Secret remedies

by British Medical Association

This estimate of the total amount paid by the public must be too high. In the first place it will be seen that the stamp duty does not rise by regular increments ad valorem. An article, the nominal price of which is 1s., must bear a stamp of 1½d., but if the nominal price be 1s. 6d., the stamp is 3d., and for an article of the nominal price of 2s. 6d. it is the same. In the second place, a large proportion of all the articles, probably the great majority of those at 1s., are sold at a discount, “store prices.” In the above table the maximum price for each rate of stamp duty and the full nominal prices are assumed. If a deduction of 25 per cent. is made to meet these sources of error, we have a sum of £2,422,800 19s. 1½d., as an estimate of the amount spent by the public on patent medicine in the financial year ending March 31, 1908.

At one time some of the vendors of nostrums took to inserting in their advertisements phrases intended to suggest that the Inland Revenue stamp upon their packages implied some sort of Government guarantee of the efficacy of the remedy. Though the Inland Revenue authorities do not as a rule display any anxiety with regard to the welfare of the public in the matter of the sale of nostrums, their efforts being confined to the collection of the duty, and the enforcement of the provisions of the Act should any vendor show a disposition to evade them, the stamp in recent years has borne the statement “This stamp implies no Government guarantee.” In spite of this vendors still sometimes contrive to convey the suggestion that the stamp conveys some sort of government guarantee; the suggestion looks the more plausible if the vendor has his name or autograph printed on the stamp by the government authorities; this will be done for him if he pays the cost of the die, and by the use of such an endorsement the incautious buyer may be led to assume that the Inland Revenue in some way shares the vendors’ responsibility for the genuineness of the article, that is to say for the genuineness of its claims. It has been suggested that the Legislature might go further and require the composition and ingredients of any secret remedy to be stated upon the label, box, or package, and looking to the nature of the facts disclosed by the analyses published in this book, it may well be believed that such publications on the labels would act to a certain extent as a warning to the public, for it would be apparent even to the least instructed that the claims in the vendors’ circulars were not quite consonant with the commonplace nature of the ingredients of the mixture, powder, pill, lotion, or ointment.

INDEX.

• PAGE
• Absorbit Reducing Paste, [87]
• Absorptive Pile Treatment, Van Vleck’s, [154]
• Acetanilide (antifebrin), [2], [5], [6], [37], [38], [39],
• [40], [41], [58], [165]
• Acetic acid, [16], [78]
• ”  ether, [16]
• Acetyl-salicylic acid, [56], [59], [60], [64], [77], [81]
• Act, Stamp, [182]
• Alcohol, [7], [8], [12], [14], [16], [17],
• [19], [26], [32], [44], [47], [52],
• [73], [74], [78], [80], [86], [87],
• [92], [103], [111], [118], [121],
• [127], [135], [160], [167]
• Allan’s Anti-fat, [92]
• Almond, oil of, [35], [135], [138]
• Aloes, [48], [49], [55], [104], [175],
• [176], [177], [180]
• Aloin, [69], [109], [110], [161]
• Alum, [51], [120]
• Aluminium oleate, [120]
• ” sulphate, [145]
• Ammoniacum, [18]
• Ammoniated mercury, [113], [143], [144]
• Ammonium bromide, [126], [128], [129]
• ”carbonate, [125]
• ”chloride, [19]
• ”citrate, [87]
• Aniseed, oil of, [12], [14]
• ” powdered, [18]
• ” Powell’s Balsam of, [14]
• Antexema, [105]
• Anthylla, [104]
• Anti-cataract Mixture, Pomie’s, [146]
• Anti-catarrh, Birley’s, [7]
• Anticelta Tablets [163]
• Anti-corpulent Preparation, Russell’s, [87]
• Antidipso, [165]
• Anti-epileptic Medicine, W. and J. Taylor’s, [126]
• Antiépileptique (Uten), [129]
• Anti-fat, Allan’s, [92]
• Antifebrin (see Acetanilide).
• Antigout soap, [64]
• Antimony oxide, [132]
• Antipon, [86]
• Anti-rheumatic Pearls, Baring Gould’s, [55]
• Appendix, [182]
• Aspirin (see Acetyl-salicylic acid).
