Show '7 A6 — The Jerald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 21 2003 iFieirc® EOiir Continued from Al EboaiO 'f h S Z2in) ompDEr® Still no testimonial could Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable ' v ' be more "Compound congratulatory or as - Later a alcohol and other potentially glowing as Pierce’s descrip-journalist discov- ercd that Pinkham whom face tion of himself in his own v-harmful drugs : V had graced the packages jif for he's pamphlets: “Dr Pierce is a heCpdead Though ' ' man : 'common her prescription and whose nearly a century and his ' advice had counseled the ai- as well as a benefactor He patent niedicine empire has his name knows that most all things in faded Dr Pierce ing throngs had performed a death-defyin-g and his medicines’rr'- - stiir advertising : : average about right that ' where we honestly try to heljp campaign Nowhere in' her letgrace two local harns and ters tobereaved housewives 7-- 7 humanity we benefit our- countless others across tjie " : suffering from all types of ' 7' selves He does not figure country' how much he' can make put of did Ms Pinkham Ai one time iii this country ‘ '' that mentionto them a patient" would have PierceYname she was Dr' 7 While Pierce was an extra- dead been just as familiar as Dr 7 Although her face still liura and his favorite prc- ordinary example of a patent-- - ' the boxes medicine maker his her was a favorite iif of graced pills' 7Pinkham had really died on mediclhes were mostly com-Ma- y thousands 7 171883 and was buried monplace Pierce wasn't alone o in Lynn Mass' Her boxes of ' in his liberal use of narcotics Freedom (and fortune) ' Herald Journal file photo pills sold well into the turn-o- f'V of the press- - 7' 7 Whether motivated by greed : ' v ' ' Hiit Pierce"’ x rise jo fame or simply by resultshipThe "Dr Pierce’s bam” in Young Ward gets a paint touchup in ?002 Like Pinkham whoselittle didn't come just from selling potions and concoctions con- - ' tained a of his various ointments pills pink' pills produced pile opium alcohol and ' " that in Pierce made tunnel sure a tune to for Pierce relied with serious side on too other governplan His elixirs and money drtigs prospillions' ' ment would keep its hands off gold arid coal in California: effectsthe testimonials of patients he perity came from his behethe regulator tools never met who took his moth hook DnigfS --r- especially opium jcople's ' For what ails you “On behalf of his col- advice and took his medicine' - and its derivatives — had Common Sense Medical Pierce’s medical pharma- -' 7 In a booklet called “Mother '' proven themselves during the leagues Pierce vehemently "Adviser in Plain English" ' the boasted who doctors a to and Babe” published around bloodiest battles of the Civil site'' responded cornucopia copoeia which totaled l(K)8paggs of curative compounds' Hs 1905 the readers were warned War In China and otherparts the possible except question the effectiveness of v The ailviser rccoiimwndcd and the nostrums cure-al- ls of theworld the poppy was tion of William G Fargo (of dispensary had items that cures tor all kinds of diseases by Pierce: 'TAKE NOTICE: claimed to rid a person of We wish to sprue our patients so miraculous it was called Wells Fargo I'amej hc was the' tonics advertised in newspa- ranging Irojii caiicer to the " : cure sold the’ and cancer or worms : who “Christ’s renowned us have through pers Victorian vice (if spcnmatiir-rlicgratefully given person! opium" city's ’ " ' However most of the ail- mail” While disease and bacteria the testimonials in this book:" : for maslur1 the Web site said- 7 parlor-spea- k ' Pierce was Elected to Con- -' ment remedies' contained ! 7 unnecessary correspondence - wits ptxirly understood n the hat ion) Like the gchcroiis HisloriailHolhnxiksuggest-- : ' in 1879 but had to ' ale than medicine Many more Golden and htiok “The his therefore have in cd omitted narcotics that gress of early days of the Victorian quantities 'their addresses” ' era so km was narcoticresign the seat in 1880 due to 'of the cures contained opiates were in some of his more Age of Quackery” that it is ill health ' What the kind folks at the addiction Morphine and! famous medications Pierce easy to see why Dr! Pierce's ' Not even ill health skipped ' toms while doing little to cure dispensary failed to tell the Golden Medical Discovery ' included long passages about opium looked to be a divine " V theactual affliction Pierce him from living the good life is that many of the became adrugstorc hit Gold- reader liis World's Dispensary and gift a powerful panacea to ' ' His husiness'interests and other nostrum peddlers cure anything from a cn Diitcovcry along with Dr Invalids Hotel jtnd Surgical patent medicine ihakers " extended to a hotel: an engine made their fortunesin the Pierce's Favorite Prescription Institute in Thc Common bought bundles of testimoni- - ' headache to a heart catarrh In als from letterrbfokers After a reality the pain killing power company a htune in Buffalo days before drug