>-----Original Message-----
>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
>Behalf Of Bob Skiles
>Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:09 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Gauss bottle
>
>The Judge's Library: A Magazine of Fun. No. 34 (Jan 1892), 
>advertisement for Gauss' Catarrh Cure
>
>The American Farmer (ca 1904), The American Farmer Company, 
>advertisement for Gauss' Catarrh Cure
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>[both ads essentially the same text]
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>[Are you losing] . your sense of taste? Are you gradually 
>going deaf? Do you 
>hear buzzing sounds? Do you have ringing in the ears? Do you 
>have nausea of 
>the stomach? Is there a [co ....] taste in the mouth? Do you 
>have a cough? 
>Do you cough at night? Do you take cold easily? If so, you 
>have catarrh."
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>
>
>            "Catarrh is not only dangerous in these ways, it causes 
>ulcerations, death and decay of bones, loss of thinking and 
>reasoning power, 
>kills ambition and energy, often causes loss of appetite, indigestion, 
>dyspepsia, raw throat . and reaches to general debility, idiocy and 
>insanity."
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>            "It needs attention at once. Cure it with Dr. 
>Gauss' Catarrh 
>Cure. It is a quick, radical, permanent cure, because it rids 
>the system of 
>the poison germs that cause catarrh."
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>            "In order to prove to all who are suffering from 
>this loathsome 
>disease that Gauss' Catarrh Cure will actually cure any case 
>of catarrh 
>quickly, no matter how long standing or how bad ."
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>Hearings on The Pure Food and Drugs Act, U.S. House Committee 
>on Interstate 
>and Foreign Commerce, Government Printing Office, 1912.
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>[Gauss' Catarrh Cure cited as one of many egregious claims of 
>permanent 
>cures]
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>p85 - Gauss Catarrh Cure. - "A quick, radical, and permanent 
>cure. Will 
>actually cure any case of catarrh, no matter how long standing 
>or how bad."
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>~~~~~~~~
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>
>Gauss' Catarrh Cure (and many other such spurious snake-oil 
>formulations) 
>seems to have disappeared shortly after enactment of the Pure 
>Food and Drugs 
>Act.
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>
>
>Bob Skiles
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>"There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, 
>without either virtue or talents ... The artificial aristocracy is a 
>mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to 
>prevent its ascendancy."
>
>
>- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Allen Vegotsky" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> The Gauss Catarrh Elixir and the information that Jennifer 
>Low provided on
>> the formula are interesting.  Catarrh can be translated as congestion
>> (mucus) mainly in the head and throat.  The formula that 
>Street provided
>> was obtained by chemical analysis. The key ingredient is the 
>"vegetative
>> extractive" and chemical analysis of organic plant extracts, 
>especially in
>> the early 20th century, is not very illuminating.  This 
>extractive would
>> have likely been very complex chemically.  The 14% alcohol 
>might have been
>> needed to keep the plant extracts in solution.
>>
>> Allen
>>
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