FRAUDULENT SUBSTITUTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 23 July 1897, Page 27

FRAUDULENT SUBSTITUTION.

A GENERAL WARNING. THE UNSUSPECTING VICTIMISED. A CASE OF LIFE AND DEATH. Developments in the scientific and manufacturing: world during 1 recent years stamp the period as one of discovery and invention, and provided progress in this direction remains unchecked we may reasonably anticipate that the time is not far distant when manual labour will be minimised to such an extent as to afford profitable occupation to a limited few . nly outside the light-fingered fraternity. But this is looking too tar ahead. We have now to deal with the present, and wish to forewarn the public generally that nothing short of unceasing vigilance on their part will render them proof against the operations of an undesirable section of the community, who turn what inventive powers they possess in the direction of trading upon the good name and established reputation of houses well and favourably known to the public. To offer for sale a fraudulent imitation and represent it to be the genuine article is an imposition of the vilest nature, and one and all will do well to keep in mind this warning note. One who will stoop to defraud another will have little care for the consequences to his victim, and his are in all cases worthless or harmful, and in any case cannot do duty for the original. If a food or medicine is the medium employed, the chances are that he will, from sheer lack of know ledge on the one hand or utter aisregard on the other, bring about results of a most serious nature. Under these circumstances it is not taking too grave a view of the case if we advance the belief that the spurious article offered by him may contain a poisonous ingredient or prove a collection of ingredients producing a poisonous combination, and so operate less in favour of life than death. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which are so highly esteemed by all who have tried them, like all medicines of real worth, have not passed unnoticed by the counterfeiter, as mil be seen from the following, which appeared in a recent issue of the Daily Telegraph. " In the Equity Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson, Mr. Scarvel (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Minter, Simpson and Co.), appeared fof George Taylor Fulford, of New York, proprietor for Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and applied for an injunction restraining L. R. Davis, P. Davis, and G. R. Carey, of Glen Innes, from selling any imitations of the genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The defendants were not represented. It was stated that the defendants had been served with a statement of claim, and affidavits were put in setting out th.it the defendants were said to have sold Pink Pills at Glen Innes and elsewhere. His Honour made the order granting the injunction pending the hearing of a suit which had been instituted to restrain the defendants selling the pills referred to." Of the dangers consequeut upon the use of spurious substitutions and the prompt measures adopted for the suppression of such despicable traffic enough has been said, but the experience of a famous general in the severest battle of his life, the successful issue of which was due to his faithful ally, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, goes to show that very different results follow the employment ot the true article. The General's case was a serious one indeed ; typhoid fever brought him low. Those who have survived this fell disease, which more often than otherwise proves fatal, have every reason to regard their recovery as miraculous. What tortures they endured with maddening headaches, loss of strength and intense pain of body and limb ; unconsciousness followed as a natural result, and the fever accompanied by delirium occasioned their friends and relatives gravest fears for their safety. But General G. F. Wiles had yet more to face, for no sooner had the typhoid slackened its grasp than inflammatory rheumatism set in. It has been the fate of many to be attacked by rheumatism in one or another of its forms, but few would be alive to tell the tale if first assaulted, as in the case of the General, by typhoid fever. They would in all probability have found rest lor their aching and swollen limbs in the grave. However, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills enabled the great soldier to vanquish these enemies of life, and more, too, for yet another lay in ambush and received a similar fate. A paralytic stroke followed ; arms and legs refused their functions, and to use his own words, •' his kidneys gave out." Such an accomplishment would have sufficed to make a reputation of which any physician might be justly proud, but it belongs to Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People, a remedy to which thousands owe their lives. Towards the close of his conversation with a newspaper reporter, the General said :—": — " My friends all thought I would never recover, and it was easy to see the doctors prescribed for me only to case my path to the grave, but without the remotest hope ot recovery. After continuous urging I consented to being moved to another city, where I was treated, but without effect, by the ablest physicians there. I began to view death with a good deal of comfort. I had lost faith in physicians and medicines, but owing to the strong recommendations of a per&istent friend 1 began to take Dr. William's Fink Pills. One after every meal was my dose for the first week, and I fancied I pero ived an luiprovemint in my condition. I then increased the 10-e 10 tw i after each meal, and at the end of the second week thurv w.is no doubt but that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were making me better, s> I kept on using them according to directions, and in tin ft- months wa* a well man." Dr. Willum.V Pink Pills are a specific for all diseases arising ;rom an luipoveii&lud condition ot the blood or a shattered condition ot the nervous forces, Midi ;^ fc>t. Vitua' dance, looomotor ataxia, rhuuniutisin, paralysis, »i l.ituu, the after effects of influenza, loss of appetite, headache, diz^iue-a. chronic erysipelas, scrofula, etc. They are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female system,

correcting irregularities, suppressions and all forma of female weakness, building anew the blood and restoring the glow of health to the pale and sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all eases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of any nature.

The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People may be distinguished by the outside wrapper, which is of white paper, and bears the trade m.irk " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People " printed in red. Insist upon being supplied with the genuine Pills They cannot hurt the most sensitive const. tutian, and cure when all other medicines fail. Refuse all remedies represented as being "just as good." Vendors who tell you this are considering their pocket inoro than your health, and are seating more than they can prove, as th formula is a secret known to the company only. All information as to substitution or attempted substitution will be gratefully received nnd treated as confidential by the company. To obtain Dr. Williams' Pink Pills apply to your chemist or send to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z., who will forward post paid on receipt of stamps or post order one box for 35., or half-dozen for 15s 9d.