QUACK MEDICINES.

Evening Star, Issue 3973, 18 November 1875, Page 2

QUACK MEDICINES.

To the Editor. Sib,—l must again crave your indulgence for Bpace for a few lines upon this subject. t 1 would not have you think that I would in any way uphold any patent or proprietary medicine of any description unless it were what it was set forth to be, but knowing full wo ll that there are a numb r of advertised remedies m the market, which have served the people well for years, and are at tho present time recommended by come of the most eminent medical men of the day. I do not hesitate to •lt nd «S lr cau . se - I must entirely disagree with 'Humanity' in his ideas on this sub ject, and object to his classifying them all together.

To my mind, "Humanity" seems to take » *%i Jk »' Vi lr of this m * ttei ' than Philanthropy," and I would almost set hi.., down in the same list, for although Humanity, to give a semblance of authority to his statements, quotes from a lew authors who may be little gods in their own spheres hut a-e comparatively unknown to the outside world, what do all his statements am-.u.-t t.»» He says thousands of young children are kille.'. troin the use of medicines principally qiU ck meuicjne I say prove it: show how many by so-called legitimate practice, and how ma»y •y proprietory mediciae, and It the publu judge I cm well un leratand pliv«i ian ß becoming jealous, and endeavoring to write down som- of our prnprVary m.-diViU when they see them used, throughout the lentil and breadth of the la.,d, spreading to the Colonies and m fact to every civiiLd country on the face of the earth, true, thenare some worthless a. tides set afl .at and ad vertised. but these soon die a natural death, -1 * • i gone P* B * when advertisements, without merit, were suffici nt to ensure the continuing sale of a proprietary medicine. In conclusion, I would say that the f*w soli tary instances that "Humanity" has cited to support his idea of the evil of our proprietaries supposing them to be true, ,<re as nothing compared to the vast amon-it of good that even the medicines he has named have done. Where is the phyßici»n bold enough to come forward and say he has cured every patient he to..k in L.nd' Many of these medicines have been used throughout Great Mrit an for years, and have done an mculcu able amount ot good, and will be used when our " Fhiknthmpys" "Humanity*," and all such false 'guide/are in their last resting-place and their names for-ufen - 1 am, &c,, r. j- at a , Che mist and Druggist. lMnedin, November 18.