| White Powders. | ||
| Potassium bromide | 24·5 | parts. |
| Sugar of milk | 75·5 | ” |
| Coloured Powders. | ||
| Potassium bromide | 35 | parts. |
| Sugar of milk | 65 | ” |
The estimated cost of the ingredients for 48 powders was one-third of a penny.
THE TEETOLIA TREATMENT.
The following is an extract from an advertisement of a “Teetolia Treatment Association,” giving an address in London:
After years of Drink and Drug taking—
Cured in 4 days.
... The Teetolia treatment acts so rapidly and so efficiently that within four days from the commencement of administration the insistent craving for drink is absolutely destroyed—so much so, that even the thought of alcohol becomes nauseating.... Thousands have been cured by this treatment, and we guarantee to cure you. If you write to-day, you will receive by return of post a private consultation sheet, together with a valuable book on this subject, post free in plain envelope, and you will be a free man within a week.
On application being made for further particulars, a booklet of twenty pages, entitled The Teetolia Treatment for Alcoholic Excess, Drug Habits, and Resultant Nervous Diseases, was sent, together with a letter and a form to be filled up with particulars of the case to be treated. The following are extracts from the booklet:
The discovery of the Teetolia method and treatment for the permanent eradication of the crave for drink and drugs marks an era in medical science. It is the outcome of a life’s study of the subject by one of our best known West-End physicians.
You can, whilst undergoing the treatment, pursue your ordinary methods of living. You continue to take your daily modicum of alcohol; but somehow about the third or fourth day of treatment, without having made any physical or mental effort, you feel that you no longer want a drink; it holds out no attractions to you; its magnetic influence has gone....