Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-05
4 SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE.

Most men of conspicuous wealth, enterprise and
eminence commenced life as poor boys. This was
true OF Peter Cooper, A. T. Stewart, Gov. Morgan,
the elder Vanderbilt, Evarts, Edison, Draper, Dr.
Samuel Pitcher and others who have stamped their
genius and enterprise upon the city of New York.
10 men unaided by Inheritance New York is in
debted for her metropolitan influence, opulence and
philanthropy. Here is largely concentrated the ma
tons banking capital and its commerce. Besides
her thirteen hundred churches, imperial park, great
bridge and nnunerabe paatial residences, New
York is the largest manufacturing city in America.
With her suburbs she has 5000 manufacturing es-
Establishments, run by $4,000 operatives employing
s2S8, 1000, 900 capital and turning out yearly pro
duct OF $50 1000, 600.
Among the notable estlb ishment5 OF this kind
which have obtained national celebrity, IS one OBJ
served by tourists as they pass upon the elevated
railroad, opposite ST. Paups Churchya:d. As DR..
Samuel Pitcher the founder of this great institu-
ton, has apparently captured the mothers not only
Of this nation, but OF all Israel and through his
printing presses and otherwise is eXerting silent
but conseq influence in the homes of millions
of persons, few words respecting the man and his
enterprise Will be OF cosmopolitan interest. From
this establishment emanates not alone the numer'
Gus bottles OF Castora for which it is said children
in all chimes indulge "the toying smiles Of redund
ant health" but also the familiar annual New
York Receipt Book and Almanac, filled with in
teresting stories, which is probably read by half
our people. DR.. Pitcher graduated at the head Of
his class settled at HYMNS near Boston, and rose
to eminence in his profession while still young
man. The success attained by him during the cpl
demic of cholera ilf1HttR, which prevailed with
such tightful fatality in the Eastern States in 1850,
caused DR.. Pitcher to selec. chlldrens complaints
Z speciality in his medical practice. To preserve
infant life thereafter became DR.. Pitchers mission.
Realizing that the average Of human life is less
than twelve years he saw that 4 majority of our
species die in infancy and childhood. He lectured
in Boston, Providence and elsewhere upon the physi
illogical dietc and pathological treatment OF chill
den, ami particularly upon the injurious effects of
narcotics and opates so frequently administered in
the shape OF pargoric sirups and mysterious pana-
ceas. DR.. Pitchers practice extended So rapidly
and far that it became necessary for him tie adopt
general prescription for general use Entertaining
a repugnasce towards secret remedies and empiric
methods, he boldly printed tue formula of his pre-
5,rption his labels and published it to the world,
thereby challenging the attention Of physicians
everywhere. 1t was very generally adopted by the
profession as not coming ulder the head of secret
remedies" A report made by the Pathological
Society Of New York in 1862 says: The Castoria
prepare by Dr.. Samuel Pitcher has been found to
to be q valuable adjunct to the mqteria Hejica, and
free from morphine o. other injurious substance"