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purchaser. That would decrease the profits. The makers of the beneficent preparation are H. E. Bucklen & Co., of Chicago.

Chloroform and Prussic Acid

Another "cure" which, for excellent reasons of its own, does not print its formula, is "Shiloh's Consumption Cure," made at Leory, N.Y., by S. C. Wells & Co. Were it to publish abroad the fact that it contains, among other ingredients, chloroform and prussic acid, the public would probably

exhibit some caution in taking it. Under our present lax system there is no warning on the bottle that the liquid contains one of the most deadly of poisons. The makers write me: "After you have taken the medicine for awhile, if you are not firmly convinced that you are very much better we want you to go to your druggist and get back all the money that you have paid for Shiloh." But if I were a consumptive, after I had taken "Shiloh" for awhile I should be less interested in recovering my money than in getting