Chapter XXII: Appendix: Stamp Duty on Secret Remedies

The duty on secret medicines is regulated by the Stamp Act of 1804 as amended by the Stamp Act Amendment Act of 1812. The Act of 1804 was itself in part an amending Act and regulated the duties to be paid on paper, on books, on advertisements, and imposed _ad valorem_ duties on hats and proprietary medicines. The tax on proprietary medicines remains, but that on advertisements through and by which they continue to exist and flourish has gone the way of the duties on hats, and books, and paper. The Act of 1804 contained a schedule of medicines to the number of some 450. In the Act of 1812 this was replaced by a new schedule in which about 550 proprietary medicines were mentioned by name. The final clause of this Act, however, is expressed in very general terms, for it includes “all other pills, powders, lozenges, tinctures, potions, cordials, electuaries, plasters, unguents, salves, ointments, drops, lotions, oils, spirits, medicated herbs and waters, chemical and officinal preparations whatsoever, to be used or applied externally or internally as medicines or medicaments for the prevention, cure, or relief of any disorder or complaint incident to or in any wise affecting the human body,” if the person making or selling these various preparations claim to have any occult secret or art for making them or claim to have any exclusive right or title to make them, or prepares and sells them under the authority of letters patent, or if by public notice or advertisement, or by papers or labels on, or with, the enclosures, bottles, or cases in which the preparation is sold, the maker vendor, or proprietor recommend them as “nostrums, or as proprietary medicines, or as specifics, or as beneficial to the prevention, cure, or relief of any distemper, malady, ailment, disorder, or complaint incident to or in any wise affecting the human body.”

The Inland Revenue returns show that during the last ten years the amount received by the State from the stamp duty on patent medicines so-called has increased from £266,403 10s. 3d. in the year ending March 31, 1899, to £334,141 19s. 2½d. in the year ending March 31st, 1908. The net receipts are the gross receipts after deducting repayments and allowances, but the aggregates of these deductions are small. The following table shows the net receipts in each of the ten years, and the average for the two quinquennial periods, 1899-1903 and 1904-1908:—

TABLE SHOWING NET RECEIPTS FROM STAMPS ON
“PATENT MEDICINES” FOR TEN YEARS, 1899-1908.

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Year.| Yearly. |Quinquennial average.
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| £ s. d. | £ s. d.
1899 | 266,403 10 3 |}
1900 | 288,827 8 1½ |}
1901 | 297,479 19 6 |} 298,483 18 3
1902 | 306,337 5 9 |}
1903 | 333,371 7 9 |}
| |
1904 | 323,445 14 0 |}
1905 | 331,438 17 6½ |}
1906 | 324,111 14 2 |} 328,048 16 0
1907 | 327,105 15 3½ |}
1908 | 334,141 19 2½ |}
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The value of the stamp which the vendor must affix to the bottle or package varies according to the price charged for the medicine, and the returns show the number of articles for which the several rates are paid. The following table gives the amount of the stamp duty on the several prices, the number of articles stamped in the fiscal year 1908, and the amount of the stamp. An attempt has also been made to estimate the total amount paid by the public for the articles stamped:—

TABLE SHOWING RATES OF DUTY, NUMBER OF ARTICLES STAMPED
AND APPROXIMATE SUM PAID BY THE PUBLIC IN THE YEAR
ENDING MARCH 31ST, 1908.

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Price of Article| Stamp. |Number of articles|Price paid by public.
without stamp. | | stamped. |
----------------+----------+------------------+---------------------
£ s. d. | s. d. | | £ s. d.
0 1 0 | 0 1½ | 33,037,202 | 1,858,342 12 0
0 2 6 | 0 3 | 7,565,822 | 1,040,300 10 0
0 4 0 | 0 6 | 1,002,549 | 225,573 10 6
0 10 0 | 1 0 | 122,249 | 67,236 19 0
1 0 0 | 2 0 | 18,445 | 20,289 10 0
1 10 0 | 3 0 | 11,308 | 18,658 4 0
----------------+----------+------------------+---------------------
41,757,575 | 3,230,401 5 6
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This estimate of the total amount paid by the public must be too high. In the first place it will be seen that the stamp duty does not rise by regular increments _ad valorem_. An article, the nominal price of which is 1s., must bear a stamp of 1½d., but if the nominal price be 1s. 6d., the stamp is 3d., and for an article of the nominal price of 2s. 6d. it is the same. In the second place, a large proportion of all the articles, probably the great majority of those at 1s., are sold at a discount, “store prices.” In the above table the maximum price for each rate of stamp duty and the full nominal prices are assumed. If a deduction of 25 per cent. is made to meet these sources of error, we have a sum of £2,422,800 19s. 1½d., as an estimate of the amount spent by the public on patent medicine in the financial year ending March 31, 1908.

