Dr. LANE’S CATARRH CURE.
This is prepared and sold by a Company giving an address in London. The price is 1s. a bottle, containing 2½ fluid ounces.
Much printed matter is supplied with this preparation, and a few extracts are here given:
Catarrh, in its chronic form (and the complaints arising from it), is a malady which has not, up to the present time, received that attention and research from the medical faculty which it deserves. Most practitioners have given it merely a passing thought, or poohed at it as a mere cold which would soon pass off, and perhaps give some light tonic to tone up the stomach. And therein lies the fatal error, for Catarrh is a disease that cannot be trifled with, as millions can only too surely testify.
... to let any part or organ of the system become diseased breeds the seeds of a host of other complaints, as all the organs of the body are in sympathy with each other. The cause of this is easily explained in a case of Catarrh.... It invariably creates Biliousness, Constipation, Pleurisy, Asthma, Bronchitis, Catarrhal Fever, and Consumption.
It is estimated that over 20,000 people died in the United Kingdom last year of Consumption caused by Catarrh.
The speciality of myself and Associate Physicians is chronic disease in every form. Our library was selected to this end, and the Herbal World explored for this purpose—the successful treatment of chronic disease.
We have never seen one out of five hundred of the patients whom we have cured. Most cases can be treated just as well at a distance as if we saw them in person; as our experience enables us to judge correctly from a written description the nature and extent of the disease under which the patient is labouring.
The preparation is described on the wrapper as:
The Only Reliable and Effective Preparation for the Permanent and Radical Cure of this most dangerous disease.
The directions on the label are:
For Catarrh.—Pour one-half teaspoonful in the palm of the hand, close one nostril with the finger, and inhale the liquid through the open nostril with sufficient force to carry the spray down into the throat. Inhale another half teaspoonful through the other nostril in the same way; it is not advisable to swallow the Catarrh Cure—however, it is perfectly harmless if you chance to do so. Use night and morning and in extreme cases three times a day.
Analysis showed the composition of the liquid to be:
| Phenol (carbolic acid) | 0·4 | part. |
| Sodium chloride (common salt) | 3.3 | parts. |
| Water to | 100 | fluid parts. |
The traces of impurities usually present in common salt were also found.
The estimated cost of the ingredients in 2½ fluid ounces is one-thirtieth of a farthing.