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
British Medical Association
Patent medicines
Paciderma cures all skin troubles without exception,
all pimples, blotches, sores and eruptions of every
kind, in sufferers of every age, from the infant at
the breast to the old and infirm man or woman who has
reached or passed the allotted span of three score
years and ten.
It is absolutely the only cure for Eczema.
The following are the results of the examination of the remedies
evolved after so much study and research and perfected and improved:
_Paciderma Crème._—Price 2s. 9d. per box, holding nearly 4 ounces.
Directions for use:
Apply the Crème to the parts affected with the finger,
or spread on lint or soft linen, and bandage.
The Crème consisted of a fairly stiff ointment, which on analysis gave
results corresponding to the following formula:
Zinc oxide 25·6 per cent.
Calcium carbonate 2·7 ”
” sulphate 15·8 ”
Boric acid 15·9 ”
Basis 58·7 ”
The basis consisted of soft paraffin, apparently with a small
proportion of a saponifiable oil, such as olive oil.
The estimated cost of the ingredients for 4 ounces is 1½d.
_Paciderma Powder._—Price 9d. per box, containing about 3 ounces. The
directions ran:
Allays all itching and irritation, and should be
applied freely and frequently to the affected parts, in
fact whenever they itch or irritate.
Analysis showed the composition to be:
Maize starch 54 per cent.
Boric acid 14 ”
Insoluble mineral matter 19 ”
Moisture 13 ”
The insoluble mineral matter contained alumina, magnesia, and silica,
corresponding to a mixture of talc and kaolin; this composition also
agreed with all its other properties.
The estimated cost of ingredients for 3 ounces is ¾d.
_Paciderma Blood Wafers._—Price 2s. 9d. per box of thirty.
Directions. One to be taken every night at bedtime.
The “wafers” consisted of cachets, each containing about 8½ grains of a
powder, the composition of which was indicated by analysis to be:
Sodium bicarbonate 59 per cent.
Precipitated sulphur 37 ”
Powdered ginger 3 ”
Aloin 1 ”
The ginger and aloin could only be estimated approximately.
The estimated cost of the ingredients for 30 wafers is one-fifth of a
penny.
CUTICURA REMEDIES.
The remedies are stated to be prepared by a Drug and Chemical
Corporation in the U.S.A.
The “system,” which has been very widely advertised, consists of
Cuticura (Ointment), Cuticura Soap, and Cuticura Resolvent (liquid or
pills); the ointment and the resolvent liquid were taken for analysis.
A booklet was enclosed in each package, containing, with other matter,
directions for the use of the remedies in fourteen languages; from it
the following extracts are taken:
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