At one time some of the vendors of nostrums took to inserting in their advertisements phrases intended to suggest that the Inland Revenue stamp upon their packages implied some sort of Government guarantee of the efficacy of the remedy. Though the Inland Revenue authorities do not as a rule display any anxiety with regard to the welfare of the public in the matter of the sale of nostrums, their efforts being confined to the collection of the duty, and the enforcement of the provisions of the Act should any vendor show a disposition to evade them, the stamp in recent years has borne the statement “This stamp implies no Government guarantee.” In spite of this vendors still sometimes contrive to convey the suggestion that the stamp conveys some sort of government guarantee; the suggestion looks the more plausible if the vendor has his name or autograph printed on the stamp by the government authorities; this will be done for him if he pays the cost of the die, and by the use of such an endorsement the incautious buyer may be led to assume that the Inland Revenue in some way shares the vendors’ responsibility for the genuineness of the article, that is to say for the genuineness of its claims. It has been suggested that the Legislature might go further and require the composition and ingredients of any secret remedy to be stated upon the label, box, or package, and looking to the nature of the facts disclosed by the analyses published in this book, it may well be believed that such publications on the labels would act to a certain extent as a warning to the public, for it would be apparent even to the least instructed that the claims in the vendors’ circulars were not quite consonant with the commonplace nature of the ingredients of the mixture, powder, pill, lotion, or ointment.

INDEX.

PAGE
Absorbit Reducing Paste, 87
Absorptive Pile Treatment, Van Vleck’s, 154
Acetanilide (antifebrin), 2, 5, 6, 37, 38, 39,
40, 41, 58, 165
Acetic acid, 16, 78
” ether, 16
Acetyl-salicylic acid, 56, 59, 60, 64, 77, 81
Act, Stamp, 182
Alcohol, 7, 8, 12, 14, 16, 17,
19, 26, 32, 44, 47, 52,
73, 74, 78, 80, 86, 87,
92, 103, 111, 118, 121,
127, 135, 160, 167
Allan’s Anti-fat, 92
Almond, oil of, 35, 135, 138
Aloes, 48, 49, 55, 104, 175,
176, 177, 180
Aloin, 69, 109, 110, 161
Alum, 51, 120
Aluminium oleate, 120
” sulphate, 145
Ammoniacum, 18
Ammoniated mercury, 113, 143, 144
Ammonium bromide, 126, 128, 129
” carbonate, 125
” chloride, 19
” citrate, 87
Aniseed, oil of, 12, 14
” powdered, 18
” Powell’s Balsam of, 14
Antexema, 105
Anthylla, 104
Anti-cataract Mixture, Pomie’s, 146
Anti-catarrh, Birley’s, 7
Anticelta Tablets 163
Anti-corpulent Preparation, Russell’s, 87
Antidipso, 165
Anti-epileptic Medicine, W. and J. Taylor’s, 126
Antiépileptique (Uten), 129
Anti-fat, Allan’s, 92
Antifebrin (_see_ Acetanilide).
Antigout soap, 64
Antimony oxide, 132
Antipon, 86
Anti-rheumatic Pearls, Baring Gould’s, 55
Appendix, 182
Aspirin (_see_ Acetyl-salicylic acid).
Assmann’s Whooping Cough Remedy, 19
Atropine, 168
Augenwol, 146

