THE CANADIAN MEDICINES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1761, 10 July 1888, Page 3

THE CANADIAN MEDICINES.

Judgingfrom the evidence given "by Mr ?. '..#. Pond, Colonial Analyst, at an iriqueßt at Auckland on the body of a woman who died after being attended by the Canadian doctor, the medicines sold from the ' "golden chariot" appear to "be 6f-a very harmless character. Mr Pond said he received the bottles con''.tSinitig the meJicines, and found that '^the^uid' in the large bottle was an , of rhubard, gentian, and ginger root, the precipitates or sedimentary residue, giving microscopic evidences of the presence of rhubarb, gentian, and ginger, and bearing out the flavor and scent of the extract. The extract contained 1.01 per cent of dry 'solid matter, of which .268 were mineral salts, chiefly tartrates and carbonates of potash and soda: preient also lime and magnesia, as carbonate*, in very small quantities. "Witness added—l am of opinion that this medicine i j innocuous to a person in ordinary health, and not calculated ' to cause serious or fatal injury. The green-colored fluid (the perfume), of about loz in quantity, and Baid to have been used as a lotion, I believe to be an oxidised methylic alcoholic •olution of gum guiacum, in a meni statuum of glycerine, and perfumed ' i;#ith some of the essential oils, probably of cinnamon, cajeput, pepper- ?? inint, aid neroli. Mineral salts were : present only as a trace. Guiacum is a very -old remedy for rheumatic 'affections,and could not be the cause of any Injurious results fruin an ex- , ternal application. In conversation

with a Herald reporter, Dr Duflot admitted having sold 100,000 boxes of medicine throughout .New Zealand, principally in Dunedin.