River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-26
SHY OF POISONING.
How People Instinctively Shrink from
Drugs Containing Morphia and Opium
A Reporters Researches.

HOW People 1nstinct1vely SHRINK 1rom
Drugs Containing naorphia and Opium
A Reporters Researches.
From the Washington Daily Post
For many years physicians have been
much exercised over the use of drugs
and 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 PhIila-
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 he
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 find
substitute for such things which would
be purely vegetable, and at the same
time effect prompt cure. That such
a discovery had been made was am
nounced recently, and DIR. O. Grothe,
chemist to the Brooklyn Board of
Health, and graduate of the Uni,er-
sity of Kiel, Germany, publicly certi-
fed that he had analysed the remedy
and found it free from narcotics, OPT
ates or injurious metallic oxides, and
harmless and happy combination, which
Will prove highly effective. Hearing
that DR. Samuel K. Cox, graduate of
Yale, and expert analytical chemist of
this city had also analysed the rene
dy in question and given public testi-
mony as to its purity and efficacy, re-
porter of The Post was told by him that
he had given such a certificate, and
that he believed the remedy marked
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 if
they were called upon that they would
cheerfGlly iudorse it. One of them was
Hon. j. G. S. Blackburn, Senator elect
from Kentucky. Mr.. BI9ckburn, 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
removed all 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. Con-
gresham J. H. Bagley, Jr., of New
York; VIM. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania;
j. IL. Brewer, of New Jersey; Hart b.
Holton, of Maryland, and ]. p. Leedon,
ESQ, of Ohio, Sergeant-at- Arms Of the
House of Representatives, were emphat-
ic i'll their endorsement OF The remedy.
Messrs. Ed A. Clark, Architect of
Public Buildings; Il. A. Carman,
Acting Commissioner of the Ag-
ricultural Department; Thomas S.
Miller, chief clerk in the Surgeon
Generals Department: Fl. Il. Weaver,
ex- Congressman from Mississippi, and
now chief of the collecting division in
the General Postoffice; j. FL. Craven
slime, head of the labor division in the
same department, and Il. b. Conger,
City Postmaster, and son of Senator
Conger of Michigan, all pronounced 1T
valuable discovery, and had found it's
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 III close rela-
tion 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 afflict-
ed. The reporters Investigations
were thorough and unprejudiced, and
the testimony obtained, Judging from
its character, connot be gainsayed.