More secret remedies : what they cost & what they contain : secret remedies--second series / based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

  • British Medical Association
Date:
1912
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Credit: More secret remedies : what they cost & what they contain : secret remedies--second series / based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suggest either that the writers of the testimonials are ve^ obffgTng in supplying varying readings of them or else tha the advertiser alLrs them according to his fancy; unless indeed, they are entirely manufactured. A booklet which is also sent, entitled Rheumatism Its Cause and Cure, contains various plain and coloured pictures Tjrofessing to represent nerves, arteries, etc., of the leg and D and gives an account of how the Draft. are supposed to act; the following extract will suffice: The rheumatic sufferer faces this situation :-His or her system has becc^e tror less clogged with rheumatic P^--^^^^^^^^^^ma^^ Ltic acid or any other toxin, as the case may be. This poison may bet?the driven out or drawn out. Certain agents-salicylic acid, for exampl -w ll sometimes accomplish the former result; but he syst^ wiJThen contain a poison worse than the rheumatism. In f act, remed es wWch are strong enough to be effective against rheumatism almost m- ^alW rufn the digeftive organs. Magic Foot Drafts as the name Zliesf draws the poLns out through the pores of the tender ,skm on the 3om of the feet.^ The Drafts absorb this poison. A pair ,siould be worn only .ix days, as they become filled with the waste matter from Te body and need renewing in that length of time if the case is a bad me. . . Physicians are already using them in their regular practice, and recommending them. The drafts consisted of plasters spread on a sort of jaconet backing, of oblong shape and measuring about 5 m. by 3i in.; the darker central portion measured about 3j in. by 2A in' The margin was coated with about 10 grains of sticky material, which had the physical and chemical characters of Venice turpentine ; the darker portion, or the plaster iteeL, weighed about 80 grains, and was found to be a mixture of Stockholm tar and the powdered rhizome of white hellebore (Veratrum album); determination of their proportions showed the formula to be, approximately: Powdered white hellebore 40 per cent. Stockholm tar ^0 „ No other ingredients could be detected. Estimated cost of ingredients for one pair ^d. CELMO. This preparation is supplied by the Celmo Company, London. It is in the form of tablets, of which a 2s. 9d. bottle contained B
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