• Assmann’s Whooping Cough Remedy, [19]
• Atropine, [168]
• Augenwol, [146]
• “Bacillentod” (G. Pohl’s Family Tea), [36]
• Baldness, Medicines for (internal), [114]
• Capsulated Haemoglobin Ovals, [115]
• Capsuloids, [114]
• Haemoglobin Capsules, [116]
• Balsam of Peru, [27], [113], [115]
• Balsamic Cough Mixture, Crosby’s, [15]
• Balsamic Elixir, Congreve’s, [26]
• Baring Gould’s Anti-rheumatic Pearls, [55]
• Barium sulphate, [122]
• Beans, Bile, [77]
• Bearberry (Uvœ ursi), [104]
• Beeoham’s Cough Pills, [18]
• ” Pills, [175]
• Beeswax, [58], [88], [120], [140], [143],
• [149], [151], [181]
• Bell’s Fairy Cure, [39]
• Benzoate, Sodium, [180]
• Benzoin, compound tincture of, [15], [27]
• Berberine, [80]
• Berendorf’s Powder for Epilepsy, [129]
• Betony, [63]
• Bile Beans, [77]
• Birley’s Anti-catarrh, [7]
• Bishop’s Gout Varalettes, [62]
• Bladderwrack, [83], [84], [89], [91], [92], [93],
• [94], [100], [102], [103], [104]
• Blair’s Gout and Rheumatic Pills, [50]
• Blood Cure, Munyon’s, [44]
• ” Mixture, Clarke’s, [42]
• ” Pills, Harvey’s, [44]
• ”” Hughes’s, [48]
• Blood Purifiers, [42]
• Clarke’s World-Famed Mixture, [42]
• Harvey’s Pills, [44]
• Hood’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, [46]
• Hughes’s Pills, [48]
• Munyon’s Cure, [44]
• Phelps Brown’s Purifier, [46]
• Steven’s Consumption Cure, [21], [28]
• Townsend’s American Sarsaparilla, [43]
• Blue dye, [118], [119]
• Borax, [7], [129], [138]
• Boric acid, [106], [109], [113]
• Bostock’s Eye Ointment, [143]
• Brixa Tablets, [163]
• Bromide, [2], [35], [124], [129]
• ” in Tuberculozyne, [35]
• Brompton Consumption and Cough Specific, [27]
• Brown’s Vervain Restorative Assimilant, O. Phelps, [127]
• Bryony, [63]
• Buckthorn, [104]
• Buer’s Mul’la, [149]
• Buer’s Piles Cure, [149]
• Burdock, [45]
• Burgess’s Lion Ointment, [180]
• Caffeine, [38], [39]
• Calcium carbonate, [6], [109]
• ” glycerophosphate, [173]
• ” phosphate, [132]
• ” sulphate, [28], [109]
• Calling in the doctor, [9], [12]
• Calomel, [113], [131], [132], [148], [151]
• Camomile, [63]
• Camphor, [2], [5], [65], [135], [173]
• Cancer remedies, [117]
• Cardigan Cancer Curers, [121]
• Caustics and Cancer, [122]
• Canexia preparations, [163]
• Capsicum, [14], [35], [69], [156], [160], [176], [177]
• Capsulated Haemoglobin Ovals, [115]
• Capsuloids, [114]
• Carbolic acid (see Phenol).
• Cardigan Cancer Curers, [121]
• Carmine, [88]
• Cascara, [2], [6], [55], [74], [104], [156], [161]
• Cascarilla, [70]
• Cassia, oil of, [35]
• Catarrh Balm, Van Vleck’s, [3]
• Catarrh Cures, [1]
• Birley’s, [7]
• Lane’s, [2]
• Munyon’s, [6]
• Van Vleck’s, [3]
• Catarrh and Cold Cures, [1]
• Birley’s, [7]
• Keene’s “One Night”, [5]
• Lane’s, [2]
• Mackenzie’s “One Day”, [4]
• Munyon’s, [6]
• Van Vleck’s, [3]
• Caulophyllin, [80]
• Caustics and cancer, [122]
• C.B.Q. Tablets, Post’s, [61]
• “Century Thermal” Bath Cabinet, [99]
• Charcoal, [172]
• “Chijitse”, [22], [32]
• Children’s Cooling Powders, Fenning’s, [133]
• Chiretta, [168]
• Chloroform, [12], [13], [14], [16], [17], [74], [125]
• ”spirits of [43]
• Chlorophyll, [111], [112]
• Cimicifuga, [57]
• Cinchonine, [2], [5], [6], [167]
• Cinnamon, powdered, [164]
• Citric Acid, [64], [81], [84], [86], [87]
• Clarke’s Blood Mixture, [42]
• Clifton’s Treatment for Deafness, [136]
• Cochineal, [27], [35], [86], [120]
• Cocoa, [41]
• Cocoa butter (see Theobroma, oil of).
