Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 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 of them pos
sess. The appellation Patent Medicfne'
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 favorite prescriptions which, in a 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 favorite
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 language unintelligi
BILE to anySb 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 manufacturer 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,
Leptandrln, Pepsin or Chloroform are made,
or how nauseous drugs are transformed into
palatable elixirs; yet they do not hesitate to
a prescription the composition of which is
unknown TO US, and discard another prepa-
ration simply because it is accompanied by
a printed statement of its properties with
directions for its use?
Some persons, while admitting that nv
medicines are good pharmaceutical com
pounds, object to them on the ground that
they are too often used with insufficient
judgment. / propose to obviate this diff
Guilty by enligntening the people as to the
structure and functions of their bodies, the
causes, character and symptoms of disease,
and by indicating the proper and judicious
employment Of my medicines, together with
such auxiliary treatment as may be neces-
sary. SUCH is one of the designs of the Peo-
pies Medical Adviser, forty thousand copies
OF which have already been published, and
are sold at the exc eedingly low price Of $3.50,
and sent (post-paid) to any address within
the United States and Canada.
II You would patronize medicines scien-
tifically prepared, use my Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is tonic, altera
tive or blood-cleansing, and an uneuualed
cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative Pellets
scarcely larger than mustard-seed, constitute
an agreeable and reliable physc; Favorite
Prescription, remedy for debilitatcd fe
males; my Compound Extract of Smart
Weed, a magical remedy for pain. howell
complaints, and on unequaled Liniment for
both human and horse flesh: whiIc mr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known the world
over as the greatest specific for Catarrb and
. Cold IN the Head" ever given to the public
These standard remedies have been before
the publIc Tor many years-a period long
enough to fully test their merits. and the
best argument that can be advanced in their
aVor Is the !act that their sale was never so
great aS turing The past six months.