The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-03
SHY OF POISON.
How People Instinctiyely Shrink from Drugs
Containing Morphia and Opium
Reporters Researches.
From tho 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 or poisons. Opium smok-
ing 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
Philadelphia have recently made successful
raids on opium Joints and arrested the pro-
prietors. A more insidious form of poison
than this, however, and one which largely af-
fects 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 metal
lie oxides. The difficulty, however, has been
to find substitute for such things which
would be purely vegetable and at the same
time effect a prompt cure. That such dis
covery had been made was announced recently,
and DIR. o. Grothe, chemist to the Brooklyn
Board of Health, and graduate of the Uni
versity of Kief, Germany, publicly certified
that he had analysed the remedy and found it
free from narcotics, opiates or injurious metal
lie oxides and harmless and happy combine
ing that DR.. Samuel K. Cox graduate Of
Yale, and expert analytical chemist of this
city, had also analysed the remedy in cues
ton and given public testimony as to it's
purity and efficacy, q reporter of the Post was
told by him that he had given such a certif-
cate, and that he believed the remedy marked
a new stage in the treatment Of throat and
lung diseases. He knew, also, that many
public men in Washington had given the
remedy trial, and felt confident IL they were
called upon that they would cheerfully in
dorse it. One of them was Hon. J. G. s.
Blackburn, senator elect from Kentucky. Mr.
Blackburn, ON being approached, said he had
used the remedy with marked effect and
found great benefit, especially during his oc-
cupancy of the Speakers chair. 1t had re-
moved all irritation from his throat and re-
lieved 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. Fl. Bag
ley, ir., of New York, VIM. Mutchler, of Penn
sylvania; j. III Brewer, of New Jersey Hart
B. Holton, of Maryland and J. 2. Leedom,
of Ohio, Sergeant alarms of the House of
Representatives, were emphatic in their in
dorsement of the remedy Messrs. Ed. A.
Clark, Architect of Public Buildings; E. A.
Carman, Acting Commissioner of the Agi-
cultural Department; Thos. s. Miller, chief
clerk in the Surgeon-generals Department;
FL. E. Weaver, ex-Congressman from Missis-
sippi and now chief of the collecting division
in the General Postofice; J. III. Gravenstine,
head of the labor division in the same depart
ment, and F. B Conger, city postmaster and
son of Senator Conger, of Michigan, all pro-
nounced it valuable discovery, and had
found its effects not only soothing but last
ing. The remedy in question is Red Star
Cough Cure 1t is free from opiates or pois-
ons and is purely vegetable.
A physician who stands III close relation to
the Board of Health of the District of CsNum-
bia said that there are two things which seri-
ously affect the health of the people-impure
water and impure drugs, and, therefore, the
benefits of discovery like Red Star Cough
Cure cannot be overestimated 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 cause
In view of these facts members of Boards Of
Health in various cities, public men Of Mary
land, from the Governor down, and leading
practicing physicians throughout that State
have, over their own signatures. testified that
Red Star Cough Cure cannot fail to be boon
to the suffering and afflicted. The reporters
Investigations were thorough and unpreju-
diced, and the testimony obtained judging
from its character, cannot be gainsaid