The daily gazette., 1875-10-16
Common Sense as. Prejudice

Common Sense as. PreIudtce.
By r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D., OF the Worlds |
Dispensary, Buffalo, n Y. Author of |
The Peoples Common Sense Medical |
adviser" etc.
| am aware that there is popular,
and not altogether unfounded, prejudice
against patent medicines" owing to
the small amount of merit which many
of them possess. The appellation "Pa-
tent 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 ais. They are simply some favor
ite prescriptions, which, in very extern
sive practice, have proved their superior
amedial virtues N the cure Of the dis
eases for which they ere recommended.
| Every practising physician has his remi-
| dies, which he oftenest recommends or
uses, because he has the greatest conf
dence in their virtues. The patient
does not know their composition. Even
prescriptions are usually written in a
language unintelligible to any but
the druggist. AS much secrecy is en-
ployed as i'll the preparation of proprie-
tary medicines. Does the fact that an
article is prepared by a process known
only to the manufacturer render that ar
tible less valuable? How many physi-
clans 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, pepsin,
or chloroform, are made, or how nause-
; GUS dr. lgs are transformed into palatable
5 eli1irs; yet they do not hesitate to en-
, ploy them. Is it not inconsistent to use
prescription, the composition of which
L 10 nnEnnwn and 1i1nar r1 nnnt ha,
= preparation simply because it is accom-
panied by q printed statement OF it!
properties with directions for its use:
Some persons, while admitting tina
It my medicines are good pharmaceutical
Il compounds, object to them on the grount
that they are too often used with INSULT
cient judgment. | propose to obviat.
this difficulty by enlightening the pee
d pie as to the structure and functions O
y their bodies, the causes, character AM
q symptoms of disease, and by indicatin,
-. the proper and judicious employmen
of my medicines, together with sucl
e auxiliary treatment as may be necessar,
h Such is one of the designs of the People
il Medical Adviser, forty thousand copie
of which have already been published
: and are sold at the exceedingly lew pric
1t of 81 so, and sent postpaid TO any ad
,f dress within the United States and Can
70 ada.
lS If you would patronize medicines, sci
ID entifcally prepared, use my Family NJ ed
A. icines. Golden Medical Discovery j
tonic, Alternative, or blood cleansing, an
unequalled cough remedy; Pleasar
n Purgative Pellets, scarcely larger tha
~ mustard seed, constitute an agreeabl
ed and reliable physic; Favorite PrescriI
We tion, remedy for debilitated female
lis my Compound Extract of Smart Wee
. a magical remedy for pain, bowel con
plants, and an unequalled Linimel
Ill both for human and horsa-fesh, whi
is DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy ia known Il
,s+ world over as the greatest specific f
''' oatarrh and cold in the head, ever Civ
as to the public.
700 These standard remedies have be
before the pu bic for many years-a I
riod long enough to fully test thl
merits, and the lest argument that C
be advanced in their favor is the ff
lat that their sale was never so great as d,
to lag the ist six months. ecd&wl