“Bacillentod” (G. Pohl’s Family Tea), 36
Baldness, Medicines for (internal), 114
Capsulated Haemoglobin Ovals, 115
Capsuloids, 114
Haemoglobin Capsules, 116
Balsam of Peru, 27, 113, 115
Balsamic Cough Mixture, Crosby’s, 15
Balsamic Elixir, Congreve’s, 26
Baring Gould’s Anti-rheumatic Pearls, 55
Barium sulphate, 122
Beans, Bile, 77
Bearberry (_Uvœ ursi_), 104
Beeoham’s Cough Pills, 18
” Pills, 175
Beeswax, 58, 88, 120, 140, 143,
149, 151, 181
Bell’s Fairy Cure, 39
Benzoate, Sodium, 180
Benzoin, compound tincture of, 15, 27
Berberine, 80
Berendorf’s Powder for Epilepsy, 129
Betony, 63
Bile Beans, 77
Birley’s Anti-catarrh, 7
Bishop’s Gout Varalettes, 62
Bladderwrack, 83, 84, 89, 91, 92, 93,
94, 100, 102, 103, 104
Blair’s Gout and Rheumatic Pills, 50
Blood Cure, Munyon’s, 44
” Mixture, Clarke’s, 42
” Pills, Harvey’s, 44
” ” Hughes’s, 48
Blood Purifiers, 42
Clarke’s World-Famed Mixture, 42
Harvey’s Pills, 44
Hood’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, 46
Hughes’s Pills, 48
Munyon’s Cure, 44
Phelps Brown’s Purifier, 46
Steven’s Consumption Cure, 21, 28
Townsend’s American Sarsaparilla, 43
Blue dye, 118, 119
Borax, 7, 129, 138
Boric acid, 106, 109, 113
Bostock’s Eye Ointment, 143
Brixa Tablets, 163
Bromide, 2, 35, 124, 129
” in Tuberculozyne, 35
Brompton Consumption and Cough Specific, 27
Brown’s Vervain Restorative Assimilant, O. Phelps, 127
Bryony, 63
Buckthorn, 104
Buer’s Mul’la, 149
Buer’s Piles Cure, 149
Burdock, 45
Burgess’s Lion Ointment, 180

Caffeine, 38, 39
Calcium carbonate, 6, 109
” glycerophosphate, 173
” phosphate, 132
” sulphate, 28, 109
Calling in the doctor, 9, 12
Calomel, 113, 131, 132, 148, 151
Camomile, 63
Camphor, 2, 5, 65, 135, 173
Cancer remedies, 117
Cardigan Cancer Curers, 121
Caustics and Cancer, 122
Canexia preparations, 163
Capsicum, 14, 35, 69, 156, 160, 176, 177
Capsulated Haemoglobin Ovals, 115
Capsuloids, 114
Carbolic acid (_see_ Phenol).
Cardigan Cancer Curers, 121
Carmine, 88
Cascara, 2, 6, 55, 74, 104, 156, 161
Cascarilla, 70
Cassia, oil of, 35
Catarrh Balm, Van Vleck’s, 3
Catarrh Cures, 1
Birley’s, 7
Lane’s, 2
Munyon’s, 6
Van Vleck’s, 3
Catarrh and Cold Cures, 1
Birley’s, 7
Keene’s “One Night”, 5
Lane’s, 2
Mackenzie’s “One Day”, 4
Munyon’s, 6
Van Vleck’s, 3
Caulophyllin, 80
Caustics and cancer, 122
C.B.Q. Tablets, Post’s, 61
“Century Thermal” Bath Cabinet, 99
Charcoal, 172
“Chijitse”, 22, 32
Children’s Cooling Powders, Fenning’s, 133
Chiretta, 168
Chloroform, 12, 13, 14, 16,
17, 74, 125
” spirits of 43
Chlorophyll, 111, 112
Cimicifuga, 57
Cinchonine, 2, 5, 6, 167
Cinnamon, powdered, 164
Citric Acid, 64, 81, 84, 86, 87
Clarke’s Blood Mixture, 42
Clifton’s Treatment for Deafness, 136
Cochineal, 27, 35, 86, 120
Cocoa, 41
Cocoa butter (_see_ Theobroma, oil of).
Cod Liver Oil, Pastor Felke’s Honey, 36
Colchicin, 61, 64
Colchicum, 51, 63
Cold Cures, 1
Keene’s “One Night”, 5
Mackenzie’s “One Day”, 4
Colds in the head, 1
Coleman’s Nervlettes, 175
Collie’s Ointment, 57
Colza, 88, 135
Congreve’s Balsamic Elixir, 26
Consumption Cures, 20
“Bacillentod” (Pohl’s Family Tea), 36
Brompton specific, 27
Congreve’s Balsamic Elixir, 26
Felke’s Honey Cod Liver Oil, Pastor, 36
Kefyr Ferment, 24
Körber’s, 36
Lieber’s Tea, 36
Pohl’s Family Tea (“Bacillentod”), 36
Star Tonic, 23
Steven’s (Sacco or Lungsava), 21, 28
Tuberculozyne, 21, 32
Weidhaas Hygienic Institute, 23
Consumption, Körber’s Cure for, 36
Consumption and Cough specific, Brompton, 27
Cooling Powders for Infants, 130
Fenning’s Children’s Powders, 133
Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, 132
Copper in Tuberculozyne, 35
” oleate, 120
Corpulence (_see_ Obesity Cures).
Corpulin, 104
Cough Cure, Kilmer’s Indian, 15
” ” Veno’s Lightning, 16
” Drops, Lauser’s, 19
” ” Reichel’s, 19
” Lozenges, Keating’s, 17
Cough Medicines, 9
Assmann’s Whooping Cough Remedy, 19
Beecham’s Cough Pills, 18
Crosby’s Balsamic Elixir, 15
Kay’s Linseed Compound, 12
Keating’s Lozenges, 17
Kilmer’s Indian Cure, 15
Lauser’s Drops, 19
Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, 13
Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed, 14
Reichel’s Drops, 19
Tussothym, 19
Veno’s Lightning Cure, 16
Cough Medicines, Morphine in, 9, 13, 15, 18, 28
” ” Opium in, 10, 11, 28
” Pills, Beecham’s, 18
” Specific, Brompton, 27
Coza Powder, 162
Creasote, 113, 152
Crompton’s Specific for Deafness, 135
Crosby’s Balsamic Cough Elixir, 15
Cummin, powdered, 164
Curative Syrup, Mother Seigel’s, 176
Cure Alls, 170
Beecham’s Pills, 175
Martin’s Miracletts, 163
Nervlettes, 175
Seigel’s Curative Syrup, Mother, 176
Therapion, 172
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, 170, 174
Curic Wafers, 38
Cuticura remedies, 110
Cystamin (_see_ Formamine).
Cystogen (_see_ Formamine).

