Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-18

Energetic, persevering action is
nerally necessary to overcome the
pstacles and attain great and noble
Dds in life. So, too, if one is at
cted with a dread disease which
is fastened itself upon some OF the
gans of the body and become firm
seated as lingering or chronic
alady, active and PERSISTENT
eatment is generally necessary to
slodge the enemy.
Since any medical treatment, how
er good it may be, must be long
|ntinued in order to be effective in
d'established and therefore obsti-
tie cases, how important that the
|medial agencies employed be OF
armless character. To be safe and
(rmless, when their use is thus pro-
acted, they should be of such ma
re as to be easily eliminated or car
ed out OF the system when they
I'VE performed their work, just as
e refuse of food is carried out OF
e system. Most mineral medicines
fe not thus easily gotten rid of.
bike arsenic, for instance, If intro
iced into the system in any consid-
Fable quantity it will lodge in the
Fain, liver, kidneys and other parts
Ed there remain as a foreign body
set up irritation and disease for a
ig period OF time if death does not
homer intervene. This is also true
most mineral medicines.
With medicines of vegetable COM
bsihon it is different. They do their
ork by aiding the natural functions
the several organs OF the body for
}iich they have an affinity, and, like
e refuse OF our food, are carried
II OF the system through the nat
Fal emunctories-the lungs, skin,
dneys and bowels. Thus no injury
done to the system in cases where
e use OF such medicines is contin-
ID for long period OF time. Espe-
ally is this true if the medicine
ken is free from alcohol. 1t is
ELL known, however, that even
ball portions of alcohol taken for
considerable period of time will do
nous injury to the bodily organs
ID functions and especially to the
lain. How important, then, in
Foosing a medicine for treating a
alady OF long standing, and when
edicincs must, in order to cure, be
rseveringly taken for a consider
lie period Of time, that those only
|ould be used which are KNOWN
! be free from alcohol and of vege-
bic composition.
With most medicines put up for
nily use and sold through drug
SIS, their composition is kept q
oiound secret, known only to
osc who compound and put them
lt for sale. Any afflicted person
b. buys and uses them does so, as
were, in the dark, if not indeed at
5 or her peril. They may and gener-
Is do contain a very large percent
b OF alcohol or cheap whisky which
5Oroughlv units them for pro-
acted use. But this is not the worst
ult of many of them, Objectionable
Iough it is. Narcotics and mineral
'biSOns, which we have shown to be
harmful, especially when used
fotractedly, are contained in many
| these secret compounds.
To overcome. the well-grounded
| d reasonable objections of the
ore intelligent to the use OF secret,
edicinal compounds, DR.. X. V.
erce, of Buffalo, n. Y, some time
&, decided TO make a bold depart
r. from the usual course pursued
the makers OF put-up medicines
fr domestic use, and so has pub
Fhcd broadcast and openly to the
hole world, full and complete list
all the ingredients entering into
be composition of his widely cele-
fated medicines. Thus he has taken
S, numerous patrons and patients
TO his full confidence. Thus, too,
has removed his medicines from
nong secret nostrunls OF doubtful
Rcuts, and made them RENE
PIES OF KNOWN COMPOST
|lON. BY this bold step he has
Down that his formulas are of such
kcellence that he is not afraid to
object them to the fullest scrutiny
c has come to believe, and is will
&. 10 concede, that his patients and
who take his put-up medicines