The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-08-27
Receipts for Making DIR. Sase's Ca.
tarrh Remedy and DR.. Pferce's &.
Golden Medical Discovery.

sented as being the formula or receipts for max
ing DIR. Sages Catarrli- Remedy and Dr. PIerces
Golden Medical Discovery. The people were left
to infer that these had been deducted from
careful chemical analysis of the medicines, which
are rapidly growing I'M popular favor in that as
well as III THIS aud most otbeccivllzed countries
The receipts were evideutiy invented by those
jealous of the reputation and large sale which
these medicines are rapidly acquiring, ana VINO
were pecunarily interested in endcavorlng 10
check their SALE So ridiculously preposterous are
those receipts that medicines compounded after
them could never have gained any reputation or
sale in any country, for they wonld be so eanstic
poisonous, Immediately and positively injurious,
as IN every case TO be promptly condemned oy
the people the first trial as miserable, danger
GUS and wicked humbugs. Whereas, 1t IS well
known fact that all my medicines enjoy the rep
utation, honestly earned, of being not only etri-
caciOus but perfectly mild, pleasant and harm
less in effect. Notwithstanding, however, that
the bogus receipts were ridculously prepos-
terOus as scarcely to have been believed by the
most unseientihc, thougbtless and unsuspectlng
people, yet strange aud incredible as II may SEEM
a 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 intellig' mt mind, 10
the receipts and the properties and effects OF the
mixtures that would result from such CON-
pounding of well-kROwn caustic and poisonous
them as bogus faLfications, and the pretentious
publishers of the paper that originally inserted
| them as either knaves OF fools. On my atten-
| tion being called 70 the matter, IN order that
some thou ghtless aud udoyer-cretulousp people might
not be deceived and -nised by seeing snch an ah-
nouncerneut in . PsPer laying claims To a seien-
tiic character as we'll rs to clear myself OF the
| imputation of being guilty of perpetrating
wicked fraud upon the people, as such announce
ment, if nncontradicted, would imply, 1, as pro
of he
brated medicines went before magistrate anu
made oath to the fact that the said receipts were
utterly false. NY affidavit was sent to the pub
fishers of the paper into which the bogus receip's
had been copied, and in subsequent issue an
/ editorial notice was given of my DENIAL buI,
| notwithstanding such correction and denial,
made under oath, certain individuals, who lounge
around and infest our large cities, gaining i've
| lihOOd by perpetrating all kinds OF eatch-penny
frauds upon the credulons, were thereby gwen
| 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 l39 Eighth street, New York, who publishes
| "LOve aud Courtship cards" Fortune Teller
| and Dream Book, The Mysteries OF Love MAX
| ing" How TO Woo and How to VIM" and vari-
Gus other swindles, sends his dnpes the following
| in exchange for their stamps. 1t is copied from
| the papers alluded to, and is as follows: "for
| DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, take eight grains
Carbolic Acid, seven grains of Camphoi, ana Two
| and n half grails of common salt, the whole to
be colored with little Prussan blue" This
makes a powerful canstic mixture, as unlike Dr
Sage's CatarTh Remedy (Which Is perfectly IN
irritating, mild, soothing and pleasantly as light
| is from darkness. AS "a burnt child breads the
fire if auy have been so foolish as to have burn
ed their noses sore with this caustic compound,
thinking that they were using the same as Dr.
Sages celebrated Catarrh Remedy, they will, 1t
IL In he -boned nraft by the lesson thereby
| .,,,1 l,aa dv may TN
bite at every cateb-penny advertising dodge that
swindlers NAV offer them. For Dr. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery the bogus receipt reads !:
"Take four drachms purified Honey, fifteen grains
extract poisonous Lettuce, thirty grains of Opt
nm. three and n half ounces dilute Spirits three
ounces water. Nix.n of this ridiculous bogus
formula will saw as did under OATH not one Of
the medicinal or posonoHs INGREDIENTS therein gireR
enters into the compositiou of mn GOlddR Medical
DisnoreruI And furfhermOre | will say that
defy ALI the chemists in the world to ascertain by
chemical ANALYSIS fhe composition of auy of my
Family Medicines as they cannot he analyzed sO
as TO determine their ingredients many of which
are new in medicine and like nearly all vegeta-
BILE extracts, there are no reagents OF chemical
tests bv which their presence can be determined.
If any further proof is wanted to satisfy any
person that the reosset given above is utterly
false LET that person have the mixture as given,
compounded, and, not only will it be seen 70 be
entirely unlike NV Discovery in appearance Int
if further test is wanted b. taking dose of it,
il will be found to produce trowsiness and stu
DOR whereas nv Discovery in ever so large dos
es, produces no such effect. Others, 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 vari-
Gus ridiculous formula One sent out by vii
lainous knave, located in Chicago, gives the
chief ingredient of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy as
being Blue yitriol, which is only egualc! ia ab-
surdity by another issued by parties in Philadel
phia. who say that the ingredients composing DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy are .burnt Alum, white
Vitrol Sugar of Lead, and Prussiate of IInn,"
and that my Golden Medical Discovery is ''sim-
ply Syrup and tincture of Ginger" In refutation
of ali the various and ridiculous bogus receipts
for making my medicines that have ever been
published and circulated, l would say that /
have in dealing with the people, ever been gov
enned by the maxim that "honesty is the best
policy" and that snecess makes success - for it
is because some sufferer has obtained relief and
cure that sufferer has sent another to me /; and
il is because thousands have been cured that
thev have recommended me and my superior
remedies to other thousands of sufferers. In this
wax. l am constantly making liring advertise
meuts for myself and medicines. II is a common
thing to hear people say that plenty of adver-
tising will make success out of anything,
farther from the truth 1t is with this delusive
idea aetuating them that thousands have rushed
headl0ug into advertising, only to find them
selves bankrupt in little while. Not more than
one in five hundred, who engages in advertising