Daisy Powders, 38
Dalloff’s Tea, 104
Damiana, extract of, 173
Daturine, 168
Deafness, remedies for ear disease and, 134
Clifton’s Treatment, 136
Crompton’s Specific, 135
Dellar’s Essence, 135
Nazaseptic, 139
Ohraseptic, 139
Ohrsorb Compound, 138
Dellar’s Essence for Deafness, 135
Diabetes Cures, 76
A Lancashire nostrum, 80
Dill’s Mixture. 76, 77, 79
Pesqui’s Uranium Wine (Vin Urané Pesqui), 76, 77
Diabetic foods, 81
” Mixture, Dill’s, 76, 77, 79
Dill’s Diabetic Mixture, 76, 77, 79
Dipsocure, 164
Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, 67
” Pile Ointment, 151
Dodd’s Kidney Pills, 69
Drug Cures for Inebriety, 168
Duboisine, 168
Duty on Secret Remedies, Stamp, 182

Ear disease (_see_ Deafness, Remedies for).
Ekzemin Cream, 113
Electricum, 64
Eosin, 91
Epilepsy, Remedies for, 124
Antiépileptique (Uten), 129
Berendorf’s Powder, 129
Lamma Powder, 129
Osborne’s Mixture, 126
Ozerine, 125
Phelps Brown’s Vervain Restorative Assimilant, 127
Taylor’s Anti-epileptic Medicine, W. and J., 126
Trench’s Remedy, 127
Essence for Deafness, Dellar’s, 135
Eucalyptus, 4, 112
Eye diseases, Remedies for, 142
Augenwol, 146
Bostock’s Ointment, 143
“New and Marvellous Remedy”, 144
Okterin, 146
Opthalmol, 146
Pomie’s Anti-cataract Mixture, 146
Singleton’s Ointment, 142
Wisbech Remedy, 144
Eye Ointment, Bostock’s, 143
” Singleton’s, 142

Fairy Cure, Bell’s, 39
Felke’s Honey Cod Liver Oil, Pastor, 36
Fell Reducing Treatment, 97
Fenning’s Children’s Cooling Powders, 133
Fenugreek, 68
Ferric chloride, 121
” oxide, 5, 40, 54, 172
Ferrous sulphate, 174
Fever Powders, Pritchard’s Teething and, 132
Figuroids, 94
Fitch’s Kidney and Liver Cooler, 71
Fits, Trench’s Remedy for Epilepsy and, 127
Fluorescein, 70
Formaldehyde, 129
Formamine, 85, 96
_Fucus vesiculosus_ (_see_ Bladderwrack).

