Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-04
QUEER AND COSTLY DRUGS.
A white Powder Worth @:Oc an on""e
-RattIesnai,e Virus ns an op'ate'


A doctor from one of the western
cities. who has wide practice as an
oculst and aurist, entered drug
store the other day and purchased
small bottle of cocaine, the new anes-
thetic used with such success IN eye
operations. He said he had prescribed
il for a diseased ear. The tiny bottle
half full of whitish powder cost MN 20.
provincial physicians in tniS coah-
try are very enterprislng, said the
druggist when the doctor had gone out.
They have begun the use OF cocaine
in all sections of the country, ana II Is
to many druggists 4 profitable drug,
because they can charge fancy price
for it. | quote it at over $500 an ounce.
"A well-stocked drug store must be
supplied with a great variety OF medl-
cincs now if its proprietor fills pre-
scriptions of all schools, continued
the druggist "One day we had a call
from a homeopathic physician for rat
tlespake virus. The doctor had been
called in to see a patient who was soon
| to die of cancer and who had taken or
dinary opiates until they seemed to
have but little effect. We did not have
the medlcine' pu' 'uc hGN' 'liio Io,..:, saT
the doctor ne s''u 'Llat nc h''t oDt'.nI' me
H. anu 'lat 'Menly ih,liuto 80 a.
lh2 very 10" ul'"'ion u .iio - II 10 rh riio
SUFFERER sahN IlLo ~, Is ~
oiueh cass; "hen al ois' -; I;o; VI irS?s
ana atiinais "e'o "'''' III - fneOI'iio' i.
were ilul'1ui ai VI sum- ooNIilo''i Int ui'-
'o'T.'I' IN Ro'I 80
aPpiieu eA'oi i.'iiy - . -, - no'
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'oi "iIo .i:Il.nS s "''''o'' -0' ~ Al '''''
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me oe"seL iulii,sneS i ieineuy
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anu Tue nlusN-oN Plo'iIee llusA. II
comes III tno ioi III VI d D'''oN po"u pta,
anu anu tne oest Vi ~ Is 9It0.ou al 80
s4o an ounse, we SI;. SGt. conslStIh ,Itl 'o.o
quah.l'les VI is 10 ,mo C"'" :, :; haiioaJ VII ,,
sa'u ~ uSu ~, ~ iol t p"l u.s. r-IoIn-o ot
tl'Hs tno Sm-n IHIe oi;oi na,o - I'D
tnlny '":" ~. oT.I,',,.I ~, -
peheit sIleno'' D"'' "i''ion -. -
peeil aoto " puioti'.so so'i,S ~ -
ihN s'ci io''s-1ooNii u. - .%l ,t ''lt.u,
tHc} nav iei'tsGu ~ mp ;5 'mo ,Gai.
Vi 'iich ~ I'm III. " -
no'ione WIN 'o'I 70 ni'1iAo - 80. G',L
oe S"liie" "I!IL .II - - Wv" mo.
teS"Iu Tue MI'u sos.o'' as q,
10 Tue he'iiu9 vi 10y ny ~ t'iio do q
sPi'ltuai Uoo! o'Fs'.Di' VI 'o,'',on r'.,,'
u oonoeitiit ISL ~ ~ PoIf iann
Us Su"i ui'n' az ". Si-o - - ~ IG II,
'tu anu snaNe. t'In d ihIi I'm ~, VI Va, tl0
roy al lalnIi. I"iis SIoN' "' uiu s"I -.
press soliio 'i'iio - PI''y " -,
me" 20 Ia se1toH VI nj tiiI -; - L,,
presence - nu"ilS Ao' 'o'Ii'" a. N -. y
halo over tne SPot oi CO. conSe.,l'Gn', be;nl J,,,
WhlGh Is htlhc"; lLe ~ roo' o.ins I.s3 u
on 'ne ioIloWInS uay' IHo oGl.,' oi;n,S 49, -.
ginseng, OF Jei si'eh' - no' 1oiic.Io ~
the natives 20 DC ehGo"eu H WIN sne
properties o. 'le "i'ui ou' ie useu iteo. re-.
'to sGDj'G'S. 10 Do.iJ 10 40
or,,,oratincr ro,ver nrolnnyinp life
whnn nstiept has be6un to sink into
his last sIeen and in GIVING him time to
arrorra his affairs
..AmonC the extensive drucs is ERGO
tin which re,,ils nj the rate of ab0ut
son an orpce II * n funrus growth
found ON rye in Normandy, A Similar
Growth nm rye in America contains
29arv TttIe ergotip. less indeed than
the smut on Indion corn. Asthere are
several qrowtbs which Weld erootin in
a Greater or less decree. so there are
several South American plants that
produce iaborandi, the drug now used
sometimes to produce sweating.
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