The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-09-01
Receipts for Making DY. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy and Or. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.


Something over year since periodical issued ed
i'm Berlin Prussia, and laying claims to scientific
character, published what was represented as be-
ing the formul9 or receipts for making Dr. Sages
CatarrI Remedy and DIR. Plerce's Golden Medical
Discovery The people were left to infer that these
had been deductedfrom careful chemical analy-
sis 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 evil
deaty "a py 9se t6es ~ Se nr
iy acquiring and who are pecuniariy interested in
endeayoring to check their sale. 50 ridiculously
prepOsterOus are those receipts that medicines
compounded after them could never have gained
any reputation or sale in any country, for they
would be so caustic, poisonous, Immediately and
positively injurious, as In every to be promptly
condemned by the people onthe first trial as mis-
cradle, dangerous and wicked humbugs.
Whereas It is a well known fact that all my med
ieines'eniOy the reputation, honestly earned, of
being not only enicaciOus, but perfectly mild pleas
ant and harmless in effects Notwithstanding,
however, that the bogus receipts were so ridicu-
lOusly prepOsterOus as scarcely to have been be-
leved by the most unscientific thoughtless and u-
Suspecting people, yet strange and incredible as it
may seem a paper of high scientific pretentons,
published in this country copied the fictitious re-
cepts from the German paper. This they evident
ly did without moments reflection, for thatmuch
consideration given by an intelligent mind, to the
lures that would result from such compromising
Of well known caustic and poisonous chemcalsand
drugs, would have condemned them as bogus fab
relations, and the prctentious publishers OF the pa
per that originally inserted them as either knaYes
or FOOLS
order that some thoughtless and over ereduous
people might not be deceived and msled by seeing
such an announcement in paper laying claims TO
sclentihe character as well as TO clear myself Of
the imputation of being guilty of perpetrating a
wicked fraud upon the people, as such announce
ment, IL uncOntradcted, would imply, J. as propri-
etOr and manufacturer of the aforesaid celebrated
medicines, went before a magistrate and made
oath TO the fact that the said receipts were utterly
false My affidavit was sent TO the publishers Of
the papers into which the bogus receipts had been
copied, and in asubsequent issue an editorial no.
mol fhofn slsVrs
such correction and denial, made under OATH Ger.
tain indyiduals, who lounge around and infest our
large cities, gaining Il livelihood by perpetrating
all kinds OF catch penny fraudsupon the creduous,
were thereby given the hint as my medicines were
ay p0piar Py ior SAFE bogus
norant people to bite at their bait
One Frank NJ. Reed, of 139 Eighth street, New
YORK: who publishes Love and Courtship cards."
ries OF Love Making" How to Woo and how Win"
and various other swindles sends his dupes the fol-
from the papers alluded to and is as follows For
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, take eight grains car.
half grains Of common salt, the whole to be color
cd with little Prussian blue" This makes pow
ertul caustc mixture, as unlike DIR. Sages Catarrh
Remedy (Which is perfectly unirritating, mild,
soothing and pleasantly as light is from darkness
As "a burnt child breads the fire." il any have
been so foolish as to have burned their noses sore
with this caustc compound, thinking that they
were using the same as DR.. Sagey celebrated Ca
tarrh Remedy they Will, 1t is to be hoped profit by
the lesson thereby taught them and not be SO ready
next time to bite at every catchpenny advertising
dodge that ,swindlers may offer them. For Dr.
Take four draelLns purified honey, fifteen grains
extract posionous lettuce thirty grains of opium,
tnree and a fourth ounces dilute spirits, three
OF this ridiculous bogus formula will say, as 1
did under oath, not one Of the medicinal or poison
GUS ingredients therein given enters into the com
position OF my Golden Medical Discovery And
iurthernore, will say that defy all the chemists
composition OF any OF my Family Medicines as
they cannot be analyzed so as to determine their
ingredients, 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 90 be determined. Ifany further proof
Is wanted % satisfy any person that the receipts
given above is utterly false, let that person have
the mixture, as given, compounded and, not only
appearance but II further test Is wanted by Ia.
KING dose OF 1t, it will be found to produce drow-
slneSs and stupor, whereas my Discovery, in ever
so large doses, produces no such effect
Otners, located In different cities and engaged
IN advertising for sale bogus receipts for making
my medicines, send those that bite at their bait
other and various ridlenlOus fOrmule. One sent
out by yillainous knaYe, located in Chicago gives
the chief ingredient Of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
as being Blue VitriOl. which is only edualed In
aDsurdity by another issued by parties in Phila-
1nelPhia ne VINO say that the ingredients composing
white Vitriol, Sugar Of Lead and Prussate OF
Iron" and that my Golden Medical Discovery
is simply syrup and tneture OF Ginger" lii
refutatiOn Of all the various and ridiculous bogus
receipts for making my medicines that have ever
ln-
ted, would say that hate, in dealing with the
people, ever been governed by the maxim that
aGes Is sse 5est policy and that success
has obtained relic and cure, that that sufferer has
sent another TO me; and II Is because thousands
have been cured that they have recommended me
and my superior remedies to other thousands OF
sufferers.
In this way am constantly making Hiring ad.
yertsementS for myself and medicines. IL lis a
common thing to hear people say that plenty of ad-
yertising viii make success out Of anything,
n M ut NnauIA
be farther from the truth 1t Is with this deiusive
idea actuating them that thousands have rushed
bankrupt in a little while, Not more than one In
nye hundred, who engages in advertising medi.
eines, ever makes financial success out OF the
undertaking. for the reason that medicine to be
successful, must possess unusual and extraordi-
nary merit IL is not enough that 1t should be a
remedy OF fair efficacy; II must possess superior
not, those who use it with the most sanguine ex.
mnch OF 1t, and 1t must be equal TO the test Or ID
will prove ruinous TO the proprietor. For al.
though a great display OF adyertzmg will, many
times. create a considerable immediate demand
LOr the article advertised, yet II that article does
not possess real merit, the demand will be only
action viii upset the proprietor and all his high
expectations, long before he is able to recover the
amount o. money already expended.
With this view of the subject, 1 have felt war.
ranted In contracting for hundreds of thousands
of this aud other countries, feeling perfectly as
sWred that the merits Of my remedies We're so great
as TO insure financial success out Of such bold
undertaking. And in this have not been disap.
pointed, for my sales have increased steadily year
after year. until they will this year largely exceed
half a million dollars worth Of my medicines
This grand success, / am certain, could never have
been attained had the medicines not possessed su.
periOr and wonderful merits.
The Toledo BLdde, IN an editorial article has
truly said alluding 20 my business that great
success Is never achieved without merit. An ar
tlce thai holds the teld year after year, and the
sales Of which Increase regularly and rapdly,must
have absolute merit.