A guarantee that any medical remedy or curative will absolutely effect its stated purpose is misleading, deceptive, delusive, and is a trap to ensnare, not intelligent individuals, but the unwary, the unsophisticated, and those utterly unable to discriminate as to the merits or demerits of any so-called specific. The dose was stated to be: Nine tablets daily. Three taken three times a day before meals. They may be taken as pills or dissolved on the tongue. The tablets had an average weight of 1 grain. Analysis showed them to contain 90·8 per cent. of milk sugar, 2·4 per cent. of greasy matter, which appeared to be a mixture of stearic acid and paraffin, evidently employed as a lubricant in making the tablets, and 6·8 per cent. of an extract which agreed well in its characters with extract of _Fucus vesiculosus_; its identity was further indicated by analysis of the ash. Each tablet would thus contain: Extract of bladderwrack 0·07 grain. Milk sugar 0·91 ” The estimated cost of the ingredients for 112 tablets is ¼d. NELSON LLOYD SAFE REDUCING TREATMENT. In this instance the bait of free trial for a fortnight is held out in the advertisements issued from an address in London; the following are extracts from one advertisement: I myself am a member of a family many of whom died prematurely after much mental and physical suffering, arising from corpulence. While studying medicine for my degree, I saw the signs of the family complaint in myself. I naturally sought to avert what I for some time feared as being my hereditary fate. It was when I had almost given up hope that I discovered a cure for my condition, which all the time grew worse, in spite of my hopeful trials of all advertised and unadvertised remedies for stoutness. I at last gave up expecting a cure from other people. I experimented with my own thought-out remedies, and, happily, at last my perseverance—or, rather, my desperation—succeeded.... The result of several years’ study and experience has only served to make my treatment more and more successful.... I specially invite those who have tried other remedies for reducing weight without success to write me for: I. A copy of my book, “The Scientific Treatment of Obesity” (just published, price 6d.), thoroughly deals with the subject in a popular, readable style.... II. Two photos of the lady referred to above, with her letter giving full particulars of her cure. III. Everything required for a complete fourteen days’ free trial treatment. I make no charge for all the above, but ask you to enclose sixpence (by postal order), just to cover the expenses of carriage, packing, and dispatch of parcel.