Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-23
PATENT MEDICINES
OF NO AVAIL IN THE TREATMENT OF
NEGLECTED CASES OF CHRONIC
CATARRH.

OF NO AVAIL IN THE TREATMENT oF
NEGLECTED CASES OF CHRONIC
CATARRH.
Skilled AMI Special Treatment Necessary,
Adapted to Each Form and Variety ol
the DIsease-Many Cases OF Catarrh Due
to Dcformed Noses and Detected Sep
rums.
Patent medicines never did and never will
cure catarrh. Why? Let us see. Let u:
take up and analyzs the catarrh prepara
tions and ascertain from their componen
cure being effected In any number OF cases
Secrets Divulged.
That is what we propose to do to-day
These wonderful compounds shall be forced
by the art of the analytical chemist to give
up their long-kept and carefully guarded
secrets that the public may know by what
shameless methods and worthless rubbish
they have been systematically humbugged
We take first one OF the leading catarrn
widely and voluminously advertised: one
for which the most positive and contiden,
claims are made. Here is the formula:
Hydrastis canadensis. is.....................1 OF
Borax (powdered). )........-.....--.-......l0 gr
Mix and color with ferro-cyanuretum.
Let us examine the constituents: Hydras
tis is not considered of sufficient Importance
to receive mention in
Sidney Ringers Handbook
OF Therapeutics q standard work on medic
inal remedies. Barthelow, in his great
work on Materia Medicn and Therapeutics
devotes about two pages to the drug, but Is
unable TO verify the claims made for it in
catarrhal affections OF nose, throat ano
mouth. If it has any value whatever in ca
tarrhal troubles. 1t is only in very few o1
the simplest forms.
Borax or boracic acid is only an antiseptic
to be used in ulccrations to prevetn decom
position. Even for this purpose there Is not
enough in the above formula to be Of any
value whatever.
foremost catarrhal specialists to do more
harm than good in this trouble. Every ca.
tarrhal subject, however, Is familiar with
the cleansing properties OF salt, bur this is
not curative, simply cleansing, and there is
not enough salt in this combination to
cleanse anything. Cyanide OF iron is a
poison. Now take all these ingredients
singly or combined, and
We Assert Posiriv ely,
Without fear of contradiction, that they are
not, and cannot possibly be, of any value
whatever in the treatment of those cases
characterized by poly or by hypertrophfes,
which constitute more that nine-tenths OF
the cases of catarrh, or those caused by de-
flected septums, or broken noses, or other
deformity. We do not believethis com mbina-
t1On cOulQ, unQoF any circumstances, cure
single case of chronic catarrh.
Here is another combination widely adver-
tised as catarrh cure:
naseIlne.- -----..-.--.--....--.-... OF.
T0ymal 3 CT.
Carbonate of bismurh rh...............l5 is gr.
Oil wintergreen. n...-.......-.........2 q minims.
Without going into the individual 1ngredi.
ent5 of this mixture, we can say of it as OF
the first, that at the best it can only give
temporary relief in the simplest form OF
catarrh. 1t has no curative properties-is
simply palliative.
Here is another, largely and boastingly
advertised as a sure cure for catarrh:
Gentian root (powd. ).-..---...-.-.......IL OF.
Bitter orange peel (powd.) .... DIR.
Cardamon seeds (powd.) d.)..-..-..........10 100 gr.
Iodide of potash. h...................... OF.
This combination has
No Curative Effects
Whatever in nasal catarrh. 1t may have
some beneficial effect in simple dyspepsia,
but the claims of superiority as catarrh
cure are absurd.
Following is another. to advertise which
many thousands Of dollars have been paid,
and the dupes who have bought it with the
vain hope of being cured are also numbered
by the tens of thousands:
Belladonna leaves (powdered). .........1 part
Nitrate potash (po Sdered) ..-.-.... 10 parts
The only effect of the belladonna is to de-
crease the quantity of secretion of mucus.
1t has no effect whatever on the cause OF
the secretion. Nitrate of potash is very
Irritating where the skin is broken. and, as
there are often small ulcers in the nose,
the action of this drug in these cases would
be extremely bad. 1t is only necessary to
add in regard to these drugs that they are
both
Dangerous Poisons.
These are fair samples and true analyses
of the foremost medicines advertised to cure
catarrh. It does not require the knowledge
or skill of specialist to say that they are n o
good Catarrh can be cured. Drs. Copeland.
Hall and Byers have abunaantly proved
this. The voluntary statements of hundreds
Of grateful patients prove it. But the ex-
perience of these same hundreds of grateful
patients who have been cured by Drs. Cope
land, Hall and Byers is also conclusive to
the point that patent medicines will not and
cannot cure catarrh, and also that it is only
the skilled specialist who sees and under
stands every form and phase of the disease.
and knows exactly what to do at every point
that has any chance of success in this
trouble. This Ia tho secret of the success of
Drs. Copeland, Hall and Byers. They under
stand their business and therefore cure
catarrh.
CATARRH OF THE HEAD, THROAT
AND STOMACH.