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
In the treatment of torturing, disfiguring, itching,
scaly, crusted, pimply, blotchy, and scrofulous
humours of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of
hair, the Cuticura Remedies have been wonderfully
successful. Even the most obstinate of constitutional
humours, such as bad blood, scrofula, inherited and
contagious humours, with loss of hair, glandular
swellings, ulcerous patches in the throat and mouth,
sore eyes, copper-coloured blotches, as well as boils,
carbuncles, sties, ulcers, scrofulous rheumatism, and
most humours arising from an impure or impoverished
condition of the blood, yield to the CUTICURA
SYSTEM OF TREATMENT in the majority of cases, when
the usual remedies fail.... Parents are assured that
these Remedies are composed of the purest and sweetest
ingredients known to modern pharmacy, and may be used
on the youngest infants with complete satisfaction.
_Cuticura Ointment._—Price 2s. 6d. per box, containing 1¾ ounces.
Directions.... Cuticura Ointment may be applied to any
part of the surface of the body by direct application
with the finger, the palm of the hand, or spread on
cotton, linen, or absorbent cotton, and covered with
a light bandage, or by any means by which a remedy of
this consistence would be used.
... in rare instances of individual tendency to acute
eczema, acne, acne rosacea, erysipelas, and other
highly inflammatory conditions, especially those
affecting the face, it may act as an irritant, and
hence those using it must observe what has been said
in the foregoing directions in order that they may
exercise judgment as to whether to continue it or not,
should any unfavourable symptom present itself.
Examination of the ointment showed the absence of all metallic
compounds, also of alkaloids or other active principles, and of
saponifiable fat. It consisted of a mixture of hard and soft paraffins,
slightly perfumed with rose, and coloured green. The chief green
colouring matter present appeared to be an aniline dye, and a mixture
of paraffins, coloured with a trace of malachite green and a little
chlorophyll, agreed very closely with it in its properties. No other
ingredient could be discovered.
The estimated cost of the ingredients of 1¾ ounces is ¾d.
_Cuticura Resolvent._—Price 2s. 6d. per bottle, containing 6½ fluid
ounces.
In the pamphlet quoted above it is stated:
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