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Exposures of Quackery
BEING A SERIES OF ARTICLES UPON, AND
ANALYSES OF,
THE
Editor of ''Health
'
Sequah "
Lecturer
at
Hastings
VOLUME
News." ^
(sec
page
43),
LONDON
THE SAVOY
PRESS,
Ltd.,
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Ltd.,
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ANALYSES
OF,
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ONE
115,
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NEWS'
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(ILLUSTRATED),
Monthly, 3d.
The
Eleventh
Journal.
The
&
Cheapest
Best,
Official
Free for
Post
Most
Stamps.
Health
Widel^-Oircyiated
Year
Pyblloation.
of
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to the consideration of Public and Individual Hygiene,
Construction, Dietetics, Foods, Beverages, Adulterations,
Health Resorts and Mineral Springs, Domestic Sanitation and
Regimen for Invalids, Sanitary Inventions, Literature, &c.
Devoted
House
Excellent Advertising
Medium
for all
announcements intended
Rates Moderate.
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advertise-
Ltd.,
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115,
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hulBLlSitlirijii^
IN
A.
CONTENTS OF VOL.
I.
PAGE
JrRljlPACE
Chapter I.
Law
Chapter
Patent
Medicines
Mattel's
II.
Chapter III.
Stamp "
;
Patent Medicine
13
Mixture
18
Electricities
Clarke's Blood
Protected
and
Clilorodyne,
and Anodynes
by
'^
Government
other
.
Eevalenta Arabica
V. The History
Patent
Chapter IY.
Chapter
The Sequah
Uil
..
Chapter VI.
Holloway's
Sequah's
Prairie
Mixture
Chapfer VII.
Basket
Prairie Flower
Saved
Opiates
23
29
Medicines
Mixture, and
Pills
Flower
''
of
''
..
oo
and Ointment
Clarke's
.
Blood
.
47
57
Chapter VIII.
Singleton's Golden
Rowland's Kalydor,
Chapter IX.
monials
Chapter X.
Mother
Seigel's
Clarke's
Alleged
from
Testimonial
the Reverse
Seigel
XI.
;
Quack
Syrup
Blood
Chapter
Quack Advertisements
and
.
Chapter XV.
The
76
Pills
88
Mother
94
97
Ignorance of Quacks
Dr.
late
Safe
The
65
The
Chapter XIV.
Testi-
the
Testimonials
Beecham's
Anna
Mixture
Chapter XII.
105
The
.
112
PREFACE
^'
**
Man
is
dupable
animal/'
knowledge.''
An
this,
wrote
Southey
Thomas Browne,
"
Men
which
is
than
it
was
It
is
in his days.
peripatetic charlatans,
such-like gatherings,
generally
except
and
abounded,
when some
Co.,
who frequented
almost
alias
Sequah's
common
their dupes
Sequah
into a
aloes
his fish
to
and cash
their teeth
what
oil
rustics,
to
is it ?
A set of men
make
exist,
and
Oil
gaping
to
gaudy waggon
while he
ceased
full purses
travelling representative of
and turpentine
wakes, and
fail's,
and
whom
they
most unblushing
8
lies,
carefully
or
in
newspaper
^^
and,
from
from themselves,
to give
pills, plasters,
Government stamp."
As
is
put a
fictitious
many
estimate
of
thousands of persons to
of
.14,361
over the
sum
derived from a
have
Licenp^s
also increased
These
grocers, drapers,
and general
stores
in
fact, to
to
every
many
of the licensees
have no knowledge
and recommend
to their customers.
sell
of certain
To
advise,
agents
medicinal
the use
powerful
such
of
as
Yet
what
this is
done
is
The
sole
income
for
opiates
iodide
potassium
of
ansGmic
persons
HoUoway's
Pills,
for
(Mother
Mixture)
Seigel's
Williams' Pink
for
Syruj),
Pills,
All
present
by recommending
young children
Blood
(Clarke's
aloes
Sequah's Prairie
women
strength
variable
of
may
this
public
injury
from
results
list.
successive
Three
state
obvious
remedies
for
this
unsatisfactory
Pequiring, as
is
already done in
many
namely
1,
other countries
which
it is
sold a conspicuous
10
label stating its composition
to
sell
2,
knowledge of the
are selling
medicines
legislators
or, 3, as
is
only
as
persons having no
all
and action
of
what they
by
considered
increasing the
well as the
real nature
withholding licenses
majority
the
financial
very
one,
of
our
largely
amount charged
for licenses.
patent medicines,
is
sell secret
is
forbidden,
remedies, or
sell
proprietary medi-
remedies.
sell secret
sold
by the
of a physician
All proprietary
must be prepared
chemist
as to proprietary
The composition,
as to the quality
and
1st,
1891
quantitj^ of
and advertisements
in
the
advertisements
no
them
special
either
curative
on the labels
11
In Japan a public laboratory has been established
for
The
are
bound
to
supply a sample of
of the ingredi-
and an explanation
of its
alleged efficacy.
In the
the
Health News
in
pages from
light.
We
and
to
Shakespeare says in
our words,"
nor,
but as
by its proper name
King Henry VI, " We'll maintain
a spade
call
if
need
arises.
We
malice.
We
set
down aught
in
we have
in future
of our journal.
The
Health News
Office
Savoy House,
Editor.
Exposures of Quackeryo
CONTENTS OF VOL.
Chap.
*'
1.
Pink
Pills for
Chap.
Safe Cure.
Quack Advertising
3.
Chap.
Ear Drums.
Chap.
Chap.
7.
Eemedies
Quack Libel
6. St.
Mattel's Electricities
Jacob's Oil
Mother
Deafness
Medicines
Specialist "
Silverton's
Practitioners
Pill's.
Nicholson's
Seigel's Syrup.
Critics
Unqualified
The
"A
Chap.
Patent
Blood
Anonymous
4.
Staff;
for
Warner's
Electric Belts
5.
2.
Clarke's
Chap.
11.
8.
*'Eeverend
Owbridge's
Lung
Chap.
Quack's Certificate.
9.
Chap.
10.
Medicine Song.
Mixture
The
Man who
*^
St.
Handy"
Still
Eno's
Shuffling. Chap.
Chap.
15.
16.
Free for 14
Stamps
to
any part of
LTD,, Savoy
the
Kingdom.
Chapter
Patent Medicines
Patent
Mattei's
For
''
Medicine
about 250,000
the
Law
Electricities."
tlie
a gross
I.
sum
money
of
Government perpetrates
British
a fictitious
which are
course, to the
Stamps
We
amount
refer, of
Government
Medicines
as
but,
spade a spade,
we
we
prefer
to the
to
use
community by
is
system of
this
incalculable.
Oh "
and many
''
protected by
Royal Letters
good
remedy,
And
Patent."
so
it
is
Government
harvest.
are
officials
always
or
succeeding
new arrangements
Chancellors
of
the
and,
in
slow
in
additional
consequently,
14.
question of
been
and
Stamp
alone.
Of
has been
it
But there
composition.
no provision of
is
this nature
Patent"
'^
is
only protection
the
afforded
by the
Government
stamp
nostrum,
all
its
the
to
manufacturer of the
new and
Patents for
them the
is
sole right of
make
large
and
nothing
is
frequent payments,
In the case
patent lapses.
Moreover, he has to
required by
way
of
otherwise the
medicines,
is
to
pay for a
buy the
make
or
stuff
as
many
a pile of
money by
15
and capable
in bulk,
or taste
before
it
passed on
is
consumer in
to the
smaller quantities.
A controversy was
of
our
for
contemporaries,
National
'^
con-
introduced by an
Italian Count.
Review,
it
sooner occurred
stafi of
the
''
analyst.
He
Remedies
Electrical
did
report
made by
Mr. A.
W.
so,
however,
^'
to
competent
Stokes,
is
worthy of study.
Dear
Sir,
On
21st,
16
neither were any of
when
fresh,
Odour
Polarity
gravity
Specific
Elettricita
Elettricita
Elettricita
Bianca
(White
Verde.
(Green
Rossa.
Metals
(Red
Electricity.)
Electricity.)
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
1-0006
1-0002
1-0002
O'Ol
0-01
None
None
None
None
001
None
None
(dis-
water=l)
tilled
neutral
Electricity.)
Taste
if
Colour
Vege-
*
.
Alkaloids
,.
of
any floating
particles
There
qualities
None
is
that
is
all
the above
water.
of their
properties.
Yours
faithfully,
Alf.
W. Stokes,
F.C.S., F.I.C.,
and
St.
Luke's
London County
*
By
motals
medicinally.
is
to water, or
Council.
17
The
*'
itself.
negative in
character,
its
when we think
poor creatures
the
Count's specifics
white,
green,
of the
and
red.
But
named
so
electricities are as
tion
may be
If the
he has
when
administered
in
drops,
cure
cataract,
human
nature
is liable,
ill
to
mend
which
As soon
low,
as the
as follows
'*
Wanted,
few persons
chasing water at
at 5s.
an advertisement worded
an ounce
Is.
"
!
it
Chapter
II.
In our
^^
chapter
first
we pointed
the nature of
either that he
water, as
word
most mis-
is left
The consequence
money upon a bottle
what he buys.
may
shown by the
analysis of Mattel's
I.,
*'
of
Electrical
or that he
member
is,
may
of his family
if
worse consequences
us, it is
medicines
one of general
is
considerable
number
law relating
Many
to
them.
of our correspondents
ask for
we
information
The
field is
what prepara-
thank
19
Well, we will deal with the
goodness
comes
hand from
to
heap in front of
who
a lady subscriber
we
It is
us.
from
apparently with no
inquires,
that
first letter
is
we
years ago,
Lancet,
and in that
headed
of a letter
^'
Report
for
''
a copy of the
the
'
Clarke'ji
World-Famed
Taylor,
volumes of the
eminent
late
and
analyst
on
lecturer
The exami-
VA grains
minims
potash, 30
to
give
directed
chloric
the
to
nated a
'
solution
of
four
this,''
tint,
times
It has
common
?^alt,
and
'
'^
day.
^'
blood mixture
nitre,
of potassium,
The dose
7J ounces.
be administered was one tablespoonful
incomprehensible.
than
Iodide
4 drachms
ether,
requisite
(half-an-ounce)
mixture as
Why
should be desig-
blood purifier
no more claim
sal
such
'
is
to this title
ammoniac, or other
saline
Its
properties
{i.e.,
those
is
of
iodide
of
no novelty in
20
employment.
its
mixture
that
is
the
iodide
dissolved
is
The four
blood purifier.'
it
doses
is
it
directed
may
to
be
the person
if
water
in
described as
is
form of
in this
such a
and do mischief.
lodism
It produces iodism."
sj^mptoms
show
poisoning
special
of
the condition
is
when
themselves,
&c.,
in
cases of mercurial
at
similar to the
salivation,
poisoning.
We
such
because
and
high
the
facts
it
emanates from
stated
moderation.
As regards
the
deleterious
effects
iodide
of
of
all
Taylor.
Dr.
physician
to
For
and
lecturer
Sidne)^
Ringer,
Universitj"
College
Dr.
instance.
at
its
doses
The
if
if
its
""
Handbook
administration
is
may
arise
after
very small
21
the
eyes,
the mouth,
nose,
bowels; there
also
is
and
stomach,
the
the
tion.
symptoms
and
that
some
of
these
will
^*
stomach "
moreover,
he
observes
elsewhere,
depression of
irritable,
dejected, listless,
The
patient becomes
and wretched.
Exercise
We
has been
sceptical
said
that
^^
basis of
on this point
iodide
of
to
given except in selected cases, and under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
directions
accompanying a
recommending
cure
'*
for
we
bottle of
recently purchased,
whole host of
diseases,
state
that
to the
it
is
most
We
on this question.
form
their
own
opinion
may
22
to the
made
in
the laboratory
of
Mr.
W.
Alfred
to,
Stokes,
and
St.
Luke's,
gives
only 48
grains
We
iodide of
of
infer, therefore,
out
of
deference
to
Dr.
Taylor's
manuviews,
still
It
further.
is
a pity that
Indeed,
if
to
Chapter
III.
Amongst
have
elicited
which
correspondence
the
we have
from a gentleman
at
received
Shrewsbury
about
quack
articles
following letter
the
these
*^
I should like to
medicines,
which
Of course
your journal.
which
I cannot
now
find
who cured
mixture
Did
it
of taking-
mentioned in Clarke's
in his legs
it
effects
advertisements, of a pauper
what Dr.
I do not dispute
never happen, or
several holes
him
if it
did,
how was
"
ills
that
trouble
Advertisem.ents
reading, but
'^
world-famed "
occasionally
we must
to think that
fall.
much amusing
when we come to a
furnish
confess that
it
by.
It
24
may
we
be that
along the
all
we
that
line, or
monotony
of successes
consequently
Our correspondent
we
fore,
merits
case
whatever.
of
articles
is
upon
to
its
Besides,
will there-
trust,
to.
Our
somewhat
is
Government
stamps
for
community
tion of the
*'
ingredients.
fact
and hundreds
under the
aegis of the
throughout
Further,
the
the
of
Clarke's
potent
in
and
the
Blood
breadth of
Mixture
many
rate
persons, even
doses,
while
it
it
distributed
the
is
action
when administered
produces most
are
land.
chapter
previous
that
iodide
of
that,
in
in very
distressing
the
quack
harm,
for
Government stamp
length
we showed
basis
is
of thousands of gallons of
containing drugs
medicines,
mode-
symptoms,
When
shall
this
be
quite
we
25
alleged to
sium were
the burnt
flavoured and
is
coloured,
Taylor, F.R.S.
The
made by
Professor A. Swaine
kind
them were
It is only reasonable
know what he
Various
countries
purchasing.''
have recognised
this
sale
Continental
necessity,
is
not publicly
made known.
According
laid
down
is
to
it is
specially
the
offence.
first
It
is
offence,
and 10
and
which
name
name and
it is
con-
of the article,
address of the
unknown to the
person known to
seller,
may
unless
be sold
to
any person
introduced by some
26
kept for that purpose the date, the name, and address
of the purchaser,
the
sold,
must
for
which
it
is
of
poison
required,
and
intro-
of this important
violated
by the
poisons
Take the
case
of
chlorodyne,
for
The
instance.
name, sold
as CoUis
by Mr. A.
for us
W.
drachms
hemp, and
with
hydrochlorate of morphia,
grains of
An
Wynter
twelve
Stokes,
analysis,
Blyth, gave,
enumerated by Mr.
is
Now, supposing
at the present
to as
time omitted,
Act
to
The dose
of hydrochlorate
ministered medically,
a grain
is
of morphia,
when
ad-
In one
27
ounce of CoUis Browne's Chlorodyne, by Mr. Stokes^
showing, there would be the equivalent of twelve full
doses of morphia, and thirty-six full doses of chloro-
form.
If a person
wanted
to
buy
drachms
six
of chloroform^
it
stamp, and
it
difficulty in
Government three-halfpenny
The quantity
with which
of this
it is
much
flavoured
ease
sold is
Taken, at
first,
in small doses
to the matter.
chlorodyne,
to its use,
the
victims
and many
fall
This craving once established, they become as completely slaves to the practice of swallowing chlorodyne
in
extraordinary quantities
Chinaman does to
using Indian hemp,
as a
to
follow.
mentioned
to a friend of ours
West End
recently
numerous instances
of
in
In another
28
case, a
man
tbird, a lady
consumer ran up a
in addition to
chase.
In a
But even
this
last
case
seems moderate in
who
for
in six
90
to her chemist
knowledge.
Chapter
TV.
Revalenta Arabica.
We
daily paper,
virtues
of
Du
the
forth
page in a London
of a
marvellous
Revalenta
Barry's
curative
The
Arabica.
who Du Barry
Originally, there may have been a man who
is.
slipped
Du in front of his name because it looked
like ^'Dr.," but at present we understand that ^'the
mation, though not a word
^^
show
"
is
''
run by a syndicate.
From asthma
down
to vertigo,
resist this
said as to
is
right
away
alphabet
the
to
through
100,000
hope
(we
noughts
our
there
by reason
And
of
them quite
respectable
as 1850, 1852,
older, for
many
Besides,
and the
like,
while some
such
people
of
rank,
may
be even
all.
too
for
example,
30
Marchioness de Brehan, of Versailles, whose cure
numbered 58,614,
'^
so
felt
dreadfully low-spirited
if
^^
There
at the voices of
is
it
incident in
servants'
hall.
*'
many
had prescribed
The
in vain.''
last three
''Affliction
any
light
trived to consult so
French town
which one
to
make
out
many English
how
thrown
she con-
physicians at the
is
mere
detail,
to
resume
her
social position.
How
nice,
of
Du
Barry
&
Co. to
common paupers
like the
one who
is
said to
Mixture
Looking
it
the
at
costs
matter from a
no more
to advertise
and
let
is
Stick
to
the
people
workhouse.
So our
of
title,
31
not
that
we
consider our-
We
Uu
pound cannot be
it
must have
we
as
will
On
being
Du
Barry's,
the
as
its
we
state that
show
directly.
Dear
pound
Sir,
On
tin of "
Du
This was
into
am
of opinion that
a fine powder.
it
ground up
To
Public Analyst.
the Editor,
With
this
report Mr.
The
we took
32
the
trouble
Du
delicious food
word
of
which
those
to
attracted
ment
similar
ascertain,
to
''only
is
" in
italics,
being
lentils
&
Barry
the
of diseases^
because
only
list
We
we never
cure
before heard
consumption,
for
*^thia
serious disorders.
On
wrapper
the
number
Du
Barry
of black
as if Revalenta
is
&
Du
''
of clothing),
lentils,
with the
Discovered, exclusively
&
Barry
Co."
nations.
why
lentils
learn
which
rate
[vide
Mr.
and
figs,"
suggested by
Du
lentils
Stokes'
''
Mark Lane.
name
Co.'s
ground up into
the
Hebrews
As to Du Barry &
we should like to
''
to the
is
the
tale.
*'
of
In
new reading
Chapter V.
The History
Sequah
One
''
of Patent Medicines
The
came
^^
to be applied to preparations of
position
is
Tbe misnomer
kept secret.
baving
arose in tbis
way.
of
lost
George
wbose obstinacy
III.,
frequently
means
to
mucb
of raising-
money.
cap.
62)
^'
to
by
subsequent Act,
*^
prepared or
''
34
who had
unknown
or claimed to have
'*
any occult or
art,
secret or
title to their
mended
relief of
way
''
as
or
specifics
any
or in
to,
human body."
The otherwise in
applies quite as much to quack medi-
affecting, the
this definition
day
as it did then.
term
compounds
is
*'
patent" applied to
divulged."
five
uniform
amount
of
five
shillings
throughout
the
United Kingdom.
was
to
vendors.
new
now
the
annual
of chemists
and druggists
the Pharmaceutical
Society
behalf,
of
we can account
by
their
own
35
of various tradesmen
shopkeepers
wholly
grocers,
drapers,
unacquainted
and general
with
even
the
The
dangerous character.
be procured
we
ease with
now more
refer
particularly to the
<3piate
has
led to a
many
is
un-
deaths, especially of
ture,
it
difficult to detect
and bring
to
light.
