III.—LIQUOZONE.
Reprinted from Collier's Weekly, Nov. 18, 1905.
Twenty years ago the microbe was making a great stir in the land. The public mind, ever prone to exaggerate the importance and extent of any new scientific discovery, ascribed all known diseases to microbes. The infinitesimal creature with the mysterious and unpleasant attributes became the leading topic of the time. Shrewdly appreciating this golden opportunity, a quack genius named Radam invented a drug to slay the new enemy of mankind and gave it his name. Radam's Microbe Killer filled the public prints with blazonry of its lethal virtues. As it consisted of a mixture of muriatic and sulphuric acids with red wine, any microbe which took it was like to fare hard; but the ingenious Mr. Radam's method of administering it to its intended prey via the human stomach failed to commend itself to science, though enormously successful in a financial sense through flamboyant advertising.
Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.
In time some predaceous bacillus, having eluded the "killer," carried off its inventor. His nostrum soon languished. To-day it is little heard of, but from the ashes of its glories has risen a mightier successor, Liquozone. Where twenty years ago the microbe reveled in publicity, to-day we talk of germs and bacteria; consequently Liquozone exploits itself as a germicide and bactericide. It dispenses with the red wine of the Radam concoction and relies on a weak solution of sulphuric and sulphurous acids, with an occasional trace of hydrochloric or hydrobromic acid. Mostly it is water, and this is what it "cures":
"Asthma, Gallstones,
Abscess—Anemia, Goiter—Gout;
Bronchitis, Hay Fever—Influenza,
Blood Poison, La Grippe,
Bowel Troubles, Leucorrhea,
Coughs—Colds, Malaria—Neuralgia,
Consumption, Piles—Quinsy,
Contagious Diseases, Rheumatism,
Cancer—Catarrh, Scrofula,
Dysentery—Diarrhea, Skin Diseases,
Dyspepsia—Dandruff, Tuberculosis,
Eczema—Erysipelas, Tumors—Ulcers,
Fevers, Throat Troubles
—all diseases that begin with fever—all inflammations—all catarrh—all contagious diseases—all the results of impure or poisoned blood. In nervous diseases Liquozone acts as a vitalizer, accomplishing what no drugs can do."