I extend to the public my medicines in a powdered form, and I will give you my reasons for so doing. I make my medicines from the fresh inner barks of trees, shrubs, roots, leaves, and flowers, of my own gathering, consequently I know they are pure, and have all their medical properties. I never use my medicines after they arrive at certain ages from the time of gathering, from the fact that there is a time when everything begins to lose its strength and force. Every farmer well knows the fact that hay and corn will finally by age get stale and unfit for use, and the horses refuse to eat it. He knows that turnips, and potatoes, and vegetables in general, after they have been gathered a certain length of time, begin to wither and shrink, and are no longer fit to be used. These are facts that are well known to everybody. The same facts are true in reference to medicine. Medicine will lose its strength and become worthless after it arrives at a certain age, and is no longer fit for use. This I know is true. I have samples of old medicines in my office, and they have so far lost their strength that you cannot tell, by their odor or smell, what they are. Your drug stores have medicines upon their shelves that have been there ten and fifteen years. It is not reasonable to suppose that they are as good as medicines from the fresh, green herb, bark, root or flower. I have been botanizing in the several states of the Union for the last four years, gathering my own material, and having them, or making them myself, into medicines of various forms: fluid extracts, tinctures, infusions, decoctions, and pills; but I have learned, in my career of medicine, that the majority of medicines in the form of fluid extracts and tinctures that are on the market are adulterated, and are not what they are represented to be. I do not ask you to examine them yourselves, for it would be folly in me to do so, from the fact that you never made medicine a study, consequently you do not know a good medicine from a bad one. Neither do I ask you to take my word alone; but I will refer you to a statement that is reliable, and can be called a positive fact. This statement will be found on page 347 in the American Pharmacist Journal, published in New York, September 23, 1882. I will simply give the substance of the statement, written by Chas. B. Allaire. He says there are two principal sources from which we get all our medicines, namely; drug millers, who buy their crude material as cheap as possible and powder it, and sell it to large buyers, -- these are designated merchant millers; and custom millers, that is, mills that any one can send their own goods and gatherings to, and get them ground and returned. Probably nine-tenths of all goods put upon the market in this country come from these two sources. The usual mode of shipping these goods is in twenty-five and fifty pound packages, or in barrels, according to the demands of the purchaser, who, if he sells them again, sells them in, or ships them in, paper packages, and here is where their identity is for ever lost. The retail dealer who thus receives them, knows nothing of their history, or who is responsible for their lack of quality, or entitled to credit if found reliable. I am glad to be able to state that there are several custom mills in the large cities where drugs may be sent for powdering, with the certainty that they will be returned to the sender in a state of absolute purity; and from this source our most careful jobbers supply themselves, sending prime goods, and receiving pure, prime quality powders in return. A cheap article of drugs that are important, is seldom genuine. The present large per centage of inferior and adulterated drugs in the market is the result of a widespread demand for cheap goods or drugs, or rather low prices. The percentage of goods in the market of an inferior character, is clearly shown by the fact that four hundred and sixteen samples, taken from various sources and examined during the past year, gave the following results: 227, or about 54 per cent., were pure, or at least no adulteration was detected, and 189, or about 46 per cent., were adulterated so that detection was easy.

From this fact I have resolved to institute a new theory, in order to know that the medicines I handle are pure and unadulterated. It is this: I botanize and gather my own material, and see it ground myself, and see that no one handles it but my trustworthy assistants and myself, and by so doing I know that my medicines are pure. So I am proud to say to my fellow suffering man, that I extend to you a pure medicine in a powdered form, made from the inner barks of various vegetable growths, knowing it to be a convenient form, and cheaper than the fluid extracts or tinctures that are on our markets. And knowing that the preparation has never been from under my care to get adulterated, I can most positively and conscientiously offer it to you as a new form of medicines, that of being pure, in a powdered form, made from inner barks, convenient to take, the price of which is within the reach of the poor and all suffering humanity.