Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — The Care of Children. [ARTICLE]

The Care of Children.

Boston, Mass. A leading medical journal thinks it is about time mothers should know how seriously the health of children is imperiled by the use of preparations containing morphia and opium, and given for the cure of colds and coughs. The chemist of the Brooklyn»Board of Health, Otto Grothe, Ph. D., a graduate of the University of Kiel, Germany, certifies officially that recently a harmless and yet effective article for such complaints has come to his notice. He refers to the newly discovered Red Star Cough Cure, which he found purely vegetable.