The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-12
MODERN PRESCRIBING.
Doctors Methods Better Than
They Were Years Ago.
The Patients Lot Also Much
Improved.
Large Doses OF Nsusesting Medicine
No Longer Necessary.

Our forefathers did not have such de-
| lightful time, after all. Just think of the
| roundabout way they were obliged To ac-
oomplish the many things that are done
by US every day, almost without Thought.
by means of modern inventions. Then
| think Of what happened 10 them when
they were sick. Lucky was the man W nc
was not pounctd uptn by doctor and
often litbrsliy bled to death.
That was only starter OF what was
soon TO follow. Long, deep draugbts
browed from horri ble-tasting herbs wers
continually administered Remedies
without ber. each worse than the
other. followed quickly. No wonder SC
many Of our ancestors died young. No
wonder life insurance statistics show that
we come from sbort-lived race.
IL Is In medicine like everything else.
The day of bsrbarism in treatment IL
nearly over. No longer does the doctor
deprive tho patient of bis very lfe's blood
right st time when he needs every parti-
ole of strength. No longer does he com
pei the poor sufferer to absorb untold
amounts OF barks. herbs ana mineral
solutions right at n time when Nature
should be lett To herself TO straighten out
what might only bs slight trouble.
The modern ply sician knows that he
can administer the vital principles of his
remedies in concentrated form. You do
not lind your doctor brewing a tea or
asking you TO chew huge quantities of
Cinchona bark, where Quinine is Ieces-
sary. No longer does he administer a
tolus of Opium 10 deaden pain. Not
much. hypooermic syringe charged
with the active principles of opium NOR
phine does the work better and dIes not
do as much damage for Nature 20 iepaif.
Right on this line comes news OF ie-
cent discovery that will undoubtedly
prove TO be the most valuable one yet
.ad IL a1 h.e ..f .al a,,f t.a
Liver Oil, which is nothing more nor less
than a concentrated extract of the active
medicinal principles found in the liver Of
the live cod.
The above explanation is about all that
Is necessary tu give one, in or0er that he
may understand the full value OF this
discovery. Everyone knows the uses for
which cod liver oil mas teen prescribed.
Everyone knows its Objectionable tea
tuIes. Everyone realizes that there are
many cases Of wasting diseases that Jould
have been cured by the use of cod liver
oil, had it teen pt ssi uae TO administer the
obnoxious remedy; but everyone does not
know that when they Wee taking COD
liver oil in its old form, they were alb
sorhing into the system a vast amouot of
vile-smelling. obnoxi ous-tastinR grease
that was absolutely powerless of doing
them any good, but we're simply taking
it tecause 10 was "A ve6icle that conyeyed
the peculiar meilclnal principles tnat IL
was the intention CT the doctor 10 give to
them.
Here is where this new discovery will
tenefit the world. These PRINCIPLES
separated from the fat ana oil Other un
necessary features, dissolved in "a delicious
table wine, can now be aomiDisterei even
to tie most delicate patient without it's
being apparent that cod liver oil or any.
thing conneutet with it is icing taken.
The greater strength OF the new prepara-
tion will also enable the patient to eceiSe
greater amuunt of necessary me e1iIipe
than WINS p1ssible TO administer tefore
Tie consequence Will be That the good for
which the medicine is desired will lie ac-
complished in n much quicker time. Ihe
harm that was formerly au'ed to sfom-
n, hs already -~esteHed by disease viii tie
entirely avertel and the result will ba
that Viuol in but few years will entirely
supersede, as mo licine, cod liver oil in
any other known form.