The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-09-05
Receipts for Making DIR. Sage's Gu
tarrh Remedy and DIR. Pterce's
Golden Medical Discovery.

something over year since, a periodical
issued in Berlin, Prussia, and laying claims to
SCIENTIFIC character, published what was rep
resented rs being the formul:e or receipts for
mp;a akdn;s pr; Sage's Gatarrh Remedy and Dr.
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
pecuniarily interested III endeavoring to check
their sale. So ridiculously prepostcrous are
those receipts that medicines compounded
after them could never have gained any rcpu-
tatlon or sale i'll any country, for they would
be SO caustic, poisonous, Immediately and pos
ltivcly injurious, as in every case to be prompt
ly condemned by the people on the first trial
bugs. Whereas, it is a wcll-known fact that
all my medicines enjoy the reputation, hon
estly earned, Of being not only cfficacious,
but perfectly mild, pleasant and harmless in
effects. Notwithstanding, however, that the
bogus receipts were SO ridiculously pre-
lieved by the most unscientiic, thought
less and unsuspecting people, vet,
strange and incredible as it may seem, a paper
OF high scientific prctcnsions, published in
this country, copied the fictitious receipts
from the German paper. This they evidently
much consideration given by an intelligent
mind to the receipts and the properties and
effects OF the mixture that would result from
such a compoundng of wcll-known caustic
and poisonous chemicals and drugs would
have condemned them as bogus fabrications,
and the prctentious publishers of the paper
that originally inserted them as either knlves
II, NV Uffo ho:,> H.
matter, in order that some tloughtless and
oVer-crcdulous people might not DC DECEIVED
and misled by seeing such an announcement
Ill paper laying claims to a scientific char
acter, as we'll as to clear myself of the impu-
tation of being guilty Of pcrpctrating a
wicked fraud upon the people, as such an
nounccmcnt, if uncontratlictcd would imply.
l, as proprietor and manufacturer of the
aforesaid celebrated medicines, went before
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
i'll subsequent issue an editorial notice was
such correction and denial, made under
oath, certain individuals who lounge
around and infcst our large cities,
all kinds of cateh-pcnny frauds Upon i'' the
crcdulous, were thereby. given the hint that,
as my medicines were universally popular, by
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." "Fortunc
Teller and Dream Book" "Thc Mysteries Of
Love Making" allow to Woo and How to
VIM" and various other swindlcs, sends his
dupcs the following in exchange for their
stamps: 1t is copied from the papers alluded
to and is as follows: "For DR.. Sagcs Ca
tarrh Remedy, take eight grains Carbolic
Acid, seven grains of CamphOr, and two and
half grains OF common Salt, the whole to
be colorcd with little Prussian blue" This
makes powerful caustic mixture as unlike
DR.: Sage's Catarrh Remedy (Which is perfectly
unirritating, mild, soothing and pleasantly as
light is from darkness. AS ga burnt child
breads the fire." if any have been 50 foolish ne
to have burned their noses sore with this
caustic compound, thinking that they were
using the same as DIR. Sages celebrated Ca
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
catch-penny advertising dodge that swind-
lers may offer them. For DR.. Picrcc's Golden
Medical Discovery the bogus receipt reads:
"Iake four drachms purified Honey, fifteen
grains extract poisonous Lettuce, thirty
grains OF Opium, three and a fourth ounces d.
lutte Spirits, three ounces water. Mix" OF the
ridiculous bogus formula | will saw as did
under oath, not one of the medicinal or poison
Gus ingredients the,rin given enters into the
composition Of n.y Golden Medical Discovery,
And furthermore, I will say that defy all the
chemists in the world to ascertain, by chem
zeal analysis, the composition of any of my
Family Medicines, as they cannot be analyzcd
so as to determine their ingredients, many of
which arc new in medicine and, like nearly
all vegetable extracts, there are no
known reagents or chemical tests by
which their presence can be deter.
mined. If any further proof is wanted
10 satisfy any person that the receipt given
above is utterly false let that person have the
mixture ~ as given compounded, and not only
WILL 1t be seen to be entirely unlike my Dis
coVery in appearance, but if a further test is
wanted, by taking a dose of it, it will be found
to produce drowsness and stupor, whereas
my discovery, in ever so large doses, pro-
duces no such effect. Others, located in diff
ierent cities and engaged in advertising for
sale bogus receipts for making my medicines,
send those that bite at their bait other and
various ridiculous formula. One sent out by
vlllalnous knave, located in Chicago, gives
the chief ingredient of DR.. Sage's Cafarrh
Remedy as being Blue Vitriol, which is only
equaled in absurdity by another issued by
parties in Philadelphia who say that the in
gradients composing DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy are "burnt Alum, white Vitriol.
Sugar OF Lead, and Pr,lssiate Of Iron," and
that my Golden Medical Discovery is "sim-
ply sirup and tincture of Ginger" In refrta-
ton OF all the various and Ridiculous bogus
receipts for making my medicines that have
ever been or may hereafter be published and
circulated, I would say that l have,