Although, as a rule, the makers of any kind of quack medicine find no difficulty in showing that almost any disease that can be named takes its rise in the organs or part of the system which their own particular nostrum professes to benefit, it is, of course, particularly easy to connect a great variety of diseases with the condition of the blood. The claims made for some of the following “blood purifiers” do not fail in comprehensiveness, for ringworm and itch, among other complaints, appear to be regarded as disorders of the blood. CLARKE’S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD MIXTURE. This is advertised and sold by an English Drug Company, price 2s. 9d. a bottle, containing 8¼ fluid ounces. The following passages are quoted from a pamphlet enclosed with the bottle: No matter what the symptoms may be, the real cause of a large proportion of all diseases is bad blood. Clarke’s World-famed Blood Mixture is not recommended to cure every disease; on the contrary, there are many that it will not cure; but it is a guaranteed cure for all blood diseases.... It never fails to cure Scrofula, Scurvy, Scrofulous Sores, Glandular Swellings and Sores, Cancerous Ulcers, Bad Legs, Secondary Symptoms, Syphilis, Piles, Rheumatism, Gout, Dropsy, Blackheads or Pimples on the Face, Sore Eyes, Eruptions of the Skin and Blood, and Skin Diseases of every description. On the label it was stated: The Mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted free from anything injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sex, which all Pills and most Medicines sold for the above diseases contain. Directions: The mixture must be taken about half-an-hour after meals, in the following doses:— _For Adult Males._—One tablespoonful four times a day. ” _Adult Females._—One tablespoonful three times a day. ” _Children under 12 years of age._—Two teaspoonfuls three times a day. ” _Under 12 years._—From half to one teaspoonful, according to age, mixed with a little water and sugar. Analysis showed the mixture to contain 1·5 per cent. of potassium iodide, 1·2 per cent. of sugar (partly inverted), 1·6 per cent. by volume of alcohol, and traces of chloroform and ammonia, a brown colour being given by a small quantity of what was evidently burnt sugar. The composition of 8 ounces is thus: Potassium iodide 52·5 grains. Spirit of sal volatile 10 minims. Spirit of chloroform 67 ” Simple syrup 50 ” Burnt sugar q.s. Water to 8 fluid ounces. The estimated cost of the ingredients is 1⅓d. OLD DR. JACOB TOWNSEND’S AMERICAN SARSAPARILLA. This is sold by a Company having offices in London. A bottle, holding a little under 9 fluid ounces, costs 2s. 6d. On the wrapper it was stated: