Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
FAMILY MEDICINES.
A Few Suggestions to Parents on an Inde-
pendent Subject.

rev Suggestions to Parents on an Anoes
pendent Subject.
What constitutes family medicine? This
is question in which all parents are deeply
interested. There are medicines that sail
under the name of family medicines that
have very few of the requisites demanded
for household use. In the emergencies that
are likely to arise at any time in the family
they are always found wanting. They may
be good medicines in many respects, and
yet when it comes TO the peculiar qualities,
to the name of family medicine, they are
utterly lacking.
In the first place, family medicines that
are family medicines in fact as well as IN
name, must cover all the diseases that are
likely to break out at any time in family.
1t may be simple cold, or it may be con-
sumption; it may be the whooping cough,
or it may be cholera morbus; but what
ever it is, light or severe, comparatively
harmless or extremely dangerous, a family
medicine must be able to check and to cure
it Then it must act promptly and effect
lively. The disease may be as violent as it
Is sudden, and unless a medicine acts
promptly in nine cases out of ten 1t is use-
less. In any event it cannot be relied upon,
and a family medicine must, above all
as well as safe ior old and young to take,
and pleasant, also, for otherwise the children
will not take 1t. The children, it must be
borne in mind, are very important part
of the family, and their tastes as well as
needs must be consulted. Then further,
family medicine must be reason
able in price. The rich are the few, the poor
are the many. A family medicine that finds
its way into rich families only is not truly
entitled to the name. But medicine that
is high in price cannot be kept in the house
by poor people. They cannot afford to buy
1t. Therefore the price must be adjusted to
meet their financial circumstances. Again,
family medicine ought to be preventive
as we'll as a cure Part of its usefulness
should be to keep disease away. The more
successfully it can do this the more useful
it is. But above all, it must be such that
it can be made use of by the members of the
family without calling in the aid of ply
sician. This is unquestionably one of the
principal attributes of true family medi-
cine, for without the ability to cure them
selves by means of it the name-Family
Medicine-would practically be meaning
less.
Such are the qualities that constitute fam
lily medicines that truly and Justly deserve
the name. In how manv medicines will
these qualities be found? In very few, in
deed; and first and foremost among these
few, by the common consent of all who have
given them a trial, are the three great fam
lily remedies-Pe-ru-na, Man-a-lin and La
cu-pi-a. Every essential quality and i'm
portant characteristic given above is pos
sessed by these remedies in marked degree
To begin with, they cover all the diseases
likely to break out at any time in any fam
lily. If it is consumption, or pneumonia, or
pleurisy, or bronchitis, or asthma, or Group,
or neuralgia, or quinsy, or disease Of the
heart or stomach, or coiic, or cholera NOR
bus, or cholera infantum, or diarrhGa, or
dysentery, or disease of the kidneys,
or scarlet fever, or whooping cough, or
diphtheria, or typhoid fever, or eryslp-
las, or yellow lever, or rheumatism, or
female diseases, or acute diseases OF the
skin, Pe-ru-na will cure them all, and
cure them in a marvelously short time. If
it is constipation, or biliousness or piles, or
any kind of trouble with the liver, Mana
lin will cure it promptly and effectively. If
1t is catarrh, or running of the ears, or
chronic rheumatism, or scrofula, or chronic
ulcers, or constitutional skin diseases, or any
blood disease, however violent, La-cu-pi-a
will cure it, and do so in way that will
demonstrate its power in a most conclusive
manner. In the second place, Pe-ru-na,
Man-a-lin and La-cu-pi-a act promptly and
effectively. In the third place, they are
safe and pleasant to take, and good for old
and young alike. In the fourth place, they
are reasonable in price, being but 81 bottle
six for S., SO. that the poorest family can
afford to keep them on hand. In the fifth
place, they prevent diseases as we'll as cure
them. Pe-ru-na is undoubtedly one of
the very best tonics ever made, while q
little Man-a-lin taken now and then effec-
tually prevents constipation, and thus keeps
the system regular In the sixth place, and
lastly, and most important of all, they are
not only medicines for family use, but are to
be used by the members of the family in
curing themselves, thus saving time, trouble
and doctors bills. By every attribute and
mark, therefore, of true family medicine,
these three are such. As such they are in
thousands ofhomes to-day, in every State of
the Union, and as such thousands Of fami-
lies that have tried them and found them as
advertised would not for a single day be
without them. As such. finally, they are
recommended for trial to those who have
never tried them, with the assurance that
they will be found to be, in every respect
and in each particular, exactly what they
are denominated-the three great family
remedies.