• Cod Liver Oil, Pastor Felke’s Honey, [36]
• Colchicin, [61], [64]
• Colchicum, [51], [63]
• Cold Cures, [1]
• Keene’s “One Night”, [5]
• Mackenzie’s “One Day”, [4]
• Colds in the head, [1]
• Coleman’s Nervlettes, [175]
• Collie’s Ointment, [57]
• Colza, [88], [135]
• Congreve’s Balsamic Elixir, [26]
• Consumption Cures, [20]
• “Bacillentod” (Pohl’s Family Tea), [36]
• Brompton specific, [27]
• Congreve’s Balsamic Elixir, [26]
• Felke’s Honey Cod Liver Oil, Pastor, [36]
• Kefyr Ferment, [24]
• Körber’s, [36]
• Lieber’s Tea, [36]
• Pohl’s Family Tea (“Bacillentod”), [36]
• Star Tonic, [23]
• Steven’s (Sacco or Lungsava), [21], [28]
• Tuberculozyne, [21], [32]
• Weidhaas Hygienic Institute, [23]
• Consumption, Körber’s Cure for, [36]
• Consumption and Cough specific, Brompton , [27]
• Cooling Powders for Infants, [130]
• Fenning’s Children’s Powders, [133]
• Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, [132]
• Copper in Tuberculozyne, [35]
• ” oleate, [120]
• Corpulence (see Obesity Cures).
• Corpulin, [104]
• Cough Cure, Kilmer’s Indian, [15]
• ”” Veno’s Lightning, [16]
• ”Drops, Lauser’s, [19]
• ”” Reichel’s, [19]
• ” Lozenges, Keating’s, [17]
• Cough Medicines, [9]
• Assmann’s Whooping Cough Remedy, [19]
• Beecham’s Cough Pills, [18]
• Crosby’s Balsamic Elixir, [15]
• Kay’s Linseed Compound, [12]
• Keating’s Lozenges, [17]
• Kilmer’s Indian Cure, [15]
• Lauser’s Drops, [19]
• Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, [13]
• Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed, [14]
• Reichel’s Drops, [19]
• Tussothym, [19]
• Veno’s Lightning Cure, [16]
• Cough Medicines, Morphine in, [9], [13], [15], [18], [28]
• ”” Opium in, [10], [11], [28]
• ”Pills, Beecham’s, [18]
• ”Specific, Brompton, [27]
• Coza Powder, [162]
• Creasote, [113], [152]
• Crompton’s Specific for Deafness, [135]
• Crosby’s Balsamic Cough Elixir, [15]
• Cummin, powdered, [164]
• Curative Syrup, Mother Seigel’s, [176]
• Cure Alls, [170]
• Beecham’s Pills, [175]
• Martin’s Miracletts, [163]
• Nervlettes, [175]
• Seigel’s Curative Syrup, Mother, [176]
• Therapion, [172]
• Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, [170], [174]
• Curic Wafers, [38]
• Cuticura remedies, [110]
• Cystamin (see Formamine).
• Cystogen (see Formamine).
• Daisy Powders, [38]
• Dalloff’s Tea, [104]
• Damiana, extract of, [173]
• Daturine, [168]
• Deafness, remedies for ear disease and, [134]
• Clifton’s Treatment, [136]
• Crompton’s Specific, [135]
• Dellar’s Essence, [135]
• Nazaseptic, [139]
• Ohraseptic, [139]
• Ohrsorb Compound, [138]
• Dellar’s Essence for Deafness, [135]
• Diabetes Cures, [76]
• A Lancashire nostrum, [80]
• Dill’s Mixture. [76], [77], [79]
• Pesqui’s Uranium Wine (Vin Urané Pesqui), [76], [77]
• Diabetic foods, [81]
• ” Mixture, Dill’s, [76], [77], [79]
• Dill’s Diabetic Mixture, [76], [77], [79]
• Dipsocure, [164]
• Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, [67]
• ”  Pile Ointment, [151]
• Dodd’s Kidney Pills, [69]
• Drug Cures for Inebriety, [168]
• Duboisine, [168]
• Duty on Secret Remedies, Stamp, [182]
• Ear disease (see Deafness, Remedies for).
