The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-04
SHY OF POISON.
the Washington Daily Post,

from the Washington Daily PostI
For many years physicians have been
much exercised over the use of drugs and
medicines containing GpIates or poisons.
Opium smoking by the Chinese and the in
PRODUCTION of the habit into America is an
evil which has been sought 10 be remedied,
and the police Of Philadelphia have recently
made successful raids on opium Joints and
arrested the pIoprietors. A more insidious
form of poison than this, however, and one
which largely effects 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 known, contain narcotics or
deadly metallic oxides. The difficulty, how
ever, has been 10 Ind a substitute for such
things which would be purely vegetable, and
at the same Uime effect prompt cure. That
such a discovery had been made was announc-
ed recently, and DR.. o. Grothe, chemistto the
Brooklyn Board of Health, and graduate
of the University of Kiel, Germany, pub
lcly certified that he had analysed the RENE
dy and found it free from narcotics, opiates
or injurious metallic oxides, and harmless
and happy combination, which will prove
highly elective. Hearing that Dr.. Samuel
alytical chemist Of this city, had also ana
lyzed the remedy in question and given pub
lie testimony TO its purity and efficacy,
reporter OF the Post was told by him that be
had given such certificate, and that ne be-
IeVed the remedy marked a new stage in the
treatment OF throat and lung diseases. He
knew also that many public men in Washing
ton had given the remedy "A trial, and felt
confident If they were called upon that they
wodld cheertully indOrse it. One Of them
Hon ). {. >. blackburn, Senator elect
from kentucky. Mr.. Blackburn, on being
approached, said he had used the remedy
win marked eject and found great benefit,
especially during his occupancy of the Speak
er chair. 1t had removed al irritation IRON
his throat and relieved cough which had
troubled him much.
Senator German, of Maryland, said that he
firmly believed in the remedy, which he had
personally tested. Congressman J. II. Bag
ley, Jr, of New York; Vim. Mutchler, Of
Pennsylvania; j. II. Brewer, of New Jersey;
Hart y. Hoton, of Maryland, and J. p Lee
dom, Esq, of Ohio, serEcant-at-Arms of the
house OF Representatives were emphatic in
TIER Endorsement of the remedy. Messrs.
d A. Clark, Architect OF Public BUILDINGS;
u. A. Carman, Acting Commissioner of the
Agricultural Department; Thomas S. Miller,
chief clerk in the Surgeon Generals Depart
meAt; ii. f. Weaver, eX-Congressman from
Miss ssippi, and now chief Of the collecting
division in the G neral Postoifice; }. II.
GrdFcnSlnt, heal OF the ldBOr DIVISION III the
anne department, and f. B. Conger, City
Postmaster, and son of Senator Couger. of
Michigan, all pronounced it a valuable dis
covery, and had found its effects not only
eoothing, but lasting. The remedy in qucs-
ton is Red Star Cough Cure. 1t is free
from opates or poisons, and is purely
vegetable.
a physician who stands in close relation TO
the Board of Hea tn of the District of COlaIn-
bia said that there are two things which seri-
ously affect the health of the peOple,-im-
pure water and impure drugs, and therefore
the benefits of a discovery like Red Star
Cough Cure can not be oycr-estimated. Thou
sands Of children die annually from the use
of cough and soothing syrups containing
opiates or pOisOns and even adults are ex-
posed 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 practicing physicians
throughout that State have over their own
signatures testified that Red Star Cough Cure
not fail TO be a boon to the suffering and
afflicted. The reporter INVESTIGATIONS were
thorough and unprejudced, and the testi-
mony obtained, judging from its character,
can not be gainsaid.