The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-20

4 gentleman once asked distinguished
dispensing druggist TO explain the secret Of
the almost universal demand for DR.. Rich
monds Samaritan Servine He said that it
was in TACT Il genuine Inedicine-such n con-
pound as every good physician would pre-
scribe for the diseases which it WAS advertised
to cure, or course it cost less than any drug
sist would charge for the same article sup.
piled OH PHYSICIANS prescription, and be-
sides. there was a saving OF the doctors fee
in addition. Moreover, by buying the drugs
in such enormous quantities, and having o
perfect apparatus for compromising the mix
ture, he was not only enabled to get better
articles in the first place, but also 10 present
the medicine in better form and at less price
than the same preparation could be possibly
obtained from any other source. DR.. Rich
mona has devoted oil his energies to the
alienation of human suffering With this end
in view,and with his whole hcart in his great
labor for the benefit OF the afflicted, he has
achieved marked and merited success. There
eau be no real success without true merit.
That his success is real is evidenced by the fact
that h:s reputation us man and physician
does not dcteriofate, and the fact that there
Is Il steadily increasing demand for his Sa-
tnaratan Servine proves thatit is no nostrum
but a reliable remedy. He has repeatedly in.
formed the public that it Is no patent mcdi.
cine, and 20 patent has ever been asked for
or obtained. Neither does he advertise it rs
cure-all. There are hundreds OF diseases
that he acknowledges il will no, cure II may
be urged that some OF these diseases a!e so
widely different that it seems absurd to pre-
scribe the same remedy. They may differ in
symptoms. yet in character be precisely sim
liar; and then We must take into considera.
finn TIM fact tbnf ra,DnNias ,,,ots ,,oecnoo
Gus properties. Thus, some medicines are
both tonic and Alternative; others may be
tonic and laxative, the properties differing
according to the quantity administered and
the time and circumstances which demand
its employment.
In the manufacture OF any pharmaceutical
PREPARATION the purity and Strength OF the
materials used, md the requisite machinery
TO be employed, are among the chief essen
tails. The first is insured by purchasing the
ingredients in large quantities, whereby the
exercise OF srester care in selecting the ma.
tcrials can be afforded; and the second can
only be accomplished where the business is
sufficiently extensive to warrant large out
lay OF capital in procuring ctsemica! apnara-
tus. These facts apply with especial furce to
the manufacture OF orr medicines. their
quality having been vastly improved since the
demand his become SO great rs to REQUIRE
their manufacture in very large quantities.
These ideas are not mere speculative re-
marks to lnis!ead the reader, or to Undue him
with false Views OF the superiority of our
medicine, While inspecting Dr.. Richmond's
establishment you would be surprised to see
the admirable facilities, both che mcal and
mechanical, Which he employs in the prose.
cutiun Of his business. Everything is arranged
in the most perfectly systematic order, and
while to the general observer there seems to
be no room for improvement. yet new appa.
ratus and mechanical appliance are constant.
ly being procured for the establishment. d&w