Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-01
GREAT INDEED.
viii Be the Advantage Derived
From an Old Remedy inNew
Form.
Mr.. Q. c. Webster, Druggist Of Our
City, Interested.
The Public Marvel, and Doctors Everywhere
Pleased.

| Nowadays 1t takes considerable to az.
tonish the world. So many wonderful
| things have been discovered In the past
century that 1t has seemed almost i'm
possible that anything more could be
round to add to the comfort or benefit OF
man.
| Probably no branch OF science has
| made such wonderful strides as have
been made in the practice of medicine.
Diseases that number of years ago
were considered fatal. are now known to
be durable. Even consumption is no
longer looked upon with the dread thai
1t formerly inspired. 1t is right on this
line OF wasting diseases that we now
have news of a wonderful discovery-one
that is bound to reyolutionize the science
OF medicine and startle the world. Ey-
eryone Is familiar with methods that
have been employed by physicians for
years IN cases that they were afraid
would develop into decline. Tn all
troubles of the throat, lungs, bronchial
tubes and other similar ailments that
were known to end disastrously about
the first thing the doctor would do would
De to recommend cod liver oil, for cod
liver oil has been recognized for a great
many years as possessing peculiar medic
mai properties particularly adapted for
the cure of such troubles.
Everyone knows the objection. how
ever, TO the use of this nauseating rem
edy. So extremely disagrecabIe is the
taste and smell of cod liver oil that MANY
people have actually been unable to take
a single dose of it. Many others have
made heroic efforts to take the medicine.
but have been obliged to abandon 1t after
struggling with the horrible stun for a
few days.
The consequence is that thousands
have drifted into incurabIe diseases who
might have been saved, had 1t been pos
sible to administer this potent medicine.
enough people have been able to assimi-
late cod liver oil to prove to the medical
profession and the world at large, its In
trinsic value. Such patients as were
blessed with unusually strong stomachs
derived benefit from cod liver oil Why
then, could not a form of it be devised.
to be administered to patients whose d.
gestive organs had been weakened by dis
ease.
This is exactly what scientists and
chemists have been aiming at for years.
and this is exactly what has been accom-
plished by two prominent French chem
lists. Their secret has been brought to
America and our own Mr.. o. C. Webster
of the well known firm of Bowditch,
Webster & Co. has succeeded in connect
ing himself with the prominent firm of
New York chemists who are placing this
new preparation on the market. The
preparation in question, now that it has
been discovered, like all other great in
ventions is simple. By peculiar process
the liver of the live cod is treated in such
manner that there is obtained an ex-
tract which contains all, and only all. of
the curative properties that have mace
cod liver oil famous. The horrible-smell-
ing, narseat:ng-tasting fat that has al
ways been part of this remedy, mas
been left entirely behind
This curatlve extract is the basis OF
Vinol, which Mr.. Webster is presenting
to the public. 1t is placed in a delicious
table wine, and in itself being tasteless,
the consumer is unable to distinguish the
fact that he is taking anything more
than a pleasant claret
Mr.. Webster has indeed struck If inst
right in making arrangements to handle
this new remedy, which goes under the
name of Vinol-Wine of Cod Liver Oil, 1t
is worth anyone's while to talk to him
about it and to learn directly from him
the good that is being done by finding a
way to administer what has always been
horrible and much dreaded medicine, in
a form that Is actually pleasant, to say
nothing OF being hundred times as eff
cient.