The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-07-12
GROW new EYES
. BY ''HOOCH'' CURE
York, Pa, Has Another StaTt-
ing Remedy. /
EVEN HAS "CHkRL|E" BEAT
Alcohol and Olive Oil Sold to Grow
New Eyes by an incorporated Com
pany.

York, Pa, July 12.-"Hooch" eye
grower-25 per c~ aleeAa!-E2n -
cine that its sponsors claim viii e
new eyes grow in the head" is O d
The hiiiG and -emi-Sighted here.
RIt fhn sea monster tears" o pc
house-painter. cowboy Miracle Man of
York" have joined the nature faker
group in the Ananias Club. Charles
". Dice, the Miracle Man, has gone
out of business.
The "Hooch" eye grower, as -ttfalyz-
ed by the American Medical Associa-
ZION in their journal, a reprin. Of
which is made in the current issue of
the Bulletin of the York County Aedi-
cal Society, is:
Alcohol, - per cent.
Water, % per cent.
Give oil, % per cent.
The Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association says of the eye grover !:
"A dose is the contents of one bcttle !;
obviously a person taking a dose of
The medicine would get l % ounces of
alcohol, or the equivalent of 31la ounces
of whisky.
''All of which goes to prove that pro-
addition has Il wicked sting if you
know where to get stung," commt nted
the former Bar Fly.
The Journal is quoted still further
in the Bulletin of the York County
Medical Society as follows:
In response to a test letter selt by
the inspector under the name of John
Gillis, in which it was stated that the
writer was suffering from blindness, a
letter was received from the MeCicine
company, signed Mr.. Our me0icfne
No. 13 will do the work. Craig read
ing is part as follows: l presume you
would think it ridiculous and absurd
were | to tell you that the medicine
has not only restored sight to the Blind,
and returned health to the afflicted
eyes of others, but persons having tax
en- the medicine for some time ,have
actually grown new eyes in their 5lead
where they had run out.
The competitor in the Miracle Ian
business with Dice is reported to nave
been a house mover before he SIS rted
TO grow new eyes with olive oi.anERL
alcohol. Later he owned a (.
The company, which Turn .ae
eye grower is Incorporated aiiE the
Bulletin of the York County Medical
Society complains: ''One man must put
years at college, spend thousands OF
dollars, satisfy an examining board as
10 his qualifications, the other simply
has to capitalize his ignorance, and
The same law protects CD them both. .
The company that turns out the
medicine of which the York county
physicians complain is said to have
branch establishments in many of the
larger cities. The head of the firm is
also reported to have been in many
legal scraps and survived. The com
pany has offices in Pittsburgh and Al
tOOna, in this state, reports the Medi
cal Journal The medicine is said to
enjoy a reputation as "a cure for all
ills"
Dice, 1.-The Miracle Man." who fol
So a drop sold the mysterious tears OF
| Il Sed lloIlSlcI " lIlC anu SCiAI
sighted, it Is learned, solicited bust
ness before Saturday when he an
nounced that on advice of his attorney
he would discontinue the manufacture
of the drops.
Stewart w. Baylor, cigar store pro
prietOr of North York, who has beer
totally blind since November, 1915, as
a result IF an accident while working
as moulder on the construction of the
Panama Canal, says that Dice sought
his patronage and offered to restore
sight to the blind eyes in five miautes
Baylor says he unSuccessfully at
| tempted to find "cures" which Die
claimed to have effected, but whose
exact addresses he had forgotten. Dice
after getting BaylOr's permission t
| try his cure worked mysteriously ir
| one corner of the room and then drop
ped several drops into Baylor's eyes
Then he told Baylor that when hi:
| eyes smarted he was to rub them an(
the white spot would disappear. Bay
lor rubbed, but the spot did not dis
appear. After being Informed tha4, the
cure did not work, he begged for sec
ond trial with the same result.