''it
is
tion
of
opium
in
how many
impossible to say
killed annually
this
by soothing syrups."
class
that
some form or
remark
of large experience
infants are
Every prepara-
we have examined
contains
other.
condition
Some propose
things.
of
now very
many
of the present
dangerous merchandise.
Others,
again,
urge
the
the
stamp
duty
character, and, as
it is
is
comparatively
of a fiscal nature,
minor
might be
left
Exchequer
36
We
increase of the stamp duty, and to a very great increase of the charge for the patent medicine license,
which ought
to
Pharmacy
nothing
Act
contained
hereinbefore
with
interfere
An
'^
making
the
that
extend to or
shall
or
'^
dealing
in
patent
the legislature
make
it
Continental
of
unlawful to
is
countries,
and
to
sell
it is
By
as chicory
law the
and margarine,
is
such
which he
is
How much
buying.
more
the
is
it
composition of articles
Further,
clearly
if
made known
that
of
life ?
it is
as
to
it
should be
be regarded as of the
the
preparation.
'^
Protected by
Her
Majesty\s,
37
is
which
statement
has
But
if
silent
concocted
charged with
be
such
Bold
components.
assertion
their
is
man
is
sheet-
the
talis-
pockets
their
of
prietors of
credulous
The
customers.
mostly
pro-
fools,
^'
many
said,
millions of people
'^
mostly
''
with an
no
and
expense,
stopping
short
no
at
assurances.
Some
little
time back
we bought
small bottle
face
of
it
to
positive
it
statements
purchase
Well,
we
Prairie
*^
(some
and
may
ask)
certificate
accompanied our
like to be independent,
and
as
38
forwarding
it
to
Mr. Stokes,
so to his laboratory
and
all
about
it
"
is
it
went
Prairie Flower
From
this
the
transition
easy
is
Montana
them
all
the wonderful
to
Territory,
this,
he can
solicitor,"
documents
been
legal
have
If
anyone
by application
test it
Company's London
Europe
as
to the
in
placed
through
but,
that the
we
Next,
learn
^*
spot.
so far as a
but
it
is
But
classes,
(displaying
his
who can
so costly a
go to the springs,"
ecstasy
capital
in
THE People.
It
circular,
letters),
very
trip.
is all
Sequah
This
curative
virtues
advantage of this
and
fact,
Sequah,
and made
still
Limited,
it
their
retain
took
business
39
to bring these waters before the public in a
AND
Convenient
closely associated
Cheap
Rheumatism is
with the great group of Stomach
Form.
For
AND Liver Complaints, and it was found necessary, in order to ensure a Complete and Permanent Cure, to combine this mineral water with
certain Vegetable Extracts, several of which are
also
valuable
woods and
Indian
prairies of the
pounded, Prairie
away the
medicines,
And
Far West.
Flower
is
thus com-
best
for
all
Diseases.''
sorts
of
Who
letters,
ordinary type
**
this
Cherokees,
Comanches,
Sequah, Limited
have used
'*
this
If the
discovery of America,
have invented
friendship
traveller,
it ?
with
who
the
spent
how comes
We
it
that
enjoyed for
late
much
Mr.
Catlin,
of his life
you claim
many
the
years
to
eminent
(more than a
40
discussed with
by the Indians.
even refer
to the
^^
Prairie Flower."
that related to
all
The
aloes,
fact
is
is all
wrong, for
^^
the
Flower,"
is,
^^
West
Prairie
Indies,
likelv to
West
" statement
is
absolutely nothing
cinallj^,
ance as
of such
new
is
Another matter
is
There
attention
Far
aloes.
procured.
''
that aloes
to
whence
this
drug
is
is
bined with
it
but
if
whence
to
little
inform themselves as
to its
properties.
At
to our analyst,
we
also
we
"
sent the " Prairie Flower
The following
is
a copy of his
41
Analytical Laboratory,
W.
March
Dear
Sir,
On
February 20th
I received
and
13th.
two-ounce bottle
These were
still
in
unopened
wi'appers,
of
of
On
analysis, I
The
found as follows
Sequah Oil"
"
oil of
of
consists
a mixture of two-thirds
oil,
camphor.
The Sequah
Water
Aloes
'
735 grains
.
Carbonate of soda
two ounces
105
,,
'^o
,y
of the tinctures of
in
water
I remain.
Yours
faithfully,
Alfred W. Stokes,
To
Public Analyst.
the Editor.
The carbonate
F.C.S., F.I.C.,
of soda
is
it
looks very
much
as
if
the vaunted
'^
Mineral
As
like the
method resorted
to
is
decidedly fishy,
by Sequah, limited,
for
42
The bulk
obtain
advertisements
and
notoriety
mural
the
of
quack
through newspaper
posters
taking advantage
Limited,
of
but
Sequah,
falsely
assumed
West Indian
aloes
highways
into
sham-Indian, half
Sequah
This,
by
half
any
and that
is
Being
and
in disturbing the
may
be pestered
mob, they
trial
for
slander, the
was upwards
of a dozen
total
number
of these
was
it
men
Yet
the only
is
''
Sequah "
is
to the
name.
A correspondent
from which we
will quote
43
*'In a field there
band
sitting in
it.
up
streets
with a
lecturer drove
circus-car,
Taking a
from
his pocket,
and more
letters.
elaborate
dumb
show, he would
wavy
rise
hat,
and remove
letters of
After a
his overcoat
showing a mass
round
made us
fruit,
of black,
his neck,
and
Bill's followers
little
were spreading, he
fitted
on
Sequah remedies
Those
persons
into the
car.
children
step up, one at a time, and, with the aid of the electric lamp,
their teeth
four extracted.
off.
When
who was
air that
up
lustily, so as
the whole time was singularly selected, being the negro melody,
Who's dat calling so sweet ? " Then came more boasting and
more letter reading. After this, people in the crowd who had
been cured of rheumatism were requested to come into the car.
**
44
Some
said they
do previous
to
Then
Occasion-
to
'
When
felt better.
the
car,
massaged
'
their limbs,
One unfortunate
walk away.
broke
generally
lecturer
and
finally
their
bade them
It
the
'^
is
now
may
sufferers
receive
are selected.
There
due
entirely
is
to
the
is
Even
trials
commonly
is
not
fail altogether.
all so
genuine as
will prove.
wont
of gardeners
stiff
the
their
When
on-Thames,
this lady
day^'s
work every
heard so
she
his joints,
after
week-day.
in
45
concourse of people, what was her astonishment, on
a
labour
by four
gardener
and
men),
into
at
the
car
recognising
in
him her
steps.
said,
''
which he
orders
it
is
much
(with
down the
this,
hoisted
patient
seeing
replied,
"
From
'^
Oh,
yes.
Mum,
''
To
may
be as to
room
for
none as
issued to exhibition-patients
The
tooth- drawing,
by the Sequah
lecturers.
is
of
it
rather mixed in
in
also
visibly imits
results.
after the
was prior
his
visit.
left a
that,
West End,
a
told us
Sequah lecturer
to get nearer,
46
man
to let
had put
one,''
him
*'
Why,
it is
stration
a sound
it
Sequah
"^W^^^^'
Chapter VI.
Holloway's
and
Pills
" Prairie
Flower
^'
;
Ointment
Sequah's
Letter concerning
Some
fifty or
issued large
!)
numbers
of curious little
Thomas
attacked
one
accused
him
(Albinolo' s)
HoUoway,
fradulently
of
London,
and
appropriating
his
of
According to
invention.
this
amusing
England,
requisite
entrusted
means
field for
plunder in
HoUoway with
Thomas
fired
the
This
Thomas
promptly
and
exceeded
HoUoway
thoroughly,
instructions,
for
seems
but
he
to
he
little
Frenchman's
done
considerably
conceived
have
the
un-
to
such an
48
of his complexion.
^'
is
to
''
but
it
Thomas.
tions) unfaithful
Thomas was
Yet, although
wholly
one respect
in
character
of
partake
not
achieved
come
change
for a
unbelieving
the
absolute
felt
of vocation
notwithstanding,
attacks
of
Thomas
namesake.
scriptural
his
HoUoway had
he
success
as
Albinolo's
that,
straightway
laid
in
number
newspaper advertisements.
of
He
have entertained as
^^
up
it
measurement
professor,
one's
food
for
clothes
prepared
in the course of
by a
taken
under
by
the
professor,
another
superin-
49
noble art of self-defence
''
the
'^
improved by
many
so
less
In
of pugilism.
common
England then
in
titles are in
became almost
professors
fact,
as
men
as
bearing military
We have no
means
HoUoway added
of ascertaining
his
to
whether Thomas
assumed accomplishment
of
English poets
sciously,
though,
consciously
or
uncon-
'
'
And mighty
We
commend
fessorial
''
Family
''
pro-
as
at
staff
establishment,
of universal cures
Friend,
presented
the compiler of
to
customers,
has
As
amidst
other
searched
its
the late
*'
miscellaneous
number
matter,
of anecdotes
we
naturally
professor,"
but
we were doomed
life of
to
dis-
Advice,"
the
appointment.
of
" Seasonable
recommended
50
for all ages, all climates, all diseases, all seasons,
We
in all quantities.
1,
name
*^
2, 3,
all
all,
fighting for
while the
pay
things
for all."
and administering
who
somewhat
says significantly,.
similar condition of
quack medicines,
regards
for
the
all,
exist
credulous
all,
The
Five Alls."
'^
a visit to
is
4,
'^
oi the
and
when on
Wiltshire,
house
recollect,
and
as
whether
it
business
is
many
which the
thousands of pounds
mighty heaps
of coin
"
j)roprietors amass.
Well, although
any anecdotes
tion to
^^
we were
of the late
which we have
referred,
we need not on
that
When
him
it
as his property if
number
he would insert in an
coming out
in
51
a serial form, some reference to the
medicines.
and
promptitude
equal
proffered
HoUoway
of
with
said,
it
returned
indignation,
Upon hearing
bribe.
patent
the
incident,
this
if
On
another occasion,
Exhibition,
there
1851,
men
representative
in
the year of
was
Gore
at
large
House,
the
Great
meeting
of
Kensington.
made
use
of
happened
minent
to
know,
Sala,
novelist,
he
He was
particularly
at last,
whom
desirous
tion,
to
personages.
of being
Mr.
and managed
despite
**
difl&cult
However, yielding
to say a
the
to seek,
Thackeray
military
officer.
that he
Holloway.
''
Oh
well,"
'*
Professor
observed Thackeray,
''
'*
52
made
As
HoUoway's
to the composition of
Mons.
pills,
be as follows in 144
it
pills.
Sulphate of Soda
Pepper
Aloes, which
substance
possessing
that
unworthy
may be
pepper may
they
is,
Lard
Eesin
passed
Turpentine
Spermaceti
,,
like rhubarb,
;
saffron
over without
Mons.
62J parts.
50
25
12^
3
which
attributed
contains, according to
Wax
Yellow Wax
to
,,
be similarly dismissed
White
pills
Olive Oil
is
,,
of consideration.
HoUoway's ointment
There
aperient properties
27
62 grains.
Ehubarb
Saffron
to
special
remedial
properties
can
be
53
bott preparations maryellous curative characters, and
assert in the
subject
in
tions
the
short,
every
will vanish
and
pills
ill
one
Allah
is
is
inunction of
the
great
foolish
"
which human
of
rising sun.
HoUotcay
enough
to believe
greater
that
is, if
says.
is
flesh is
to
mind the
we
many
pills,
Professor's
pro-
fessions of perfection.
While on
we may mention
tell
gaping audience
his
defied the
most
sition of the
^'
for
who
Mr. A.
W.
Stokes,
Paddington
and
other
districts,
compo-
Sequah, Limited,
that
it
con-
important
metropolitan
they
considering
are
in
to
the
which case
it
that gentleman.
desirability
is
to
of
be hoped
54
whom more
of the
Company^s
lec-
With
reference
our articles on
to
Mixture (Chapters
and
II.
we have
III.),
Blood
Clarke's
received the
name
is
known through
well
his
work
of the
we
him
to the question
To
Dear
Sir,
Bartlett,
Blood Mixture.
the Editor,
by
its
grati-
exposures of quackery.
am
and
abuses
am
put by
still
columns.
am
am
if
I could,
am
not even
55
patent medicine, and certainly I should wish to use the greatest
discrimination in ''sifting out the Yv^heat from the chaif" in
which
are,
those which
and, lastly,
all
is
articles,
Family
Doctor'' s
bearing,
ironically,
it,
suppose,
agent
curative
estimated,
since
impurities,
and
it
cleanses
restores
it
v/hich
and
clears
up
and we
(the
it
of the
title
family
"Clarke's Blood
normal condition.
to its
>
the
res]:>ectable
first
from the
Doctor.
Mixture
in to-day's Daily
Chronicle,
by them.
skill
It
is
It
all
is
certainly the
to our subscribers
and the
public generally."
This
many
is
unsophistica.t(;d sufferers
scrofula, scurvy
descriptions, as
if
and bad
sores,
of all
legs, skin
with "bird-lime."
tlu^
56
Family Doctor wi^ extreme nausea I come
Mr. Dick Swiveller observed.
a certificate signed
by
my
to a " staggerer," as
It appears to be a quotation
from
is
entirely free
from any
and
is
if
any,
under Dr. Swaine Taylor's actual signature, giving also the date.
I have very particular reasons for pressing this inquiry,
if
is
and
It will be interesting to
are obtained
and used.
H.
C.
Bartlett,
Chapter VII.
Saved
from
the
Correspondence
Holloway
concerning
and
Mattel
I.
Concerning Holloway.
To
Sir,
am
Dublin.
the Editor.
abominable
articles as
you have inserted in your paper about what you are pleased to
call
quack medicines.
Professor
Do you
not
know
You may
institutions of almost
not hn<w
all this
national
am
who has
And
enjoyed the benefits of the Holloway College at Egham.
don't you know that one who bears the honoured name of
relative
Lady.
* *
*
II.
Another
Concerning Mattel
correspondent has
and
illogical
attacks on
the
sent
us
two fearfully
Judging from
medical
his violent
profession,
his
line as
of the
58
The oddest
is
thing, perhaps,
Common Sense/'
He might
it,
Gentleman."
These
communications
tion in full,
are
too
One lump
with extracts.
of the
mud thrown is
so
much
common
honesty,
'*
1.
on Mattei's Kemedies,
Honesty.
and capacity
sense,
a reflection on your
as editor of a paper.
Is it
is
'
You
Electricities,'
What good
humbug
the
are
will listen to
you;
know
a doctor
who
doctors.
Let
me
they were prepared from fungi, to which idea the smell and the
Your common
sense.
Do you
Mattel
What an
off the
idea
if
you must
you imagine
59
**
3.
Your
you have adopted would
of a paper.*
editor
the
from taking
Do you
*
'
is
abusive
it
in."
not
feel that
Not only
your
know
article,
by gentlemanly
but it
feeling,
my
and
is difficult
who
who
hnoiving
simply nothing, and not even taking the trouble to test a single
remedy,
sit
down
in
an
editor's chair
ples
common
humbug and
it is all
see that a
down with
people
We
sense or reflection.
last
who have
a grain of
his fraud
but that
is
if
the
a fraud
ex
3'ou
"P.S.
and pronounce an
of healing in
if
your
sight,
come
you would
to
not fraud."
rule,
''Place aux
cation.
we will deal first with '^A Lady's'' communiWhile admitting that her relative may have
profited
dames,^^
late
Thomas Holloway, we
benefits provided
by the
'
'Comniercial
inercial f;ai>ac;ity
allow
that
(capacity "
Wo
did not
Mattei
know
we
(Mlitorial essential.
At the same time
must
eould ^ive most peoi)l(^ j^oints in commercial
was an
selling
60
the firm of
ancient
pill
order,
science, or that
it
it
Thomas HoUoway
that
''
made
by
pile "
his
the
The
^^
which we
HoUoway
perhaps,
established,
not
the
is
a ques-
beyond remarkwhich
Thomas
appropriate,
least
if
people
cure
After
all,
that used
by Lucetta
of Verona
I think
what
appear
would he
abusive
and
we wonder,
if
he tried to
we complacently
accept his
say,
imposition
It
followers.
looks upon
have
hit,
at
least,
common
one of his
correspondent
himself
illogical
of a
man
61
knowledge wholly
How
we never claimed
this assumption
as
his
(!) is
knowing nothing
for our
other
by
Common
^^
he
though
infallibility
'^
to
too,
As
cleverly,
Scarcely have
humble
contrast of our
disqualifies
to
Common
insinuations, for
Sense's'^ stamp),
comparison
artful,
adroitly introduced.
of Mattel's remedies,
Sense
it
''
as incorrect
is
It
great
in the
faith
ourselves
of
unsatisfactory
that
opportunities
rigid analysis,
just as they
The
tests.
we were not
''
as
to
availed
put the
results
were
surprised
when
Electricities "
to
to
him,
*'
honest water," as
we
brought
^'Electricities"; but
subsequent
to us
on Mattel
his panegyric
that
was evident
may you
Stokes' analysis
is
not be
so long as
Mr.
62
Mattel and his followers content themselves with vague
him
Common Sense avers that we
He had better
but libellous.
we
assertions
shall regard
^'
^*
humbug,
gross
till
is
as a
false,
There
along
is
of
street
was so
manufacturing town,
navvy"
^^
woman
little
vigor-
from speaking
the
to
moving
his pipe
good-humoured
and
and
please
stamp
while
'*
Common
and
down
with
it
and others
vilify the
pleases
it
may
of
the same
medical
jp^ofession,
latter.
which
diminu-
In like manner
promptitude
at his
Sense "
certainly need
equanimity of the
We
glancing
*^
to pitch into
it
face,
irascible spouse,
it
re-
her,
The
giant
tive
man.
quacks
ill
articles
assert
that
to the
their
Univer-
63
a relative
to
business
^'
embark
to
in a similar
internally,
stiiff
exter-
and eternally."
nally,
HoUoway's
of
tration
and Ointment
Pills
carried.
which one
of
consists
sees
aloes
afford a
good
advice
this
illus-
can be
advertised
at
railway
all
stations,
still
less
tine,
be used externally
stant
may
laid
resin, to
lard, oil,
wax, turpen-
nostrums
these
down by the
successful
Yankee quack.
Anyone
there
nothing of a
is
character
rated
j^et
among
specific
far
of course,
less of a
the ingredients
see that
marvellous
we have enume-
down through
the alphabet.
We
who manage
to
in
**A
thought
to
Lady's"
the
letter,
ever
questionable
Pills
and
64
Ointment and
cere
*^
of
human
perennms might in
A monument more
of
its
instance be translated,
this
ago,
scientiously
names
hiiyi
it to
unbelievers
list
whose
To
of subscribers.
if
and apply
it
could con-
should send
raising
the
accept
Army
is
Mo)iu)nentum
founder."
