Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-09-02
Receipts for making Or. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce's
GOlen Medical Discovery.


Something over a year since, a peri
odical issued in Berlin, Prussia, and LAWNS
claims to a scientific character published whai
was represented as being the formula or re-
ceipts for making DR. Sa9es Catarrh Remedy
and DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The
people were left to infer that these had been
deducted from careful chemical analysis of
the medlclnes, 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
medicines are rapidly acquiring and who are
pecumar1Iy interested in endeavoring to check
then sale. SO rediclously preposterous are
those receipts that medicines compounded
after that could never have gained any reputa-
ton or sale III any country, for they would be
so cauStlc, poisonous, Immediately and posi-
lively injurious, in every case to be prompt
~ condemned by the people on the first trial
as miserable, dangerous and wicked humbugs
Whereas, it is a well-known fact that all my
medicines enjoy the reputation. honestly earn
ed. of being not only etticacious but perfectly
mild pleasant and harmless in effects. Not
withstanding, however, that the bogus receipts
We're so ridiculously preposterous as scarcely
to have been believed by the most unscentifc
thoughtless and unsuspecting people yet
strange and Incredible as it may seem,
a paper Of high scientific pretensions,
published in this country, copied the
This they evidently did without & moments
reflection. for that much consideration. given
by an Intelligent mind, to the receipts and the
properties and effects of the mixtures that
would result from such compromising Of
well-known caustic and poisonous chemicals
and drugs, would have condemned them as
bogus fabricatious, and the pretentious pub
fishers of the paper that originally inserted
them, as either knaves OF fools. On my atten-
ton being called to the matter in order that
some thoughtless and over credulous people
might not be deceived and misled by seeing
such an announcement in paper laying claims
to scientific character, as well as to clear
myself Of the imputation of being guilty of
perpetrating d wicked fraud upon the people,
as such announcement, if uncontradicted,
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 pa
per into which the bogus receipts had been
copied and in subsequent issue editorial
standing such correction and denial, made
under oath, certain individuals, who lounge
around and infest our large cities, gaining
livelihood by perpetrating all kinds Of catch
penny frauds upon the credulous, were there
by given the hint that. as my medicines we're
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 1879 Eighth street.
New York: who publishes Love and Court
ship cards" a Fortune Teller and Dream
Book The histories of Love Making"
= How to Woo and how to VIM" and various
other swindles, sends his dupes the following
in exchange for their stamps. 1t is copied
from the papers alluded to and is as follows:
. For DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, take eight
grains Carbolic Acid, seven grains of Cam
phor, and two and a half grains of common
n n with la
sian blue. This makes a powerful caustic
mixture as unlike DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy
(Which is perfectly unirritating, mild, soothing
and pleasantly as light is from darkness. As
"a burnt child breads the fire." if any have
been so foolish as to have burned their noses
sore with this caustic compound thinking that
they were using the same as DR.. Sages cele-
brated Catarrh 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
sWindlers may offer them. For DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery the bogus receipt
reads: Take four drachms purified Honey.
fifteen grains extract poisonous Lettuce, thirty
grains Of Opium, three and a fourth ounces
dilute Spirits, three ounces water Mix Of
this ridiculous bogus formula 1 viii say, as I
did under oath, not one Of the medicinal or
poisonous ingredients therein glUen enters into
the composition of my Golden Medical DiscoU
ry! And furthermore, will say that I defy
chemical analysis, the composition Of any Of
my Family Medicines, as they cannot be ana
lyzed 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 bv which
their presence can be determined. If any fur
ther proof is wanted to satisfy any person
that the receipt given above is 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 appearance,
but II a further test is wanted. by taking a
dose of it, it will be found to produce droWsi-
ness and stupOr, whereas my Discovery, in
ever so large doses, produces no such effect.
Others, located in different cities and engaged
II advertising for sale bogus receipts for MAX
ing my medicines, send those that bite at their
bait other and various ridiculous formula
One sent out by villainous knave, located in
Chicago, gives the chief ingredient of Dr.
Sages Catarrh Remedy as being Blue Vitriol,
which is only equaled in absurdity by another
issued by parties in Philadelphia who say that
the ingredients composing DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy are burnt Alum, white Vitriol Sugar
OF Lead, and Prussiate of Iron" and that nv
Golden Medical Discovery is . simply Syrup
and tlncture Of Ginger" In refutation of all
the various and ridiculous bogus receipts for
making my medicines that have ever been. or
may hereafter be published and circulated.
would say that have, in dealing with The PEG
pie, ever been governed by the maxim that.
honesty is the best policy" and that, sue
cess makes success for it is because some
sufferer has obtained relief and cure, that that
sufferer has sent another to me; and it is be-
cause thousands have been cured that they
have recommended me and my superior
remedies to other thousands of sufferers. In
this way [ am constantly making living adver-
tlsements for myself and medicines. 1t is
common thing to hear people say that plenty
OF advertising will make a success out Of any
thing, whether it has any merit or not. Moth
ing could be farther from truth. It is with Slis
delusive idea actuating them that thousands
have rushed headlong into advertising, only to
ind themselves bankrupt in little while
Not more than one in five hundred, Who en-
cages III advertising medicines, ever makes
financial success out Of the undertaking, for
the reason that medicine to be successful
must possess unusual and extraordinary merit
1t IS not enough that it should be remedy of
Jar efficacy; it must possess superior and
1cOndea'fuI remedial properties for if it does