Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

  • British Medical Association.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    At Tea Ti me.—If absolutely necessary, take a cup of weak ordinary tea or health coflee ; bettor still, take a cup of Star Tonic, some cold toast. . . . For Supper.—(Let this meal bo not later than two-and-a-half, or, better still, three hours before going to bod.) Take cither Cocoa or Kefyr. . . . Before going to bed.—Always make a point of taking one glass of Kefyr oi cup of Star Tonic. When in bed always have some cold Star Tonic near at hand, and aip some when troubled with cough or acute symptoms. At the bcdtorn of the diet table is a notice to the following effect: The above specially recommended articles can be had from the Sales' Department of the Weidhaas Hj'gienic Institute, Ltd. In the circular, referred to above as enclosed, Kefyr ferment is offered for sale. In one case which was enquired into of a young man who had been induced to obtain the treatment, his mother wrote to the institute complaining that the treatment appeared to have done her son more harm than good. The reply, after insisting that the remedy supplied was the very best cure for his complaint, con- tinued : As to it lowering his vitaHty, let me say that it is not unusual for patients to feel apparently worse in the beginning, but it only shows that the treatment is disturbing the cause oi the trouble. Now, this is just what I want it to do. I want to disturb it and thus drive it out of the system, I hope then you will allow your son to proceed under my directions. Give the treatment a fair trial and it wiU do all that is claimed for it. The patient was at the time m an advanced stage of pulmonary phthisis, and died of haemoptysis, of which he had had two previous attacks, seven weeks after the letter quoted above was written, A month after his death a letter was addressed to him by the director of the institute in the course of which it was stated that: Many patients do not gain immediate rehef, or even partial improvement during the early stages of the treat- ment, but Perseverance and a faithful adherence to all my instructions will invariably bring about the desired result.