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loh's Cure for Consumption, Dr. Brutus Shiloh (heroin and chloro- 

 form) ; Prof. Hoff's Consumption Cure (opium) ; Yonkerman's Con- 

 sumption Cure, called Tuberculozyne (heroin) ; and Gooch's Mex- 

 ican Consumption Cure (morphin sulphate). 



Headache Mixtures. These mixtures are advertised as cures or 

 effective treatments for many ills of mankind, ranging from cholera 

 morbus in infants to brain fag and exhaustion due to drunkenness. 

 They have been the cause of many deaths and hundreds of cases 

 of poisoning. The amount of acetanilid, acetphenetidin, antipyrin, 

 caffein, etc., used in preparations of this class of habit-forming rem- 

 edies is very large. Until recently it was claimed by some that these 

 agents were harmless and did not belong to the habit-forming group. 

 The medical profession for some time believed that the depressing 

 effects of acetanilid were counteracted by caffein, which is present in 

 most headache mixtures, but experiments have shown that the as- 

 sumption is erroneous. The caffein may stimulate the heart to 

 greater activity for a short period, but the depression induced by the 

 acetanilid is persistent and increasas in proportion to the amount 

 used. In many cases where these remedies have been used for some 

 time or in large quantities collapse and even death have resulted. 

 Several preparations of this class, in addition to the usual ingredient!, 

 contain codein, a drug which is replacing opium and morphin to 

 some extent. Representative products of this class are : Royal Head- 

 ache Tablets, Antikamnia and Codein Tablets, Ammonal with Co- 

 dein and Camphor, and Sal-Codeia Bell. These remedies in general 

 simply benumb or stupefy the senses, but do not remove the cause 

 of the trouble. 



Epilepsy Remedies. One of the most pitiable and intractable 

 diseases of mankind is epilepsy. There is no drug or mixture of 

 drugs known to the medical profession which will eradicate the dis- 

 ease. These facts, however, do not deter the most ignorant from 

 preying on these unfortunates. The various mixtures on the market 

 contain one or more of the bromids, but a number contain, in addi- 

 tion, morphin or opium, the primary purpose of which is to create 

 a demand for the remedy. 



Tobacco-Habit Cures. There are quite a number of so-called 

 tobacco-habit cures on the market. All of them are ineffective, and 

 some contain cocain in one form or another. Examples of prepara- 

 tions of this character examined and found to contain cocain and 

 cocain derivatives are Coca Bola, Tobacco Bullets, and Wonder 

 Workers. 



Drug-Addiction Treatments. With the exploiting and adver- 

 tising of medicines containing habU-forming agents it is but natural 

 to expect that drug addiction would result. There are at present 

 mail order express treatments for all kinds of drug addiction. As a 

 rule, these treatments are composed of well-known drugs. In most 

 instances^they contain the very drug or drugs for which the treatment 

 is advertised and sold. For example, one physician furnished a 

 treatment to a supposed morphin addict containing, according to 

 his own statement, 22 grains of morphin to the fluid ounce, and in 



