Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-08-16
R-I-P-A-N-S.
sosp, Salt, vaselise ard daapswSer.,


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Soap, Salt, vaselise ard 0~aapsw6ery
- Every farmers wife whoboils
her tea-kettle ver Q 6re %
maple or hickory wood, knows
~ that, by leeching the ashes and
adding any refuse grease at
command, she may make ssers,
- yiceable soap. And yet, not.
IN w~ithstanding this, she finds IL
better to buy Q soap made by
improved methods. Some man.
~ ufacturers produce soapo o. such
IA. peculiar excellence that people,
~ are led to specially desire II;
~ and the makers advertise their
product widely, and accounts,
late fortunes by its sale. The
- fact still remains that soap is 9
A%combination OF alkaloid and
49, grease, Its manufacture Is a
simple or artistic process, according to-
the quality produced. Soap has been
made for thou ands OF years, put the
best soaps are the product on nine
teenth century methods. -
Gunpowder Is composed OF charcoal,
sulphur, and saltpeter. Yet not every,
wood produces the best charcoal for the
purpose. Some sorts OF sulphur are OF
more value than others to the manufac-
turer of cunpowder, aud saltpeter must
be properly prepared to admit OF BEST
tesults Given all of best quality, skill
In blending Is still required, and all
though it Is possible for almost any one
to make an explosive mixture, those
who have use for gunpowder lind 1T adj
vi able to buy of = manufacturer VINO
has gained a reputation for making the
best. The Ingredients are no secret, but
the resultant combination is OF proved
effectiveness, and, although some other
may be as good, it is risky to expert,
ment; consequently the trademark ON
a ~favorite brand Of gunpowder is worthi.
a great sum to its owner.
Medicines are OF less universal use
than soap, and more tersons require
them than have occasion to buy gun-
powder.
Soap is a universal cleanser. .
Gunpowder is the explosive In m0ss
common use.
There is a certain form Of prescrip-
ton in almost as commo use among
medical pract TONERS, In their attena'
ance upon the sick, Is soap IL in the ev.
ery.day affairs Of the house hold. IL
seems to he needed on every occasion.
This application by physicians d asln-
gle remedy for many apparently vary
ing ills comes about from the Yell
known fact that every illness res1.' Us
from or is augmented by q disturbAt
c ndition OF pa 'ticular organs THAI
come in play in the conversion OF food
into muscle or bio d. or into power OF
action by limb or brain. Whatever
aids or stimulates those organs gives
lie and energy to all others. 1t Is not 80
very strange that, out of the expert
ence of generations. q 70. mula should
be evolved that is as simple and definite
as that used for making soap or gunN
powder. The marked difference to be-
observed, however, In the case OF thea
medical CONF ound OF Rhutarb and So
da, and the few othe. Ingredients equal.
ly well known that go TO make up this,
prescription. is. that the method bW
which it could be prepared in a manner
to secure permanent excellence, and ad-'
init Of transportation in a form mt for
immediate use, is a recent discovery.
1t Is for that reason the compound has
only now arrived at the distinction OF
having a name assigned to it. That
name il R-l-P.A-N-S, and each letters
the initial Of one OF the constituents in'
gradients.
The preparation OF medicines in tab
let form has only been rendered possi~
BILE in a large way by machinery in
vented within a comparatively short
time: but the result has already worked
u material change in medical practice,
The physician to-day is supplied With
medicines in this form, and the maker
| whn nYn1itans hnc{ p,oc,,1fS ~, h al
trade. The apothecary is fast ceasinR'
TO compound the physicians prescrip-
ton, but sells instead the same inRreJ
dients prepared with a skill and nicely
that is beyond his own power to equal
| with the facilities at his command.
Physicians do not write prescriptions
for petroleum jelly. but put down, ina
stead, the word vaseline, and the en-
terprising merchant who applied his
trade mark to a common product, the
great excellence and wide application
Of which he had been among the first
to discover, reaps a preft therefrom.
and deserves it by the uniform excel.
fence and purity Of the arti 10 he sup
plies. !
So, too, the manufacturers Of RIP.
ANS Tabules, being the first to set on
foot careful inquiries c%oncernir g tho
myriad combinations Of Rhubarb and
| Soda known to be in such universal use
among doctors, AID to search out the
%articular prescription that q,
had acquired the greatest fame
and widest acceptance, and ~
then to undertake the manu- -
| tacture in modern tablet form. "a
| using the choicest OF selected NV
drugs and combining them by -
method, that have been proved ~
scientific and found TO I've
fortunate. have secured a -
trademark that is valuable, ~
and given TO the public a medi-
cine Of more uniform excel ~
lence and wider application ~
than any other hat has ever
10 81 known. 0
1t has been asserted that the -
principal ingredients of the Q
tabules are In about as con- @
slant use by the best ply -
sicians in their daily practice A9
as salt is by the housewife mo
the preparation OF the family ~
meals.
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