Connecticut western news., 1891-04-01
NON.ALCOHOLIC,, BITTERs.

The public health is seriously leopard
 ed by the wholesale use of certain pat
 ept medicines against which individuals
 and the public should be more on their
 guard. Besides other evils there is
 abundant evidence that some of them contain alcohol in some of its forms
 which should not be thus administered. It ranges in quantity from 20 to 40 per
 cent.
 In the report on nostrums. proprie-
 tary medicines, and new drugs. which
 was read before the American Associa- tion for the Cure of Inebriates l889). is found in the appendix the following list
 of the analyses of large number of we'll. known patent medicines, which is
 of interest not only to the physician, but to the student of human nature, in view of the readiness with which charla- tanism can hoodwiuk persons who ill other matters are suppOsed to have the
 ordinary quantity of common sence: Per cent of Alcohol. pr Buckland's Scotch Oats Essence 35, (Also 4 xr. morphine to the ounce more insidious aud dangerous fraud
 can scarcely be imagined. especially when administered, IS this is recom-
 
 the opium habit.
 The Best" Tonic 765 Carter's Physical Extract 22 Hooker's Wigwam Tonic 20.7 Hollands German Tonic 2O.3 ow.'sArabian Tonic. ..'Not rum drink" IS 9 Jackson's Golden Seal Tonic 196 Liebig Co.'s Coca Beef Tonic 232 Parker's Tonic 41.6
 "A pu, ely vegetable extract. Stimulus to the body without intoxica ing. Iu- eprlates strugg ing to reform will tiud it's tonic and sustaining influence on the nervous system great help to their efforts."
 Schenck's Seaweed Tonic 19.5 Distilled from seaweed after the same manner as Jamaica spirits is from sugar-cane. It is therefore entir- ely harmless. and free from the injur- ious properties ot corn and rye whisky" Atwood's Quinine Tome Bitt1rs 292 l.. F. Atwood's Jaundice Bitters 223 Moses Atwood's Jaundce Bitters IT. H. Baxter's Mandrake Btters 16.5 Boker's stomach Bitters 42.6 Browns Iron Bitters 197
 Perfectly harmless. Not substitute for whisky"
 BurdOck- Blood Bitters 25.2 Carter's Scotch Bitters 176 Colton's Bltters 27.1 Copp's White Mountain Bitters 6. (" Not an alcoholic beverage" Drake's Plantation Bitters 332 CIlul D VudA0T OlCGoIb At.6 tioodhue's Bitters 16.1 HartshOrns Bitters 222 Hooflaud's German Bitters 256 "Entirely vegetable and free from alco- hOlic stlmulant."
 Hop Bitters 12. Hostetter's stomach Bitters 44.3 Kaufmann's Sulphur Bitters Z0.5 Contains no alcohol" In fact it con- tains no sulphur, but 20.5 per cent alco- hol)
 Kinesley's Iron Tonic l4.9 LanYley's Bitters 18.l Liverpool's Mexican Tonic Bitters 224 Pierce's Indian Restorative Bitters 6.1 z. Porter's Stomach Bitters 27.9 kushs Bitters 35.
 Dr ki.hardson's Concentrated Sherry Wine Bitters 475 "Tnree times daily or when there is sensation of weakness or uneasiness at the stOmash.'
 SecDr's Cinchona Bitters 131 Shony's German Bltters 2l.5 Job Sweets Strengthening Bitters 29. lhurstuns Old Continental oitters 114 Walkers Vinegar Bitters 6.l Free from all alcoholic stimulants. Contains no spirit'
 Warn-r's Safe Tonic Btters 35.7 Warren's Bilious Bitters 215 Wheeler's Tonic sherry Wine Bitters 1a.o Wheat Bitters l36 Faith W hitcomb's Nerve Bitters 2us !