Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-16
R-I-P-A-N-S.


Soap, Salt. vaseline and GunpowdeE
~ Every farmers wife who boil
her tea-kettle over a fire OF
maple or hickory wood. knows
- that, by leeching the ashes and
& adding any refuse grease At
~ command, she may make ser
viceable soap. And yet, not
notwithstanding this, she finds IL
better to buy soap made by
improved methods. Some mani
ufacturers produce soapo OF such
VAW peculiar excellence that people
are led to specially desire IT.;
N and the makers advertise their
Wk Dpr duct widely, and accumu-
- late fortunes by its sale. The
~ fact still remains that soap Is Q
decentralization OF alkaloid and
49, grease. It's manufacture is q
simple or artistic process, according to
the quality produced. Soap has been
made for thou .ands OF years, but the
best soaps are the product OF 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 gunpowder, and saltpeter must
be properly prepared to admit OF best
results Given all Of best quality, skill
in blending Is still required, and al
though it is, possible for almost any one
to make an explosive mixture, those
who have use for gunpowder find it ad-
vi able to buy Of a manufacturer who
has gained reputation for making the
best. the ingredients are nosecret, but
the resultant combir alton is OF proved
effectiveness, and, although some other
may be as good, it is risky to expert
meht consequently the trademark Of
a favorite brand of gunpowder is worth
a great sum to its owner
rMedicines are of less universal use
than soap, and more persons re luire
them than have occasion TO buy gum
powder.
Soap is universal cleanser.
Gunpowder is the explosive in most
common use.
There is certain form of prescrip-
tion in almost as common use among
medical Iract TONERS, in their attend
ance upon the sick, as soap is in the ev-
ery-day affairs of the household. 1t
seems to be needed on every occasion.
This application by physicians OF sim
gle remedy for many apparently vary
ing ills comes about from the we'll
known fact that every illness results
from or is augmented by a disturbed
cndition OF particular organs that
come in play in the cony ersion OF food
into muscle or bio d, or into power OF
action by limb or brain. Whatever
aids or stimulates those organs gives
life and energy to all others. tits not so
very strange that, out of the expert
enco of generations, formula should
be evolved that is as simple and definite
as that used for making soap or gun
powder. The marked difference to be
observed, however, in the case OF the
medical compound of Rhuharb and So
da, and the few other ingredients equal
ly we'll known that 60 to make up this
prescription, is, that the metho by
which it could be prepared in manner
to secure permanent excellence, and adj
nit of transportation in form fit for
immediate use, is recent discovery.
1t is Tor that reason the compound has
only now arrived at the distinction Of
having a name assigned to it. That
name is R-I-P-A-NS, and each letter is
the initial of one of the constituent in
gradients.
The preparation of medicines in tab
BILE in large way b. machinery in
vented within q comparatively short
time; but the result has already worked
q material change in medical practice.
The physician to-day is supplied with
medicines il this form, and the maker
who produces best results secures the
trade. TIE apothecary is fast .ceasiug
TO compound the physicians prescrip-
ton. but sells instead the same ingre-
dients prepared with skill and nicely
that is beyond MS own power to equal
with the facilities at his command.
physicians do not write prescriptions
for petroleum Jelly. but put down, in
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 profit therefrom,
and deserves it by the uniform excel
lence and purity of the article he sup
plies.
So, too, the manufacturers Of RIP.
ANS Tabules, being the first to set on
foot careful inquiries concerning the
myriad limitations of Rhubarb and
Soda known to be in such universal use
among doctors, aud to search out the
particular prescription that
had acquired the greatest fame Sa E
and widest acceptance, and 49,
then to unCertake the manu- -
facture in modern tablet form, ~ n
using the choicest of selected SM2
drugs and combining them by
methods that have been proved IN
scientific and found to lie
fortunate. have secured a
trade mark that is valuable, AA
and given to the public medi- ga y
cine of m re uniform excel &zz6O
lence and wider application lrNA
than any other that has ever az H.
be IN known. ~
1t has been asserted that the
principal ingredients of thee II
tabules are in about as con-
slant use by the best ply
sicians in their daily practice AN
as salt Is by the housewife inW~
the preparation of the family ~ED
meals.
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