The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-17
SELLS AT $780,;
COSTS ONLY CENT
Alleged Consumption Cure Ex-
posed by Food Department E

The state food and dairy department
has issued the following bulletin in the
interest of the public health and peck
ct5ook.
There Is nothing more pitiable than
the pursuit of the victim of tubercu-
losis for relief and there is nothing
more horrible in our civilization than
the spectacle of those persons who for
sordid gain take advantage of these
stricken ones and by holding out false
hopes make money from the unfor-
unate.
Michigan Is the home Of several of
these consumption cures" but their
| operations are largely confined To other
states. Most of them advertise in the
cheap monthly papers published in the
east. In December AN employe of this
| department who was threatened with
| consumption (for investigation pur-
poses only answered the al Of the
lLung Germine company of Jackson,
Michigan. The vertisement stated
| that Lang Germinc," the German
treatment, had cured completely and
| permanently ease after ease of add
vanced consumption" Also, that,
many sufferers who had been given
up by physicians have been perma-
nently cured by Lung Gcrmne." The
first letter of inquiry was answered by
a worthless guarantee executed by w.
!. Hauser and j. Wissman as presi-
| oent and secretary of the company be-
! fore Jos. Wenhold, n notary public,
| with Wcinhold's seal attached. The
acknowledgement purports To have
been taken Feb. "a, 1906, and Vein
hold states his commission runs out
March Is, 1913 Just how Weinhold's
commission should hold over six years
when all other notaries' commissions
! in Michigan hold only four years, is
not explained.
After the employee answered the ad,
four letters followed urging him to
buy the treatment. In one Of the let
trrs was a circular headed i'm large size
type Advanced consumption perna
n,ntly cured by Lung Germine." y full
months treatment was offered for So
About Jan. IL, our employee sent So
and received for the full months
treatment" a two-ounce bottle Of
medicine and letter saying, we do
not guarantee to cure YOU" An ana
~ sis of the medicine" showed it's con-
stituents to be as follows:
Alcohol (absolute), 10 per cent; sui
phuric acid, 142 per cent; ferro sui
phate, O.5 per cent water, about a
per cent.
ON this analysis being submitted to
Ilr Dixon, of the state Board 81
Ilcalth, lie stated; I'm my judgmen
the preparation has no curative prop
critics in relation to tuberculosis in any
of it's stages" The cost of making this
tTo-ounce bottle of medicine is as fol-
lows: Alcohol at $40 per gal. .0O'i5,
sulphuric acid at II cents per pound
G0286; ferric sulphate at .. cents pei
pound, 0000l7, total cost, .Ol0G2i
made al a cost of one cent per bottle
this shows a profit of over 5000 pei
cent on every bottle sold. The suffer
cr who wants Lung Germiuc' hao
better make his own by mixing five
quarts of water one quart of alcohol
one quart of sulphurc acld and one
half ounce of ferric sulphate. The pa
tient can for a dollar and "A Ealf make
over $500 worth of this consumption
cure" at the prices demanded by the
Lung Germine Company" This whole
story illustrates again the need OF
laws to prevent fraudulent advertising
VIII the Michigan legislature pass
one!