The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-25
Receipt for making DR.. Sage's Ca.
tarTh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery,


Something over year since, o period.
cal Issued in Berlin, Prussia, aud laying
claims to q scientific character, published
what was represented as being the formu.
lie or receipts for making DR.. Sage's Ca.
tarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. The people were
left to infer that these had been deducted
from q 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 &C.
curing and who are pecuniarily interest
cd in endeaVoring 10 check the sale. So
ridiculously prepOsterous are those re-
ceipts that medicines compounded after
them could never have gained any repu-
tation or sale in any country, for they
would be so caustic, poisonous, immedi.
ately and positively injurious, as in every
case 10 be promptly condemned by the
people on the first trial as miserable, dan.
gerous and wicked humbugs. Whereas,
1t Is a well-known fact that all my medi.
cines enjoy the reputation, honestly earned
OF being not only eificacious, but perfect.
ly mild, pleasant and harmless in effect.
Notwithstanding, however, that the bogus
receipts were so rldiculously preposterous
as scarcely to have been believed by the
most nnscientitic, thoughtless and unsus-
pecting people, yet strange and incredible
as 1t may seem, 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 intelli-
gent mind, to the receipts and the pro-
perLies and effects of the mixtures that
would result from such o compromising OF
well known caustic and poisonous chemi.
Gals and drugs, would have condemned
them as bogus fabrications, and the pre-
tentious publishers OF the paper that
originally inserted them, as either knaves
or fools. On my attention being called TO
the matter, in order that some thought
less and over credulous people might not
be deceived and misled BY seeing such an
announcement in paper laying claims to
scientific character, as well as 10 clear
myself OF the imputation Of being guilty
Of perpetrating wicked fraud upon the
people, as such announcement, il uncon-
tradicted, would imply, !, as proprietor
and manufacturer of tho aforesaid cele-
brated medicines, went before magis-
trate and made oath to the fact that the
said receipts were utterly false. My affl-
dayit was sent 10 the publishers of
the paper into which the bogus re-
ceipts had been copied, and In q
subsequent issue an editorial notice
was given Of my denial. But, not
withstandiug such correction and denial,
made under oath, certain individuals, who
lounge around and infest our large cities,
gaining 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 re-
ceipts for making them, they could get
lots Of ignorant people 10 bite at their
bait. One Frank N. Reed, Of 1879 Eighth
street, New York, who publishes "Love
and Courtship cards." Fortune Teller
and Dream Book" 1.-THE Mysteries Of
Love Making" slow to Woo and How
to Win" and various other swindles, sends
his dupes the following in exchange Tor
their stamps. 1t Is copied from the pa
pers alluded TO and is ss follows: "For
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, take eight
grains Of Oarbolic Acid, seven grains Of
Camphor, and two and q half grains OF
cNmmNn Salt tho xphnIo - ~ oa1o,ol
with little Prussian blue" This makes
powerful caustic mixture as unlike DR..
Ssge's Catarrh Remedy (which is per-
tecuy unirrltating, mild soothing and
pleasantly as light Is from darkness. As
"a burnt child breads the fire." II any
have been so foolish as 10 have burnt their
noses sore with this caustic compound,
thinking that they were using the same
as DR.. Sage's Celebrated Catarrh Rene
dy, they will, It Is 10 be hoped, profit by
the lesson thereby taught them and not
DO so ready next time TO bite at every
catch penny advertising dodge that swind.
lers may offer them. For DR.. Plerce's Gold.
en- Medical Discovery the bogus receipt
reads: "Take four drachms purified
Honey, fifteen grains extract poisonous
Lettuce, thirty grains Of Opium, three and
q fourth ounces dilute Spirits, three
ounces water. Mix" Oh this ridiculous
bogus formula l will say, as did under
oath, not one Of the mtdItinal or poisonous
ingredients therein giren enters into the com
position Of my Golden Medical Discovery
And furthermore, I will say that | defy
| all the Chemiats In the world 10 ascertain
by chemical analysis, the composition o.
any Of my Family Medicines, as they can
not DO analysed so as to determine theil
Ingredients, many Of which are new II
medicine and, like nearly all vegetable
extracts, there are no known reagents Of
chemical tests by which their presence
can be determined. II any further proc
is wanted to satisfy any person that th(
receipt given above Is utterly false let tina