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SECRET NOSTRUMS
AND

SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE
A BOOK OF FORMULAS.

COMPILED BY

CHARLES

W. OLESON, M. D.

THIRD EDITION.
Revised and Enlarged.

CHICAGO
OL,ESON

&

35

PUBLISHERS,
Clark Street.
CO.,

1892.

^
Copyright,

1889,

by Chas. W. Oleson.

Copyright.

1S91,

by Chas. W. Oleson.

KNIGHT, LEONARD A CO. PRINTERS, CHICAGO.

PREFACE.

THENostrums and

object sought in the compilation of "Secret

Systems" has been the collecand methods

as have been recently published in medical and
pharmaceutical journals, and their preservation in a
form convenient for reference.
The only changes made have been the adoption of

tion of such formulas of secret remedies

the abbreviations
signs.

oz.,

dr., etc.,

in place of the usual

we do not guarwe can only give our authority.

In re-publishing these analyses,

antee their exactness;

Several formulas of preparations that are not strictly

proprietary have been included, because

proper to enlighten our readers

in

it

has seemed

regard to them.

While expressing our obligations to all sources from

which we quote, we are especially indebted to the
following journals:

The New

organ of the firm of Frederick

This house, in addition to
the good work done in the exposure of the character
of secret compounds, has introduced a line of nonsecret remedies for popular use.
These preparations
Stearns

&

Idea, the

Co., of Detroit.

are as excellent as they are attractive.

TREF

The

of

kCl

Philadelphia, one of

the

brightest and most practical of our medical journals,

as the character of our extracts from

The Western Druggist^

its

of Chicago.

pages show.
This is a live

monthly, an implacable foe to humbugs of

and

as

quite

useful

physician

the

to

all

as

kinds,
to

the

pharmacist.

Much

of our material in regard to the

practices of

rectal

specialists,

Professor Andrews's Rectal and

lished by

W.

Anal Surgery^ pub-

T. Keener, Chicago.

information given by

it

irregulars, the best that

schemes and

has been taken from

In addition to the

respecting the methods of

is

known

in

regard to the

proper and successful treatment of these diseases

is

also fully presented.

December

5,

1SS9.

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

THEbook

reception accorded this little

by the profession throughout the country
has prompted the compiler, in preparing a third
edition, to enlarge and revise it.
gratifying

In this revision, the formula? of certain preparations,

contained

in

previous editions, which are

in-

tended for physicians' use only, have been omitted

as hardly coming within the intended scope of the
work.

November

I,

1891.

SECRET NOSTRUMS
AND

SYSTEMS
ALBADERMINE.
Under

the

title

Albadermine, a foreign surgeon has

devised a method of treatment for the removal of

"tan" and the milder variety of " freckles," which

is

as

follows:

SOLUTION

A.

Take of
Potass, iodid
Iodini pur

2 dr.

6 gr.

Glycerine

3 dr.

Infus. rosae

4 oz.

Dissolve the iodide of potassium in a small quantity

and a dram of the glycerine;

the infusion

of

with this fluid moisten the iodine in a glass mortar

and rub

it

down, gradually adding more liquid

until

complete solution has been obtained; then stir in the

remainder of the ingredients, and bottle the mixture.

SOLUTION

Take

B.

of

Sodii hyposulph. (Thiosulphate)

Aqua

rosae

Dissolve and

filter.
5

. .

j oz.

pint.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

With a small camel's hair pencil or piece of fine

little of "Albadermine A" to the tanned

sponge apply a

or freckled surface, until a slight but tolerably uniform

brownish-yellow skin

has been

At the

produced.

expiration of fifteen or twenty minutes moisten a piece

of cambric,

lint,

or soft rag with " B," and lay

the affected part, removing, squeezing

soaking
stain

it

afresh,

away the

it

upon

liquid,

and again applying until the iodide

Repeat the entire process

has disappeared.

thrice daily, but diminish the frequency of the appliif tenderness be produced.
In the course of
from three or four days to as many weeks the freckles
will either have disappeared entirely or their intensity
''Summer freckles" yield
will be greatly diminished.

cation

very speedily to this treatment.

ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM.

Kilner gives the following formula, said to resemble

very closely:

Take of
Tinct. sanguinaria
Tinct. lobelia
Tinct. opium
Tinct. capsicum
Essence sassafras
Essence anise

New

8 oz.
S oz.

4 oz.

i'jOz.

Orleans molasses

Iking the syrup to a

other ingredients.

boil,

oz.

oz.

}4 gal.

and add cautiously the

AND

SYSTEMS.

ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER.

may be prepared according

This hair restorer

to

the following formula:

Take of
Sulphur
Acetate of lead
Glycerine
Water, flavored

6 parts.
8 parts.

ioo parts.
200 parts.

Dissolve the acetate of lead

the glycerine and sulphur.

in

the water, then add

Any aromatic water may be

used for making the restorer.

American Pharmacist.

ANTI-CONSTIPATION PAD.
Take

of

Mandrake root
Aloes, powdered
Ext. colocynth. comp.,
Croton

Mix.

3 oz.

oz.

powdered..^

oz.

dr.

oil

Oil of sassafras

dr.

Black-root
Ladies' slipper

y2
/2

oz.

Wear pad

directly

below

pit of

oz.

stomach.

ARABIAN BALSAM.
A good

formula for Arabian Balsam

is

as follows:

Take of

Oleum gossypium
Oleum origani
Oleum terebinth
Mix.

S.

15 oz.
1

oz.

4 dr.
JV. Rogers,

Hanvich, Mass.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

ASEPTIN.
This preservative material for milk, meat,
said to be

Take

made

etc.,

is

as follows:

of

Borax

parts.

Alum

part.

Powder and mix thoroughly

National

together.

Druggist

ATHLOPHOROS.
Athlophorosis put up

in

a green panel bottle con-

taining scant four ounces of a thick, clear, deep yel-

low liquid of sweetish acrid taste and acid reaction.

It is

ped
tion

put up
in

in

corrugated strawboard pipe, and wrap-

lithographic wrapper, which gives the informa-

that

is

it

" Searle's

Great Rheumatic and Neu-

ralgia Cure."

We find

that the following formula

tion scarcely to be distinguished

makes

a prepara-

from the proprietary

preparation:

Take of
Acetate of Potash
Salicylate of

Soda

490
4

Sugar
Caramel

To make

four ounces.

gr.
oz.

3 drops.

Water

in

dr.

14

fl.

dr.

Dissolve the salts and sugar

the water, add caramel, and,

if

need

water to make the product measure four

be,
fluid

little

ounces.

AND

We

SYSTEMS.

obtain 50 grains of salicylic acid, in a pure form

for weighing,

from

fluid

ounce of the mixture, equal

to 122.5 grains of salicylate of soda.

The

bottle contains a short four fluid ounces of the

and

liquid

is

deeply paneled.

The

label states that

one teaspoonful every three hours, taken

in milk or water.
In acute cases the dose is two teaspoonfuls.
They also urge the patient not to feel
alarmed if the medicine causes ringing in the ears.
the dose

We

is

should not feel surprised

cylate of soda did

make

if

30 grains of

New

the ears ring.

sali-

Idea.

AYER'S AGUE CURE.

This

is

said to be a syrupy tincture of cinchona with

Each bottle holds 6 fluid ounces, and each

ounce was found to contain 3.2 grains of amorphous cinchona alkaloids, 3 grains cinchonine, 0.9
cinchonidine, 0.8 quinine, and 1 grain quinidine.
aromatics.
fluid

AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL.

Take

Mix.

of

Acetate of morphia
Tincture of bloodroot

3 gr.

Wine antimony
Wine ipecac

3 dr.

Syrup wild cherry

3 oz.

Pacific

dr.

3 dr.

Med. and Surg. Journal.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

AYER'S HAIR VIGOR.

lake ofAcetate of lead
Flowers of sulphur
Glycerine

parts.

parts.

14 parts.

Water

So parts.

Journal

</'

Hygiene Populaire.

AYER'S SARSAPARILLA.
Take

of

Fluid extract Sarsaparilla

3 oz.
3 oz.

"

Stillingia

"
"

Yellow dock

oz.

May

oz.

oz.

apple

Sugar
Iodide potassium

90

gr.

10 gr.

iron

Chicago Druggist.
AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) RECAMIER
BALM.
Recamier Balm comes
with a bit of ribbon and

white powder
limate.

at

most,

the
make

cheap glass

flask, tied

with water; contains a

and corrosive
Boston Journal

oxide of zinc

This preparation
to

in

filled

it,

ten

is

sold for $1.50.

cents.

sub-

It costs,

of

Health.

Since the analysis of the Boston Journal of Health

to the writer's notice, R. G. Eccles has exam-

came

ined Recamier Balm, which he states

in

the

Drug-


AND
gists' Circular, to

rosive sublimate

SYSTEMS.

II

contain substantially 2}^ grains cor-

and 60 grains zinc oxide.

AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) RECAMIER

CREAM.
The

Western

Druggist

formula

the

gives

for

Recamier Cream:

Take

of

Oxide of zinc

oz.

Glycerine

6^

dr.

Water
Spirits of rose (4 drs. to pint)

Triturate together until a

mass

dr.

dr.

perfectly

homogeneous

results.

AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) RECAMIER

MOTH AND FRECKLE

LOTION.

Recamier Moth and Freckle Lotion contains corroalmond paste or emulsion with water.

sive sublimate in

It is sold for $1.50.

ton

It costs, at

most, ten

cents.

Bos-

Journal of Health.

AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) RECAMIER

POWDER.
Recamier Powder contains arrowroot and oxide of
It is put up in a pasteboard box, and is sold for

zinc.

$1.00.

Its

actual

Journal of Health.

cost

is

about five

cents.

Boston


SECRET NOSTRUMS

12

AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) RECAMIER

SOAP.
Recamier Soap

is

an ordinary

usually

sold

sells

for twenty-five cents.

it

fifty cents

fur

ten

cents,

toilet soap,

such as

is

Hubbard A\ar

Harriet

For the same, scented,

asked.

is

" Recamier prepara(?)

which was obtained, according to
the circular which accompanies them, "by Mrs. Ayr
from a French countess, a relative of Madame

These, then, are the famous

tions," the secret of

Recamier

"

preparations,

And what

are they

demned by physicians on account

limate

Cheap, ordinary

known from time immemorial, and con-

a deadly poison

of the corrosive sub-

which most of them contain.

Boston Journal of Health.

AYER'S (MRS. HARRIET HUBBARD) VITA

NUOVA. (New Life.)

"A

and health renewing cordial and

Unsurpassed in excellence as a restorative,
effecting marvelous cures in all cases of menial
exhaustion,
general debility, nervous prostration,
life-giving

tonic.

insomnia,

dyspepsia,

hysteria

in

its

neuralgia and congestive headaches,

positive cure for the

opium and alcohol

half of a claret glassful, or

fuls three times
it

many

etc.,

forms,

etc."

habits.

"

Dose:

about three tablespoon-

a day, with meals.

In addition to this

can be taken as necessity requires after any unusual

AND
labor,

SYSTEMS.

mental or physical."

13

Price, $1.00 a bottle.

In

the circular which

accompanies it
makes the specific statement that, though tasting like
a wine 30 years old, it is positively free from alcohol
or narcotics, and that it is free from " reactionary
" It creates no craving and can be left off at
effects."
any moment without the slightest desire for it."
In the July, 1888, New Idea, we published the
analysis of this nostrum which was made by the
Boston Journal of Health. This analysis made it out
to be simply a port wine, containing between 18 and
addition to

this,

19 per cent, alcohol.

Since then, Dr. R. G. Eccles

published in the Druggists' Circular a lengthy article

on the Hubbard-Ayer preparations, and

particularly to

calls attention

the presence of cocaine in the Vita

Nuova. We have recently examined this preparation

and find it to contain notable quantities of cocaine
easily detected by the organo-leptic test, and also about
19^ per cent., by volume, of alcohol.
When we come to compare our results and those of
also

Eccles with their statement that the preparation

is

from alcohol," that it is "a positive

cure for the opium and alcohol habit," and that it
" creates no craving, can be left off at any moment
without the slightest desire for it," something of the
enormity of their offense becomes apparent.
This
and others of its kind, well knowing that no law can
reach them, continue on their paths of deceit, and
this will continue until the community which has
been so long and so often duped by these disgraceful
" positively free


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5ECR]

NOSTRUMS

quacks, join hands and become united

the effort to

in

secure the enactment of laws which shall regulate and

control the sale and representations of patent med-

The extreme importance

icines.

tning daily of

of such statutes

more and more consequence

public and to pharmacy.

New

is

to the

Idea.

AUGSBURG ESSENCE OF

LIFE.

Take of
Rad. rhei
Myrrhse
Rad. gentians

oz.

oz.

oz.

Croci opt

oz.

Camphor

/z

oz.

Rad. zedoar
Rad. angelica}.
Castor
A loes, Socot

oz.

2%

oz.

Yz

oz.

oz.

Sp. vini. rect

pts.

Aqua:

pts.

Digest

Mix.

Dose:

five

days and

filter.

A teaspoonful twice a day.

Medical
BARNES'S FROST BALSAM.

Take of
Copaiba
Oil

Mix.

turpentine

}{

oz.

J4

<>z.

World.

AND

SYSTEMS.

15

BAREEL'S INDIAN LINIMENT.

Take of
Tr.
Oil
Oil
,-.,
Oil
Oil

capsicum
origanum

dr.

sassafras

u
Vofc each

pennyroyal
t

T/

'z

oz.

qt.

hemlock

Alcohol

New Idea.

BARKER'S BONE AND NERVE LINIMENT.

FOR MAN OR BEAST.
chilblains,

have made an examination of the foregoing

lin-

Cures rheumatism, sprains, bruises,

*

We

etc., etc.

iment and find

it

to

be essentially a liquid petroleum

camphor and
and with smaller quantities of oil of tar
and probably oil of thyme. The bottle is square and
deeply paneled and holds two fluid ounces of a dark
product, containing large quantities of
turpentine,

colored

fluorescent liquid.

The

following formula,

according to H. W. Snow, makes a preparation not to

be easily distinguished from the original

Take

of

Camphor
Oil of tar
Oil of thyme
Oil of turpentine
Franklin oil (black

ing

.*"...

oil,

oil) sufficient to

70

gr.

y2

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

lubricat-

make

...

New

Idea.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

l6

BAUNSCHEIDT'S
This preparation

ment used

sold to

instrument stores

gical

the

Take

accompany the

for counter-irritation.

following formula
tially

is

OIL.

for

may be

same preparation

instru-

It sells in the sur-

per

$1.35

vial.

The

taken as making substanas the Baunscheidt's Oil:

of

Croton oil
Cotton-seed oil
Oil of caraway

oz.

4 oz.
2 minims.

Mix.

BECKER'S EYE SALVE.

Take of
Calamine
Tutty

1%
1%

dr.

Red oxide of mercury

Camphor in powder
Almond oil ....
White wax

dr.

dr.

dr.

dr.

1}^ oz.
8
oz.

Fresh butter

Reduce the mineral substances

powwhich the camphor

has been dissolved with the wax and butter, previously
melted together. Kilner s Modem Pharmacy.
der and incorporate with the

to a very fine

oil, in

BEGGS'S

FEVER AND AGUE

Beggs's Fever and

manent cure
ples," consist,

Ague

Pills, for

PILLS.

radical

and per-

ague upon " purely scientific princiaccording to our examination, as follows:

of

AND
Each

pill

SYSTEMS.

1^

contains one grain of quinia sulphate, one-

half grain cinchonia sulphate, rhubarb

These

flavoring.

little

ounce plain

flint vial

they are uncoated, 32

balance of space

bottle,

one grain, with

are put up in a half-

pills

filled

pills

in

with powdered licorice

title, uses, and directions surand a red lead wrapper, type set,
surrounds the whole. This is an excellent ague cure.

root.

small slip with

rounds the

bottle,

New Idea.

BENSON'S SKIN CURE.

This secret nostrum consists of two preparations,
one for internal use and one for external application.
A Internal. An elongated, round, long neck green

bottle contains scant 2 fluid ounces of a watery, light

brownish yellow liquid of no reaction, of pronounced

and rosemary-like smell, reminding one of

bitter taste

bay rum or of a barber shop.

has pieces floating in
blossoms.

It consists,

it

The

half clear liquid

resembling petals of clover

according to our examination,

of clover blossoms 720 grains, yellow-dock root 90

grains, gentian root 120 grains, boiled (one hour) with

one pint of water. Cool, transfer to a closed vessel,

and add one ounce of alcohol in which has previously
been dissolved oil of rosemary, oil of thyme each one
minim; let it stand over night, strain next morning;

make up

to

one pint with water

B External

Application.

sufficient.

An

elongated, round,

long neck green bottle contains 4 fluid ounces of a

whitish,

permanently acid liquid of slight acid metallic


SECRET NOSTRUMS

15
smell, depositing

when

ish precipitate.

This solution

water 12

fluid

ounces

of benzoin with
to cool

cure

and

dictionaries.

12

settle;

half an

New

is

ounce of tincture

ounces of warm water, allowing

then filter.
It is warranted to
the medical

in

Idea.

BOSCHEE'S

We

The benzoated water

mix.

by agitating

the skin diseases described

all

grains, acetate

grain, acetate of zinc 15 grains, benzoated

readily prepared

it

of gray-

consists, according to

our examination, of acetate of lead

of copper

amount

at rest a small

GERMAN SYRUP.

copy from December World, 1885:

Take of
Oil of tar
Fluid extract ipecac
Fluid extract wild cherry
Tincture of opium
Carbonate of magnesia

Water

W hite sugar

dr.

fl.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

3 dr.
6 fl. oz.

Triturate the magnesia,

10 oz.
first,

with the

oil

of tar;

then with a mixture of the fluid extracts and water;

filter

and form a solution with the sugar, by

agitation,

without heat.

BRANDRETH'S

PILLS.

Dr. D. S. Clark (Ai?ierica?i Druggist) says the

lowing

is

the formula:

fol-

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SYSTEMS.

19

Take of
Extract colocynth

Aloes, Socotrine.

2 dr.

Gamboge

Castile soap
Oil peppermint
Oil cinnamon
Powd. arabic
of each

Mix and make 80

Dose:

scruple
dr.

Yz dr.
2
1

and

drops
drop

alcohol,
sufficient quantity.

pills.

to 3, as directed.

BRINKERHOFF SYSTEM OF TREATING PILES

AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE RECTUM.
There have been so many inquiries

we deem

ing the above treatment that

of late concernit

a duty to

tell

our readers, as nearly as possible, of what the alleged

specific treatment consists.

The

remedy or

kerhoff secret pile

following

is

the Brin-

oz.

injection:

Take of
Carbolic acid
Olive oil
Zinc, chloride

Mix.

Inject into

into the

medium

5 oz.
8 gr.

the

largest

piles,

eight drops;

sized piles, from four to six drops;

from two to three drops; into club

orifice, two drops.
He directs hot sitz baths for cases where violent
pains follow an injection.
He recommends an interval
of from two to four weeks between each injection.
into small piles,

shaped

piles,

near the anal

"

SECRET NOSTRUMS

20

The

following

is

the formula for his " celebrated ulcer

specific:

Take

of

Dist. ext.

hamamelis

5 dr.

Liq. ferri subsulph

Acidi carbolici, cryst

2 gr.

Glycerin

2 dr.

For
Mix.
deep into the

dr.

fistula in ano, inject ten or fifteen

drops

and press the track of the fistula

to force the fluid more deeply in.

fistula

with the finger,

In cases of rectal ulcer he gives the following treat-

To an ounce and a half of water add half a

teaspoonful of the " ulcer specific " and a half teament:

spoonful of starch, and inject into the rectum every

night.
into the

Sometimes he orders an injection of starch

rectum of mornings, after the bowels have

moved.
Brinkerhoff advises his disciples to

let

prolapsus of

the rectum alone and not to bother with

it.
This
embraces the whole of the much advertised treatment,
which he sells for $200.00 and a royalty on every dolAgain, you are compelled
lar that you take in from it.
to buy from him all the remedies that he has recommended. Not one of his followers knows the formula
They don't know
of anything that they are using.
whether it is water or whisky. The package of powder he sells is nothing but starch. The formula of the
" ulcer specific " has already been given.
The syringe
that he and his followers sell to patients for $2.00 or
$2.50 can be had of any good wholesale firm for $8.00

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SYSTEMS.

21

The truth of the whole business is, Brinkup his rectal treatment system for the
purpose of making money out of it, whether it did the
patient any good or not.
I verily believe that there
never was a man, woman, or child who consulted Brinkerhoff or his followers that was free from rectal ulcer,
(They generally show
or what they call rectal ulcer.
the patient's friends the rectal fossa and term it a horper dozen.

got

erhoff

rible eating ulcer, that is daily

vitality,

and which

will

a consumptive's grave.)

tem

is

a fraud and a

destroying the patient's

sooner or later cause him to

In

fact,

fill

the Brinkerhoff sys-

humbug, and can only be classed

with other mysterious and secret remedies that quacks

Any medical man with a little

use and advertise.
judgment can treat hemorrhoids and other rectal diseases much more successfully after reading a first-class
book on the subject, which he can buy for from $i to
$3, than he can by paying Brinkerhoff's agents $200.00
and getting a few obsolete prescriptions and patent
medicines, besides paying a ten per cent, royalty on
every dollar that he takes in from the treatments he
may give. These are the facts in the case.
The Medical Waif.
The " Brinkerhoff System " as applied to fissures of
the anus is this:
Once or twice a month, as the itinerant comes around on his circuit, he inserts his little
speculum, cleans out the ulcer, and applies to it a solu-

tion of nitrate of silver, forty grains to the ounce.

Between the applications the patient uses a morning and

evening treatment himself. Each morning he is to

;e:: :he re::

warm

and

little

ointment,

consisting of three grains of carbolic acid

and eight

water,

finally insert into

it

grains of sulphur to the ounce of vaseline or lard.

For evening treatment he uses Brinkerhoff Ulcer

Remedy [the preparation of extract of hamamelis, sol.
persulph. iron, etc., given above as " Ulcer Specific"]
Add half a teaspoonful of this to the same quantity of
Instarch and about an ounce and a half of water.
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it,

>
trusted with

therefore, sternly prohibits all cutting

>. ur. i fur: -uYr.es

...t:..

::

who cannot be

:u:Y:u euu :e

u:s:rururu:

:.;

u:A.:e

~uu

~h::::

uu

.A

A.

.:

In treating polypus Brinkerhoff directs his itinerants

to tie the pedicle close to the wall of the gut with
i

they leave

:u:

Then,

saddler's silk.

they are to snip

:ue

it

it

the pedicle

if

the knot.

off outside

If

Az

.::

give a gentle cathartic.

::

A.

'.

:-.ys.

long,

short

and

in situ, put the patient to bed,

:~e'.s ::

is

it is

"U:::

consti-

fuv

^re

::

Andrews*s Rectal and Anal

rry.

The
-.:.

claim for this treatment being that

rY'.ess. :ue restiru

invested

is

r.v

I'A.v.A.s

..;.

it

uuu

is

mild

:::..'.

~u:

interesting.

Dr. Layton, of Modoc,

the Medical

111.,

in

One

a communication to

of your readers asked

what was the so-called Brinkerhoff treatment for

piles,

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etc.

being one of his

SYSTEMS.

many

23

victims, having paid for

the privilege of using his very painless treatment, and

using

it

for

some year or more, am prepared

to say

that although I obtained considerable information of

how such

diseases should be treated, yet practically

the Brinkerhoff treatment

is

a fraud; having no special

advantages over any other carbolic acid treatment,

such as has long since been known to the general profession.
As to its being painless, I can say from positive experience that this is far
I

have had several of

my

from being the

case, as

patients hint at a suit for

malpractice on account of such excruciating pain and

soreness; so that

even forgot to ask them for my bill.

as he sees fit to call

The Hemorrhoidal Compound,

is

it,

nothing more than carbolic acid, incorporated

with pure sperm

U.

S.

for

241,288, of

injecting

hamamelis,
is

oil

into

etc.

or glycerine.

May
the

He

As

letters patent of

ioth, 1881, show, his other fluid

rectum consists of

ext.

dist.

has a salve of which carbolic acid

the great desideratum; and added to

all this

are

little

paper bags of starch, holding perhaps an ounce, each

of which he liberally sells for ten cents as an adjuvant
to his other treatment.

Altogether the treatment

abaci one, save the idea of

it

is

not

being painless; and the

pretence that he was the originator of the ground plan

so long known, of treating piles by carbolic acid.

which he scares so many of his

and of which so many are illustrated
the pamphlet sent out by him, it is nothing more

As

to his rectal ulcer,

patients about,
in

than the internal sphincter ani; not but that there

is


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ulceration of the rectum, resulting

many times

in fistu-

lous openings, but they are not of the form represented

pamphlet, nor are they to be found

in his

in

every-

body's rectum, as he would have one believe.

speculum is a good one, but Dr. Rorick's

one made by Aloe & Co., of St. Louis,
Mo., have equally as good merits, and one does not
have to purchase a hundred and fifty dollar territory
His

rectal

patent, also the

in

order to get one.

I

much more

could say

treatment, but

of this so-called Brinkerhoff

think further

comment unnecessary.

BRODIE'S LINIMENT FOR ASTHMA.

Take

of

Oil of stillingia
Oil of cajeput
Oil of lobelia

dr.

2 dr.

Alcohol

dr.

oz.

Bathe the chest and throat three times a day.

Mix.

BRODIE'S LINIMENT.
Take

of

Sulphuric acid
Olive oil

Turpentine

Add

the acid gradually to the

oil,

mortar; afterward add the turpentine.

dr.

oz.

oz.

stirring

in


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25

BROMO-CHLORALTJM.
Kilner gives the following:

Take

of

Alum, coarse powder

lb.

Boiling water

2 pts.

Aqua ammonia

sufficient.

Muriatic acid

sufficient.

Bromine
Water

]/?

oz.

sufficient.

Add 2%

Dissolve the alum in the boiling water.

gallons of cold water and

ammonia

until the

mix

well

then add aqua

odor of the ammonia can be de-

tected in the mixture and a precipitate

is

formed.

Allow it to settle and pour off the supernatant liquid.

Put on fresh water again, stir well, allow to settle and
again pour off. Then place the precipitate upon a
muslin strainer and drain well; put the precipitate into
a closed vessel and carefully add the bromine; finally

add

sufficient muriatic acid, little at

a time, to dissolve

enough water
measure of one-half gallon, and filter.

the precipitate, and then

to complete the

BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.

Said to be like the original formula:

Take of
Powdered ext. of licorice
Powdered sugar
Powdered cubebs
Powdered gum arabic
Ext. conium

1
1

^
%
%
1

lb.

lb.

lb.

lb.

oz.

New Idea.


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BROWN'S CAMPHORATED SAPONACEOUS

DENTINE.
According

H. Gardner's

to L.

made

analysis,

sition

in

our

compo-

laboratory, this preparation has the following

:

Take

of

Calcium carbonate

71 per cent.

2
campho; :.':.".::::::: ;::} 9P ercent

New

Idea.

BROWN'S IRON BITTERS

Are

said to contain in each fluid

dram:

Iron
Calisaya bark

2 gr.

Phosphorus

1-200 gr.

gr.

Coca
Viburnum prunifolium

gr.

gr.

BROWN'S MALE-FERN VERMIFUGE.

Is offered in bottles containing 11

The

preparation.

following

offered as strictly " the

same

manufacture of the secret

sufficiently

near for

Take of

" as that

article,

used

in

the

makes a preparation

ordinary purposes:

male fern
Oil wintergreen

fl.

minim.

Simple syrup

Fl. ext.

Mix.

all

drams of
though not

fluid

formula,

fl.

oz.

oz.

New Idea.


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27

BRUNELLI PROCESS OF EMBALMING.

The

circulatory system

cold water until

This

it

is

cleansed by washing with

issues quite clear

may occupy from two

to

injected so as to take out as

from the body.

Alcohol

five hours.

much water

This occupies about a quarter of an hour.

then injected to abstract the fatty matter.

is

Ether

is

This occu-

two to ten hours. A strong solution of

This occupies for imbibition

pies from

tannin

is

as possible.

then injected.

The body is then

warm air passed over heated
This may occupy from two to

from two to ten hours.

dried in a

current of

chloride of

calcium.

The body

is

five hours.

then perfectly preserved and resists decay.

BRYAN'S PULMONIC WAFERS.

" Warranted to give relief in ten minutes after use,
and cure in a few days all coughs, colds, irritation of
the uvula and tonsils, influenza, bronchitis, asthma,
sore throat, consumption, and all diseases of the lungs
and chest."
This Canadian preparation, which is warranted to
do so much in such a short length of time, was found
to consist wholly of sugar and corn starch.
Our
readers may judge for themselves as to the true effi-

cacy of such a preparation.

New

Idea.

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BUCKLER'S CROUP MIXTURE.

Take of
Tartar emetic

2 gr.

Pulv. ipecac
Syrup of squills

Mix.

40

gr.

fl.

oz.

Dose: teaspoonful every ten minutes until

emesis occurs.

BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

Take

of

Extract arnica
Resin cerate
Vaseline

8 oz.

Raisins, seedless.

8 oz.

2 oz.

Fine cut tobacco

Water
Boil the raisins

and tobacco
is

in

one pint of water

extracted; express the liquid and

evaporate to four ounces.

little

y? oz.
sufficient.

until the strength

with a

oz.

Soften the extract of arnica

hot water and mix the liquid with

this to the resin cerate

and mix thoroughly.

it; add
and vaseline previously warmed
Kilners Modem Pharmacy.

BULL'S BLOOD SYRUP.

Take of
Iodide of potash
iodide of mercury

2 gr.

Tinct. of poke root

3 dr.

Comp. syrup

6 oz.

of stillingia

Simple syrup, to make

Mix.

12 dr.

Red

pt.

National Druggist.

AND

SYSTEMS.

29

BULL'S COUGH SYRUP.

We

purchased one of the smaller sized bottles and

submitted
" four

it

to examination.

ounce,''

The

bottle, a so-called

was deeply paneled, and contained

three fluid ounces of a syrupy, reddish-brown liquid.

Its

composition

is

exceedingly simple, and we were

unable to find anything except morphia sulphate with

sugar-house syrup as a vehicle.

was present

in quantities of

The morphia

grain to a grain per bottle of three ounces.

worthy of note that

it

sulphate

about three-fourths of a
It is also

contains a caution label which

reads:

"Medicine should never be kept within

the reach

of

chil-

pay strict attention to the

directions for taking Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup."
We have no reason to believe that it contains anything else of medicinal consequence than the morphia
and sugar- house syrup. New Idea.
dren.

It

is

highly important

to

CALDER'S SAPONACEOUS DENTINE.

L.

H. Gardner, who made an analysis of

paration in our laboratory, states

Take

it

this pre-

to be:

of

Calcium carbonate
Soap (by difference)

Perfumed with

oil

56 per cent.
44 per cent.

of wintergreen.

New Idea.


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30

CALIFORNIA LINIMENT
Take of
Tinct. myrrh
Tinct. capsicum

Sweet

spirits nitre

Sulph. ether

oz.
oz.

y2

oz.

Tinct. arnica
Oil spearmint
Oil wintergreen
Oil lobelia

Aqua ammonia

oz.
oz.

<

Chloroform

oz.

dr.

dr.

dr.

oz.

qt.

Alcohol

Mix.

tlner.

CANCER PASTES AND PLASTERS.

CANCER PASTE.
Take of
Chloride of zinc, pulverized bloodroot,
parts of each,

and
I

it is

equal

flour,

and moisten with aromatic sulph.

acid,

sure.

use another which will remove lupoids nicely; but,

notwithstanding

it

than the former.

is

then place the yolk

it all

ough

simple,

in

of his boots.
success.

This
I

is

much more

is

mortar,

can; grind

it

stir

man

out

use these frequently and always with

Remember,

it

is

not
I

am

"

what we

sure

all

like,

D., in Chicago Med. Times.

but

doctors can

use these just as well as the cancer doctor.

M.

into

to a thor-

guaranteed to draw the

when, where, and how," and

Brewer,

severe

the white of an egg

common

the chloride of sodium

paste.

it

drain off

F. B.

AND

SYSTEMS.

CANCER PASTE.

The

number of your journal contained an

how the paste to cure cancer is made. I
will tell you how I have made it for the last twentyTake equal parts (by weight) of chloride
three years.
last

inquiry as to

and wheat flour; mix

form a paste; spread the
paste, just the size of the sore, on a rag and apply.
Put olive oil around the ulcer before applying,
Leave the
in order to protect the sound tissue.
Then
paste on as long as the patient can bear it.
remove and if convenient apply a mild poultice or
In six or eight days the cancer will come out;
salve.
if it leaves a smooth and healthy surface, all is well;
of zinc, pulverized bloodroot,

add enough water

well,

to

if

not, repeat the application until

is

removed.

diseased tissue

all

This has never failed me, but remember that

so-called cancers are not cancers at

some
will

all;

are so malignant that this paste

not cure,

but

all

the

cases

twenty-three years were healed.

One

and

all

have
that

many

then again,

others

had for
have on

hand now, on the lower lip of a man thirty-four years

old, is stubborn, but I hope it will finally yield.
I will be pleased to furnish any further information
in my power.
Jer. Hess, M. D. hi Med. World.
y

CANCER PASTE.
Take of
Arsenic,
Sulphur,
Zinc sulphate, and

Rochelle

salts.


