Year: 1874

Something over year since, a
periodical issued in Berlin, Prussia,
and laying claims to a scientific
character, published what was rep.
resented as being the formule or
receipts for making DR.. Sages
Catarrh Remedy and DR.. Pierce S
Golden Medical Discovery. The
people were left to infer that these
had been deducted from g careful
analysis of the medicines, which
ale rapidly growing in popular IA
vor in that as we'll as in this and
most other civilized countries. The
receipts were evidently invented by
those jealous of the reputation and
large sale which these medicines
are rapidly acquiring and who are
pecuniarily interested in endeavor-
ing to check their sale. So ridlcu-
lousy preposterous are these re-
ceipts that medicines compounded
after them could never have gained
any reputation OF sale in any coun-
try, for they would be so caustic:
poisonous, Immediately and posi-
lively injurious, as in every case to
be promptly condemned by the
people on the first trial as misera-
bic, dangerous and wicked hulobugs.
Whereas, it is well known fact that
all my medicines enjoy the reputa-
ton, honestly earned, of being not
only ef1icacious, but perfectly mild,
pleasant and harmless in effects.
Notwithstanding, however, that the
bogus receipts we're so rdiculously
preposterous as scarcely to have
been believed by the most unscien-
tifc, thoughtless and unsuspecting
people, yet strange and incredible
as it may seem, a paper OF high
scientific pretentions, published in
this country, copied the fictitious
receipts from the German paper.
This they evidently did without
moments S reflection, for that much
consideration, given by an intell-
gent mind, to the receipts and the
properties and effects OF the mix
lures that would result from such
compounding of well-known caustic
and poisonous chemicals and drugs,
would have condemned them as
bogus fabrications, and the preten-
tious publishers of the paper that
originally inserted them, as either
knaves OF fools. On my attention
being called to the matter, in order
that some thoughtless and over
credulous people might not be de-
ceived and misled by seeing such an
announcement in paper laying
claims to a scientific character, as
well as to clear myself of the impu-
tation of being guilty of perpetra-
ting a wicked fraud upon the peo-
pie, as such announcement, if un-
contradicted, would imply, I, as
proprietor and manufacturer Of the
aforesaid celebrated medicines, went
before magistrate and made oath to
the fact that the said receipts were
utterly false. My affidavit was sent
to the publishers of the paper into
which the bogus receipts had been
copied, and in q subsequent issue
an editorial notice was given of my
denial. But, notwithstanding such
correction and denial, made under
oath, certain individuals, who lounge
around and infest our large cities,
gaining a livelihood by perpetrating
all kinds of catch-penny frauds upon
the credulous, were thereby given
the hint that, as my medicines were
universally popular, by advertising
for sale bogus receipts for making
them, they could get lots of igno-
rant people to bite at their bait


One Frank NJ. Reed, of 139 Eighth
Street, New York, who publishes
Love and Colrtship cards" a
Fortune Teller and Dream Book"
The Mysteries of Love Making"
:'How to Woo and how to win, and
various other swindles, sends his
dupes the following in exchange for
their stamps. It is copied from the
papers alluded to and is as follows:
For DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy,
take eight grains Carbolic Acid,
seven grains of Camphor, and two
and half grains of common Salt,
the whole to be colored with a little
Prussian blue This makes
powerful caustic mixture as unlike
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy (Which
is perfectly nnirritating, mild, sooth


ing and pleasant as light is from
darkness. AS "a burnt child breads
the fire." if any have been so foolish
as to have burned their noses sore
with this caustic compound, think
ing that they were using the same
as DR.. Sage's celebrated Catarrh
Remedy, they will, it is to be hoped,
profit by the lesson thereby taught
them and not be so ready next
time to bite at every catch-penny
advertising dodge that swindlers