Men who work about gasworks are not subject to epidemics. Whoever now covers their footpaths with coal-tar to prevent fever will gain another advantage when the wet season sets in : neither grass nor weeds will grow thereon. Just as great men are targets for envy and jealousy to aim their shafts at, so is acelebrated proprietary medicine a shining mark for tricksters to rob of its lustre. This species of piracy is a mean type of pilfering. It is litorallyp««j/ larceny, because, under cover of the name that-"carries the game,' they can concoct the most pernicious beverages, the most destructive poisons, the most bogus compounds, and overlaying them with the imprint and labela of some great original, like IMolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, palm on the stuff for the celebrated diuretic and tonic. 8
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9065, 28 May 1888, Page 5
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