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Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they contain
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It is therefore with a genuine desire to help you that
we write enclosing a Special Voucher Coupon issued in
your name, which will help you materially if the cost
of our remarkable specific has been more than you could
really meet.... This Special Voucher Coupon which we
have issued to you is good for £1 Sterling when sent
with your order for Tuberculozyne. You have only to
post the coupon together with 30s., and immediately we
will forward to you the complete treatment and full
instructions for its use.
From later letters:
Even if her improvement is not at once pronounced, do
not be discouraged; for in some cases the patients
at first even seemed to be losing ground, but they
persevered and finally were cured. It would be much
better to take the treatment a few weeks too long than
to stop too soon....
Just at this time, when the patient has been taking
our treatment for some weeks and it is beginning to
permeate her system through and through, courage is
needed, for great improvement may not yet be apparent
though her cure be assured.
Every letter was accompanied with one lithographed copy, or more, of
testimonials.
The directions were:
After each meal, put thirty drops of the medicine from
each bottle into a tumbler of milk; stir well and drink
immediately.
If milk is distasteful, the medicine may be taken in
water which has been boiled.
For patients between the ages of seven and fifteen
years, give one-half of the above dose; for those under
seven years, give five (5) drops only, from each bottle.
No. 1 was a bright red liquid; analysis showed it to contain in 100
fluid parts, 3·4 parts of potassium bromide, 12 parts of glycerine,
a trace of a pungent substance, sufficient oil of cinnamon (or oil
of cassia) to give a flavour, a very small quantity of alcohol, and
cochineal colouring matter darkened with a trace of alkali; no copper
was present. The following formula gave an exactly similar liquid:
Potassium bromide 3·4 parts.
Glycerine 12·0 ”
Oil of cassia 0·1 part.
Tincture of capsicum 0·17 ”
Cochineal colouring q.s.
Caustic soda 0·06 part.
Water to 100 fluid parts.
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