Some time
this
gullibilitJ^
The
is
is
derived
and
it
HoUoway
the mean
College,
in which
the
HoUoway
College
factor,
instead
credulity.
funds
of
as
w^ere
way
memorial
permanent
of
a public bene-
proof
of
human
Chapter
VIII.
Renewer
FOR
Singleton's
the
Eyes
Gowland's
Lotion
articles
Golden
for
the
Skin
and
Anna
we have
Ointment
Kayldor
Rowland's
In previous
Mexican Hair
dealt with
quack prepa-
In the present^
administration.
worse
still
dangerous
are submitted to
We
composition,
1.
Hair
Restorer.
when
of the
they
analyst.
An
analysis
of
the
contents
of
the
handsome return
and
foolishly
it is
to be
found in
to its proprietors.
to persons
If
who fondly
66
will
its
made
for
it
would,
The
over-advertised.
parts.
more
portion
of
rendered
inert.
overrated
of lead 1
of
is
Sing/eton's
than
five
parts
to
Ointment
Golden
it
for
one as to be
the
Ei/es.
As
much
so
3.
as
is
It consists of acetate
foregoing remarks
a matter of fact,
it
sometimes
unfortunately,
than
it
is
to
much
easier to
It
is,
in-
4 and
5.
Roicland^n
Mr.
Kalydor and
Henry
pharmacy,
states in his
Lotion
Ooicland''s
all
Book "
dear to
friends,
may
be imitated as follows
Bitter
almonds
67
corrosive sublimate 8 grains, rose
(blancliecl) 1 ounce,
water 16 ounces.
that,
permanently
find
sublimate
corrosive
of
he says
he could not
6.
In the
been wisely
has
eliminated.
But
tardily, it
at a consciousness of the
so that the
if
hope
us
let
the makers
must be admitted
dangerous character of so
seems
that
vendor who
-cosmetic
respect
it
there
at
absolutely
is
Anna Ruppert.
a Mrs.
is
reckless
self-styled the
of
much
this
'^
cele-
Now
in
this
as a grain
well-known analyst, says in his report upon the composition of a specimen of this lotion submitted to
ior examination
him
significant observa--
way
would appear
leading
medical
careless,
to be left to chance.
paper,
little
the
British
Jler/ical
poisoning, reported by
J)y.
W.
H. C. Staveley, F.R.C.S.,
68
L.R.C.P., Lond., and Mr. R. Denison Pedley, L.D.S
The
F,R.C.S., Edin.
jaw
boils,
removed
forming
abscesses
dentist
on
all
consequence of
in
her
consult
first
to
patient,
their
at
condition
this
base),
and
and
of
bony
the
ened.
had
sister
for three
commenced
it,
becoming
medical advice.
The
Anna Ruppert's
special
proportion
of
lotion
corrosive
found
sublimate
in
it
by
all
symptoms.
We
make
statement
:
Iluppert, in
good
at
my
own
Mrs. Anna
Regent
Street,
my
to
magnifying
glass,
and
She looked
said that her
She recommended
69
me
to try
me by
sent
The interview
About a month after I had
sleepless, lost
my
and
my
hands became
deals
appetite,
friends noticed
ment
so
my
it.'^
Had
man when
she
did,
there
is
little
lotion, the
As
it is
is
impaired.
Anna Ruppert
'^
The Book
the usual
for
'^
special treatment."
Beauty," by
Anna Ruppert,
be
laws of nature are suspended when the '^ special treatment " is adopted, and that in Anna Ruppert's hands
the most powerful mineral poisons are miraculously
''
is
we
Still,
we would
almost
If
70
much
not occupied so
of
her
herself, she
might have found room for the names of these " best
liA^ng
wonderfully ignorant and credulous indivi''
duals,
outside
her
ties
Skin
Among
pamphlet.
be,
information
is
single
tonic,
other
exist
bottles,
10s.
What
6d.
three
A less
for ?
the
unfortunate widow's
We
Dyspepsia
experience.
4s. 6d.,
and
so on.
at
Regent
Street,
London, but in an
less
than
Sydney, &c.
was
into insignificance
specialist
compared with
as
who can be
'^
complexion
Our reason
included.
It
is
is
that Berlin
this city as a
Anna
happy hunting
71
''
specialities."
method
The
municipal
of dealing with
short
by the
is
stay in the
a literal translation
German
capital
Public Notice.
perfumed.
the
sum of
contents
It
is
it is
slightly
is less
This announcement
is
The President of
Police,
Berlin.
There
Ruppert,
who
" profession
give
''
room
little
is
''
thoroughly, promises
Oh, Dear
Central
for
advice to
We have
all
comers,
so trivial
What
knows her
" cheerfully
My
Anna
an outlay.
London, July
Sir,
when
to
Colonies,
5th, 1893.
the Editor,
72
your issue of
May
now
to inform
Electricities
if,
have been
monthly
publication for May loth, in which you will find an article dealing
November
Yours
loth, 1892.
faithfully,
A. Gliddon, Manager.
make
eftbrts
the
to
summer
but
if
be muzzled so easily, he
delusion as
many
is
we
are to
of his customers
some
of
whom
We
have
to express
Modern Magic.
entitled
homoepathic quantities,
it
should be Matteist
litera-
73
ture,
as JEmetico,
It appears
May
15th that
M.
of Bologna,
Casali,
M.
Butterfield.
examined the
Electricities,
he had come
**
tests.
As
to a
a result of these,
haracteristic odour
by
had a
heat.
(1) that
(2)
charged or saturated by
felt
the Electricities
i,e,,
He
that they
solutions,
distillation
with
As
for
is
concerned.
it
is
He
is,
however,
Two more
reports
bald, jejune,
we never
saw,
two
himdred
or
two
74
thousand such inanities could not be regarded by and;
sensible
person
affording
as
any disproof
to the letter
ment
Laboratory
analysts
colour,
if it
Mattei's
Govern-
of the
and
Geneva,
both
had no
chemical
the
that
had occurred
to either of
them
these
of
Electricities
and
odour,
or
flavour,
is
at
that
assert
composition
Mr.
Stokes' analysis.
last
of
Perhaps,
say a
to have,
there
Mr. Butterfield
viz.,
that the
ordinary water.
In a
sense,
as of
is
'^
trans-
confident
on
are not
Electricities
to his,
1,000 gallons
5s.
an ounce.
we turned
names
whom
We
found
of
in
terror em
over us.
by Madame Schmid,
who
M.
full
name). Pastor
(Dunedin,
New
^^
Zea-
shop "
75
Margaret Wilson, M. H.
M. de Rozehuba,
Calcutta),
who
rejoicing in the
excusable here.
(senior curate of
and Baboo
X.,
C.)^
De
Radhica
(of
is
name
The use
suran.
W.
of
of
It
Nibin Chundergaugoolychin-
initials
is
''
repre-
any one
is
of our
Electricities,
many thousands
of
Modern
Medicine
two
than
half
women,
the
two
who
space
of
Americans
by
initials
Gliddon's
unsatisfactory
analysts
and that
is
Wise Head.
Chapter IX.
Quack
Advertisements
Mother
An
and
Seigel's
Testimonials
Syrup.
'^
**
cines.'^
quack,
''
persons
as
would
tising" after
*'
probably
have
added,
'^
Many
and adver-
bottles."
observed the
own mendacious
tongue.
He
cost, for
could not
the plain
The amount
of
quack medicines
money
is
spent on advertisements of
astonishing.
Thousands, tens of
this
expenditure,
the
outlay,
77
because they have read some glowing advertisement
(more or
less false).
regarded as the
to be
respect
the
readiest
Chinee "
medicines.
according to an article
in this respect
CornhiU
the
in
runs
the
and,,
Magazine,
quack
advertisements
as
English
or
periodicals.
when he
than
turns
''
quackee,^' puts
American
'*
Chinee,'^
'^
They
can only
puff,
lying assertions.
Take
Pao,
for instance,
or
Shanghai
''
^^
down
has come
certain
journeying
woman
flying.
is,
official
in
the
is
hill
somewhat
country
to
us
saj^s
from a
certain oflBcial
uncertain)
when he
Chinese
of a
Fairy
was
saw
stick,
hundred
Mother Seigel
'
'
record breaker
held- a
'^
This recipe,"
grand
the
of
In
her
hand
she
78
Why
do
and he
'
am
five
'
He
hundred years
is
my
is
he will
am
heating him.'
and knelt
*
down
it
its
of the existence
amongst
no one can,
after this,
way
it
Hence
mankind.'
got
may hand
their
Celestials.
Reading
''
further,
cure
will
physiology
that
will
it
of the
as
seven
the
of
is
affections
all
derangements
we
five
and
Chinese
physic and
emotions "
wonderful as Chinese
speedily
and
intestines
effectually
Here are
relieve
every
an ounce
feel light
^^Take
take
become brisk
it
for
it
and your
will
spirits will
for
one year, and white hairs will become black again, and
you
will
and
all
move
as
though
flying.
Take
and you
it
constantly
79
life
without growing
The
old.''
our
many
thousands
pounds
of
about
is
3d.
3s.
in
English money.
nouncements we
shall
to spread their
pills, potions,
and
is
no time
of their
upon the
fact that
plasters.
sale
insist
men
of the present
Certainly, in
times.
The
first
is
^^
which
though
(the tincture
first
lost
(at
many
for
we presume),
what date, we
adopted by quacks
?)
cure
those
This
marvellous
stuff,
Mr.
be obtained only at
period of which
now
we
at
2s.
6d.
bottle,
Payne's toyshop
was
(at
to
the
bazaar
or
emporium
for
many
articles)
at
the
80
*'
Cheapside."
though ever
persons,
so bad,
distinct
grown
"
difficulty.""
stupendous
Its
can be secured,
the
at
moderate
St.
Dunstan's Church,
Fleet Street.
The
third preparation
memory
is
for
specific
" loss
of
by a grateful
;
it
strikes at
and
clear
all
judgment, reason,
memory was
the noble
and good
whose
those
remember
a pot.
What
a pity
money
petitive examinations
cately
it
suggestive
seems that
it
cannot
now be
com-
deli-
present
it
would
have
been
at
81
accompanying
Christmas,
livered
'^
'^
accounts
No. 4 advertisement
that of
is
^*
de-
leanness,
know, but
tincture,
and
bills
removed by an unparalleled
easily
which
fortifies
few
specific
easy
sleep,
body
(was this
artful
afflicts
no
?)
manifest
that
hedging
of
bit
take
remedy
their
fleshy,
distemper
It is
fire.
rise
many undoubted
if
some mistrustfulness, or an
a sign of
//'
plump and
become
and
thrive
to
the
in
rectifies
are
leanness and that
so
gave
away
it
at his toyshop,
with directions
sum
A
Office
reference
the
to
pages
occupying
almost
missionaries
every
here,
columns
New
Guinea,
of
charitable
there,
and
pocket-handkercHicfs to the
to
of
the
London Post
societies,
for
small
object,
Polynesians,
to
the
Fiiians,
exist
dispatching
everywhere,
samplers to Sarawak,
type,
sending
nicknacks
lanterns
and
so
to
on
82
surely a sufficient
sum
could be
raised
among the
As
books.
our contribution,
(box of Beecham's
Pills,
we would
having had
give a '^guinea''
returned on our
it
''
is
and
'^
no matter of surprise
sun,''
exclaimed
It
to find that a
we
is,
consequently,
1^0.
as
it).
Mother
Payne
Seigel's Syrup.
while Mother
in that
that
^^
dyspepsia."
the root of
all diseases
name,
there
is
known
insists, in
is
We
there
is
italics, too),
but
or.^'
Whichever he
we
say,
Hunihucj,'^^
^'
We
it
who own
these medicines."
nor do we desire
of
gence,
intelli-
but, in
83
face of the positive assertion that there
disease,
we cannot wonder
appears to do,
impression
''
that
upon
the
as to the merits
only one
there
is
minds
ments
is
and
more
or less
some people
of
of course)
''
an
of
"
that
(the
state-
popular medi-
effects of
Very
prettily put,
Now, when
it
it
and prevailing
with
containing
hroadsheet
many
is
issue
to
observe.
is
we must
each
bottle
of
syrup
down
to Turkish, that
mark
^^
all
^'
writer's
exist,
of
though not
to the
same extent
may and
as that
do
under
American
would
say,
to
make
man mad on
he
on
may
to
that
'^
medical
'
r^s',')
'^
them
\\ie
writer goes
Some have
a liver complaint,
treated
some
it
the
for"
for dyspepsia,
None
Well, that
is
a poser
for
if,
as the writer
84
has elsewhere told
that
disease
men
should
there
us,
dyspepsia,
it
is
singular
is
medical
that
all
it
not
the
But a ray
for dyspepsia.
is
he
is
to impress
unsparingly
cause
remedy
all,
is
in his desire to
only
and
truth
of
we
Perhaps
all diseases,
Syrup.
Seigel's
upon
of intel-
the writer
the
as
disease,
indiscriminately
attacked,
omitted
(and Seigel),
to
patients
in
give
is
so
the
this
hence, he
any single
instance.
medicine
leteer
modestly styles
it
pamph-
which
who,
''
of their
own
accord
'^
(the
have
come
forward
to
make
own
expense),
declarations
before
''
know where
help
85
Mr.
Stokes,
analyst
public
we
Paddington
for
districts,
and
has unveiled
Paddington Green, W.
Dear
Sir,
its
Limited, London."
now
and
microscopically.
I find
it
to be a
aloes, capsicum,
The
and
treacle, borax,
liquorice.
active ingredient
is aloes,
of
Alf.
W. Stokes,
F.C.S., F.I.C.,
Public Analyst.
Aloes
We
must apologise
to
for the
moment
Perhaps,
too,
writing on patent
poem
We had just
come
across an old
acquaintance, whose
this
series
of
acquaintance, as aloes
is
More-
86
we
over,
felt that
to the dis-
as offered to suffering
medicine proprietors,
doubt
(vide
^^intelligent
we would beg
persons,''
If
without
Aloes,
'^
being
in the
name
As
those
our readers
of
HoUoway's
alias
of
^^
Prairie
Flower,"
it
mixture
and now we
under the
pills;
is
learn,
Seigel's Syrup.
We
may
minds
is
West
is
Indies.
is
when
common
required for
manu-
makers
of the
of the drug.
The
87
West
in
composition
its
of
Seigel's
ment
''
been for
barks,
The manufacturers
of
fifty
this
state-
medicine have
gatherers of roots,
may
used
Why,
one
^'
druggist
notwithstanding
reading,
we
knowledge
situated.
of
the
of personal travel
United
and of
which Mother
decidedly as
tions thereon
more
fair
States,
is
that,
belief
in
their
existence
than
in
the
other
Syrup.
Chapter X.
Mixture
Blood
Clarke's
The Alleged
Tes-
letter
from Dr. H. C.
to
the circum-
pied
scientific
prominent
position
We
world.
concerning
its
who
had
for
many
years occu-
analytical
and
previously noticed
this
in
the
authenticity,
an
opinion which
we
and others
the
confidence
and
man's
lifetime.
No
sibly be brought to
pos-
that
less
89
one known
to
own hand-
time back.
The Obverse.
(From the Report and Analysis of Clarke's Blood Mixture,
published by Dr. Taylor in the Lancet of 1875, under the
heading of " Quack Medicines.")
After describing the ingredients (see Chapter
Dr.
Taylor wrote
"
should be designated a
purifier
Why
'
blood mixture
than
to this title
nitre,
common
and a
'
'
blood
no more claim
It has
incomprehensible.
is
II.),
ammoniac, or
salt, sal
of
potassium,
is
and that
is
the
Its properties
ingredient)
chief
no novelty in
in this
form
(?*.^.,
of
its
those of
are well
emploj^ment.
mixture
is
that the
is
described as a
'
blood purifier.'
The
four doses directed to be taken daily represents sixteen grains of iodide of potassium, and
taking
it is
the patient
quantity as this
mischief.
if
may
specially injurious.
It
produces iodism."
We
may mention
is
the condition
90
symptoms
in which,
show
Very often
even small
such as a grain,
doses,
will
occasion
if
serious
drugs says,
^^
distressing depression of
becomes
irritable,
dejected,
listless,
The
and
patient
wretched.
may
affect the
also remarks,
''
stomach."
directions
recommending
after
this
anything injurious
to the
most
delicate constitution of
either sex."
But we
are not
and nature
now
of Clarke's
we have done
and what we have under
moment is the question of
Blood Mixture
Swaine Taylor
AVe
testi-
The Reverse.
(Cutting from an advertisement of Clarke's Blood Mixture,
contained in a
''
London
daily paper,
any poison
August
is
20th, 1893.)
entirely free
from
91
Alfred
medicine/'
ful
is
and use-
a good, safe,
Swaine
M.D.,
Taylor,
diametrically
known
opposite
The
statements.
the
expression
deliberate
man
of
of
science, the
said.
what do we
Reverse,
Obverse,
to
embodies
is
two
is
hilt,
every-
to the
find ?
denial
positive
of
metaphor
of a coin,
was
it
true.
Continuing our
is
is
of
good
to pass.
cal,
all
the fate of
it
sham and
human
warning
being
outside
to
evil-doers.
Colney
Hatch
as
Is
fictitious
there
or
any
Hanwell
Of
all
with
whom we
Jim Crow
fashion.
92
a long experience, we cannot point to one less likely
to '* give himself away " in this incomprehensible style
of
the proprietors
to
When,
we put
Mixture
Blood
Clarke's
whom
was
where
can
questions
Why
original
be
we would add
yet
proprietors
from
testimonial
5.
the
did the
withhold
And
How
years
until
others,
the
1.
so
Dr.
we
first
By
2.
and
To these
namely
mixture
blood
important
Taylor's
Blood Mixture
it
death
so exten-
of
after
first
two
When
3.
inspected?
knowledge
public
the
4.
a long interval in
which
to
answer
dumb.
fatal illness
from
in his
up,
we
On
July 24th, only six days before his decease. Dr. Bartlett dictated a
letter
to
hand
to us, in
of death
was
93
relate that
man whom he
come
to
office of a gentle-
began
gentleman
this
Clarke about
Dr.
genuine
Taylor's
said,
'
Mr.
tease
to
Mr.
''
report.
till
is
me
goes on to
in,
He
Blood Mixture.
prietors of Clarke's
Dr.
a certificate.'
Bartlett,
what might
in
'^at
be
almost
one of the
'^
final
my
I simply told
Swaine Taylor).
had
me
He was
said.
if
horrified,
and exclaimed,
Defend
may
say
any such
for
for Clarke's
now
article,
Blood Mixture.'
If the condition I
Bartlett,
^^
adds anything in
my
H.
be so
but I have
now
my
carried out
enforce attention."
all
wrote,
We
^^
duty to
(Signed)
will- doubtless
own
and we will
conclusions,
irresistibly impelled.
men
been
facts,
Bartlett.
As Shakespeare
from
am
which
which we have
Chapter XI.
Quack Testimonials
Mother
The
people
who
by
''
Seigel's Syrup.
may
"
mighty heaps
Part
III.,
of coin increase
Canto
1),
"
are not
any
rate,
common prudence
but, at
For
instance,
in a
we
find
the proprietors
of
Clarke's Blood
Mixture
of testimonials "
much
fact
letters.
blood mixture
make such
we
of the
largest
collection
of
95
Our
we
We
unanswerable.
