Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-30

Energetic. perseverlng action IS
generally necessary to overcome the
obstacles and attain great and noble
ends in life. So, too, il one is affiict-
ed with a dread disease which has
fastened itself upon some OF the or
gans of the body and become firmly
seated as a lingering or chronic mall
ady. active and PERSISTENT
treatment is generally necessary 20
dislodge the enemy.
Since any medical treatment, how
ever good it may be, must be long
continued in order TO be effective in
old established and therefore obstin-
ate cases, how important that the
remedial agencies employed be OF a
harmless character. To be safe and
harmless, when their use is thus pro-
tracted, they should be of such ma
ture as to be easily eliminated or
carried out OF the system when they
have performed their work, just as
the refuse of food is carried out of
the system. Most mineral medicines
are not thus easily gotten rid OF
Take arsenic, for instance, if intro
duced into the system in any consid-
cradle quantity it will lodge in the
brain, liver, kidneys and other parts
and there remain as a foreign body
to set up irritation and disease for
long period of time if death does not
sooner intervene. This is also true
OF most mineral medicines.
With medicines OF vegetable COM
position it is different. They do their
work by aiding the natural functions
of the several organs of the body for
which they have an affinity, and like
the refuse of our food, are carried
out of the system through the nat
ural emunctories-the lungs, skin,
kidneys and bowels. Thus no injury
is done to the system in cases where
the use OF such medicines is con-
tinued for a long period of time Es
pecially is this true if the medicine
taken is free from alcohol. 1t is well
known, however, that even small
portions of alcohol taken for a CON
siderable period OF time will do Sc
rious injury to the bodily organs
and functions and especially to the
brain How important then, in
choosing a medicine for treating a
malady OF long standing, and when
medicines must, in order to cure, be
perseveringly taken for a consider
able period of time. that those only
should be used which are KNOWN
to be free from alcohol and OF vege-
table composition
With most medicines put up for
family use and sold through drug
gists, their composition is kept pro-
found secret, known only to those
who compound and put them out
for sale Any afflicted person who
buys and uses them, does so, as 1t
were, in the dark, if not indeed at his
or her peril. They may and gener-
ally do, contain a very large per
centage OF alcohol or cheap whisky
which thoroughly units them for
protracted use. But this is not the
worst fault OF many OF them, objec-
tionable though it is. Narcotics and
mineral poisons, which we have
shown to be SO harmful, especially
when used protractedly, are contain
ed in many of these secret com
pounds.
TO overcome the well-grounded
and reasonable objections Of the
more intelligent to the use of Sc
cret medicinal compounds, Dir. r. Y.
Pierce of Buffalo, n. Y, some time
ago decided to make a bold de-
parture from the usual course pur-
sued by the makers Of put-up medi-
tines for domestic use, and so has
published broadcast and openly to
the whole world full and complete
list of all the ingredients entering
I into the compositions Of his widely
celebrated medicines. Thus he has
taken his numerous patrons and pa
ticnts into his full confidence. Thus
too he has removed his medicines
from among secret nOstrums Of
doubtful merits, and made them
REMEDIES OF KNOWN COM
POSITION. By this bold step he
has shown that his formulas are Of
such excellence thathe is not afraid to
subject them to the fullest scrutiny
He has come to believe. and is will
ing to concede, that his patients and
all who take his put-up medicines