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32

Of each equal

add yolk

parts;

of

one egg,

till

of

the consistence of paste; bake with slow heat until

dry,

and then

pulverize.

When

desired for use

again with egg, and apply as paste or on cloth.

and Surg.

mix

Med.

Reporter.

ANOTHER.

Take

of

Solid extract of poke root,

Solid extract of mandrake,
Solid extract of bloodroot,

Chromic

acid,

Chlor. carbon.
(Quantities are not given.)

ANOTHER.

Take of
Chloride
Chloride
Chloride
Chloride

Mix

zinc,

of bromine,
gold,

antimony.

into a paste with flour.

given). T.

S. Pyle,

M.

(Quantities are not

D., in Med. World.

ANOTHER.

Take of
Zinc chlor.
^
Aluminis pulv.
Acid tannici

of each

gr.

gr.

Ferri persulphatis
3 gr.
Glycerine, sufficient quantity for paste.

Mix.

Apply as paste or

plaster.

W. N. Sherman, M. D.,

in

Med. World.


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33

ANOTHER.
Dr.

J.

B.

Goodwin, of Stockton, Tenn., sends the

came from a quack:

following, which he thinks

Take of
Chloride of zinc,
Pulverized bloodroot,
Of each equal parts.
Flour.

Mix and make

apply

the paste on

a cloth and

Med. World.

it.

DR. FELL'S

Take

Encircle the cancer with

paste.

adhesive plaster, spread

CANCER SALVE.

of

Zinci chloridi
Pulv. sanguinaria rad

8 gr.
6 gr.
8 gr.

Amyli

Apply on piece of kid or

Mix.

leather.

heber's cancer paste.

Take

of

White arsenic

dr.

Gum

oz.

Cinnabar

oz.

Hydrastis Canadensis

Make

kino

the above

ingredients

into

simple ointment composed of white

Apply a thinly spread layer

for

twenty-four

hours, or

dr.

paste

wax and

is

large or

application

should

oil.

to the cancerous surface

it

may be rubbed on an

eruptive surface once in twenty-four hours.

cancer

with

olive

If the

covers considerable surface,

the

be premised by preparing the

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34

system by giving the hydrated sesqui-oxide of iron

full

in

doses for a few days, to counteract the effect of

the arsenic upon the system.

FORMULA OF
Take

We

The House

Live In.

DR. LANDOLFI, OF NAPLES.

of

Zinci chloridi

Auri chloridi
Antimonii chloridi
Brominii chloridi
FlOUr,

Water

dr.

dr.

dr.

dr.
rr

sufficient

form thick paste.

Spread on

to

and apply to

linen,

ulcerated surface.

CANCER PASTE OF ITINERANTS.

Take of
Zinci chloridi

Flour

3 dr.
sufficient

Aqua
Make into

dr.

paste.

LOMBARD'S SECRET CANCER REMEDIES.

Dr.

J.

L.

Horr says

in

Boston Medical and Surgical

Journal:

Having, without

solicitation

the knowledge

possessed of
dies "

employed by the
the famous " cancer doctor
privilege, as a

has only for

member

its

edge and the

on
of

my

part,

Doctor
of Maine, I

late
"

become

the " secret

reme-

Lombard,
feel

it

my

of a scientific profession that

object the

advancement of knowl-

relief of suffering, to

make

a simple

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SYSTEMS.

35

statement of the remedies and methods which were

employed in the so-called " treatment of cancer."

The remedy employed, if the cancer was small, was
the inspissated juice of leaves of the Phytolacca decan-

dra (garget) which was applied

plaster until sloughing took

in

place.

ment was some simple dressing

the form of

The

like simple cerate.

the tumor had attained considerable

size,

after treats

Dr.

If

Lom-

first used a paste composed of chloride of zinc

and pulverized sanguinaria until an eschar was produced, and then the same plaster as before was
The knowlapplied until the mass sloughed away.
edge of these remedies was given to me by Dr. Lombard himself, while I was attending him during his
last illness and a few days before his death.

bard

CARBOLATE OF IODINE INHALANT.

The

following

is

said to be similar to Cutler's.

Take of

Compound

tincture of iodine.

Carbolic acid, No.

Glycerine

180 minims
48 minims

Water

Mix and expose

entirely colorless.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

to the sunlight until the mixture

is

Nat. Druggist.

CARBOLIC SMOKE BALLS.

One

of the latest introductions for the purpose of

banishing catarrh, neuralgia, headache, deafness, hay

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36

fever, asthma, croup,

whooping cough;

also cures

(?)

granulated eyelids and sore eyes.

Directions. Hold the ball about one-eighth inch

below the silk floss, with the thumb and forefinger of
the left hand, about one and one half inches below
the nose, and directly in front of the mouth.
Snap
rapidly on side of the ball, but only on the place softened and marked, during each inhalation, with the
middle finger of right hand, which will cause the

smoke to arise.
As found it consists of a
in

round

small,

ball,

wrapped

red cloth, with the ends hanging slightly loose.

Upon

it was found to contain 310 grains of

powder, which upon snuffing up the nose

opening,

a gray

caused violent sneezing, and there is an odor of smoke

due to a tarry body. Upon an examination, made in
our laboratory by H. W. Snow,
sist of

ical

was found

it

to con-

glycyrrhiza and flour (identified by microscop-

examination and physical properties) and one of

the veratrums, probably white hellebore (identified by

means
and

of the alkaloid jervine, which

identified).

The smoky body

not easy to say just which.

white hellebore which

it

yield a temporary relief;

believe

it

can afford.

No

It

is

is

was separated

some

tar product,

this latter

contains that

permanent

relief

and the

cause

it

to

we do not

quantitative estimates were

attempted.

This cure costs the consumer $2.50 per ball. Money

made on the material at 10c. a pound, enough

could be

for 19 balls with a little to waste; or prepared in the

AND
form of a

ball as

it is

profit at 5c. a ball.

SYSTEMS.

sold,

New

it

37

would yield a handsome

Idea.

CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS.

" For headache, torpid liver, constipation, and the
complexion take one pill every night. As a purgative

take 4 to 8."

Weight
ably

to

of 12 pills about

2%

grains

7^

grains; of which prob-

They contain
made into a pill and coated
above we deduce the following

is

sugar coating.

podophyllin and aloes

with sugar.

On

the

formula as closely resembling the original:

Take

of

Podophyllin
Aloes (Socotrine)

1^

gr.

3^

gr.

Mucilage of acacia

sufficient.

Mix; divide into 12

pills

and coat with sugar.

New Idea.

CASTORIA.

The
cist^ is

following formula, from the Indiana Pharma-

given as approximating this preparation:

Take of
Senna

4 dr.

Manna

oz.

oz.

dr.

Rochelle salts
Fennel, bruised
Boiling water

Sugar

8 fl. oz.
8 oz.

Oil of wintergreen

sufficient.


SECRET NOSTRUMS

38

Pour the water on the ingredients. Cover and

macerate until cool; strain and add the sugar, dissolve
by agitation and add oil of wintergreen to flavor.

CATANI'S SPECIFIC.
Catani's specific for uric acid

is

Carbonate of lithium
Carbonate of sodium
Citrate of potassium
All in

a mixture of
part.

2 parts.

4 parts.

Pharm. Post.

powdered form.

CAZEAUX'S NIPPLE OINTMENT.

Take of
White wax
Oil sweet almonds
Clarified honey
Balsam Peru

/2

oz.

oz.

/2
l

oz.

2^

dr.

Kilner.

Mix.

MADAME

RTJPPEBT'S FACE BLEACH.

Recent analysis assigns the following composition

vaunted cosmetic

to this highly

Take of
Corrosive sublimate
Tincture of benzoin

Water
Mix.

gr.

7 gr.

500

gr.

Western Druggist.

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39

CENTAUR LINIMENT.
This widely advertised nostrum comes in two forms,
Beast," and is put up in each
Examination shows both varieties
case in two sizes.
to be soap emulsions of essential oils with aromatic

"For Man" and "For

masking.

oils for

FOR MAN.
This

is

in a

creamy white condition, with an odor

strong of pennyroyal and with smaller amounts of

oil

and fixed alkali. The bottle holds

ounces of liniment which is claimed to re-

of thyme, soap,

three fluid
lieve

rheumatism,

neuralgia,

burns,

sprains,

stiff

joints, bites, stings, bruises, swellings, chilblains, lock-

jaw, earache, toothache, etc.

The

following

may be

taken as being very close to the original.

Take of

y2
%
%

Oil pennyroyal
Oil thyme
Oil turpentine

Soap

oz.
oz.

130 gr.

Caustic soda

Water

oz.

to

10 gr.

make

pt.

FOR BEAST.
This bottle holds the same amount of liniment as
man. The article is, however, thinner and
darker colored as well as different in odor. It is

that for

claimed to have curative effects over spavin, ringbone,

wind-galls,

big-head,

sweeney,

scratches,

poll-evil,

SECRET NOSTRUMS

40

wounds and sundry other

sprains, spring-halt, bruises,

local ailments of animals.

The

may be taken as

following

representing

its

com-

position in essential respects.

Take of
Oil spearmint
Oil mustard
Oil turpentine
Oil amber (crude)

Y?,

Black

oil

Soap

Method

to

oz.

make

of preparing

oz.
oz.

pt.

that of an ordinary soap

is

The soap should be

emulsion.

minims

130 gr.
10 gr.

Caustic soda

Water

dr.

15

placed, together with

the alkali, in a flask and then dissolved in two ounces

of hot water;
ties at

add the mixed

oils in

very small quanti-

When

a time with vigorous shaking.

the mix-

ture has once assumed a creamy consistency the oils

may be added more

rapidly, but in

any case reason-

able care should be observed, and this

ing

more

water, which should be quite

full pint is
it is

oil

made.

If the oils

true in add-

is

warm

until the

do not emulsify

readily,

necessary to begin over again, as either too

was added

enough.

Strict

at

first

or the water was not

attention

must be paid

much
warm

to both of

these considerations in order to secure success.

New Idea.

AND

SYSTEMS.

CHAMBERLAIN'S COLIC, CHOLERA, AND DIARRHOEA REMEDY.

Take of
Tinct. capsicum.
Tinct. camphor
Tinct. guaicum

20

fl.

dr.

16

fl.

dr.

12

fl.

dr.

Med.

Mix.

CHAMBERLAIN'S RELIEF
Take

J.

(J.

World.

Pierson, Ph. G.)

of

Tinct. capsicum (about)

"
Spts. camphor
Tinct. guaiac
tinct. to

Color

%
%

"

make

oz.

oz.
oz.

oz.

The Drug Mill.

Mix.

CHLORALTJM.

formula for chloralum which we have states

it

to be:

Take of

Aluminum

chloride

Sulphate of lime. ......

20 oz.
y$ oz. per. gal.

New

Idea.

CLARK'S BLOOD MIXTURE.

Take of
Iodide of potassium
Chloric ether
Liquor potash

Water
Caramel

64

7^
to color.

gr.

4 dr.
30 drops.
fl.

oz.

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The

chloric ether

is

made by

by weight of chloroform

in

dissolving one part

nineteen parts by volume

of alcohol.

CHLORODYNE.
There

no preparation

is

prescribed

to

or that has such a variety of

extent,

chlorodyne

or

chloranodyne.

Every

druggist

acquainted with Brown's, the original.

edly owing to the value of

such

an

formulas, as

It is

is

undoubt-

the preparation that so

many analyses have been made, and consequently so

many formulas exist, not in the number of articles,
but

the quantities used.

in

There

is

no doubt that

the original contains morphia, hydrocyanic acid, pep-

permint, chloroform, and capsicum,

the

above;

others contain

undoubtedly

is

indica

proved; the original also contains

lowing

is

fully as

valuable addition,

contains cannabis

original

combined with

have seen contain

cannabis indica, which

All the formulas that

molasses.

but

has

that

licorice.

The

a mixture resembling Brown's, and

good:

Tinct. capsici

Mix.

dr.

gr.

dr.

4 drops.
1

dr.

dr.

Molasses

10 dr.

Ext. licorice

15 gr.

fol-

think

Take of
Chloroform
Morphia
Ether
Oil peppermint
Dil. hydrocyanic acid

the

never been


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The

following

is

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43

a mixture put up by a manufactur-

ing firm:

Take of
Sulph. morphia

24 gr.

Tinct. cannabis indica

6 dr.
6 drops.
12 drops.
12 drops.
72 drops.

Chloroform
Tinct. capsici
Oil peppermint
Dil. hydrocyanic acid
Alcohol
Glycerine

31

oz.

3j oz.

Mix.

There

is

no doubt as

to the superiority of the lat-

The former conwhich was an article much used when

the preparation was first introduced, but which modern

ter preparation in its appearance.

tains molasses,

As

pharmacy has

entirely discarded.

ness, there is

probably not much difference, for the

amount

to the effective-

of morphia, the principal ingredient,

the same.

is

The former might be used where

about

chloro-

dyne has been prescribed, and the latter where chloranodyne is specified. Fred. Rohnert, in American
Pharmacist.

CHLORODYNE.
The

following formula, by Maltbie, yields probably

the best substitute for the British nostrum:

Take of
Morphine hydrochlor. (mur.)
Alcohol
Tinct. cannabis ind

32 gr.
3

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

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Tinct. capsicum
Oil peppermint

Chloroform
Acid hydrocyanic

30 minims.
12 minims.
dil

Glycerin sufficient to make.

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Dissolve the morphine in the alcohol, add the tinctures and the other ingredients in the order named.

CLEARY'S ASTHMA POWDER

Is stated

to be

made according

to the following

formula:

Take of
Pulv. stramonium leaves
Pulv. belladonna leaves
Pulv. saltpetre
Pulv. opium

30 parts.
30 parts.
5

parts.

parts.

Mix.

little

to be

burned and fumes inhaled.

Chemist and Druggist.

COALINE HEADACHE POWDERS.

"We
ache,

guarantee these powders to cure sick headand headache arising from nervousness, neural-

gia, fatigue,
etc.

trial

exposure to the sun, alcoholic excesses,

will

convince you.

Price,

25c.

The

Coaline Co., Syracuse, N. Y."

is guaranteed
not to contain "opium,
morphine, or other narcotics; consequently

Coaline
chloral,

they are perfectly harmless and leave no after effects

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45

Examination shows that the proprietors

have taken advantage of the

whatever."

preparation

of this

newly discovered value of antipyrine

come

in

the control of

The powders, which

migraine and sick headaches.

three in a box, retailing at 25c, contain anti-

pyrine and sugar.

The amount

of

antipyrine was

we
we would,

not determined nor the weight of the powders, as

only received one from our correspondent;

however, suggest antipyrine, 3 grains, cane sugar in

powdered form, 15 grains, to each powder. One

powder

to

be dissolved

in a

teaspoonful of water and

taken as a dose, to be repeated

hour

necessary.

if

New

in

three-quarters of an

Idea.

COBB'S PILLS.

The

following

Take

Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract

Mix.

is

said to be the composition:

of

Divide into thirty

COE'S

of hyoscyamus
of conium
of colocynth
of nux vomica

dr.

Yz

dr.

11

gr.

4 gr.

pills.

DYSPEPSIA CURE

(Nelson),

Take of

Mix.
meals.

Powdered rhubarb

Fluid ext. of gentian

Peppermint water
Bicarbonate of sodium

3 dr.

Dose:

dr.

7/^ oz.
6 dr.

teaspoonful half an hour before

The Drug

Mill.

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COMBE'S APERIENT.
Take

of

Sulphate of magnes
Roasted coffee
Boiling water
Mix.

35 parts.

40 parts.
500 parts.

Boil for two minutes, sweeten to taste with

white sugar.

Dose:

One wine-glassful

Take

of

in

the morning.

COMEDONE LOTION.
Sulphuric ether

oz.

Carbonate ammonia

dr.

Boracic acid

Water

to

20 gr.

make

16 dr.

Mix, and apply twice a day.

The ammonia carbonate forms a soap with the

The boracic acid acts as an antiseptic and
grease.
the ether as a solvent.

An

Anakctic.

excellent preparation for u black heads,"

ples," " greasy skin," etc.

<k

pim-

Compiler.

COOK'S ELECTRO-MAGNETIC LINIMENT.

Take of
Alcohol

amber
Gum camphor
Oil

Castile soap (fine)

Beef's gall

Aqua ammonia
Mix.

gal.

8 oz.
8 oz.
2

oz.

4 oz.
12 oz.

Kilner.

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47

CORRASSA COMPOUND.
Recipe for the permanent cure of spermatorrhoea,
seminal weakness, involuntary

emissions, impotence,

etc.:

Take of
Extract of corrassa apimis
Extract of salarmo umbellifera
Powdered alkermes latifolia
Extract of carsadoc herbalis. ...
.

Mix
in

8 dr.

4 dr.
3 dr.
6 dr.

well together in a mortar, then put the mixture

a box and keep

it

covered, or wrap

it

in

paper and

For a dose, take

about half a tea-spoonful of the mixture, and moisten
it with a little cold water in a glass or cup, then add
about two table-spoonfuls more of cold water, or just

cover with tinfoil to exclude the air.

enough

to

enable you to take

it

down

easily.

Take

the medicine at night before going to bed, and in the

morning before eating. If you wish to sweeten it you

may add as much sugar or syrup to each dose as may
suit

your

taste.

REMARKS.

The above named

herbs,

so remarkable for their

healing qualities, are found in the great valley of the

Amazon and through most

of the valleys of the South

American mountains. Their wonderful medicinal properties are known to the Indian medicine men, and also
to some of the learned missionaries from Europe, who
reside in South America.

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This particular combination of remedies

Corrassa Compound, taking
the four medicines which
is

ready for

its

name from

is

called the

the

first

compose the recipe when

of
it

use.

The Corrassa Compound

membranes which

on the
and genital organs,

acts particularly

line the urinary

allaying irritation, curing the unhealthy discharges,

and imparting a healthy tone to the nerves and tissues

which compose these parts. Its tonic properties give
strength to the weak and incompetent, while its soothing properties keep down over-excitement of the sexIn gonorrhoea or gleet this medicine
ual organs.
cures almost like magic.

who

It

is

also highly beneficial

from leucorrhoea or whites.

This remedy from South America (the land of med-

for females

suffer

icines), is entirely a

No

product of the vegetable world.

deleterious ingredients enter into

its

composition;

no injury to the constitution can possibly occur from

its use, and no other remedy will so effectually eradicate mercury and other mineral poisons from the body.
On the human system it acts like a charm. It improves
the

digestion, purifies the blood, gives

tone to the

nerves, prevents the tendency to consumption, imparts

and gives to the countenance an animated and brilliant expression. The

good effects of this medicine in my own case you will
find related in the following circular, which you will
(Extract from accompanying circular.)
please read.
Following this, the Rev. Jos. T. Inman tells a plaintive story; how he suffered from the effects of his

to the skin a fresh bloom,


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youthful indiscretions;

SYSTEMS.

how he

49

tried all the best phy-

America and Europe; how at last his friends

managed to transport him in the good ship Reindeer,
sicians in

R.

I.

Marsh, captain, to Para, South America, to spend

his last hours as a missionary

among

the heathen.

While there he devoted his " spare time to the study

of medicinal plants," and while doing so, " first learned
the virtues of theCorrassa Compound," and also made
the acquaintance of a " learned and venerable physician named Fernandez Colina, a native of Spain, who
had studied in Paris, and had traveled extensively
through South America." New Idea.
All of this is intended to frighten and obtain
money from the hoped-for victim. No such drugs
as are given above being in existence, the dupe is
expected to purchase them at an exorbitant price
from the " Reverend " Inman.
This wonderful (?) preparation having been analyzed
by Dr. A. B. Lyons, of Detroit, was found to consist
of:

Gentian

15 per cent.
15 per cent.

Licorice root

Sugar

Sodium bicarb
Cochineal

50 per cent.
17^2 per cent.
2^ per cent.

All in fine powder.

COMPOUND OXYGEN.
We

take the following formulae for compound oxy-

gen from the Druggists' Circular:

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" Compound Oxygen.

Keep dark." A coloraqueous solution of nitrate of ammonia and
nitrate of lead, the two salts being in nearly equal
proportions, and together forming about three per
i.

less

cent, of the solution.

"

2.

One

Oxygen Aquae,

of the grades of

for

Keep

digestion.

Compound Oxygen,

cool."

a colorless,

odorless and tasteless liquid, found to be water of a

commendable

degree

sophistications;

of

is

free

from

original

Com-

quite

purity,

probably this

the

pound Oxygen.

"Compound Oxygen." Dr. Green's, 1880. An

3.
aqueous solution of nitrate of ammonium with a very
little
4.

nitrate of lead.
"

Compound Oxygen." A

white crystalline solid,

obtained for analysis about five years ago, and then

found to be nitrate of ammonia alone.

"

Contains

all

the vitalizing elements of the atmosphere, but com-

bined
5.

in a different

"

way."

Compound Oxygen."

colored,

fragrant

liquid,

Sent out from Boston.

consisting

of

alcohol,

chloroform, and balsam of tolu.

6.

"Compound Oxygen."

tains alcohol,

Dr.

Conbalsam of

O'Leary.

chloroform, bitter almond,

and red coloring matter.

first two samples (emanating, we think, from
Drs. Starkey and Palen, of Philadelphia) were sent to
Prof. Prescott for analysis, by the editor of Good
"It should be
Health, who remarked as follows:
remembered that this solution is to be used by inhalatolu,

The

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tion,

SYSTEMS.

a tea-spoonful being added to a small quantity of

warm

water, through which air

the solution
solution

is

is

drawn by means of

Neither of the substances contained in

a glass tube.
is

volatile at the

used, so that

temperature at which the

it is

impossible for any medi-

whatever to be imparted by this boasted

remedy, except what comes from the warm water,
which is itself very healing when used in this way, as
we have demonstrated in hundreds of cases. Prof.
cinal property

Prescott also tested the vapor given off from the pure
solution

when

it

was

boiled, but

found nothing more

than the vapor of water."

The " Compound Oxygen" is usually accompanied

by what the manufacturers are pleased to call " Oxygen Aquae," which they recommend their patients to
The analysis of this
take as an aid to digestion.
showed it to contain nothing but water. The most
careful tests revealed nothing else.

COSMETICS OF THE MARKET.

In a paper by Dr. James P. Tuttle (Medica/ Record),
9

the popular opinion that cosmetics,

if free from lead,

demonstrated to be fallacious.
analysis of the most largely sold of these com-

are not injurious,

An

is

pounds reveals the following:

POWDERS.
Named

Pearl White

Main Constituents.
Subnitrate bismuth.

Flake White
Saunders' Face Powder

Carbonate lead.
Oxide of zinc.

Preparation.

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Complexion Powder
Riker's Face Powder

Bismuth subcarbon.
Calcium and zinc
carbonate.

LOTIONS.

Cream

Kalydor

Corrosive sublimate.
Corrosive sublimate

Milk of Roses

Corrosive sublimate,

Circassian

and potash.
rose-water, and
of almond.

oil

ENAMELS.
Laird's

Bloom

of

Youth

Oxide zinc and

cal-

cium.

Oxide zinc and

French's Grease Paint

cal-

cium.

Gouraud's Oriental Cream

Hagan's Magnolia Balm
Bradford's Enameline
Eugenie's Favorite

Snow White Enamel

Snow White Oriental Cream
It will

Calomel and water.

Oxide zinc.
Oxide zinc.
Carbonate lead.
Carbonate lead.
Carbonate lead.

thus be seen that mercury enters largely into

the composition of the lotions and enamels as well as

The similar behavior of lead, mercury, zinc, and

zinc.
bismuth with the alkali metals found in the blood
would in the beginning suggest an analogy in their
physiological effects.

The

acute toxic effects of these

and zinc, and possibly

muth, may produce the same general effects.
drugs are no

less similar,

bis-

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53

CRAM'S FLUID LIGHTNING.

Mr.

I.

Fulton {Western

L.

Druggist)

gives the

following formula which was represented to him as

being the original from which Cram's Fluid Lightning

is

prepared:

Take of
Oil mustard
Oil cajeput
Oil cloves
Sassafras

Ether
Tinct.

....

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr
oz.

fl.

fl.

oz.

20

fl.

oz.

Alcohol ....

Mix and

fl.

1^

opium

filter.

CUTICURA OINTMENT.
The much

" Cuticura

Ointment" has
been found to consist of a base of petroleum jelly,
colored green, perfumed with oil of bergamot and
containing two per cent, of carbolic acid.
advertised

Northwestern Lancet.

CUTICURA RESOLVENT.
This preparation

is

said to be:

Take of
Aloes, Socot

dr.

Rhubarb powd

dr.

Iodide potass

36 gr.

Whisky
Macerate over night and

pt.

filter.

St.

Louis Druggist.

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DAY'S KIDNEY PAD.

Take of
Black cohosh
Powd. gum benzoin

Powd.

ioz.

gum guaicum

Juniper berries
of the meadow
Digitalis leaves
Oil of juniper

Queen

oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

2 oz.

1%

oz.

Grind the drugs to a moderately fine powder and

mix with the oils and gums. Make an oblong pad
Said to be useful in kidto wear over the kidneys.
ney complaints.
Kilner's Modern Pharmacy,

DELLENBAUGH'S COUGH CURE.

Take of

ammon

Picrate of

2 gr.

Chloride of ammon
Extract of licorice

dr.

dr.

Water

fl.

Mix and form

Dose:

One

oz.

a solution.

fluid

ounce every three hours.

DERBY LINIMENT.
Take of
Linseed

Mix.

oil

gal.

Aqua ammonia

4 oz.

Tinct. capsicum
Oil origanum

oz.
oz.

Kilner,

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DESHLER'S SALVE.
Take of
Resin
Suet
Yellow wax
Turpentine
Linseed oil

2 oz.

12 oz.
12 oz.
6 oz.
7 oz.

Mix.

OCTJLINE,
This

is

OR "THE BRILLIANT EYE."

New York firm.

a collyrium advertised by a

guaranteed to cure every description of eye

and to impart a beautiful and lasting brilliancy to the organ of vision.
Examined by Dr. Fr. Hoffman, it has been found
It is

disease,

to consist of water containing

per cent, of boric

acid and 5 per cent, of glycerin.

Pharm. Rundschau.

DOW'S WHITE LIQUID PHYSIO.

Take of
Sodium sulphate

8 oz.

Dissolve in water
24 oz.
Then add nitro-muriatic acid ... 2 fl. oz.
68 gr.
Powdered alum

Mix.

The dose

is

a table-spoonful in water.

cooling purgative.

ECLECTIC STILLINGIA LINIMENT FOR CROUP.

Take of
Oil stillingia
Oil cajeput

8 dr.

dr.


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Oil lobelia

Alcohol
Mix.
in

dr.

16 dr.

In addition

it

is

sometimes given internally

one drop doses.

EGYPTIAN EYE SALVE

Is said to

Take

be similar to the following:

of

While

rosin
pitch

6 dr.

Burgundy

30 gr.
30 gr.
30 gr.
30 gr.
30 gr.

Beeswax.

Mutton tallow
Venice turpentine.
Balsam fir

Spread on thin leather or cloth and apply to affected

part.

ELEPIZONE.
Below we give a formula which, according to an
made by our chemist, fairly represents this
"Wonderful Curative Agent." They say that " Our
purpose will be served if we can be the means of rescuing the unwary and unfortunate from the unprinci/. and vendors
pled hands of quacks, charla
of poisonous patent ;.
which ruin thousands
annually and which makes it the duty of some
analysis

educated person to check their wholesale slaughter."

This "Wonderful Curative
sumer only S4.00 per pint:

Agent"

costs the

con-

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57

Take of
Magnesii bromidi
Sodii bromidi

Aquae

01. cassiae

3 dr.
3 dr.
Yz oz.
2

make

Syr. simplex sufficient to

Ammonical

carmine to

sol.

color.

minims.

4 oz.

New Idea.

ELIXIR IODO-BROMIDE OF CALCIUM

POUND.
The

following

is

COM-

believed to be similar to the elixir

iodo-bromide of calcium compound:

Take of
Bromide of calcium
Iodide of sodium

256
256
256
256

Iodide of potassium
Chloride of magnesium

Comp.
Comp.

fl.
fl.

ext. of sarsaparilla.

ext. of stillingia

Elixir of orange

Sugar
Water

to

gr.
gr.

gr.
gr.

ft.

oz.

fl.

oz.

4 fl. oz.
4 troy oz.

make

16

fl.

oz.

Dissolve the salts in the water, add the sugar and

to this syrup

add the

fluid extracts, previously

with the elixir of orange.

filter,

mixed

After standing two days,

adding water to make the measure sixteen

fluid

ounces.

ELIXIR PINUS COMP.

It is

of

evident that this elixir

White Pine Comp.

is

modeled on the Syrup

(White Pine Expectorant),

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introduced some years ago by Mr. C.

On

Hallberg.

S.

the basis of the claimed formula of the elixir

would

we

offer the following formula:

Take

of

white pine bark

6 fl. dr.
balm gilead buds ....
5 fl. dr.
5 fl. dr.
Fl. ext. spikenard
Fl. ext. wild cherry
4)4 fl. dr.
Fl. ext. ipecac
40 minims.
Sanguinaria nitrate
2 gr.
Chloroform
64 minims.
Fl. ext.

Fl. ext.

"

Morphia acetate

Ammonium

8 gr.

chloride

orange (1 in 8)
Spirits of coriander (1 in 8) ...
Spirits of anise
Spirit of

64 gr.
30 minims.
10 minims.
10 minims.

Alcohol
Simple syrup

Water
This

elixir

days before

to

make

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

pt.

should be allowed to stand four or

filtering.

New

five

Idea.

ELIXIR THION COMPOUND.

Take of
Powdered rhubarb
Powdered golden seal
Sodium hypophosphite
Sodium sulpho-carbolate
Alcohol

Water

oz.

oz.

100 gr.
40 gr.
5

pts.

40

pts.

Dissolve the salts in the water and alcohol and with

this

menstruum percolate the powdered rhubarb and

golden

seal.

Flavor with peppermint.

Indiana

Med. Journal.


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ELLIMAN'S ROYAL EMBROCATION.

This

is

another of the soap emulsions of essential

and does not differ very materially from the Centaur Liniment sold in this country, though it is probaAt any rate, it is more
bly a better preparation.
pleasing to the senses of sight and smell.
The bottle is union oval in shape and contains a
short pint of a creamy white, thick fluid, containing
soap, fixed alkali, and essential oils with turpentine
oils,

predominating.

The

following formula gives a close

duplicate to the proprietary article:

Take of

y2

Oil turpentine
Oil thyme
Oil amber, crude

Soap

Caustic soda

Water

To be

in

ELY'S
is

gr.

10 gr.

Mustang Liniment.

This

30

sufficient

prepared

oz.

Yi oz.
}& oz.

the same

New

manner

as

pt.

Mexican

Idea.

CREAM BALM.

a proprietary article, largely advertised in

the eastern states, and meets with rapid sales and

is

used for catarrh.

The

directions are to dip the

balm and
inhalations.

insert

up the

nostrils,

It is as follows:

little

finger into the

giving two or three

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Take of
Vaseline

oz.

Thymol
Carb. bismuth
Oil wintergreen

3 gr.
15 gr.
2

minims.

Kihier's Modern Pharmacy.

"FRUIT SALT, FRUIT
FRUIT POWDER."

ENO'S
"

SALINE

OR

household remedy for preventing and curing by

means

natural

functional

all

derangements of

the

liver."

"A

refreshing

and

invigorating

beverage,

most

invaluable to travelers, emigrants, sailors, residents in

tropical

climates,

anyone

exposed

E. Eno,

Pomeroy

or

to

sudden

changes."

Prepared only by

J.

street,

New

Cross Road, London, England.

This preparation does not differ materially from that

& Co., but contains no magnesia sulphate.
The following formula practically duplicates the pre-

of Tarrant

paration:

Take of
Soda bicarbonate
Tartaric acid

168 parts.
150 parts.

Rochelle

no

salt

parts.

Mix.

New

Idea.

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ESPEY'S CREAM.
The

following formula, said to be similar,

in Druggists'

is

given

Circular:

Take of

Cydonium

Ac. boric
Glycerine
Alcohol
Carbolic acid
Cologne water

Rose-water

y^ dr.

4 gr.
2 oz.

3 oz.

10 gr.
2 dr.

to

make

pt.

Dissolve the boric acid in four ounces of rose-water,

macerate cydonium

in solution for three hours, press

through straining-cloth, add glycerine, alcohol, cologne and sufficient rose water to make one pint.
Lastly add the carbolic acid and shake well.

FAHNESTOCK'S VERMIFUGE.
This

is

said to be similar to the patent preparation:

Take of
Castor

oil

Oil worm-seed
Oil anise
Oil turpentine
Tinct. myrrh

Mix.

48 parts.
48 parts.
24 parts.
1

part.

3 parts.

National Druggist.


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FALKE'S SULPHOLINE CREAM.

It is

composed

of

Very thick mucilage

of quince seeds.
Glycerine
Sulpho-carbolate of sodium

.300 parts.
40 parts.
20 parts.

The mucilage is prepared with rose-water, or the

completed preparation is scented with it, and if the
preparation should not assume a pink tinge

finished

of itself the

same can be given with a

carmine

red.

This preparation

Co., 418

Elm.

St., St.

in

Louis,

the circular around

it,

is

little

eosine or

made by Falke &

Mo., and

is

stated to be,

new and most elegant

pre-

paration for chapped hands or any roughness of the

skin,

and

for

inveterate

head, and pimples.

New

obstinate

eruptions,

black

Idea.

