Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29

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 Doctor Pierce
against the Curtis Publishing Com
pany for making false statements
about one of his standard family
medicines known as DIR. P1ERCE'S
FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION. In
the May number of the Ladies
Home Journal (IooD, Mr.. Edward
Box, the editor, stated that DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription con-
tanned alcohol and other harmful in
gradients. and DR.. Pierce had in the
action alleged that the defendant
maliciously published this article
containing such false and defama-
tory matter. DR.. Pierce further
claimed that ne alcohol is, or ever
was contained in his "Favorite Pre-
scription;' that said medicine was
vegetable preparation and con-
tanned no deleterious ingredients
whatever that Mr.. Bok's statement,
pretending to give some of the in
gradients 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 as a manufacturer to the eX-
teri of 100000, for which amount
of damage he brought suit. During
the trial the vice president of the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation stated that the ingredients of
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
were extracted from the following
native roots: Golden Seal, Blue Co.
hosh, Lady's Slipper, Black Cohosh
and Unicorn, by means Of pure
glycerine. He was asked how he
knew, as a physician and expe
rienced medical man, that the "Fa-
vorite Prescription" was 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-
fessional experience and the many
thousands of women whose ills had
been cured by this Prescription"
This experience was corroborated
by the standard Medical Authorities
of the several schools of medicine
endorsing the various ingredients in
the strongest terms. The Vice Pres
ident, being asked to give authorl-
ties as to the value of the above
roots, read from the standard works,
such as the United States Dispen-
satory, the American Dispensatory,
Organic Medicines, by Grover Coe,
M. D.; Materia Medica and Thera-
peutics, by Professor Finley Filing
wood of the Bennett Medical Col
lege of Chicago.
From such authorities and his
own professional experience he
showed how the ingredients of this
Prescription" acted upon the ie-
male system, inparting 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 re-
quest and that the "Favorite Pre-
scription" did not contain either al
cohol, 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 before jury in the
Supreme Court of New York State,
who promptly rendered verdict in
the Doctors favor.
GOLDEN SEAL ROOT.
Prof. Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben
nett Med. Col, Chicago, says OF