Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-04
Common.Sense VS.. Prejudice.

BY r. V. PIERCE. NJ. d., of the Worlds Dispen.
sary. Buffalo, n. Y. Author Of " The Peoples
Common-Sense Medical Adviser" etc. etc.
am aware that there is popular and
not altogether unfounded prejudice against
patent medicines" owing to the small
amount of merit which many If them pos
sess. The appellatiou 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-als." They are simply
some favorite prescriptions which, in very
extensive practice, have proved their supe-
rior remedial virtues in the cure of the dis
eases for which they are recommended.
Every practicing physician has his fayOrite
remedies, which he oftenest recommends or
uses because he has the greatest confidence
in their virtues. The patient does not know
their composition. Even prescriptions are
usually written in a language unintelligi-
bic to any but the druggist. As much Sc
crecy is employed as in the preparation OF
proprietary medicines. Does the fact that
an article is prepared by process known
only to the manufactures render that article
less valuable? How many physicians know
the elementary composition OF the remedies
which they employ, some of which have
never been analysed? Few practitioners
know how Morphine, Quinine, Podophyllin,
Leptandrin, Pcpsin or ChlorofOrm are made,
or how nauscOu- drugs are transformed INTO
palatable eliXirs; yet they do not hesitate TO
employ them. Is it not inconsistent to use
prescription the composition of which Is
unknown to US, and discard another prepa-
ration simply because il is accompanied W
a printed statement of its properties with
directions for its use?
Some persons, while admitting that my
medicines are good pharmaceutical com
pounds object to them ON the ground that
they are too often used with insuiiiclen'
Judgment, ! propose to obyiate this dliI-
Guilty by enlightcning the people as to the
structure aud functions of their bodies, the
causes, character and symptoms of disease
and b. indicating the proper and judieious
employment OF my medicines, together WIN
such auxiliary treatment as may he neceS-
sary. such is one of the designs OF the feo-
Pies Medical Adviser, forty thousand copies
of which have already been published, ana
are sold al the exceedingly low price OF si;%u'
and sent lpost-paidi 10 any address WiliHh
the United States and Canada.
II vog wpHld patrOniZe medicines scleh-
hheaily prepared. use my Family Medlciiss
Golden Medical Discovery is tonic, aieta,
tive or blOod-clcanSing. and an uneqna'ea
cough remedy; Pleasant PurgatVe frncs,
scarcely larger than mustard seed, consutu.c
an agreeable and reliable physic; FaYoFte
Prescription, remedy for debiiitated x
males; my Compound Extract Of smart
Weed, a magical remedy for pain, poNeI
complaints, and an uuequaled LFniineh' 10 10
both human aud horse flesh; while ~,
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known the WORM
over as the greatest specific for CatarTh ana
cold i'm the Head" ever given 70 the puhue.
These standard remedies have been hc4uie
the public for many years-a period louA
enough 10 fully test their merits, ana tae
hest argument that can be advanced IN Ihet
favor is the fact that their sale was never ~
great as during the past six months.