Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-02-12
The Facts About Pe=ru=na.

Is Peruna an ~ ohohc beverage in disguised Isit possible to use Peruna
asa substitute fol VIII skey? Do people buy Peruna and use t. a toddy or
a bitters, o. a bracer?
1t would be the easiest thing in the world for any one to demonstrate the
tieof Peruna. Let him undertake to use itas a beverage, or take this remedyin
doses considerably larger than those prescribed on the bottle. Would the result
Peruna is medical compound quite heavily loaded with medicinal ingred-
tents If taken in doses larger than prescribed it would produce a positive
drug effect No one could take it as a beverage Ifany one doubts these state
ments, try it and see. We know that Peruna cannot be used AZ a bever-
n nse; sh' W. VI guar a H tSat pTR1 Sha aC e. i1raI1 s NO a'e CHEAP e. 2 WH1sKry for
OR ANY OTHER WRISKEY, for that matter.
solve and hold in solution medicinal Ingredient. but the drugs Contained in
Peruna prohibit its use as a beverage. 1t would be the easiest thing in the
Peruna is sold everywhere. THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY
PRINTED ON EACH BOTTLE. It has been said over and ovr again that
whiskey. Now we challenge any chemist to demonstrate any such statement.
Let any one who has even a smattering knowledge of chemistry purchase a
self whether or not it is composed of cheap whhkey and cubebs Of course.
cubebs is one of the ingredients of Peruna, but there are many other ingred-
least four other medicinal ingredients To be sure no chemist could 81 ana.
ye Peruna a to be able to identify the various medicinal ingredients This
to say that Peruna is heavily loaded with medicinal ingredients of some kind
easily demonstrated! Simply because there is continued hostility toward Pc
toI um t ths pa crn cd ~ ea meuo1 pa prUne@ no. yer nkey te magazines which
were mised by statements of the medical profession. Probably they were
said and refuted, it would seem to be in order for such people to ue a little
fairness and common sense in the matter.
Every time any one says that Peruna is nothing but CHEAP whiskey and
cubebs he is telling lie, an absolute fasehood. Most people intend to speak
the truth. But the prevalent habit of repeating other peoples statements,
without investigation Is to their truth, has led many wen-meaning people to
say these false things about Peruna.
Used according to the directions o the bottle, PERUNA IS A SAFE
AND RELIABLE CATARRH REMEDY, but, like any other good medicine if
taken in excess of those doses it will produce drug effects very unpleasant to
the person who takes it.
tits therefore up to every honest person to quit making such statements
concerning Peruna, or acknowledge that he is repeating SANDERS about which
he knows nothing. Che might just as Well say that Castor Oil sal intoxmant:
that if taken in large enough doses it will operate as a Booze" If peope
never tried to see, but simply repeated such statements about Castor Oil. the
majority ofpeopie would come to believe them. Iii no easier to demonstrate
such a statement about Castor Oil than it would be about Peruna.
ANY one who takes Peruna knows that zach statements are false. To say
Jokes on the vaudeville stage, but there is no excuse for any one who nretends
to be truthful saying over again this ofrepeated fakehood-