Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they contain — John Shaqi
Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they containBritish Medical Association
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Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they contain
British Medical Association
Patent medicines
These lozenges are sold from an address in London in boxes, price, 1s.
1½d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s. per box; the 1s. 1½d. size contained
50 lozenges.
A circular enclosed in the package was headed:
Notice—Guarantee.
The medicinal remedies contained in these lozenges
cannot injure the most delicate constitution.
Another extract from the circular stated:
Very many also of the Nobility and Clergy, and of the
public generally use them _under the recommendation
of some of the most eminent of the Faculty_. Such
medical testimony must be convincing of their efficacy
as well as conveying the satisfactory assurance of
their freedom from any medicine in the slightest degree
injurious to the constitution, Medical Men being well
aware of the deleterious effects of many preparations,
which in Pulmonary Affections do but mask the symptoms
for a time, and afford only temporary relief, while
perhaps the constitutional disease is aggravated, or
at least unsubdued. They may be safely administered to
females of the most delicate frame, and to very young
children, for they not only allay Cough and Nervous
Irritation, but they sustain the constitution, by
promoting a healthy state of the Digestive Organs.
They have immediate influence over the following
cases:—_Asthmatic and Consumptive Complaints,
Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Hoarseness, etc., etc._
Directions for Use. One or two, taken at bedtime, will
allay the irritation in the Throat, and prevent the
Cough from disturbing the patient during the night,
_and one also eight or ten times in the day_, when
the Cough is troublesome, will afford great relief.
The average weight of the lozenges was 16½ grains; analysis showed
that they contained morphine, alkaloids of ipecacuanha, extract of
liquorice, sugar (partly as invert sugar), and gum; some evidence
was also obtained of the presence of extract of squill and tolu,
but positive proof of the identity of these was not obtainable. The
proportions of the various ingredients found corresponded to:
Morphine 0·007 grain.
Ipecacuanha 0·07 ”
Extract of liquorice 2·1 grains.
Sugars 13 ”
in one lozenge.
BEECHAM’S COUGH PILLS.
These cough pills, sold from a town in Lancashire, cost 1s. 1½d. per
box, containing 56 pills.
The following extracts are from a circular enclosed with the box:
Persons suffering from Cough and kindred troubles
should relieve their minds of the idea that nothing
will benefit them unless it be in the form of a
lozenge, or taken as liquid. Let them try _Beecham’s
Cough Pills_, and they will never regret it.
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