Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-10

Receipts for Making nr. sage's ca-
tarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
Something over year ssnes, 6 periodical Is
sued In Berlin, Prussia. and laying claims to q
scientific character, prblished what was reep-
making DIR: Ssge's Catarrh Remedy and DR..
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. The peo-
pie were left te infer that these had been de-
Quoted from careful chemical analysis OF
popular favor In that as we'll as in this and
most other civilized countries. The receipts
were evidently invented by those jealous of
the reputation and largo sale which these
pecnniaIily interested in endeayoring to check
their sale. So ridiculously prepostsrous arc
those receipts that medicines compounded
after them could never have gained any repn-s
tation or sale in any country, for they would
To 30 caustic, poisonous, immediately and pos
iively injurious. 90 in eyery case to be prompt
ly condemned by the people on tho first trial
as miserable, dangerous and wicked humbugs.
Whereas, 1t is o we'll known fact that ali my
earned, Of being not only efficacious, but per-
fectly mild, pleasant AID harmless in effects.
Notwithstanding, however, that the bogus re-
ceipts were 80 ridiculously preposterous as
scarcely to have been believed by the most
unacientiAc, thoughtless and unsuspecting
people, yet strange and Incredible as it may
seem, q paper OF high scientific pretentions,
published in this country, copied the fictitious
receipts from the German paper. This shey
evidently did without q moments reflection,
for that much consideration, given by an in
telligent mind, to the receipts and tho proper
ties and effects of the mixtures that would re-,
cult from such compromising OF we'll known
caustic amt poisonous chemicals and drugs,
would have condemned them as bogus fabri-
cations, and the pretentious publishers Of tho
paper that originally inserted them, as either
knaves or fools. On my attention being
called to the. mattor, In order that some
thoughtless and over credulous people might
not be. deceived and misled by seeing such an
announcement In paper laying claim to q
scientific character, as well as to clear myself
OF the imputation OF being guilty of perpe-
trating q wicked fraud upon the people, as
such announcement, If uncontradicted, would
imply, ], as proprietor and manufacturer Of
tho aforesaid celebrated medicines, went be-
fore magistrate and made oath to the fact
that the eaid receipts were utterly false. My
affidavit was sent to the publishers Of the pa
pers into which the bogus receipts had been
copied, and In subsequent issue an editorial
notice was gwen or my. deniAI. But, not
under oath, certain individuals, who lounge
around and infest our largo cities, gaining q
livelihood by perpetrating oil kinds OF catch-
penny frauds upon the credulous, were thereby
versally popular, by advertising for sale bogus
receipts for making them, they could get lots
Frank II. Reed, Of 1855 Eighth street, stree New New
cards. Fortune Teller and Dream Book,h
1.-THE Mysteries OF Love Making" "H How to
WOO and VIM" and various other swindles,
sends his dupes tho following in exchange for
alluded to and is as follows: !" For DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, take eight grains carbolic
acid, seven grains of camphor, and two and q
half grains Of common salt, the whole to bo
colored with a littlo Prussian bluo." This
makes powerful canstic mixture as unlike
Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy (Which is perfectly
unirritating, mild, soothing, and pleasantly az
light is from darkness. AS "a burnt child
breads tho fire, !" IL any have been 80 foolish
oaustia compound, thinking that thoy were
using tho isame rs DR.. ;Sage's celebrated Ca.
tarrh Remedy, they will ,sitris to be hoped,
profit by the lesson thereby taught them and
cstch-penny advertising dodge that swindlers
may offer sthem. For Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery tho bogus receipt reads
Take four dracbms purified honey, fifteen
fens extract lettuce thirty grains
spirits, three ounces water. Mix" or the
ridiculous bogus formula I will say, as I did
under oath, not one OF the medicinal or poi-
sonous sol ingredients therein giyen enters into
the composition Of my Golden Medical Dis
coyeryl And furthermore, I will say that ]
defy all the chemists in tho world to ascertain,
by chemical analysis, the composition of any
OF my family medicines, as they cannot be an.
alyzed 30 as to determine their ingre iienls,
many Of which are new in medicine, and, like
nearly all vegetable extracts, there are no
known reagents or chemical tests by which
their presence can be determined. II any
further proof Ia wanted to satisfy any person
that the receipts given above are utterly false
let that person have the mixture as given,
compounded, and, not only will it be seen TO
be entirely unlike my Discovery in appear
ance, but II q further test is wanted by taking
dose OF it, 1t will be found to produce drowsi.
ness and stupor, whereas my Discovery In
ever 80 large doses, produces no such effect.
/ Others, located in differem cities and engaged
in advertising for sale bogus receipts FOR
making my medicines, send those that bite at
their bait other and various ridiculous for
mulm. One sent out by villainous knaye,
located In Chicago, gives the chief ingredient
OF Or. Sage's Catarrh Remedy as being blue
yitriol, which is only equaled In absurdity, ,by
another issued by parties in Philadelphia,
VINO say that the ingredients composing
DR.. sage's Catarrh Kennedy are 'burnt
alum white yitriol; sugar of lead, and prus-
state of iron," and that my Golden Medical
Discovery is simply syrup and tincture of
ginger" In refutation Of all the yarious and
ridiculous bogus receipts for making my medi-
cines that have over been, or may hereafter be
| published and circulated, I would say that I
have, in dealing with the people, ever been
| governed by the maxim that Honesty ia the
best policy" and that "success makes snc-
cess )" for 1t is because some sufferer has OBJ
tainod relief and cure, that that sufferer has
sent another to me ; and it is because thou
sands have been cured that they have recon-
mended me and my superior remedies to other