The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-16

A verdict has been rendered IN favor
of the plaintiff in the libel suit brought
against the Ladies Home Journal pub
lished by the Curtis Publishing CO.. by
the Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, of which DR.. Il. Y. Pierce
is President. The suit was for $500, 900
damages, and was brought by Doctor
Pierce against the Curtis Publishing
Company, for making false statements
about one of his standard family
medicines known as Or. Pierce'S Fa-
Uor1te Prescription, In the May num-
ber of the Ladies' Home Journal (lO4),
Mr.. Edward Box, the editor, stated
that DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
contained alcohol and other harm
ful ingredients, and DR.. Pierce had in
the action alleged that the defendant
mallciously published this article con-
tanning such false and defam atory mat
ter. Dr.. Pierce further claimed that no
alcohol IS, or ever was, contained in his
"Favorlte Prescription; that said med
icine was vegetable preparation and
contained no deleterious ingredients
whatever; that Mr.. Bok's statement,
pretending to give some Of the ingredi-
ents of said medicine, was wholly and
absolutely false; and that by means OF
the publication of the article Dr. Pierce
was injured In reputation and good
name and credit rs q manufacturer,
to the extent of 5000, 900, for which
amount of damages 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 Prescription were
extracted from the following native
roots: Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh,
Lady's Slipper, Black Cohosh and Uni
corn, by means of pure glycerne. He
was asked how he knew, as a physician
and experienced medical man, that the
"Favorite Prescription was cure for
the diseases peculiar TO women, such as
leucorrhPa, amenorrhea, dysmenC>-
rhoea, ante-verslon, retro-version, and
he stated that he knew such was the
fact because of his professional ex-
perlence and the many thousands Of
women whose ills had been cured by
this Prescription" This experience
was corroborated by the standard Med
ical Authorities of the several schools |
OF medicine endorsing the various in
gradients in the strongest terms. The |
Nice-President, being asked to give au-
thorltles as to the value of the above |
roots, read from the standard works, |
such as the United States Dspensatory;
the American Dispensatory Organic |
Medicines, by Grover Coe, NJ. D.; Ma
terra Medlca and Therapeutics, by Pro-
lessor 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 female system, impart-
ing 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 Curtis
Publishing Company ttco monthS after
the t,belous statement appeared stated
definitely that analyses had been made
at their request and that the VIA
vorite Prescription" did not contain
either alcohol, opium or digtalis. But
the business of DR.. Pierce was injured