Not for Children.
The tablets were coated with sugar coloured with ferric oxide (so-called chocolate coating); after removal of the coating they had an average weight of 2 grains. Analysis showed them to have the following composition:
| Cinchonidine sulphate | 0·83 | grain. |
| Acetanilide | 0·71 | ” |
| Camphor | 0·10 | ” |
| Talc | 0·21 | ” |
| Water | 0·15 | ” |
The estimated cost of the ingredients for 30 tablets is 1¼d.
KEENE’S “ONE NIGHT” COLD CURE.
This also is supplied by a Company giving its address as New York and London. The price charged is 1s. 1½d. a box, containing 30 tablets.
This is recommended in the circular enclosed in the box in the following terms:
Keene’s One Night Cold Cure will break up any cold overnight; or money refunded! Influenza cured in three days. Guarantee Label around every Box. If Keene’s One Night Cold Cure fails to Cure your Cold, your money will be cheerfully returned on presentation of Guarantee Label.
Keene’s One Night Cold Cure is in Tablet form and contains nothing injurious, being chiefly composed of Quinine, Cascara, Camphor, and other Ingredients adopted by the Leading Medical Authorities for Colds in the Head, Throat, and Lungs.
The “guarantee label” is worded as follows: