Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19

A verdict has been rendered III
favor of the plaintiff in the libel slut
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
Company for making false state
ments about one of his standard
family medicines, known as DR..
PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRE-
SCRIPTION. In the May number
of the Ladies Home Journal (I0oQ
Mr.. Edward Box, the editor, stated
that DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton contained alcohol and other
harmful ingredients, and DIR. Pierce
had in the action alleged that the
defendant malciously published this
article containing such false and de-
famatory matter. DR.. Pierce further
claimed that no alcohol is, or ever
was, contained in his 'Favorite Pre-
scription;" that said medicine was 4
vegetable preparation and contained
no deleterious ingredients whatever !;
that Mr.. Bok's statement, pretend
ing to give some of the ingredients
of said medicine, was wholly and alb
solutely false; and that by means OF
the publication of the article DR..
Pierce was injured in reputation and
good name and credit as manufac-
turer to the extent of 100000, for
which amount of damages he
brought Suit. During the trial the
Vice President of the Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association stated
that the ingredients of DR.. Pierce S
Favorite Prescription were extract
ed from the following native roots !:
Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh, Lady's
Slipper, Black Cohosh and Unicorn
by means of pure glycerine. He
was asked how he knew, as a ply
sician and experienced medical man,
that the "Favorite 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 be-
cause of his professional 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 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 Dispensatory, Organic
Medicines, by Grover Coe, M. D. );
Materia Medica and Therapeutics,
BY Professor Finley Ellingwood of
the Bennett Medical College of Chi
cago:s'...
From such authorities and his
own professional experience he
showed how the ingredients OF this
Prescription acted upon the fe-
male system, iinparting 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
MON THIS 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
digitalis. But the business Of Or.
Pierce was injured from the effects
OF the publication of the original
libel and the matter was brought be-
fore jury in the Supreme Court of
New York State, who promptly rem
dered verdict in the Doctors
favor
GOLDEN SEAL ROOT
Prof. Ellingwood, NJ. D., of Ben
nett Med. Col, Chicago, says of