Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
SHY OF POISON.
from the WASHINGTON Daily Post.I


from the Washington Daily Postl
For many years physicians have been
much exercised over the use Of drugs and
medicines containing opiates or poisons.
Opium smoking by the Chinese and the in
PRODUCTION 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 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, how
ever, has been to find Il substitute for such
things which would be purely vegetable, and
at the same time effects prompt cure. That
sucn discovery had been made was announc-
ed recently, and DR.. O. Grothe, chemist to the
Brooklyn Board of Health, and ii graduate
of the University of kiel, Germany, pub
hcly certified that he had analysed the rene
dy and found it free from narcotics, opiates
or injurious metallic oxides, and a harmless
and happy combination, which will prove
highly effective. Hearing that DR.. Samuel
K. Cox, graduate of Yale, and expert an
alytical chemist OF this city, had also ana
lyZed the remedy in question and given pub
lie testimony as TO its purity and efficacy,
reporter OF the Post was told by him that he
had given such a certificate, and that he be-
lieYed the remedy marked a new stage in the
treatment Of throat and lung diseases. He
h1t liz in a IN
ton had given the remedy trial, and felt
confident if they were called upon that they
would cheerfully indorse it. One of them
was Hon. j. c. s. Blackburn, Senator elect
rom Kentucky. Mr.! Blackburn, on being
approached, said he had used the remedy
with marked effect and found great benefit,
especially during his occupancy of the Speak
err chair. 1t had removed ell irritation from
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. H. Bag
ley, Jr., of New York; VIM. Mutchler, of
Pennsylvania; j. II. Brewer, of New Jersey;
Hart B. Holton, of Maryland, and j. P. Lee
dom Esq, of Ohio, Sergeant-at-Arms Of the
House of Representatives, were emphatic in
their Endorsement OF the remedy. Messrs.
Ed a. Clark, Architect of Public Buildings;
Il. a. Carman, Acting commissioner of the
Agricultural Department; Thomas S. Miller,
chief clerk in the Surgeon Generals Depart
ment; II. e. Weaver, eX-Congressman from
Mississippi, and now chief Of the collecting
division in the General PostOtfice; J. I'll.
Gravenstine, head of the labor division in the
same department, and F. B. Conger, City
Postmaster, and son of Senator Conger, of
Michigan, all pronounced it a valuable dis
covery, and had found its effects not only
soothing, but lasting. The remedy in ques-
ton is Red Star Cough Cure. 1t is free
from opiates or. pOisons, and is purely
vegetable.
A physician who stands in close relation to
the Board of Health of the District of Column
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 oyer-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-poisonng from
such 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
can not fail to be a boon to the suffering and
afflicted. The reporters investigations were
thorough and unprejudiced, and the testi-
mony obtained, judging from its character,
can not be gainsaid.