• Ekzemin Cream, [113]
• Electricum, [64]
• Eosin, [91]
• Epilepsy, Remedies for, [124]
• Antiépileptique (Uten), [129]
• Berendorf’s Powder, [129]
• Lamma Powder, [129]
• Osborne’s Mixture, [126]
• Ozerine, [125]
• Phelps Brown’s Vervain Restorative Assimilant, [127]
• Taylor’s Anti-epileptic Medicine, W. and J., [126]
• Trench’s Remedy, [127]
• Essence for Deafness, Dellar’s, [135]
• Eucalyptus, [4], [112]
• Eye diseases, Remedies for, [142]
• Augenwol, [146]
• Bostock’s Ointment, [143]
• “New and Marvellous Remedy”, [144]
• Okterin, [146]
• Opthalmol, [146]
• Pomie’s Anti-cataract Mixture, [146]
• Singleton’s Ointment, [142]
• Wisbech Remedy, [144]
• Eye Ointment, Bostock’s, [143]
• ” Singleton’s, [142]
• Fairy Cure, Bell’s, [39]
• Felke’s Honey Cod Liver Oil, Pastor, [36]
• Fell Reducing Treatment, [97]
• Fenning’s Children’s Cooling Powders, [133]
• Fenugreek, [68]
• Ferric chloride, [121]
• ” oxide, [5], [40], [54], [172]
• Ferrous sulphate, [174]
• Fever Powders, Pritchard’s Teething and, [132]
• Figuroids, [94]
• Fitch’s Kidney and Liver Cooler, [71]
• Fits, Trench’s Remedy for Epilepsy and, [127]
• Fluorescein, [70]
• Formaldehyde, [129]
• Formamine, [85], [96]
• Fucus vesiculosus (see Bladderwrack).
• Galeopsidis, [36]
• Gall stones, [79]
• Galls, powdered, [156]
• Gaultheria, oil of, [73]
• Gelsemium, [60]
• Genoform Tablets, [60]
• Gentian, [62], [63], [161], [173], [179]
• Germicides, [31]
• Ginger, [49], [88], [89], [109], [110], [175], [180]
• Gloria Tonic, [53]
• Gloria Treatment for Rheumatism, [52]
• Gluten flour, [81], [82]
• Glycerine, [17], [30], [32], [35], [73], [74],
• [78], [89], [90], [92], [93], [103],
• [113], [120], [135], [138], [142],
• [143], [144], [146], [173]
• Glycerophosphate, calcium, [173]
• Gout, Rheumatism, and Neuralgia, remedies for, [50]
• Baring Gould’s Pearls, [55]
• Bishop’s Varalettes, [62]
• Blair’s Pills, [50]
• Collie’s Ointment, [57]
• Electricum, [64]
• Genoform Tablets, [60]
• Gloria Treatment, [52]
• Gower’s Green Pill, [56]
• Hamm’s Cure, [51]
• Laville’s Remedies, [64]
• Lazarus Soap, [64]
• Oquit, [59]
• Pistoia Powders, [62]
• Portland Powder, [62]
• Post’s C.B.Q. Tablets, [61]
• Rheuma Tabakolin, [65]
• Rheumacid, [64]
• Uricedin, [64]
• Weigand’s Spirit, [65]
• Zox, [58]
• Gout and Rheumatic Pills, Blair’s, [50]
• Gout and Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s Rheumatic, [51]
• Gout Powders, Pistoia, [62]
• ””Portland, [62]
• ” Varalettes, Bishop’s, [62]
• Gower’s Green Pills, [56]
• Graziana Reducing Treatment (Zehrkur), [103]
• Green Pills, Gower’s, [56]
• Grindelia robusta, [17]
• Guaiacum, [44], [54], [62], [64]
• Guarantee bonds, [30]
• Haemoglobin, [114], [115], [116]
• ” Capsules, [116]
• ” Ovals, Capsulated, [115]
• Hæmorrhoids (see Piles, Remedies for).
• Hair (see Baldness).
• Hamamelidis, [150]
• Hamamelin, [152]
• Hamamelis (witch hazel), [148], [149], [152]
• Hamm’s Rheumatic, Gout, and Sciatica Cure, [51]
• Hargreave’s Reducing Wafers, [91]
• Harmless Headache Powders, Hoffman’s, [41]
• Harvey’s Blood Pills, [44]
• Headache, [37]
• ” Cure, Stearns’s, [39]
• Headache Powders, [37]
• Bell’s Fairy Cure, [39]
• Curic Wafers, [38]
• Daisy, [38]
• “Good as Gold”, [41]
• Hoffman’s Harmless, [41]
• Kaputine, [40]
• Retailers supplying, [41]
• Stearns’s Cure, [39]
• Healine Treatment for Rupture, [160]
• Hemlock pitch, [68]
• Hemotora, [153]
• Henbane, [69], [71]
• Hexamethylene-tetramine (see Formamine).