FEBRILINE.
Manufactured by the Paris Medicine
Tenn.

Is

Co.,

Paris,

offered to the medical profession as the

long-looked for tasteless preparation of quinine,

it

being distinctly stated on the label that each bottle of

twelve fluid drams M contains twenty-four grains of
quinine."
Dr. R. G. Eccles declares in the Druggists'' Circular,

May, 1889, that he has investigated a preparation sold

under the name " Febriline or Tasteless Syrup of
Amorphous Quinine (Lyons)," by the Paris Medicine
Co., of Paris, Tenn., and finds that it contains no

AND
quinine at

all.

SYSTEMS.

63

Instead of quinine, quinidine

is

used,

another alkaloid of cinchona bark, which is described

as follows in the National Dispensatory, edition of

"Quinidia is not officinal. Being

1879, P a & e 1 181:
should be administered in
soluble,
it
slightly
very
mucilage or syrup.

Its

lack of bitterness renders

and

convenient for administration to children,

imperfect solubility

slow or tonic action

is
is

not disadvantageous

it

its

when a

alone required."

FELLOWS' HYPOPHOSPHITES.
Take of
Glucose
Simple syrup
Hypophosphite calcium
Hypophosphite potassium.
Sulphate iron
Sulphate manganese
Sulphate quinine
Sulphate strychnine

Water

lb.

pt.

128 gr.

48
48

gr.
gr.

32 gr.
14 gr.
2 gr.

sufficient.

Dissolve the calcium and potassium hypophosphites

two fluid ounces of warm water. Add to one

ounce of water three fluid drams of the syrup and dissolve in the mixture, by the aid of heat, the remainder
Mix the solutions and set by a few
of the salts.
in

hours, covered, to deposit the

sulphate of calcium

which is formed. Filter into a bottle containing the

remainder of the syrup, wash the residue with an
ounce of boiling water, mix filtrate and washings with

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the syrup; dissolve the glucose in the mixture, and add

through the

enough water

filter

make two

to

The formula would be improved by

pints.

substituting for

the glucose a refined extract of malt like that pre-

pared by Gehe, in Germany.

The
syrup,

proportion of the medicinal ingredients

it is

true,

is

small;

warrant

shall not

the

in

to per-

it

form miracles of cure. It is simply offered as a substitute for Fellows' Hypophosphites; whatever therapeutic efficiency that nostrum has, we may count upon
obtaining equally from this syrup.

A.

B. Lyons

in

Therapeutic Gazette.

FIRWEIN.
Dr. Lewis, of Belvidere, gives in the

New

Idea the

following formula for Firwein:

Take of
Solution bromine, iodine, and phosphorus,
Fir bark in coarse powder
White pine bark, coarse powder
Tamarac bark, coarse powder
Dilute alcohol

Sugar

/2
/2

oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

16

fl.

oz.

4 oz.

Percolate the barks with the dilute alcohol until 13

ounces are obtained; remove the tannin; add the

fluid

solution bromine, iodine, and phosphorus.

the sugar; allow

The solution
made thus:

it

to stand 24 hours

of bromine, iodine,

and

Dissolve

filter.

and phosphorus

is


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SYSTEMS.

65

Take of
Phosphorus

10 gr.
70 gr.
170 gr.

Iodine

Bromine
Alcohol
Glycerine sufficient to make

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Dissolve the iodine in the alcohol, then add glycerine,

then bromine and lastly the phosphorus gradually

Use great care

in fine shavings.

in adding the phospho-

rus.

Cne ounce

of this for the above Firwein.

FLAGG'S RELIEF.
Take of
Oil of cloves, about
Oil of sassafras, about
Spirits of camphor, about

Mix.

dr.

dr.

1%

dr.

/. /. Pier

son,

Ph.C.

FLETJRY'S TASTELESS CASCARINE.

" Harmless.

A new

remedy

for biliousness, cost-

iveness, dizziness, headache, torpid liver.

Manufact-

ured by the Fleury Medicine Company, Springfield,

Illinois."

Put up

in

a small wooden cylinder, which

yellowish-white
of
powder.
Examination proves it to be subnitrate of bismuth
and calomel, triturated through powdered cane

contains

sugar.

45

grains

New Idea.


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FORD'S

BALSAM OF HOARHOUND.

Hoarhound herb

3^

lb.

Licorice root

3^2

lb.

Water

8 pt.

Infuse for 12 hours, then strain

off six pints.

To

these add:

Camphor
Opium

10 dr.
1

Benzoin
Dried squills

Oil of anise-seed

Alcohol

Macerate for one week and then add

honey.

New

long,

oz.

oz.

oz.

3^

pt.

pounds of

Idea,

FOSGATE'S

oz.

round

ANODYNE CORDIAL.

green

bottle

contains

1^

fluid

ounces of a deep yellowish-brown liquid, of bitterish,

astringent taste, slight gingery flavor, and distinct

rhubarb taste and smell.

From our examination we

consider the following an identical preparation:

Take of
Fluid extract rhubarb .......
Fluid extract rhatany
Fluid extract ginger
Paregoric

Mix.

B. dr.

fl.

dr.

6 minims.
1

fl.

dr.

Simple syrup.

fl.

dr.

Dilute alcohol

fl.

dr.

New Idea.


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67

FREEMAN'S VERMIFUGE

OIL.

Take of
Oil of worm-seed
Oil of turpentine

Castor

oil

Dose

oz.

dr.

Yz oz.

Pink root
Hydrastin
Syrup of peppermint

Y* oz.

10 gr.

oz.

for a child 10 years old, a teaspoonful three

times a day, one hour after each meal.

too freely, give

it

If

it

purges

less often.

FRENCH UTERINE PAD.

Take

of

Blue cohosh
Powdered guaiac

oz. troy.

dr. troy.

Witch hazel
Ergot
Cinchona

oz. troy.

oz. troy.

oz. troy.

Angelica

oz. troy.

Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil

of
of
of
of
of

tansy
stillingia

lobelia

lavender
eucalyptus

4
4

fl.
fl.

dr.

4
4

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

dr.

Grind the drugs to a moderately fine powder and

mix with the oils. Make into an oblong bag and
wear over lower part of abdomen.

FUNK'S CREAM OF ROSES.

The National Druggist
Funk's Cream of Roses:

gives

the

following

for

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Digest one ounce of tragacanth

in eight fluid ounces

water in the water bath; strain through muslin

of

while hot; add to this one ounce each of glycerine

and

triple extract of white rose; color with

carmine to

a light pink.

Mr. A.

Hemenover,

Minn., writes

Pipestone,

of

regarding Funk's Cream of Roses that he thinks one

dram, not one ounce, of tragacanth is the amount

wanted in the formula already given. We ourselves
think that Mr. H. is about correct.
One dram
of tragacanth in eight ounces of water will make a
very

stiff

New

mixture.

Idea.

GARFIELD TEA.
Manufactured
58 West 55th

by

the

Street,

Stillman

New

York.

Remedies

"The

Co.,

Garfield

Kidney Cure, is unrivcomposed wholly of herbs; a

natural remedy, potent and harmless.
Directions:

Tea,

aled "

Liver and

Stillman's
*

It

is

Place a heaping tea-spoonful of the herbs in a tin cup

or vessel;

add a tea-cupful of boiling water,

let

the

cup remain on the fire until the water boils up, then
cover and remove from the fire; strain and drink
The tea may also be made
every night on retiring.
by simply pouring boiling water on the herbs, letting
stand a few hours;
small package

is

drink before retiring.

Price of

25 cents.

Our examination showed

it

to contain chiefly

senna

and crushed couch-grass. There are perhaps

small amounts of other drugs present; but if so they
leaves

are relatively of

little

importance.

New

Idea.


AND

SYSTEMS.

GARGLING
Take

OIL.

of-

Crude petroleum

13
6
16
16

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Tincture iodine

fl.

oz.

Water

5 pts.

Ammonia

water

Soft soap

Benzine

Crude

Mix
water,

69

the
oil

oil

amber

petroleum and soap, add the ammonia

of amber, and tincture of iodine,

Then add

thoroughly.

and mix

the benzine and finally the

Salmon's Pharmaceutical Compendium,

water.

GENUINE WHITE OIL LINIMENT.

Take

of

Ammonia

carbonate

19 parts.

Camphor

20 parts.

Oil turpentine
Oil origanum
Castile soap

21 parts.
20 parts.

Water.

.to

make 300

19 parts.
parts (by weight).

Mix.

GILES'S IODIDE OF

AMMONIA LINIMENT.

Take of
Iodine

Camphor
Oil of rosemary
Oil of lavender

Aqua ammonia
Alcohol

dr.

oz.

y2
y

oz.

oz.

4 oz.
2 pts.

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70

Dissolve the iodine in the alcohol; add the camphor

and then the oils; then add water of ammonia
enough to remove the dark color, of the mixture.

Kilner.

GOLDEN EYE-WATER.
Take of
Sulphate of hydrastia
Distilled water

Make
This
lated

2 gr.
1

oz.

solution.

an excellent wash for inflamed and granu-

is

lids.

GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM.

Gombault's Caustic Balsam states on its labels that
is a safe, speedy, and reliable remedy for curb,
splint, sweeney, poll-evil, grease-heel, capped hock,
strained tendons, founder, wind-puffs, mange, skin
it

diseases, old sores, dropsical affections, inflammations,

throat difficulties, swellings or ulcerations, lameness

from spavin, ringbone, and other bony tumors, and

many

other diseases or ailments of horses, cattle,

sheep, and dogs; will quickly

remove

all

bunches or

blemishes, without leaving any scar or other injurious

effects.

linseed
all

It
oil,

can also be reduced with sweet or raw

and used as a most valuable liniment for

kinds of simple lameness, strains,

The

etc.

following formula makes a preparation which

replaces the secret article to

good advantage:

AND SYSTEMS.

Take of
Croton oil
Cotton-seed

oil

Oil of camphor
Oil of turpentine
Oil of thyme

Kerosene

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

>

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

20 minims.

Sulphuric acid

To

the mixture of croton and cotton-seed oils add

the sulphuric acid, stirring continually, then add the

other constituents.

After standing a few days

it

resembles the original preparation fairly well.

Western Druggist.

GOOCHE'S MEXICAN COUGH SYRUP.

"

the

The most
world
*

certain, speedy,

for

coughs,
*

and greatest remedy

colds,

consumption,

in

bron-

and all complaints of a

pulmonary nature."
With a view of obtaining an insight into the composition of this highly advertised cough syrup, we
purchased an unopened bottle, and our chemist,
H. W. Snow, submitted it to examination. It comes in
a square, deeply-paneled bottle, with red label and
black lettering giving uses and directions both in
German and in English. The bottle contains a full
chitis,

three fluid ounces, of a light-brown, slightly fluores-

cent liquid.

morphine,
present

We

proved absence of alkaloids hence

ipecac, and lobelia cannot be

opium,

and also proved absence of tartar emetic.

It

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contains large quantities of glycerine, syrup, and

also wild-cherry bark.

The

tar,

following formula makes

a preparation scarcely to be distinguished from the

original preparation:

Take of
Fluid extract wild cherry
Glycerine
Simple syrup

Syrup of

tar, sufficient to

make

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

New Idea.

GOOD SAMARITAN COUGH SYRUP.

Take of
Morphiae muriat
Aq. lauro-cerasi
Syrupi
Mix.

dr. to 2 drs.,

gr.

dr.

2 oz.

once or twice

daily.

GOOD SAMARITAN LINIMENT.

Take of
Oil of sassafras
Oil of hemlock
Spirits of turpentine
Tinct. of capsicum
Tinct. of opium
Tinct. of myrrh
Oil of origanum
Oil of wintergreen

Gum

camphor

Chloroform
Alcohol
Mix.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

troy oz.

fl.

oz.

4 pints.

Kilner.


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SYSTEMS.

73

GRANDMOTHER'S OWN COUGH REMEDY.

One green
a

panel bottle contains

brownish-yellow,

of a tarry odor,

liquid,

7^

semi-clear, very

and pronounced

From

smell of chloroform.

ounces of

fluid

sweet,

thickish

taste

a close examination

and

we

have ascertained that an exactly similar preparation

easily

made

Rub

in the

is

following way:

well together

Liquid tar
Fluid ext. hemlock
Powd. white sugar

5 gr.
1

fl.

dr.

2 oz. av.

and add
Alcohol

Water
Molasses
Fluid ext. ipecac

Mix

well

fl.

oz.

\y2

fl.

oz.

3 oz. av.
8 minims.

and add

finally

Chloroform

fl.

dr.

New Idea.

Mix.

GRAY'S SPECIFIC PILLS.

Nearly

all

or

pills are composed of

camphor and sometimes hops

these specific

asafoetida with a
lupuline.

little

The

following will

approximate the

"specific:"

Take of
Asafoetida

Camphor
Lupuline
Mix.

2 gr.
1

gr.

yk gr.


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The

"specific

aphrodisiac.

action"

is

in

the

direction

of an

Western Druggist.

GREAT LONDON LINIMENT.

Take of
Acetate of morphia

iogr.

Chloroform

Olive

oz.

oz.

oil

Water of ammonia

oz.

Mix.

GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

The

following

is

said to

make

a preparation similar:

Take of
Rhubarb
Golden seal
Cape aloes
Peppermint leaves
Carb. of potash

Capsicum
Sugar

360
90

gr.

gr.

16 gr.

120 gr.
1 20 gr.
5 gr.
5 oz.
3 oz.

Alcohol

Water

10 oz.
20 minims.

Ess. of peppermint

Powder the drugs and macerate with the mixed

for seven days
filter and add
enough diluted alcohol to make the product measure
alcohol and water

one

pint.

New Idea.

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SYSTEMS.

75

GREEN MOUNTAIN SALVE.

Take of
Resin

5 lb.

%
%

Burgundy pitch
Beeswax
Mutton tallow

%.

lb.

lb.

Oil of hemlock
Balsam fir ....
Oil origanum

oz.

oz.

oz.

Oil of red cedar

oz.

Venice turpentine
Oil

wormwood

Verdigris (powdered)

Melt the

first

articles together,

in with the other articles, stirring well;

oz.
oz.

oz.

little oil,

oils;

put

then put into

cold water and work until cold enough to

GREEN WONDER

y2

and add the

having rubbed up the verdigris with a

it

lb.

roll.

OIL.

Take of
Terebinth Venet
Zinci sulphat
Cupri acetat
Bals.

4 oz.
15 gr.
,

^2 oz.

Peru

dr.

01. olivae

lb.

01. lini

lb.

when warm add the turpentine and

when almost cold add the other ingredients and

Boil the oils;

zinc;

stir well.

For

scalds, burns,

wounds, and

piles.


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GRIMATJLT'S INJECTION OF MATICO.

Manufactured
8

solely

by Messrs. Grimault

Rue Vivienne, Paris, France.

" The invaluable plant called

&

Co.,

matico, a native of

Peru, possesses extraordinary preventive and astrin-

gent properties.

few injections each of very short

duration are sufficient to arrest the most inveterate

The absence of mineral astringents and

though not expressly stated, is intimated in
the circular which accompanies the preparation. This
preparation comes in an oval flint-glass bottle with
white embossed paper wrapper, covered with small
green prints of monograms of G. C, and with a cut of
The bottle
the matico plant in green on the label.
contains five fluid ounces of an aromatic liquid, having
Examination shows it to contain
a light bluish tint.
copper sulphate in solution, in amounts not far from y
discharges."
caustics,

of a grain

to the fluid ounce.

It

is

difficult

to say

what plant has contributed the odor. Certain it

is, however, that it is not due to the matico pure and
The matico, if it contained any of it, has
simple.
undergone a considerable change of physical and
The odor is somewhat suggestive
sensible properties.
of a rose-water which has stood a long time and
undergone decomposition. A satisfactory and valuable substitute for it could be made by distilling

just

about

to

fluid

dram

of fluid extract of eucalyptus

globulus, with water sufficient to obtain

of

distillate,

and then

sulphate of copper.

in

New

this

Idea.

5 fluid

dissolve 4

ounces

grains of

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77

GULL'S COUGH MIXTURE.

Take of

Cod

liver oil

fl.

oz.

Fresh lemon juice

fl.

oz.

Strained honey

fl.

oz.

Mix.

Tea-spoonful to table-spoonful three or four times

daily.

GUNN'S RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.

Take

of

Linseed

oil

Oil cedar
Oil amber
.

Take gum camphor

ounce; rub

y>,

alcohol or sulphuric ether

still

till

in

oz.

oz.

oz.

a mortar with

pulverized,

and while

damp add
Olive

after

y? oz.

oil

Turpentine

Laudanum

^oz.

which add the

first

oz.

three articles.

HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM.

Said to resemble the genuine.

Take of
Pure oxide of zinc
Rose-water
Glycerine

Perfume

oz.

4 oz.
i

dr.

25 drops.

Lillard's Prac. Hints and Formulas.

HAINES'S GOLDEN SPECIFIC FOR OPIUM

HABIT.
:'
I

Bayberry-root bark, powdered.

Ginger, powdered
sicum, powdered

Mix.

Western
DR.
Is put

up

W. HAIR'S

B.
in

ASTHMA CURE

a square bottle with trunca

having the name blown into the glass on the back.

k>
The great success which has attended
Dr. Hair says,
the use of this medicine has induced

me

to publis

found a certain cure for

M
It
who are afflicted with the above na
ase.
is prepared only by Dr. B. W. Hair, Cincinnati, Ohio.
the world that I have

Dose

per bottle.

S3.00

spoonful five times a day.

come

a paroxysm,
I

it

If

may be taken

day.

It

for

adult
v to

in

is

over-

onful

contains 16 fluid 0U1

Examinabrownish fluid having an odor of tar.

tion shows it to contain notable quantities of iodi
It contains
but neither bromides nor chlorides.
of a

but no

present

The

It

alkaloids;
is

also

following formula

consequently no

slightly colored

may be

very closely the original article:

with

ipecac

is

caramel.

taken as duplicating


AND
Take

SYSTEMS.

79

of

Potassium iodide
i
Tar water*
16
Caramel sufficient to color light
brown, or about
30

oz.

oz.

fl.

gr.

New- Idea.
The

much

compiler, however,

a formula

prefers

given by Dr. Elmore Palmer in the Medical World

for April, 1885.

where

Dr. Palmer writes, "

do not know

remember

ran on to this formula, but I do

had no doubt of its correctness,

and recent developments have strengthened this bethat at the time I

It is as follows:

lief."

Take of

Wine

14 oz.

of tar

Iodide of potassium

Make a solution.
The wine of tar
made as follows:

220

gr.

Shake well before taking.

above must be

to be used in the

Take of

Common

pine tar
Sherry wine
Pine sawdust

Mix

2 pt.

y2

oz.

the tar with the sawdust so as to form a sort

of powder; then macerate

and

2 dr.
,

filter

it

for a

week with the wine

through paper.

Tar water may be made by same process as U. S. P.

tar, but omitting sugar.
Make same strength per pint

syrup of

as II. S. P. syrup of tar.

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"If this

made,

it

is

not just the

certainly

will

do

way Hair's Asthma Cure

all

that

is

is

claimed for that

nostrum, and more too."

HALL'S CATARRH CURE.

According

made by

an examination of this preparation,

to

us, it

contains gentian, cardamom, probably

orange peel and iodide of potash. We took it

be the compound tincture of gentian of the British
Pharmacopoeia, in which was dissolved potassium
The following formula makes a preparation
iodide.

bitter

to

very closely resembling the original:

Take of
Gentian root in coarse powder.,
Bitter orange peel "
"

i^

Cardamom

100 gr.

seeds

"

"

Potassium iodide

Dilute alcohol

oz.

5 dr.

oz.

sufficient.

Macerate the crude drugs

in 12

ounces of dilute

alcohol for 48 hours, then transfer to a percolator and

allow to percolate slowly;

when

the liquid has ceased

enough menstruum through the permake the finished product measure 16

to percolate, pass

colator to

ounces.

In this dissolve the potassium iodide.

New

HALL'S HAIR RENEWER.

Take of
Sulphur precipitated

dr.

Lead acetate

dr.

Idea.

AND

SYSTEMS.

Salt

2 dr.

Glycerine

fl.

Bay rum

fl.

oz.

Jamaica rum

fl.

oz.

16

fl.

oz.

Water

oz.

HALL'S HYGIENIC TREATMENT.

Several months since, an advertisement appeared in

a medical journal of
attention of
Hall's

its

wide circulation, calling the

readers to the fact that Dr. Wilford

Microcos?n had " recently announced a most

remarkable remedy for disease, without medicine of

any kind.

It is said to

The June Microcosm

be accomplishing wonders.
of

is full

its

confirmation."

same " June Microcosm " contains this announcement of the " discovery: "
"So important do we regard the daily recurring
This

developments of this treatment for the cure of almost

known form of disease, as well as for the permanent preservation of health and prolongation of
life, that we feel it our imperative duty to make everyevery

thing else

we do secondary

to the widest possible pro-

mulgation of this discovery.

"

Though

absolutely knowing the importance and

even priceless value of

this treatment, as

personal application to our

own

we

did in

its

shattered constitution

during forty consecutive years, yet we are free to confess that

w e had formed but a

T

slight conception of

range of adaptation to the diseases

vious to

commencing the

Pamphlet among the

its

flesh is heir to, pre-

distribution of our Health-

afflicted.

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82
"

Already we could

fill

scores of these pages with

the most startling and enthusiastic acknowledgments

by man, and which have been

of cures ever read

vol-

untarily sent to us as grateful tributes of praise for

the marvelous benefits received."

There seem

continuous and per-

have been

to

appeals

sistent

behalf of

in

afflicted

relatives

and

friends of the readers of his journal, and to enable

them

to obtain

its

benefits the following

scheme

is

developed:
"

we

The pamphlet which

sell

unfolds the

new treatment

invariably at 4.00, by mail, on the purchaser's

agreeing by

Pledge of Honor

'

not to divulge the

treatment outside of his or her family,

doctors being

allowed, in addition, the right of using the treatment

with their patients.

No

one should complain of the

price asked for this information,

that,

if

it is

put into practice,

the pamphlet from

all

it

when they consider

will save the

owner of

future bills for ordinary drugs

and medical attendance,

from more than

as well as

nine-tenths of the misery, inconvenience, and losses

incident to ill-health."

Dr. Massie, in the Medical World, says in regard to

this "

wonderful discovery:" " I don't know anything

about Hall's right to use the prefix Dr.,' but suspect
it is merely a trap to get some unwary M. D. to send
'

for the June number of his alleged scientific journal,

and be by it further deceived into sending $4.00
Hygienic Method' for the treatfor his alleged
'

ment

of disease

without the use of medicine.

Hall's

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83

him a veritable quack. He pubin the Microcosm concerning a

book he was going to write, in which he proposed to
give a method for treating all the ills that flesh is heir
to
in fact, to demolish the science and practice of

method

constitutes

many

lished

articles

medicine at
"

'

one

fell

swoop.'

when he thought he had a sufficient degree

of curiosity aroused to make his scheme 'go,' he
came out with the diffident announcement that he
At

last,

could not afford to give the results of so

of patient toil

many

years

and squirting of hot water through a

rubber syringe for less than $4.00 a 'give;' consequently he published his secret in pamphlet form,

and

sells

it

at the

above

figure, exacting a

pledge of

But when a secret is

put in print, it is a secret no longer, and seeing that
the cat is already out of the bag,' here is his whole
secrecy from each purchaser.

'

'

scheme:'
" Disease

depends on the absorption of poisonous

materials from the colon and rectum.

Wash

these

out thoroughly with hot water once or twice a day,

and disease is robbed of its power, death of its terror,

and the doctor of his occupation. Use lots of water
(a gallon or two) retain it as long as possible, and then
Met her go, Gallagher.' This is a sure cure for consumption and Bright's disease, and minor ailments
;

vanish like mists before the sun."

That
this

"

" flushing the

colon"

Hygienic treatment"

tions in other journals.

is

The

is

the principal part of

confirmed by publicabenefit to be derived

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from "flushings" of this character is, nowever, conceded, and, should any of our readers desire to know
the best plan of procedure, the following from the
Medical Standard gives Prof. Etheridge's method of

"The use

administering these "flushings."

rectal

tube

is

The

unnecessary.

patient

of

along

should be

placed in a genu-pectoral position, the shoulders thus

The water will be made

descend while anatomically ascending the intestines.
Patients can be made to receive from one to six pints
of water in this position without the slightest trouble.
being lower than the hips.

to

As one
colon,

of the effects of the water

is

to distend the

and thus press away the walls of the

loculi

from the accumulations, these fall into the current of

water and are passed out while the water is leaving
The patient will oftentimes complain of
the intestine.
severe tormina; checking the current of water for a
few seconds will be followed by complete relief. The
presence of such a strange foreign body in the
intestine as hot water, in
peristaltic

activity,

Plain hot water

is all

many

thus
that

cases excites prodigious

producing
is

the

tormina.

necessary to use.

water should be hot; cold water, or tepid water,

The
will

produce great suffering. One patient

took the flushings for a fortnight, and returning vowed
she never would use any more because they produced
such terrific cramps. Upon inquiry it was found that
The subsequent use of
she was using tepid water.
hot water by her was never followed by a cramp.
not do.

It will

Upon many

patients this large

amount

of water acts


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as a vigorous diuretic.

85

patients suffer as well

from renal insufficiency, I am in the habit of telling

them to use a pint or a pint and a half of hot water
after the flushing has passed away, and to lie upon the
Thus
back with hips elevated for half an hour.
retaining the water,

Some

can

patients

will

it

act as a powerful diuretic.

administer

flushing

this

with

greatest ease, while others will develop a most phe-

nomenal awkwardness.

am

in the habit of telling

patients to kneel in the bath tub,

ward about using these

flushings.

HAMBURG

who

are at

all

awk-

,,

DROPS.

Take of
Powdered Socotrine aloes
American saffron
Tincture of myrrh
Macerate for fourteen days and

HAMBURG
Take

i%

oz.

oz.

16 oz.
filter

through paper.

TEA.

of

Senna

8 parts.
3 parts.

Manna
Coriander

Dr. Sargent

in

part.

Med. World.


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HAMLET'S AGUE PILLS.

Take of
Sulph. quinine

2 dr.

Powd. myrrh
Powd. capsicum
Mix.

Make

dr.

dr.

sixty pills.

HAMLIN'S WIZARD
Dr.

Douglas, Medical World,

analysis of Hamlin's

Wizard

back to 1866, and hence

is

Oil.

not a

OIL.

gives the following

The formula dates

new discovery:

Take of
Alcohol

Gum

camphor

Chloroform
I

oz.

oz.
oz.
oz.

consider this recipe as harmless (and useful

too) as Hamlin's
is

pt.

oz.

y2
y2
^
^

Oil sassafras
Tinct. myrrh
Tinct. capsicum

Mix.

famous Wizard

as perfect an analysis as

Oil,

we can

and

believe

it

get.

HANSON'S MAGIC CORN CURE.

good corn cure that

is

similar in every respect to

Hanson's Magic Corn Cure,

Mix

is

made by taking

Simple cerate

oz.

Salicylic acid

dr.

intimately.

Indiana Pharmacist.

of:

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HARDY'S OINTMENT.
According

to

Bouchardat consists

of:

Beef tallow
Castor oil

17 dr.
6 dr.

Gallic acid

30 gr.

Essence vanilla

sufficient to flavor.

HARLEM

OIL.

Take of
Flowers of sulphur
Linseed oil

2 oz.

Oil of amber
Oil of turpentine

2 oz.

and linseed

lb.

sufficient.

on a gentle fire
until the sulphur is dissolved; then withdraw from the
fire, and when the mixture has somewhat cooled, add
the oil of amber and enough oil of turpentine to bring
Boil the sulphur

oil

the preparation to the consistence of molasses.

National Druggist.

HARTLEY'S SOUTH AMERICAN CURE.

During the summer of the present year a man
calling himself Prof. Hartley occupied a vacant lot in
Detroit, with a large tent lighted by electric light,
wheiein-he had immense audiences every evening
during his stay, which lasted some two months. The
professor gave a short lecture upon a South American
cure, which he stated to be composed of roots, herbs,
seeds, barks, and flowers growing exclusively in
South America, and used for centuries by the

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Araucanians, a tribe of people

who

inhabit the western

slope of the Andes, in the southern- part of Chili.

During

his lecture the professor

managed

to give the

audience to understand that this wonderful medicine

performed more cures of indigestion, dyspepsia,

rheumatism, liver complaints, and kidney
diseases than any other medicine on the face of the
Being curious to know something more conearth.
catarrh,

cerning the internal constitution of this South American Cure, we purchased a bottle, and subjected it to
an analysis, according to w hich we find that it consists
fluid licorice and
of fluid extract of rhubarb, 8 parts
fluid capsicum, yi part
fluid
anise, each 2 parts
J
part
alcohol, 6 parts
water enough to
aloes, /6
make 32 parts, to which a small percentage of sodium
bicarbonate is added, about ten grains to the ounce.
How is this for a South American Cure, which
country does not furnish to commerce one ingredient
It is asserted that nearly 60,000
in the nostrum ?
bottles were sold in Detroit in the few w eeks that this
T

New

so-called professor held forth.

Idea.

BORDET'S HAIR TONIC.

Take of
Carbolic acid
)
.
r
r^>
\ of each
Tincture cardamom
Tincture nux vomica
4.

30
J

minims.

Compound

2 dr.

tincture cinchona ...

Cologne water
Cocoanut oil, enough

to

make.

dr.

dr.

4 oz.

A merica n Druggist.

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HEATON'S CUBE FOR HERNIA.

Heaton, of Boston, for a number of years
by a method peculiar to him-

Dr.

treated cases of hernia

self.

ful in

The doctor amassed a fortune and was successmany cases in obtaining a radical cure. The

process he kept secret for along time, but

was found
oak bark

it

to consist of the injection of a solution of

between the hernial sac and the skin, in the inguinal

The object was to excite inflammation around
the sac, and thus cause the canal to be narrowed.
Heaton's instructions were as follows:
" Invaginate the right forefinger in the scrotum and
find the external abdominal ring; then with the left
canal.

upon the integument

and use sufficient force to, if
press the integument with the finger directly

forefinger press perpendicularly

directly over this ring,
possible,

into the ring.

The

left

forefinger being at or in the

spermatic cord and the sac,

in the

way,

are to be pushed to one side, so that nothing

may

ring, the

remain between the external

finger,

if

pillar of the ring

and the

except the integument and subjacent superficial

fascia."

The instrument

is

then passed quickly into the

canal, the fluid injected,

and firm pressure made

few minutes to prevent the escape of the

fluid

for a

from

the canal.

The

adaptation of the modern aseptic system to the

Heaton method

is

thus given by Dr. Shimwell, of

Philadelphia, in the Medical World:

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Heaton's method
septically

with

mercury.

He

of which
side,

is

soap,

first

ether,

to cleanse the parts anti-

and the bichloride

of

then uses a special syringe, the needle

sharp and has two small openings on the

is

one-eighth of an inch from the end.

takes nineteen minims of a solution, to which

He now

added
one drop of carbolic acid. This solution is made by
mixing over a hot bath extract of quercus alba, fourteen grains; fluid extract of quercus alba, one-half
fluid ounce.
He also adds one-eighth of a grain of
sulphate of morphia to each injection.
His procedure of operation is to elevate the
patient's hips on a pillow, so that gravity carries the
bowel away from the canal and ring. The finger is

now introduced

is

into the canal, invaginating the tissue

The finger
The syringe is

until the finger reaches the internal ring.

is

held here at the margin of the ring.

now introduced perpendicular to the plane of the

abdomen, and pushed firmly down until it is recogIt is now in
nized by the finger in the invagination.
The invagination finger
front of the internal ring.
is

withdrawn

slightly, so the skin will not

as the needle

is

The needle is outside of

Then about three minims of the fluid

canal.

needle

is

be punctured

inserted well into the tissues of the

peritoneum.

the
is

injected.

then inserted half an inch to the right,

The
left,

above and below the ring, and a similar quantity

injected with each puncture.
Now the finger is
withdrawn, the needle following after until the external ring

is

reached; then the needle

is

withdrawn.

AND
The balance
instrument

of the fluid

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is

injected in the canal.

The

then withdrawn entirely, a compress of

is

iodoform gauze

placed ovei

is

the

puncture, then

covered with bichloride cotton, and a spica bandage

applied.
The patient keeps on his back ten days or
two weeks, and is not allowed even to sit up. The
pain is slight and the inflammation mild. Within a
few days induration is noticed, and increases, and
embryonic cells in surrounding tissue formed.
A truss with a soft pad should be worn for at least
six months after. If failure ensues, the operation may
be repeated.
Dr. DeGarmo, in the Medical Record, gives as the
result of seven years' experience in this

method the

following advantages:
i.

Freedom from danger.

2.

Cure

in forty-five

per cent, of unselected, seventy-

five of selected cases.

3.

Control of

many

ment by the truss.

Improvement
4.
5.

in

cases not amenable to treat-

nearly every case.

Children nearly always cured.

HEISKELL'S TETTER OINTMENT.

Heiskell's

Tetter

Western Druggist,
acetate of lead.

is

Ointment,

according

to

the

said to be simply cerate of sub-

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HELMBOLD'S

BTJCHTJ.

Said to resemble the genuine.

Take of
Short buchu

Uva

9 oz.

4%

ursi

Licorice root

Macerate

9 pints of boiling water,

in

oz.

10 dr.

and

strain,

add:

Caramel

2 oz.

Molasses

Mix

8 oz.

and add:

well,

Fluid extract cubeb

Alcohol

5 oz.
2 pt.

