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Show PATENT MEDICINES. For months Collier's Weekly has devoted much space to exposing patent pat-ent medlclno frauds, and few are the patent remedies advertised that Colliers' Col-liers' has not branded as rank poisons. That publication has printed the ingredients in-gredients of these nostrums, detailed the curative properties claimed and demonstrated conclusively to the Intelligent In-telligent mind that these so-called curatives not only do not cure or otler even temporary relief except through the narcotics they contain but are actually detrimental to the very diseases they claim to cure.i Several damage suits have been Hied against Colliers during the past two years, but as yet It is not a matter of record that theso complaining companies have been able to separate that publication from any of Its hard earned coin. This great weekly doesn't appear to be abashed at the suits and threats of suits but each week exposes an additional addi-tional fraud. The most recent Issue prints editorially edi-torially the decision of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1. of Allegheny county, Pennsyvanla, In reference to I the medicines from the Dr Miles Medical Go., of Elkhart, Indiana -I" "nervine", "heart cure", "liver pills", ' which Is a scathing denunciation of the llrm's business and a refusal to ; grant It a decree In a trade suit. The Justice who wrote the opinion declares the Miles methods arc"reprehenslblo," Its medicines a "serious menace" to the health of the public. Collier's continues In reference to matters medicinal ancT asks: "What would Justice Macfarlane say of lsham's California Waters of Life? And how would he character-l.o character-l.o tho iN'cw York "Evening Sun," which in its Issue of March 15, prints a half page advertisement of this amazing swindle? These waters, declares de-clares Alfred II. Isham.the proprietor, How from a mountainside in California, Cali-fornia, and arc the identical rill which, springing from the rock beneath Moses' stroke, have "burst forth again on the other side of the world under a new dispensation." They may be had at a price, "these all healing heal-ing water," and they promise to cure rheumatism In seven days, dyspepsia in four days, cancer In thirty days, diabetes in the same length of time, and falling hair In three days. This sounds like the sheerest quackery. Hut what follows Is tragically suggestive of a deranged mind, lsham describes hlmscir struggling In the obsession of having committed the unpardonable sin; of having insulted God, and goes on to detail a dialogue between himself him-self and the Dicty, sacrilegious and, to use his own word, "lunatlckish." This he follows with a promise to "appear "ap-pear before any body of men or women, and within twenty minutes narrate the revealmcnt, all humanity can be fed, clothed, without costing any man a dollar."' Thomas W. Lawson of Boston and other poverty-eliminators may now retire. Finally lsham offers to sell his Waters of Lifo at so much a bottle. The local agents arc the iharles N Crlttcnton Companj, whit. ...i i apparently stai tin t witchcraft witch-craft department. Wc fear" that the Crlttenton lirm lacks a sense of humor, or perhaps intelligence. Ncith humor nor Intelligence is wanting want-ing in the "Evening Sun," which exploits ex-ploits this ludicrous and pitiful fraud. To take pay from a self exposed mental men-tal Incompetent for helping him to swindle its own readers by a tragic pretense of curing Incurable diseases, Is a depth to which intelligent newspapers, news-papers, we sincerely believe, will one day find It impossible to descend." |