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Other sections of the pamphlet are devoted to varicocele and varicose
veins, for which it appears that “Healine No. 2” and “Healine No. 3”
respectively are recommended.
The prices of the preparations (post free) were thus given:
Liquid Form.—3s. per bottle; Three for 8s. 9d.; or Six
prepared bottles for 15s.
Pill Form (recommended).—2s. 9d. per box; Three for
8s.; or Six for 13s. 9d.
Healine Lotion (same price as Internal Healine) is
always necessary for bad Ulcerated Legs and open or
deep-seated Wounds, and never fails to cure when used
as directed.
Consultation by appointment only, for which a fee of
2s. 6d. will be charged.
An application for a bottle of liquid “Healine No. 1,” with a
remittance of 3s., brought in return a box of the pills, with an
intimation that these were recommended in preference. The box contained
60 pills, two to be taken three times a day.
The pills were coated with talc, after removal of which they had
an average weight of 4 grains. No metallic salts were present, and
no alkaloid; about 1 per cent. of an oily liquid of acid nature,
apparently oleic acid, was found; small quantities of a tannin, gum,
and phlobaphene, a decomposition product of tannin, were present,
and a bitter substance which showed no characters by which it could
be identified; aloin and extract of cascara sagrada were absent,
and all resinous substances, unless in minute quantity; the pill
consisted chiefly of indefinite extractive, with about 20 per cent. of
a vegetable powder, one ingredient of which was liquorice, a second
appearing to be gentian, but it was not identified with certainty;
a considerable portion of the vegetable powder had no identifiable
properties.
CHAPTER XIX.
CURES FOR INEBRIETY.
For a good many years past cures for inebriety have been freely
advertised in various ways, some of them commonplace and others
showing a good deal of ingenuity. Some are advertised and sold in the
same way as ordinary secret remedies, that is to say, the purchaser
sends so much money and receives a box or bottle with directions
for administering the contents. In other instances the inebriate is
required to submit himself to inspection, and in certain cases must
enter a home maintained by the proprietor or his agents. Between these
two extremes there are intermediate plans, the methods followed shading
off on the one hand into those of the ordinary nostrum seller, and on
the other into the more elaborate system of the “treatments” with which
transatlantic enterprise has made us familiar. The last of the remedies
described by name below approximates very closely to this class.
COZA POWDER.
This powder is supplied by the Coza Institute, 76, Wardour Street,
London, W., formerly 62, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. The price charged
for a box, containing 30 powders was 10s.
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