The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-03

A gentleman once asked distinguished
dispensing druggist TO explain the secret Of
the alLUst universal demand for DR.. Rich.
mords Samaritan Nervine. He said .ha. it
was in fact genuine mediterranean com.
pound as every good physician would pre-.
scribe TO. the diseases which 1t was advertised
10 cure. or course il cost less than any drug.
gist would charge for the same article SUP.
piled on PHYSICIANS prescription, and be-
sides. there was saving Of the doctors fee
in addition. Moreover, by buying tie drugs
IN such enormous quantities, and having a
perfect apparatus for compromising the mix.
lure, lie was NOT only enabled TO get better
articles in the first place, bu, also to present
the medicine in better form and at less price
than the same preparation could be possibly
obtained from any other source. Or. Rich
Inond has devoted all his energies to the
alleviation..ot human suffering. With this end
IN view, and with his whole heart in his great
labor fot the bepeut OF the afflicted, he las
achieved marked and uerited success. There
can be no real success without true merit
That his success is real is evidenced b. the fact
thai his reputation as Il man and physician
does not deteriora;e, and the fact that there
is l steadily increasing demand for his So.
niaratan Ntrviae proves thatit is no nostrum.
but reliable remedy. He has repeatedly in
formed the public thu! it Is no patent medt
cine, and 80 Paten: has ever been asked for
Or obtained Neither does he advertise il rs
Care-ill. There are hundreds OF diseases
thai he acknowledges it will not cure Il rlsy
be urged that some OF these diseases are 20
widely different that it seems absurd TO pre-
scribe the sauIe remedy. They NAV differ in
symptoms, yet in character be precisely sim
ilari and then nc must take into coasitera.
ton the fact that remedies may possess vari-
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, and the REQUISITE machinery
10 be employed, are among the chief essen
tails. The first is insured BY purchasing the
ingredients in large quantities, whereby the
exercise OF greater care in sell citing the ma.
terials can be afforded; and the second can
only be accomplished where tie business is
sufficiently extensive 10 warrant large out
lay OF capital in procuring chemical appara.
tus. These facts apply with especia! force to
quality having been vastly improved since the
demand h4s become so g1e:.. as to reaui.e
their manufacture in very large quantities.
These ideas arc not mere speculative re-
marks to mis!ead the reader. OF 10 Undue him
with false views OF the superiority OF on.
medicine. While inspecting Dr. Richnondrs
establishment You would be surprised TO see
the admirable facilities, both chemical and
u1echanica!, which he employs in tie prose
cution o; 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. d4w