Show 7 medicaments MEDICA MENTS HUMAN folly is various and won delful the gullibility of human nature offers food for reflection and vait opportunities for the birds of prey who fatten on others folly and aud feather their nests by plucking eilly geese among the many exhibitions of mortal wea weakness kneEs knels scarcely anything any thing is more conspicuous than the disposition of the masses to buy and wallow the pretensions and und preen F ci of quack physicians immense fortunes have been made by ignorant and impudent impostors from the sale of nostrum for the cure of various ills ilia that flesh is heir to which have effected far more harm than good and bowed the seeds of 1 many nany more diseases tha than 11 they nave have eradicated or relieved pea of ordinary good sense on common matters frequently act without reason on the most vital points where their bodily health is concerned they seem to lose the calm judgment meat brought to bear upon everyday every very day affairs and they will iud iut their eyes and open their mouths and take in compounds the properties of which they know kno w nothing simply on ou the say baybo so of a charlatan whose cheek tested by i 0 lie guage of bf truth would mark I 1 lie highest hig liest figure while his knowledge I 1 would stand at ze zero ro quack medicines are advertised more extensively than any other moods hoods offered to the public and many people confound advertising with endorsement but it should bo be understood that newspaper newspapers frequently admit into their advertising columns as a matter of bustness business announcements which they cannot endorse in their editorial columns as a matter of principle if f invalids only knew the nature of the sf stuff they swallow because it has lias some high sounding title backed by yards of te stimon 15 they would set a seal upon t heir their alps rather than open the door of their stomachs to such deadly de relief is afforded by many of these patent medicines for the time being but their after u effects are generally baneful in tho the extreme and more than counterbalance the benefits tempo marily obtained in con cou consequence sequence of this some of the moat most popular nostrums strums no of a few years ago agg are now presented to a gullible Kul lible public under entirely dir different names chemical analysis Ms demonstrated this beyond envil the compo composition mitlon of most of tho thoe cure alls that are advertised nil all over avei the world as possessing most mysterious properties ia Is well known to thorough I 1 ile lie lin actual virtu virtues eti ori in them are derived from the commonest drugs in tilo tho opium cinchona digitalis ex tr trace act of ot lettuce and dilute alcohol ire are the tho principal constituents of ins ina many nv fluid remedies sold at from fromel 1 per fer pills patented puffed and purchased in enormous quantities are principally made up tip of aloes rhubarb garn gam angs nga I 1 castile soap etc fever ard and ague remedies contain mostly cinchona and aud quinine and the cheapest drugs are sold in these ther se various forms at tremendous profits enriching the quacks and impoverishing and injuring the people the so called t oo thing syrups to in infants infanta rants have bave caused more mortal ity perhaps than all other paten patent t 1 preparations reparations put together alcoholic I 1 olie tinctures tinctured tures of anise and carraway see dare daro mixed with morphine and even chloral hydrate has been covered til in some of them and these are the doses of death which rond fond mothers deal out by the F spoonful to their innocent and helpless babes babet the people of utah should know better than to patronize these hum bum bugs if common sense quickened by t avel avei and good counsel is not enough to guide them surely the tle voice of revelation eh should ouid beao t nt enough to warn them against these deceptions and point out the course to pursue if any be sick among you let him call for the eiders eldera of the church and let jet them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord and the prayer of faith shall shail save the ibe sick and the lord shall raise ralso him up ac 11 james 5 c 14 v and whosoever among you are sick and have not faith to be healed but believe shall be nourished with all tenderness with herbs and mild food and that not by the band hand of an enemy doc and cov if it doctors stuff is considered conFIde red necessary it is far better to call in a lJ physician who has passed through a course of study than to trust to the decoctions decoct ions called patent medicines or to employ ignorant quacks who are great only in pretension if people were as careless or reckless in the treatment of a watch or any machinery out of ordera 3 they are in the correction of disorders of the human system how many timepieces time pieces would tell the correct hour and how much mechanism would remain unspoiled yet the human body Is the most delicate and complicated organ organism m known to mortals and happiness aye life lire itself depends epou the proper treatment of or that system which is so fearfully and wonderfully made 1 we trust the above hints will tend to miti mitigate gate gato one of the great evils of the times and help to stop the flood into this territory of the vile stuff which is extending its deadly streams all over the world |