(1)
reason
we have
arrived
that
they
are
grounds
sufficient
at,
testimonial
witnessed
(2)
signature
his
scientific
man
of
one
ever
no such
would
In
unmistakable forgery.
either
that,
(3)
inspection
existence,
no
consequently,
that,
in
prove
short,
the
it
be an
to
name
of
death.
commit the
he
is
yet alive.
For
remedy
called
Mother
Seigel's
made very
name
well-known Manchester medical practitioner, who
not
Dacre Fox.
But the
most inconveniently,
late
way
Dr. Dacre
Fox turned up
for, instead of
He
brought an action
at the
Leeds
awarded him
96
1,000 damages.
stay
of
an
appeal
London than
Court of
On
Lord
ments
Lindley,
Justice
giving judgment,
in
of the defendants.
plaintiff
was
safe,
really dead,
inasmuch as
Unfortunately for
against them.
and instituted an
alive,
Dr.
imputed
to
The defendants
do.
action.
up
them. Dr. Fox was
tittle
failed to
show that
The whole
him.
of evidence to
tried to
way
to
their
libel
own quack
scrupulous
as
medicines.
to
blame
to
be dead.
The
trial or
Chapter XII.
Beecham's
An
Pills,
''
he has her."
most of
This
its class,
man
is
thinks
is
must be a rare
good wives
either
There
be
for,
commodity,
more uxorious
far
or
and
making
of
If a patent medicine
'^
There
is
it
is
aim was
to part
he treasured
with
it,
even
alarming
sacrifice.
and
(as
the
it."
man had
as
pills
so
widely advertised,
come
to believe in
it
himself.
Yet
98
ready to
lie is
sell
sum
lously small
any number
and three-halfpence,
of one shilling
less.
We
to nine-
this
point, but will assume, for the sake of a simple calculation, that
his
Beecham
establishment
the
grand
total
nine
of
pennies.
Just
made
now we quoted
a proverb, and
the
remind us
of another
it is
is
''
'^
;
a nimble
implying
remarks
proverb as
guinea " ?
^^
profit
on each trans-
a nimble ninepence
is
is
Was
all
known
before
compare with
who was
it is
The
that
was in a position
to retail
them
penny, owing to the large scale upon which she conducted her purchases.
99
Perhaps
dame repeated
old
tlie
assertion so
this
we
believing that
Beecham
believes
credit for
him
have given
as
just as
it,
j)ossible
Beecham ought
unsophisticated mind,
be a million-
to
through the
of being
we
a millionaire, as
(according to Beecham)
received, say
pills
We
but
we
heavy
are told,
Value of box of
Amount
our
figures, according to
do not profess to
set
d.
10
conundrums
s.
110
3
in our pages,
Beecham's
pills) to
drawn for us
this.
to
attempt to undo
^'
pellets
more precious
Beecham modestly
who
styles
too
must,
calling in the
these
than
them
by
We
it.
is
''
gold
pearls
or
of
great
silver,"
as
are composed
of.
Analytical Laboratory,
Paddington, W.,
December 21st.
Dear Sir, On December loth I received from you a box of
Beecham' s Patent Pills." The box was securely fastened with
,,
100
the unbroken label of the Inland Eevenue Office.
I have
now made
ination of the
exam-
pills.
my
opinion the
mixed up with
and ginger
soap.
Yours
faithfully,
Alfred W. Stokes,
F.C.S., F.I.C.,
Public Analyst.
Goodness
gracious
gracious
goodness
when
wrong data
question upon
one fact
that
November
Mr. Stokes'
whatever
Beecham
is
have,
it
'^
analysis,
else
We
stall.
'^
our
spiteful cracker
upset
as
may
we
pills
are
is
completely
bound
be disproved
admit
to
namely,
all.
j)i'oxi-
Stokes'
report
ginger, 2 parts
are
aloes,
as
follows
2 parts.
Soap,
What a revelation
part
to
be
pills,
considerable
him.
Soap, ginger, aloes
According
to
Beecham's asser-
101
some thirty or
tive advertisements,
composed
three materials
of
character,
possible
of
are worth
so of little pills,
guinea a box
more
In
we
or less, so
statement
We
each
pill
may
wondering
what part
in
and
be calculated at
7d.
we cannot help
world Beecham buys
critical,
of the
but
up
Tons
ought
'^
^'
of allegory,
patent medicine
cost
of aloes
if
it
Beecham^ s
stamp,
we reckon the
for, as
would
pills
convey
'^)
Beecham
made
to
gold or silver
results
and tons
not
But the
it
enables
to
And
so
if
there
is
sufficient
by Beecham,
box
of
in his circular,
They
pills.
when
it
is
are
suited
This
is
to
"^
females of
all
102
community
Beecbam
we were
quently
by
scorns to do things
recommended,
and
of
the net,
creature
seeing
that
Whateyer
Here
to old age."
it
is
takes
might be
else
both
sexes,.
wider sweep
still
human
eyery
in
pills
^'eyery
for
circular,
from youth
and conse-
halyes,
page 5 of his
at
but
Beecham,
said of
many
chances for
Still,
^^may be giyen
pills
energy
the
to
is
and
^^
they are
Scotchman would
eyesight
they
they
safety'^;
say,
^^
or,
to the
aged and
^^giye
tone and
gude
as
for
In
all
een,"
sair
Beecham puts
the
''
is
it,
'^
;
as
''
the
they
Beecham^s
of direful diseases."
afiections
recommended, and
whole
the
inyigorate
The
refer to some.
an infant, or
muscles,
to
we may
he
names
Beecham shows
large
a
doses
are
very decided
;
^^he giveth
is
Beecham
Hitehinfj of
mentions elsewhere.
breast or head
is
^'
syinptoiV vvhieli
on
Beecham
103
them, a guinea a box, taking his
pills
For persons
swallowing money.
''
would be
like
labouring under
Rough on
as a dose.
of
those
who
may
readers
men
think
but then,
'^
our
Shakespeare wrote,
as
if,
some of
steal
away
Beecham's modesty.
of
times so carried
convey
away by
Indeed, he
he
is
some-
is
he
tries to
a qualified doctor.
A search
name
name
of the Chemists
this
*'
and
Dru^ro-ists of
Great Britain.
few
style
iwactitioners to
Yet
'^
go
this class of
was
it
my
intention to do
duty to perform, I
duty
if
so, but, as
everyone has a
be doing
my
104
human
family stand in
by a man whose
tion
which thousands
need
of."
qualifications
give
to
of the
summed up
in the short
taking
triple
common
his
aloes
information
vouchsafes
nil,
concoction
six
that "
and
ginger,
soap,
while
the
all
medical authority
Beecham's Pills
be
to persevere in
is
dose
as
pills
of
self -assumed
this
is,
word
may
advice
professional
found
will be
(!)
will, as
human
subject.
he has forgotten
Is
specific ?
it
the
purgative,
is
Beecham's
Pills,
Flower
Mixture,
SeigeFs Syrup,
People,
of
of
it
aloes
is
If patent medicines
is it
to be
of
of
The
air, earth,
had existed
Mother
for
Pills
frequently
common
Sequah Prairie
of
ingredient
Pills,
Pink
William's
box
merely an ordinary
of the
HoUoway's
is
just as
in
is
aloes ?
but,
which of these
to tell us
flesh
Pale
ancients
water,
and
in their days,
as a fifth, so
Chapter XIII.
'
'
There
That
is
o:ives
O'
them
credit."
Shakespeare,
Some
of the
a remedy of
or
priceless value,
or
saltpetre,
substance,
some
before
as rapidly as
present instance
aloes, it
may
equally cheap
which
dew
human
all
almost
they "never
as
common
and
ills
will vanish
we have
to
deal with
be, or soap,
long as the
fail to cure''
list
In the
so-called
of prepara-
which
of diseases
at a shop in JN'ew
Oxford
Street.
Certainly,
some
little
is
is
j)atent
freely distributed
:
"
At
medicines
a time
by
when
comj)ete
for
106
public favour,
it
may seem
to
to
scribbler
''
The excuse
is to
patent
the agents
thrown
its
'^
in,
medicines
humanity/'
Company,
So that
a
alias
it
man named
phrase,
science fails,
^'
step
fools
adopt
or that, to
in "
where
science
carefully treads.
ungrateful
let
us say.
of
the
the
Younger
curative
has, in
gives
bounteous
dering gaze
he
tells
for short,
which
paradise
them that
Nature
to his
won-
and complicated
disorders,
and that
''
it
has
(with the
life-long
stvidy
of
the
make
plants,
that
happy combination
herbs,
and
flowers,
to
of British
and exotic
107
Companj^'s remedies
Of
attributed."
course,
it
to
is
be
absolutely harmless
shortly,,
this
we
flatly
it.
statement
show)
'^
these
The
list
of Alofas medicines
sions,
and ranges
2s. 9cL
sold
by
says
from Anti-germ
a charlatan
female tincture.
of alarming
is
many
smelling-bottle,
against earthquakes
pills
years ago),
down
and throat
diseases, including
^'
to a special
so
Younger
consumption, bronchitis,
dimen-
all
wasting
promptly
settle
'^
all liver
the
the Safe
Remedy
riding weight in a
for Corpulence
jiffej^,
and
so
would bring
Derby jockey's
to a
on through the
list.
the
sixteen
Alofas
safe,
compositions,
pleasant,
and
108
rapid cure.
except
some
tliat
worth, accepting,
Our
more could
AYliat
a sensible
man
one,
readers would,
require,
we
veracity.
convinced,
are
not be so
and
to waste time
and examining
in purchasing
remedial wealth,
we
felt
to better use,
all
In the embarrassment
medicines.
of
of such
an amount
after
had some
list
of the
difficulty
''
in limiting
who was
the
extent
of
first
;
we
our
bottle, to
other remedies.
as well, judging
hj
he
to the j)ersuasive
and
after
ascertaining that
consult ''Dr."
if
Younger ("not an
we wished we
31. D. of
we
could
London, '' as
retired,
minus
by Y^ounger,
in his j^^i^^pWet, as
"a
safe
cure for
109
consumption, bronchitis, pleurisy,
chest diseases
as
'^
;
and
and
throat
all
tincture
is
defined in chemical
treatises
"a
Now,
as
for us,
'^
stances
which
'^
were
glycerine
rare
exotic "
coloured with
productions
of
treacle,
Younger
had
evidently introduced to
would
say, struggled
make the
as credulous old
women
A very
predominance.
somewhat disagree-
'^
close imitation
might be made
''
of this
sure
as follows
of water, previously
are
only rare
representation,
it,
shake
it
up well
of glycerine
wc
noticed,
consumption and
composition
all
is
when he
on a Government
that
treacle,
believes
and
then
first
" a
person
safe
who
cure for
diseases
''
to
110
give you good silver coin of the realm for what would
know,
to
there
full
is
Company
the AU-a-Farce
same absolutely
are of the
may
be interested to learn
this
There
an institution
is
End
East
of
London, styled by
its
promoters the
of Safe Medicine
The
Charles
Gapp,
leading
men
until a
connected with
it
are,
clerk,
and in
print,
that title
is
now
East End
but
paper
letter
as
a bogus diploma
is.
at 21,
of
who
London
M.A. have
and
Younger,
''
Dr.''
Gapp's,
F.A.I,
Paris
whatever
AU-a-Farce Company,
that
may
one Maguire.
date,
of
we gather
diploma like
also possessor of a
M.D. diploma
From
mean
and
together with
Safe Medicine
named) undertake
(practically
'^
to
impart
the
quartet
knowledge
we have
on
safe
This tuition
Ill
described as being " a unique system, plain to the
is
intellectual grasp,
and tliorougb in
and
which
sum
As
''
president as a
and
bronchitis,
jnateria
and
doubt-
to
receive
handsome production
a very
postal
and
glycerine
of impart-
the postally
unspecified,
mental
the
to
^^
is
worth
well
round
payment,
due
after
diploma,
day "
posted'^
less
mode
engaged
'^
'^
ifs
effort "
(and
professors)
''
are
treacle
good,
secure."
to
by
regarded
the
all
chest
and throat
affections,"
the
must be
same
of the
of
it
to
imdertaker.''
song says
is
&
the
sale
*^
Wanted, an agent
The
patent medicine.
wisdom
''
Younger
ejficiency,
to deceive
unwary and
they are
^should put
admissions of Younger
" very
it,
&
handsome productions,"
iniposinc/
documents.
Co., is that
or,
as
we
Chapter XIV.
The Ignorance
of
Quacks
the Blindness of
THEIR Dupes.
The
ignorance of
impudence
concern
quacks
is
equalled
of their assertions.
only by the
is
^'
is
accomplished.
is
articles their
ignorance of
One quack
proved to be appalling.
all
imbued with
electric
properties,
though
any water-tap
and a third
of
rare
and
fluid
of
drawn from
is
hitherto
is
unknown
the sole
exotic,
common
aloes.
113
Alcohol
been
has
W.
'^
by
described
well-known
Richardson, F.R.S.,
devil in solution."
number
Majesty
Satanic
with
credited
is
of lies
the
men
sale.
medicine
vendors
it is
This form of
is
of education
the unscrupulous
as
aic;
blind faith
for
paternity
quack
the
of
which his
of
might be urged
as
to a sort of fetishis
based on
say,
''
cussed-
on a dogged
it
may
be.
whom we have
As when
'tis
in a
stiff,
wrong
belief."
many
anecdotes concerning
illegal
but
years ago
114
had culminated
cines
(as
^^What
are
'^
^^
Z-u-r-g-i-n.'^
you
'^
''
How
excuse
do you spell
me;
^'
it ?
know where
dentist not to
am
too
good a
laughter.)
abounds.
The
loser
230,
Ped me one
to
by the following
had an eye
dollar,
washerwoman.
a soaperiiik, age
Mind get
115
it taste
mo
aged 39 years
me
bekase
Eubed
fisiky.
He
old.
his face
make him
it
feel
sorry, I reckon.
"
Kase
232,
plenty of money.
celleberated
tea,
wich
xeal sik
it
'
Siknes awl a
Dipseflorikon
was
too.
and bad.
'
humbug.
^^F
her
The old
Guv
wummun
in
it
to
sum
of
my
like coled
XV.
Chapter
The
Men
GrOLD
Sir
Thomas Browne,
we have taken
this
he would find
is
As we
sight
of
the
letters,
principal
as
marvellous results
Falls,
America."
Gold Cure
street
at
we
catch
j)rinted
London
newspapers.
daily
in
three weeks,
'^
Niagara
table,
gold treatment
one
throughout in capital
one
selecting
in
of
richesses
''
by G. H. McMichael, M.D., of
U.S.A.,
in
his
various
institutes
in
being in a
hereditary
the
or
117
drunkenness
is
permanently and
tary drunkenness
helping
drunkard
the
disgrace
This
an
is
out
easily cured.
ingenious
his
of
way
difficulty
Herediof
and
no one was
ever
shall
have every
the remark,
you know
Now
''
sot
Can^t help
(hie
it, it's
!)
hereditary, don^t
''
to be
Many
may have
our readers
of
noticed in small
the counter, by
dishonest
tradesman
Following
is
this example,
we
one
lie
An
this prepara-
nor chlorides,
but that
its
per cent.
lime-salts
composition
is
as follows
Water, 61*31
a small quantity of
cent, of Alcohol.
Neither
118
nor chlorides of any metal
gold,
startling revelation,
diction
Sir
of
would dare
to attempt a contra-
Thomas Browne's
"Men
dictum,
practically
for truths.
drunkenness
of
(ahvays
hereditary,
be
it
for those
for
two
dollars (36s.)
number which
they
get,
a purchaser
instead
of
the
form
and equal
If,
it
is
given
for,
of considerably
In
the
reply to
asking
for
secretary,
an
ofiicially
really,
the
boon
119
every seven days, would be dependent on the judg-
ment
of the doctor
subject,
doubtless,
three weeks'
course,
medicines, as
we
We
having
alcohol in the
former
the
of
much
gold and so
swallowed so
some
also to
where
''
patients
they have to
must come
submit
to
At
150,000
Cure
being
paralleled
philanthropy
ought
not
Gold
shares,
Such un-
surely
to
pass
unnoticed.
Some
The
first
too,
two rules
to
arrange
all financial
arrival.
matters
''
'^
can
120
have reference
this
alcohol
be in brisk requisition
what
proportion
relative
^'
We
mitted."
the
to
they are
what gentleman
Rule 5 there
'^
is
if
presumed
to
contain
gold
but
or otherwise, would
a bottle of liquor
of
dream
of
*^
loaning or exchanging"
?
is
**
Bathing
is
essential,
it
and
patients
are
week."
chary
of
was
is
in
as
much need
the subject
of
so that
enough
A
to
have been a hermit had he lived centuries ago, presented himself at the consulting rooms of a
physician, to
cutaneous
West End
eruption,
entirely
due
to
his
uncleanly
The physician, after a little preliminary conversation, commenced to advise the patient, who, of
course, was all attention.
I should recommend you
habits.
''
your bed-
to place it in a large
it
then, taking a
121
liave
formed a good
proceed to apply
lather, whicli
all
by
it
''
^
It
to
telling
his
restrain
me
to
rising
'*
passion,
have a bath/'
''
''
Rule 7 reads
had reference
as if it
contained in the
golden solution
''
:
to the alcohol
The physicians
and
rooms,
office."
to
Why,
use
only what
certainly
If a
is
prescribed at the
man
and twice
as powerful as
champagne, he would be a
At
we have
Dwight.
The
made
to
the
Gold
Cure
122
about
it,
tell
you."
This
he did not
the
of
staff
tell
was
"
*^
his audience
the chief of
what
''
the
like,
practitioners.''
men were
rows of
five
ing
pinkish
wore
patients
taken where
solution
little
three
arm with
left
atropine.
Many
of
the
glasses,
ment
of
the course
They
almost blind.
One
patient
to
from giddiness.
come back.
!
too,
left ten
Gold Cure
treatment,
suffered,
had been
who had
of
Another
patient,
who
really
seemed in
rest,
candidly
him an annuity
so that
if
he " wanted
Incidentally, Dr.
the
manufacture
physicians from
to see the
time out."
New
testimonials.
Three
leading
cities,
123
had
remaining
half a
day or
so.
!)
Some
issued a
six
number
of circulars
which
set
Gold Cure
members a
One
Institutes
^'
this as a
specimen
of exquisite fooling ?
England
to severely
payment
read a police-
counterfeit
instead of resorting to
we
sent to
shilling
Decrepit dolt
in
If,
silver
quarter
alcohol, water,
have
'^
and passed
and sugar
compound
as containing gold,
of bacon,
off
''
of
he might
Who
who
is
is
to
124
and imposture
as
to expose, in the
we have
columns of Health
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Chap.
1.
Mattei's
''
Mixture.
Stamp "
Chap.
Patent Medicines
Law
Patent Medicine
Electricities." Chap.
Chap.
I.
Blood
Clarke's
2.
