+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | ECHINACEA ANGUSTEFOLIA | | This is a powerful drug as an Alterative and Antiseptic | | in all tumorous and Syphilitic indications; old chronic | | wounds, such as fever sores, old ulcers, Carbuncles, Piles, | | eczema, wet or dry, can be cured quick and active; also | | Erysipelas. It will not fail in Gangrene. In fever it is a | | specific; typhoid can be adverted in two to three days; also | | in Malaria, Malignant, Remittent and Mountain fever it is a | | specific. It relieves pain, swelling and inflammation, by | | local use, internal and external. It has not and will not | | fail to cure Diphtheria quick. It cures bites from the bee | | to the rattlesnake, it is a specific. Has been tested in | | more than fifty cases of mad dog bites in human and in every | | case it prevented hydrophobia. It has cured hydrophobia. It | | is perfectly harmless, internal and external. | | | | Dose.--One half to one fluid-drachm 3 or 4 times a day. | | | | Manufactured by H. C. F. Meyer, M.D. | | Price, $ Pawnee City, Neb., U. S. A. | | Patent | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ These absurd claims of an evidently ignorant man have passed into the more recent proprietary advertising matters and into much of the eclectic writings. Indeed, the seemingly impossible had been attained by even surpassing Meyer’s all-but-all-embracing claims. Not content with endorsing echinacea as a positive and speedy “specific” for rattlesnake bite, syphilis, typhoid fever, malaria, diphtheria and hydrophobia, later enthusiasts have credited it with equally certain curative effects in tuberculosis, tetanus and exophthalmic goiter, and with the power of retarding the development of cancer. It is worth noticing--although it is not surprising--that these far-reaching claims have been made on no better basis than that of clinical trials by unknown men who have not otherwise achieved any general reputation as acute, discriminating and reliable observers. No attempt seems to have been made to verify these claims by accurate scientific methods, clinical or otherwise, although this could very easily have been done.