Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — FORTUNES IN. LOST REMEDIES. [ARTICLE]

FORTUNES IN. LOST REMEDIES.

Drug Secrets Which Have Died With > Discoverers. , “Tali aboht Your lost gold mines anil hlddden treasure,” sniffed the g r*y beaded druggist, ‘there ace more Xogr taigß lying aronn4 /n the drug trade - rates and robbers since the worn beg£n. Millions are often made from a good drug formula that will, give the quietus to some diag§«e or other. ‘‘There is a gjcgrtwte. wafting for a man who can ge| Ttipld of a South American herb called' ‘korocco,’ make it up In tablet form for the trade ahd advertise it welt. Morocco is the only known perfect antidote to .nicotine. Some of phe. f-joqDi tribes are the heaviest smokers in the world. They smoke roughly made black cigars that would kill an ordinary' man. They. would hurt these savages, too, U they d'd not chew the leaves of the korocco plant. Of course, you know that a drop of nicotine put on the tongue of a cat will instantly take every one of its nine lives. If the nicotine is mixed with korocco it is harmless., „ ' _ “Fifteen or twenty years ago a company was formed to exploit korocco as an aati-rnioQtlne. For some reason the ppoject was not g success, aJ.7 though the tablet was as efficacious as the' ffieagro advertisements 'claimed it was. But that was before the day of big advertising. Moreover, mW 41/1. not smoko such heavy pjm* “ they, do now. Amy we wpo that heriji mow, has his tablet properly prepared and advertises n Well', hat a fortune beyond.the dreams of avarice. What wouldn’t the confirmed smoker give tp, be able to putt away at a good stout weed' to hip heart’s content and then take a korocco tablet and obliterate every evu effect? Korocco will do all of this and, some day some enterprising man is going to climb Into the multl-mli-llonaire class by Its aid. “Speaking abofit lost remedies,” continued the dtuggist, “reminds me at a cure for rheumatism compounded by a bright young pharmacist named Zimmer about twenty years ago. At first he com pounced it only for his own customers, but the results were so. sensational t.hat he was led to believe he had hit upon an Infallible cure for .the pain ml malady. For a year or So he devoted all his time to its manufacture and sate, and he laid the basis of a big fortune. He had more, orders than he coul<l fill, altbough jjis no advertising. It was not, long before drink got the best'of him 7 And his business went to smash. “He drifted from Szi \$ rjfi, dzi from djy jo efty, Jgitje ffior& ffisi n hp tairngduplA jfyw Yorh at BeJleVue in the . aleohohc frArd. Wl&n be got heifer I bis tafent was discovered and wtm put to work ih the dispensary as a pharmacist. A wealthy drug manufacture/- J)sarsl about him and enjtered into negotiations'for the purchase of the formula for that rheumatism cure. Zimmer was grim’y bitter In fils refusaL Nothing would induce him so revpai his formula, Not even the argument that he Ought not to let the Becret die with him, nor the offer of $1(1,000 and a life job could make him open his lips. He died less than a year later as the result of his excesses.