The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-26

ther drugs and prescriptions 20 tablet form.
They are ready TO vary known prescriptions
in accordance with { he fancy
of individual KNM physicians.
and to combine one N.A.2 or m ore
prescriptions in single tab
let. The general use Of tablets instead of
prescriptions has greatlv simplihed the
practice of medicine. The physician. in
stead OF writing prescription and instruct
ing his patient to have it compounded by
druggist, leaves the necessary number oftab-
lets with instructions as TO the
time a d manner of A ~A taking.
Nearly every physician 49, is pro-
yided with some such tablets,
and many use them in great quantities.
Tons of drugs are now put up in this form.
1t is the wholesale method OF modern life
applied to the preparation Of medicines.
Apothecaries have felt the effects of the
change in practice - through the les
sening n TIL ;#92A number of pre-
scr;ptions to be 49, - compounded.
For the patient it has cheapened
the cost of doctoring, for the physician
obtains the tablets at so low a rate that
he usually makes no charge for those sup
piled to his patients. New as
the use Al "a of tablets is, the form
of the ~ 49, tablet has been
greatly ~ improved since their in
PRODUCTION into medical practice. Tablets
are smaller and more compressed than they
were few years ago. The machinery for
making uu them originally
was, and EF s% perhaps still is, con-
troled by ~ ar,.1 single whole
sale drug ~C&~ house of this city,
but there are many manufacturers of tab
lets here and elsewhere. When the pat
entees first began to call their products to
the attention - of physicians, the
way, because ~ . ~ the patentces were
n OF widely ~ known in the med
ical profession Then they associated them
selverAvith famous drug house, and the
tablets soon began to go.
Only the simpler drugs and remedies put
up in tablet form are accessible to the
general public. The compounds are not
even known by - name outside
the m die al IN n "a profession. AS
they are not EASy pat medi-
cines they are szD not advertised in
other than medical newspapers. They come
tophysicians with label that proclaims the
ingredients and their proportions. Physi-
clans have the good repute of the manu-
facturer as guarantee that tablets are made
of pure drugs and carefully compounded.
The best tablet manufacturers
employ skilled ~ ~ and careful
apot hecaries VE1 and buy their
drugs in large - quantities di.
rectly from manufacturers.
INTERESTING SECRET HISTORY OF AN OLD.
TIME REMEDY.
A certain well-known preparation is so
largely prescribed by physicians that its use
by them may be said to be universal. Con-
versationally it is spoken of among them
selves as the r. & S. Compo." If you
are i'll and call the doctor, no
matter what else a. IN you get, you
are M oderately certain TO get
some one of the forms of the
"R. & S." prescription. Its use has been
growing more general for a hundred years,
and has been vastly increased of late by
slight improvements found to be important
in effects. The prescription, especially in
rural districts, is usually prepared in fluid
form, sometimes in powders but of late it
has been found possible to prepare it in tab
lets, the form now so popular with physi-
Clans for all standard m q l.
cincs. So enormous ~ ~ Is the
d EN- nd, fr o m \Nol.y physi-
clans solely, for he c& various
forms of this preparation that a single
manufacturing chemist in New York City
made and sold $4,000 pounds of these
tablets in the year ISo3--and this, be it
borne in mind, was TO physicians alone, or
TO fill orders from dealers from whom ply
sicians obtain their supplies. Every pnysi-
clan of eminence has his "R. & s."
formula, varying more or less from the
original, but substantially the same--that
Is, depending upon the bases indicated by
the letters X. & 5.
RlrANs TABULEs.
The Rpans Tabules represent the latest
and most improved form of this prepara-
tion. The separate letters composing the
word R-I-P-A-N-s arc the initials OF the six
ingredients. Any doctor knows what they
are. The A and n represent the principal
Sa sa,aE gnSS1ns. snd Saye Sssn Se G1nd wS
a dyspepsia ~1-D remedy. an d
has once experienced the beneficial results
Of these tabules in a case of biliousness,
headache or any disorder of the stomach,
liver or bowels, will ever afterward consent
TO be without a supply near at hand. A
single one gives prompt relief. Price so
cents box at druggists, or by mail.
THE RIPANS CHEMICAL CO.,
10 SrRUcE ST., NEW YoRg.
MAY DE HAD At
BlANDiNC d BLANOtEc'
PROVIDENCE, r. T.
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