Oil peppermint

Water

sufficient to

make

Lillard's Prac. Hints

oz.

12 pt.

and

Fortnulas.

HELMBOLD'S JELLY OF GLYCERINE AND ROSES.

Our examination shows

the following

be the

to

formula for the above*

Take of
Tragacanth

dr.

Triple ext. of rose

Glycerine

6 drops.
2

fl.

oz.

Water

fl.

oz.

New Idea.
HIMROD'S ASTHMA CURE.
Dr. Geo. Covert, of Clinton, Wis., in a recent
cle,

says in regard to this preparation:

arti-


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93

one-time schoolmate and friend of mine cured

himself of asthma with his

He

own remedy.

went to

Europe, introduced his asthma remedy to the notice

who used it with benefit and gave

commendation. Our friend's fortune was
made and Himrod's Asthma Remedy is still on the
of Kaiser William,
it

his royal

market."

This

is

Take

said to be the formula:

of

Powdered lobelia
Powdered stramonium leaves
Powdered nitrate of potash
Powdered black tea
Sift well

2 oz.
2 oz.
2 oz.
2 oz.

and mix.

HINKLEY'S BONE LINIMENT.

Take of
Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil

of
of
of

wormwood

40 minims.

hemlock
thyme

2 dr.
2 dr.

of turpentine

Fl. ext. of

capsicum

Alcohol to make

dr.

dr.

4 oz.

Mix.

HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT.

The formula

for this preparation

is

said to be:

Take of
Yellow wax
White wax
Turpentine

10 parts.
10 parts.
.

25 parts.

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Lard
Sweet

50 parts.
oil

75 parts.

Mix.

HOLLO WAY'S

PILLS.

Take of
Aloes

2 dr.

Rhubarb
Capsicum

dr.

20 gr.

Saffron

5 gr.
5 gr.

Sulphate of soda

Make one hundred

pills.

HOLMES'S LIVER PILLS.

Take of
Colocynth pulp
.

Barb, aloes

pills,

of

are an average cathartic.

oz.

fl.

dr.

sufficient.

into three-grain

merly had

oz.

^2 oz.

Water

Make

2 oz.

Castile soap
Oil peppermint

to three

oz.

Gamboge
Scammony

big

reputation

in

which from

These
the

pills

HOP BITTERS.
following

is

said to be the formula:

Take of
Tinct. of hops
Tinct. of buchu

for-

city of Pitts-

burgh, Pa.

The

two

oz.

3 dr.


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Tinct. of senega
Podophyllin (dissolved in spirits of

3 dr.

iogr.

wine)
Tinct. of cochineal
Distilled water sufficient to

20 drops.

make

pt.

Medical

Mix.

World.

HOSTETTER'S BITTERS.
Take of
Sugar
Calamus root
Orange peel

2 lb.
2 lb.
2 lb.

Peruvian bark
Gentian root

2 lb.

2 lb.

Columbo root
Rhubarb
Cinnamon

4 oz.

Cloves
Diluted alcohol

4 gal.

2 lb.

8 oz.
2 oz.

The Medical

Bulletin,

HUNTER'S RED DROPS.

Take

of

Corrosive sublimate
Muriatic acid

Rub

in

a glass mortar and gradually add:

Compound
Dose:

10 gr.
12 drops.

spirits of lavender.

Five to twenty drops

oz.

in wine, or spirits

water.

A powerful

alterative in syphilitic diseases.

and

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HUNYADI JANOS WATER.

Take of
Sulphate of lime

Glauber

Epsom

1%

oz.

24

oz.

salts

26 oz.

salts

Sulphate of potassa

Water

dr.

10 gal.

Mix, and charge with gas.

INJECTION BROU.
The

preparation comes in a bottle of very peculiar

construction,

short

7^

made on

fluid

a private mould, and contains

ounces of a slightly yellowish

fluid

containing a reddish-brown sediment in suspension.

Analysis shows the presence of alcohol, acetic acid,
sulphuric acid,

bearing drug.

an alkaloid, and a tannin-

traces of

Just what drug has yielded the tan-

not any of the ordinone of them yield

such a colored precipitate with the lead and zinc

nin

it

is

impossible to say.

nary tannin-bearing
salts.

The

astringents

It is

drugs, as

essential parts, however, are the mineral

and

alcohol,

and a preparation which

may be made by

substantially the same,

formula:

Take of
Tinct. catechu

(1 in 16)

dr.

Cocaine muriate

iogr.

Lead acetate

10 gr.
10 gr.

Zinc sulphate

is

the following


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07

Water

6%

fl.

oz.

y2

fl.

oz.

Alcohol
Dissolve the mineral salts each

in

ounce of water

and mix them.

Dilute the tinct. catechu with 4 fluid

ounces of water; add the minerals and then the solution of cocaine muriate in an

ounce of water;

lastly

make ^yi, fluid ounces. The

Brou may be fairly well simulated

the alcohol and water to

color of Injection

by using a small amount of magenta.

New

Idea.

JACKSON'S COUGH SYRUP.

The

is the formula recommended

by
U. Lloyd, to be followed as a standard for
the above preparation, which also goes by the name
of " Compound Syrup of Morphine":

following

Prof. J.

Take of
Fl. ext.

y2

ipecac

senega
Fl. ext. rhubarb
Sulphate morphine
Fl. ext.

4 dr.
8 gr.
22 minims.

Oil sassafras

Syrup

dr.

3 oz.

to

make

32 oz.

American Druggist.
JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT.
The

following

is

given in

ing this preparation

New

Idea as approximat-

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Take of
Syrup

squills

Wine

2 oz.

Tinct. tolu
Tinct. camphor
Tinct. digitalis
Tinct. opium

oz.

dr.

dr.

2 dr.

ipecac

Antimon. and

2 dr.

pot. tart

2 gr.

Mix.

JAYNE'S ALTERATIVE
Is said to

be similar to the following:

Take of
Tartar emetic

4 gr.

camphor

Spirits of

fl.

dr.

Fluid extract of ipecac

4 drops.

Laudanum

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

12

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Tinct. of
Syrup of
Tinct. of
Syrup of

lobelia
tolu
digitalis

squills

National Druggist.
KASKINE
Is
vials,

preparation sold

in

small

flat

green-glass

each 'containing about 20 grains of

a white,

granular powder, freely soluble in water, of a sweet

Claimed by its manuand unrivaled in the

world of science as the only medicine that can
destroy the germs that cause each particular disease
and restore perfect health.
taste

and without any odor.

facturers to stand " unequaled


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Hoffman

Dr. Fr.

"The

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99

says:

examination by the writer, of

Kaskine bought from different leading

chemical

several vials of

drug firms in New York City, proves the fact that

Kaskine is nothing more nor less than granular sugar
of the fine grain and grade as used in homoeopathic
pharmacy, without even any infinitesimal medication
or flavoring whatsoever."

HEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.

Take of
Lactucarium

7^2 gr.

Ipecac

3%

Squills
Ext. licorice

3 dr.

Mucil. tragacanth

Mix

and divide

gr.

3 gr.

into

sufficient.

lozenges

each containing

KELLOG'S RED DROPS*

Take

of

Spirit of

camphor

2 oz.

^
^

Spirit of origanum
Oil of sassafras
Oil of turpentine

oz.
oz.

Yz oz.

Color tincture (about)

4 oz.

Pharmacist and Chemist.

Mix.

KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE

Is

put up in a twelve-sided amber bottle, which

contains

5^

ounces of a

clear,

brownish-red liquid.

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It

contains

camphor, and a heavy petroleum

turpentine, alcohol, free iodine, and

The

oil

oil,

of rosemary.

following formula makes a preparation sub-

stantially the

same

as the proprietary liniment:

Take of
Turpentine
Alcohol

Camphor

fi.

oz.

fl.

oz.

240

Iodine

gr.

25 gr.

Petroleum oil (heavy)

Oil of rosemary

]/z

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

In the mixed oils (without filtering) dissolve the

camphor and the

iodine.

New

Idea.

KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY.

Take of
Sneezewort

Bitter-root

4 dr.

oz.

Mix and add

Boiling water

Proof

8
10

spirits

Licorice root

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

4 dr.

Macerate for 48 hours, then add

White sugar

4 oz.

Tinct. gaultheria

oz.

King's American Dispensatory.

KENNKLE'S VEGETABLE
Upon examination we

WORM

find that

an oval green bottle, containing

an opaque, yellowish-brown,

it

4^

thin,

SYRUP.
is

fluid

up in
ounces of

put

syrupy liquid of


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slightly acid

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IOI

According to our examina-

reaction.

tion each bottle contains:

Santonine

27 gr.

Oil sassafras

Alcohol
pink-root
ext. dandelion

Fl. ext.

Fl.

The santonine

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

y2
%
y2

golden seal
Molasses

Fl. ext.

minim.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

in a finely triturated condition.

New Idea.
KEPHALGINE.

remedy

for headache, consists of:

Antipyrine

Roasted coffee

parts.

Caffeine

parts.

parts.

Salicylate of

sodium

parts.

American Journal of Pharmacy.

Mix.

KICKAPOO INDIAN

A round,

OIL.

green bottle, about four inches long, holds

and contains

full

ten

fluid

drams

of

a clear,

light

straw-colored thin liquid, which readily turns white on

the addition of water, and

hundreds of

its

is

composed, about

kind flooding the market, of

Camphor
Oil turpentine
Oil peppermint
Oil wintergreen

y2
y
y2

oz. troy.
dr.

fl.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

like

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Tinct. capsicum
Alcohol sufficient to make. ...

y2

fl.

oz.

pt.

New Idea.
KING'S

The

following

is

NEW

DISCOVERY.

said to represent

its

composition:

Take of
Fl. ex.

Sulph. morphia
ipecac

y2

Chloroform

60 drops.

8 gr.

Tinct. white pine

2 oz.

Water

7 oz.

Carbonate of magnesia
Sugar

Rub

dr.

oz.

14 oz.

the magnesia with one ounce of the sugar in a

mortar, and triturate with the tincture of white pine

and the

fluid

extract of ipecac;

gradually add the

water, and triturate with the mixture in the mortar.

and dissolve the morphia sulphate in the filmix the chloroform with the rest of the sugar
a bottle and add the liquid above. Keep in a tight

Filter
trate;
in

-New

vessel.

Idea.

KITCHELL'S LINIMENT.
Take of
Water ammonia
Water
Caramel to color.
Mix.

part.

3 parts.

Western Druggist.


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NERVE RESTORER.

Dr. R. H. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer is made

from the following formula, which is well known as
introduced by a celebrated European M. D.:

Take

of

Bromide of ammonia
Bromide of potassium

3 dr.
3 dr.

80

Bicarb, of potassium
Tinct. columbo

Water
Mix.

Dose:

gr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Tea-spoonful thrice daily water.

Dr. Wade Med. World.
in

in

KREYDER'S AGUE

PILLS.

Take of
Sulph. quinia

20 gr.
10 gr.
10 gr.

Dover's powder
Sub. carb. iron

Mix

.with

Dose:

mucilage of acacia and form twenty

Two

each

hour,

before the chill should set

and morning

pills.

commencing five hours

in.
Then take one night

until all are taken.

KTJMYSS.
Mr. H. W. C. Martin, of Chicago {Western Drugin quite an extended experience in the manufacture of Kumyss, gives the following details for its

gist)^

preparation:

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Fresh milk

14 gal.
28 gal.

Skimmed milk
Water

6 gal.

Sugar, granulated

10

lb.

lb.

Yz

oz.

Milk sugar
Yeast,

package, or about ....

These portions were selected

for the

reason that

cow's milk contains, according to the best authorities,

about 4 per .cent, of

tains only about

and water, the 4 per

per cent.
the

cent,

while mare's milk con-

By using skimmed milk

is

reduced to the desired

Again, the addition of water has reduced

phosphates

amount present
of casein

fat,

per cent.

in
in

cow's milk to near the desired

mare's milk, while the subtraction

from the skimmed milk, together with the

amount of casein from
per cent, to about the iy2 or 1^ per cent,

addition of water, reduced the

4*^ or

contained

in

Take

mare's milk.

and by aid of a steam bath

raise

it

of 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

the yeast,

first

and keep

it

the

skimmed

milk,

to the temperature

Add

one-third of

dissolved in a small quantity of water,

at this

temperature until the casein sepa-

Pour off the whey and strain

through muslin into a 40-gallon cask already conNow add the balance of the
taining the fresh milk.
yeast dissolved in a small quantity of the milk, and
The
lastly the water with the sugar dissolved in it.
cask should be made of oak, with a wooden faucet
just below the lower hoop, to which is attached a
rubber hose about 15 feet long and one-half inch in
rates into a thick mass.
it

diameter, so as to allow

it

to

go

into the

neck of a

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quart champagne bottle.

end there

is

those

ilar to

About four inches from the

attached to the tube an arrangement sim-

we

see on fountain syringes, whereby the

flow can be controlled at will.

stirred

once

bottling

is

in

about

filled,

The Kumyss

five or ten

proceeded with.

convenient to the cask, and

and a

105

is

now

minutes while the

Place the bottles in rows

fill

to within three inches

half to four inches of the top.

When

all

are

soak some straight wide corks of proper size

in

lukewarm water, and cork thoroughly with the aid of

a corking machine, and so that the corks do not protrude more than one-quarter of an inch above the
neck.
Tie with good, stout twine, the same as you
would a bottle of citrate of magnesia, and lay on their
The temperature of the room should be about
sides.
70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and the bottles should
be shaken once in five or six hours. At the end of 15
or 18 hours fermentation will have perceptibly begun,

and they are ready for the ice-box. The temperature

box should be kept under 55 degrees Fahrenheit to allow a slow and even fermentation to go on.
If kept below this point, Kumyss does not need any
more shaking after it is in the ice-box. It is only too
high a temperature and rapid fermentation which
causes the lumps and grittiness which should be
entirely absent in a good Kumyss.
of the


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LAC VIRGINIS.
COSMETIC FOR SKIN.

Take of
Tinct. of benzoin

10 parts.
150 parts.

Rose-water

Mix.
ordinary

tea-spoonful of this mixture, added to an

hand-basin of water, makes an admirable

cosmetic for the skin of the face and hands.

LALLEMAND'S

SPECIFIC.

Take of
Sulph. quinia
Sulph. cinchona
Ext. colocynth . - . .
Wine colchicum seeds
Tinct. verat. viride
Dilute alcohol

Dose:

dr.

dr.

8 oz.
1

oz.

8 oz.

Sherry wine
Mix.

dr.

31 oz.

One tea-spoonful.
National Druggist.

LANGELL'S ASTHMA REMEDY.

Take

of

Powdered belladonna leaves.

Powdered nitrate of potash.

part.

10 parts.

Mix.

LAUBACH'S ECLECTIC LINIMENT.

An

analysis of a bottle of this preparation

us shows that

it is

light,

made by

amber-colored liquid, put up

AND
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a so-called 4-ounce panel bottle (holding about

3 fluid ounces) with rubber cork.

We

formulate a similar liniment as follows:

Take of
60 parts.

Oil of turpentine
Tincture of arnica flowers.
Stronger water of ammonia.

120 parts.
120 parts.

Soap liniment

900 parts.

Oil of sassafras
Oil of thyme

6 parts.
2 parts.

Alcohol

240 parts.

Total parts (by measure)

1448

New Idea.

LAVARRE'S SURE CURE.

Upon examination we
glass, oblong,

find that

it

is

a white

in

square-panel bottle, holding

2%

fluid

ounces, of a rather turbid, deep pinkish-red liquid, with

a sweetish, saline, aromatic taste, the composition of

which

is

about as follows:

Fl. ext.

poke berries

Fl. ext. sassafras

Liquid ammonia, caustic

Sodium bromide

20 gr.

Alcohol
Oil of peppermint

Yz
1

Powdered cochineal
White sugar
Water (enough to make)

The

80 minims.
40 minims.
5 minims.

bottle

wrapped

is

enclosed

in

fl.

oz.

minim.

4 gr.
3 dr. troy.

fl.

oz.

a straw-board pipe, and

in a thick, light-blue

wrapper, upon which

is


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stated " Health

is

gentleman with

clerical

Wealth," with the portrait of an old

tie,

The wrapper

white locks.

high forehead, and sparse

states

it is

a sure cure for

neuralgia, rheumatism, toothache, headache, back-ache,

and

by any derangement of the

is printed on
the wrapper that it contains no morphine, opium,
chloral hydrate, or other poisonous drugs.
Another
paragraph states that the contents of the bottle contain the virtues of two pounds of the choicest barks
and herbs. New Idea.
all

diseases produced

nervous system.

special guarantee

LAVILLES'8 GOUT CURE.

This patent preparation

is

said to have the following

composition:

Take of
Quinine
Cinchonine
Colocynthin

Lime

7 gr.

gr.

3 8 gr.
7 6 gr.
.

salts

Coloring matter
Alcohol

Water
Port wine.

9.3

4.6

3^
2^
1234.0

gr.
fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

National Druggist.
LEE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
Take of
Calomel
Jalap

30 gr.
60 gr.


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IO9

Gamboge

12 gr.

Tartar emetic

3 gr.

Beat into a mass and make into 24

gum

Dose:

By

mix with

pills,

arabic or extract of dandelion.

3 to 5

pills

as a purgative.

substituting podophyllin in the place of calomel

(same quantity)

common

it

makes a

Dose:

use.

LEE'S

safer

to 3

and better

pill for

pills.

GRAVEL REMEDY.

Take of
Sapo. Venet
pulv
Oil juniper
Gum arabic pulv

4 oz.
4 oz.
4 oz.

Sal. nitre

Sal.

absynth

oz.

oz.

Beat into a mass.

Dose:

One

pill

three times a day on an empty

stomach.

Keep

the mass entirely excluded from the

air, in

bladder or wide mouth bottle covered with oiled

Pills to

be made of the

size of

delion tea for a constant drink

buck

silk.

Drink dan-

shot.

"nothing else"

LEE'S LITHONTRIPTIC.
Take

of

Powdered

castile soap
Carbonate of potassium
Nitrate of potassium

2 oz.

Powdered gum arabic

5 dr.

Oil of juniper

Mix.

4 dr.
2 dr.

fl.

Druggists

dr.

Circular.

HO

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LIEBIG'S

The

CORN CURE.

following formula for Liebig's Corn Cure

is

said to be very effective:

Take of
Extract of cannabis indica ...
Salicylic acid

Collodion

Mix

until

5 parts.

30 parts.
240 parts.

Apply with a camel-hair

and mornings to form

dissolved.

pencil four consecutive nights

thick

The

coating.

collodion protects the corn

and rubbing, while the extract of

cannabis indica acts as an anodyne, and the salicylic
acid dissolves and disintegrates the corn.
from

irritation

For relieving the pain of corns the following has

been recommended:

Take of
Powdered sugar of lead
Powdered myrrh
Powdered camphor
Powdered litharge
Sweet oil and saxoline, of each.

Make

the powders into

stiff

dr.

dr.

dr.

dr.

sufficient.

paste with sweet

oil,

then add saxoline to bring up to the consistency of an

ointment.

It

almost instant

The

is

stated that this application gives an

relief.

following

is

a formula sometimes used to dis-

solve and soften corns:


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Ill

Take of
Solution of potassa
Tincture of iodine

dr.

dr.

Glycerine

4 dr.

Water

sufficient to

make

oz.

LAFAYETTE MIXTURE.
This

a gonorrhoea mixture,

is

section

the country.

of

In

much used

New York

it

in
is

generally used in the hospitals and dispensaries.

formula

is

this

very
Its

as follows:

Take of
Balsam of copaiba
Spirit of nitrous ether

Comp.

spirit of lavender
Solution of potassa

y2
y2
y2

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Mucilage of acacia, enough to

make

Mix the balsam with the solution of potassa, then

add the two spirits. Put the requisite amount of
mucilage into a bottle, pour the other mixture on top,
and mix the whole by agitation.
In some institutions it is customary to use equal
volumes of mucilage and syrup, instead of mucilage
American Druggist.
alone.

LINDSEY'S PAIN CURE.

"This

is

an excellent application for pain of any

and especially
and inflammatory rheumatism."
kind, or in any place,

for neuralgia

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I

obtained this from Mr. G.

Moines,

W. Snyder, of Des
who very

Iowa, the present manufacturer,

readily gets 50 cents for

Alcohol
Ethereal
No. six

oil

of an ounce.

4
4
4
4

of wine

camphor
Oil hemlock
Oil cinnamon
Spts.

dr.
oz.

2 oz.

4 oz.
2 oz.

4 oz.
4 oz.

oil

may be

1
1

2 oz.

Oil cedar
Oil origanum
Oil wintergreen
It

oz.

oz.

4 dr.

Ether
Chloroform
Sweet spirits of nitre
Chloral hydrate

Mix.

dr.

2 oz.

Oil sassafras
Oil cloves

Lard

oz.

oz.

2 dr.

taken internally in doses of

5 to

60

drops.

The number six is tincture of capsicum and myrrh,

made double strength. The spirits of camphor is
also made double strength by the aid of chloroform.

Dr.

LINIMENT FOR

McCann

in

MAN AND

Medical World.

BEAST.

Take of
Powdered myrrh
Powdered aloes
Balsam fir
Alcohol
Mix.

oz.

oz.

troy oz.
fl.

oz.

National Druggist.

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LIQUOR CARBONIS DETERGENS.

Take of
Quillaya saponaria (soap bark) ... 4
2
Alcohol (65 per cent.)

Macerate and

filter

Tinct. (as above)

100 parts.
50 parts.

Coal tar
Mix.

lb.

gal.

After eight days,

filter.

Used

externally in

skin diseases.

LEAD
There

is

IN"

HAIR RESTORATIVES.

a popular impression that the continued

use of hair restoratives leads to paralysis.

In the

below it is not strange that lead

paralysis is caused by these preparations.
The following is taken from the report of Prof.
C. F. Chandler to the N. Y. Board of Health
light of the facts

Mrs. S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer.

One

fluid

ounce contains

Lead
Lead

in solution
in the

sediment

26 gr.

0.31

gr.

Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer.

One

fluid

ounce contains

Lead
Lead

in solution
in the

6 45 gr.
.

sediment

0.68

gr.

Ayer's Hair Vigor.

One

fluid

ounce contains

Lead
Lead

in solution

in the

sediment .....

2 .81 gr.
.

o .08 gr.

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Hoyt's Hiawatha Hair Restorative.

This

is

an ammoniacal solution of nitrate of

silver,

containing 4.76 grains of the nitrate in one fluid

It contains no other metals.
ounce.
Clark's Distilled Restorative for the Hair.

This preparation contains

Lead

in

one

ounce

fluid

in solution

1 1

gr.

L. KnitteP s Indian Hair Tonique.

One

fluid

ounce contains

Lead
Lead

in solution
in the

sediment

16 gr.

13 gr.

Chevalier's Life for the Hair.

One

fluid

ounce contains

Lead
Lead

in solution

Pearson

One

fluid

Lead
Lead

0.22
0.80

in

the sediment

&

Co.'s Circassian

ounce contains

gr.

Hair Rejuvenator.

in solution
in

gr.

the sediment

.40 gr.

.31 gr.

LITTLE HOP PILLS.

"

For headache, biliousness, weak nerves, dyspepsia,

liver, and general debility."
Manufactured by the Hop Pill Manufacturing ComWeight of 12 pills = 16
pany, New London, Conn.
constipation, deranged

grains.

They contain

rhubarb

in small quantities,

colocynth.

oil

Sugar coated.

of peppermint, podophyllin,

and probably extract of


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115

grains for sugar coating,

we

suggest the following as a formula closely resembling

the original:

Take of
Podophyllin
Ext. colocynth
Oil of peppermint
Ext. rhubarb
Mix, divide into
sugar.

New

12

3 gr.
6 gr.
1 drop.
sufficient.
pills

and coat heavily with

Idea.

LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.

Take of
Sugar

10 dr.
10 dr.

Starch
Gum arabic

5 dr.

Lactucarium
Equal parts each of
Vinegar of squills,

Oxymel
Wine of

The

last

75 gr.

of squills,
ipecac.

three are to be mixed and evaporated to

one-sixth the original bulk and

ders in quantity sufficient to

consistence.

This

is

to

added to the powa mass of proper

make

be divided into lozenges of

seven and one-half grains each.

LOWNDES'S MAGIO CBEAM.

Take of
Hydrarg. ammoniat
Zinc oxide .*
.

part.

3 parts.

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Must be thoroughly incorporated in powder; suffiglycerine and lard then added to make a stiff

cient

cream.

For application to venereal

ulcers.

LOW'S MAGNETIC LINIMENT.

Low's Magnetic Liniment

is

a thin, reddish liquid,

put up in panel bottle (containing three

with a rubber cork.
analysis,

ammonia,
ing

oil

of sassafras,

fluid

ounces)

contains according to

turpentine,

of

oil

It

capsicum,

The

and alcohol.

our

camphor,
follow-

formula furnishes a liniment nearly identical

contents, character,

and

in

color:

Take of
Oil of turpentine
Tinct. of capsicum
Spirits of camphor
Stronger water of ammonia

Alcohol

(sp. gr.

90 parts.
120 parts.

960 parts.
90 parts.

180 parts.

820)

Oil of sassafras
Fluid ext. of sassafras

6 parts.

40 parts.

Total (parts by weight).

i486

New Idea.

LYON'S KATHAIRON.
The

following

formula w ill exactly duplicate the

r

original:

Take of
Castor

oil

Tinct. cantharides

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.


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117

Oil of bergamot

Stronger water of ammonia.

Alcohol sufficient to make

20 minims.
1 drop.
3

fl.

qz.

New

Idea.

MAGNETIC LINIMENT.
Take

of

Tinct. of cantharides
Oil of origanum

2 dr.

Muriate ammonia

2 dr.

Sulphuric ether
Alcohol

oz.

oz.

pt.

Mix.

MALVINA CREAM.
I. Hubert, inventor and proprietor,
"Warranted to remove freckles,
beautify the complexion, and preserve the smoothness
of the skin."
Used in conjunction with Malvina
Lotion.
According to our examination it is as folPut up in a white glass ointment jar, containlows:
ing 386 grains of a white, pleasant appearing and
pleasant smelling ointment, which consists of white
wax, white petrolatum, a bismuth salt, and mercuric
chloride in very small quantities.
We recommend

Prepared by Prof.

Toledo,

Ohio.

the following formula as one which will

paration closely resembling the original:

make a

pre-


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Take

of

Saxoline

265 gr.
50 gr.
30 gr.

White wax
Spermaceti

Bismuth oxychloride
Mercuric chloride
Spirit of rose (4 drams of
1

gr.

j gr.
oil to

20 minims.

pint)

Oil of bitter

Warm

40

almonds

-^ minim.

white wax, and spermaceti

While cooling incorporate the
bismuth oxychloride and the mercuric chloride, this
last previously dissolved in a little alcohol, and when
the

saxoline,

together until melted.

nearly cold,

stir in

New Idea.

the perfumes.

MALVINA

LOTION.

"AN ADDITION TO MALVINA CREAM."

" This lotion should be used as directed with the
Malvina Cream, as it is of great importance to cure
freckles,

worm, and

pimples,
salt

moth

rheum.

patches,

liver

It straightens

speeds the respiration of

the

mole,

ring-

wrinkles in face*

blood,

cleanses

and

softens the skin to youthful freshness."

Put up in a white glass, square bottle, holding 4^

ounces of a milky-white fluid, with a powder
in
suspension.
No quantitative estimates were
attempted.
In solution we found mercuric chloride,
and the powder in suspension is a carbonate or subcarbonate of zinc.
The milky fluid is evidently an
The following
emulsion of almonds Doorly made.
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will make a preparation in most respects simMalvina Lotion. Make up an emulsion of

almonds (2 drams to 1 pint) with rose-water. In one
pint of this fluid dissolve two grains of mercuric
chloride, and suspend in the mixture three drams of

formula
ilar

to

New

zinc oxide.

Idea.

MATHIETPS VERMIFUGE.
Take

of

Tin filings
Fern root

Worm-seed
Ext. of jalap
Sulphate of potassa

Honey

%
^

oz.
oz.
oz.

dr.

dr.

form an electuary.

to

tea-spoonful every three hours for two days, then

substitute the following

Jalap
Sulphate of potassa

Scammony
Gamboge

Make

into

2 scruples.
2 scruples.
1

scruple.

iogr.

an electuary with honey and give the

same dose as the preceding.

MEIBOM'S PECTORAL BALSAM.

Take of
Benzoin
Dragon's blood

Opium
Bals.

Peru

10
10
10
10

parts.

parts.
parts.
parts.

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Spermaceti
Butter
Sweet oil of almonds
Oil of turpentine
Acetic acid
Digest for some days,
strain

through

5 parts.

10 parts.

50 parts.
100 parts.

2 parts.

frequently

shaking,

and

linen.

To be rubbed on

the breast once daily and taken

internally once or twice daily,

in

doses

of ten

to

coughs and catarrh.

fifteen drops, for

METZ'S BALSAM.
Metz's Balsam, which
tions of the country,

is
is

it

quite popular in

said

is

some

sec-

prepared as follows:

Take of
Linseed
Olive

oil

....

*..,...

oil

Oil of laurel berries

Turpentine (oleo-resin)

180
180
30
60

parts.
parts.

parts.
parts.

Melt by a gentle heat and add:

Powdered aloes
Powdered verdigris
Powdered white vitriol
Pour

into a bottle

8 parts.
12 parts.
6 parts.

and add:

Oil of juniper
Oil of cloves

Mix by
It
etc.

is

15 parts.
4 parts.

shaking.

used as a dressing for ulcers,

boils,

wounds,

National Druggist.

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MEXICAN" MUSTANG LINIMENT.

This widely advertised liniment comes

by a

bottle surrounded

The

lithographic wrapper.

in a round
and enclosed in a

circular

bottle

holds ify

fluid

ounces of a preparation which is a light brownish

emulsion, smelling of petroleum products and terebinthinate

oils.

The

following

may be

taken as a

very fair duplicate:

Take of

^
y2
^

Oil turpentine
Oil thyme
Oil amber, crude

Black oil
Kerosene

dr.
dr.
dr.

3 dr.

oil

Water
Soap

3 oz. 2 dr.

35 gr.

Caustic potash

The soap should be

dr.

3 gr.

placed, together with the alkali,

and then dissolved in two ounces of hot water;

add the mixed oils in very small quantities at a time,
in

flask,

with vigorous shaking.

When

the mixture has once

assumed a creamy consistency, the oils may be added

more rapidly; but in any case, reasonable care should
be observed, and this is true in adding more water,
which should be quite warm, until the full pint is
made. If the oils do not emulsify readily, it is necessary to begin over again, as either too much oil was
added at first, or the water was not warm enough.
Strict attention must be paid to both of these considerations in order to insure success.

New

Idea.

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MILLER'S GOLDEN
The
it

will

OIL.

on bottle of Miller's Golden Oil states

label

cure diphtheria,

bronchitis,

coughs,

colds,

whooping-cough, catarrh in the head, croup, burns,

rheumatic pains, neuralgia, toothache, headache, pains
breast and

neck, sore

throat, earache,

stiff

neck, sprains, wounds, bruises,

broken breasts,

salt

rheum, sore eyes,

in

the

side,

tetter,

asthma,

frosted

feet,

piles, deafness, corns, etc.

Directions.

This

oil

should be taken inwardly and

applied externally.

According to

New

Idea, this consists mainly

Essential oil of lavender

Essential oil of eucalyptus
Essential oil of sassafras
Oil of turpentine

Cotton-seed

20 d
20
20
1 u.

oil

fl.

dr.

MITCHELL'S EYE SALVE.

"A

certain, safe,

and

effectual

remedy

for

weak, and inflamed eyes.

sore,

Prepared only by E. Taylor,

chemical works, Rochester, N. Y."
This preparation consists of a small quantity of
oxide of mercury, and a considerable quantity of
oxide of zinc, disseminated through a fatty base,
seemingly lard, stiffened with a little white wax. We
offer the following as an efficient substitute:
Saxoline, snow white
White wax

350

gr.

130 gr.

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Oxide of zinc
Oxide of mercury

45 gr.

Oil of lavender

10 drops.

23

5 gr.

Melt the white wax and saxoline together, and stir

As soon as the mass begins
to solidify incorporate the oxides and oil of lavender.
constantly while cooling.

New Idea.

MOREHEAD'S MAGNETIC PLASTER

Is said to

be composed of tar and extract of

bella-

donna, of each equal parts.

MITCHELL'S SYSTEM OF TREATMENT OF PILES.

In the year 187 1, there lived in the village of Clin-

young physician named Mitchell. His

and afforded him superabundant
leisure, which he employed in devising a new treatment for piles. Being a good thinker, he soon conceived the idea of treating hemorrhoids by the hypodermic injection of a mixture of olive oil and carbolic
ton, Illinois, a

practice was small,

acid.

Having

tried

his plan

upon an old farmer of the

neighborhood, he accomplished a triumphant cure.

The old farmer was delighted and garrulous, and the

young doctor was needy but ambitious, and the two
made

a sort of co-partnership, the old farmer attend-

young doctor received

and punctured their piles and their
Knowledge of
pockets with his hypodermic syringe.
Certain itinerants began to
their methods spread.
ing to the advertising while the

the

patients

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them to secrecy in
and binding each to practice only in the district
for which he had " purchased the right."
Two men
in Chicago are said to have paid three thousand dolsell

the secret to others, pledging

turn,

lars for the exclusive secret " right " to a certain por-

tion of Illinois, including their city.

