Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-16

A verdict has been rendered IN
favor OF the plaintiff in the libel STINT
brought against the Ladies Home
Journal published by the Curtis
Publishing Coz by the Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, OF
which DR.. X. Y. Pierce is President.
The suit was for 100000 damages,
and was brought by Doctor Pierce
against the Curtis Publishing Conn
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 (IGo4 MIR. Edward
Box, the editor, stated that DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription COLI
tanned alcohol and other harmful III
gradients, and DR.. Pierce had in the
action alleged that the defendant
maliCiouSly published this article
containing such false and defana-
tory matter. DR.. Pierce further
claimed that no alcohol is, or ever
was, contained in his "FavOrite Pre-
sCription;" that said medicine was
a vegetable preparation and con-
tanned no deleterious ingredients
whatever that Mr. Bok's statement,
pretending to give some of the u
gradients of said medicine, was
wholly and absolutely false and that
by means OF the publication of the
article DR. Pierce was injured III
reputation and good name and cred
it as a manufacturer to the extent Of
$1,000 for which amount OF dam
ages he brought suit. During the
trial the Vice President of the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation stated that the ingredients
of Dr. Pierce's FavOrite PrescrIp-
tion were extracted from the follow
ing native roots: Golden Seal, Blue
Cohosh, Lady's Slipper, Black Co.
hosh and Unicorn, by means of pure
glycerine. He was asked how he
knew, as a physician and expert
enced medical man, that the "Fa-
vorite Prescription was a CURE
for the diseases peculiar to women,
such as leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea,
dySmenOrrhOea, ante-versiOn, retro
version, and he stated that he knew
such was the fact because OF his pro-
iessional experience and the MANY
thousands OF women whose ills had
been cured by this Prescription"
This experience was COrrOborated
by the Standard Medical Authori-
ties OF the several schools of medi-
cine endorsing the various ingredi-
ents 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 Dis
pensatory; Organic Medicines, ~
Grover Coe, NJ. D.; Materia Medita
and Therapeutics, by Professor Fin
ley Ellingwood OF the Bennett Med
ical College of Chicago.
From such authorities and his
own professional experience he
showed how the ingredients of this
Prescription acted upon the te-
male system, imparting increased
power to the hearts action, and
tone to the nervous system, and de
tailed its remedial influence in dis
orders of the female organs.
The retraction printed by the
Curtis 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 Dig
tails But the business of Or.
Pierce was injured from the effects
OF the publication OF the original
libel and the matter was brought
before a jury in the Supreme Court
OF New York State who promptly
rendered a verdict in the Doctors
favor
GOLDEN SEAL ROOT.
Prof. Ellingwood, NJ. D., of Ben