Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-03-26
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BOW People Instinoriveiy Shrink from
Drugs co~ntainiag Morphia and Opium
Reporters Res

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Drugs Containing Morphia md Opium
AReportsr's Researches.
From the Washington Daily Post
For many years physicians have been
much exercised over the use of drugs
md medicines containing opiates or poi.
sons. Opium smoking by the Chinese
and the introduction of the habit into
America is an evil which has been sought
to be remedied. and the police OF Phila-
delphia have recently made successful
raids on opium Joints" and arrested the
proprietors. A more insidious form of
poison than this, however. and one which
largely affects not only the health but The
lives OF children, is that which comes in
the form Of popular medicines. Nine
out of ten OF these, it is known, contain
narcotics or deadly metallic oxides. The
difficulty, however, has been to finl &
substitute for such things which would
be purely vegetable, and at the same
time effect n prompt cure That such
A discovery had been made was an
bounced recently, and DR.. o. Grothe,
chemist to the Brooklyn Board of
Health, and a graduate OF the Uni,er-
'ity of Kiel, Germany, publicly certi-
fed that he had analysed the remedy
and found ii free from narcotics, OPT
ites or injurious metallic oxides, and a
harmless and happy combination, which
will prove highly effective. Hearing
hat DIR. Samuel X. Cox, q graduate OF
Tale, and expert analytical chemist of
his city had also analysed the reme-
ly in question and given public testi-
nony as to its purity and efficacy, a re-
porter Of The Post was told by him that
he had given such a certificate, and
that he believed the remedy marked a
new stage il the treatment Of thI oat and
iung diseases. He knew also that many
public men in Washington had given
the remedy a trial, and felt confident if
they were called upon that they would
eheerfully iDdorse it. One of them was
Hon. j. G. S. Blackburn, Senator. elect
rom Kentucky. Mr.. Blackburn. on
beng approached. said he had used the
:emedy with marked effect and found
great benefit, especially during his oc-
upancy of the Speakers chair. 1t had
'emoved all irritation from his throat
md relieved a cough whiah had troubled
lin much.
Senator German, of Maryland, said
hat he firmly believed in the remedy,
which he had personally tested. Con-
gresham J. II. Bagley, Jr., of New
York; VIM. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania;
J. II. Brewer, Of New Jersey Hart b.
Holton, of Maryland, eud J. p. Leedom,
Esq, of Ohio, Sergeant-at. Arms Of the
House Of Representatives, were emphat-
ic in their endorsement of the remedy.
Messrs. Ed. A. Clark, Architect of
Public Buildings; f. A. Carman,
Acting Commissioner of the Ag-
ricultural Department; Thomas S.
Miller, chief clerk in the Surgeon
Generals Department: H.. Z. Weaver,
cx-C Congressman from Mississippi, and
now chief of the collecting division in
the General P~ostoffice; J. II. Craven
slime, head of the labor division in the
same department, and +. B. Conger,
City Postmaster, and son of Senator
Conger of Michigan, all pronounced 1t
a valuable discovery, and had found its
effects not only soothing, but lasting.
The remedy in question is Red Star
Cough Cure. 1t is free from opiates or
poisons and is purely vegetable.
ApEysician who stands in close rela-
ton to the Board of Health Of the Dis
trict of Columbia said that there are
two things which seriously affect the
health of the people,-impure water and
impure drugs, and therefore the bene-
fits Of a discovery like Red Star Cough
Cure cannot be over estimated. Thou
sands Of children die annually from the
use of cough and soothing syrups con-
tanning opiates or poisons, and even
adults are exposed to the danger
of blood poisoning from such a
cause. In view of these facts mem
bers of Boards of Health in various
cities; public men of Maryland. from
the Governor down, and leading prac.
ticing physicians throughout that State
have over their own signatures testified
that Red Star Cough Cure cannot fail
to be a boon to the suffering and affiict-
ed. The reporters Investigations
we're thorough and unprejudiced, and
the testimony obtained, Judging from
its character. connot be gainsayed.