Galeopsidis, 36
Gall stones, 79
Galls, powdered, 156
Gaultheria, oil of, 73
Gelsemium, 60
Genoform Tablets, 60
Gentian, 62, 63, 161, 173, 179
Germicides, 31
Ginger, 49, 88, 89, 109, 110, 175, 180
Gloria Tonic, 53
Gloria Treatment for Rheumatism, 52
Gluten flour, 81, 82
Glycerine, 17, 30, 32, 35, 73, 74,
78, 89, 90, 92, 93, 103,
113, 120, 135, 138, 142,
143, 144, 146, 173
Glycerophosphate, calcium, 173
Gout, Rheumatism, and Neuralgia, remedies for, 50
Baring Gould’s Pearls, 55
Bishop’s Varalettes, 62
Blair’s Pills, 50
Collie’s Ointment, 57
Electricum, 64
Genoform Tablets, 60
Gloria Treatment, 52
Gower’s Green Pill, 56
Hamm’s Cure, 51
Laville’s Remedies, 64
Lazarus Soap, 64
Oquit, 59
Pistoia Powders, 62
Portland Powder, 62
Post’s C.B.Q. Tablets, 61
Rheuma Tabakolin, 65
Rheumacid, 64
Uricedin, 64
Weigand’s Spirit, 65
Zox, 58
Gout and Rheumatic Pills, Blair’s, 50
Gout and Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s Rheumatic, 51
Gout Powders, Pistoia, 62
” ” Portland, 62
” Varalettes, Bishop’s, 62
Gower’s Green Pills, 56
Graziana Reducing Treatment (Zehrkur), 103
Green Pills, Gower’s, 56
_Grindelia robusta_, 17
Guaiacum, 44, 54, 62, 64
Guarantee bonds, 30

Haemoglobin, 114, 115, 116
” Capsules, 116
” Ovals, Capsulated, 115
Hæmorrhoids (_see_ Piles, Remedies for).
Hair (_see_ Baldness).
Hamamelidis, 150
Hamamelin, 152
Hamamelis (witch hazel), 148, 149, 152
Hamm’s Rheumatic, Gout, and Sciatica Cure, 51
Hargreave’s Reducing Wafers, 91
Harmless Headache Powders, Hoffman’s, 41
Harvey’s Blood Pills, 44
Headache, 37
” Cure, Stearns’s, 39
Headache Powders, 37
Bell’s Fairy Cure, 39
Curic Wafers, 38
Daisy, 38
“Good as Gold”, 41
Hoffman’s Harmless, 41
Kaputine, 40
Retailers supplying, 41
Stearns’s Cure, 39
Healine Treatment for Rupture, 160
Hemlock pitch, 68
Hemotora, 153
Henbane, 69, 71
Hexamethylene-tetramine (_see_ Formamine).
Hoffman’s Harmless Headache Powders, 41
Homatropine, 168, 169
Hood’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla, 46
Hughes’s Blood Pills, 48
Hydrastine, 80
Hydrastis, 77, 80
Hydrochloric acid, 121, 169, 176, 177
Hyoscine, 168, 169
Hyoscyamine, 168, 169

Icthyol, 140, 151
Ills of humanity, 177
Burgess’s Lion Ointment, 180
Kidd’s Treatment, 178
Indian Cough Cure, Kilmer’s, 15
Inebriety, cures for, 162
Antidipso, 165
Coza Powder, 162
Dipsocure, 164
Drug cures, some other, 168
Teetolia Treatment, 166
Inebriety, drug cures for, 168
Iodine, 84, 94, 102, 103, 126
” tincture, 126
Ipecacuanha, 2, 11, 12, 13,
14, 18, 28
Iridin, 157
Iron, 71, 87, 89, 121, 162
” chloride, 121
” phosphate, 89
” sulphate, 175

Jalap, 48, 49, 55, 57,
69, 70, 180
Jaundice, 72, 79
Juniper, 66, 68, 71
” preparations, 113
J.Z. Obesity Tablets, 87

Kaolin, 54, 109, 172
Kaputine, 40
Kay’s Linseed Compound, 12
” Linum Catharticum Pills, 12
Keating’s Cough Lozenges, 17
Keene’s “One Night” Cold Cure, 5
Kefyr, 23
Kidd’s Treatment, James W., 178
Kidney medicines, 66
Doan’s Pills, 67
Dodd’s Pills, 69
Fitch’s Kidney and Liver Cooler, 71
Munyon’s Cure, 75
Var’s American Pills, 70
Veno’s Seaweed Tonic, 74
Warner’s Cure, 72
Kidney Pills, Doan’s Backache, 67
Kilmer’s Indian Cough Cure, 15
Kino, 32
Körber’s Cure for Consumption, 36
Krameria, decoction of, 32
Kupfinn, “Dr.”, 139

