QUAIK MEDICINES.

Evening Star, Issue 3968, 12 November 1875, Page 2

QUAIK MEDICINES.

To the Editor.

Sir, Is it not a strange phenomenon that the people in 'his nineteenth century are so ignorant that they will allow then 1 selves to be dady, aye hourly, gulled by unprincipled adi enturers and their so-called agent- ? And not alone are the public Ib-eced of their money, but they a. e n.bhed of their health and life, as the following facts ought to convince every man or woman. If not, l.;t them inquire or ask any more intelligent scientific man, or any medical piactitioner whether I am con ect or not in 1 am n()W going to reveal to you. i he l facts are simply tin se: you are daily spending your money for quack medicine. You commence with your infant babe, giving him or her perhaps Bteadman’s or any 01 her man’s powders. It may be the babe gets better, but the next tune you try it r)m child Coes not improve. A medical pr.icti-icncr is then called in, but he is confused diout the disease and unable to find out the real cause of the malady, because he is not aware of the pnwde s, pills, 1 ln Htures, and other nostrums the clnlu s body has ab-orbed : the disease is obscure, and the child dies in consequence. Hut, for argument’s sake, I’ll say the doctor is successful, and the chid recovers. Wei, it lives : it grows to manhood or womanhood; but the healtn is gone, tha bodv is ait-.ficial old age is out of the quas-ion. and untimely, early death is the eons.qu.'nce «♦ your mi it is with miuljs They weaken their constitution and slim ten their time of life n swallowing such obnoxious quick physic. Yoa will observe there ate ve.y many d.ath.iu ns • u owy -in •in ihi- roviuci- vsp. ■ iii;y. and why?— not fi.-m e,.nhm o pe-tdmic s, nor from the w>id of sa itaij i-.rrai gemeics hut from swallowing ’!<.m. Mick, and iI a, ty’s pills and mixtures, win. hj, ii they do not kill peo. le nglu out, weaken t.luir constitutions and sDottcu htf. liio clu-mist bells \ luso noxious drugs and recommends them, alth mgh he is penectly ignorant of Unit co tents ; much less < ou.s he know their aciu .m the human body. ml he win particularly n commend those on winch he makes the most profit, I am sonry to see the evil is inere ,siu , in Dunedin lhetueoic.il men am muc. to blatn-' for not exposing the dm g r more than they do. I advise the pubic iu-vh to buy any pills or mixtures, nor lake- auylbi giuimualiy unless they know wdiat i is, or prei-crihcd by their luedica adviser.—l am, &c., Phila^tubopv.