regulation (aka The Woman's Tonic”) Sense Medical Adviser Both and ingredient listings Thoiu- medicine maker select- -' : ' of opium just masked the v r the Pierce hrainclrildrcii (a were the dispensary's two best an island retreat off the coast patent ' sands ' 4 Si millions Florida and of of ed testimonials the 7'--' fewr a membership maybe sellers symptoms pf disease: drug manufacturing company con- 'Ol the NewYork Yacht Americans around turn would Pierce's company wasn't 7' not are unwittingly and hcalthsanitarium ) were' competentcompany Taiymcn ' suined high quantities of In 1897 he bought the first the only enterprise to make a and sell the batch (o another located in Buffalo NY and : ip assess the therapeutic value nostrum producer 7-- perpetu- -: mint from sejling opiates' phine opium laadanurii and were the legitimate rivals of' pfPierce's compound: hut the horseless caicpage iii Buffalo e alcohol start and ( iahel In 1898 a relatively pharmaceutical-gradis the someon in bottle or Minn Mavo Clinic ating a cycle that soundsthe ' which often hovered around familiar to calling iists used unknown German dye factory the Battle Creek iSanitariiiih in 'thing else " Holbrook wrote' ' ed a glass bottle company in 7 160 Port Allegany Penn The F Bayer (later of Bayer' “GOLDEN DISCOVERY proof' by telemarketers Michigan ' Pierce : Bylhie late 1870s Pierce fire the Some of the testimonials 7 Here arc Company "Hie Medical Adviser was words Jo 7 aspirin fame) marketed a 7 ' " famous ' appear to he authentic how: and the Pierce Lumber and ' was tlie seCond-mo- st dullest imagination Either first published hi 1875 and : product called heroin Accord-‘ ' ! in' maker America Coal ever others were paid tieiil through MK) editions By vurd by itself is potent Pul Company operated patent drug ing jo “A Brief History of : :' endorsements or and the major rival of the 2()(XK) acres of pine timber 7 them together insert the pur-- : its 66th edition it had wild outright 7 :r ' See DOCTOR on A7 7 ' and mine interests in Alaha- frauds'! company which manufactured over 21 million copies " imse of this discovery and 3(X) of maHe operated acres Historian Siewart HolbrimV'' there were few listessJ sal- d illus- - ' invalids still able to ' farmland in the Berkshircs described - All this ' breathe jmmuneh) the despite losing a for- -: iralions: lo sav jt was pro-- 7 ' Dr health radiant make of a : jllustratcdWuit promise fyscly iiii)cker (i' its several hun- Pierce was on his way” drird pictures in blaek-and-- 'v Pierce's lame quickly in white and four i'uJLpage plates' spread around (lie country By'' 7 878 he had created a thriving ' of leprous realism so vivid us to cause women to blanch 7 business in Buffalo aiid'-seup a facility in London In 878 7 he was elected as a New York V7 stale sciiaior as a Republican 7 ' “Dr Pierce was a champion 7 Taking a luriip suih payment on your 40 Uk) plan coiiUl cct you li) pereeni orthc totl in iaxL-- 7 t V ' of free enterprise'' the Web 77 ’7' ' ' V pellets Jivcn nire if yHi'rc uhjoet to a pcnally iax because ynu'rc umk--r V)-l- 2 ycars old Nile said "As presidenl of a ' 7 is orite prescriptions Dr! Ka Vjuighn Wercew’as Ask one of these State Farm agents how your money can continue to grow proprietary assttelution of r A inedicineselleis hucksicr healer' part : pail and compound on a tax deferred basis 7 7 ' nainal medical doctor he' ': : 'quiekiv emerged as oiieol‘'7v!: 0jr detiyitg book tiiith CD is America Vi leading patent 'V cine Pierce was:a legitimate doctor with some training in pharmacology and medicine Some medical treatments lie ' recommended although crude by today’s standards were V ' considered gmid medicine in his limes Other concoctions- Pierce devised were down-rigdangerous por example Pierce’s Favorite Prescription contained opium alcohol and it ' powerful heart medication digitalis Another product offered from his World’s pensary in Buffalo was Smart Weed which also contained opium And one can only " guess what Pierce's Pleasant Pellets contained ' However it was easy to sec why Pierce's favorite pre- scription was his ow n person al favorite Between the years (if 1867 and 1880 Pierce's ventures took in almost ' $500000 per year according to a Buffalo Historical Wfch - : sense-busines- ht : ' - ' Pis-scripti- 'v ry ’ " : ! : : : nsl at - : v : - - - : - 0 : : ' Club7 - - - - Pope-Columb- : ' low-face- - - - Before you cash 1 y6iir 401(k) talk to a t 1 y Pk-asan- ' inail-Tfdc- me ujedicine'iliakeis'l'he medi-- vines ('lieii' called jioslruiiis': w ere cure-all- :inell'eclie drugv" 77" d d - - i iflen viuitain-- - s MAKSSA MSAfeFT? 7- 7 ifllike (itheryaii llve shad ! owy bistort oi patvniincdL 7 1 ' r3tkam OPiN brnfitsDoiidld McDonald liouie j III' ' liX ' js 4ii J IITodayl 755-587- I ( liulii-iir- i All lift' lull' 'l ktl Blllv : Ji' ImikK xii ilk tn JilN O' Iin EVERYDAY II 0 ‘WWW i SOUTH OCDIN' ( ElCOM9 PAH HHUI -4 7 PCs Unlimited 610 N luJi-il- ' 7 Una Powell '! 40W SkyridgeCfrde Suite 7 v! 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