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Twenty years ago the microbe was making a great stir in the land. The public mind, ever prone to exaggerate the importance and extent of any new scientific discovery, ascribed all known diseases to microbes. The infinitesimal creature with the mysterious and unpleasant attributes became the leading topic of the time. Shrewdly appreciating this golden opportunity, a quack genius named Radam invented a drug to slay the new enemy of mankind and gave it his name. Radam's Microbe Killer filled with public prints with blazonry of its lethal virtues. As it consisted of a mixture of muriatic and sulphuric acids, with red wine, any microbe which took it was like to fare hard; but the ingenious Mr. Radam's method of administering it to its intended prey via the human stomach failed to commend itself to science, though enormously successful in a financial sense through flamboyant advertising.

Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.

In time some predaceous bacillus, having eluded the "killer," carried off its inventor. his nostrum soon languished. To-day it is little heard of, but from the ashes of its glories has risen a mightier successor. Liquozone. Where twenty years ago the microbe reveled in publicity, to-day we talk of germs and bacteria; consequently Liquozone exploits itself as a germicide and bactericide. It dispenses with the red wine of the Radam concoction and relies on a weak solution of sulphuric and sulphurous acids, with an occasional trace of hydrochloric or hydrobromic acid. Mostly it is water, and this is what it "cures":


 * "Asthma,
 * Abscess-Anemia,
 * Bronchitis,
 * Blood Poison,
 * Bowel Troubles,
 * Coughs-Colds,
 * Consumption,
 * Contagious Diseases,
 * Cancer-Catarrh,
 * Dysentery-Diarrhea,
 * Dyspepsia-Dandruff,
 * Eczema-Erysipelas,
 * Fevers,


 * Gallstones,
 * Goiter-Gout,
 * Hay Fever-Influenza,
 * La Grippe,
 * Leucorrhea,
 * Malaria-Neuralgia,
 * Piles-Quinsy,
 * Rheumatism,
 * Scrofula,
 * Skin Diseases,
 * Tuberculosis,
 * Tumors-Ulcers,
 * Throat Troubles

-all diseases that begin with fever - all inflammations - all catarrh - all contagious diseases - all the results of impure or poisoned blood. In nervous diseases Liquozone acts as a vitalizer, accomplishing what no drugs can do."

These diseases it conquers by destroying, in the human body, the germs which cause (or are alleged to cause) them. Such is liquozone's claim.

Yet the Liquozone Company is not a patent medicine concern. We have their word for it:

"We wish to state at the start that we are not patent medicine men, and their methods will not be employed by us. . . . Liquozone is too important a product for quackery."

The head and center of this non-patent medicine cure-all is Douglas Smith.