• Hoffman’s Harmless Headache Powders, [41]
• Homatropine, [168], [169]
• Hood’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, [46]
• Hughes’s Blood Pills, [48]
• Hydrastine, [80]
• Hydrastis, [77], [80]
• Hydrochloric acid, [121], [169], [176], [177]
• Hyoscine, [168], [169]
• Hyoscyamine, [168], [169]
• Icthyol, [140], [151]
• Ills of humanity, [177]
• Burgess’s Lion Ointment, [180]
• Kidd’s Treatment, [178]
• Indian Cough Cure, Kilmer’s, [15]
• Inebriety, cures for, [162]
• Antidipso, [165]
• Coza Powder, [162]
• Dipsocure, [164]
• Drug cures, some other, [168]
• Teetolia Treatment, [166]
• Inebriety, drug cures for, [168]
• Iodine, [84], [94], [102], [103], [126]
• ” tincture, [126]
• Ipecacuanha, [2], [11], [12], [13],
• [14], [18], [28]
• Iridin, [157]
• Iron, [71], [87], [89], [121], [162]
• ” chloride, [121]
• ” phosphate, [89]
• ” sulphate, [175]
• Jalap, [48], [49], [55], [57],
• [69], [70], [180]
• Jaundice, [72], [79]
• Juniper, [66], [68], [71]
• ” preparations, [113]
• J.Z. Obesity Tablets, [87]
• Kaolin, [54], [109], [172]
• Kaputine, [40]
• Kay’s Linseed Compound, [12]
• ” Linum Catharticum Pills, [12]
• Keating’s Cough Lozenges, [17]
• Keene’s “One Night” Cold Cure, [5]
• Kefyr, [23]
• Kidd’s Treatment, James W., [178]
• Kidney medicines, [66]
• Doan’s Pills, [67]
• Dodd’s Pills, [69]
• Fitch’s Kidney and Liver Cooler, [71]
• Munyon’s Cure, [75]
• Var’s American Pills, [70]
• Veno’s Seaweed Tonic, [74]
• Warner’s Cure, [72]
• Kidney Pills, Doan’s Backache, [67]
• Kilmer’s Indian Cough Cure, [15]
• Kino, [32]
• Körber’s Cure for Consumption, [36]
• Krameria, decoction of, [32]
• Kupfinn, “Dr.”, [139]
• Lactose (see Milk sugar).
• Lamma Powder, [129]
• Lancashire Nostrum, A, [80]
• Lane’s Catarrh Cure, [2]
• Lanoline, [149], [154]
• Lauser’s Cough Drops, [19]
• Lavender, [104]
• Laville’s Antigout remedies, [64]
• Laxatol (see Phenolphthalein).
• Laxen (see Phenolphthalein).
• Laxoin (see Phenolphthalein).
• Lazarus Gout and Rheumatic Soap, [64]
• Lead, [122]
• ” acetate, [113], [127], [148], [152]
• ” oleate, [113], [119], [181]
• ” oxide (litharge), [143], [144]
• ” plaster, [181]
• ” sub-acetate, [127]
• Lemon, [84]
• ” grass, [113]
• ” oil, [65]
• Leptandrin, [74]
• Lieber’s Tea for Consumption, [36]
• Lime-juice, [77], [81]
• Linseed compound, Kay’s, [12]
• Lion Ointment, Burgess’s, [180]
• Liquorice, [11], [14], [18], [19], [45], [54], [55],
• [61], [69], [89], [91], [102], [103],
• [133], [156], [173], [174], [175], [176]
• Lithium citrate, [62]
• Liver Cooler, Fitch’s Kidney and, [71]
• Lloyd Reducing Treatment, Nelson, [100]
• Lotion, X.L. Reducing Pills and, [89]
• Lungsava, [28]
• Lung Tonic, Owbridge’s, [13]
• Lycopodium, [71]
• Lymphol, Rice’s, [158]
• Mackenzie’s “One Day” Cold Cure, [4]
• Magnesia, [61], [109], [119], [174], [175]
• ” calcined, [150]
• Magnesium, [71], [91], [119]
• Malachite green, [111]
• Mandelyl-tropeine (see Homatropine).
• Marmola, [85], [93]
• Martin’s Miracletts, [171]
• Medicine Stamp Act, [182]
• Medi-cone Pile Treatment, Oxien, [151]
• Menthol, [156], [172]
• Mercuric oxide, [143]
• Mercury, ammoniated, [113], [143], [144]
• Methyl, orange, [86]
• Metramine (see Formamine).
