Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-05
A PHoMpr DENIAL.

"A PROMPT DENIAL
WHEREAS. FOR SOME TIME PAST CERTAIN
REPORTS HAVE BEEN IN CIRCULATION. AND
WHEREAS SAID REPORTS (WHICH WE DID NOT
DEEM WORTHY OF NOTICE ILLUMINATED YES
TERDAY IN AN ANONYMOUS LIBEL IN SEVERAL
PAPERS. We FOR THE ASSURANCE OF OUR Gus
TONERS AND THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.
SAY:
FIRST. THAT THE SCOTCH OATS ESSENCE.
AS MANUFACTURED BY US FOR THE GENERAL
PUBLIC. DOES NOT CONTAIN A SINGLE PARTI-
Gle OF ANY oPIATE. MORPHINE CHLoRAI. IN
DIAN HEMP. OR ANY NARCOTIC Oh POISONOUS
INGREDIENT OF ANY KIND.
SECOND. THAT FROM THE FIRST MOMENT
WE HEARD THESE REPORTS WE BEGAN TO
PLACE UPON EACH BOTTLE OF SCOTCH OATS
ESSENCE $4,000 FORFEIT GUARANTEE
THAT THERE WAS NOT A PARTICLE OF ANY
oPIATE OR OTHER NARCOTIC IN IT. SWORN TO
UNDER OATH
AND UNPRECEDENTED SALE OF s. o. E. AND
THE MANY THOUSANDS OF HOPELESS AND
HELPLESS INvALIDs IT HAS CURED, WE HAVE
AROUSED THE Envy. HATRED MALICE. AND
ILL-wILL OF CERTAIN PERSONS. WHO ARE
TAKING EVERY MEANS IN THEIR POWER TO
INJURE THE REPUTATION OF THE REMEDY.
FOURTH. WE WOULD INVITE ANY PERSON
OR PERSONS. CHEMISTS. PHYSICIANS. OR THE
PUBLIC. TO CALL AT OUR FACTORY AND WIT
NESS THE MANUFACTURE OF THE GREAT
REMEDY FROM THE CRUDE GRAIN TO THE
BOTTLES AND LABELED ESSENCE
FIFTH. WE SHALL TAKE EVERY LEGAL
STEP NECESSARY TO PUNISH MALICIOUS AND
LIBELLoUs PARTIES WHO. UNDER THE aUIsE
OF ANONYMITY. ATTACK Us FROM BEHIND IN
cowARDLY MANNER
SIXTH. WE REGRET THAT THE FAILURE OF
THREE OF THE BEST CHEMISTS IN THE CITY
TO COMPLETE AN ELABORATE ANALYSIS OF
SCOTCH OATS ESSENCE. OWING TO THE
LENGTH OF TIME 1T TAKES WILL NOT AS YET
PERMIT US TO PUBLISH THEIR SWORN STATE
MENT AS TO THE ENTIRE FREEDOM OF OUR
REMEDY FROM ANY NARCOTIC
SCOTCH OATS ESSENCE IS NATURES TONIC
AND NERvINE. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
PROMPT AND LASTING IN ITS EFFECTS.
1t is Natures remedy. and. being of vegetable
origin is absolutely harmless it will not inure the
most exhausted invalid the weakest stomach. but
WILL on the contrary strengthen build up fortify and
retuvenate not only the weakened and unstrung
nerves pasied limbs and exhausted vitality but will
increase the appetite and digestive powers enrich and
purify the blood and regulate the bowels.
2 While. like opium. it will quiet pain and produce
Sleep it does not by sleeping the brain ethargy
and deadening the nerves. but by giving strength
equilibrium and visor to them. Not only will it not
enslave those who use it-as do opium. morphine alco
ho and chlors-but it will promptly destroy the crsv
ing for these strengthen and nvgurate the shattered
nerves. and free the victim from his terrible bondage
3. DE-. BUCKLAND'S ESSENCE is in no sense
patent medicine. 1t is simply Natures Tonic and
'itaizer presented its most active and palatable
FORM The infant and the octoeenarian may alike use
1t without any harm and with much benefit
T. 1t does away with loading the stomach with
nsuseous and powerful drugs and decoctions, and
simply feedsfs and vgor to the weakened and hungry
nerves and tissues.
.. 1t is not q temporary expedient for stimulating
tired brain or exhausted system for time to
leave as badly of than before but an actual
nerve food a. well tonic that enters directly into the
composition of the nerves. giving strength that is
lasting and power that will not fail when called upon
o. Its claims based not upon the myths or fables
Of ignorant and imaginative people, but upon the
unassailable evidence Of Of best physicians
not only regards its action upon their PATIENTS but
also upon themselves
2. 1t is not q popular nostrum for which every
curative virtue under the sun is claimed but natural
vegetable specific for nervous and mental diseases
tative. exhaustive, painful or paralytic
SCOTCH OATS ESSENCE
WILL POSITIVELY CURE
DYSPEPSIA scIATIcA.
HEADACHE, MALARIA
CONSTIPATION. ANGINA PECToRIs,
EPILEPSY. NEURALGIA
DIABETES. spAsMopIc ASTHMA
PARALYSIS, TREMBLING PALSY.
NEURALGIA OF THE HEART.
WILL PRODUCE EASY ANDNPA1NLEss LABOR;
FINE. STRONG AND HEALTHY CHILDREN;
PREVENT CONCLUSIONS AND TEETH
ING TROUBLES: GIVE STRENGTH AND
HEALTH TO THE WEAK; MAKE
THE CHILDLESs HAPPY.
BOOK ON BRAIN AND NERVES, MOTHERS,
AND-BooK AND NURSING RECEIPTS FREE
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