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FIFTEENTH REPORT. 
SECRET REMEDIES, NOSTRUMS AND FAKES. 
BY W. S. HUBBARD. 
We hear a great deal these days of the high cost of living and the 
cause. I think we will all agree that there are a number of causes. 
I wish to point out one to you which you may not have thought of 
in that light before. 
Those of you who read in your daily papers such articles as: “How I 
Made My Hair Grow;” “The Model’s Secret (A Story for Fat Folks) 
“Don’t Diet for Fat;” “The Doctor’s Answers on Health and Beauty 
Questions;” “Beauty Hints;” “No More Wrinkles;” “Scranton Woman 
Makes Remarkable Discovery That Proves to be a Great Aid to Beauty.” 
“Broad Minded and Liberal, she offers to give Particulars to all Who 
Write Absolutely Free.” (Notice you write absolutely free.) And if 
you should write this woman you would obtain what to all appearance 
was a prescription from a specialist or perhaps a home remedy, but 
when you go to the drug store to obtain the ingredients you will find 
that one of them costs you at least five times and more than likely ten 
times more than any of the other ingredients. Take for instance “The 
Models Secret;” “The cloak Models Association has raised their calling 
to the status of a fine art.” “The development and retention of a per- 
fect figure is made the study of their lives, etc.” Instead of dieting 
and exercise being their reliance the following mixture is asked to do 
the work of keeping these ladies professionally fit: %> ounce Marmola, 
% ounce Fluid-extract Cascara Aromatic and 31/2 ounces of Peppermint 
water. To most people there is nothing wrong in the above and it is 
surprising how many people, mostly stout ones of course, are taken in 
by this and spend their good money for it. You will find when you buy 
the Marmola that it costs you $.75, the Oascara $.05 and the pepper- 
mint water not more than $.05. Marmola was one of the first of these 
placed on the market and made ils appearance about twelve years ago, 
and by the way is made in Detroit, the city which makes more of this 
class of articles than any other city. Marmola is a mixture of phenol- 
phtalein, dried thyroid gland, salt, bladder wrack and oil of peppermint. 
Eppotone, “Discovered by a Parisian Specialist,” sold as a skin food 
is nothing more than Epsom salts colored pink with carmine, four ounces 
sells for $.50 and you never think of paying more than $.10 a pound for 
epsom salts when you take them internally. This preparation is also 
made or I should say, put up, in Detroit. Spurmax is the same thing 
except that it is put up by a firm in Chicago. 
A supposed remedy for locomotor ataxia is “Bioplasm” and upon 
analysis proves to be nothing more than milk sugar with a fancy price. 
One which contains 08% sugar flavored with some balsams, two ounces 
of which sells for $5.00. is known as “Hydrocine.” This, if one believed 
the literature, will cure tuberculosis. One of the worst fakes on the 
market is made at Jackson and known as “Lung Genuine.” It is 
composed of alcohol 44%, sulphuric acid 4% and water 52%. Price, 