• Milk sugar (lactose), [19], [39], [56], [100],
• [131], [132], [165], [166]
• Miracletts, Martin’s, [171]
• Mixture for Epilepsy, Osborne’s, [126]
• Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, [176]
• Muco-Food Cones (Van Vleck’s), [148], [155]
• Mul’la, Buer’s, [149]
• Munyon’s Catarrh Tablets, [6]
• ”Catarrh Cure, [6]
• ”Blood Cure, [44]
• ”Kidney Cure, [75]
• ”Pile Ointment, [150]
• Nazaseptic, [139]
• Nelson Lloyd Reducing Treatment, [100]
• Nerve stimulators, [31]
• Nervlettes, Coleman’s, [175]
• Nettle, [36]
• Neuralgia (see Gout, Rheumatism and Neuralgia, remedies for).
• “New and Marvellous Remedy for the Eyes”, [144]
• Nitre (see Potassium nitrate).
• “No cure no pay”, [5], [29], [95]
• Nostrum, A Lancashire, [80]
• Obesity cures, [83]
• Absorbit Paste and J. Z. Tablets (Zobiede), [87]
• Allan’s Anti-fat, [92]
• Anticelta Tablets, [163]
• Antipon, [86]
• Corpulin and Dalloff’s Tea, [104]
• Dalloff’s Tea and Corpulin, [104]
• Fell Treatment, [97]
• Figuroids, [94]
• Graziana Treatment (Zehrkur), [103]
• Hargreave’s Wafers, [91]
• J. Z. Tablets and Absorbit Paste, [87]
• Marmola, [85], [93]
• Nelson Lloyd Treatment, [100]
• Russell’s Anti-corpulent Preparation, [87]
• Trilene Tablets, [90]
• X.L. Pills and Lotion, [89]
• Zehrkur (Graziana Treatment), [103]
• Zobiede (Absorbit Paste and J. Z. Tablets), [87]
• Obesity Tablets, J. Z., [87]
• Ohraseptic, [139]
• Ohrsorb Compound, [138]
• Oil, Pastor Felke’s Honey Cod Liver, [36]
• Ointment, Collie’s, [57]
• Okterin, [146]
• Oleic acid, [115], [161]
• Opthalmol, [146]
• Oquit, [59]
• Origanum, oil of (see Thyme).
• Osborne’s Mixture for Epilepsy, [126]
• Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, [13]
• Ox-bile, [88]
• Oxien Medi-cone Pile Treatment, [151]
• Ozerine, [125]
• Paciderma Blood Wafers, [109]
• ”cream, [109]
• ”powder, [109]
• ”preparations, [106]
• Pale People, Williams’ Pink Pills for, [170], [174]
• Paraffin, [4], [70], [100], [106], [109], [110],
• [111], [112], [113], [120], [140], [143],
• [144], [146], [151], [152], [156]
• Patients’ names, obtaining, [25]
• Peppermint, [14], [36], [69], [71], [77],
• [81], [94], [127], [160]
• Pepsin, [76]
• Pesqui’s Uranium Wine, [76], [77]
• Petroleum jelly, [58], [156]
• Phelps Brown’s Blood Purifier, [46]
• ” ” Vervain Restorative Assimilant, [127]
• Phenacetin, [38], [39]
• Phenol (carbolic acid), [1], [3], [4], [7], [120], [151]
• Phenolphthalein, [77], [81], [85], [94], [96], [97]
• Pheun Skin Paste, [113]
• Phosphoric acid, [8]
• Phosphorus, [176]
• Phytolaccin, [54]
• Pile Ointment, Doan’s, [151]
• ” Munyon’s, [150]
• Piles, remedies for, [147]
• Buer’s Cure, [149]
• ”  Mul’la, [149]
• Doan’s Ointment, [151]
• Hemotora, [153]
• Muco-food cones (Van Vleck’s), [148]
• Munyon’s Ointment, [150]
• Oxien Medi-cone Treatment, [151]
• Rollo’s Remedy, [153]
• Van Vleck’s Absorptive Treatment, [154]
• Pills, Kay’s Linum Catharticum, [12]
• Pine preparations, [64]
• Piperazine, [62]
• Pistoia Gout Powders, [62]
• Plasma, Van Vleck’s, [155]
• Podophyllin, [69]
• Pohl’s Family Tea (“Bacillentod”), [36]
• Pomies Anti-cataract Mixture, [146]
• Portland Gout Powder, [62]
• Post’s C.B.Q. Tablets, [61]
• Potassium bromide, [89], [90], [125], [126], [127], [128], [129], [165], [166]
• ”carbonate, [174], [175]
• ”chlorate, [133]
• ”chloride, [89], [90], [125]
• ”iodide, [43], [45], [47], [52], [54], [61], [89], [90],
• [92], [93], [111], [126], [142], [146]
• ”nitrate, [66], [68], [70], [71], [72], [73]
• Powders, headache, [37]
• Daisy, [38]
• “Good as Gold”, [41]
• Hoffman’s Harmless, [41]
• Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed, [14]
• Prescriptions, secret remedies said to be made
• from physicians’, [27], [38], [59], [80], [108]
• Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, [132]
• Pumilio pine, [4], [15]
• Purgen (see Phenolphthalein).
