Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — Dried Peas as Liver Pills. [ARTICLE]

Dried Peas as Liver Pills.

An enterprising swindler in England has recently been arrested for selling dried peas as “little liver pillsH’ They Were sold on the assurance"'that they were "excellent medicine.” Of course, dried peas arejeot an “excellent medicine,” neither will they cure "live* trouble,” but the same may be said of the many liver pills which contain drugs and are sold under claims even more fraudulent. The British swindler should have been better Informed. When he desires to sell "liver pills” hegfhould put some drugs in them — poisonous or otherwise, the kind doesn’t matter. Then he can 9 lie about bis product to his heart’s content and he will be immune from arrest. In fact, If he cam sell enough of them he may look forward to a peerage. In Great Britain, as in the United States, it Is not the mere act 8f swindling, but the method, that proves dangerous.—From the Journal of the Amerioan Medical Association.