Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-29
OPIUM, MOB OTHER NARCOTICS
STATEMENTS WERE MADE By GER
TAIN TEMPER iyCE PEOPLE
DENYING THIS.
ASSERTIONS WE'RE ANNOYING.
More Than That, the Doctor Says,
They Hurt His Business and He
viii Try to Recover
Damages.
From the Buffalo Evening Times,

CldIlOll Oh lIlS CITY dSdiliSt ASi tain
propagandists OF the w. c. T. u. and
Others had their origin in conflict
of statement which was at once an
moving to Dr. Pierce, the president OF
the above association, personally, and
injurious to his business interests.
For some time the advertisements OF
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
and Golden Medical Discovery
have laid great stress upon the fact
that these medicines contain no alco-
hol. and are absolutely free from
opium, cocaine and all other marco
tics. 1t is generally known that most
put-up medicines contain a large
quantity OF alcohol, and that in other
cases liberal use is made of opium,
cocaine or other narcotics, the con-
tinual use OF which is disastrous to
body and mind. 1t was supposed,
therefore, that temperance leatlers,
especially the women, would recog-
nize the fact that the non-alcoholic
and nOn-narcotic character of DIR.
Pierce's medicines gave them prior
claim to the attention Of all those en-
gagged III fighting the use of alcohol
But instead OF this, certain leading
temperance women sent out pamph-
lets in which they assumed to give
the formulas of DR.. Pierce's medi-
cines, and claimed that they contain
ed both alcohol and opium.
In seli-protection and in order to
publicly nail this outrageous false
hood, there was only one thing to do
bring suit against the authors of
the llbelOus statements This the
Doctor at once proceeded to do.
The Ethical Point of View
From an ethical point OF view the
most curious feature of the case is
that the statements as to the alcoholic
and narcotic ingredients contained in
the medicines were made without
first making any analysis of the medi-
clnes, and were based upon the false
formulas published in the interests of
parties antagonistic to DR.. Pierce's
business. The publishers of thes,
false formulas are also getting their
lesson i'll the law.
The injury to DIR. Pierce's business
from the circulation of such state
ments as were made in the pamphlets
above referred to can readily be I'M
derstood. 1t was natural that the
temperance people to whom these
pamphlets were addressed should be-
tieve in the statements of their own
leaders. and accept the fact that the
advertising OF DR.. Pierce was flag
rantly false. As a matter of fact, the
talsehOOd was entirely on the other
side, and DIR. Pierce was quick to
support the claims OF his advertising
by an offer of 81 10000 for each and
every bottle of the medicine which on
analysis showed the presence OF alco-
hol or narcotics.
Big STAFF of Doctors
Any one who had acquaintance
with Dr. Pierce and the well-known
institution, the Inyalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, OF which he is
Chief consulting physician, would
have known better than TO attack his
advertised statement, even though
published formulas seemed to con-
trovert his claims. As one OF the
largest advertisers in the United
States, DR.. Pierce has also reputa-
ton for the utmost exactness of state
ment. Ii DR.. Pierce saws that he has
nearly a score of associate physicians
on his staff, you may be certain that
you will find from eighteen to twenty
physicians working with him, the in
definite statement being made be-
cause OF occasional changes which do
not honestly permit him to say there
are always twenty physicians on the
staff" n the claim is made on behalf
OF DR.. lherce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery and 'Favorite Prescription
that they contain no alcohol and are
free from narcotics it may be depend
ed upon that the statement is exactly
true 1t is the same in reference to
other matters pertaining to the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation. Nothing is overstated, and
DIR. Pierce owes his large success and
enormous business as much to his
absolute integrity of word and deed,
as to the genuine healing value OF his
medicines In recent interview DR.
Pierce said with reference to the suits
at present being prosecuted: I'VE are
determined to stop the publication Of
the false formulas of our medicines.
Formulas Never Right.
These formulas are never even ap.
proximately right, and generally
their falsehoods extends, not merely
to the inclusion of alcohol and mar.
cotics, but to mis-statements concern