• Quinine, [2], [45], [61], [64], [167]
• “ sulphate, [176]
• “ valerianate, [172]
• Rapeseed (see Colza).
• Reducing Paste, Absorbit, [87]
• “Pills and Lotion, X.L., [89]
• “Treatment, Fell, [97]
• ““ Graziana (Zehrkur), [103]
• Reducing Treatment, Nelson Lloyd, [100]
• Reducing Wafers, Hargreave’s, [91]
• Reichel’s Cough Drops, [19]
• Resin, black, [58]
• “ (colophony), [58], [112]
• “ plasters, [119]
• Retailers, headache powders supplied by, [41]
• Rheuma Tabakolin, [65]
• Rheumacid, [64]
• Rheumatic, Gout, and Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s, [51]
• Rheumatic and Gout Spirit, Weigand’s, [65]
• Rheumatic Pills, Blair’s Gout and, [50]
• Rheumatism (see Gout, Rheumatism, and Neuralgia, remedies for).
• Rheumatism, Gloria Treatment for, [52]
• Rhubarb, [45], [55], [74], [104], [111]
• Rice’s Lymphol, [158]
• “ Treatment for Rupture, [158]
• Rino Ointment, [113]
• Rock Rose, [46]
• Rollo’s Remedy for Piles, [153]
• Rupture, preparations for, [158]
• Healine Treatment, [160]
• Rice’s Treatment, [158]
• Russell’s Anti-corpulent Preparation, [87]
• Saccharin, [11], [172]
• Sacco, [28]
• Salicylate, alkaline, [57]
• “ sodium, [52]
• Salicylic acid, [92], [93], [113]
• “ Methylene-glycol-ester of, [61]
• Saltpetre (see Potassium nitrate).
• Sal volatile, [43]
• Sarsaparilla, compound solution of, [44]
• Sarsaparilla, Hood’s Extract of, [46]
• “ Townsend’s American, [43]
• Sassafras, oil of, [44]
• Scammony, [80], [180]
• Sciatica (see Gout, Rheumatism and Neuralgia, remedies for).
• Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s Rheumatic, Gout, and, [51]
• Scopolamine, [168]
• Seaweed Tonic, Veno’s, [74]
• Seigel’s Curative Syrup, Mother, [176]
• Senna, [19], [74], [104]
• Singleton’s Eye Ointment, [142]
• Skin diseases, cures for, [105]
• Antexema, [105]
• Cuticura Remedies, [110]
• Ekzemin Cream, [113]
• Juniper preparations, [113]
• Paciderma preparations, [106]
• Pheun Skin Paste, [113]
• Rino Ointment, [113]
• Zam-buk, [111]
• Zip Ointment, [112]
• Skin Paste, Pheun, [113]
• Soap, [57], [64], [65], [70], [113],
• [119], [135], [140], [175]
• “ Antigout, [64]
• “ Lazarus Gout and Rheumatic, [64]
• Soda alum, [142], [145]
• Sodium benzoate (see Benzoate).