" Protected
by Government
Chlorodyne, and other Opiates and Anodynes.
4.
3.
Revalenta Arabica.
of Patent Medicines
and
Mixture,
Oil.
Chap.
5.
The History
HoUoway and
World's
Hair
Saved
7.
Correspondence con-
Mattel.
Restorer;
Chap.
Letter
Chap.
Mexican
Renewer;
Hair
Eyes
AUen'a
8.
Rowland's
More about
gel's
Syrup.
Chap.
10. Clarke's
Chap.
Mattel.
Anna
Mother
Blood Mixture
9.
Sei-
The
Quack Testimonials
Seigel's
Syrup.
Chap.
;
Mother
Pills.
Chap.
Chap.
12.
Beecham's
11.
for Drunkenness.
n.
wt.
v-
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r*"'-
PREFACE TO VOLUME
The first of all
'*
gospels
for
The
large
demand
Carlyle.
of the
first
itself,
fairly
News
is tJiis^
ever,''
II.
title
articles
is,
of
which have
in the columns of
Health
efforts to
we have
accomplish a task
viz.
the
pro-
of, all
seeing the
it,
why we
amount
of time, trouble,
it
and
would
ought not
to allow ourselves to
considerations
and
it
We felt,
however, that
to the plough,
Rather,
we
we thought, on
to
the con-
to
temporary,
quackery."
mind
to
gospels
we
We called
is this,
were
"The
first
of all
convinced
nothing
that
exists
which
to
than to quackery.
It
is
invalids
mate
Protracted
of robbery.
and their
loss of life,
ful drugs, or
and other
relatives
friends,
even
ulti-
medical treatment,
such
The highwayman
have
of by-
with the
Your money, or your life " but,
pistol at his victims,
if
it
did, it
as to consequences, provided
Is
he
The modern
he
There cannot be
warrant
We
its
anything
about
such
task
to
believe
that our
duced good
results.
In
we have
fact,
They,
As
tary,
libel,
tried to cajole us
offers to
fill
to abusive letters,
we
accept
them
Jackdaw
of
as
complimen-
like the
famous
have omitted
to affix postage
cations.
With regard
to their threats
of legal
action,
the
with them.
Their conduct,
when
faster even
we were prepared
to substan-
We
to
^nothing
have had an
we happened,
but
following
extract
ming-up in a
trial
sum-
concerned '*A
long as
stitute a libel, so
promised writ
Office,
has
it is
not
yet reached
With regard
Health News
their
The
announcements,
payment
three
or
four times more than the usual rates charged by our publisher,
they became
we deemed
it
advertisements
position
may
so frequent
" Quack
refer
We
Nevv^s.
paltry
men.
threats,
and
their
effect,
urging these
to secretly boycott
advertising
difficult to
to our
course,
it is
proofs of
its
existence have
knowledge.
will turn to a
Of
But we
ing
to
cease
come
by
agents,
We are
from correspondents
of the
constantly receiv-
9
cordial thanks for the denunciation of the imposture of
quack nostrums.
Many
false assertions of
position
tunities of
to
or that nostrum.
would
It
is
to say that,
course,
by very poor
although his
known numerous
in-
"in vain, of
be swindled in such a
way
letter.
I feel that
we
all
tell
and I
am
efforts.''
Our
pressing the
*'
sure that
clerical
belief
articles
We should be wanting in
many
gratitude
if
quack
deaths.''
we omitted
to
heartily
them the
Times,
Saturday Revieiv,
British
Medical
10
we can
of
their
names.
"A
follows:
public
The
Times'^
notice
cordial recognition is
service
commences
due
as
to the great
Such
list
its
editor.'^
encouragement and
in-
We now present
from time
to time in future
Health News.
Health News
Offices,
Savoy House,
W.C.
numbers of
CONTENTS OF VOL.
II.
PAGE
Preface
.,.
Chapter
Quack
III.
13
22
''
''
Advertising;
Clarke's
from the
late Dr.
33
Horison's Pills
and Lee's
gill's,
Chapter V.
tricities
Pills
Belts;
Mattel's
....
Jacob's
Oil
Our Correspondents
Silverton's
33
"Elec-
46
Mother SeigeFs
Chapter VIL
VL St.
Syrup
Dixon's, Fother-
Baillie's,
Electric
"
Drums
Chapter
and
62
Critics
Practitioners; *^A
Sg
12
Tonic
Lane's
Certificate
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Song
.
Chapter
Cure
Catarrh
.
Bone-setting;
A
.
XL Quack
Quack's
Way
Curious
Chapter XIII.
Quack
Bubble Burst
for India
81
Electric Snuff
88
93
Electricities in Court;
.
106
Medicine Testimonials
the
Eno's
Ill
121
Handyside's Con-
67
How
Fruit Salt
Chapter XV.
Exposing Quackery
Patent
Jacob's Oil
Man who
of
'*
Patent Medicine
Bogus Newspapers
Mattel's
Chapter XIL
St.
'^
130
134
Chapter
I.
*'
COWPER.
catchpenny
Of course the
evident purpose.
alliteration for
letter
and
pearls,
having
P may
an
set
so forth
regard to the
that we
are
instinctively call to
mind
" pence
that
'^
P commences
representing the
ings"
puffing
supply us
way
with an explanation of
*^
pick-
all
this
drugs, as
we
shall presently
show beyond
People" are
all
power of
contradiction.
The "Pink
Dr. Williams'
Pills,
styled
also
we
we
14
otherwise our series of articles might come to an abrupt
conclusion
this
mythical person
is
^'
described as
an
is
proprietors of
man.
At
hausted
trace
present
all
him
College, or
we can
means
in
know more
we have
ex-
graduation
the
lists
Edinburgh University.
fullest reason to
of this great
McGrill
of either
So
we have the
far,
scientific preparation,
the result
most unhesitatingly
degree
entitled
to
What we do
be described as a
^^
thoroughly
We find
of
the
statement
made
expose
a
little
actually
15
restore the nerves."
Bosh
utter bosh
as
we
shall
presently demonstrate,
pamphlet.
In order
a degree of importance,
made on oath
it
may know
Mayor
" In
that every
of
London,
word
in the remarkable
is
mony,
all
we
present
Pink
Pills
must be
disease arising
profit
the truth,
testi,
of Dr. Williams'
fully
intro-
with
production
to
by the
if
dispelled.
suffering
Care-
from any
lesson
it
contains/*
is
signed
of
his
knowledge and
belief,
the statements,
make
a similar declaration,
For
instance, suppose
16
a man writes a pamplilet to prove that the earth
is flat
and
man
go-
is
making a solemn
fullest of the
ments are
ly
it
**
declaration to the
knowledge and
belief of
eflEect
No.
2,
that to the
No.
I's state-
will be
the Pink
to the
On
Pills.
assert
who
pecuniarily interested.
where
his
Lordship
sits
men
are not
handy methods
enable
them
of
slow in availing
themselves
17
We
through
to look
this
Knill (who
filled
of
its
which pamphlet
Lord Mayor
name
is
it
is
''
only
of
pages, as carefully as
the position of
Mayor
if
Sir Stuart
in 1893,)
had
gaudy
The
AVilliam's Medicine Company's business manager is
evidently as destitute of humour as the pills are of the
otherwise, seeing
properties falsely attributed to them
contents, highly coloured like its
cover.
it
business
is
It
goes
almost without
manager claims
assertions
it
the
come naturally
Beecham
for
saying that
in a
ills
sucL
that his pills will search out and remove all kinds of
18
power
iescribe in
'*
But
disease,
him
fails
at
he can only
remarkable
spelling,
breast
fallibly cure,
in medical
new Barnum
disease
to exhibit a sufferer
He
What
must, however,
and
from
this last-named
and
if
The pamphlet
Pills
tells
everything that
while
their sale
but,
pills
name and
composition of the
promote
to say, calculated to
it
or rather, which
is
worse,
it
many
the
common
notice of such
by appearing
London
is
of our readers
sense
by taking further
obvious falsehoods
in a
asserted
* Seo
we
to
have
allowed to be
I.,
page
96.
placed
19
on
record
as
being
'^the
the
truth,
Where
whole
truth,
Did Williams
''
is
be accounted
moment,
and that
for,
how Williams
though we don't,
is,
eminent graduate
ing,
him
tell
company ?
by this sample, there
pills to
''
become
" an
Such
Edinburgh University.
assertions ''won^t
We
defy anyone
to
livin^g
produce a
treatise
on
readers
to ask
neither the
of the
Our
Lord Mayor
Mansion House
of
are.
fall
may
begin
Well,
as
we must
to enrich the
if
reliable
they could,
source,
and
Vade-meaim has
We
append
his
20
**I
now made
pills,
and
and
given-up
them
mentioned,
Aloes.
viz.,
case of paralysis
'
If
whether these
practitioner)
asked for
my
pills are
Our
old acquaintance,
kind of
aloes, too,
again, Aloes,
and
universal
the
common-
to veterinary authorities.
common drug
the
tlie
is
Why,
would dispute
Mother
Beecham
aloes,
one
though
Seigel, the
and
venomous
all
this drug,
patent medicine
since
that
assert
his preten-
they discovered
aloes
even
Good
reptiles in Iceland.
Perhaps,
will
''
He
than
existence
old times
cure
not
rely
is
No,
'*
'
consumption,
the eminent,"
may
welcome
any
is
to
21
small comfort
may
lie
derive from
them
the sugar to
We
his blushes.
much
as
power of
there
this
is
nostrum
very
we do
the alleged
to
strong
evidence
internal
that
the
''eminent
Williams
fiction as the
is
as
Cramp's
thorough a creation of
never
friend,
visible
8airey Harris.
We
chanced to see
month
in
last April,
Williams'
the
(this is a favourite
Calendar,
apparently), the
a religious paper, as
if it
"
No
sick
imposition can
man
a worth-
him
to
health."
All
when they
the
much astonished
vertisement of
**
Pink
pills for
We need
an object-lesson on
unfortunate
sufferers.
We
author of the Williams' pufiing literature has so far forgotten his vocation as to speak the truth.
Chapter II
**
The
Villainous saltpetre,'"
Shakespeare.
comments
article,
upon
our
exposures
popular
of
patent remedies.
contemporary,
*'
and
of
yet drastic.
'
The
to analytical examination,
properties
compositions.
Purifier
public
'
Famous Blood
Clarke's
hydrate,
potassium
and coloured
combination that
permanent
cure
restraint
advertisements
therefore,
Mr.
secret
Mixture or
Stokes,
the
analyst, of
for this
'
decent
the
to possess the
for
scrofula
not
is
To
claim
a never-failing
is
noticeable
little
made by the
it
water.
to
in
extravagant.
put
Mr.
The
and
with a
it
Clarke's
assertion
is
deafness,
and
paral3^sis, is
'
Mother
23
SeigeFs
*
Syrup/
severally
so their
make
Sequah's
Flower/
Prairie
and
'
But
the analyst
in unimaginative
The
News
plete.''
fall of
way
of attempting
'*
to
upon the
rise
difficulties in
the
to descant
make laws
the effective
for
" Quacks
have been, and quacks will be, and there will always be
a public ready to heed them, and
happy
Admitted," we reply
the
of
200,000 or
is
*^
to
pay them,"
;
by the
some
issue of
are
foolishly deluded
**
As
unwary, and
mode
of imposture.
legislation be needed.
of coffee, to
legal
If
elaborate
his
.24
upon
packet a legibly
tlie
magnifico
and
it
people
ing
an
short
lending
stamp,
official
Act
of
the theory of
is
value by affix-
a fictitious
the
let
Parliament,
many
Government pass a
similar
the legislation
to
which prevails in various Continental countries, requiring the contents of every bottle, box, or packet of quack
its
real composition.
and education
is
woman
if
of sound
it
consisted of
moment
best
is
cheapest of
drugs)
The capitals in
we need scarcely
this
say,
25
not our own, but those of the compiler of the prospectus
who
anyone
to
tells
when
evidently
lie
he should
tell
it.
There was
discoverer
people,
and
for
American quack
an
once
inventor
they
quacks
invariably
own
according to their
and
discover
that
claimed
for
and we
we
That
is
what
its
and
forthwith
Cure," indeed
it
it
down
invent,
version,
qualities
remarkable
are
whose
pill,
'^
Safe
from anybody
order,"
else.
if
Still, it is
Mr. Stead
that
we hasten
name who
watery
We
into
white,
fame
and
red,
as the
^'
During a recent
green
we
illness, as at
^'
who
reading
Perfect Cure."
electricities,
jumped himself
to explain
it
was when
An
extraordinary
26
concurrence of ideas, some will remark, and
account for
difficult to
it
has been
the possible.
safe side
Which
the
**
of
tea
Health News
or other bonuses to
conundrums
competition,
for
Of
petre."
of commerce.
had
otherwise
to apply to
centuries, quite a
just
life in
villainous salt-
*^
common
it
what
article
We were
us of this
much
W.
Stokes,
fact that
27
tained
in
Rather a
sixteen-ounce
'^Our bottle
We
Warner and
they make the boast,
quantity of physic,
stiff
Sixteen ounces
bottle.
this.
is
its
we bought
the price, as
it,
not for
loving public,
''
we
it
home consumption,
to our analyst.
If a
we may expect
*^
on tap,"
and
day.
Eight
doses
would equal
by
in four
four ounces
four
and
is
i,e,,
ounces, multiplied
hey, presto
Co.,
contents
its
khe realm.
for hi
money,
Mr. Stokes
aforesaid
tells
this
Why,
saltpetre,
he
extracted
from
the sixteen
28
half-an-ounce of burnt sugar or treacle, two ounces of
rectified spirits, a
few drops of
winter-green, and
oil of
He
Kver-wort.
disease.
My
belief,''
he adds,
**
is
is
We
fully endorse
believe that
such a
disease
fell
as that
also
to treat
we should have
difficulty as
written
Ado
to seek
'^^he
down an
ass, in
Shakespeare's play of
*'
Much
about Nothing."
If winter-green
cent, of the
whole quantity
part,
yet there
is
or 12J per
no disease
in
as to the use of
necessity of everyone
who
Warner and
Co.
their
once
preparation.
29
"The
cannot
doctors
cure you
they admit,"
this
pamphlets.
who
or fancies that he
is,
Yet, there
is
or she
is,
man
is,
not in health.
or
particularly brassy one
speedily follows " Treat
in this instance, a
rather,
for
is
and
erysipelas,
people
every
All
live.
make dying
to
comfortable.
this
yourself with
paralysis,
woman
or
year
disease,
other
quick-
cure
it
And
are lost in
amazement
at the
so on, till
mean, despicable
money
of,
to
we
false-
make
to
promote the
One
sale of the
pamphlets,
of these
**
Safe Cure."
left at
district,
distributing
them
whose hands
it
may
fall,
to
forward by
H. H. Warner and
for examination
*'
;
Co.,
the charge
made being
2s. 6d.,
barely
30
What
is
experience,
practical
examination
the
of
mani)
Warner and
whom
to
do they en-
Even
syrup,
strain
is
his health,
if
etc.,
was then
we read
down under
in an
at Rochester, State of
'^
his
mammoth
arrangements for
Powder "
by
nitre,
the continuous
New
York, superintend-
and
business,
mammoth "
It
making
bringing out Warner's **Safe Baking
yeast "
fortified
ing
however much
the
reporter,
circumstance
in
be as far in
bottle"
largest
Remedies
'
already
is
there)
*'
as
the
SS^fe
we would
directors of
many
hardly
the English
Co., Limited,
undertake
scale.
H. H. Warner and
Do
we should imagine,
scientific
experiments on
Certainly not,
and,
that
and
conduct
?
It
is
they would
such a gigantic
31
pamplilet again,
we come
to
'*
'*
the
must
owing
absence,
powder on
to
cool,
In one
hmguage
is
in
told
and
to die comfortably
him
If
cost."
we should
knowledge
we
believed anything
(?)
'*
their
thropists that
A letter was
of their physicians'
iW/.
irner
young man by
**
their medical
staff",
**
in
in
Co.
names
of their
Warner and
With
have omitted
doctors
Co. said,
But
Warner and
letter
is
is
necessary, charge
4s.
is
If a
Ss."
32
in tlie
fifth
same
ratio,
af oost/^
But
it
and even
H. H.
Warner and
Ck).,
benefit of our
We
Limited.
cost,
as
Don't
subject,
to
young people
satisfaction
less,
How many
At
of course, say.
when
Warner and
the date
it
we cannot
appeared
first
Co., Limited,
were
in the
draw
significant facts.
their
Company
is
are
now
becoming.
own
as unsale-
Our
readers
conclusions from
the^
Chapter
Quack Advertising
III.
We
quack nostrums.
of
Scripture, the
has
''
designated
series
and perpetual
of
pufiEery
pillionaires,'' as
the
this
people
of
as capable
of curing every
Why,
to
bed
one
is
we should need
to strike a
match
and,
if
perchance
night, the odds are ten to one against our not finding
GuUaway's
life
and
Mr. George R.
34
Sims, in a recent Referee, strongly denounced, in his
customary humorous
advertising had
style,
gone
it
lines,
''
colour.
Somebody's
or
Of
course,
strictly
we
shall
men who
provided
only
that
is
he
can
and cover
thu8
to railway travelling.
that anyone
legal,
would seem
crimson
bright
all
whom we
or,
as
"
We
if,
indeed,
previously to starting,
them
" inquired
fail to
see
was our
reply,
moment
as if
tells
who
to
me when
at it again."
all
mamma,
pills,
and
^*
Mother,
I'll
look
35
scape for advertising purposes.
Somebody's Pills.
and annoyed
way
at the
in
comes
across
Not unfrequently,
spirit.
therein
some
too,
heading,
strange
he
such
as "
titles
he reads a few
inward groan as
it
mind
Grandmother Seagull's
which
His
Treacle, or
pufi* of
"made
to sell."
36
portrayed in the following
lines,
On Patent Medicine
It
And
Stokies.
story,
My eyes
Went
to
my heart
as I wept.
But when
London
daily and
say,
Nev^s.
We refer to
in
this
by the proprietors
series
of
articles
We
Health
F.R.S.
in
and
Swaine Taylor,
we have
stated
But the
proprietors of
numbers
least
of the
37
journal containing our comments on the matter has been
them by
'^
registered letter.
We
reassert,
either a
make
to
by the proprietors
myth, or a forgery
wager
of
the class of
correct.
It
of Clarke's
that
would be repugnant
money
Blood Mixture
to
not
oiir
to
belonging
assertion is
our feelings to
so that
we must make
and masonic
charities.
word of explanation.
m^
to refuse a
Chapter IV.
Anonymous Abuse
Warner's " Safe Cure
AND Medical Staff A Quack Libel Case
Morison's Pills
Baillie's, Dixon's, Fothergill's, and Lee's Pills.
;
**
Who
is thiSf
breath ? "
Shakespeare.
have received
so
many
series of articles,
we
modesty
(?)
in
their
anger or their
and addresses
of this sort.
we
are
to letters
some people,
at least.
assailants
make concerning
it
would be better
if
they would go straighter to the mark, and not perpetually walk round the truth.
