iful language, said, "Go,
sister, and seek freedom and peace in the use of ---- Compound and in
following the teachings of that book."

The book is entitled "Painless Child-Birth," it sells for $2.00 and it
simply extols, in unnecessary flowery language, the merits of the
compound.

If we heard such stories in every-day life we would smile credulously at
our informant and doubt his sanity, but in a patent medicine
advertisement we expect to read of miracles and we almost hope to be
told of impossible happenings. The more glaringly false and silly they
seem to be, the more they seem to exert their subtle hypnotic influence
on anyone whose physical or mental temperament lends itself to the
appeal.

This compound "speedily cures all derangements and irregularities of the
menstrual function, congestion, inflammation, ulceration and
displacement of the womb, and other things too numerous to mention." It
is claimed that it is made of the purest and most carefully selected
herbs which can be obtained. If, however, one picked up two handfuls of
dried leaves in the woods and put them in a package, the average man
could not distinguish between such rakings and "Dr. D----'s
---- Compound" at $1.00 a package.

The _Journal of the American Medical Association_ in commenting on this
fake, states:

---- Compound is, in short, but one more of the innumerable
cure-alls on the market in which discarded, unrecognized or
useless drugs are pressed into service and invested with
miraculous virtues. What shall be said of men who prey on
pregnant women? Who create in the mind of the expectant mother
the fear of untold agonies and then offer immunity to these
supposititious tortures at the price of their worthless
nostrums? Who, with the help of such publications as will
accept their lying advertisements, do more to encourage
abortion than even the professional abortionists themselves?
There seems to be but one remedy: Speed the time when in their
acceptance of advertising those publishers who fail to
recognize decency as a moral obligation may be forced by public
opinion to recognize its value as a business proposition.

The C. B. M. Remedy Company: In a small town in Indiana there is a
"lady" who has been spending a fortune in giving medical treatment
absolutely free to suffering women. The letters, literature, and
advertisements by implication lead one to suppose