Flocks of

itiner-

ants bought the secret of each other, and traversed

the country in every direction until their handbills

on the shores of the Pacific ocean. In the

one of the quacks revealed to us his
method, and by taking measures adapted to the purpose, we found that his information was correct.
We
then entered into correspondence with a considerable
number of the itinerants, some of whom seemed willing
fluttered

year

1876

make a

We

communicated
who had
observed the practice of the itinerants, and in some
In
cases had made use of the method themselves.
to

clean

with a large

breast.

number

also

of regular physicians

the

course of this investigation,

300

letters,

we

received

and got rough estimates of the

the injections in about 3,300 cases.

menced with a mixture

about

results of

Mitchell com-

of one part of carbolic acid to

two parts of olive oil, but he gradually varied from

his first method, and at length, as I am informed, he
partly abandoned the injections and adopted the plan
of tearing the interior of the piles to pieces by
angular needles set in handles. He probably met
some of the dangerous accidents which have occurred
in the injection practice and changed to the needles
on that account. His disciples, however, persisted,

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and in their hands the injections were varied in

numerous ways.
One of the itinerants wrote us
that he had tested " every caustic in the vegetable and
mineral kingdoms," but that he came back to the carbolic acid as the best,

The

"and

the stronger the better."

excipients generally used were

oil,

glycerine or

which water was sometimes added. Carbolic acid was generally, but not always, the active
ingredient, and the strength varied from twenty to
one hundred per cent. We were disappointed on the
Although there were many
whole in the results.
beautiful cures, thirteen deaths were reported to us
alcohol, to

out of about 3,304 cases, besides a large

number

of

dangerous abscesses, sloughings, and in some cases

prolonged and terrible pain, or desperate shock, the
In a numlatter being probably from embolism.
ber of cases very dangerous hemorrhages occurred,
presumed to be from the spasmodic grip of the
sphincter bursting the thin walls of a pile, squeezing

out the

clot,

and

letting loose the floodgates of the

hemorrhoidal veins, which, above the verge, have no

valves.

The

itinerants varied

fluids used.

The weak

greatly the strength of the

solutions acted

more mildly

than the others, but they often failed of cure.

The

strong preparations almost always cured the piles,

but they produced a multitude of cases of abscesses

and sloughings. The Michigan itinerant above mentioned states, that he preferred positive results, and
always sought to cause the piles to suppurate or


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mortify, and to that end he " preferred carbolic acid,

and the stronger the better." Some of them use the
acid at a strength of only three per cent, and others
Regular physicians
as high as ninety-five per cent.
were for a number of years wholly at a loss to account
for the success which these itinerants obtained.
Our
own discovery of the secret resulted partly from the
indiscretion of a

" specialist,"

who

exemplified the

and partly from the information

obtained by a Chicago druggist, who furnished the
We published
same man and others their solutions.
the knowledge thus obtained simultaneously in five
prominent medical journals, and as a result were
shortly in receipt of hundreds of letters from persaying, in vino Veritas,

sons of

all classes,

and the

The

results,

with reports of thousands of cases,

both good and bad, of the method.

sale of " rights " ceased quickly.

The sums

for exclusive rights, in a limited district,

one thousand to

fifteen

dollars.

Andrews's Rectal and Anal Surgery.

MOTHER
Take

hundred

paid

were from

SIEGEL'S SYRUP.

of

Cone, decoction of aloes

Borax
Capsicum, powdered
Gentian, powdered
Sassafras

oil

Wintergreen

oil

Rectified spirit
Fluid extract dandelion

Syrup

(i

to 4)

60 m.
1.3

0.13

gm
gm
gm

2.3
0.3 gm.

0.12 gm.
7.5 gm.
7.5 gm.
125 gm.

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MOXIE A NERVE FOOD.

A

correspondent desires to know the composition

Moxie Nerve Food, extensively advertised "as a

" Though neither a
very lively enemy to rum," etc.
stimulant, poison, tonic, nor medicine, and contains
of

not a drop of alcohol, yet

thirst

better

it

satisfies the

than anything else."

more excitement
or the telegraph, and

has created

in the

drunkard's
*

"It

East than the

in Washington they all

from the President down."
Such is the
driveling language of a quack nostrum, boomed by a
retired homoeopath for the benefit of the dissipated
As usual, a romantic story goes with the nerve
elite.
food, how it is prepared from a plant discovered by
one Lieut. Moxie, and, "being entirely unknown to
the botanists," was named in his honor.
A large
reward is offered for any chemist who can produce its
equal, or give a correct analysis of the wonderful
This "Moxie," despite the wonderful
nerve food.
tale of its discovery, and although so " wholly unknown to botanists," is, we presume to say, a plant
The great " Nerve
otherwise termed avena sativa.
Food " is a decoction of oats, made into a syrup and
flavored with sassafras and wintergreen.

railroad

drink

it,

Western Druggist.

MURRAY'S INFALLIBLE SYSTEM TONIC,

M.

I.

S. T.

Manufactured by the M. I. S. T. Co., Indianapolis,

Ind., S. B. Murray, manager.
Claimed by them to be


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"the only scrofula, catarrh, blood, liver, and kidney

medicine on earth." This preparation is put up in
small gelatine capsules, each containing on an average

2%

grains of a brown, bitter, pasty mass.

price

is

$1.00 per box

examination proved

containing 50 capsules.

Our

to be:

it

Aloes

50 gr.

Cinnamon, pulv
Glycyrrhiza root, pulv,

25 gr.
25 gr.

Water

sufficient.

Make

into a pill

mass with a

little

water, and divide

Press into gelatine capsules for use.

into 50 parts.

New Idea.

NERVE AND BONE LINIMENT.

Take

of

Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil

of
of
of
of

origanum
rosemary

oz.

4 pts.
...

6 pts.

For external use

Mix.

4 oz.
4 oz.
4 oz.

amber
hemlock

Turpentine
Linseed oil

only.

NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Take

of

Ol. santal alb. opt

Tinct. cubebs
Spts. lavender

Spt. nit. dulc

01. cassia opt
Syr. acacia

Mix

Retail

Dose:

comp

y2
y2
y2
15
2^

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

drops.
fl.

oz.

A tea-spoonful before meals.


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OIL OF GLADNESS.
Take of
Oil of marjoram
Oil of peppermint
Oil of horsemint

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

Ether
2
Tincture of capsicum ........ 4
Tincture of opium
1
Tincture of red sanders
1

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Alcohol, sufficient quantity to

make

Druggists*

Mix.

Circular.

OIL OF JOY.
Take

of

Alcohol

Gum

camphor

pts.

Yz oz.

Oil of sassafras
Oil of cedar
Tinct. of guaiac
Tincture of capsicum
Water of ammonia

4 oz.

Chloroform

3 oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

2 oz.

Mix.

OLIVE BRANCH.
Olive Branch consists of powdered jequirity
into suppositories, with

made

cocoa butter or white wax.

Boston Journal of Health.

ORANGE BLOSSOM.
Claimed by
all

its

proprietors to be a positive cure for

female diseases.

The

article

is

in

the form of a

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130

Our analysis shows it to be

oblong body, about one inch
long, by one-half inch wide and one-half inch thick,
weighing full two grammes (31 grains). A single
vaginal

suppository.

about as follows:

An

and encloses a

fold of heavy tin foil surrounds

light,

grayish-yellow, unguentous mass, of a rancid, fatty

odor,

and astringent, metallic

The

very acid.

taste.

The

reaction

constituents are:

Zinc sulphate

Alum

dr.

15 gr.

Cocoa butter
White wax
Oil sweet almonds
Ext. henbane

3 dr.

y2

dr.

1^

dr.

gr.

New Idea.
OSGOOD'S CHOLAGOGXJE, OR CELEBRATED
AGUE CURE.
Take of
Sulph. quinine
Fluid ext. leptandra
Saturated tinct. stillingia
Fluid ext. podophyllin
Oil of sassafras
Oil of wintergreen

New

2 dr.

2 dr.

Orleans molasses sufficient to

make
Mix.

oz.

3 dr.
10 drops.
10 drops.

Dose:

8 oz.

One to two tea-spoonfuls.

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131

OZONE UTERINE WAFERS.

Ozone Uterine wafers

consist of

powdered

jequi-

rity in capsules.

While jequirity

is

of value in uterine diseases,

it

should be used with caution.

Boston Journal of Health.

PAGE'S LIQUID GLUE.
Take of
Best carpenter's glue
Acetic acid

120 parts.

Water

130 parts.

10 parts.

Alum
Digest

in

part.

water bath until dissolved, and when cold

add
Alcohol

30 parts.

New Idea.
PALMER'S COSMETIC LOTION
is

said

to

be a weak (one per cent.) solution of

sulpho-carbolate of zinc in glycerine and rose-water.

Western Druggist.
BLAIR'S GOUT
are

composed

of

AND RHEUMATIC

acetic

extract of hyoscyamus.

extract

of

PILLS

colchicum and

New Idea.

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132

GRAVES'S GOUT PREVENTIVE

is a mixture made by steeping, for one week, dried
orange peel and hiera picra, of each one ounce, and
rhubarb, half an ounce, in brandy, one pint.

PARSONS'S LOCAL ANESTHETIC.

Take

of

Chloroform

12 parts.

Tinct. aconite
Tinct. capsicum
Tinct. pyrethrum
Oil cloves

12 parts.

4 parts.
2 parts.

2 parts.

Camphor

2 parts.

Dissolve the camphor

oil

of cloves,

in

and then the

the chloroform, then add

tinctures.

The venerable

Dr. Parsons, in sending this formula for publication,

says

"I cannot expect to remain

world, and

want the profession

this local anaesthetic."

much longer in this

know the value of

to

Southern Dental Journal.

PATTERSON'S EMULSION OF PUMPKIN SEEDS.

Patterson's Emulsion of

Pumpkin Seeds

is

said to

be a good emulsion for expelling tapeworms.

Take two ounces

of

pumpkin seeds, peel and pound

add by degrees eight fluid

to a paste with sugar, then

ounces of water, the whole to be taken

draughts at short intervals.

in

two or three

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133

ACTINA.
Prof. Flavel B. Tiffany, of the University Medical

College,

this

"Actina" has

city,

this

says the extensively advertised

composition

Menthol crystals
Alcohol
Ether sulph

Oil mustard

Sponge

dr.

y2

dr.

dr.

2 dr.

make

sufficient to

oz.

dr.

dr.

Or
Menthol crystals
Ether hydrobromic
Oil mustard
Sponge sufficient to make
Kansas

2 oz.
1

City

oz.

Med. Index.

PEEKSKILL'S COUGH SYRUP.

Take of
Syrup of tolu
Syrup of ipecac

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Paregoric

fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Syrup of wild cherry

Medical World.

Mix.

PERRY'S COMPOUND SARSAPARILLA BLOOD

PURIFIER.
Take of
Turkey-corn root

2 lb.

Stillingia root

2 lb.

Sarsaparilla root

2 lb.

Yellow-dock root
Sassafras bark

2 lb.
1

lb.

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Simple syrup
Diluted alcohol
Iodide of potassa

2 gal.

32

pt.

2 lb.

Water

sufficient.

Percolate roots and bark with diluted alcohol, add

syrup, then iodide of potassa.

make

six gallons.

Dissolve in water to

Kilners Modern Pharmacy.

PERRY DAVIS'S PAIN KILLER.

Take of

Gum myrrh
Capsicum
Gum opium
Gum
Gum
Gum

2%. lb.
10 oz.
8 oz.
6 oz.

benzoin
guiac

3 oz.

camphor

10 oz.

Alcohol

5 gal.

PETTIT'S

The formula

EYE SALVE.

for this old

and popular remedy

is

as

follows:

Take of
Olive

oil

Spermaceti

White wax

y2
y2

dr.
dr.
dr.

Melt together, and add gradually, under trituration

warm mortar, to the following in fine powder, and
thoroughly mix:

in a


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135

White precipitate
Oxide zinc
Acid benzoic
Morphine sulph
Oil rosemary
Finally stir

20 gr.

30

gr.

J4 gr.

cool,

until

gr.

2 gr.

and

covered vessel.

preserve in a well

Western Druggist.

PARSONS'S PURGATIVE PILLS.

TaKe of
Aloes
Calomel
Powd. colocynth

%
^

Gamboge

gr.
gr.
gr.

Soap

Yz gr.
Y* gr.

Mandrake root
Oil peppermint

^
^

gr.
gr.

Mix.

PHENOL SODIQUE
is

said to be

composed

of

Carbolic acid
Caustic soda
Distilled water

188 gr.
3 1 gr.
4 fl. oz.

Mix.

ANTI-FAT.
Antifat

is

vesiculosus).

a fluid extract of bladder wrack

It

(preferably), 7^2

is

(fucus

prepared from the fresh plant

pounds being used

of the extract, with proof spirit as the

to

make 40

oz.

menstruum.

New Idea.


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PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION.

Take of
Savin

150 gr.
150 gr.

Cinchona
Agaric

Cinnamon
Water sufficient

75 gr.
75 gr.

To

this

make

to

coction of

a de8

add

Acacia
Sugar

150 gr.
75 gr.

y2

Tinct. digitalis

Opium
Dissolve the

dr.

fl.

Y* fl. dr.
8 drops.

Oil anise

tion,

oz.

fl.

gum and

sugar

in the strained

decoc-

then add

Alcohol,

fluid

ounces,

in

which

the

oil

has

previously been dissolved.

Western Druggist, fro?n Hager.

PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
Take of
extract of cinchona
extract of columbo
extract of guaiacum
extract of licorice
Tincture of opium
Podophyllin (resinoid)

Fluid
Fluid
Fluid
Fluid

Glycerine
Alcohol

16 oz.

4 oz.
8 oz.

4 oz.
1
1

oz.

20 gr.
6

fl.

pt.

sufficient.

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137

Dissolve the podophyllin in the alcohol, and add

the rest of the ingredients.

Mix them.

Dose:

A tea-spoonful.
The Drug Mill.

PIMPLE LOTION.
Take of
Carbolic acid

Borax

4 dr.

Glycerine

Tannin

2 dr.

Alcohol
Rose-water

Mix and

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Circular.

CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

cannabis indica

Chloroform
Sulph. morphia
Tartar emetic
Ess. mentha
Water
Sugar

Mix

oz.

10

Druggists'

Tinct. tolu
Fl. ext. lobelia
Fl. ext.

fl.

Apply night and morning.

dissolve.

PISO'S

dr.

viridis

y2

oz.

2 dr.

2 dr.
1

dr.

4 gr.
4 gr.
10 drops.
8 oz.
14 oz.

the fluid extracts, tincture of tolu, chloroform

and essence of spearmint, and shake with the sugar in

a bottle. Dissolve with the morphine and tartar emetic
in hot water, then add the water to the sugar in a
bottle.

Dose:

One

tea-spoonful.

New Idea.

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PLATT'S CHLORIDES.
Piatt's Chlorides

we found

be approximately as

to

follows:

Take of

Magnesium

iy2

chloride

Potassium chloride

parts.

1^2 parts.
1}^ parts.

Sodium chloride
Zinc chloride

7^

Aluminum

7J4 parts.
100 parts.

chloride
Water, sufficient quantity

parts.

New Idea.
POWDERS

PLEIS'S FIT
Are

said to be:

Bromide of potassium
Powdered gentian
.

15 gr.
5 gr.

Make one powder.

Mix.

The Drug

Mill

POPE'S CURE FOR NEURALGIA.

Take

Mix.

of

Iodide of potash
Extract of conium
Comp. tinct. of cinchona

dr.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Syrup of sarsaparilla

fl.

oz.

Tea-spoonful three times a day.

National Druggist.

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POWELL'S BALM OF ANISE SEED.

This patent preparation

is

merely a modification of

" Paregoric Elixir," without the perceptible presence

of camphor, but with the addition of a small quantity

of extract of

licorice,

and the

faintest

presence of

rhubarb.

The medicine

distinctly acid, owing to the presence

and when water is added it becomes
turbid and milky, from anise seed oil being one of
is

of benzoic acid,

the principal constituents.

The

long, narrow, green

contains

bottle

fluid

New Idea.

ounce.

PRICE'S PILE OINTMENT.

Take of
English calomel

Powdered opium
Pure carbonate of lead
Oxide of zinc
Olive

oil

trituration

oz.

oz.

lb.

lb.

2 lb.

Fresh lard (without

Mix by

y2

in

salt)

2 lb.

wedgewood

mortar.

It

was

put up in two-ounce gallipots, tied over with a bit of

bladder, and

was sold readily

at

$1, the

purchasers being river and flat-boat men.

principal


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PROCTOR'S VERMIFUGE.
Take

of

Santonine
Fluid ext. of senna

16 gr.
2 oz.

Fluid ext. of pink-root

Dose

for a child

2 oz.

two years

old,

one tea-spoonful

night and morning until purging takes place.

Used

stomach worms from children.

to expel

QUICK STOP FOR HEADACHES.

WARRANTED TO CURE NERVOUS AND

BILIOUS

HEADACHE.
Directions

be repeated

in

tea-spoonful in

three hours

if

E. F. Mattison, Providence, R.

This preparation comes

little

necessary.

water;

may

Prepared by

I.

in

small

The

with printing in a bluish color.

pink carton,

bottle

is

a panel

and contains 7 fluid drams of a greenish fluid, having

Owing to the small
a strong camphoraceous odor.
amount of preparation contained in the bottle, a full
examination was not obtained, as it required three bottles to determine the amount and nature of the alkaloid which it contains.
Besides camphor, it contains a

that
dose.

little

The

greenish
there

over

about %.

is

is

1^

grains of cocaine to the bottle;

grain of the alkaloidal salt to the

greenish color

fluid

is

some
camphor
henbane, though we

evidently due to

extract and underneath the

an odor suggestive of


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141

any alkaloid having decided mydria-

The cocaine

dilated the pupil slightly,

but this dilation was attributed to the cocaine

which

is

reported to sometimes have this

itself,

effect.

New

Idea.

RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER.

The

interest

excited

by studies

in

bacteriology

not confined entirely to scientific circles.

mind has got hold

now a fertile field

One Mr. Radam,

of

it,

magnified

it,

is

The popular

and probably

is

for the propagation of quackery.

of Texas,

great discovery that

all

has come forth with a

diseases are due to microbes,

and has therefore given to the world his preparation

which is sure death to all microbes and, it is to be
inferred, is therefore sure cure for all disease.
With

amount
Radam's Microbe Killer

a considerable

of literary rot of this

is

kind,

introduced and advertised.

Dr. R. G. Eccles, in a four and a half column article,

in

the Druggists' Circular, manages to give the follow-

ing formula for the preparation:

Take

of

Sulphuric acid (strong)

4 dr.

Hydrochloric acid
Red wine (about)
Well water

Radam's Microbe
use

is

dr.

oz.

gal.

Killer brings $3 per gallon.

Its

not wholly unattended with danger, especially

when used through long periods

of time.


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EADWAY'S
Take

PILLS.

of

Aloes

4 parts.

Jalap

2 parts.

Ginger

2 parts.

Myrrh

2 parts.

Make
2-grain

into a
pills,

mass with mucilage and divide

Cooky.

each box.

RADWAY'S READY
Take

into

of which about four dozen are put into

RELIEF.

of

1%

Soap liniment, about

oz.

Tinct. capsicum, about

Water of ammonia, about

J^oz.

Alcohol, about

y2

^2 oz.

J. J. Pier

oz.
son,

Ph.C.

RAD WAY'S RENOVATING RESOLVENT.

DR.

A somewhat turbid ginger extract, containing cardamoms, made with sugar and inclined to ferment.

Hager,

Mr. H. B. Parsons gives the following:

Take

of

Potassium iodide
Concentrated sarsaparilla decoction
Bitter

almond water

2.5 grm.
15

grm.

10 grm.


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Syrup
Parrish's simple elixir
Distilled water
Caramel sufficient to color.

143

30 grm.
90 grm.
250 grm.

RANSOM'S HIVE SYRUP AND TOLU.

Sold

in white,

ounces.

square bottles containing

1^

fluid

a yellowish syrup, next to odorless, and

It is

upon examination we

find

it

to

be composed about

thus:

Take ot
Fluid ext. squills
Fluid ext. senega
Soluble essence tolu
Tartar emetic
White sugar

Water

to

It is readily

make

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

4 gr.
4 oz. av.
4 fl. oz.

prepared by rubbing the tartar emetic

and sugar well together, adding the fluid extracts and

essence of tolu, and then enough water to make, after
short slight heating and straining, 4 fluid ounces.
Each fluid ounce of the syrup contains 1 grain of

New Idea.

tartar emetic.

REAVE'S EMBROCATION.
Take

of

Olive

oil

Aq. ammonia
Goulard's extract of lead
Oil

Mix.

origanum

Yz oz.
1

oz.

oz.

2 oz.

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RED STAR COUGH CURE.

The Charles A. Vogeler Company are out with a
new candidate for patronage in the quackery line,
called the " Red Star Cough Cure," which title is
their trade mark.
They state that it is absolutely
from morphine and other narcotics, as well as
We purchased a bottle of it and have submitted it to examination, and find that it is a syrupy
preparation of wild-cherry bark, with a little tar and
slight trace of chloroform or chloric
ether, with
It is put up in
possibly a little bitter-almond added.
free

emetics.

green

ounces.

panel
It is

substance,

bottle, -containing

three

full

fluid

a clear, reddish-brown syrup, of thick

has a very faint acid reaction;

pronounced bitter-almond

flavor,

and tarry

odor.

but has
taste

and

New Idea.

REE'S CHOLERA MIXTURE.

Take of
Spts. chloroform
Spts. lavender,

Vin. opium .
Oil of cloves
.

comp
.

2 oz.

2 oz.

3 oz.
40 drops.

Mix.

REX MAGNUS.
According to

Science,

the composition

indicated by the following formula:

is

roughly

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145

Take of
Boric acid

Borax

6 7 Per cent.

Chloride of potassium

Water

DR. RICHMOND'S

15 per cent. x
18 per cent.

SAMARITAN NERVINE.

This preparation

and

all

is intended to cure not alone fits

nervous diseases, but also the defects of moral

character.

Below we give a few of

their

absurd

state-

ments.
"

bad temper can be treated

just as successfully

with a dose of medicine, as a cough or a headache.

Dishonesty

in

a servant need not be punished

by

discharging him; you have only to give him some of

If your son will not study
do not send him to bed early, or threaten
him with more severe correction, but give him Dr.
Richmond's Samaritan Nervine for one week, and he
will become the most studious and diligent child in
school.
There is certainly no end to the benefits
which this specific has conferred upon mankind. As
a peace-maker it acts like magic. A wife who had
for twelve years been abused and neglected by a
morose and violent husband, asked the doctor what
He told her to put every day a few
she should do.
drops of Samaritan Nervine in his coffee. She did so,
and in a surprisingly short time the morose grumbler
became a lamb-like, affectionate, docile spouse.
When so simple a remedy as this is at hand, there is

this

marvelous medicine.

his lessons,

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no longer any reason why domestic discord should

continue.

miserly father

refused to sanction the

attentions of a poor, but respectable

daughter.

The

young man

to his

loving damsel surreptitiously inserted

a few drops of the Samaritan Nervine into her father's

coffee each meal, and within a fortnight the stern old
gentleman not only acquiesced in the lovers' marriage, but gave the bride a handsome dowry."
This article is put up in five-ounce panel bottles,
Such
poorly labeled, and it retails at $1.50 per bottle.
an article could be put up for less than fifteen cents,
including container, leaving by no means a small

margin for the profit of its manufacturers.

According to our analysis, this wonderful agent has
the following formula:
Potass, bromide
Sugar
Caramel
Water
Dissolve and add

oz.

oz.

20 minims.
5 oz.
oil

cassia ....

10 minims.

New

Idea.

ROCHE'S HERBAL EMBROCATION.

An

effectual

remedy

for

whooping-cough, without

internal medicine.

This is the only discovery affording a perfect cure,

without administering internal medicine, the difficulty

and inconvenience of

which,

in

all

disorders par-

ticularly incident to children, are too well

known

to


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need any comment.

SYSTEMS.

The

147

inventor and proprietor of

the Embrocation can with pleasure and satisfaction

declare

that

that

have been so uniand so generally acknowledged,

salutary effects

its

versally experienced,

many of the most eminent of the Faculty now conrecommend it as the only known safe and

stantly

perfect cure, without

medicine.

restriction

of

s circular.

2%

Digest asafcetida

or use of

diet

Extract from manufacturer

parts

with

Olive
for

60 parts,

oil

some hours; decant and mix the

Oil caraway
Oil turpentine

And add

solution with

2 parts.
2 parts.

a few drops of

oil gaultheria.

Western Druggist
On

the wrapper enclosing the vial

the Court Circular says:

is

it

"We

it

is

stated that

find that so invaluable

regarded by those who know most about the

not looked upon as a patent medi-

subject, that

it

cine, since so

many medical men

is

prescribe

it,

not only

England, but in all parts of the world, including the

United States, where its healing power is universally

in

recognized; and

we

are

now

of the

same opinion

those who, after a lengthened experience of

pronounce

it

an absolute

its

as

merits,

specific for this disease/'


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ROGERS'S EXCELSIOR CORN CURE.

Take

of

Fluid ext. cannabis indica

Sulph. morphine
Salicylic acid

Collodion to

Mix

dr.

20 gr.
iogr.

make

fl.

oz.

well.

Pare the corn down

so twice or more,

thin, apply till a coat forms; do

and you can pick the corn out.
Dr. Sullivan in Medical World.

FORMULA FOR INJECTING

RORICK'S

HEMORRHOIDS.
Take

of

Acid carbolic

fl.

dr.

Glycerine

fl.

dr.

y2

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

Aqua
Fl. ext.

Mix.

ergot

Three

to eight drops to

be injected, accord-

Chicago Medical Times.

ing to size of tumor.

ROSALIND.
"

cosmetic for tinting the fingers, face and

Preserves the skin, cures chapped

cents.
finest

lips, etc.

lips.

Price 50

Prepared by Mrs. Mary L. Cobb, America's

The preparation is put up in a small

manicure."

white-glass ointment

jar.

Examination by H. W. Snow in our laboratory

shows it to consist of vaseline, spermaceti, probably

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SYSTEMS.

149

and an aniline dye related closely

and general characteristics. The
following formula may be taken as making a preparation similar in most respects to the original:
also white wax,

to eosine in

its tint

Eosine

iogr.
30 gr.
30 gr.

White wax
Spermaceti

Amber

410

saxoline

gr.

Mix.

The important
article is to

point in the manufacture of this

have the aniline dye

in the finest possible

would perhaps not be a bad

plan to use a mixture of the fatty acids from soap by
precipitation of its aqueous solution with an acid. The
state of subdivision.

It

fatty acids are soluble in alcohol, likewise the eosine,

and we thus have a means of incorporating the latter

substance in a most effectual manner. In case the
fatty acids were used, probably their melting point
would be sufficiently high without the addition of
either

wax

New Idea,

or spermaceti.

RUSSELL'S BOTANIC KING.

Russell's Botanic King, Chester,

cording to the

label, of a

Pa.,

consists, ac-

combination of pure extracts

mandrake, buchu, queen's root, Peruvian

and the " et cetera," we think, is cape
judging by the odor and general appearance,

of dandelion,

bark,
aloes,

and
It

etc,

this constitutes

is

probably the bulk of the mixture.

a coarse, brownish-black powder, put up in a


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turned wood box (well caked together

ample), the box being

in

this

ex-

inches in diameter by i}6

inches deep, bearing pink label on top and around the

The Botanic King

is stated to be a medicine
and the best one made for the
liver, stomach, kidneys, bowels, and
The
blood.
directions are that the contents of the box shall be
dissolved in a quart of water, and the dose for an
adult a wine-glassful night and morning; and for a
child a tea-spoonful, night and morning.
From the
superficial examination we have made, we should
judge that it consists, as Dr. Russell states on the
label, of a mixture of powdered extracts of dandelion,
mandrake, buchu, yellow dock, and Peruvian bark,

edge.

of rare excellence,

each 10 parts; aloes, 50 parts.

New Idea.

RUSSIA SALVE.

formula for a preparation said to resemble

is given in the Druggists' Circular:

this

preparation

Take

of

White pine pitch

Beeswax

2 lb.
1

lb.

Temper it with olive oil to the proper consistence.

The " pitch " and wax are, of course, to be melted
before the "tempering" process begins.

AND

SAGE'S
Take

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151

CATARRH REMEDY.

of

Powdered hydrastis canadensis.

Powdered borax

oz.

10 gr.
Salt
10 gr.
Ferro-cyanuret of iron, .sufficient to color.

Mix.

The above
him

is

the formula of Dr. Sage, and sold by

to Dr. Pierce, of

formula was given to

on a visit to relatives
two years ago.

New York, for $500.00. The

me by Dr. Sage himself, while
in

Switzerland county, Indiana,

Dr. Hewitt

in

Medical World.

SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH

Consists, according to an analysis

made by

Prof. A.

B. Lyons, of a distilled extract of witch-hazel, con-

taining a

little

alcohol and glycerine, perhaps as

as five per cent, of the latter,

fifteen per cent, of the

tions

attempted),

also

much

and between ten and

former (no exact determinaan

important constituent

morphine quantity not estimated.

The " solvent" consists mostly of

nitre

and

bicar-

bonate of soda, with a small quantity of the yellow

powder, insoluble or sparingly soluble in water probably a vegetable powder,

NewIdea,


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CATARRH REMEDY.

SAUL'S
Take

of

Comp.

benzoin

tinct.

2 oz.

Tinct. tolu

2 oz.

Chloroform

dr.

Sulphuric ether

dr.

oz.

dr.

Aromatic

spts. of
Oil of tar
Rectified spirits

Mix.

Use with

ammonia

5 oz.

Cutler's inhaler.

Dr. Brucker

in

Medical World.

SAWYER'S UTERINE PASTILLES.

Through

the

kindness

of

secured a sample of the above

in little

oblong blocks, about

y2

we
They come

correspondent

articles.

inch long and

inch

square at the end, weighing each on an average about

20 grains.

The

circular which

comes with them

addressed, of course, to the female sex, and

calculated

to

produce alarm

in

the young.

is

is

well
It

is

another sample of the demoralizing documents which

unscrupulous

among

the

this alarm.

quacks

laity, in

The

are

continually

circulating

order to create alarm and profit by

upon the
women, proceeds to

circular, after first dilating

physical and mental beauty of

trace these to the sexual,

and afterwards paints the

imbecility, and

horrors of family quarrels, divorce,

lunacy which follow

system.

in

Then comes

the train of a diseased sexual

a description

of the

diseases

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peculiar to

women, and

all

153

of which are curable

using $8 worth of these wonderful pastilles.

creditable portions of the circular
full,

as

it

we

will

by

The most
reprint in

pertains to the auxiliary treatment to be pur-

and which in reality, we should say, is the treatment of primary importance, if any treatment at all is
sued,

necessary:

DIRECTIONS FOR USING.

it

night insert one of the

up the vagina as possible with the finger;

before retiring at

Just

pastilles as far

should be placed as near the

render

its

action

most

womb

effective;

as possible to

then the patient

should retire at once; this should be done every night

except during menstruation.

In cases of leucorrhoea

and ulceration, the patient should wash thoroughly

both night and morning with castile soap and tepid
water, using nothing but the hand, and this should be
followed carefully until the leucorrhoea and ulceration
has entirely disappeared.

RULES OF HYGIENE.

The

patient should use a good, nourishing diet, with

plenty of good meat of

best.

is

the
all;

use but
is

some kind; beefsteak

Fat meats and pastry should not be used at

little

tea or coffee.

In case when the patient

incapable of taking the proper amount of food at

to take but two

it will be found beneficial
meals a day for a time, until they can take a full meal.
Some graham bread or oat meal can often be used to

a time,

advantage.

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BATHING.
Bathing the entire body should never be done
it should be done
a warm room by bathing and rubbing part of the

oftener than once a week, and then

in

body

agree-

Sleep should be abundant and an abstinence

from
to.

time with water that feels most

at a

able.

all

sexual excitement should be strictly adhered

All surrounding influences which are not condu-

cive to a cheerful,

done away

happy

state

mind should be

of

with.

DRESS.

Care taken

body

is

in

comfortably and properly dressing the

an important factor

in the recovery; the feet

and

lower limbs should be dressed warmly, and great care

taken that the skirts are hung from the shoulders and
cause no weight upon the abdomen.
ing from prolapsus or falling of the

recover unless they observe this

We
will

Ladies suffer-

womb

can never

strictly.

gave the preparation some

attention,

little

and

give the quack credit for doing comparatively

little

harm,

a physical sense,

in

He

possibilities.

when w e consider
T

the

proceeds evidently on the faith-

cure principle, and his auxiliary treatment, rather than

on the actual medicinal

They

consist,

ing but

harden

efficacy of his

own

pastilles.

according to our examination, of noth-

made into a paste and allowed to

form of small oblong blocks.

flour,

in the

New

Idea.

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155

SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP.

The

for Schenck's Pulmonic

an old lady several years
ago, who professed to know all about the late Dr.
Schenck when he commenced

following formula

Syrup was given

Take

to

me by

of

%
^2
^
y
^
Yz
^
^
z^
%

Wormwood
Catnip

Tansy
Hyssop
Hoarhound

oz.
oz.
oz.

2 oz.

Hops
Chamomile
Comfrey
Senega
Elecampane

oz.

oz.
oz.
oz.

oz.
oz.

