Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-08
Their Value in the World Of
Medicine Over Drugs in 4
Crude Form.
The Discovery Of Each New Element Of
This Sort a Conspicuous Landmark
on the Road to Progress.
vinol the Active Curative Principles Of the
Gods Liver the Latest Discovery Of This
Nature.

Times have changed said Mr.. 81
Y. Webster of the well known firm of
BoWditch, Webster & Co, the other
day in talking of the progress of scien-
tific discoveries, and especially those
That effected the practice of medicine.
There are a good many people alive
today who remember the awful con-
coctions they used to be obliged to take
when they We're sick. Pennyroyai,
boneset tea, sulphur and molasses, and
| do not know what not, We're remedies
that would perhaps do good il the pa
tient only survived the struggle to take
them. You know the taste of quinine,
l have no doubt said Mr. Webster,
and you probably are aware that
quinine has the active curative prin-
ciples of Cinchona Bark Imagine be-
ing obliged to take large draughts Of
an of this most bitter of all drugs.
Yet people used to have to take that
before quinine was discovered. That is
why Vinol has taken such a great hold
upon the public, for VinoI is another
Illustration of how much good can be
done by taking the active curative
principles of a remedy, rather than the
remedy itself in a crude form.
1T is the aim of scientific physicians
to administer all drugs possible in as
small a quantity, but in as concen-
trated a form, as they know how. For
this reason many drugs that We're for
merly given have apparently gone into
innocuous desuetude but are still be-
ing administered under different names
in their active principles.
Here is a letter from a brother
chemist that will explain itself 1t is
from Mr.. e. w. Thompson of New
Britain, who writes in regard to Vinol
giving to it it's value largely on the
ground that it contains the active cur
alive principles of the Gods liver He
writes to Chester Kent & Co. as fol
lows:
You have surely succeeded in ac-
complishing that which you started out
to. Many drawbacks have always at
tended physicians and patients alike,
up to the time of some of our more re-
cent and important discoveries. In the
old days it must have been a very diff
cult matter, before the discovery of
quinine, to administer it in its original
form. namely the raw Cinchona bark,
where it was necessary to administer
opium, to obtain beneficial results unit!
the discovery of the active curative,
principles of this valuable drug, NOR
phine.
There are thousands in the land who
are not chemists, but who have learned
by sad experience how very hard it has
been to take cod liver oil on account CT
its terrible taste and unfavorable ac-
ton upon the stomach. This will now
be done away with, since you have sue
cceded in obtaining the active medici-
nal principles from the Gods liver, free
from all Objectionable features.
Il have found that Vinol does stand
in the same relation to cod liver oil as
does quinine to Cinchona bark, NOR
phine to opium, atrophia to belladonna
and numerous other of the active prin-
riples to the old and cumbersome form
Of drugs.
''Vinol as far as taste and smell go
is positive luxury. It's action upon the
system as a tonic reconstructor is most
You have my most hearty
congratulations for your success in this
IouiS truly, H. w. HoIHpSoH
1T is just because we can now adj
those very valuable remedial
features for which cod liver oil was al
ways famous, in this concentrated and
delicious form, that people will never
cease to be thankful for the discovery
of Vinol," said Mr.. Webster as 1le
turned to give an order to have some
Of the cod liver preparations that had
stood on his shelf for years. taken
down and placed with a collection Of
other back number remedies that have
gone out of favor with the public in
general.