The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-29
COMMON SENSE VS.. PREJUDICE.

IL, v. VI.
Dispensary, Buffalo, n. Y, Author of
1.-The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser" ETC., etc.
am aware that there is popular,
and not altogether unfounded, prejudice
against ''patent medicines" owing to
tie small amount of merit which many
of them possess. The appellation of
''Patent Medicine" does not apply to
my remedies, as no patent has ever been
asked for or obtained upon them, nor
have they been urged upon the public as
''cure alls." They are Simply some ia
vorite prescriptions, which in n very ex-
tensive practice, have proved their su-
perior remedial virtues in the cure of the
diseases for which they are recommend
ed. Every practicing physician has his
favorite remedies, which he oftenest rec
ommends or uses, because he has the
greatest confidence in their virtues.
The patient does not know their eompo-
sition. Even prescriptions are usually
written in a language unintelligible to
any but the druggist. AS much secrecy
is employed as in the preparation of
proprietary medicines. Does the fact
that an article is prepared by a process
known only to the manufacturer render
that article less valuablel How many
physicians know the elementary compo-
sition of the remedies which they em-
ploy, some of which have never been
analyzed2 Few practitioners know how
Morphine, Quinine, POdophyllin, Lep-
tandrin, Pepsin. or Chloroform, are
made, or how nauseOus drugs are trans
formed into palatable elixirs; yet they
do net hesitate to employ them. Is it
not inconsistent to use a prescription,
the composition of which is unknown to
US, and discard another preparation
simply because it is accompanied by a
printed statement of its properties with
directions for its usel
Some persons, while admitting that
my medicines are good pharmaceutical
compounds, object to them on the
ground that they are too often used with
insufficient Judgment. propose to OBJ
viate this difficulty by enlightening the
people as to the structure and functions
of their bodies, the causes, character,
aud symptoms of disease, and by indiea-
ting the proper and judieiOus employ
ment of my medicines. together with
such auxiliary treatment as may be nee
essary. Such is one of the designs of
the Peoples Medical Adviser, forty
thousand copies of which have already
been published, and are sold at the ex-
ceedingly low price of sI.5O, and sent
post paid to any address within the
United States and Canada.
If you would patrOnize medicines, sci
entifcally prepared, use my Family Med
ieines. Golden Medical Discovery is
tonic, alternative, or blood-eleansing, and
an unequaled cough remedy; Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, scarcely larger than
mustard seed, constitute an agreeable
and reliable physie; FavOrite Preserip-
ton, a remedy for debilitated females;
my Compound Extract of Smart Weed,
a magical remedy for pain, bowel com
plants, and an unequaIed Liniment for
both human and horse-fiesh; while DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known the
world over as the greatest specific for
Catarrh and "Cold in the Head, ever
given to the public.
These standard remedies have been
before the public for many years-a Pc
riod long enough to fully test their
merits, and the best argument that can
be advanced in their favor is the fact
that their sale was never so great as
during the past six months.
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The Republican tidal wave in Iowa
swept everything before it. Governor
KirkwoOd's majority will exceed 81, 900,
the House will stand seventy-one Repub-
licans TO twenty-nine Democrats, and in
the Senate there are thirty-nine Repub-
licans and four Independents, who will
operate with the Republicans, to eleven