Is it money (1s. 1½d.) or your life? Buer, the founder, the proprietor is the seventh son, not trading on his birthright but on his cure, testified by hundreds. Warrants it will cure you. If you suffer, will you try it? The pains experienced range all the way from the slightest itch to the most terrible sufferings, which appear like tearing the body asunder, and unless the piles are cured with Buer’s Mul’la there is no relief.... They cause you to be despondent, caring little to live; no go in you; quarrelsome in yourself; weakening to the constitution; until something gives way and hastens your death. It is therefore money or your life; no hesitation. But one thing—not for the sake of selling the Powders—keep a box of Buer’s Pile Powders in house—12 for 1s. 1½d. ain’t dear—and take one as directed whenever you feel any irritation. The box of ointment contained two-fifths of an ounce. The directions were: Apply this Mul’la to parts affected. Analysis showed the ointment to contain: Lanoline (anhydrous) 66·5 per cent. Beeswax 1·5 ” Water 32·0 ” Hamamelis ointment is usually made from the liquid extract which contains rectified spirit, but no alcohol was present in this oddly-named preparation; it may have been made with liquor hamamelidis prepared without the use of alcohol; a minute trace of water-soluble substance contained in the ointment suggested by its behaviour with reagents that such was the case. The estimated cost of ingredients is three farthings. Twelve of the powders are supplied in the 1s. 1½d. box. The directions are: To be taken at bedtime in a glass of milk or water. Analysis showed the composition to be: Precipitated sulphur 14·9 grains. Calcined magnesia (partly carbonated) 23·6 ” in one powder of average weight. Single powders in one box varied from 28 to 48 grains. The estimated cost of the ingredients for twelve powders is 1¼d. MUNYON’S PILE OINTMENT. This ointment is supplied by the same Homœopathic Home Remedy Company as has been encountered in earlier chapters. The price charged was 1s. a package, containing a collapsible tube holding 1 oz. of ointment and a metal tube for introducing it. On the outside of the package it was stated that the ointment permanently cures all forms of Piles or Hemorrhoids, and immediately relieves pain, burning, itching, and distress at the outlet of the bowels. In the circular enclosed in the package, in which thirty of this company’s preparations for different complaints were advertised, it was stated that the ointment cures piles, blind or bleeding, protruding or internal, stops itching instantly, allays inflammation, and gives ease at once to the sore parts, heals fissures, ulcerations, cracks, and all anal troubles.” A label on the tube of ointment asked the purchaser