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
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One teaspoonful in a wineglass of water (as hot as
can be conveniently taken for preference) one hour
before breakfast and two hours after the last meal
in the evening, unless the patient be in the habit
of waking between 12 midnight and 3 a.m., in which
case an extra dose may be taken then. After the first
week’s treatment half-an-hour before breakfast is quite
sufficient.
It appears that the use of this wonderful substance is not limited to
consumption cases.
Stevens’ Consumption Cure is a vegetable germicide,
fatal to all disease germ growths, but acts as a strong
tonic; is a blood purifier, stomach cleanser, and a
nerve stimulator; one will readily understand that
it must be all these to cure Consumption and build
up a broken-down system entirely by itself. Stevens’
Consumption Cure can safely be advantageously given
wherever a germ disease exists or is suspected.
One of the most recent circulars sent out by Mr. Stevens is addressed
to medical practitioners, asking them to use his remedy in severe cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis which defy all the ordinary remedies, and
professing to give the formula of the preparation as follows:
Its formula is 80 grains of Umckaloabo root and 13 and
one-third grains of Chijitse to every ounce, prepared
according to British Pharmacopœia methods.
The medicine was a clear red liquid, and analysis showed it to
contain in 100 fluid parts, 21·3 fluid parts of alcohol, 1·8 parts
of glycerine, and 4 parts of solid substance; this solid substance
contained about 1 part of a tannin and 0·2 part of ash, the remainder
being extractive. No alkaloid was present and no other active substance
could be detected. The solid substance agreed in all respects with the
solids of decoction of krameria, or a mixture of this decoction with a
little tincture of kino. The formula thus appears to be approximately:
Rectified spirit of wine 23·7 parts by measure.
Glycerine 1·8 parts.
Decoction of krameria (1 in 3) to 100 parts by measure.
or it may be made with tincture of krameria.
Estimated cost of ingredients for 2¼ fluid ounces, 1½d.
TUBERCULOZYNE.
The Derk P. Yonkerman Company, Ltd., an American company with an agency
in London, charges £2 10s. 0d. for a month’s treatment and supplies
two bottles, labelled respectively No. 1 and No. 2 Tuberculozyne, and
containing in each between 11 and 12 fluid ounces of liquid.
The advertisement offered a book on “Consumption and how it may be
quickly cured,” and a trial of the cure itself, to be sent free.
Application for the book and sample brought bottles of “No. 1
Tuberculozyne” and “No. 2 Tuberculozyne,” holding about ½ ounce each,
and a book of 48 pages dealing with the remedy. A few extracts from the
book will sufficiently indicate the nature of its contents.
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