39
There
is
make
all
Even
to reply to.
abuse
if,
as
argument,
is
when need-
ful, is
medical
We
staff
composed
of experienced physicians ?
pamphlet
in fact, a
states
dis-
that
respect.
article
'^
on
**
we
curiosity
as
to
the names
extensive practice
''
who
and professional
**long
experience and
Warner and
Co.'s,
This may, or
cheerfully
is
may
letter or
not, be the
case.
The pamphlet
confidence
there
is
assures us of
it,
as well as of
an exception
we have had
of
strictest
adage that
Warner and
Co.'s
'*
to us
derived from a
40
staff'.
The
letter
signed by an individual
is
who
styles
The following
is
an extract from an
official
M.D.
United Kingdom
*^
The
The reason
is
What
were
it
of course,
they write
l^lural,
tute a
be
it
staff,
about,
Warner &
Co.,
staff it
would be
Pa., U.S.A.
but,
'*
physicians.^'
a plural
wonderful
'*
puff
''
remedy
at
!)
to
present,
this omission in
41
We
circular,
We
important point.
find
no information on
came
a medical practitioner.
Street,
this
It is as follows
1889.
12,
is
to
The
worded,
greatest
*
Warner's
'
Safe
showing their
strangely
it
from
Hoxton
''91,
and
We
&c.''
such
giving
though,
Warner &
knowledge
his
We
are
arriving
again
from
staff.
qualified practitioners
in the
M.D."
number, any more than the M.D.
U.S.A.,
who
proffers
^^
Williams,
gratuitous
Warner &
Kingdom and
United
Co., in their
^^
professional
month
overweening faith in
Surely,
saltpetre,
have not adopted such a curious method of demonstrating their disregard for a profession, which their ''Safe"
liemedies are destined, in their
off
non
own opinion,
making it a
to clear
sine
qua
staff.
If such
is
42
ought, in fairness, to
make
Will M.
part
^'greatest
official
Despite his
Medical Register?
recommendation"
"Safe"
Warner's
of
comer
is
for, in
left yet
the chemist's
window
On
at 91,
the principle
another,"
I'll
ca'
that
or, as
Warner and
thee,"
**
Co. should
give
restoring lungs
with
is
just
as great (and
curing
M. E.
as they are
saltpetre
in
safely
beyond
and certainly
the
limited
since in
diseases
Some
curious evidence
by Dr. Alfred
Ellis
at
an
undoubtedly
and
fit
to publish statements of
grossly
defamatory
character
some way,
fell into
who
puffs in
43
what Johnson
praise of
and Johnson
coolly
mation in
six hours,
There was, in
short,
remedies.
little
woman
field
is
or
and Maccles-
We cannot speak as
such assertions.
but
to the composition
we can
state
one fact
favour of the
plaintiff,
costs.
As
prised
to these
if
Chinese
pills,
they contained
we should not be
aloes, for
two reasons
vious articles
(2)
Health,
contain
(1)
upon a perusal
whence
Pills, specially
institution in the
of our pre-
Morison's
sur-
it is
obtained.
considerable
amount
of
aloes-
44
No.
Morison's,
1,
analysis of Mr.
is
composed
Henry Beasley)
parts of gamboge,
(according
and cream of
of aloes
No. 2
the
to
two
pill consists of
up
render
it
stj^le
any
one greatly
to
Nothing wonder-
rate,
except that
about them to
is
of Health,
or
themselves Hygeists.
Apropos of
this
aloes,
number
Beecham's
Pills,
Syrup, Sequah's
for Pale People."
Holloway's
Pills,
''Prairie Flower,"
Here
Mother
and ''Pink
Baillie's
Pills.
Pills
is
Seigel's
Extract
of
aloes,
IJ drachm
three dozen
2.
pills.
Dixon's Antibilious
Pills,
Equal parts
Castile soap,
to
of aloes,
of a small
make up
the mrss
3.
FothergilFs
Pills.
Aloes,
antimony, scamniony,
45
4.
mony, 6
gamboge, 4
syrup of buckthorn, 1
jalap, 3
and
Of a
ventive
truth,
Aloes,
;
12 parts
calomel, 5
gum
scam-
soap, 1
mucilage, 7 parts
genius,
always
excepting as regards
their
Chapter Y.
Electric Belts
Ear Drums
**
Mattei's Electricities.
When
the
'^
Sartor Hesartus,
he
must
have
who
^'
and
Carlyle.
enjoyed
in
lines
cynical
allow themselves to be
arts of
Puffery and of
is it
that
*'
mostly fools!''
By
"fit
public
who put
faith
in
the
patent
alias
quack
renaedies.
One
of
so poor that
he could barely
who was
per-
47
suaded by his credulous neighbours to lay out his
in the purchase of the
little all
Of
firm.
man
course, the
Oxford Street
Our
friend got
What
did
it
turn out to be
Why,
worth
many
as
robbed of
belt,
not
shillings.
One
with a
**
columns,
commencing
a-half guineas,
electro- spiral
hood
to
until
500
dered
keep
life
at
in patients
the
medium
sort of
its
columns
to
be made
And
this
month by month,
character
for
in
respectability
and
veracity
religious
48
papers being the greatest offenders, a circumstance
classes
until
one
blushes
journalism.
for
make
own
desperate
in
convey
London, endeavours
to
known malady.
But let us shift the venue from London to Geneva,
and we find there a so-called Electro-Homoeopathic
Institute, whence issues a monthly magazine printed
English, devoted
in
damaging
attacks
to
electro-homoeopathy and to
on Mattei, whose
former
agent,
Some
of
instance,
are
these
a letter
newly appointed
is
agent,
as
his
follows
You
millions.
*
scientific
The
superabundant bombast.
'^Assuredly
The
will
to
by
by Mattei,
given, written
For
you
attract
it
will
knowledge
translation
not lack
as a
magnet
gold
is
in
attracts
Page
16.
49
You have
iron.
your
the
magnet
my
Farewell,
activity.
As
we know nothing
Drake
Alps,
to equal
setting
have
out to encounter
march
his
more
used
to
Moscow, could
words.
inspiring
But, as Burns
had
and men
spent
gang
much money
without saying,
writing about
to
aft
as
and
Spanish
the
it is
Yet,
a false
by a desire for
The best-laid plans
inspired only
of mice
is
it.
filthy lucre.
How
result. '*
Armada, Napoleon on
scarcely
work with
dear sir;
it
is
said,
^*
When
aglee.''
in
a
advertising
the agent
that
goes
However,
agents, judging
Mr. Sauter,
is
this
as
much
The only
pity
is
cats,
and anni-
the sinews of
war from
may
the
ago,
an acquaintance, a London
solicitor,
few years
consulted
50.
us for deafness.
In
came
attracted
out
that,
it
by an advertisement, he
which ought,
tlie
like freemasonry,
"
have taught him to be cautious, was " fool enough
many
guineas
Patented
we
Artificial
Drums,''
of
how
forget
'^
gold
Nicholson's
of
course
Two
three-quarters
aside.
straight
of
pieces
of
gilt
brass
as
wire,
is
directed to wet
drum
The purchaser
little
it
**
and
is
It
to look at
it,
and,
and
is
certain to do,
if
caused to thousands of
advertisements
times as
many
still
it
more,
may
do,
The injury
people who were inveigled by
left in the ear.
and testimonials
into
investing
ten
Yet
space of time
51
vincial
he formed a limited
Eventually
liability
Why
imposture.
pretences
in
and
theft, fraud,
effect the
false
modified, so that
its
of
actual composition.
The
it
isale
inished
of,
as at
revenue would be a
of public
trifle as
life.
most
gigantic
and
it
humbugs
advertising
of
the
day.
London
their
columns
Chaptei? VI.
Oil
Jacob's
St.
Mother
Mattei's
In the
last
chapter
**
Electricities."
we suggested
Syrup
Seigel's
certain desirable
modifications
of the Patent
Medicine Law.
It
at least
])roprietor desires
leading system.
lately,
we
mixed
noticed, artfully
in
with items of
It
oil.
was headed
the top of
seated on
bench,
The advertisement
perplexed.
anecdotal style
now much
couched
is
affected
commences thus
vendors, and
and had
Difficult Case,*'
it
the
**
in
the
by patent medicine
" There
is
a certain
learned judge
Courts of
what he
should
is
pleased to term
never be
medical man.
large
used,
them
quack medicines,'
except on the
majority of
correct as to the
patent medicines,
advice of a
''Pleased to
term them
53
The
subject
is
if
The exception
to the rule
young man
case of a
ham, with
and
avowed
the
is,
intention
of
Upping-
proving
this
assertion.
The narrative
matic character
ment
symptoms were
of
of a rheutreat-
1883, to
October, 1886,
his skill,
Infirmary
that, at the
as incurable
and
mained
where he
re-
"some
of
the
at the
bottles of St.
Jacob's Oil
instigation of a neighbour,
and
January, 1888.
The cure
is
spoken of as "miracu-
lous," but
advertisements.
54
Indeed,
we
stance
paration in question
is
What
medicine."
advertiser
pre-
mean
he
does
We
presume
name
*^
quack
ought only
medical
to be
the
followed,
the
If
practitioner.
manufacture of
judge's
ruling were
St.
man
he prescribed
Jacob's
properties, as will be
Having a
shown
no
of
possess,
brated "
is
made
of
remarkable
curative
quack
com-
presently.
patient's
Oil,
ingredients possessing
his
professional character, if
miracle-working preparation
vellous,
mon
St.
own
to
elsewhere, than
men
in
the pro-
we were curious concerning the **most celewho had, in sporting parlance, thrown up the
sponge after
futile struggles
we asked
ail-
a friend to
The
reply,
follows
'
'
ask
was
as
In ancey to yours of
me
as written,
this
Leicester
was
my
at the infermery
and
froln
65
way
since then,
is
the Docker
*'
'^
marred in
but, as
OF Quackery, Vol.
I.,
we mentioned
page 90,
it
in
Exposures
was a misfortune to
so in another, for
late
''
Dr. Dacre
Fox
cost
he had
them
severeil
thousand
pounds.
It is also a remarkable circumstance that the people
from
whom
medicine proprietors
patent
who have
we
get
such
been
gram-
*'
neglected
''
mar and
medicine
If the case
get
more
coherent and
To return
St.
Jacob's
to the
Oil.
question
What
of
the
does this
composition of
miracle-working
56
Jacob's Oil really consist of
St.
costliest,
the choicest,
must be united
most
the
mar-
to constitute so
vellous a remedy.
must
surelj'
analysis.
which
is
dissolved ordinary
(most probably
oil
no
oil
of thyme).
As a medical man,
am
embro-
of the
use
is
application,
whereby rubefaction
is
its
of its mechanical
lation accelerated.
mode
by
may
be regarded as an
L.S.A., &c.
badly-
hands was
trifling as
compared
him
Saint, too)
ture of
oil of
common
by appropriating
vulgar
^'
his
name
mix-
to a
it
cost
money, though,
tell us, so
as
any house-
may
be
57
regarded as of higher commercial value than Mattei's
Electricities,
which are
and
cataract,
analysis
unite
broken
bones
when
ad-
Mr.
Stokes'
were
We
have been loaded with anonymous abuse and threatened with legal consequences on account of our com-
somehow,
but,
as in
anonymous
medicines, our
of the
as
Bob
to the
analysis
Mr. Stokes,
Acres' stamp.
The following
Department
of
The examination
following results
About
June 9th
from
1892.
fifteen
grammes
of a colourless liquid,
without
odour or flavour.
"Chemical composition indentical with that of pure water.
58
The microscopic and
made by
who
declared
Mr.
Stokes' conclusions
seem to
me
to be conclusive.
L. MiCHAUD, Professor,
^-^mf'
Chapter VII.
Our
Silverton's
and Critics
Remedies for Deafness
Unqualified Practitioners: ^^A Merciful Medicine, more Precious
THAN Rubies "
Correspondents
"
Man
is
this,
and
disturbed
by the
contained in
revelations
we may judge by
occasionally varied
by threats
of
the abusive
action for
As
regards
attention
the
anonymous,
always
former,
the
as
definite.
fit
to
we
Whenever
shall be prepared
but
we fancy
when he asked
60
to
some
fact,
111
company,
though
whose remedies
to
world-wide,
annual meetings of
its
has
the
'^
marvellous medicines
are
'^
while, as regards
is,
as our pub-
analysis
have dropped
of
ofi
of dividends,
the
of their
held
great falling
receipts,
lately
(!)
publicity,
seem
so
it
We
regret
Patent
our
that
acknowledging
''
all of
alias
limited
these
let
Quack Medicines."
space
one
our
prevents
suffice as
a specimen.
indeed
''
Its
to the
and from
its
interesting articles
we
analyst has to
tell
preparations."
*'
As
as follows
quacks,
it is
to be
welcomed
all of
61
our
make
readers will
themselves with
it
contents/'
its
numerous.
Here,
only
give
writes
*'
to
An
specimen.
be allowed to
Indian
judge
amusement and
lX)werful
we must ask
also,
single
profit,
articles.
am
glad
that
find
to
your
Health
in
thus:
Southey,
reminds
^'
us
to a free consulta-
England
ears,
Ludgate Circus.
of
all
it.
Glasgow and
Liverpool and
also Ireland
all
and Wales,
The treatment
Deaf and
Dumb
62
talk.
the
language
" indeed,
method
to hear,
as
is
also success-
seems no more
it
and then
The
cure at
difficult to
patient should
and
failed.
icork over
parson
employ the
**
and
ments, which
we need not
is
been
were suc-
here followeth, to
^^
;
phraseology, a long
clerical
has
'*
physician
the
of
list
upon our
inflict
of
ail-
readers.
to be
"
CAUTION " we
must put
this
*'
enough
the words
thus
may
*'
Pa-
*'
all
" Caution,"
reverend specialist's
tients
for
printed.
one,
capitals
into capitals,
although we could
not spare
word
unless
strictly
five people
much more
prohibited,
that they
accompany every
63
We
^'
have been
reverend specialist
''
may
it
a good
own mental
as to their
**
reverend
with weak
specialist's
intellect,
condition.
"
all
afflicted
by a burning
in the work,''
desire to see
him
we mean.
Peri, in
'^
The
disconsolate."
Heaven sit
made
would appear
to
to
pills
his
be equally
At any
position.
we have our
happen to know
rate,
We
sup-
64
the
gentleman
seeking
advice
many
rheumatism, the
for
have remedied,
to
if
possible
**
to be hope,
''
rule
remedies will
commercially
speaking
thirty-five
at
farthings.
mixture
the
being
acetate of
iron,
am-
pills
pills
it,
pills.
*'
suming that
when they
this is a fair
visit
the
*'
attendance,"
which
is
it
would be a
difficult
*^
his physician in
question to decide
ment.
The
object of the
**
man
namely,
to
it
is
But
if
to protect alike
65
the interests of the profession and the public, would
exercise the
of
boldly
special
announcing himself
others
study,
and
as boldly
be
to
lifetime
their
medical
to
practising,
suppressed.
is
when
cases
in
which unqualified
as
his
employer
man with an
still
more
not the
is
unqualified
deserving
of
their
power
in
under the
were struck
proved
it
off*
against
the
Medical
Register,
charges
the
carried
for,
unqualified persons.
'*
reverend
commencing
his
of drugs, or acquaintance
to retire
66
warmly
attached
friends
many hundreds
constituting
the
man
sacred to give a
self,
''
we
Church
It seems as
him religiously
As the *^ reverend
health as to bless
of
will
number
as the
*^
many
though we confess
to
We
title of
*'
Nottingham
Exeter Hall,
is
only
reverend specialist
it
or,
as
he perhaps put
it,
^^5
souls.
Chapter VIII.
Patent
*'
Medicines
Reverend
Elixir
Cure
*'
Pious
Specialist "
Language
the
Congreve's Balsamic
Lane's Catarrh
a Quack's Certificate.
Many
and
many
oaths that
make
the truth.'"
Shakespeare.
by
on
various-
conundrums.
any incentive of
this kind.
by
believers in
be, "
How do
you account
"
Quackery,
i>age 93.
68
In our
last
own
Silverton's
conflict in a "
reverend specialist's
mind between
''
his
We
[N.B.
medical duties.
If
pills.]
it
we
specialist "
with
comedy
as his
sovereign queen.
The
''
but
of
bility
''
man
the
force
Blessing
sentence.
which included a
The
passengers.
manner
to
in
and the
It
him
intelligi-
religiously,
sailors
**
other.''
too,
on board a
bishop amongst
colonial
its
express
health as to bless
passing
sentiments
of
;
impressed upon the crew the desirability of controlling their feelings, or at least their language, during
that voyage.
The
sailors
owing
on them;
69
men
happened
to drop a
foot.
of the captain
you. Jack
I
''
mean/'
latter,
adding in an undertone,
Evidently,
catching sight
little
anyone willing
the
sells for
to part
about half-a-crown to
even where
all
at
2s.
who need
6d.
it
whilst his
rhubarb
pills
We
specialist
"
!
we
he
tuitous advertisements.
we have reduced
there
is
News
when our
may blame
Office of
Persians,
cluded."
"
Quack Advertisements
publisher sees
announcement
the
Medes and
Rigorously
shall be
is
Health
Ex-
no mistake on
part of
patent
medicine
(?)
tendency on
proprietors,
we may
70
that
class
tion
of
from Deuteronomy
The reason
this manner
^'
:
is
the life/'
it
be for the
draw
men
teeth.
and that
iodide of potassium,
this
making
it
whom
(to
it
is,
debili-
strongly recom-
nevertheless,
we think
verse
it
which occurs
on the ground
later in the
more
that
way
of
swallowing
As
for
it.
" God's
so freely
(to
such an irreverent
purchase
the
people
it
is
almost
as included in the
Government duty
three-
We
posed
treat
of
diseases.
At
appear in
gilt letters
all
consumption
and
other
is
supchest
but on opening
71
it
we
praise
in
sions
the
of
Yet, in what
me
to enter
work
he
if
tried,
And
task.
even
do not
testimonials
if
as to the testimonial
whole book, he
We
What
much
in his
a pity
way
it is
loss to science,
there would
had just
when
post,
amongst
On opening
its
credulous readers.
this book,
which purports
we presume,
literature
be wholly
to
of the 150
is
not very
must always be
Peckham, we find
blessing
''
we
felt sure
hope
expressing
the
knowledge "
we
that
''
we should
first
by
once heard an
page
gradually
''
God's
G. T. C.
diffused
enterprising agent
72
and
bill-sticker described as a
literature
meant
"
" a
the
sort
of
gradual diffusion
appreciation
of
these
this
is
just
"professor of applied
means and
may
in
Opinions
some who
are doubtless
to
differ
consequently,
there
tion
''
and the
desirability
of
invoking the
Divine
The preface
to
He
amusingly contradictory.
is
directed "
earnestly
disease
first
many
" late J. R.
at great pains to
study
the
pulmonarj^
of
him
is
it
is
to
be hoped he
of
of lectures
cal
student."
