The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-11
Receipts for Making Dr. >age's Ca
farrh Remedy and Dr. Pieroe's
Golden Medical Discovery.

Something over \ year since \ periodical
issued In Berlin. Prussia. and lAging claim.
20 scientific character. published Mhzr Wa
represented ~ being the formula OF rrceips-
for making DIR. Sage oziArrh Remedy and
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The
people were LETT % infer that thee had been
deducted from \ careful chemical analysis %
tie medicines. which are rapidly growing In
popular favor Ia that A. well ~ IN this and
most other civilized countries. The receipts
were evidently invented by those jealous u
the reputation and large sale which these
medicines are rapidly AcguirinE and who are
pecuniArily interested In enteag0rsrg 10 check
their sale. 80 ridiculOusly preposierOus are
those receipts thai medicines compounded
after them could never have gained any repl-
tailon or sale M any country. for they would
be 30 causiic- poisonous. Immediately and
positively injurious, A. In every ease 10 D.
promptly condemned BY the psOple on the
nrsi trial n miserable. dangerous and wicked
humDugs. Whereas. il l. \ well-knOwn fact
that all my medicies enjoy the reputation.
honestly earned. Of being not only efi1c1ri0us.
but perfectly mild. pleasant and harmless I'm
effects. Notwithstanding. however. that the
bogus receipts were 20 T1dicul0usly prepO--
ferrous H. scarcely 30 have b-en believed by
the most unscientific. ihoughile.s znd unsu~-
peciing people. yet strange and incredible =.
II may seem. n paper Of high scientific pr-ien-
sions. published In this country copied the
fictitious receipts from the German paper.
fhis they evidently did without moment.
reflection. Tor thai much consideration. given
by an intelligent mind. 10 The scceiElts and the
propertic. and effects 81 The mixtures that
would result from such = compromising %
well-known cAusi1c and poisonous eh meals
and drug. would have condemned them a.
bogus iabrications. and the preieniiOus pub
fishers Of the paper thAi originally inserted
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tion being called 20 the mzffer. In order thai
some fhoughfiess and oyer-credulous people
might not be deceived and misied b. seeing
such an announcement in = PAPER lAEing
claims 10 a scientific chararIer. n. well n -
clear myself Of the impuiafion q being guilty
Of perpetraiing n cruel fraud upon fae gesD-
pie. a. such announcfmen1- ii unc0nfraaiic--
ed. would imply. l. a. proprietor and manu-
faciurcr Of the aforesaid celebrated meriicines.
went before n magistrate and made oath 10
the fact that the said receipts were utterly
false. nv afbdayii was sent q the publish
ers Of the paper into which the bo-u. rtcriIif-
had been copied. and IN a subsequent Issue An
editorial NOTES Wa given 81 ny denial. But
Notwithstanding such correction aDt denial
made under oath. certain individuals. u 10
lounge around and infe-t our large cities.
gaining \ livelihood by perIsefr1tinz AL kind
Of cAich-penDy fraud. upon the cTesiulOu..
were thereby given the hint that. nv ned
icines weIe universally popular. BY sdverri>-
ing for -ale bogus receipts for making them.
they could get lots Of ignorant people to bite
AT their bait. one Frank NJ. Reed q IL
Eighth street. New York. who publishes
- Love and tourfship Cards. = Fortune
Teller and Dream Book = . The MvsfeFies %
Love Making" How 10 Woo and how 10
VIM and various other .windie.. seDds his
dupes the following il exchange for their
stamps. Il j. copied from the p4isrrs alluded
10 and j. - follows. " For DR. sage CAizrTh
Remedy. take eight grains Cart.0lic Acid.
seven grains Of CAmph0r. and two and half
grains Of common salt, the hole 90 De cOior-
ed with little Prussizn biae.- This make
n powerful cAusfic mixture a. unlike Dr.
Sage Catarrh Remedy lwbic1 il perfectly
unirriiating. mild. soothing and pleasant
light l. from darkness. A---a burnt child
breads the Ere. II sny have been 20 foolish =.
10 have burned their noses sore with this
caustic compound. thinking ihzi they were
using the same ~ Dr. sAgr's celebrated Ca
tarrh Remedy. they viii. IL J. 10 te hoped.
profit by the lesson thereby taught them. and
not be 20 ready next time 10 biie Al ever
cafch-penny advertising dodge that .winders
may offer them. For Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery the bogus reoeipi reads
=. Take four draehms puriDed Honey. fifteen
grains extract poisonous Lettuce thirty
grains OF Opium, three and fourth ounces
dilute Spirits. three ounces water. Mix
OF the ridiculous bogus formula | viii say
~ did under oath. MT one n the Dleiici-
nal or poisonous Ingredients fAerefA gireA
enters into the composition u my Gp4deA
Medical Discovery! And furthermore. I
will say that defy all the chemists IN the
world 10 ascertain. by chemical analysis. the
composition Of any Of my Family Medicines
a. they cannot be anzlyzet 20 ~ 10 deter
mine their ingredients. many d which Are
new in medicine and. like nearly all vegets-
BILE extracts there are no known reagents or
chemical tests by which their presence ban
be determined II any further proof i want
ed to satisfy any person that the receiTs given
above l. utterly false let that person have the
mixture NJ given compounded. and not only
will il be seen 10 be entirely unlike NV Dr.
coverv in appearance. but II a further fesi l.
wanted. by taking = dose Of H. u viii BE-
found TO produce dr0wsiness and siuPor.
whereas my Discovery, IN ever 20 large dOses-
produces no such effect Others. located In
different cities and engaged in advertising for
sale bogus receipts for making nv medicines.
send those that bite ~ their bait other and
various ridiculous formula DDe s+nf out
by a Nillainous knzve. located IN Chicago.
gives the chief ingredient q DR. >N-e's Ca
iarrh Remedy A. being Blue NIirlOl. which !.
only equaled in absurdiiy by another issued
by parties in Philadelphia who szy that the
ingredients composing Dr. >zge's satArrh
Remedy are II burnt Alum. white NifrlOl- 81
gar OF Lead. and Prussiaie Of lroE.- and that
my Golden Medical Discovery j. : sampIy
Syrup and tincture Of Ginger In refuts-
ton Of ali the various and ridiculous bogus
receipts for making my medicines Ihst have
ever been. or may hereafter be published and
circulated. would say that / have. in deAl-
ing with the people. ever been governed b.
the maxim that = honesty j. the best policy.
and that success makes success.
for II l. because some sufferer has Ofp-
tanned relief and cure. that that sufferer has
sent another to me; and IL j. because thou
sands have been cured that they have recon-
mendei me snd my superior remedies 10 other
thousands Of sufferer. In this WAY | AM Gun
stanily making liriHg advertisements fOr my
self and medicines. II j. = common thing TO
hear people LAY that plenty Of advertising will