Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — SHY OF POISON. [ARTICLE]

SHY OF POISON.

[From the Washington Daily Post.] For many years physicians have been much exercised over the use of drugs and medicines . containing opiates or poisons. Opium smoking by the Chinese and the introduction of the habit into America is an evil which has been sought to be remedied, and the police of Philadelphia have recently made successful raids on opium “joints” and arrested the proprietors. A more insidious form of poison than this, however, and one which largely affects not only the health but the lives of children, is that which oomes in the form of popular medicines. Nine out of ten of these, itis known, contain narcotics or deadly metallic oxides. The difficulty, however, has been to find a substitute for such things which would be purely vegetable, and at the same time effects prompt cure. That such a discovery had been made was announced recently, and Dr. 0. Grothe, chemist to the Brooklyn Board of Health, and a graduate of the University of Kiel, Germany, publicly certified that he had analyzed the remedy and found it free from narcotics, opiates or injurious metallic oxides, and a harmless and happy combination, which will prove highly effective. Hearing that Dr, Samuel K. Cox, a graduate of Yale, and expert analytical chemist of this city, had also analyzed the remedy In question and given public testimony as to its purity and efficacy, a reporter of the Pont was told by him that he had given such a certificate, and that lie believed the remedy marked a new stage in the treatment of throat and lung diseases. He knew also that many public men in Washington had given the remedy a trial, and felt confident if they were called upon that they would cheerfully indorse it. One of them was Hon. J. C. 8. Blackburn, Senator elect from Kentucky. Mr. Blackburn, on being approached, said he had used the remedy with marked effect and found great benefit, especially during his occupancy of tbe Speaker’s chair. It had removed all-irritation from bls throat and relieved a cough which had troubled him much. U, Senator Gorman, of Maryland, said that he firmly believed in the remedy, which he had personally tested. Congressmen J. H. Bagley, Jr., of New York; Wm. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania; J. H. Brewer, of New Jersey; Hart B. Holton, of Maryland, and J. P. Leedom, Esq., of Ohio, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, were emphatic in their Indorsement of the remedy. Messrs. Ed A. Clark, Architect of Public Buildings; E. A. Carman, Acting commissioner of the Agricultural Department; Thomas S. Miller, chief clerk in the Surgeon General’s Department; H. E. Weaver, ex-Congressman from. Mississippi, and now chief of the collecting division, in the General Postoffice; J. H. Gravenstine, head of the labor division in the same department, and F. B. Conger, City Postmaster, and son of Senator Conger, of Michigan, all pronounced it a valuable discovery, and had found its effects not only soothing, but lasting. The remedy in question is Bed Star Cough Cure. It~te~free~ from opiates or poisons, and is purely vegetable. A physician who stands in close relation to the Board of Health of the District of Columbia said that there are two things which seriously affect the health of the people,—impure water and impute drugs, and therefore the benefits of a discovery like Red Star Cough Cure can not be over-estimated. Thousands of children die annually from the use of cough and soothing syrups containing opiates or poisons, and even adults are exposed to the danger of blood-poisoning from such a cause. In view of these facts, members of Boards of Health in various cities; public men of Maryland, from the Governor down, and leading practicing physicians throughout that State have Over their own Signatures testified that Red Star Cough Cure can not fail to be a boon to the suffering and afflicted. The reporter’s investigations were thorough and unprejudiced, and the testimony obtained, judging from Its character, can not be gainsaid.