London
that
and
it
all
the courses
The medical
are numerous,
would have
facilitated
Mr. Congreve's
steadily to
work
at
perhaps have
medi-
said.
honey
Balsamic
Elixir,
studies
one
insti-
from place
we should
73
like
Mr. Congreve,
who had
had
young
squire's
mental
isn't
of being edu-
much
in that,'^
calf
he grew."
Hancorn
that J. R.
to
(it
who
special
extensive
Mr.
knowledge
practice
Congreve
attended
all
London, and
the
medical
all
in
;
Congreve)
and
hospitals
is
Mr.
that
as
Congreve
of
student,
there
is
what
"had an
consumption,"
of
cases
asserts
the
Mr.
to
required,
or
expected,
of
certain
is,
something
why he
every
omitted
student
74.
of Shakespeare,
his
pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet.
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper light
To seek the beateous eye of heaven to garnish.
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Whether such
supposition
is
or
correct,
is
not,
a fact,
it
expe-
he
much
tells
us,
valuable assistance of
M.R.C.S., L.S.A.,
years.
In
my
my
patients
Anyone with
attended to by him."
tive
will
be carefully
little
imagina-
Ijaban
Jacob to looking
after
sheep,
But Laban
restricted
What, we wonder, do
they share Mr. Congreve's lofty contempt for medical qualifications, say to this " wasteful
the patients,
if
''
the Medical
75
"reverend
Tlie
specialist,"
"
vious article, employed " a physician in attendance
" but if this be
the
son-in-law,
valuable
it
L.S.A.,
in the event
for
Brown, M.E.C.S.,
is
only
Brown's
his
of
illegal practice;
Alex.
J.
assistance
him much
Mr. Congreve's
sole function
to use a phrase
ice,
J.
Alex.
to
be to
the
there
is
Elixir
anyone wishes
remedy
earth," and
if
is
man on
entire book,
humanity "
(the Balsamic
(!)
described at
on certain days
at stated hours,
when he
Alex.
Brown.
Some anxious
inquirer
may
despondingly suggest
We hasten
individuals.
which must
calamity.
'*
gloom
result
^^God-provided remedies,"
us that these
solely
by me,
at
my
residence," &c.
tells
"prepared
that accounts
for
76
we
suppose
can
had
be
any respectable
of
chemist.
chemist?''
bottle
Why,
^'
Mr.
of
madam
The circumstances
Qod-promcled
mean
(I
"
and expense.'
What
it
is
so
is
the price ?
"Give me
much
Balsamic
?
Mr.
preparer) says
it
is
saving of trouble
" Family bottles
''
cheaper than
my
paying a few
man who,
of course
would
at least, so
not
'
a twenty-two shilling
want a
of
much
bottle
"Then
respectable
certainly."
Congreve's
" Yes,
EHxir.''
case."
he takes.
am
much
fellow- creatures as
tells
to
how much
solely preparing
trouble he
required,
italics
it is
to
is
advantage," he
put
foi
to,
in addition
he
specially
better to obtain
This admonition
is
the remedies,
using
earnestness "whenever
remarks
my own
us in his book.
apparently,
as
my
two
them
largest
direct
sizes
are
from me."
77
might imagine
less patient
trouble
and expense
buy
size for
17s.
6d.,
as
some cbemist
of
9d.
8s.
we
respect-
Why
home,
course
there
office
who
and the
22s.
lis.
would be a saving of
nearer
able chemist, of
is
to
it
We
list.
have
ments,
let
selves so
Life
is
but
we
if
as to indulge in such
'^
wasteful and
first
omnibus
back in a corner
as
we
Peckham,
to
we passed
the
(?)
by paying the
God-provided nectar.
It is so
much more
satisfactory
to get a bottle of
than
from
to
have
it
the
public-house round
the
corner.
publican's port,"
pliis
little
Friar's Balsam,
be
rightly
by the
termed
greatest
also
Such
stretch
God-provided,
of
and we
78
have therefore had the
whom we
analyst to
many
of
with a
benzoic acid,
There
is
makes a
all
The
"
little
It seems to
alcohol and
flavour
to
allspice
little
it."
little
mickle.^'
sole preparer,
is
of
the consumer.
we should
plm
strenuously object to
of
its
being chemically
compound
tincture
of
As
we are now
they
wine
them
describe
we
that
it
most
for
us to need to
wit
known
Congreve's
unhesitatingly
Balsamic EKxir, to
and
positively
assert
cope
with
giving
rise
alleged
to
be
various
pathological
to
Balsamic Elixir
in
the
cured by the
;
affections,
administration
jionials
chest
conditions
the
were affirmed
affidavits
of
and
testi-
79
many
oaths
tliat
make the
truth,"
as
Shakespeare
observed.
in
near Covent
street
Garden.
assertion
its
How
consumption.
may
of the Catarrh
Cure
insist
upon
be readily realised
when we mention
makes us
drachm
ingredients)
furnishes a
herbal
(!)
compound
6d.
closely proximate
The other
life-presever,
Owbridge's
Lung
Tonic,
with the
oils
of
aniseed and
Cure
namely,
cloves.
Aromatic,
to the palate,
but possess-
of
common with
80
cure of the
makers
fell
disease,
given to a labouring
sick relief
This
is
from a
man
benefit club
James
to certefy that
is
The originality
but there
is
and that
is,
certificate,
the obvious
L.S.A.
qualification.
certificate,
of
promptly relieving
What
a pity
it
is
his
parish
of
an
impostor.
many being
nothing at
all.
know
Chapter IX.
Stepney Green Diplomas.
In a former
article,
we spoke
of Safe Medicine."
existed.
Botanic
'*
and
Magnetic
it
Medicine,"
together, took a
The School of
and themselves
^^
and degrees
to
documents.
worthless
Such a queer
now
of
carrjdng on a
^*
quartet,
many
too
years ago a
medical practice
" at the
East
End
(all-a-farce)
'^
;
Dr.
shop in Oxford
holding
diploma
similar
to
Gapp
secretary
and the
'^
Reverend
"
Maguire,
Bow, who
acts as
Verryman Trimmings,
of Quackery, vol.
Safe Kemedies."
1,
page 99:
"The
Alofaa
82
source as Gapp's and Younger's
most
M.D.
According to a
may
to be considered a "
man of
letters
be became a
*'
engaged in the
and
artistic culture,
^before
degree,
took his
'
lay claim
actively
French
liter-
The system
college
which
its
poor dupes
the
who
as simple as the
is
Postal tuition in
etc.,
some of the
everything
candidates " post " the 25, a point on which the four
professional examiners are very stringent.
let
fact,
except to hang in some herbalist's back shop, pretentiously designated " the consulting room,*' so as to
assist in
conjuring hard-earned
money
out of credulous
customer's pockets.
Steel, of
83
**
viction
with
in appealing against
costs,
liis
con-
fine of
10
himself
off
as a
doctor,
which,
we
coming
to
believe,
London.
Our readers
though
it
named
General Council of
'^
Magnetic
and
Botanic
them
School
to establish the
Safe
of
Medicine,
Limited.
in
raising
money
to
^'
any recog-
nised
may
longer.
The General Safe Council announced that communications and donations might be sent to the
Secretary (Yerryman Trimmings again to the front),
at the offices of the General Council of Safe
cine, Limited,
Hall, London.
In noticing
to
Medi-
Holborn Town
time
84
we
back,
communi-
any were
cations, if
be seen that
common
sense), for
own
our
inspection
way down
into the
Safe
the
Ck)uncil,
and
Botanic
Magnetic
The
and
address, as printed
circulated,
would almost
Hall.
on rent
their outlay
as they
to the
*^
chary of
as
philanthropic work,''
and
&
us
it
of
Union Club
members, as well
as
many
Hall,
many hundreds
know
limited
week,
Safe
the reason
why," particularly
as
want
even the
viz.,
to
Council met,
when
the magnetic
and
botanic
and
when
85
played their vaunted
skill in
Whether our
critical
we
know
What
is,
Law and
of the authorities
down such
it
is
to
put
deluded
whose duty
into
and
lives of
thousands of people
diplomas are of
value.
Not long
since,
we
lately
emigration
much
is
of
The unblushing
Green
'*
effrontery with
86
label forwarded to us
by a subscriber
that
**
Doctor
^'
Jitt.5.
to
Health News,
He
also informs us
a sweet-stuff
professional'' attractions.
(f r.), St. oi
f 0tanir
JttebinitB,
Here
Roots,
Barks,
and all
Botanic
Safe
Medicines.
is
adequate
measures
for
the
wretchedly
officials
when they go
of the trial,
ignorant
Old
at the
pretenders
to
of England, of their
evidence
that
represented
to
money and
sight, it
some
documents
their
unfortunate
which
dupes
all
parts
came out
these
as
in
men
Indian
87
diplomas, were passports from the Indian Government,
stating that the holders were "proceeding to
to cure eye diseases
"
!
Europe
Chapter X.
BONESETTING, BY A HoSPITAL SuRGEON
A PaTENT
In
this chapter
we
many
doubtless well-known to
districts,
where
flourishes
it
the one
of quackery,
more than
in large towns
by Dr. John
by that gentleman
for
the Annual
Dinner of the
BONESETTING.
This
setting.
of
society,
is
is
what
is
called
Bone-
though the
belief
in
it
is
by no means
The
process
is
ordinary blacksmith
plain
is
in
the
extreme,
competent to
and any
89
moment's
at a
it
notice.
A person
it.
from accident or
wonderful
happens
to
disease,
and
is all
have a
told
is
is
stiff joint,
either
by a friend
of the
He
of a certain bonesetter.
skill
of
conse-
is
also, in
''
out.
connection with
it
but that
not deem
it
desirable to
magnifying his
down
is,
been put
ability
is
on
of
'^
small bone
going
''
The
stiffness is the
such as
is
wrench
is
successful
indeed,
this
is
method
rheumatism,
joint
wrench by one
scrofula,
or
of these ignorant
set
up
cancer
men
violent
90
It
is
much
hears
and
of three persons
whom
sent,
on showing
his
The
first
was informed
was directed
to return in a couple
of
was
fee.
and
out,
The
as regards
The
writer was
at the
the
is
stifthess of
servant had
satisfied
had
in
with
the
he
91
hospital, took lier out of that institution before she
had
Without the
leg
of the ankle
man
at all,
As
is,
but
have put
rate he professed to
in
it
Come,
it
right place, to
SONG.
listen to
my
song,
it
Of weakness
special skill.
A PATENT- MEDICINE
friends
Though
It's all
its
pills^
What matter
if it's
For heat
While Mother
Is a priceless
And
all
Pot : lod
**
:,
can't fail to do
remedy
for
all,
and
you good.
its aloes,
The thing
'Tis true
But
its
and
in.
that's sure to
is
as that bears
much
the same
effect,
92
For Rheumatism nothing can excel
With
For
its
camphor and
its
women
That
Jacob's Oil,
St.
black.
'em,
Whose
pills
shocks.
'*
Beecham' s
Pills are
worth a guinea
"
And
are
teething powders,"
mothers' friends " galore
**
while
it's
**
owe
score,
soothing syrups,"
their
power
and
to " sleeping
stuff,"
And
Httle dears
and
isn't that
enough
fail to spf
ak of
all
we
hear,
And we marvel
How
In
fact, unless
you want
amount
all,
of alcohol.
That you must swallow every patent medicine that comes out
And should you find by doing so you've quite destroyed your
;
health,
You'll
wealth.
Chapter XI.
^^
How
this
King David
"all
men
world
is
are
is
given to lying
f^^
Shakespeare
liars."
upon one
sweeping
For
little qualification.
articles
on quackery,
it
has
amount
found in
of
all
quack
literature,
quack pamphlets,
and advertisements
for
their
dupes'
money.
94
annually, in the form that
have of
new
of
snares to catch
the
is
of various
title
Millions of copies
by post through whole counties, or distributed by hand from house to house in populous
are circulated
towns
origin, be it observed,
though a
closer investigation
office.
this
manner, the
'*
Jersey Juggler
''
is
easily
game
to
proceeds.
Carlyle,
The
'^
mostly fools
constitute the
who, according
''
read, while
aim
is
which
sight
is,
of the proprietor.
first
One
of these,
to us
Journal
or.
How
to
Make Money
it.*'
Easy, and
This
is
How
to
an attractive.
95
make money
ungrammatical,
matters
say
As
is
it
disregard for
total
is
not
grammar,
seeing his
to
But Handyside
intelligible.
if
how
somewhat more
title
more important
far
many
not
cheap (called in the North, " slop ") boot and shoe
shop in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and as he assures us
millionaire,''
may
Perhaps, readers
them
natural curiosity
little
think that he
now
is
excited.
is
going to let
"
making a pile by quackery
''
is
how
notice,
for
make money
to
is
His suggestion of
contained in a two-column
some
time
past,
headed
*^A
Chance
to
Gain
medicines
pay
this
associated
profession,
the
depreciating
other
and
the
proprietors
of
patent
sum
to
classes
remedies are
which he
of
stuff, as
medical
and
profession,
settlement
of
this
Pending-
96
Watson,
solicitor, of
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Mr.
We addressed
stating
that
we
In addition, we
money was
1,000 over
quently name.
sum
we might
of
subse-
This elicited a
letter.
to
him
as stated
by Handy side,
Handyside
styles
himself the
of a
He
of
the
most virulent
" persons
fession,'*
horror,
cancer,
&c.,
and that
and contemptous
lupus,
him
to emphasise his
Referring
to
97
he writes
" We
hope in
tlie
Instead of
*'
glove/'
and
letter,
selfish class
we thought,
Watson's
*'
after
receiving
is
*'
the sordid
to enrich themselves,
How
searching in
prey
it is
incumbent on him
is
Yet, as to
he thinks
blackening
is,
venom, while he
them
Handyside
filthy
Mr.
but
''
offer
because
What
discovery."
**
To
sentiment
worthy
the
of
Council), '^in
many
way he has
less
What
his
says
unfortunate
dupes,
mainly
he
He
important."
among
and sent
styles
''
End
of
Temples of
Health
(!)
"
and
sent
hi\s
98
"qualified
deluded customers
specimen of his
How
The
assistants."
may
consequences
illegal practice
and
its results.
he carefully ignores.
his
to
Has
These
this self-dubbed
philan-
that he has
had no
newspapers
?
is
Lockwood
Joseph
Turner
This poor
man was
suffering
from diseased
to
of
go
good
and Liniment.
Turner rapidly became so much worse under
treatment that Dr. Baldwin was again called
in,
this
but
The
gave
in
it
the
in his evidence,
infirmary he
would
summing
have
had remained
recovered.
commented on
persons taking the advice and medicine
coroner, in his
of
doctor,
up,
**
The
the folly
of quacks
99
instead of seeking the advice of regular and
skilled
Handy side' 8
fault
The
it
Handy side's
assistant
was actually
so ignorant that
it is
assistants can
to us
by a Newcastle
cor-
Our
pondent
of assistant
went
should require
to
him
corres-
mount
gaudy
chariot,
remunerated by at
least
ought
services
a week.
and
The
to be
Handyside does
**
make money
**
Oh
I'll
I can
not give
any more."
Handyside's own medical knowledge
is,
from the
100
*'
Journal/'
no
in
superior
sense
that
to
how he can
It is consequently surprising
assistants.
his
of
at ridiculously
what he
food,
by
loses
as
prices,
he
But, maybe,
says.
ning what
is
parlance
for
called a
we
*'
bucket shop
find in the
''
Exchange
in Stock
ferred
**
George
sells all
N.B.
The grammar,
We
own.
by the way,
of
any stocks
When we
come
side's writings,
to determine
to look
we
more minutely
which
is
one which
reading his
rapidly
impudence
ludicrousunfortunately,
scores
also
are
bound
impudence very
closely.
subject,
On
on considering his
serious
*'
self-sacrificing of callings
yet,
Handy
*'
into
to
it,
101
ignorant as
lie
shows himself
is
their
work
of
people in the
devastration "
Tyne
district
them away
sensible
as
contemptuously
Handy,"
(^*
him,
call
to destroy,
These microbes
seize
is
and
upon
the body
vousness
they feed upon the nerves and produce nerthey destroy the vigour of the brain, and
produce sleeplessness
kill
all
them,
What
sale invasion."
drivel
what rubbish
what
falsehood
As
poor
if
dupes
Handy sidean
into
**
enough
said
stampede
towards
to scare his
the nearest
How many
regaining
lost
nervous people,
health,
the
little
to
sacrifice
scanty belongings,
their
to
hard
scatter
102
the nostrums whicli Handyside assures them will sucNo one
ceed where medical science is of no avail ?
handysitvk's microbe
can
know but
the
(!)
103
to conceal his ignorance,
and
mask
to
his designs on
Handyside pretends
cure of the most
afflict
mankind^
swarms
of omni-
which
fell diseases
terrific
consuming
that
it is
the
lungs
of
one
person,
are
know,
it is
Treacle,
if
they must
of the
commonest
Well,
drugs.
There
is
we
is
remedy
cure
tic,
'*
will
minutes.''
the nerves"
may
(whatever that
lie
take
it.''
^'
so
All
is
which has
may
is
We
mean), and
through
fill
;
there
and that
is
is
it.
to give
Handyside,
which " takes the cake " for humbug and worthless-
104
even amongst quack preparations, and that
ness,
is
We
Wanklyn, an
following
the
subjoin
report
analytical chemist of
and eminence
by
Professor
European reputation
:
The Laboratory,
New
^*
I have
Snuff
The
analysis of
contained in the
'
official
made an
little
Maiden, Surrey.
The
Electric Nervine
bottle
and consisted
weighed 81 grains,
of a
There
a very
little
to the snuff."
J.
Alfred Wanklyn.
technical
name
of
chloride
of
is
and
salt,
under
sodium.
The
a trifling
woman
stuff
amount
could
make
if
old
ingredients close at
than
Any
hand
she purchased
common
one
of
Handy side's
bottles
The
the nostril,
when
precious
only, at
Handy side's
compound
exorbitant charge
is
105
snuffed
into
slowly,
coolness.
the
Its
nose,
is
to
temporary
sensation
of
There
is
is
no more
modesty or honesty in
Handyside
to
call
should designate
correct name.
it
it
swindle.
its
" discoverer."
Electric
Stamp
It suits
We
Nervine Snuff.
by a much shorter
than there
is
and
more
remark made
practically a license
to
go
Snuff to
Chapter XII.
Mattei's
Way
'*
Court
a
Exposing Quackery.
Electricities
Oh, dear
of
What can
in
the Mattel be
New Version
In one
of an Old Song.
we found
reprinted*,
on the so-called
''
Curious
Mattel," and
by Mr. A.
**
it
Electricities,''
public
Stokes,
important metropolitan
comment strongly
bearing the name of
our duty to
we showed, by
W.
now
analyst
that
districts,
several
for
of
all
these,
dupes,
who
compliment
to the Matteist
remedies will
suffice
to
cure
cataract,
or
to
unite
Mr. Stokes'
quite
independently
by
Michaud,
Professor
Department
of Justice at
by the English
I.,
page
15.
analyst.
