The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-27
"ANoTHER HEAD ON THE HYDRA"


at Is time attention was drawn to a
form of alcoholic traffic that seems to
have been overlooked by those engaged
in the crusade against the rum power.
If, as is believed and taught, alcohol is
most dangerous when it fights in am
bush, If it is most to be dreaded when 1t
finds its first entrance to the system in
the pleasant sauces and dishes OF the
home, then the form of alcoholic traffic
in question is doubly dangerous, for 1t
comes in the guise Of medicine and at
tacks system prepared by weakness to
easily surrender to the assault. In many
PATENT MEDICINES
which are largely consumed throughout
the country by all classes of people
there is a percentage of alcohol which
puts them on level with beer, rum
and whisky as intoxicants. 1t is the
smallness only of the dose prescribed
which prevents prompt recognition Of
the intoxicating effects of these So
called medicines by those who use
them.
'It is safe to affirm that they are
MEDICINES IN NAME ONLY.
Their chief value lies in their alcoholic
effect as a stimulant. In fact, those who
know attribute the benefits ascribed to
this class of medicines wholly to the
stimulative effect of the alcohol they
contain. They are used largely by
persons not in the habit of drinking
liquors, and the little dose taken three
or four times a day is as stimulating
to these people as his regular finger
of bitters' is to the regular liquor
drinker.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
What ought to be done at least is to
compel every patent-medicine manu-
facturer to put on the wrapper of his
bottle the quantity of alcohol it con-
tains. That would at least leave peo-
pie to exercise their own judgments.
More than that, no paper truly interest
ed in temperance reform should print
the advertisement of any alcoholic
medicine. 1t should be the duty of
every temperance organization and
branch in the country to look into this
question, agitate it and deal with the
facts just as earnestly and as honestly
as other facts have been dealt with.
Approaching the gravity of the issue
raised by the strong statement of facts
made in the foregoing article, we wish
to call general attention to the fact that
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
contain
NO ALCOHOL, NO WHISKY, NO IN
TOXICANT OF ANY KIND.
These medicines are equally free from
opium and other narcotics.
They are in the strIcteSt meaning of
| the words, temperance medicines. OF no
other medicine, put up especially for
woman's use, can it be truthfully af-
| firmed as of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription, that 1t contains neither alco-
| hol nor opium or other narcotic in any
| form.
| While the negative features Of DR..
| Pierce'S medicines may only interest
some of the readers of this article, the
positive features of these medicines
! 80 ~ -
great value of Golden Medical Dis
covery" in the cure of diseased or de-
ranged conditions of the stomach and
digestive and nutritive organs is testi-
fed to by tens of thousands who have
found health and healing in this great
remedy. The Discovery" increases the
action of the blood-making glands, and
by curing the diseases which corrupt
and cripple the stomach and digestive
and nutritfve organs, it enables a full
and pure supply of blood to be sent to
every part of the body.
WOMEN KNOW ITS WORTH.
Women who are always apprecfative
of benefits have been especially appre-
ciative of the benefits following the use
of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Its wonderful cures of irregularities,
determinations, alterations and female
troubles have caused women to name
it, that God-send to women" It is en-
tltleQ 10 wear the ''Dlue RIBBON OF
merit as well as the blue ribbon of tenn
perance.
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Medical Adviser. 1t contains 1908
pages and has over 700 illustrations,
and is the life work of it's author, DR..
r. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician
to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In
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been well called 1.-THE Bible of the
Body" 1t is to the body what the BIZ
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and a light unto the path" 1t deals
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and so purely that it is essentially the
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