuSpcctin@ people, yet,
strange and incredible as it may seem, Il pa
per of high scientific prctcnsions, published
in this country, copied the fictitious receipts
from the German paper. This they evidently
did without Il 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 compromising Of wcll-knOwn calStic
and poisonous chemicals and drugs would
| have condemned them as bogus fahrcatiOns,
and the prrtcntiOuS publishers of the paper
that originally inserted them as either knavcs
or fools. On my attention being called to the
matter, in order That some thoughtlcss and
ovcr-crcdulous people might not be deceived
and mi>lcd by seeing such an announcement
in Il paper laying claims to Il scientific charac-
| ter, as well as to clear myself of the imputa-
ton Of bcin" guilty of pcrpetratin" wicked
fraud upon the people as such announcement,
if uncontradictcd, would imply, /, as propri-
ctnr and manufacturer of the aforesaid
celebrated medicines, went before a
magistrate and made oath to the fact
My affidavit was sent to the pub
fishers of the paper into which the
bogus receipts had been copied, and in Il
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 lnfcst our
large cities, gaining livelihood by pcrpctrat-
ing all kinds of catch-pcnny frauds upon the
crcdulous, 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 bite at their bait. One Frank NJ. Reed, of
Love and Courtship Cards." Fortune
Teller and Dream Book" "The Mysteries Of
Love Making" How to Woo and How to
VIM" and various other swindles, sends his
dupcs the following in exchange for their
stamps. 1t is copied from the papers alluded
to and is as follows: "tor DIR. Sagc's Ca
tarrh Remedy, take eight grains Carboiic
Acid, seven grains of Camphor and two ana
half grains Of common Salt, the whole to be
colorcd with little Prussian blue" This
makes a powerful callstic mixture us unlike
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy (Which is perfectly
unirritating, mild, soothing and pleasant?
as light is from darkness. As Il "burnt child
breads the fire." if any have been SO foolish as
ca,lstic compound, thinking that they were
using the same as DR.. Sage's celebrated Catarrh
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 catch-pcnny
advertising dodge that swindlers may offer
them. For DR.. Picrces Golden Medical Dis
covcry the bogus receipt reads: Take four
drachms purified Honey, fifteen grains extract
poisonous Lettuce, thirty grains of Opium,
three and fourth ounces dilute Spirits, three
ounces water. Mix OF the ridiculous DO
gus formula l will say, Us did under oath,
"Ot one 81 We WestlclhHt or POISONOUS 0y'tttt-
ents therein gi,cn enters into the composition
Of my Golden Medical Discovery! And further
more, will say that defy all the chemists
in the world to ascertain, by chemical analy-
sis, the composition of any of my Family
Medicines, as they cannot be analysed SO as to
determined their ingredients, many of which
are new in medicine and, like nearly all vcgc-
table extracts, there arc no known reagents or
chemical tests by which their presence can he
determined. If any further proof is wanted to
satisfy any person that the receipt given above
is utterly false let that person have the mix
turc as given compounded, and not only will
it DC seen to be entirely unlike my Discovery
in appearance, but if u further test is wanted,
by taking dose of it, it will be found to pro-
ducc drowsiness and stupor, whereas my Dis
covery, 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 ridic-
lllous formula. One sent by villainous
knave, located in Chicago, gives the chief in
grcdicnt of DR.. sagc's Catarrh Remedy as
being Blue Vitriol, which is only equalcd in
absurdity by another issued by parties in
Philadelphia who say that the ingredients
composing DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy are
"burnt Alum, white Yitriol, Sugar Of Lead,