107
it,
"
much
charged
is
would have
to
pay
to
a water
company
for
5,000
gallons.
The
revelations
alloyed
of our readers
in
newspapers,
down low on
and even
But there
a loss to understand
to
much
clouds,
a time
is
detest, publicity,
the pavements
up amongst the
or high
electric flashes.
trust,
sails of fishing-boats,
the scene.
we walk
by means
when they
and that
is
of
dis-
apparently
Otherwise,
why we have
alongside
we
are at
some particular
article),
and
of so
many
threats of
sham pretensions
To return
to Mattei's
London
agent, however,
He
and hints
we venture
Our
same publicity
was
to give
had
108
given to the analysis and
worthless Mattei " Electricities "
received no
the
following
to say that
Mattei' s
although
appeared in
an
announcement
mysterious
paper
evening
**
Count
Messrs.
solicitors,
to
by numerous English
an action for
We
them."
libel
Mattei's
made upon
com-
at the
It is almost needless
we
the
mencement
upon
reports
"been
journals,
very
long one, so that our name has not yet been reached,
or that the single writ alleged to have been issued
tried in the
High Court
must
grandly
is
of Justice,
since
the
notice
cropped
up
lately,
appeared.
Mattei
^'
Electricities
broken out in
in
new
have
''
place, as it were,
for
we
read,
woman named
Worksop County
she
had
supplied
with
"'
the
whom
Mattei remedy,"
but
109
several of the defendants asserted that the pretended
their statements
in support of
to the
fluid,
that the
however,
'^
Women
and the
''
the
next
sitting,
had withdrawn
plantiff
the
actions.
may have
'"
says,
displayed only
but
it is
a very
Water,
^'
in
We
have received
letters
wake
of
of articles,
some
itself
its
journal in question.
journal
might
is
We
feel still
more pleased
though, perhaps, we
if its
editor
would do us
110
that
we
appreciate his
treating
the
method
of
unblushing
One
of
an
containing
article
concerning
Clarke's
Beecham,
and
Holloway,
medicine men.
other
we observed no
Curiously enough
Is this to
Presuming that
Science
patent
notorious
Siftings
in
is
earnest
in
However
may
we
be,
dents
somewhat incredulous
go a
we
receive
shall
this
little
farther,
as
to its sincereity,
so far.
Science
by adopting our
rule,
if,
Siftings
'*
Quack
it.
Its statements
respect,
would then be en
tied to
more
rightly
now comment
to
decide
upon
or wrongly,
we do not
of
profess
a journal
Chapter XIII.
St. Jacob's Oil
Patent Medicine Testimonials
The Man who
Clarke's Blood Mixture
GAVE HIMSELF A TESTIMONIAL
Eno's FrUIT
;
Salt.
"
Men
Sir
The worthy
old
Norwich
now
whose philosophic
doctor,
as
in proving this
axiom
for
little
he would need
might come
to hand.
we
''
We
Exposures of Quackery
'^
to this
feel
In dealing with
somewhat in the
we need only
to the
bog
and leave
of the rest.
it,
it
to
112
Quack
those
testimonials
may be
given in error,
the
probably
and th
palpably forged.
of the community.
grammar
first
as their
false,
as feeble
is
presumptuous
in
They
experience.
physician
or
surgeon of great
their lifetime
result is that
an ordinary cough
sumption in
its
an obscure tumour
is,
and the
to special study,
is
all
if
common
indis-
An
is
they
pills,
or
of
pounds in pub-
made
a double blunder, in
mistaking the character of his ailment, and in overlooking the fact that any aperient or brisk rubbing, as
the case
It is
may
be,
set
him
patent medicine
man
carefully touches
right.
it,
up the
that the
spelling
113
it
into print
public
the
since
deprived of an
are
Some time
the certificate.
it is
ago,
St.
it
incumbent
The
we
'*
by a grateful
father,
was
to the
five
many
of
that
''
Counties
(a large order,
case to be incurable.
this
few
!)
men
of the
and
Midland
had pronounced
his
our readers
We
recovery.
whom we
ex-
What we
Truth.
munication
ask
me
Leicester
has past
was
away
my
he recevd at
at the infermery
since
and from
their he
crip2)le
on cruthes,
114
and was
al
them
greate faith in
We were
as
gat the
oil
and
by our attempts
so utterly prostrated
to
al
make out what all this meant, that we were
before we came to a conclusion and fearing
formes
'*
''
might bring us
prudent to discontinue
it
any number
of
^*
same
Docker/' we deemed
*^
besides which,
to the
dockers, ''
to
it
it
would have
hospital
or
private,
We
resemblance
as names, addresses,
these deficiencies
and dates
by constant
trivialities
assertions of
many
^,he patient,
years'
and of
know
so
jiffey.
But
it
when we come
that we begin to
is
certificate
to
realise
some idea
man
will go.
of the
Until
115
**
and
is
a good,
safe,
any injurious
Alfred
We
ever penned
by the
word
late Dr.
this
ingredient^
Swains Taylor^
Toxicology,*^
and we were
of this certificate
was
As a
Swaine Taylor.
them
containing
know what he
is
purchasing.''
is
prietors of Clarke's
questions, easy
Blood Mixture
enough
We
for
to
nessed
3.
inspected
2.
By
whom was
the signature
original be
death
we
Blood
of the
4.
Though we
after
wit-
Dr.
so
im-
Taylor's
on a reply.
certificate,
They
which, for
suddenly
withdrew
the
bogus
in
They had
116
none
to give.
Th^ whole
affair
was palpably
false
their
we
on,
later
incontestably
The
chapter
the present
articles,
story
is
that
the
The
Quackery.''
''world- famed''
of
but
proved
it,
it
proprietors
of
the
self-dubbed
"wonderful"
testimonials.
it
What
is
there "wonder-
be repeated thousands of
tunes ?
cular one
is
that
its
this parti-
and
untruth,
makes
In
known, have
tal^en steps to
made
From
relief
to
*
An excellent paper, tb Health News, has been publishing
analyses of most of the patent medicines now being put before the
Not only are these
public, and the result is not a little startling.
nostrums actually useless in every case, from a medicinal point of
view, but in the majority of instances they are actually injurious to
the brainless idiots who purchase these pills, lotion.s, and mixtures.
Further, in some cases bogus testimonials are used to bolster up these
worthless compounds, Hnd other scandalous means used to deceive the
In one or two cases the services of the Public
public in the matter.
Whitehall lievicw.
Prosecutor seem urgently needed."
'
'
117
patent medicine testimonials.
of
and
typhoid
other
some
appeared in
were
fevers
daily
curiously
there
prevalent,
London
the
of
papers
amongst
the
The Dowry of a
Nation/^
" The names and
It began as follows
memories of great men are the dowry of a nation in
headed
death as well as in
life.'^
^*
word
But we read
be rewarded by an anecdote of some
hoping
to
We
man.
great
rather,
or,
in the statements
made
in his
advertisements.
*^
fever,
J.
my
I used
Eno.'^
here; then,
is
Here, then,
the great
man
is
at
our
valuation
last attack of
to say it saved
my
and
life.
;
so delicately alluded to in
Eno
my
between buying
selling
him
at
his
differJ.
C.
own,
118
as there
market
and
selling
them
Salts at their
at the price
charged for
But
sails,
of
which
C.
J.
he has taker
Eno
J. C.
Unfortunately
Eno
poses as a
We
though
it is
own nostrum
freely,
of its ingredients
but, to
have stated
if
he knew
what
kind of fever
what was
it
was
He
life.
Why
cause.
J.
had previous
we
illnesses
why he
to
unless
J. C.
Eno, too
we
rashness.
medical practice,
we should
hesitate
to
years'
administer,
119
either to a patient or to ourselves,
might lead
it
to a verdict of
Serve him
right,''
salts
not a doctor
in the
Manslaughter
latter to a verdict of
from
suffering
Epsom
former case
if
he belongs to a
J. 0.
Eno
folly to be wise," a
**
a favourite
Eno's
much
in
Yet,
a
'^
sugar.
into
man
pleads, in extenuation
was ignorant
of
Law.
Carbonate
of soda,
salts,
The only
man-
Epsom
When
up, act
''
summing
Ignorance excuses
*^
maxim when
diagnosis.
powder
effervescence
is
is
put
caused.
fruit,
and Epsom
readily
procurable
of
magnesia)
are
salts (sulphate
in
enormous
who have
of
120
undisguised condition, and fewer
idiotic as to
still
salts
The
and as
title
''
who would
grew on goose-
trees.
entirely a misnomer,
is
deliberately misleading as
Eno's untrue
mentioned,
the
^'
cure
will
every
coloured
'^
we have
conceivable
as-
just
complaint,
advertisements,
pictorial
be so
in
which
pines,
making the
make people
Fruit Salt."
Eno's Hatcham
No
fruit
utilised in
whatever enters
Works
save, perhaps,
converting
"Fruit"
is
Epsom
salts
call a certain
spurious
Chapter XIV.
Handy "
*^
"
fool
is
came
it
Shuffling.
" Striving to
When
Still
to our
is
/'*
worse
look fair,
Dryden.
Shakespeare.
^^
(!)
found that
it
A week
us,
XI
write
we took it
but we soon
sum
of
1,000 was
at the
name.
would be couched
ever,
but a tame
in
epistle,
angry terms.
Not
so,
how-
122
equally defective spelling characteristic of Handysidean
Handy/' with
**
literature.
bounce,
all his
knew
his
by
contradiction,
^^
The
it.
''
wrath-
Here
is
"
Handy's "
letter
'*
Bentinck Crescent,
12,
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Oct.
To tte Editor
Dear
Sir,
You
1894.
of health news.
6tli,
and challenged
all
this City
them check
the world when
I deposited with
the Doctors in
ready to deposit
it
it
again
if
you
This
Kingdom with
is
am
not a medicine
the
it is
it
as
palatable as possible.
Yours
truly,
G. Handyside.
It
is
'^
a pity that
Handy/' who
is
as unrefined,
**
slop
'^
whom
*^
(as
he
qualified
him,
or,
failing that,
123
to act in that
much
occupied in
he
Evidently,
capacity.
too
is
begin learning
to
^'
Principill"
is
as "
though not
by
^^
Handy," we presume
pill "
towns
assisting us in
tables," plus
already
""
the
in
spelling now.
of the word, as
so excruciatingly
personally
through
all
the ^^princi-
his
testing
accomplished, and
The
has been
test
we do not
any of
desire
Even
his boy-
tell
of
unrefined treacle.
secretary could
conducted
by
''
set
us an impossible task,
viz.,
to
cheque tested by
would be
to
all
And,
letter,
after
when done
deliberate
all,
of
the
feat
It
quacks than
suggested
by
into English,
ignoring
same
''Handy."
this
amount
terms
of
To a
to ?
his
original
empty brag.
If
behind
124
papers say,
place,
if lie
is
honest in his
reallj"
Bank
of
offer, let
England
him
in
notes,
It
it
that
best,
but
New-
and
charities.
would be
own term)
refined
Further, have
regardless
acquired
of
by the use
which
it
Certainly
to
(to
was
applied.
accepting
it
it,
had been
on a particular occasion,
for
borrow his
criticised
Army
for
receiving a
if
taking
it,
it
would
be put.
Like a whipped
distance,
'^
Handy
cur,
'^
We
it
a rule never to
therefore hasten to
congratulate
the adA ice
make
and we
125
him
" Check
we thought,
is now spelt
''
'*
as
signs
Handy
"
principal,^'
grammar by
sentiments "
are
are
''
and
the
them's
my
Handy's
**
common
as
^*
spoils
is
'^
black
to such
correspondent
barrels of
On
he
treacle,
" cure
But though
present.
'*
does
eyes.
improvement
of
" cheque
surprise
to assist
it
tells
delivered at
bystander
no
have
(prophets
Handy's
when
another occasion,
arrived,
^'
" place at
treacly
sarcastically
as nine
one time.
consignment
asked
'^
Handy
'*
own country,
Handysidean stamp, who would
praise
many
in
their
why
word
black beer,
treacle ?
as
''It
''
profits ")
would
To
still
cost too
much.
return, however, to
shuffles
challenge
short,
now
it
"Handy's"
manifesto.
He
there
is
That
"The
all
the
kingdom be
those
who
require
who need
also to all
all
and
it,
At
it.
let
the majorisy
must be
fair
This
This rigmarole
is
merely a
sort of
bugged by
"
Handy," and
who
are beginning
dust-throwing in
it
" surely
close
must be
he had any
We
by
that " all the doctors in the world " should visit all the
^'
principill
testing his
perhaps "
Handy
of principal
(i.e.^
Ireland as he
is
to
assist
us
in
Stay
may
large)
of
many
127
We have
amount
a fair
of energy
jump up
or
all
hey
months
alone,
we
journey to
all
*'
amount
still
less
Handy
kingdom
'*
Handy
'^
the exposure in
of traflBc
" himself,
once a fortnight,
but
how
and endurance
otherwise,
Health
that
that, since
if
lunatic
small
difficulty in
to taste
common
multitude,
who
are
passed one of
misleading
black treacle
beginning to get a
by the
already, judging
common
fact that
little
when we
recently
name he
o'clock p.m., on a
'*
about
nighf
wiser
the
eight
(locality,
scared-looking youth,
apparently contem-
visible,
as
assistant
to
Again, a
still
we have
knowing what we do of
referred to presents
itself.
If,
128
the composition of
^'
its
uselessness
sumption,
we were
we should most
open
of these diseases,
to the criminal
and
qualified
Such
is
it
Law
at
" Handy's
*'
shuffle out
what
is
is
make
belief that
skilled analysts,
commend
other, should
One
to abide
by
he prefer a legal
their decision.
have
determine which of us
deposit
the
is
in the right.
1,000
of
The
to a scientific verdict, is
previously
is to
he
to the point.
his
speaks
coming
He
is
and thus
form
in
and
let a
jury
But he nmst
some responsible
of bank-notes or coin,
129
not " a
to
mn
We
As
to our exposures,
we have only
those portions of
it
which are
We notice that
make
it
known,
lest
is
Chapter XV.
QuAK Newspapers;
Translation
" Exposures
of
Quackery "
of
FOR India.
Several
of our readers
of bogus
men
have forwarded
Telegram.
specimens
to us
No
come
as those
which we described
Health News.
to
hand
is
The
name
is
'^
it
is
it
is
2d.
of
given,
London,
last
printer's or publisher's
October, 1895."
the
all of
Why
difficult to say.
this
and
sum more
Possibly, the
"No.
6,
is
131
always ready to swallow any quantity of
How many
quack nostrums.
and of
lies
millions of No.
6,
Vol. Y.
but
we may mention
that
men
letter-box,
and we,
later on,
saw
even
if
it.
It
who
may
quack
**
be
imagine she
now
is
of that
we
the usual
very willing
to
of
we should not
work.
as
literature fashion.
that she
profusely illus-
they
is
now
too, is
able to
be a copy
of Wales,
know
test.
It
is
something, though, to
woman
''
to
'^
who
tells
us that she
winds up a long
letter,
Anyone would be
**
not
N.B.
disposed
letter that
to
Miss
132
Smitli, of
and mixture.
pills
some
these is
is
The longest of
"
headed,
In Scotland Yard," and that locality
we
will leave
him
there.
We
Sequah/'
From
this
we
The Sequel
sum
In return for
from the
this magnificent
Quackery," Vol.
on the Sequah
little
I.,
stuff"
Our
first article
we were
public service
any
profits (in
1890
it
it.
Gross ingratitude,
this,
in
we
133
and
publicity,
this
was
We
one.
Prairie
showed that
compound
aloetic
''
"
we
were only
oil
like
of
of
liquidation.
Speaking of
we
Indians,
the Sequah
we have
1895, which
of
Quackery
''
^^
Exposures
as to
and American
We
pleasure,
at the
London
trouble
acknowledgement,
or
taking
any
further
publication.
Chapter XVI.
Fever Curer.
Fenning's
^^
All maladies
kinds
all feverous
^^
MiLTON.
subject.
ills
to poets
convey
to
nature
many
poet,
it
happens
man
short
space
of
This
time.
remarkable
and
will,
giving
**
therefore,
puflFs
doubtless
bold advertisement
^'
be obliged to us for
(gratuitous, too) to his
However,
can do
stood.
let
only according
We
" dare do
to his
own
all thai
account, be
it
under-
does become a
man,"
135
but
a great
as
to
Well, he
is
WTien
at the contents of
which
body^s Doctor
is
III,
How
to
suffices to
show that
all
that
As
to
what he can do
says he can do
here
is
of course,
we mean what he
a specimen.
He
is
describing
**
This
somewhat
rhythmical
arrangement
of
the
we must consequently
we put
his achievements
Six
little
Cowes boys,
crave
six,
136
Five
little
One the
Cowes boys,
cholera took
And brought
five,
And
Three
One
little
fire.
Cowes boys,
diphtheria caught
Two
little
Cowes boys,
laid
low
One
little
His
**
Cowes boy,
stum my "
felt so
bad
And
Confound
again
will
it
prosaic
rhyme
to ^^bad/'
''
to
we have enumerated
giving a lengthy
diseases, for
cure,
which
he says
*'
before,
list,
printed in capitals, of
this "celebrated
remedy''
is
a sure
137
and yellow
cholera, diphtheria,
all
with
No
cases
remedy
at
hand."
in
itaKcs, too
that given
is
See Fennings^
scale.
ascertain
still
of Fennings'
is
to
fortunately
unknown
in these islands.
professional retrospect,
we can only
and
two
convalescing,
others
4th,
mind one
at
Swansea
in that
In a long
call to
That occurred
is
from yellow
fever.
as
we
many
but, if
did
America
disease,
he
is
138
into the notion that his stuff can either prevent or cure
yellow fever.
We
will be.
With
man's
last
we
doomed
us,
now ?
"
When we
went
to the
was
as swift as it
was
certain.
to insist
upon the
assertion that
say that he
is
If so,
we can only
But,
if
we
139
wtat a boon
it
some of
would
whom
genuine.
But
it is
the
following
Professor
Wanklyn
analytical
Fennings'
nitric acid
sent
Fever Curer
New
by
us
is
Maiden, Surrey.
a dilute
It
to
report
solution of
flavoured
is
traces of other
opium.
J.
Upon
Alfred Wanklyn.'*
mitted to Professor
Wanklyn
we
following
observed,
the
for analysis
notice
we
sub-
was printed,
"An
Poison
'
Act of
should be
it
is
fifty
140
thousands of cases of diseases which " no other medicine
could cure^
Parliament
worded
is
as to
class of people
who
read
memory some
Act
if
choice piece
of
Scripture,
of Parliament
special
The dose
glassful
at
Fever Curer
of
Seeing that
much
a good thing
wine-glasses differ so
that there
is
is so little
in size,
it is
laudanum contained
in the bottle
by misadventure,"
As
it is,
reckoning a properly
gratification of getting
the
through his
readers
in fractions,
and we
will
would be dear
But, though
it is
bottle of this
at a penny.
through
141
greed of gain, to so unscrupulously puff their wares
to
it is
have availed
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