New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-06


ule covers the field. medical, a fake.
Through columns The Tribune has been pointing out the
danger public health of the newpaproued patent medicines
The of this article is not primarily with their haunes but
With their auduency attempting to your life but your
dollar When buy proprietary drug combination drugs
the expectation that will any Illness though were only cod
the head you being completely buncOed than bought
splinter for diamond In the case Of the glass you've got
something your least In the of the patent
medicine you've got nothing except maybe pain in the stomach
Such the frauds that adequate of the
,uus ones alone entire issue of this The most
M is possbe here consideration type of each class with
brief explanation substance and nature of the bunco Alcohol is
| Of the most popuar nostrums Swamp Root Peruna Lydia
pkbam Warmers of the btters belong this
category tendency the alcohol is stimulate the patient n
% and make him believe that he is being benefited
~ Of all the bottle demand for
other lust as whiskey nce desire for second
First takes a drink;
Then the drink takes drink;
Then the drink takes the man.
The victim once caught through medium of the lying advertise
m becomes regular patron To be good repeater the chief
e ommerciaD patent medicine All the "bracers are good
es Therefore you buy bottle of of this class
worth YOUR consider that not only throwing away
~ initial dollar but also incurrng prospect of further waste
of all human ailments the cold the most widespread and
een in that if credit the news
papers numberless for cold One OF the most
extensively exploited Bromo Qunine advertised to cure
M dav grip in two days" The New York Times" this mod-
fed read world cold in one day. thereby saw
the face of this paper which since claims to be free OF
fraudulent Advertising SHES at the explicit promise OF cure
The uberfug is obvious wnd probably quite effective
For svindle pure and simple cold is systemic Illness as
definitely disease fever typhoids though not commonly so
severe and by known drug Certainly Laxative Brono
Vhich q
other substances will "cure cold In day or IN huhdIed a!s
is indeed world over for that purpose the 1ac Is so
much proof Of human gubity Every quarter OF
dollar preparation the assumption that 1t VIII carry
out its advertised representations sheer waste The same Is true OF
every other cold Thousands of ignorant or oohnng people
believe themselves cured by such means because they nave
eventually recovered from the amen hy
would have anyway For colds like other diseases run e
course long or short themselves The patient gaS MS
normal health not the patent medicine but in spite OF It, In
the r case of Qunne the further fact that one
its constituent drugs dangerous headepressan so dangerous
that the law ompes state Its presence on the De
fever how M would not tend the judicious
Not all purport be medicines Some exploit themselves
magical agencies Tor the upouine Vi W
"tonicsi and the like thereby giving
excuse for hospabe magazines which shrink from the taht OF
medical Advertising" "McClures to take their money ana
a them @ flood nroducts" this class belongs Sanaogen, which,
from medical and scientific point of simply howng aosurdt'
ogn is enthusiastically recommended y its propreOrs) as
~ f ~ force reuvenaor of the system, blood revvife and
general vr Of life and fountain of eternal youth Thousands OF dol
% arc 5 ont Yearly in disseminating this gospel Hundreds of thou
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