The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-17
SHY OF POISON.
How People Instinctiyely Shrink from
Drugs Containing MOrphia and
0pium--A Reporters
Researches.
From the Washington Daily Post.

From the Washington Daily Post.
For many years physicians have been
much exercised over the use of drugs
and medicines containing opiates OF
poisons. Opium smoking by the Chi.
nese and the introduction of the habit
into America is an evil which has been
sought to be remedied, and the police
of Philadelphia have recently made
successful raids on opium '.joints' and
arrested the proprietors. A more in
sidious form of poison than this, how
ever, and one which largely affects not
only the health but the lives of chill
dren, 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 dill
Guilty, however, has been to find a sub
stitute for such things which would be
purely vegetable, and at the same time
effect a prompt cure. That such a dis
covery had been made was announced
recently, and DR.. o. Grothe, chemist to
the Brooklyn Board of Health, and a
graduate of the University of Kicl, Ger
many, publicly certified that he had
analyzed the remedy and found it free
from narcotics, opiates or injurious me-
tallic oxides, and a harmless and happy
combination, which will prove highly
effective. Hearing that DR.. Samuel K.
Cox, a graduate of Yale, and expert
analytical chemist of this city, had also
analysed the remedy in question and
given public testimony as to its purity
and efficacy, a reporter of The POST
was told by him that he had given such
q certificate, and that he believed the
remedy marked a new stage in the
treatment of throat and lung diseases.
He knew also hat many public men in
Washington had given the remedy a
trial, and felt confident if they were
called upon that they would c%heerfully
indorse it. One of them was Hon. j..
G.. S. Blackburn, Senator-elect from
Kentucky. Mr.. Blackburn, on being
approached, said he had used the RENE
dy with marked effect and found great
benefit, especially during his occupancy
of the Speakers chair. Ithad removed
all irritation from his thoat and relieved
a cough which had troubled him much.
Senator German, of Maryland, said
that he firmly believed in the remedy,
which he had personally tested. Con-
gresham D.. H. Bagley, Jr., OF New
York; VIM. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania;
j.. H. Brewer, of New Jersey; Hart b..
Holton, of Maryland, and j. z. Lee
dom. Esq, of Ohio, Sergeant-at-Arms OF
the House of Representatives, were en-
phatic in their endorsement of the rem
edy. Messrs. Ed. A. Clark, Architect
of Public Buildings; E. A. Carman,
Acting Commissioner of the Agricul-
tural department; Thomas S. Miller,
chief clerk in the Surgeon-General's
Department; H. E. Weaver, Exon
gresham from Mississippi, and now
chief of the collecting division in the
General Postoflice; j. II. G~ravenstine,
head of the labor division in the same
department, and F. B. Conger, City
Postmaster, son of Senator Conger, OF
Michigan, all pronounced it a valuable
discovery, and 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.
A physician 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
benefits of a discovery like Red Star
Cough Cure cannot be over-estimated.
Thousands of children die annually
from the use of cough and soothing
syrups containing opiates or poisons,
and even adults are exposed to the
danger of blood-poisoning from such a
cause. In view of these facts members
of Boards of Health in various cities;
public men of Maryland, from the Gov
ernor down, and leading practicing
physicians throughout that State have
owe their w signatures testified that
Red Star Cough Cure cannot fail to be
q boon to the suffering and afflicted.
The reporters Investigations were
thorough and unprejudiced, and the
testimony obtained, Judging from its
character, cannot be gainsayed.