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Show The anti-fat medicines so extensively exten-sively advertised throughout tbe country coun-try are not meetiog with tbe popularity popu-larity that printer's ink usually gives to quack compounds. Tbe re.ion is that the "atufi" doesn't appear to do what is claimed for it, but dos more. The secret of success with patent medicines is to compound them so that they will do no harm. It is not intended that they shill do good. Cards and communications are p pearing in the papers, charging that tbe anti-fit medicines actually increase in-crease adipose tissue, instead of diminishing di-minishing it; but what is still worse, it begins to be alleged that the nostrums nos-trums are poisonous, and instances are already cited where parsons have1 died from their use. The latest case of this kind is a Miss LUimer, a well-known lady of Chicago. She died a few days ago, and it is asserted that her death was occasioned by the use of anti-fat medicine. Her pby-flioian pby-flioian says that although the compound com-pound alone would not h.;ve caused her death, as she had for a loug time suOered from sleeplessness, which finally produced cerebral con gestion, it is true that toe medicine greatly aggravated her morbid tendencies ten-dencies and hastened the f-tal climax. cli-max. The lady was very corpulent, and to reduce the flesh wag taking what wjs widely advertised as a harmless vegetable preparation. Analysis proved the medicine to have been a bromide poison. |