Lactose (_see_ Milk sugar).
Lamma Powder, 129
Lancashire Nostrum, A, 80
Lane’s Catarrh Cure, 2
Lanoline, 149, 154
Lauser’s Cough Drops, 19
Lavender, 104
Laville’s Antigout remedies, 64
Laxatol (_see_ Phenolphthalein).
Laxen (_see_ Phenolphthalein).
Laxoin (_see_ Phenolphthalein).
Lazarus Gout and Rheumatic Soap, 64
Lead, 122
” acetate, 113, 127, 148, 152
” oleate, 113, 119, 181
” oxide (litharge), 143, 144
” plaster, 181
” sub-acetate, 127
Lemon, 84
” grass, 113
” oil, 65
Leptandrin, 74
Lieber’s Tea for Consumption, 36
Lime-juice, 77, 81
Linseed compound, Kay’s, 12
Lion Ointment, Burgess’s, 180
Liquorice, 11, 14, 18, 19, 45, 54, 55,
61, 69, 89, 91, 102, 103,
133, 156, 173, 174, 175, 176
Lithium citrate, 62
Liver Cooler, Fitch’s Kidney and, 71
Lloyd Reducing Treatment, Nelson, 100
Lotion, X.L. Reducing Pills and, 89
Lungsava, 28
Lung Tonic, Owbridge’s, 13
Lycopodium, 71
Lymphol, Rice’s, 158

Mackenzie’s “One Day” Cold Cure, 4
Magnesia, 61, 109, 119, 174, 175
” calcined, 150
Magnesium, 71, 91, 119
Malachite green, 111
Mandelyl-tropeine (_see_ Homatropine).
Marmola, 85, 93
Martin’s Miracletts, 171
Medicine Stamp Act, 182
Medi-cone Pile Treatment, Oxien, 151
Menthol, 156, 172
Mercuric oxide, 143
Mercury, ammoniated, 113, 143, 144
Methyl, orange, 86
Metramine (_see_ Formamine).
Milk sugar (lactose), 19, 39, 56, 100,
131, 132, 165, 166
Miracletts, Martin’s, 171
Mixture for Epilepsy, Osborne’s, 126
Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, 176
Muco-Food Cones (Van Vleck’s), 148, 155
Mul’la, Buer’s, 149
Munyon’s Catarrh Tablets, 6
” Catarrh Cure, 6
” Blood Cure, 44
” Kidney Cure, 75
” Pile Ointment, 150

Nazaseptic, 139
Nelson Lloyd Reducing Treatment, 100
Nerve stimulators, 31
Nervlettes, Coleman’s, 175
Nettle, 36
Neuralgia (_see_ Gout, Rheumatism and Neuralgia, remedies for).
“New and Marvellous Remedy for the Eyes”, 144
Nitre (_see_ Potassium nitrate).
“No cure no pay”, 5, 29, 95
Nostrum, A Lancashire, 80

Obesity cures, 83
Absorbit Paste and J. Z. Tablets (Zobiede), 87
Allan’s Anti-fat, 92
Anticelta Tablets, 163
Antipon, 86
Corpulin and Dalloff’s Tea, 104
Dalloff’s Tea and Corpulin, 104
Fell Treatment, 97
Figuroids, 94
Graziana Treatment (Zehrkur), 103
Hargreave’s Wafers, 91
J. Z. Tablets and Absorbit Paste, 87
Marmola, 85, 93
Nelson Lloyd Treatment, 100
Russell’s Anti-corpulent Preparation, 87
Trilene Tablets, 90
X.L. Pills and Lotion, 89
Zehrkur (Graziana Treatment), 103
Zobiede (Absorbit Paste and J. Z. Tablets), 87
Obesity Tablets, J. Z., 87
Ohraseptic, 139
Ohrsorb Compound, 138
Oil, Pastor Felke’s Honey Cod Liver, 36
Ointment, Collie’s, 57
Okterin, 146
Oleic acid, 115, 161
Opthalmol, 146
Oquit, 59
Origanum, oil of (_see_ Thyme).
Osborne’s Mixture for Epilepsy, 126
Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, 13
Ox-bile, 88
Oxien Medi-cone Pile Treatment, 151
Ozerine, 125

