Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-03

A verdict has been rendered in
favor of the plaintiff in the libel suit
brought against the Ladies' Home
Journal published by the Curtis
Publishing Coz by the Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, OF
which DR.. r. v. Pierce is President.
The suit was for 100000 damages,
and was brought by DIR. Pierce
against the Curtis Publishing Com
pany for making false statements
about one of his standard family
medicines known as DIR. PIERCE )
| FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION. In
the May number of the Ladies
Home Journal (reo4) MIR. Edward
Box, the editor, stated that DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription con-
tanned alcohol and other harmful IN
gradients, and DIR. Pierce had in the
action alleged that the defendant
maliciously published this article
containing such false and defana-
tory matter. DIR. Pierce further
claimed that no alcohol is, or ever
was, contained in his "Favorite Pre-
scription ;" that said medicine was
vegetable preparation and contained
no deleterious ingredients whatever;
that Mr.. Bok's statement pretend
ing to give some of the ingredients
of said medicine was wholly and abb
solutely false; and that by means of
the publication of the article DIR.
Pierce was injured in reputation and
good name and credit as rnanufac-
turer to the extent of 100000, for
which amount of damages he
brought suit. During the trial the
Vice President of the Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association stated
that the ingredients of DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription were extract
ed from the following native roots:
Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh, Lady's
Slipper, Black Cohosh and Unicorn
by means of pure glycerine. He
was asked how he knew, as a ply
sician and experienced medical man,
that the "Favorite Prescription" was
a CURE for the diseases peculiar 70
women, such as leucorrhoea ,amenor-
rhoea, dysmenorrhoea, ante-version,
retro-version, and he stated that he
knew such was the fact because Of
his professional experience and the
many thousands of women whose
ills had been cured by this "Pre-
scription" This experience was
corroborated by the standard Medi-
cal Authorities of the several schools
of medicine indorsing the various
ingredients in the strongest terms.
The Vice President being asked to
give authorities as to the value of
the above roots, read from the
standard works, such as the United
States Dispensatory, the American
Dispensatory, Organic Medicines,
by Grover Coe, M. D.; Matei-ia
Medica and Therapeutics, by Pro-
fessor Finley Ellingwood of the
Bennett Medical College of Chicago.
From such authorities and his
own professional experience he
showed how the ingredients of this
Prescription" acted upon the fe-
male system, imparting increased
power to the hearts action and tone
to the nervous system, and detailed
its remedial influence in disorders of
the female organs.
The retraction printed by the Cur
It's Publishing Company TWO
MONTHS AFTER THE LIBEL
Gus STATEMENT APPEARED
stated definitely that analyses had
been made at their request and that
the "Favorite Prescription" did not
contain either alcohol, opium or
digitalis. But the business of DR..
Pierce was injured from the effects
of the publication of the original
libel and the matter was brought be-
fore jury in the Supreme Court of
New York State, who promptly rem
dered a verdict in the Doctors
favor.
GOLDEN SEAL ROOT.
Prof Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben
nett Med. Col, Chicago, says of
Golden Seal: "In its therapeutic