• Sodium bicarbonate, [7], [41], [62], [70], [80], [96], [97], [109], [164], [179]
• “ bromide, [129]
• “ chloride, [1], [3], [7], [94], [96], [97], [146]
• “ phosphate, [74]
• “ sulphate, [77], [81], [120], [145]
• Soothing powders for infants, [130]
• Steedman’s Powders, [131]
• Soothing, teething and cooling powders for infants, [130]
• Fenning’s Children’s Powders, [133]
• Pritchard’s Powders, [132]
• Stedman’s Powders, [130]
• Steedman’s Powders, [131]
• Spearmint, [160]
• Specific for Deafness, Crompton’s, [135]
• Spirit, Weigand’s Rheumatic and Gout, [65]
• Stamp Act, [182]
• “ on secret remedies, [182]
• Star Tonic, [23]
• Stearns’s Headache Cure, [39]
• Stedman’s Teething Powders, [130]
• Steedman’s Soothing Powders, [131]
• Steven’s Consumption Cure, [21], [28]
• Stillingia, [46]
• Storax, [27], [115]
• “ Stramonine“, [168]
• Sulphur, [88], [140]
• ” precipitated, [109], [113], [150]
• Sulphuric acid, [16]
• Tabakolin, Rheuma, [65]
• Tablets, Munyon’s Catarrh, [6]
• ” Trilene, [90]
• Talc, [5], [54], [57], [59], [96], [97],
• [109], [156], [161], [172], [176]
• Tannin, [27], [32], [73], [152], [153], [161]
• Tar, [119]
• Taraxacum, [45], [66], [71], [73]
• Tartaric acid, [8], [62], [78], [96], [97]
• Taylor’s anti-epileptic medicine, W. and J., [126]
• Tea, Dalloff’s “Contre l’Obesité”, [104]
• Tea, Lieber’s (for Consumption), [36]
• “ Pohl’s Family (“Bacillentod”), [36]
• Teething powders for infants, [130]
• Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, [132]
• Stedman’s Powders, [130]
• Teetolia Treatment, [166]
• Terebene, [118], [119]
• Theobroma, oil of (cocoa butter), [148], [152], [154], [156]
• Therapion, [172]
• Thermal Bath Cabinet “Century”, [99]
• Thyme (oil of Origanum), [19], [160]
• Thyroid Extract, [84], [94], [102], [103]
• Tolu, [13], [16], [18], [27]
• Tonic, Gloria, [52]
• ” Owbridge’s Lung, [13]
• ” Star, [23]
• ” Veno’s Seaweed, [74]
• ” Zox, [58]
• Townsend’s American Sarsaparilla, [43]
• Tragacanth, [106]
• Trench’s Remedy for Epilepsy and Fits, [127]
• Trilene Tablets, [90]
• Tropyltropeine (see Atropine).
• Tuberculozyne, [21], [32]
• Tumenol, [140]
• Turmeric, [70]
• Turpentine, [65], [113], [122], [136]
• Tussothym, [19]
• “Umckaloabo”, [22], [32]
• Uranium nitrate, [76], [78], [79]
• ” Wine, Pesqui’s, [76], [77]
• Uricedin, [64]
• Urisol (see Formamine).
• Urotropine (see Formamine).
• Valerianate, Quinine, Zinc, [172]
• Van Vleck’s Absorptive Pile Treatment, [154]
• Van Vleck’s Catarrh Balm, [3]
• ”  ”  Muco-food Cones (Pile Treatment), [148]
• Van Vleck’s Pile Pills, [155]
• ”  ”  Plasma (Pile Treatment), [155]
• Var’s American Kidney Pills, [70]
• Varalettes, Bishop’s, Gout, [62]
• Varicocele, [161]
• Varicose veins, [161]
• Veno’s Lightning Cough Cure, [16]
• ” Seaweed Tonic, [74]
• Verbena officinalis (see Vervain).
• Vervain Restorative Assimilant, O. Phelps Brown’s, [127]
• Vervain (Verbena officinalis), [124], [125], [127]
• Vesalvine (see Formamine).
• Vin Urané Pesqui, [76], [77]
• Wafers, Curic, [38]
• ”Hargreave’s Reducing, [91]
• ”Paciderma Blood, [109]
• Warner’s Cure, [72]
• Weidhaas Hygienic Institute, [23]
• Weigand’s Rheumatic and Gout Spirit, [65]
• White precipitate (see Ammoniated mercury).
• Whooping Cough Remedy, Assmann’s, [19]
• Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, [170], [174]
• Wine, Pesqui’s Uranium, [76], [77]
• ” spirit of, [32]
• Wintergreen, oil of, [73], [180]
• Wisbech Remedy for the Eyes, [144]
• Witch hazel (see Hamamelis).
• Xaxa (see Acetyl-salicylic acid).
• X.L. Reducing Pills and Lotion, [89]
• Yonkerman Company (Tuberculozyne), [32]
• Zam-buk, [111]
• Zehrkur (see Graziana Reducing Treatment), [103]
• Zinc, [156]
• ” chloride, [122]
• ” oxide, [109], [129], [148], [151]
• ” sulphate, [120]
• ” valerianate, [172]
• Zip Ointment, [112]
• Zobeida (see Zobeide).
• Zobeide, [87]
• Zox, [58]

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