Paciderma Blood Wafers, 109
” cream, 109
” powder, 109
” preparations, 106
Pale People, Williams’ Pink Pills for, 170, 174
Paraffin, 4, 70, 100, 106, 109, 110,
111, 112, 113, 120, 140, 143,
144, 146, 151, 152, 156
Patients’ names, obtaining, 25
Peppermint, 14, 36, 69, 71, 77,
81, 94, 127, 160
Pepsin, 76
Pesqui’s Uranium Wine, 76, 77
Petroleum jelly, 58, 156
Phelps Brown’s Blood Purifier, 46
” ” Vervain Restorative Assimilant, 127
Phenacetin, 38, 39
Phenol (carbolic acid), 1, 3, 4, 7,
120, 151
Phenolphthalein, 77, 81, 85, 94,
96, 97
Pheun Skin Paste, 113
Phosphoric acid, 8
Phosphorus, 176
Phytolaccin, 54
Pile Ointment, Doan’s, 151
” Munyon’s, 150
Piles, remedies for, 147
Buer’s Cure, 149
” Mul’la, 149
Doan’s Ointment, 151
Hemotora, 153
Muco-food cones (Van Vleck’s), 148
Munyon’s Ointment, 150
Oxien Medi-cone Treatment, 151
Rollo’s Remedy, 153
Van Vleck’s Absorptive Treatment, 154
Pills, Kay’s Linum Catharticum, 12
Pine preparations, 64
Piperazine, 62
Pistoia Gout Powders, 62
Plasma, Van Vleck’s, 155
Podophyllin, 69
Pohl’s Family Tea (“Bacillentod”), 36
Pomies Anti-cataract Mixture, 146
Portland Gout Powder, 62
Post’s C.B.Q. Tablets, 61
Potassium bromide, 89, 90, 125, 126, 127,
128, 129, 165, 166
” carbonate, 174, 175
” chlorate, 133
” chloride, 89, 90, 125
” iodide, 43, 45, 47, 52, 54, 61,
89, 90, 92, 93, 111, 126,
142, 146
” nitrate, 66, 68, 70, 71,
72, 73
Powders, headache, 37
Daisy, 38
“Good as Gold”, 41
Hoffman’s Harmless, 41
Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed, 14
Prescriptions, secret remedies said to be made
from physicians’, 27, 38, 59, 80, 108
Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, 132
Pumilio pine, 4, 15
Purgen (_see_ Phenolphthalein).

Quinine, 2, 45, 61, 64, 167
“ sulphate, 176
“ valerianate, 172

Rapeseed (_see_ Colza).
Reducing Paste, Absorbit, 87
“ Pills and Lotion, X.L., 89
“ Treatment, Fell, 97
“ “ Graziana (Zehrkur), 103
Reducing Treatment, Nelson Lloyd, 100
Reducing Wafers, Hargreave’s, 91
Reichel’s Cough Drops, 19
Resin, black, 58
“ (colophony), 58, 112
“ plasters, 119
Retailers, headache powders supplied by, 41
Rheuma Tabakolin, 65
Rheumacid, 64
Rheumatic, Gout, and Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s, 51
Rheumatic and Gout Spirit, Weigand’s, 65
Rheumatic Pills, Blair’s Gout and, 50
Rheumatism (_see_ Gout, Rheumatism, and Neuralgia, remedies for).
Rheumatism, Gloria Treatment for, 52
Rhubarb, 45, 55, 74, 104, 111
Rice’s Lymphol, 158
“ Treatment for Rupture, 158
Rino Ointment, 113
Rock Rose, 46
Rollo’s Remedy for Piles, 153
Rupture, preparations for, 158
Healine Treatment, 160
Rice’s Treatment, 158
Russell’s Anti-corpulent Preparation, 87

Saccharin, 11, 172
Sacco, 28
Salicylate, alkaline, 57
“ sodium, 52
Salicylic acid, 92, 93, 113
“ Methylene-glycol-ester of, 61
Saltpetre (_see_ Potassium nitrate).
Sal volatile, 43
Sarsaparilla, compound solution of, 44
Sarsaparilla, Hood’s Extract of, 46
“ Townsend’s American, 43
Sassafras, oil of, 44
Scammony, 80, 180
Sciatica (_see_ Gout, Rheumatism and Neuralgia, remedies for).
Sciatica Cure, Hamm’s Rheumatic, Gout, and, 51
Scopolamine, 168
Seaweed Tonic, Veno’s, 74
Seigel’s Curative Syrup, Mother, 176
Senna, 19, 74, 104
Singleton’s Eye Ointment, 142
Skin diseases, cures for, 105
Antexema, 105
Cuticura Remedies, 110
Ekzemin Cream, 113
Juniper preparations, 113
Paciderma preparations, 106
Pheun Skin Paste, 113
Rino Ointment, 113
Zam-buk, 111
Zip Ointment, 112
Skin Paste, Pheun, 113
Soap, 57, 64, 65, 70, 113,
119, 135, 140, 175
“ Antigout, 64
“ Lazarus Gout and Rheumatic, 64
Soda alum, 142, 145
Sodium benzoate (_see_ Benzoate).
Sodium bicarbonate, 7, 41, 62, 70, 80, 96,
97, 109, 164, 179
“ bromide, 129
“ chloride, 1, 3, 7, 94,
96, 97, 146
“ phosphate, 74
“ sulphate, 77, 81, 120, 145
Soothing powders for infants, 130
Steedman’s Powders, 131
Soothing, teething and cooling powders for infants, 130
Fenning’s Children’s Powders, 133
Pritchard’s Powders, 132
Stedman’s Powders, 130
Steedman’s Powders, 131
Spearmint, 160
Specific for Deafness, Crompton’s, 135
Spirit, Weigand’s Rheumatic and Gout, 65
Stamp Act, 182
“ on secret remedies, 182
Star Tonic, 23
Stearns’s Headache Cure, 39
Stedman’s Teething Powders, 130
Steedman’s Soothing Powders, 131
Steven’s Consumption Cure, 21, 28
Stillingia, 46
Storax, 27, 115
“ Stramonine“, 168
Sulphur, 88, 140
” precipitated, 109, 113, 150
Sulphuric acid, 16

