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This medicine is a concentrated preparation of Rock
Rose and Stillingia, combined with other plants,
well-known for their specified action on the blood,
which makes a compound medicine, that has never been
equalled, and will be hard to surpass in the scientific
future. It is impossible to give a full account of its
virtues and cleansing capacities on this label, and the
Prof. must, therefore, be content with briefly stating
that it is an infallible remedy for All Diseases of
the Blood, be they Constitutional, Hereditary, or of
Recent Contraction. Nearly every ailment known to
the medical faculty is in a greater or lessor degree
dependent for its appearance and its virulence upon a
_Disease of the Blood_. Ulcers, Tumours, Scrofula
Bunches, Fistula, Piles, Painful Eruptions, indeed
all afflictions manifested upon the outer surface of
the body are the consequences of diseased blood. Many
terrible maladies, which take the shape of Internal
Inflammation, Sores, etc., and appear in the form of
Fevers, Aches, Swellings, Glandular Disturbances,
Mental Derangement, and General Debility, also proceed
from the same cause. It is an admitted fact that, with
Pure Blood and Regular Bowels, no individual ever can
be permanently, seriously, or dangerously ill, if ill
at all.
Dose.—For Adults, one tablespoonful three times a day
before eating. For Children, the dose must be reduced
to a teaspoonful.
Analysis showed 100 fluid parts of the liquid to contain 19·7 parts
of solids, of which 15·5 parts were sugar (partly inverted); a good
deal of mucilage was present, but no alkaloid and no mineral substance
except the small quantity of ash always present in vegetable extracts;
alcohol was present to the extent of 23 per cent. by volume. Evidence
was obtained of the _probable_ presence of a preparation of stillingia,
but this drug does not contain any active principle by which it can be
certainly identified. Rock rose (_Cistus canadensis_) has been used
to some slight extent medicinally, but no particular virtues appear
to have been assigned to it; it is, however, described as bitter and
astringent. The 3 or 4 per cent. of extractive matter present in the
mixture under consideration showed neither bitterness nor astringency,
nor any property by which it could be identified, or which would
indicate any medicinal properties.
HOOD’S COMPOUND EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.
This is an American preparation, but the Company which makes it has
offices in London. A bottle, costing 1s. 1½d., contains 2¼ fluid
ounces.
The following paragraph appeared on the covering of the bottle:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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