Boil with sufficient water to make, after straining,

one quart

then add

Gum

arabic
Liquorice

oz.

i^

oz.

then one good-sized Indian turnip, and finally add

Sugar

Brandy

lb.

pint.

Juice of two lemons.

H. M.

Wilder in Pharmaceutical Record.

KOHLER'S ONE NIGHT CORN CURE.

This

is

claimed to consist of lard containing 25 per

Western Druggist.

cent of salicylic acid.


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BATEMAN'S PECTORAL DROPS.

Take

ot

Tinct. of opium
Tinct. of opium, benzoated ....
Tinct. of Canada castor
Cochineal, ground

Dose

Mix.

for adults

and evening.

Not

to

20

1%

oz.

20 oz.
5 oz.
1

oz.

to 30 drops,

morning

be given to children under ten

Hager.

years of age.

SEA-SHORE DIPHTHERIA AND SORE-THROAT

SPECIFIC.
Manufactured by H.
Park,

New

Jersey.

S.

Kinmouth, M.D., Asbury

is put up in a
two ounces of a slightly

This preparation

panel bottle holding

full

yellowish astringent liquid, having a specific gravity

of 1.024.

According

grains

solid

of

to our analysis,

matter to each

upon examination proved

to

it

fluid

contains

11^

ounce, which

be chloride of iron (4%

9^ minims of liq.
and the chlorides of zinc,

grains per fluid ounce, equal to

ferri chloridi,

U.

S. P. 'So)

magnesia, and soda, and chloride of potash.

The following formula will make a preparation
practically identical with the original

Take of
Sol. of chloride of iron

18 minim.

Zinc chloride

2 gr.

Magnesia chloride
Sodium chloride

4 gr.

Chlorate of potassium

6 gr.

Water

2 gr.

fl.

oz.

New Idea.

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157

SEELEY'S PILE OINTMENT.

Take of
Sulph. morphia
Tannin

48

Pine tar

7 2 gr.

White wax
Benzoated lard

3 gr.
gr.

72

gr

766

gr.

Mix.

SENCKENBERG'S MIGRAINE PASTILLES.

Contain each:

Methozine (antipyrine)

4ft

gr.

Antif ebrin

gr.

Rhubarb
Calamus
Cinchona

ftz

J| gr.
ftz

gr.

ft gr.

Pharm.
SEVEN BARKS.
Take of
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract
Extract

of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of
of

hydrangea
poke root
Culver's root

dandelion
lady-slipper

colocynth
bloodroot
blue flag
stone-root

golden seal

mandrake

lb.

12

lb.

12 lb.
12 lb.
12 lb.
12 lb.

6
6

6^
7%
24

lb.

lb.
lb.
lb.

lb.

Cent.


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Extract of black cohosh

Extract of butternut
Spirits of sea salt

Aloes
Borate of sodium
Infusion of capsicums

24

lb.

48

lb.

14^

lb.

10

lb.

15 lb.

4^

lb.

Powdered sassafras

1 1

lb.

Ginger
Sugar-house syrup
Water, sufficient to make

lb.

40 gal.
98 gal.

E.

H.

Greeley, in National Druggist.

SEVEN SEALS, OR GOLDEN WONDER.

Hager
Take

gives this formula:

of

Ether
Chloroform

4 parts.

Camphor

4 parts.

6 parts.

Oil of peppermint
Tinct. of capsicum

35 parts.

Alcohol (90 per cent.)

50 parts.

2 parts.

These proportions are approximate.

This preparation

is

recommended

morbus, rheumatism, warts, corns and

for
all

" cholera-

diseases."

National Druggist.

SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS' HAIR

GROWER.
"THE lucky number seven."
"

An

Will

elegant hair dressing.

permanently stop hair

sure hair promoter.

from

falling

out.

AND
preparation free from
and beautifying the
glossy,

it is

Sutherland

The

blown into the

159

For preserving
and rendering it soft and
Prepared only by the Seven

irritating matter.
hair,

the best."

Lockport, N. Y.

Sisters,

container

SYSTEMS.

a square, panel bottle, with name

is

glass,

and holds

3^

fluid

ounces of a

marked odor of bay

rum and distilled extract of witch-hazel. Examination shows that the following formula makes a prenearly colorless liquid, having

paration substantially identical with the secret " hair

grower

":

Stearns's bay rum

Dist. ext. of witch-hazel

fi.

oz.

fi.

oz.

Common

dr.

drop.

salt

Hydrochloric acid

(5

per cent.)

Magnesia

sufficient.

Mix the bay rum and

hazel,

and shake with a

distilled

little

extract

magnesia;

witch-

of

filter

and

in

and add the hydrochloric

The agitation with magnesia causes the preacid.
paration to assume a yellow color; but by rendering it
very slightly acid, with one drop of 5 per cent, hydrothe filtrate dissolve the salt

chloric acid, this color all disappears.

New

Idea.

SEXUAL DISORDERS AND SYSTEMATIZED

QUACKERY.
The

increased

agencies in this

number
city,

of

quacks

and

quack-

appealing to victims of sexual

troubles and of venereal disease, and the boldness

and offensiveness of their advertising methods, are

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working an injury which demands more than ordinary

notice. In late years the older methods have changed,
and from a business point of view, improved, and it
has become the practice for these quacks to work

under the guise of agencies or companies. They have

" laboratories," consultation-rooms, and most elaborate
methods of advertising by circulars, hand-bills, and
through the lower grades of newspapers. So complete is the system that there is hardly a young man
or growing youth in the city who does not get hold of

some

disgusting, or, to him, terrifying notice, pictur-

ing the
losses.

horrible

thereby frightened

are

to

some

into

Many

mental state half approaching insanity.

go or write

and seminal

of self-abuse

results

Thousands

of

them

these advertising firms, put

of

themselves under treatment until every spare penny

has been wrung from them, without, as a

On

good being done.

their troubles often
state of

rule,

any

the contrary, an increase in

and even a permanent

results,

mental and nervous depression

brought

is

about.

The young man, once

is

him

There seems

there.

the toils of these unholy

in

subjected to influences tending to keep

" agencies"

to

be a

applying at one place, which

quacks

all

over the country.

victimized party

is

in

apparatus.

grossly

inaccurate

list

Many

among

Consequently the once

new

" pearls," or

new
of

kept of those

circulated

constant receipt of

describing the virtues of

special

is

the

descriptions

circulars

and

circulars
pills,

or

contain

illustrations

of

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SYSTEMS.

apparatus, the bladder,

the sexual

stomach, brain,

etc.

We

have before us a specimen circular, depicting

with equal force the despairing future of the masturbator,

pository.

and the unequaled virtues of a certain supIt has also cheap wood-cuts of a " brainless

child born of a masturbator," a hydrocephalic child

with the same ancestry,

and of a half-naked man

behind the bars of a cage, representing a person

" made insane by self-abuse! " No words can tell the
agony, the shame, the despair, which such publications cause in a large class of

who

A young man

half-educated

youths

get hold of them.

subsequently found to have a fine

physique, no actual sexual weakness, and to be suffering only from two or three emissions monthly, wrote
to a physician: "

Although

am

able to work, yet

every day the constant thought of

blasted

keeps

me

This
of

and miserable
is

in

life,

the quacks

in

my condition, my
me always, and

mind" which

it is the aim
produce to as large
The more morbidness and

question to

an extent as possible.
fatten

with

a constant despairing state of mind."

the "state of

despair the

is

more money

in

their pockets; for they

on the distress of their victims.

Here

is

the

foulest possible prostitution of medicine, a systema-

and then get money

from it.
These individuals and companies do not confine
their practice to sexual troubles, but plaster the
tized attempt to create disease,

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telegraph poles and other places with announcements

of "swift cures" for

advertising

circulars

" private diseases,"

cures for

and send

kinds of chronic

all

Blanks are furnished, to be filled out with

person and the disease;
descriptions of how to send urine by mail, price lists
troubles.

information regarding the

for different sets of pills, or different courses of treat-

ment, are also furnished.

In

fine,

these establishments have

become a public

nuisance for the intelligent community, and a serious

public harm to those unable
and honesty.

to

judge of their merits

The Medical Record.

SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE.

Shiloh's

Consumption Cure

is

put Up

panel bottle, with an extra long

neck,

in

a green

the

bottle

holding scant three fluid ounces of a thin, syrupy,

semi-opaque greenish-brown liquid, with pronounced

Reaction slightly, but permaThis composition, as we examined it,
nently acid.

taste of chloroform.

shows:

Muriate of morphine
Muriatic acid

3 gr.
3 minims.

henbane

fl.

Fl. ext. of

fl.

dr.

Fl. ext.

ginger
of wild cherry

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

Fl. ext. of

Diluted alcohol

dr.

1 fl. dr.
Chloroform
Essence peppermint
30 minims.
Syrup of tar
3 fl. oz.
8 fl. oz.
Simple syrup enough to make.

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wrapper and elaborate circular

and the whole wrapped in a red-lead colored
paper, which states that it is warranted to cure con-

Each

around

bottle carries a

it,

sumption,

and

Wells,

coughs, colds, croup, hoarseness, asthma,

lung diseases.

all

LeRoy, N.

It

No

Price, 50 cents.

Shiloh.

preparation,

if

prepared only by B. C.

is

Y., after a prescription of Dr.

made without

just

about half the price

and

retail.

it is

cure,

no pay.

Brutus

Such a

secrecy, should be worth

sold

at,

both

at wholesale

New Idea.

SUMMONS'S LIVER REGULATOR.

Take of
Hepatica
Leptandra

oz.

oz.

oz.

Serpentaria

Senna

Put the ingredients into

Mix.
water.

Let stand

pint of

good whisky.

18

2^

oz.

pints of boiling

Add

then strain.

hours,

Yz

New Remedies.

SIROP GIBERT
Is a favorite

French

anti-syphilitic

remedy, and has

the following composition:

Take of
Biniodide of mercury
Iodide of potassium
Simple syrup

2 gr.

100 gr.
,

fl.

oz.

Mix.

Dose:

Two

times a day.

tea-spoonfuls given after meals, three

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SKINNER'S DANDRUFF MIXTURE.

Take

of

Chloral hydrate
Glycerine

Bay rum

part.

parts.

16 parts.

National Druggist.
SMEDLEY'S FEVER POWDERS.
Take of

Camphor gum

y2

Gum myrrh

oz.

Yz oz.

Blood-root
Lobelia (seeds, pods, and leaves)

oz.

2 oz.

and well mixed.

For colds and to break a fever in its first
powders of ordinary size.
For catarrh in the head, use as a snuff.
All pulverized fine

SMITH

BROS.'

stages, in

COUGH DROPS.

Average weight of each drop ... 36.5

Sugar (and glucose in small
quantities)

gr.

35 .5 gr.

Powdered charcoal

80

gr.

Licorice in small quantities.

And
little oil

highly flavored with

of anise.

oil

of

sassafras with

New Idea.


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165

STEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS.

Each powder weighs 0.195 grammes, or 3 grains.

white powder with the very slightest tinge of brownslightly interspersed with light

brownish

Taste indifferently sweetish and

starchy,

ish-yellow,

specks.

The microscope

with slightly bitterish after-taste.

demonstrated crystals of sugar of milk intermixed

much starchy matter, apparently rice, from the
shape of the fecula cells; some white opaque lumps
with

and brown specks, which latter afterwards proved to

be opium and ipecac. Reaction of watery solution,
which was slightly colored, proved neutral.

The

starchy matter representing the largest con-

tents of the

Take

powders suggests the following formula:

of

Opium pulv

3 gr.

Ipecac
Milk sugar
Rice flour

Mix and

JACOB'S OIL.

of

Gum

camphor

Chloral hydrate

Chloroform

oz.

oz.

oz.

Sulph. ether
Tinct. opium

oz.

y2

oz.

Oil origanum
Oil sassafras

^2 oz.
oz.

Alcohol
Mix.

gr.

New Idea.

divide into 8 powders.

ST.

Take

8 gr.
12 gr.

Yz gal.

Medical

World.


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L. ST.

J.

JOHN'S LINIMENT.

According to Eclectic Medical Advocate,

is composed of:

this prepara-

tion

Turpentine
Sweet oil
Tinct. arnica
Oil origanum
Oil hemlock
Oil juniper
Oil amber

7 oz.

3 oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

2 oz.

Laudanum
Spirits ammonia
Camphor

2 oz.

oz.

/2

oz.

JOHN LONG'S LINIMENT.

ST.

The author

was a blatant quack of

Being a reckless empiric, he,
as a matter of course, hit on some remedies of value.
Among others was the following liniment, which, it
appears, is still in use in the Pennsylvania hospital, for
stiff and rheumatic joints and in cases in which a
local stimulant and rubefacient effect is desired.
the
Air. Jacob Hecker, Ph.G., the apothecary of
of this liniment

the eighteenth century.

institution, uses the following formula:

Take

Mix.

of

Yolks of eggs

Oil turpentine
Acetic acid

24

fl.

oz.

16

fl.

oz.

Water

24

fl.

oz.

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the yolks, in a gallon bottle, add a small quan-

tity of

the

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the water and shake briskly together; then add

turpentine

in

successive

and

shaking the

portions,

mixture briskly after each addition.

Then add

the

water in same manner.

For
private practice the liniment is greatly improved by
the addition of good oil of lemon, one ounce to the
pint.
Philadelphia Medical Times.
acetic acid

lastly the

SCOTCH OATS ESSENCE.

Recent analyses assert that a certain nostrum, yclept
"

Scotch Oats Essence," widely advertised as a won-

derful

nerve tonic containing neither alcohol

other harmful ingredients,

is,

in fact,

nor

loaded with 35

per cent, alcohol, and with two grains of morphine to

each bottle.

more

diabolical

concoction could

not merely obtaining

hardly be devised; the crime

is

money under

nor simply a case of

false pretenses,

in-

genious and wholesale robbery, but a devilish scheme

undermining the mind, soul, and life of its victims,

this under the pious pretense of strengthening
the body and restoring the jaded mind.
for

and

Western Druggist.
STOKES'S EXPECTORANT.
This

is

quite a popular

remedy

in

some

localities.

Take of
Carbonate ammonia
Fluid ext. squills
Fluid ext. senega

30

gr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

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Paregoric

Syrup of tolu

Water
Dissolve the carbonate

of

ammonia

6
12
10

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

in

the water

dr.

fl.

and add the remaining ingredients.

Dose:

A tea-spoonful.
STOMACH PAD.

Take of
Bayberry
Lupuline
Wild ginger
Sassafras bark

Gum

myrrh

Lady's-slipper

Capsicum
Oil fennel
Oil cloves

oz.

oz.

y2

oz.

oz.

oz.

y2

oz.

dr.

2 dr.
1

dr.

Grind the drugs to a moderately fine powder, and

mix with the oils and gum. Make an oblong pad to
wear over the stomach. Used for general stomach
diseases.

STRONG'S ARNICA JELLY.

Carbolated for chaps, pimples, and roughness of the

Claimed to be "an efficient and agreeable remedy for sunburn, tan, and bites and stings of insects;"
also "will be found highly beneficial for cuts, bruises,
burns, pimples, eruptions, or any affection of the
skin."
It is directed to be applied with friction,
skin.

after washing, until well absorbed.

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This preparation
holding about

to

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169

put up in a collapsible tube

is

1/8 troy ounces of a brownish

Examination shows

aromatic jelly-like substance.

it

to contain glycerine, starch, oil of bitter almonds, car-

bolic acid,

and

The

arnica.

be taken as one which

following formula

may

duplicate the proprietary

will

article in all essential particulars:

Take of
Glycerine

fl.

oz.

Water

fl.

oz.

Starch
Fl. ext.

arnica

20 gr.
2

Sp. of bitter almonds (1 in 8)

Carbolic acid

fl.

dr.

minims.
8 minims.

Mix the glycerine and water, and add the starch,

and rub up with a pestle until a perfectly smooth
mixture results; then heat over a direct flame with
constant stirring until a perfectly smooth jelly

produced; allow to cool,

and when nearly

is

cold, in-

corporate the fluid extract of arnica, spirit of bitter

New Idea.

almonds, and carbolic acid.

DR. SYKES'S
Mr. D.

S.

CATARRH CURE.

Sager, chemist, Brantford, Canada, writes

the American Druggist that an analysis of a package

of this substance

showed that

it

consisted of between

66 and 67 per cent, of chlorate of potassium, with

powdered licorice root, and a small amount of

brown powder not analyzed.

The

liquid

is

made by

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adding the powder to a stated amount of water, filtering out the sediment, and then flavoring with wintergreen.

SYRUP OF
The formula

for

FIGS.

Syrup of Figs

is

as follows:

Take of
Senna leaves

Cassia pulp

14
6
24
18
18

Prunes

12 oz.

Coriander seed
Figs

Tamarind

Ext. licorice
Ess. peppermint
Syr.

1%

simp

oz.
oz.

oz.
oz.
oz.

oz.

oz.
gal.

The formula omits directions; but probably a water

made of the drugs, so as to measure

extract should be

about four

pints,

and

in this dissolve eight

pounds of

Druggists' Circular,

sugar to make the syrup.

SYRUP OF STILLINGIA COMPOUND.

This

is

an old eclectic remedy and

may be prepared

as follows:

Take of
ext.

stillingia

Fl. ext.

corydalis

Fl.

comp

blue flag
Fl. ext. elder flowers
Fl. ext. prince's pine
Fl. ext.

oz.

fl.

fl.

oz.

Yz
^2

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

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171

prickly ash berries ...

coriander

Fl. ext.

Fl. ext.

Mix

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%
%

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Sugar

14 oz.

Water

sufficient.

the fluid extracts and add water to

fluid

ounces;

fluid

ounces.

little

heat

filter if

make 6y2

need be and wash to obtain

6y2

In this dissolve the sugar, using as

and add water to make one

as possible,

pint.

SWEET'S CELEBRATED OINTMENT.

Take of
Skunk's

y2

oil

Angle worms
Water
Bitter-sweet ....

Simmer

well together

and

pt.

pt.

y2

pt.

handful.

strain.

Apply

to

the

cords.

This was used by the Sweets, a celebrated family of

Connecticut bone-setters.

SWIFT'S SYPHILITIC SPECIFIC.

Regarding

this

nostrum,

Dr.

Ga., says, in the Medical Brief:

Cull,
" This

of

Marietta,

preparation

have used, and have known it used years

It was first brought to notice
by a Georgia M. D., who got it direct from the
Florida Indian chief,
Billy Bowlegs,' now and for
(S. S. S.) I

before Swift was born.

many

many
The Georgia

years living west of the Mississippi river,

miles from his happy hunting grounds.

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M. D. used

it

many

years in an extensive practice, and

me when

to

me

did not cure.

he gave

that he never
have used it in
a great number of cases since 1856, and have not
failed in a single instance in curing every case, both
primary and constitutional, that I have treated with
the remedy.
It is cheap, and but little trouble to
obtain it, and I assure my medical brethren that it
will pay them to use it; besides it is a sure and safe
remedy, being altogether harmless."

he stated to

knew a

single case

it

it

Take of
Old man's gray-beard

root

(chionanthus Virginica) ...

1 bushel.
Prickly-ash root
16 oz.

White sumac root

Red sumac root

8
8
10
8

Sarsaparilla root
Sulphate of copper

oz.
oz.
oz.
dr.

Bruise the gray-beard and sumac roots, and put

them with the

sarsaparilla into an iron pot sufficient to

hold eight gallons of water, or cover the roots com-

Cover the pot with pine tops,

assumes the color of
ink.
Strain while warm, add the sulphate of copper
and good Holland gin sufficient to prevent fermenta-

pletely with the water.

and

boil slowly until the liquid

tion.

Dose:

One wine-glassful four times a day.

Strictly

abstain from horseback riding, butter or very greasy

food, all kinds

of

spirits

course the chancre must

manner.

or

fermented liquors.

be treated

in

the

Of

usual

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SWAYNE'S OINTMENT.
Swayne's

swedge-top
deep;

is

Ointment
tin box,

up

put

is

i */

ordinary
i

inch

with a rancid, tallowish-smelling oint-

filled

ment, light-grayish yellow color,

Its

an

in

inches in diameter, and

medium

consistence.

composition appears to be precipitated sulphur

parts, tallow

lard

parts,

It states

parts.

on

the label that this ointment cures tetter, itch, salt-

rheum, scald-head,

piles,

ringworm, pimples, blotches,

barber's itch, ulcers, and eruptions of the skin.

New Idea.

SWAIM'S VERMIFUGE.
Take

of

Worm-seed

2 oz.

Valerian

Rhubarb

Pink-root
White agaric

^
^

oz.
oz.

y^ oz.

oz.

Boil in sufficient water to yield 3 quarts of decoction,

oils dissolved in a quart of

and add the following

rectified spirit:

Oil of tansy
Oil of cloves

TAMAR
Tamarind pulp
Powd. sugar
Powd. sugar of milk
Glycerine

30 drops.
45 drops.

INDIEN.
450
40
60
50

parts.

parts.

parts.
parts.


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Mix and evaporate

add

to the

consistency of a soft

extract, then

Powd. anise
Essence lemon

10 parts.
3 parts.

Tartaric acid

Mix and divide

3 parts.

into

100 boluses and

roll

the

in

following mixture

Cream

of tartar

5 parts.

White sugar
Sugar of milk
Tragacanth

35 parts.
35 parts.
2

Tartaric acid
Powd. red sandal

Dry and put up

parts.

2 parts.

25 parts.

in tin foil.

tnerica n

D rug

gist.

TAPE-WORM SPECIALISTS THEIR SECRET

METHODS.
In

many

of the larger cities of this country a class

of irregular practitioners can be found

specialty

of

the

who make

"removal of tape-worms."

These

have considerable success, as the bottled collection of

which they exhibit demonstrates. Many of

Germans, and they have quite a
reputation among their countrymen, who have an idea
that the removal of a tape-worm requires a certain
kind of knowledge not possessed by the ordinary
taeniae

these empirics are

medical practitioner.

Their method of procedure

The

patient

is

is

essentially as follows:

not permitted to eat anything after the

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breakfast of the day preceding the treatment.

75

Dur-

ing the afternoon of that day a brisk, saline cathartic

is
taken to empty the bowels of contained faeces.
About nine o'clock the next morning the taenicide is

This consists of a tea-spoonful or tea-spoonful

and a half of the ethereal oil of male-fern, preference
being given to that manufactured by Merck, of Darmstadt.
This is given in half a tea-cupful of warm
milk, it being claimed that milk is an article of food
in which the tape-worm greatly delights.
The patient must then lie down on a couch, having
a fresh lemon near at hand to suck in case nausea
should result, as is often the case. This position is
kept until noon, when another cathartic is to be
taken. This consists of a good dose of castor oil, with
fifteen drops of oil of turpentine and one drop of
croton oil. The movements should be received in a
specially prepared vessel. A piece of mosquito netting
given.

is

tied loosely over the top of a suitable receptacle in

order that, while the faeces can readily pass through,

the

worm

itself

may be

retained in a shape for an easy

examination.

Frequent
compiler of

trials of
its

this

excellence,

method have convinced the

and he considers it worthy

the attention of physicians having such cases to treat.

In an article in the Ephemeris, on the treatment for

tape-worm, Dr. Squibb thus speaks of the administration of a saline aperient before the taenicide

and the reason why

treatment

it

is

given,

adds to the efficacy of any

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"

This aperient should be a

saline,

because these

cause a copious effusion of serous liquid from the

whole mucous membrane of the canal, and

this effusion

taking place from the surface where the head of the

worm

lies

protected by the dense mucus, detaches the

mucus and washes

it

away, leaving the head bare for

contact with the parasiticide,

pass over

it

when otherwise

it would
and therefore

without direct contact,

without effect."

TARRANT'S EFFERVESCENT SELTZER

APERIENT.
"

Prepared on an entire new principle from a

late

and

accurate analysis of the celebrated Seltzer spring, in

Germany, with such

additions

and improvements as

will

be found materially to increase its efficacy"

The dose

of

the

spoonfuls in water,

preparation

etc.

is

one

It is well that

to

two

tea-

the italicized

lines were added in qualification of their first statement that the article was prepared from data based

on the analysis of Seltzer spring water. The preparation is essentially magnesia sulphate, tartaric acid,
bicarbonate of soda, and probably Rochelle salt. The
bottle contains about 5 ounces avoirdupois of powder,

which

may be

substantially duplicated

by the following

formula:

Take of
Soda bicarbonate
Tartaric acid
Rochelle salt
Magnesia sulphate

168
150
50
60

parts.
parts.

parts.
parts.

New

Idea.


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77

THAT LINIMENT."

Take of
Oil of turpentine
Oil of spike
Oil of origanum
Barbadoes tar
Spirits of camphor

oz.

oz.

oz.

2 dr.

]/2 dr.

Mix.

THIELEMAN'S CHOLERA MIXTURE.

Take

of,

by measure

Oil peppermint

4 dr.
4 dr.
3J4 dr.

Chloroform
Fl. ext.

ipecac

1%
1%

Fl. ext. valerian

deod

Tinct. opium,

Ether
Alcohol
Sherry wine

oz.
oz.

2 oz.

sufficient to

Mix according to
The adult dose is

make.

6 oz.
16 oz.

art.

25 to 30 drops, in a small quantity

of water, every twenty minutes until relief

is

obtained.

Western Druggist.

THOMAS'S ELECTRIC
Take of

Gum

camphor

Oil gaultheria
Oil origanum

Chloroform
Tinct. opium
Oil sassafras

OIL.

4 dr.
4 dr.
4 dr.
1

oz.

oz.

oz.


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Oil hemlock
Oil turpentine

Balsam

fir

Tinct. guaiacum
Tinct. catechu

Alcohol
Alkanet

oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

oz.

pt.

sufficient to color.

Medical

Mix.

World.

THOMPSON'S EYE-WATER.
Take

of

Zinc, sulphate

20 gr.

Copper, sulphate

S gr.
2 dr.

Tinct. saffron
Tinct. camphor

.-

Rose-water
Dist. water

Mix and

dr.

8 oz.
8 oz.

New Remedies.

filter.

THORN'S COUGH MIXTURE.

Take

Mix.

of

Hive syrup

fl.

oz.

Paregoric

fl.

oz.

Sweet

fl.

oz.

spts. nitre

Dose

for

an adult:

One

tea-spoonful every

two or three hours.

TIP-TOP.

There is a patent nostrum with no formula attached,

whose nom de plume is Tip-Top, that has gained some
notoriety in our country, in skin diseases, and, not that


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wish to publish or " steal the

thunder

" of

79

any man,

nothing more nor less than

a modification of Magendie's ointment, I will give it
but as this preparation
to the readers of the

Take

is

Summary

after this form:

of

Calomel

60

gr.

Tinct. iodine
Oil sassafras

oz.

dr.

Kerosene

3 oz.

oil

Shake well before using.

is tip-top in some skin diseases, and
not belie its name.
With a few drops of

Mix.

This preparation
does

carbolic acid added,

it

will arrest

or stop a spider or

any other poisonous insect bite from assuming the

erysipelatous or gangrenous form that we frequently
see in course of the practice of medicine.

Dr.

Sturdivant, in Medical

Summary.

TOBIAS VENETIAN LINIMENT.

Take

of

Spirits of

ammonia

5 parts.

Camphor

2 parts.

Tinct. of capsicum

5 parts.

Alcohol

34 parts.

Water

10 parts.

Mix them.

Hager.


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TOLU, ROCK,
Take

AND RYE.

of

Good whisky
Rock candy
Balsam

gal.

i
,

tolu

lb.

2 oz.

Put the whole into a two-gallon jug.

Set in a

warm

place and agitate several times a day until the candy

is

Then

dissolved.

strain

through muslin.

TOWNSEND'S PILLS
Have been

in

considerable use

our acquaintance.

The formula

among
is

physicians of

the following-

Take of
Mass hydrarg

20
20
20
20

Gamboge
Ext. aloes

Zingiber pulv
Oil peppermint

Mix.

Divide into 16

gr.
gr.
gr.
gr.

3 drops.
pills.

American Druggist.

TRAFTON'S BALM OF LIFE.

states on the
asthma so
and also bronchitis, croup, cough, and
eases of the throat and lungs, except confirmed concures are
sumption (?) a new medicine.
"

Balm

of Life " cures

it

label

all

dis-

Its

" miraculous,"
light

etc., etc.

This nostrum

green panel bottle, containing

is

7^

put up

fluid

in

ounces


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of a clear
saline

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l8l

amber color liquid, of slightly spirituous

no pronounced smell, and of neutral

taste,

According to our analysis

reaction.

Iodide of potassium
Fl. ext. of

opium

Fl. ext. of

senega

Alcohol
to

consists

80
20
50
120
240

Fl. ext. of squills

Water enough
measure

it

of-

parts.
parts.

parts.
parts.

parts.

make, by
1920 parts.

New Idea,

Filter.

KELLY'S TONIC.
Take of
Tincture nux vomica

2 dr.

Dilute nitro-muriatic acid

Compound tincture cinchona ..
Compound tincture gentian ...

3 dr.

1}^ oz.
3 oz.

Mix.

Dose

Two drams

in

water three times a day.

TRASK'S MAGNETIC OINTMENT.

Kilner gives the formula as follows

Take of
Lard,
Raisins,
Fine cut tobacco, of each equal parts.

Simmer

well together.
"

Then

strain,

and press out

remedy in

all

from the drugs.

all

skin diseases, as salt rheum, tetter, etc."

This

is

a splendid

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TRIUMPH CORN PLASTERS.

" Specific cure for corns

trouble,

sure

cure.

No

and bunions.
*

pain,

Triumph

no

Plaster

Company, sole proprietor, Greenville, Tenn."

These plasters come in small yellow envelopes, containing three small plasters stuck face downward on
linen.
These adhesive wafers are about one inch in
diameter, and essentially are a cheap, resinous, adhesive

plaster,

containing

in

central

medicated

We

would suggest the following formula as a satisfactory one for

making a good plaster to replace the secret article:
Make an adhesive plaster by melting equal parts of
resin and balsam of fir together; while warm spread
on linen, and when cold cut into circular discs, about
the size of a nickel, and in the center of each place a
portion quantities of salicylic acid.

quantity, about the size of a half pea, of the following

mixture:

Resin

Balsam of

3 parts.
parts.

2^

fir

Salicylic acid

Melt the resins together, then

5 parts.
stir

acid.

in the salicylic

New Idea.

TROPIC FRUIT LAXATIVE.

According

to

an examination by

Adam

Conrath

1882; 403), this proprietary laxative is a

combination of jalap, senna, and tamarinds, coated

(Pharm.,

with chocolate and sugar, and wrapped in tin

foil.

It

AND
is

offered in a tin

SYSTEMS.

183

box containing one dozen lozenges,

each averaging about 90 to 95 grains.

The following is offered as being a very

fair dupli-

cate of the article:

Take of
Jalap,

powdered

5 parts.

Senna, powdered

5 parts.

Sugar

5 parts.

Tamarind pulp

(E.

30 parts.

I.)

Make into lozenges weighing 45 grains each, and

coat with chocolate and sugar, and wrap in tin foil.

VELPEATPS COMPOUND FOR TREATMENT OF

GONORRHCEA.
The formula

me

several years

for Velpeau's

ago by a

Compound was
The drug

friend.

given
stores

have destroyed their old prescription files, and I have

After putting it up for myself a few
lost my copy.
times, I found that

if

followed a certain plan

in

making the compound, the resulting mass was always

what I wanted. This is how I do it. An ounce
block of carbonate of magnesia is shaved down with a
knife, and all the little lumps broken up thoroughly,
the whole being reduced to a powder.
This is done
on a marble slab. Balsam copaiba in tea-spoonful
quantities is added and worked in with a strong
spatula, until the mass is stiff enough to be taken in
the hands and kneaded without sticking.
The dough
is now rolled in powdered cubebs, and as much worked
into

it

as well can be.

Dose, a piece the size of the


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184
last joint of

the

finger, after

little

meals.

It

never

disagrees with the most delicate stomach, and stops

the scalding in twelve hours.

Dr.

Hyatt

in

Medical World.

Dr. Gates writes subsequently in same journal: "I

notice Dr. Hyatt gives in a short and concise form

compound. I have
book the doctor's original
copy, which I think is superior to the one he gives.
" I learned after several days compounding, while a
student in Dr. H.'s office, that it was impossible for
the magnesia to be reduced sufficiently with a knife
and my fingers to work well, owing to the small
After shaving off an ounce block, I devised a
lumps.
plan of my own, which I have used ever since.
This
is how I do it: Take an ordinary sieve, turn it bottom
up, rub your block of magnesia over it; then the
magnesia will fall through the perforations of the sieve
on a marble slab, placed beneath for this purpose."
the formula for Velpeau's mass or
filed

in

my

prescription

Take of
Oil copaiba

Magnesia carb

sufficient.

Make

more

if

add

oz.

desired,

Powdered opium

....

Dried sulphate of iron

Mix.

oz.

into a putty-like paste, then gradually

Powd. cubebs
or

fl.

Dose:

A piece

7 gr.

100

gr.

the size of a peanut, or last

joint of little finger, after eating.

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VAN
Is said to

SYSTEMS.

185

STAN'S STRATENA

be made as follows:

Take of
Acetic acid

4 oz.

White glue
French gelatine

3 oz.

4
4
4

Shellac varnish
Distilled water

dr.
fl.

dr.

fl.

oz.

Dissolve the glue in the acetic acid with heat, and

the gelatine and water with heat.
tions gradually,

until

Mix

Mix thoroughly

New Idea.

bottle.

VAN BUSKIRK'S FRAGRANT

The
an

the two solu-

a uniform mixture

then add the shellac varnish.

results,

and

and work

following formula

SOZODONT.

may be regarded

article identical with the original in

as

all

making

essential

features:

Take of
Alcohol

Water
Soap

fl.

oz.

1%

fl.

oz.

Oil of wintergreen

Red sanders
Dissolve the soap in

ounces.

The

minims.

sufficient.

the mixture of alcohol and

water; add the color, perfume with

add enough water

20 gr.

to

make

following

is

oil

of wintergreen,

the fluid measure three

suggested as a similar


SECRET NOSTRUMS

l86
article to the

Fragrant Sozodont Powder, which ac-

companies the

liquid:

Take

of

Infusorial earth
Orris root
Precipitated chalk

40
1

200

To make
Perfume very

gr.

25 gr.
gr.

365 gr.

lightly with oil of cloves.

WALKER'S VINEGAR BITTERS.

The

following closely approximates:

Take of
Powd. golden seal
Powdered aloes, cape
Water /
Bottle up, tie the cork

down

oz.
oz.

16 oz.

use in ten days.

^
tightly.

Ready

for

The Drag Mill.

Walker, the proprietor of Vinegar Bitters, worked

the " temperance

succeeded
selling

dodge"

for all

it

was worth, and

during the period from 1868 to 1873, in

more

bottles of a villainous, turbid, disgusting

sour swill under the pretext of

its

being medicine,

than any other quack nostrum maker before or since.

We

believe

time.

it

has a very limited sale at the present

New Idea.

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SYSTEMS.

87

WARNER'S SAFE CURE.

In

Germany each maker

must furnish

patents

of

the government with the formula for the patent he

This

makes.
" Safe

is

the one

furnished by Warner for

Kidney and Liver Cure

Each

bottle contains

":

Ext. of lycopus Virg. (the herb) 308 gr.

Ext. of hepatica (the herb) .... 232 gr.
Ext. of gaultheria
7% gr.

Potassium nitrate

39 gr.

2^

Alcohol, (90 deg.)

Glycerin

Water

sufficient to

oz.

10 dr.

make one

pint.

Formulary and Druggist's Magazine.

LASSAR'S PASTE.
Take

Mix.

For

of

Salicylic acid

9 gr.

Powdered starch
Oxide zinc
Lard

2 dr.
2 dr.

eczema

and

dermatitis

generally,

caused by burns, chemical or mechanical

arising

dr.

Prepare an ointment.

whether

irritants, or

from disease. The powder should be

and the ointment thoroughly mixed.

triturated

finely

SECRET NOSTRUMS

88

WATT'S ANTI-RHEUMATIC PILLS.

Said to be as follows:

Take of
Powd. aloes
Powd. gamboge
Powd. hellebore
Powd. guaiac
Calomel

y2
%

Precip. sulphide of antimony. ...

Oil of cloves

y2

4
4

dr.

dr.

15 gr.
1

camphor

Make

Mix.

dr.

2 dr.

Soap
Sp. of

dr.

fl.

dr.

dr.

sufficient.

into five-grain pills.

WAYNE'S DIURETIC ELIXIR.

I
I

see in

used

it

November World the formula asked

ten years, but found the price too high.

now manufacture
it

identical,

it

up

it

for.
I

myself for half the price, and find

producing the same results. I have put

and know it to be a good

for sixteen years,

diuretic.

Take of
Potass, acetate
Fl. ext.

3 oz.

buchu

juniper
Simple syrup sufficient to make.

Fl. ext.

Mix.
daily.

One

dessert-spoonful three

Dr.

3 oz.
J^ oz.
1

pint.

or four

Crider, in

times

Med. World.

AND

SYSTEMS.

WESTERN "RECTAL

SPECIALISTS."

The modern Western

lineal

uses

" Rectal Specialist"

descendant of the original pile doctor.

still,

common

in

with

the hypodermic method

evolution

common

is

He

reputable physicians,

but

treating piles,

has proceeded so far that he

takes to treat other

in

many
in

89

his

now under-

rectal diseases as well,

a fashion peculiarly his own, and suited rather to

own convenience

as an

itinerant, than to his

no longer buys his secret
and local right to practice, but invests from fifty to
one hundred dollars in one of the " systems." He
thus obtains a complete set of instruments and a small
secret manual of instructions, which " enable persons

his

patients' real welfare.

He

of no particular skill to treat successfully all rectal

diseases."

As

a matter of fact,

many

of these per-

but mere
whose entire knowledge of their specialty consists in what their little book of instructions
has furnished them. In some instances the itinerant
sons are not medical graduates

at

all,

adventurers,

is

not allowed to

know

the composition of the various

He must

remedies directed by the secret pamphlet.

buy them

of the author of the " system," thus con-

tinually paying

tems,"

by

him

tribute.

underselling

each

Several of these " sysother,

have

greatly

reduced their prices, so that from three hundred dollars

less.

they have

now

fallen in price to fifty

and even

Andrews's Rectal and Anal Surgery.

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SECRET NOSTURMS

190

WHEELER'S ELIXIR.
The

following

is

given as closely approximating

the genuine article:

Take of
Solution of phosphate of iron.
Solution of lacto-phosphate of lime
Muriatic acid, sufficient, about
Elixir cinchona, from alkaloids.

2 dr.

4 dr.

Simple elixir
Essence of bitter almonds

Carmine

Mix and

The

8 oz.
7 oz.

y2

dr.

sufficient to color.
If the

filter.

preparation does not remain

add a few drops of muriatic

clear,

dr.

acid.

solution of phosphate of iron

is

made

as follows:

Take of

Warm

Sulphate of iron
water

4 oz.
8 oz.

Sugar

4 oz.

Solution of phosphoric acid ....

Dissolve the sulphate of iron in the

4 oz.

warm

water; add

the solution of phosphoric acid and sugar, and

The

solution of phosphoric acid

is

made

filter.

as follows:

Take of
Glacial phosphoric acid

Warm

8 oz.
8 oz.

water

Nitric acid

320

gr.

Dissolve the phosphoric acid in the water by allowing

it

to stand a few hours, stirring occasionally;

the nitric acid, and heat until no smell of

then

make up

to

one pint with water.

it

add

remains;

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SYSTEMS.

191

WHITE'S COUGH SYRUP.

Take of
Syrup tolutani

2 oz.

Glycerini

4 oz.

Syrup scillae comp

Syrup ipecacuanha

6
6
6
6

Tinct. lobelia
Tinct. opii camph
Ext. pilocarpi fl
Ammonii chloridi

Mix.

Dose:

oz.

oz.
oz.

oz.

2 oz.
1

Take a tea-spoonful

oz.

three times dur-

ing the day, and every hour or two before going to

bed.

WHITE'S ELIXIR.
The

following

a nostrum

is

the formula of "White's Elixir,"

extensively sold throughout

Vermont

for

lung complaints:

Take of
Antimonii

et potassii tart

32 gr.

Tinct. opii
Tinct. camphorae
Tinct. anisi

2 dr.
2 dr.

2 dr.

Alcoholis dil
Syrupi simplicis

Aquae
Mix.

to

make

3 oz.

10 oz.
,

Dr.

1 pt.

Ladue

in

Medical World.


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192

WEI DE MEYER'S CATARRH CURE.

We

examined

in

1880 and found

it

to be

composed

almost entirely of bicarbonate of soda, costing less

than one-tenth of one cent for the contents of a box,

which retails for $1.50.
New Idea.

WILSON'S LIGHTNING LINIMENT.

Take

of

Oil of
Oil of
Tinct.
Tinct.
Tinct.

cedar

3 oz.

sassafras
of opium
of guaiac
of capsicum

3 oz.
3 oz.
3 oz.
3 oz.

Aqua ammonia
Spirit of

4 oz.
4 oz.
4 oz.

camphor

Spirit of turpentine

Chloroform
Alcohol

3 oz.
1

gal.

Drug. Circular.
WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP.
Take

of

Morphia sulph

> gr.

Sodii carbon

Simp, syrup

Aqua
Spirit foeniculi

gr.

oz.

Yz oz.
1

dr.

New

Idea.


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SYSTEMS.

193

WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY.

This preparation

is

of a reddish-brown color, hav-

ing an odor of anise and sugar-house syrup.

It

comes

ounces of the
The wrapper is lithographed in plain black
solution.
on white. Examination showed it to contain a fluorescent principle, extracted from alkaline solution
by amyl alcohol (wild cherry), an alkaloid soluble in
in

an octagonal

bottle,

holding ten

fluid

amyl alcohol and precipitated by Mayer's reagent,

(probable presence of ipecac, though opium may also
be present), tartar emetic, coloring matter, oil anise,
sugar-house syrup, and possibly other substances of
less importance.
The following formula makes a
preparation which is substantially the same as the
proprietary article:

Take

of

Fl. ext.

wild cherry

fl.

oz.

Fl. ext. ipecac

fl.

dr.

Fl. ext. squills

fl.

dr.

dr.

Tinct.

opium

Tartar emetic
Sugar-house syrup
Alcohol

2 gr.

3
6

Sp. anise (1 in 8)
Tinct. cudbear comp.,

Water

sufficient to

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

20 m.

N. F.

make

2 dr.

fl.

oz.

New Idea.

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194

WITCH-HAZEL PILE OINTMENT.

Take

of

hamamelis

Tinct.

12 dr.
6 dr.
16 oz.

Lanoleum
Petrolatum
Mix.

Lanoleum
term

is

here used in place of the copyrighted

lanolin.

Med.
WOLCOTT

have made an

Standard.

PAIN PAINT.

article closely

resembling

this,

and

answering the same purpose, by taking:

Oil of peppermint

to 2 dr.

Dried mint leaves, finely pulv.

to 2 dr.

Moisten the leaves with the oil, enclose in lead

(to prevent evaporation), leave enclosed a
few days, then dissolve in four ounces of alcohol; add
twelve ounces of water, shake and filter.

wrappers

Dr.

Crull, in

Med. World.

YELLOW FAMILY DROPS.

Take of

Opium

2 oz.

Sapo venet
Croci opt.
Sp. rosemarini

Mix.

Digest for a week, and add

lb.

2^

oz.

2 lb.

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SYSTEMS.

01. rosmarini

Mix
For

fl.

oz.

01. origani

fl.

oz.

Camphor

2 oz.

well.

spirit rosmarini,

take

Rosmarini

3 oz.

Alcohol, sufficient to

95

make.

...

2 lb.

The above, with the Augsburg Essence of Life

and Green Wonder Oil (published elsewhere in this
work), are famous old formulae used for a century
and longer in Pennsylvania. They came to me by
chance in a curious old book of prescriptions, which
belonged to one of the Fahnestock family. The
Yellow Family Drops are still used to break up colds,
and are an efficient remedy.

Prof.

Waugh

in

Med. World.

BIG G INJECTION.
The

result

of

given as follows

The

an examination of
New Idea:

in

acid, or

is

An

examination

our laboratory shows the presence of boric

borax and berberine, the yellow alkaloid of

hydrastis.

found.

nostrum

bottle contains four fluid ounces of a yellowish

fluid, of bitter, slightly saline taste.

made

this

in

No

No

zinc sulphate or other astringent

quantitative estimates were made.

was

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196

KING'S

ROYAL GERMETEUR.

Sulphuric acid

2 oz.

Water saturated with sulphureted

hydrogen
Hydrant or well water to make
.

oz.

gal.

Mix.

Adding

the acid to the water, and then the

first

sulphureted

hydrogen, you

will

have a compound

that will give the chemical and physiological effects

of this great " honest medicine for the people/'

Thus

it

will

be seen that

this u honest medicine for

made

at a cost of less than six

the millions" can be

cents a gallon, yet this great scientist and philanthropist only asked the " dear people " $40 per gallon

'

at first;

he then

to $24,

and now, as

fell,

for philanthropic reasons alone,

his

love

is

increasing, he has

again reduced the price to $16 per gallon, or $1 for

Dixie Doctor,
an eight-ounce bottle.

EDWARDS'S ALTERATIVE AND TONIC

BITTERS.
Take

of

Fluid
Fluid
Fluid
Fluid
Fluid
Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil

extract
extract
extract
extract
extract

of
of
of
of
of

hops
red cinchona

sarsaparilla ....
hydrastis

podophyllum

of wintergreen
of sassafras
of peppermint
of lemon

16
8
6
6

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

fl.

dr.

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SYSTEMS.

Sugar

97

6 lbs.

Alcohol
Water, enough to

2 gal.

make

12 gal.

Myers Bros' Druggist.

EMBALMING
A

FLUID.

subscriber asks for a method of embalming.

Mark

L. Nardyz, 227 South

Tenth

Dr.

street, Philadel-

phia, gives us the following formula, with

which he

has been very successful:

Take of
Crude petroleum

gal.

Camphor

lb.

Carbolic acid
Fowler's solution of arsenic

Mix.
added,

if

lb.

lb.

few ounces of chloride of zinc may be

desired.

Directions:
inject the

Extract

embalming

the blood from the

body and

fluid.

The doctor embalmed the bodies of Archbishop

Wood, of this city, Monsieur Le Moneu, of France,
and Prince Aristoff, of Russia, with this preparation,
without the chloride of zinc.
the body perfectly fresh for
of the

He
many

warrants
years

if

it

to

keep

the fluids

body have been properly extracted.

Medical World.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

I98

EMBALMING FLUID.
Take of
Alum

100 gr.

Sodium chloride
Potassium nitrate
Potash
Arsenious acid
Boiling water
Mix.

The

solution

25 gr.
12 gr.

60

gr.

10 gr.

3000

is

gr.

then allowed to cool and

filter.

To
less

10 parts of this solution, which is neutral, colorand odorless, add 4 parts of glycerin and 1 part

of methylic alcohol.

From 1^

to 5 litres of the fluid to

each body, according to

nate the body with

F.

size.

be used on

Saturate and impreg-

it.

C. E. Mattison,

M. D.,

in

Medical World.

EMBALMING.
The

following was given in Scientific America?i in

1878:

Saturate two pints of water with chloride of zinc,

and add one pint more of water and two pints of
methylated spirit or alcohol. This amount is sufficient for an adult.
vein.

fluid will gravitate

sure

Tie the injecting nozzle in the

is used with long pipe the

If a catarrh bottle

over the body;

may be made,

as

by blowing

if

not, slight pres-

in

it.

This makes

the skin white and firm, but mottled for a short time.

Punta Gorda,

Fla.

H. R.

in

Medical World.

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SYSTEMS.

EMBALMING

99

FLUIDS.

Virodizeff's Method.

Take of
Thymol

Mix.
is

5 parts.

Alcohol
Glycerin

Water

To

45 parts.
6

P arts
arts
P
to oV
inject the body half of its weight of
to

oo

fluid

necessary.

Mor ell's

Antiseptic Liquid.

Morell's Antiseptic Liquid for general antiseptic

and embalming purposes

is

as follows:

Take of
Arsenious acid
Caustic soda

14 parts.

Water

20 parts.

7 parts.

Carbolic acid, to render fluid

after stirring opalescent.
water enough to make

Add

100 parts.

Muller's Preserving Fluid.

1

Take of
Bichromate of potash
Sulphate of soda

Water

to

2 to

2^
1

make

parts.
part.

100 parts.

Wickersheimer's Preserving Fluid.

Wickersheimer's Preserving Fluid

is

most generally

prepared as follows:
For injecting.

16 grams.

Arsenious acid

Sodium

chloride. ...

Potassium sulphate

80 grams.
200 grams.

For immersing.

12 grams.
60 grams.
150 grams.

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200

Potassium nitrate
Potassium carbonate

25 grams.

18 grams.

20 grams.

15

Water

10 liters.

10

liters.

Glycerin

Wood

naphtha

grams.

liters.

liters.

liters.

liters.

LONDON PASTE.
Take

of

Caustic soda,
Unslaked lime

Reduce

to fine

equal parts.

powder

Keep well
and make into a

intimately.

water,

in a

warm mortar and mix

For use mix with

corked.

paste of the consistency of

I have got the formula by correspondence

from Sir Morell Mackenzie, in London, and have obtained very good results by its use in cases of hypertrophied tonsils upon which injection of Iodine made

cream.

little

or no impression.

P. Isenschmid,

in

Medical World,

RHEUMATIC OINTMENT.

French quack doctor employs, with great sucan ointment for rheumatic pain. As we believe
that modern
physicians should be without any
opathy, and take any good remedy, no matter
what its origin, we give this one
cess,

Take

of

Sulphuric acid

Prepared lard
Mix.

15 gr.
105 gr.

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SYSTEMS.

201

difference in density of the two

must be taken in mixing.
In quite easy rubbing with this mixture it brings
about redness of the skin very rapidly, and acts as an
In sciatica, rubbed along the
excellent revulsive.
to

the

bodies, great care

course of the nerve,

it

gives rapid relief.

Ti?nes and Register.

M'LEAN'S STRENGTHENING CORDIAL.

Take

of

Gentian root

8 oz.
8 oz.

Columbo root
Orange peel

2 oz.

Coriander seed

Cardamom

seed

oz.

j oz.

Serpentaria

Whisky

7 pints.

Glycerin

oz.
pint.

Grind the drugs to coarse powder, moisten with

whisky, pack in the percolator, percolate with the

whisky, forcing out the last with water, and in the

percolate mix the glycerin.

HARTER'S WILD CHERRY BITTERS.

Take

of

Wild cherry bark

Yellow cinchona bark

8 oz.

Orange peel

2 oz.

Cardamom

seed

Asarum Canadense
Alcohol dilute

oz.

oz.

oz.

6 pints.

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202

Honey

pint.

Syrup

pint.

Percolate the

drugs, in moderately fine

when

with the dilute alcohol, and

powder,

six pints are ob-

tained add the honey and syrup.

WOOLFORD'S SANITARY LOTION.

Some two

or three years ago

tion of this preparation,

we made an examina-

and found

to consist of a

it

polysulphide and thiosulphate of the metals potassium, sodium, and calcium.

A preparation, however,
which is substantially the same in every respect may
be made from the following formula

Sodium hydrate

3 dr.

Sulphur

5 dr.

Water

to

make

pint.

Dissolve the sodium hydrate in 4 or

ounces of

water and add sulphur, and boil until the preparation

assumes a reddish-brown

color,

which

will

require

probably 15 or 20 minutes. It may now be diluted

to one pint and sulphureted hydrogen passed through
it

and then

for a few minutes,

We

filtered.

also think that the following formula

used with quite as

much advantage

Sublimed sulphur

16 oz. av.
8 oz. av.

Lime
Slake the lime and

make

with five pints of water

pints

more

of water

might be

it

into a

uniform mixture

add the sulphur and ten

boil for

one hour with constant

AND

SYSTEMS.

203

water which has

stirring, replacing occasionally the

been

by evaporation

lost

then cover the vessel,

allowing the contents to cool.

solution

will

consist of

thiosulphate of calcium.

Pour

off.

The

clear

a solution of sulphide and

This

formula

last

is

based

upon the method of preparing precipitated sulphur

according to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.

New Idea.

LOCAL ANAESTHETIC FOR COMPARATIVELY

PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH.
As one of the great corps of " country doctors"
who act in almost every capacity for their patrons, I
submit the following formula as a local anaesthetic for
the almost painless extraction of teeth

Take

of

Hydrochlorate cocaine
Crystal, carbolic acid

Pure
95

gum camphor.

5 parts
6 parts
6 parts

per cent, alcohol, enough

to

make

120 parts

Mix.
Inject one to three minims of this mixture with a
hypodermic syringe deeply into the gum on the inner
and outer sides of the tooth. Apply over the gum a
piece of absorbent cotton wet in the solution.
Wait
four to five minutes.
The gum can then be freely
incised, and the tooth drawn with a minimum amount
of pain.

/.

Wilton Hope,

M.

D., in Va. Med. Monthly,

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HINDS'S

HONEY AND ALMOND CREAM.

According to Mr. Geo. H. Rose (Drugg. Circ.)

may be practically duplicated by the
lowing formula

preparation

this
fol-

Ointment of rose water

Oil of sweet almonds

5 parts

Solution of soda, U. S. P
Mucilage of quince seed (2 drs.
to

Water

parts
parts
5 parts
12 parts
5

Glycerin
Boric acid

25 parts

pt.)

make

sufficient to

200 parts

Oil of bitter almond, and

Oil of rose, of each, sufficient to perfume.

Heat the ointment,

and solution of soda tois formed

then warm together the glycerin, acid, mucilage, and
mix with the emulsion,
about 150 parts of water
stir until cold, and make up to 200 parts by adding
more water. Lastly add the perfume.
Apropos to "what is in a name," it will be noticed
that the preparation here proposed contains no honey
oil

gether, stirring constantly until an emulsion

at

all.

It is

probably

all

the better for the omission.

New Idea.

ALCOHOL IN PATENT MEDICINES.

REPORT TO MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF HEALTH.
I

have examined the following

special reference to

list

of fifty samples

and bitters, with

the relation which the percentage

of proprietary preparations,

tonics

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SYSTEMS.

205

upon assay to conmight bear to the admission of the presence of

any or claims for the absence of all alcohol, as given
upon their labels and wrappers. I have also noted
the doses and frequency with which they are recommended to be used, as well as the place of their
The alcohol found upon assay is given in per
origin.
How far the claim of some of
cent, by volume.
of alcohol which they were found
tain

them

for special usefulness in the reformation of in-

temperate habits

is

justified is self-evident.

TONICS.

New York
added to dissolve resins,
and prevent fermentation." " Not a temporary and
Its use
fleeting stimulant, but a permanent tonic.
must be regular and continued over a considerable
An extract of double and triple strength
period.
also made.
Dose, 10 to 15 drops to a teaspoonful
Dr. Buckland's Scotch Oats Essence,

City

"

Enough

alcohol

is

three or four times daily, increased as needed."

In

the simple essence 35 per cent, of alcohol was found

on assay. Further examination of this article reveals

still

more dangerous ingredient

The sample analyzed was found

grain of

morphia

the

to

" Essence of Oats."

in

its

ounce of

more

composition.

to contain one-fourth

insidious

the

fraud can scarcely be imagined, especially

ministered, as this
inebriety or the
Carter's

is

recommended,

opium

Physical

so-called

and dangerous

when

habit.

Extract,

Georgetown,

Dose, one tablespoonful three times daily;

cent, of alcohol found.

ad-

for the cure of

Mass.
22 per

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Wigwam

Hooker's

tablespoonful

three

One

Tonic, Haverhill, Mass.

times daily;

20.7

per cent, of

alcohol.

German

Hoofland's

Tonic, Philadelphia. Admits

Wineglass four times daily 29.3

Santa Cruz rum.

per cent.

Hop
ful to

Tonic,

One

Grand Rapids, Mich.

wineglass three times a day

Howe's Arabian Tonic,

New

tablespoon-

per cent.

York.

"

Not a rum

Tablespoonful to wineglass four times daily

drink."

13.2 per cent.

Jackson's Golden

Marsala wine.

Seal

Tonic,

Boston.

Admits

Half wineglass three times daily

19.6 per cent.

New

York.

four teaspoonfuls

three

New

York.

Liebig Company's Cocoa Beef Tonic,

"With

sherry."

times daily

Two

to

23.2 per cent.

Mensman's Peptonized Beef

"Contains
times daily

spirit."
;

One

Tonic,

tablespoonful to three, three

16.5 per cent.

New York. " A purely vegetable

"Stimulus to the body without intoxi" Inebriates struggling to reform will find
cating."
its tonic and sustaining influence on the nervous sysParker's Tonic,

extract."

tem a great help to their efforts." Dose as tonic, one

to two teaspoonfuls one to three times daily
41.6
;

per cent.

Schenck's Sea-Weed Tonic, Philadelphia.

tilled

from sea weed

spirits is

after the

from sugar cane.

same manner
It

is

" Dis-

as Jamaica

therefore entirely

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SYSTEMS.

207

harmless and free from the injurious properties of

corn and rye whisky."
times daily

Dose, half wineglass three

19.5 per cent.

BITTERS.

Atwood's Quinine Tonic

tablespoonful to half

half

Boston.

Bitters,

wineglass,

water, wine or spirit, three times daily

Atwood's Jaundice

Dose,

mixed with
29.2 per cent.

Maine.
Half tablespoonful to half wineglass one to six times
daily
22.3 per cent
Moses Atwood's Jaundice Bitters, New York. Half
tablespoonful to wineglass one to six times daily
L. F.

Bitters, Portland,

1 7. 1

per cent.

H. Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, Burlington, Vt.

to two tablespoonfuls
16.5 per cent.
Boker's Stomach Bitters, New York.
Dose not

One

given

42.6 per cent.

Brown's Iron
harmless."

spoonful

"

Bitters, Baltimore,

Not a

Md.

" Perfectly

substitute for whisky."

Table-

19.7 per cent.

Burdock Blood

Bitters, Buffalo, N.

ful to tablespoonful three

times daily

Y
;

Teaspoon25.2 per cent.

Carter's Scotch Bitters, Georgetown, Mass.

spoonful to wineglass, as occasion requires

Table17.6 per

cent.

Colton's Bitters, Westfield, Mass.

Teaspoonful to
two tablespoonfuls three times daily; 27.1 percent.
Copp's White Mountain Bitters, Manchester, N. H.
" Not an alcoholic beverage."
Wineglassful 6 per
;

cent.

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Drake's Plantation Bitters,

St.

Croix rum."

New

"

York.

Contains

Wineglassful three times daily

33.2

per cent.
Flint's

Quaker

times daily

Goodhue's
ful

16.

six

Bitters,

Salem, Mass.

Half wineglass-

per cent.

Tablespoon

Hartshorn's Bitters, Boston.

wineglassful

to half

22.2 per cent.

German

Hoofland's
tirely

Teaspoonful

Boston.

Bitters,

21.4 per cent.

"

Philadelphia.

Bitters,

En-

vegetable and free from alcoholic stimulant."

Tablespoonful four times daily

Hop

Bitters, Rochester,

spoonfuls three times daily

Stomach

Hostetter's

Kaufman's

25.6 per cent.

One

to three table-

12 per cent.

Wine-

Bitters, Pittsburg, Pa.

44.3 per cent.

Sulphur Bitters, Boston. " Contains no

glassful three times daily

alcohol."

N. Y.

Tea

to

tablespoonful.

no

contains

It

sulphur, but has 20.5 per cent of alcohol.

One

Kingsley's Iron Tonic, Northampton, Mass.

to

two teaspoonfuls three times daily; 14.9 per cent.

Langley's Bitters, Boston. Half wineglass or more

three times daily

Liverpool's

18.1 per cent.

Mexican Tonic

Oxygenated
spoonful.

Bitters,

New

22.4 per cent.

Tea

York,

to

table-

Acid, but no alcohol.

Pierce's Indian Restoration Bitters, Boston.

wineglassful and to six times daily

Z.

Half

Bitters, Boston.

to full wineglassful three times daily

Porter's

Stomach

Bitters,

6.1

New York

spoonful or more several times daily

Up

to

per cent
=

Table-

27.9 per cent.

AND
Rush's

New

Bitters,

times daily

SYSTEMS.

209

Wineglassful

York.

Dr. Richardson's Concentrated Sherry

ters,

four

35 per cent.

Wine

Bit-

Tablespoonful to half wine-

Wakefield, Mass.

more three times daily, " or when there is a

sensation of weakness or uneasiness at the stomach ;"

glass or

47.5 per cent.

Secor's Cinchona Bitters, Providence, R.

wineglassful three times daily

Shonya's

German

Bitters,

spoonful to wineglassful

13.

I.

Half

per cent.

Concord, N. H.

Table

21.5 per cent.

Job Sweet's Strengthening Bitters, New Bedford.

Tablespoonful to wineglassful three times daily 29
;

per cent.

Thurston's Old Continental Bitters, Lynn, Mass.

to two tablespoonfuls
11.4 per cent.

Tea

Walker's Vinegar Bitters,

all

New

"

York.

Contains no

alcoholic stimulant.

Free from

spirit."

Half

to full wineglass; 6.1 per cent.

Warner's Safe Tonic Bitters, Rochester, N. Y.

Table to wineglassful 35.7 per cent.
Warren's Bilious Bitters, Boston. Teaspoon to
two tablespoonfuls one to three times daily; 21.5
;

per cent.

Wheeler's

Tonic

Sherry

Wine

Two-thirds wineglass two times daily

Wheat

Bitters,

New

York.

wineglass three times daily

Bitters,
;

Dessertspoonful

to

13.6 per cent.

Faith Whitcomb's Nerve Bitters, Boston.

spoonful three times daily

Boston.

18.8 per cent.

20.3 per cent.

Table-

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Dr. Williams's Vegetable Jaundice Bitters, Lowell,

Mass.

Half to

full

wineglass one time daily

Dr. B.

per cent.

S. Davenport, Analyst of

A SECRET

18.5

Drugs.

PILE REMEDY.

A few years ago a man from Kentucky came

through this country selling a secret remedy for
hemorrhoids. Some of the doctors (so-called, but
not M.D.'s) bought it at a consideration of about
three hundred dollars, I think. One of the purchasers, who keeps a standing advertisement, came
into our

it

off.

then

my

drug store and called on

some medicine.

My

He

partner

reached

laughed, and said

filled

the

for

partner for

held the prescription and read

it

according to directions,

The doctor

prescription,,

"

No, this is a secret remedy/'

into a dozen or more pieces and threw
:

So he tore it
them into the waste-basket. The doctor walked out,
and about that time I happened to step into the
There was no one present then except my
store.
He told me that " that great
partner and myself.
pile remedy was just compounded, and the prescripI asked him what it
tion was in the waste-basket.'
was composed of, and he told me, but to make an
assurance doubly assured, I went to work putting the
pieces together, and when they were arranged they
read as follows:

Take of
Acetate lead

Tannic acid

20 gr.
2 dr.

AND

SYSTEMS.

211

Calomel

2 dr.

Sulph. morphia

4 gr.

Glycerin

4 oz.

Mix.

The above

is

verbatim

et literati?n,

but

I will

further

was made by triturating the

a mortar and adding the glycerin slowly.
J. B. Goodwin, M. D., in Medical World.

state that the mixture

first

four in

DOUBLE CHLORIDE OF GOLD AND SODIUM

CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.
Prof.

Edmund Andrews

gives the following in re-

gard to this treatment in an interview published in

the Chicago Daily News
About three years ago a young physician in Chi-

cago named Dr. J. L. Gray, who now has a sanitarium for the treatment of drunkenness and nervous
diseases at La Porte, Ind., without any knowledge of
what was being done at Dwight, began to treat
drunkards by a combination of medicines, of which
the principal ingredients were strychnia, atropine,
and the double chloride of gold and sodium, combined with some soothing and strengthening constituents.

WHAT THE DWIGHT TREATMENT

IS.

Afterward, hearing of the treatment being administered at Dwight, he went there

and investigated

it.

He

found from the symptoms manifested by patients

that they were taking essentially the same treatment
as his own, though he

and the physician

at

Dwight

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212

had held no communication with each other. I do

not know that either claims to have originated the
use of chloride of gold in the treatment of drunken-

At any rate Dr. Gray found the patients at

Dwight exhibiting symptoms which were unmistakable as indicating the use of atropine, strychnia and
ness.

the gold.

The

become
some dim-

atropine causes the pupil of the eye to

dilated on the second or third day, with

ness of vision and a

irregularity of the gait in

little

Some headache

walking.

ensues, and the strychnia

causes some twitching of the muscles.

of gold causes in a

week or two an

eruption to break out

all

The

chloride

irritating red

When

over the body.

Dr.

Gray receives a patient he sets into his room a bottle

containing a pint of good whisky, instructing the
patient that he can take
ately

he wishes.

all

He

immedi-

commences and gives him four hypodermic

injections each day, each containing one-tenth of a

grain of the chloride of gold and sodium and onefortieth of a grain of nitrate of strychnia, and gives a
mixture to be taken by the mouth, containing the

same with some

The

atropine.

following

him, and

is

the exact prescription used by

have no doubt
scribed at Dwight:

Take

of

is

it

similar to that pre-

Chloride of gold and sodium ...

Muriate of ammonia.
Nitrate of strychnia

12 gr.

6 gr.
1

gr.

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SYSTEMS.

213

Atropine

Comp.

fluid extract of

cinchona.

Fluid extract of coca

Glycerin
Distilled water

gr.

3 oz.
1

oz.

oz.

oz.

Mix, and take a teaspoonful every two hours when

awake.

He

sees the patients four times a day,

increases the gold

show

and strychnia

and rapidly

symptoms
bean The

until the

that they are getting all they will

first day the patient drinks pretty heavily of the

whisky in his room. The second day he begins to
lose his desire for 'it.
By the evening of the third
day or the morning of the fourth, he is totally sick of
it,
and will not take any more. The treatment is
carried on from three to six weeks.
Dr. Gray says he has treated some two hundred
patients, but the difficulty of getting a correct history
of many of them after they have left the institution

makes it impossible to give exact statistics as to the

permanency of cures. His impression is that about
70 per cent, are permanently cured.

who had

He

has patients

previously been to Dwight and

relapsed

There are seven or eight relapsed

graduates of Dwight now in the Washingtonian
Home of this city for cure, and numerous others who
have gone back to drink are scattered all over the

several

times.

country.

Nevertheless,

many remain permanently

cured, and probably Dr. Gray's estimate of 70 per

cent, is

more nearly correct than the Dwight estimate

of 95 per cent.

