360 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AN"D YOUNG 



from South America, and wlio is so intent on doing 

 good tliat lie charges nothing for his invaluable infor- 

 mation : 



Extract of Corrossa apimis, 



" " Selarmo umbelifera. 

 Powdered Alkermes latifolia, 

 Extract of Carsadoc herbalis. 



This remarkable recipe is warranted to cure all the 

 evils arising from self-abuse, without any attention to 

 diet or inconvenience of any kind, to prevent consump- 

 tion and insanity, and to cure venereal diseases. It 

 is also declared to be a perfectly "safe'^ remedy for 

 all female difficulties, which means that it will aid 

 nefarious purposes. 



Along T^ith the recipe comes the suggestion that the 

 druggist may not be able to furnish all the ingredients 

 in a perfectly pure state, and so, for the accommodation 

 of suffering humanity, this noble philanthropist has 

 taken infinite pains to secure them direct from South 

 America, and has put them up in neat little packages 

 which he will send, postpaid, for the trifle of $3.50, just 

 one cent less than actual cost. Then he tells what pur- 

 ports to be the history of his own nastiness, with a 

 generous spicing of pious cant, and closes with a bene- 

 diction on all who have fallen into the same slough, and 

 especially those who will send for his fabulous foreign 

 weeds to help them out.* 



A young man sees the advertisement of a book which 

 will be sent free, postage paid, if he will only send his 

 address. The title of the book being of some such char- 

 acter as ''Manhood Regained" or ''Nervous Debil- 



* Since the above was written, this notorious quack has died, worth 

 half a milHon dollars, gained by his deceitful practices, and the public 

 have learned that the name under which he advertised was a fictitious 

 one, and that he was neither a clergyman nor a missionary, as claimed 



