The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-11-04

Keen,s German Emhrocntlon.

the class prescribed by physicians and ad.
vertised solely in medical journals and also
If combination Of drugs the formula is
always given. II in combination, the for.
mulo is seldom patented, but often largely
advertised by circulars giving facts about
its action and effects, and usually giving e
number Of testimonials, not from patients
but from physicians who have made use Of
the medicine in their practice Some Of
the testimonials Of physicians are remark
able productions indeed, giving account Of
marvellous cures. This is all right, and
is not considered a violation Of the code Of
ethics, These medicines are supposed to
be used by physicians in their practice and
not much sold to the 'laity" by druggists
except on prescription. Many Wholesale
drug firms make a speciality of preparing
formula, some Of which are standard. and
their advertisements are very extensive in
pamphlets and in medical journals But
to advertise them in a non-professional
newspaper would be violation of the
'code, and would have the effect to rele-
gate the medicine to the class of patent or
proprietory medicines.
The other class includes all secret formu-
lac and all formulm protected by letters
patent issued to the discoverer of the COM
binaton or his representatives. This class
Of remedies is very much advertised by the
secular press and any literary journal that
will admit them to their advertising col
5 umns. They are also very much advertised
f by pamphlet frequently combined with
r almanaos, joke books, etc., etc., wherein
they give more or less of the therapeutic
action of the remedy with testimonials
, from the patients themselves. It is in
violation Of the code of medical ethics for
any physician to use them in his practice,
much more so to recommend them to others
But still it is a fact that very many prepa-
] rations are in common use by the most
loyal adherents to the code, which were at
first "secret nostrums," but were adopted
on account of merit
The first class are used, as was said be-
r fore, by physicians in their practice and
the second class arose in response to a very
natural demand, for there are thousand
minor ills, ailments, and injuries too insig,
j nifcant to require the help Of physician
e but too significant to be left without help
Again, 1t very often happens that small
attention in the beginning of diseases viii
prevent serious attack, and often in th,
+ midst of an epidemic many people are
! saved becoming victims to the prevailing
: disease by using the means at hands and al
once as preventives.
That physicians condemn the use Of
''empiries" is we'll known and the fact is al
unjust as unreasonable. They do not il
fact know the reason why medicine effect
disease in a curative way once in a hundred
cases-they give it because by some chance
it has been found, accidentally often, to b.
beneficial in certain conditions. This i
pure empiricism, because "empiriciBm"
following the experience of others withou
knowing the reasons" Another truth o
medicine is that the really specific cures o
diseases-oertain diseases antidoted by Ger
. tain medicines are very, very few An
the few there are, are being found to b
affected by the destruction Of certain germ
or bacteria, by certain substances. QUINN
relieves the patient of sgue because tn
malsrial micrOooccus is destroyed in th
body and blood if it can be made to com
in contact with quinia. The bacteria {
diphtheria is destroyed by doses of me-
curio chloride in doses small enough not {
kill the patient, because this species
microbe is easily destroyed by the chloride
but if the physician should apply th
potent remedy to the uses of quinine /
would find that it would require larg
dose Of the chloride than the patient coul
bear. The fact is that all the different di
ease germs are so unlike that all are n
destroyed with equal ease, and that the
needs to be discovered q germicide that
at once non-poisonous to man and fatal
the germs. Since disease germs have be-
recognized-in theory at least-it has be,
the belief of the more thinking class
physicians that new era is dawning up,
the world Of medicine. And the research
Of later scientists are bearing them out.
remedy for cholera has long been sougl
: but for years it has been seen that to pl
: duce it, would be TO combine a micro
destroyer with something having the pow
to relieve pain and spasm and to stimula
. the nervous and circulatory oenters.
was to solve this problem that Germ
q Embrocation was evolved. Without goi
into the details Of the history Of this co
d binatiou which involves the life efforts
L nearly two generations, a trip to Euro
for experiment on the disease, followed
. two or three years experimentation on {
disease in this country, then upon the dea
. Of the originator, the remedy and clini,
2 notes passing into the hands Of anoth
B. and at last into the hands Of Mr.. @.
y Keen, who has labOred upon it for sol
R. sixteen years, till now it is aoknowledl
p to be one Of the very best family medicil
ever discovered. II is the best family M
icine because It is a non-poisonous Gin q
reasonable medicinal dose) germicids,
d powerful nerve stimulant and anodyne, g
an anh-spasmodio in a marked degr
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