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214

The
ment

value of the so-called chloride of gold treat-

is this:

for liquor.

off

the patient from his desire

The powerful

poisons given disturb the

It

breaks

nerves profoundly, and, like a

fit

or an attack of

some

kinds of sickness, so change the condition of the ner-

vous system that the desire

completely abolished.

for liquor

is

upset and

RELEASE FROM THE HABIT.

This breaks the tyranny of the habit, and enables
the man to start on a career of total abstinence without feeling a distress from the absence of his stimuMany men, therefore, are able to resist future
lant.
temptation and to permanently maintain their sobribut

ety,

if

they begin to tipple they

will

gradually

repugnance and re-acquire the habit.

Sufficient time has not elapsed to show what particular class of drinking men will be benefited by the
In all probability the periodical drunktreatment.
ards, accustomed to going on sprees at intervals of
considerable time, will be found most liable to fall
back into their old habits.

overcome

their

WASHBTJRNE'S SALICYLICA.

preparation bearing a close resemblance to Sali-

cylica
tion

may be made by

the following simple prescrip-

Take of
Salicylate of soda

Make

24 powders.

dr.

Druggists Circular.

AND

SYSTEMS.

2 IS

FROSTILLA.
Take

of

Quince seeds

60

gr.

Hot water

oz.

Glycerin

6 oz.
5 oz.

Deodorized alcohol

Place the quince seeds in a bottle, pour the hot

water on them and agitate occasionally until a mucilage is formed, then strain through muslin.
To this
add the glycerin and shake thoroughly. Dissolve
the desired perfume in the alcohol and add the solution to the mucilage and agitate briskly until of a
uniform consistency.
Druggists' Circular.

MAYER'S OINTMENT.
This formula is said to have become known through
Joseph P. Mayer some forty years ago, although similar formulas long antedate that period.
The formula
is

as follows

Take of
Olive

oil

White turpentine
Beeswax
Unsalted butter

2^

lb.

y2

lb.

4 oz.
4 oz.

Mix these together and heat nearly to boiling.

Then add gradually red lead one pound, and stir
constantly until the mixture becomes black or brown,

when it is to be removed from the fire, and when

somewhat cool add honey twelve ounces and powdered camphor eight ounces.

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The

addition of the red lead should be by small

quantities at a time, the addition of the honey only

after the entire conversion of all the bright red color

brown and after it has cooled to some extent,

and the camphor should be added when there is yet
heat enough to dissolve, but not dissipate it. This
salve or ointment has been highly commended as an
application to cuts, wounds, ulcers, etc.
to a

Pharmaceutical Era.

DR. CHURCHILL'S PRESCRIPTIONS.

The "Churchill Prescriptions" are still being sent

As this particular form of the " sands of
life " kind of philanthropy will be new to some readers, we will copy literally, as a sample, one of the
out "free."

prescriptions,

which

is

for " nervous debility," etc.

Pareira brava
%
Hydrastis C
Peruvian bark calisaya. ........
Bromide potassium
^2
1
Carbonate lithia

oz.

%
^

The

"

mode

of preparing

" is

oz.

oz.

oz.
dr.

given as follows

"Put one-quarter ounce Pareira brava to one ounce

then add
of boiling water
let it stand for two hours
mix well
of finely powdered Hydrastis C one ounce
and reduce to the consistency of syrup by evaporation.
Put one ounce Peruvian bark Calisaya to two
:

then
let it boil five minutes
and add one and one -half ounces bromide potassium.
Wash two drachms in the salts of carbonate

ounces of boiling water

filter

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lithia in

SYSTEMS.

proper vessels, and add

together, and heat on a slow

fire

217
all

the ingredients

in

a close covered

vessel to ioo degrees specific gravity

mortar,

pulverize

well,

and

remove

triturate.

it

to a

Divide the

whole mixture into fifteen powders."

The reader is warned in the customary fashion
against " unprincipled druggists" who undertake to
prepare the "prescriptions" as "best they can," and
is invited to send to the advertiser for the " remedies."

The

difference between these prescriptions

" Blodgetti "

and the
and "Arabian sea-grass" operations is,

that they direct nothing but medicines that really

exist,

but cannot be " compounded

"

according to the

absurd directions which appear very learned to the

average reader.

The only course left open to a conscientious pharwho is asked to prepare such a prescription, is

macist

its exact nature, and to

by the Circular, in which
he will find all such schemes explained as they arise.
As people seem to take more kindly to what they see
in print than to what is told them by a familiar
acquaintance, this plan has been found to work well

to inform the

"back up"

customer of

his statements

the pharmacist sustaining his reputation for knowl-

edge and

ability,

Druggists

HAMBURG BREAST
It is said that a

made by mixing

Circular.

TEA,

preparation similar to this

may be

SECRET NOSTRUMS

2l8

Marshmallow

flowers

8 oz.

Liquorice root

3 oz.

Orris root
Coltsfoot
Mullein flowers
Anise seed

oz.

4 oz.
2 oz.

2 oz.

Mix.

EDISON'S POLYFORM.
In response to a query regarding this preparation,
a correspondent

be

made by
Take

w rites that
T

a very similar article can

the following formula

of

Chloroform

2 oz.

Chloral hydrate

2 oz.

y2

oz.

oz.

Ether

oz.

Morphine sulphate

6 gr.

Alcohol

Gum

camphor

Oil of peppermint

2 dr.

Druggists

Mix.

Circular.

GADBERRY'S MIXTURE.
Gadberry's Mixture

is

used to a great extent

in the

Mississippi Valley to control malaria.

Take of
Liquor tersulphate iron
Liquor arseniate potash
Saltpetre
Sulph. quinine

Water enough

fl.

dr.

90 minims.
2 dr.
2 dr.

to

make

2 oz.

Bulletin of Pha rmacy.

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SYSTEMS.

219

KALODONT.
The dentifrice known in Germany by this name is
made by dissolving neutral soap in glycerin and
rubbing with a suitable tooth powder, the proportions
being adjusted to produce a soft mass.

used as a coloring, and the flavor

adding

sufficient of a

Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil

The

is

given by

mixture of

of peppermint
of lemon
of orris root
of sage

preparation

Carmine

may be

is

25 parts.
6 parts.
1

part.

part.

usually put up in collapsible

tubes.

Druggists' Circular.

MICAJAH'S MEDICATED UTERINE WAFERS.

The

exact composition of this secret remedy

of

is,

course, not known, but a correspondent has given the

formula below as one practically duplicating the

ticle in

question

Mercury bichloride
Zinc sulphate

Bismuth subnitrate
Acacia
Carbolic acid

Water

ar-

tV S r

5 gr.

15 gr.
5 gr.
3 gr.

enough.

This formula, with the exception of the bismuth

and acacia, the doctor says, has been used by the
medical profession for a long time for onychia,

etc.

Medical Summary.

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220

MOSELEY'S CURE FOR CONSUMPTION AND

HEMOPTYSIS.
Take of
Zinc sulphate

6 parts.

Alum

4 parts.

Water

480 to 600 parts.

Cochineal, sufficient to color.

Mix.

MARSHALL'S PILLS.
Take of

Compound

extract colocynth. ... 60 gr.

Mass mercury
Powd. aloes
Powd. soap
Powd. rhubarb

Mix and make

60 gr.
60 gr.
60 gr.
60 gr.

into 60 pills.

Pharm. Record.

BRADYCROTINE.

A compound

closely resembling

the following formula

it

may be made by

Caffeine (alkaloid)

5 gr.
gr.

20
Potassium bromide
20
Sodium bromide
2
Simple syrup
2
Alcohol
Port wine sufficient to make ....
2
Caramel sufficient to color.

gr.
dr.

dr.

oz.

Druggists' Circular.


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221

COUGH MIXTURE.

CHILDS'S
Take

SYSTEMS.

of

Syr. squills

2 dr.

Wine

dr.

dr.

ipecac

camphor comp

Tinct.

Simple syrup.

4 dr.

Water

3 oz.

Mix.

ATKINSON'S INFANT PRESERVATIVE.

Take of
Carbonate magnesia.
White sugar

6 dr.

2^

Comp.

oz.

20 drops.

Oil anise
spirits

2^
2^

ammonia

Rectified spirits
Tinct. opium
Syrup saffron

Caraway water enough

to

make

dr.

dr.

dr.

oz.

pint.

Mix.

Used

anodyne and hypnotic.

Pharm. Record.

as an antacid,

LIGHTBURN'S LIQUID VETERINARY BLISTER.

Powdered cantharides

oz.

Oil of turpentine
Water of ammonia

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

Olive

fl.

oz.

fl.

oz.

oil

Oil of sassafras

When
tered be

dispensed, direct that the surface to be

washed

off

blis-

with hot water and dried, and

SECRET NOSTRUMS

22

that the liquid be

When

grows.

rubbed

should be tied so that

spot

being

in

applying a

blistered,

it

against the

cannot get

and

the

way

the hair

animal's head

blister, the

its

mouth

to the

pharmacist should

caution his customers to that effect.

Druggists

Circular.

BOERHAVER'S BITTERS.
Take

of

Alcohol, 90 per cent

140 parts.
76 parts.

Sugar
Aloes

10 parts.

Cinnamon

23
23
23
23
23
23
23

Galangal
Zedoary
Angelica
Cloves
Gentian
Quassia, cut

Water

parts.
parts.
parts.

parts.

parts.
parts.
parts.

200 parts.

Hager.

Mix.

HUMLEY'S COLIC CURE.

[FOR HORSES.J

Take of

Laudanum

oz.

Essence of peppermint

oz.

Spirits of nitre

oz.

oz.

y2

oz.

4
4

oz.

Ether
,
Bicarbonate of sodium.

Whisky
Linseed
Mix.

oil

........

oz.

Our contributor

AND

SYSTEMS.

said

that,

223

among the very many

made by the above

remedies he had seen used, that

formula had accomplished the most satisfactory

and in the shortest time. What has

must be done quickly in this ailment.

to

sults

re-

be done

Druggists' Circular.

WHEELOCK'S COUGH MIXTURE.

Take

of

Sulph. ether
Tinct. hyoscyamus
Syr. wild cherry

3 dr.

Syr. tolu

Water

to

make

oz.

oz.

oz.

4 oz.

Pharm. Era.

Mix.

ROGERS'S ANTI-NEURALGIC PILLS.

Take of
Asafoetida
Ext. valerian

10
10
10
10

Galbanum
Castoreum
Mix.

Dose:

Make

ten

gr.
gr.

gr.
gr.

pills.

Three or four

pills

a day.

Country Doctor.

LYDIA PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND.

It is said that this preparation closely resembles
an infusion or decoction of gnaphalium polycephalum,

a plant

known

everlasting."

in

common

with several others as "

life

Druggists' Circular.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

224

BRONCHILLINE.
Bronchilline

is

said to contain in each fluid ounce

the following therapeutic agents

Mullein

4
4
4
4
4
4

Horehound
Senega
Ipecac
Sanguinaria

White pine
Wild cherry

gr.

gr.

gr.
gr.

16 gr.
8 gr.

Pine tar

Chloroform

To

gr.

gr.

4 min.

prepare a syrup having this composition pro-

ceed as follows

Take of
Mullein

64 gr.
64 gr.
64 gr.
64 gr.
64 gr.
64 gr.
256 gr.
64 min.

Horehound
Senega
Ipecac
Sanguinaria

White pine
Wild cherry
Chloroform
Pine tar

q. s.

Sugar
Alcohol

q. s.

Water

q.

Make

14 oz. av.
s.

method of the U.
mixed drugs in
about No. 40 powder, and, having mixed eight volumes of the tar water with three volumes of alcohol,
S.

P.

a tar water, following the

for syrup of

tar.

Take

the

proceed to moisten the drugs with this menstruum.

AND

SYSTEMS.

225

After allowing to stand twenty-four hours to swell,

pack them
menstruum

and percolate with the

ounces of percolate have been
In this dissolve the sugar with the aid of
obtained.
a gentle heat, and when cold add the chloroform and
New Idea
enough tar water to make one pint.
in a percolator,

until eight

KLINE'S PAINLESS CANCER PLASTER.

Take of
White wax
Fir balsam
Chromic acid

oz.

2 oz.
1

oz.

Melt the wax and balsam together, and add the

acid

slowly,

cuticle

by

while

stirring

blistering,

plaster spread

upon

if

cooling.

necessary,

thin muslin.

Remove

the

and apply the

When

a sufficient

depth of tissue has been destroyed, slough out with

poultices,

if

necessary.

DAVISSON'S CANCER REMEDY.

For many years a man named Davisson resided
Lake Zurich, in Lake county, Illinois, who
treated cancers with a plaster of which the following
It was given to
is believed to be a correct receipt.
the writer by Dr. Joseph House, of Marengo, 111., he
claiming to have received it in return for some pronear

fessional favor.

Take of
Rochelle salts
Sulphur

oz.

oz.

SECRET NOSTRUMS

226

Sulph. zinc
Arsenious acid
.

>

oz.

oz.

Beat well the yolk of eight eggs. Mix with the

above ingredients to a thick batter, put in an earthen
dish and bake well in an oven.

To

color, use a little sulphate of copper, taking less

sulphate of zinc.

To

use

Mix with

the yolk of an egg to a paste,

spread to the thickness of a wafer and apply to the

spread another larger plaster with the yolk

sore, then

alone
It

put this over the

first,

binding

it

on

tightly.

should produce inflammation and swelling, on the

off the plaster, and if a line
formed apply another, and so

subsidence of which take

of separation has not

on

until

it

ointment.

does form, then dress with some healing

If

the

cuticle

is

not

remove by a

off,

blister.

PAINLESS CANCER REMEDY.

Take of
Monsel's solution,
Liquor ammonia, of each equal

Mix

together.

parts.

Let stand an hour, pour

off

the

supernatant liquid and place the pasty residue on a

filter.

Let stand

until

it

an ointment, then triturate

quantity of lard, and

obtains the consistence of

in a mortar,

when united add

with half the

of arsenious

acid ten grains to the ounce.

Spread thickly on pieces of cloth and apply every

day until the growth is killed. Remove the skin by
blistering,

if

necessary.

AND

SYSTEMS.

227

A SUCCESSFUL ESCHAROTIC FOR CANCER, LUPUS, AND OTHER MALIGNANT TUMORS.

Mrs. G., aged about forty, applied to me to treat a
tumor on the left side of her nose and about threeeighths of an inch from the inner canthus of the left
I found, on examination, that it was lupus exeeye.
I had no faith in any of the remedies, so
dens.
called, in the books, nor did I have any faith in the
But I had purchased a cancer recipe in which
kntfe.
I had faith, for I had known it to be successful in
taking out many cancers, and that it took out roots
as far as lymphatics contained cancer cells.

So far as I have learned, none of the malignant

tumors that had been taken out by this recipe had
The lupus on Mrs. G.'s nose was
ever returned.
about three-quarters of an inch long and five-eighths
of an inch wide, being rounded at each end.
Without more of this, I will give treatment

Take of
Sanguinaria pulv
i part.
Galangal pulv
3 parts.
Chloride of zinc, sufficient quantity.
Mix.
I first mixed the powders, then worked in gradually
enough chloride of zinc to make a thick paste, or
plaster, consistent enough to form with my fingers,
about yk in. thick and large enough to cover the
whole tumor and about ys in. of healthy skin around
the tumor. This I applied one morning, after put-

ting isinglass plaster over the inner canthus of the

SECRET NOSTRUMS

228

eye to prevent the possibility of any of the escharotic

getting into the eye, and also to prevent tears getting

on the plaster. Over this I applied strips of plaster,

and a soft compress and bandage. I left two doses
of morphine sulphate, 1-6 gr. each, to be taken in
case pain was severe.
The next morning I called to
see Mrs. G., and made another plaster and applied it
in the same way.
On the third morning I called
again and found that her face was considerably
swelled, though she had suffered but little pain and
had taken but two doses of morphine, but as it was

my

first

experience,

did not

make

tion that day, but called again

a third applica-

on the fourth day and

application.
On the fifth morning I
and from the blackened and shriveled
appearance of the tumor I was satisfied it was killed,
so I gave Mrs. G. basilicon ointment and directed
her to dress the tumor once a day with this, and that
in any cracks or fissures that occurred she should put
olive oil with a feather, this treatment to be continued
until the tumor came out.
I directed her to let it
come out without using any traction, and that it
would come out in about five days, and to continue

made

a third

called again,

dressing with the basilicon ointment until the aper-

was skinned over. I heard no more of the case

some two months, when, one day, Mrs. G. came to
me with scarcely a scar where the tumor had been.
So far as I can learn the regular profession know
ture
for

nothing of this recipe.

I

make

a plaster

What

part the galangal plays

two powders with zinc chloride

without the assistance of any liquid.

don't know, but the

"

AND
I

SYSTEMS.

229

have not had any other opportunity of trying

but have no hesitancy in recommending

medical profession, especially as

chase of

it

was, in the pur-

placed under no restrictions to keep

it,

The

it,

to thp

it

must be made fresh each morning, or twenty-four hours, as, if kept ready mixed it
gets too hard to adapt to the part.
I would advise, before commencing the treatment
that the primes vice be cleared out with some mild purgative, and that the diet be nutritious, but not coarse,
secret.

plaster

during the three or four days' use of the escharotic, so

the bowels may not be overloaded in consequence of any anodyne given to relieve pain. I did
not use exceeding two-thirds of a grain of morphine
in the case described, but some might require more,
and a purge after use of the plaster.
F. H. Lutterloh, M.D., in Medical World.

that

THE COST OF NOSTRUMS.

The Indiana

Pharmacist,

druggists to prepare their

in

own

an

article

advising

stock medicines, in-

stead of selling nostrums, gives the following figures

estimating the cost of preparations, identical with or

superior to the secret articles.

"Why

should you pay $1.90 a dozen for Bull's

Cough Syrup, when you can put up

a better article

containing no opium, giving three times the quantity

for the

dozen

Here
syrup:

same money,

at a cost of

but 46 cents a

is

a formula

for

a most

excellent

cough

SECRET NOSTRUMS

230

Take

of

Fl. ext.

ipecac

2 oz.

Chloroform ......... }&

Tinct. white pine ....

Water
Sugar
Magnesia carb
Tinct. gelsemium

2 cents.

8 oz.

14 cents.

28 oz.

56

This makes

oz.

84 cents.

five pints of finished

three-ounce

in

ounces, would

25 cents.
3 cents.
2 cents.

oz.

2 oz.

Total cost

up

38 cents.

oz.

ball-neck

product, which, put

panels,

make 3^6 dozen

bottles.

holding

The

2^

cost of

the bottles would be 50 cents, and the labels, wrappers,

would cost not more than 10 cents, making a

cost of $1.44 for three and one-sixth dozen
syrup, or about 46 cents a dozen, as against $1.90 a
dozen for Bull's.

etc.,

total

Take the
that

up

ting"

is

Take

None

subject of bitters.

can be bought for

to $8.50.

less

of the patents

than $7.00 a dozen, and from

They retail for $1.00, where " cutTake the following formula:

not known.
of

Cinchona bark, red.

Gentian root

Columbo

root
Juniper berries

Glycerine
Alcohol

Water

To make one

8
8
8
8
8

oz.

5 cents.

oz.

10 cents.

oz.

3 cents.
9 cents.

part.

oz.

oz.

30 cents.

55 cents.

3 parts.

gallon of finished product.

..

AND
Have
is

231

the drugs ground to coarse powder, pack in a

menstruum

percolator, pour on

drug

SYSTEMS.

When

evenly covered.

until the top of

the

the percolate begins to

drop, insert a cork in the percolator, cover the top,

Then
to macerate 48 hours.
proceed to obtain 7% pints of percolate, to which add
Flavor with oil of wintergreen.
the glycerine.
and allow the contents

This makes eight pints of finished product, which^

put up in pint bottles,

$1.00 a bottle.

sells for

The

and the labels and wrappers not

making a total cost of $1.50 for

bottles cost 28 cents,

to exceed 10 cents,

eight bottles, or $2.25

a dozen, as against $7.00

for

to $8.00 for the regular nostrum.

For a blood

purifier that will "

do the work every

time:'*

Take of
Fl. ext. sarsaparilla
Fl. ext. stillingia

8 oz.
8 oz.

....

yellow dock.
Podophyllin

8 oz.

Fl. ext.

24 gr.

Aqua

2 pt.

Elix. simplex

2 pt.

Alcohol
Iodide potash

2 pt.

Mix and

filter.

This

will give 9

will

cost

making a

Put up

in

oz.

50 cents.
25 cents.
25 cents.
3 cents.

23 cents.
55 cents.
18 cents.

paneled 14-ounce bottles.

bottles to the gallon.

26 cents,

labels

The

and wrappers

total cost of $2.35

10

bottles
cents,

for 9 bottles, or $3.13

a dozen, as against $7.00 to $8.50 a dozen for the

much-vaunted nostrums that are generally only a

epsom salts, colored and flavored.

solution of

SECRET NOSTRUMS

232

For a kidney cure, one that invariably brings back

recommends itself and makes business

the customer,
brisk:

Take of
buchu

8 oz.

Fl. ext. pareira

brava.
Fl. ext. stone-root ...
Acetate potass

4 oz.
4 oz.
4 oz.

Holland gin, best. ...

Simple elixir, to make.

8 oz.

Fl. ext.

Mix.

Filter

and put up

in

cost 44 cents,

making a

cents,

$1.77 a dozen.

and the

15 cents.

20 cents.
gal. 72 cents.

bottles holding eight

ounces, plain or paneled, as best

will

35 cents.
20 cents.
20 cents.

suits.

labels

The

bottles

and wrappers 10

total cost of $2.36 for

16 bottles, or

This can be sold for 50 cents a

bottle,

and w ill afford a much better per cent, and larger

profit than Warner's nostrums, and do the patient
some good.
For a liniment for general purposes, that will
relieve pain and soreness, giving much better satisT

faction than St. Jacob's Oil:

Take of
Soap liniment

5 pt.

$1.10

Aqua ammonia

2 pt.

.12

pt.

.60

Tinct.

Mix.

opium

INDEX.
Actina

133

Albadermine

Alcohol in Patent Medicines

Allen's Lung Balsam

Allen's World's Hair Restorer

Anti-Constipation

Pad

Anti-Fat
Arabian Balsam
Aseptin
Athlophoros
Atkinson's Infant Preservative
Augsburg Essence of Life
Ayer's Ague Cure
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Ayer's Hair Vigor
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Ayer's Vita Nuova
Bareel's Indian Liniment
Barker's Nerve and Bone Liniment
Barnes's Frost Balsam
Bateman's Pectoral Drops
Bauncheidt's Oil
Becker's Eye Salve
Beggs's Ague Pills
Benson's Skin Cure
Big G Injection
Blair's

Gout

Pills

204
6
7
7
135
7
8
8
221
14

9
9
10
10
12
15
15

14
156
16
16
16
17
195
131

Boerhaver's Bitters
Bordet's Hair Tonic
Boschee's German Syrup
Bradycrotine
Brandreth's Pills
Brinkerhoff's System

222
88

Brodie's Asthma Liniment

Brodie's Liniment

24
24
25
224

18

220
18
19

Bromo-Chloralum
Bronchilline

Brown's Bronchial Troches

25
233

INDEX.

234

Brown's Dentifrice
Brown's Iron Bitters
Brown's Male-Fern Vermifuge
Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers
Bucklen's Arnica Salve
Buckler's Croup Mixture
Bull's Blood Syrup
Bull's

26
26
26
27
28
28
28
29

Cough Syrup

Calder's Dentine
California Liniment
Cancer Paste and Plasters
Carbolate Iodine Inhalant
Carbolic Smoke Balls
Carter's Little Liver Pills
Castoria
Catani's Specific

29
30

30, 225, 226, 227

35
35
37
37
38
38
39

Cazeaux's Nipple Ointment

Centaur Liniment
Chamberlain's Diarrhoea
Chamberlain's Relief
Childs's Cough Mixture
Chloralum
Chlorodyne

Remedy

Churchill's Prescriptions
Clark's Blood Mixture
Cleary's Asthma Powder

Coaline Headache Powders

Cobb's Pills
Coe's Dyspepsia Cure

Combe's Aperient

Comedone Lotion
Compound Oxygen
Cook's Electro-Magnetic Liniment
Corrassa Compound
Cosmetics]
Cost of Nostrums
Cram's Fluid Lightning
Cuticura Ointment
Cuticura Resolvent
Davisson's Cancer

Remedy

Day's Kidney Pad

Dellenbaugh's Cough Cure

Derby Liniment
Deshler's Salve

41
41
221

41
42,

43
216
41

44
44
45
45
46
46
49
46
47
5

229
53
53
53

225
54
54
54
55

INDEX.
Double Chloride of Gold Cure
Dow's White Liquid Physic

for

235

Dipsomania

Edison's Polyform
Edwards's Alterative Bitters
Egyptian Eye Salve
Elepizone
Elixir Iodo-Brom. Calcium
Elixir Pinus Compound
Elixir Thion Compound

Compound

Elliman's Royal Embrocation

Cream Balm
Embalming Fluids

Ely's

Enos's Fruit Salt

Espey's Fragrant

55

218
196
56
56
57
57
58

59
59
27, 197, 198, 199

60

Cream

Fahnestock's Vermifuge
Falk's Sulpholine Cream
Febriline
Fellows's Hypophosphites

Firwein
Flagg's Relief
Fleury's Tasteless Cascarine
Ford's Balsam of Hoarhound
Fosgate's Anodyne Cordial
Freeman's Vermifuge Oil
French Uterine Pad
Frostilla

Funk's Cream of Roses

Gadberry's Mixture
Garfield

211

Tea

Gargling Oil

Genuine White Oil Liniment

Giles's Iodide of Ammonia Liniment
Golden Eye Water
Gombault's Caustic Balsam
Gooche's Mexican Cough Syrup
Good Samaritan Cough Syrup
Good Samaritan Liniment
Grandmother's Own Cough Remedy
Graves's Gout Preventive

61
61

62
62
63
64
65
65
66
66
67
67
215
67
218
68
69
69

69
70
70
71
72

72
73
132

Gray's Specific Pills

73

Great London Liniment

Green Mountain Salve
Green's August Flower

74

Green Wonder Oil

75

75

74

INDEX.

236

Grimault's Injection of Matico

Gull's

Cough Mixture
Gunn's Rheumatic Liniment

76
77
yy

Hagan's Magnolia Balm

Haines's Golden Specific
Hair's Asthma Cure
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Hall's Hair Renewer
Hall's Hygienic Treatment

77
78
78
80
80
81

Hamburg Breast Tea

Hamburg Drops
Hamburg Purgative Tea
Hamlet's Ague Pills

217
85
85
86
86
86
87
87

Hamlin's Wizard Oil

Hanson's Magic Corn Cure
Hardy's Ointment

Harlem Oil
Harter's Wild Cherry Bitters
Hartley's South American Cure

201

87
89

Heaton's Hernia Cure

Heiskell's Tetter Ointment
Helmbold's Buchu
Helmbold's Jelly
Hemorrhoids, Rorick's Formula
Himrod's Asthma Cure
Hinds's Honey and Almond Cream
Hinkley's Bone Liniment
Holloway's Ointment
Holloway's Pills
Holmes's Liver Pills

Hop

91

92
92
148

92
204
93
93
94

94
94

Bitters
Hostetter's Bitters
Humley's Colic Cure
>

95
222

Red Drops
Hunyadi Janos Water
Hunter's

Injection Brou

95

96
96

Jackson's Cough Syrup

Jayne's Alterative
Jayne's Expectorant

Kalodont
Kaskine
Keating's
Kellogg's

97
98
97

Cough Lozenges

Red Drops

219
98
99
99

1
1

INDEX.

237

Kelly's Tonic

181

Kendall's Spavin Cure

Kennedy's Medical Discovery
Kennkle's Worm Syrup

100
100

Kephalgine
Kickapoo Indian Oil

101
101

King's New Discovery

King's Royal Germateur

102
196
102
103
225
155
103
103

Kitchell's Liniment
Kline's Nerve Restorer
Kline's Painless Cancer Cure
Kohler's One Night Corn Cure

Kreyder's

Ague

Fills

Kumyss

99

Lac Virginis

106

La Fayette Mixture

1 1

Lallemand's Specific
Langell's Asthma Remedy
Lassar's Paste
Laubach's Electric Liniment
Lavarre's Sure Cure
Laville's Gout Cure
in Hair Restoratives

Lead

106
106
187
106
107
108
1

13

Lee's Anti-Bilious Pills

Lee's Gravel Remedy
Lee's Lithontriptic
Le Page's Liquid Glue
Liebig's Corn Cure
Lindsey's Pain Cure

108
109
109

for Man and Beast

Liquor Carbonis Detergens

112
113

131

no
1 1

Liniment
Little

Hop

Pills

Local Anaesthetic
Locock's Pulmonic Wafers
London Paste
Lowndes's Magic Cream
Low's Magnetic Liniment
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable
Lyon's Kathairon

14

203
115

200
115
116

Compound

223
116

McLean's Strengthening Cordial

Ruppert's Face Bleach
Magnetic Liniment
Malvina Cream
Malvina Lotion

201

Marshall's Pills

220

Madam

38
117
117
118

INDEX.

238
Matthieu's Vermifuge

119
215

Mayer's Ointment

Meibom's Pectoral Balsam

Metz's Balsam
Mexican Mustang Liniment
Micajah's Uterine Wafers
Miller's Golden Oil
Mitchell's
Mitchell's

19

20

121

219

Eye Salve
Treatment

of Piles

122
122
123
123

Morehead's Magnetic Plaster

Moseley's Cure for Consumption
Mother Siegel's Syrup

220

Moxie

Murray's Infallible System Tonic

Nerve and Bone Liniment

Number

126
27
127
128
128

Thirteen

Oculine
Oil of Gladness
Oil of Joy

129
129

Olive Branch

55

29
129
130

Orange Blossom
Osgood's Cholagogue
Ozone Uterine Wafers

131

Palmer's Cosmetic Lotion

Parsons's Local Anaesthetic
Parsons's Purgative Pills
Patterson's Emulsion
Peekskill's Cough Syrup
Perry Davis's Pain Killer
Perry's Blood Purifier
Pettit's

131

Eye Salve

Phenol Sodique
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery

Pimple Lotion
Piso's Cure for Consumption
Piatt's Chlorides
Pleis's Fit Powders
Pope's Cure for Neuralgia

Powell's Balm of Anise-Seed

Price's Pile Ointment
Proctor's Vermifuge

Quick Stop

for

Headaches

132
135
132
133
134
133
134
135
136
136
137
137
138
138
138
139
139
14

140

INDEX.
Radam's Microbe

Killer

141

Radway's Pills
Radway's Ready Relief
Radway's Renovating Resolvent
Ransom's Hive Syrup and Tolu
Reave's Embrocation
Red Star Cough Cure
Ree's Cholera Mixture

142
142
142
143
143
144
144
144

Rex Magnus
Rheumatic Ointment
Richmond's Samaritan Nervine
Roche's Embrocation
Rogers's Excelsior Corn Cure

200
145
140
148
148
149
1 50

Rosalind
Russell's Botanic

King

Russia Salve
Sage's Catarrh Remedy
Sanford's Catarrh Cure

151
151
1 52
152

Saul's Catarrh Cure

Sawyer's Uterine Pastilles
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup
Scotch Oats Essence
Sea-Shore Diphtheria Cure
Secret Pile Remedy

Seeley's Pile

155
167
1 56

210

Ointment

Sisters'

Hair Grower

Sexual Disorders

Consumption Cure
Simmons's Liver Regulator

Sirop Gibert
Skinner's Dandruff Mixture

Smedley's Fever Powders

Bros.' Cough Drops
Steedman's Soothing Powders
Stillingia Liniment for Croup
St. Jacob's Oil
St. John's Liniment
St. John Long's Liniment

Stokes's Expectorant

Stomach Pad
Strong's Arnica Jelly
Sykes's Catarrh Cure

59
162
163
163
164
164
164
165
1

Shiloh's

Smith

57
57
1 57
1 58
158
1

Senckenburg's Migraine Pastilles

Seven Barks

Seven Seals
Seven Sutherland

239

55
165
166
166
167
168
168
169

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240

Syrup of Figs
Syrup Stillingia Compound
Sweet's Ointment

I70
170

Swift's Syphilitic Specific

17!
171

Swaim's Vermifuge
S wayne's Ointment

173
173

Tamar Indien
Tape-Worm Specialists

173

174
176
177

Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient

" That" Liniment

Thielman's Cholera Mixture

Thomas's Electric Oil
Thompson's Eye Water
Thorn's Cough Mixture
Tip-Top
Tobias's Venetian Liniment
Tolu, Rock and Rye
Townsend's Pills

1 77
177
178
178
178
179

180
180
180

Trafton's Balm of Life

Trask's Magnetic Ointment

Triumph Corn

181

Plasters

182
182

Tropic Fruit Laxative

Van
Van

Buskirk's Sozodont
Stan's Stratena

Velpeau's

185
185
183

Compound

Walker's Vinegar Bitters

Warner's Safe Cure
Washburn's Salicylica
Watt's Anti-Rheumatic Pills

Wayne's Diuretic

186
187

214
188
188

Elixir

Wei de

Meyer's Catarrh Cure

Western Rectal Specialists
Wheeler's Elixir
Wheelock's Cough Mixture
White's Cough Syrup
White's Elixir
Wilson's Lightning Liniment
Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry

192
189
190
223
:

191
191
192

Wolcott's Pain Paint

Woolford's Sanitary Lotion

192
193
194
194
202

Yellow Family Drops.

194

Witch-Hazel

Pile

Ointment

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