Tabakolin, Rheuma, 65
Tablets, Munyon’s Catarrh, 6
” Trilene, 90
Talc, 5, 54, 57, 59, 96, 97,
109, 156, 161, 172, 176
Tannin, 27, 32, 73, 152, 153, 161
Tar, 119
Taraxacum, 45, 66, 71, 73
Tartaric acid, 8, 62, 78, 96, 97
Taylor’s anti-epileptic medicine, W. and J., 126
Tea, Dalloff’s “Contre l’Obesité”, 104
Tea, Lieber’s (for Consumption), 36
“ Pohl’s Family (“Bacillentod”), 36
Teething powders for infants, 130
Pritchard’s Teething and Fever Powders, 132
Stedman’s Powders, 130
Teetolia Treatment, 166
Terebene, 118, 119
Theobroma, oil of (cocoa butter), 148, 152, 154, 156
Therapion, 172
Thermal Bath Cabinet “Century”, 99
Thyme (oil of Origanum), 19, 160
Thyroid Extract, 84, 94, 102, 103
Tolu, 13, 16, 18, 27
Tonic, Gloria, 52
” Owbridge’s Lung, 13
” Star, 23
” Veno’s Seaweed, 74
” Zox, 58
Townsend’s American Sarsaparilla, 43
Tragacanth, 106
Trench’s Remedy for Epilepsy and Fits, 127
Trilene Tablets, 90
Tropyltropeine (_see_ Atropine).
Tuberculozyne, 21, 32
Tumenol, 140
Turmeric, 70
Turpentine, 65, 113, 122, 136
Tussothym, 19

“Umckaloabo”, 22, 32
Uranium nitrate, 76, 78, 79
” Wine, Pesqui’s, 76, 77
Uricedin, 64
Urisol (_see_ Formamine).
Urotropine (_see_ Formamine).

Valerianate, Quinine, Zinc, 172
Van Vleck’s Absorptive Pile Treatment, 154
Van Vleck’s Catarrh Balm, 3
” ” Muco-food Cones (Pile Treatment), 148
Van Vleck’s Pile Pills, 155
” ” Plasma (Pile Treatment), 155
Var’s American Kidney Pills, 70
Varalettes, Bishop’s, Gout, 62
Varicocele, 161
Varicose veins, 161
Veno’s Lightning Cough Cure, 16
” Seaweed Tonic, 74
_Verbena officinalis_ (_see_ Vervain).
Vervain Restorative Assimilant, O. Phelps Brown’s, 127
Vervain (_Verbena officinalis_), 124, 125, 127
Vesalvine (_see_ Formamine).
Vin Urané Pesqui, 76, 77

Wafers, Curic, 38
” Hargreave’s Reducing, 91
” Paciderma Blood, 109
Warner’s Cure, 72
Weidhaas Hygienic Institute, 23
Weigand’s Rheumatic and Gout Spirit, 65
White precipitate (_see_ Ammoniated mercury).
Whooping Cough Remedy, Assmann’s, 19
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, 170, 174
Wine, Pesqui’s Uranium, 76, 77
” spirit of, 32
Wintergreen, oil of, 73, 180
Wisbech Remedy for the Eyes, 144
Witch hazel (_see_ Hamamelis).

Xaxa (_see_ Acetyl-salicylic acid).
X.L. Reducing Pills and Lotion, 89

Yonkerman Company (Tuberculozyne), 32

Zam-buk, 111
Zehrkur (_see_ Graziana Reducing Treatment), 103
Zinc, 156
” chloride, 122
” oxide, 109, 129, 148, 151
” sulphate, 120
” valerianate, 172
Zip Ointment, 112
Zobeida (_see_ Zobeide).
Zobeide, 87
Zox, 58