Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-04
He EXPLAINS.
Mr.. 0. c. Webster Tells What
He Knows
A Boston Paper investigates the
Merits Of vinol.
4 Subject That is Agi.atlng the w.oIe
Country.
(From the Boston Herald ,

l VI lOiA Lie 1DUSlbH feTalO.1
There has reached us rumors of a
new discovery. Something that viii
revolutionize the practice Of medicine.
A remedy that has given sufferers
from wasting diseases hopes OF .,e-
newed health and prolonged life.
Of enough Importance have TIL Sc
stories appeared that special int r.
view with Mr.. O. c. Webster. OF the
we'll known firm of Bowditch, Webster
q Co. of Augusta, who is interes ed
himself in this new preparation which
is called Vinol. was thought advisable.
Our reporter had no difficulty in find
ing Mr.. Webster's place of busine IS.
The first man he met said: ooh YES,
Mr.. Webster is the man who has tla
wonderful new remedy that will cure
everything that people always thought
cod liver oil would help" and he was
speedily directed to their enterpris; lg
and busy establishment. Mr.. Webster
is business from the word go, but
rather objected to the fame Of this
preparation being spread abroad as a
discovery.
why said Mr.. Webster, this is
no more new discovery than was he
moon when it was first viewed throu I'll
a telescope. The discovery existed
simply in the fact of finding out a
means of getting at the truth we WI re
after. Perhaps hhe method might be
considered discovery, but what we
have found has been known for yea 5.
and it is nothing more nor less than
the valuable medicinal properties that
have always existed in the Gods liver,
and for which cod liver oil has be IN
prescribed by so many physicians.
You see it is just this way. Cod liver
oil (perhaps you have taken it your
self) Isl something that is very valuable
in all sorts of wasting diseases, and in
itself is extremely disagreeable. Why
I firmly believe that great many
cases of consumption, even, could be
cured If it We're possible for the patient
to take enough cod liver Oil to let its
virtues become manifest. For those
| who have a tendency to sore throa,,
bronchitis, coughs. colds. for everyone
of an anemic disposition, it has always
been considered as simply invaluable;
and yet it has more often been neces-
| sary to abandon it's use than it has
been possible to devise a way of ad-
| ministering it.
Two eminent French chemists start i
in and got interested in the matter.
| and after years of study they have
succeeded lin extracting from the liver
of the cod just what is necessary. and
have left behind that obnoxious.
greasy. vile-tasting fatty matter, the
| thought of which even has turned the
| stomachs of thousands. That dis an
i over now. We have just the thing at
| 1oC CT 70 hax Z, Of tiY,tr
the kernal out of the nut.
| This Vinol that is so much talked
about is just exactly that. 1t is The
concentrated essence of medicine found
in the Gods liver that does the good.
The grease is like the shell of the nur,
absolutely useless, only it is different
| from the shell of the nut because be-
! sides being useless it is extremely OBJ
noxious and disagreeaIble to sight,
taste. and smell.
| We have now taken this extract aid
put sufficient quantity of it in de-
demonstrating table wine. We have
also added a small amount of organic
| iron. This heightens the tonic effect
of the wine. The extract of the Gods
liver comes in just the right proportion
| to do the greatest amount of good
Here. drink this" said Mr.. Webster,
as he reached for a bottle and poured
forth what appeared to be, and which
smelled like, a delicious. rich wine.
The reporter hesitated. The thought
OF Gods livers, or anything to do with
them, brought back memories of the
past. when he himself had made heroic
struggles to take that awful medicine.
go ahead and drink it, said Mr..
Webster. The reporter did so, and
looked up. Yes. know, but that is
all right. thought you were going TO
give me some of that Vinol you We're
talking about, and did not know that it
was your custom to treat a man in
terviewing you, to drink like that
Mr.. Webster laughed. "Well that is
Vinol that you have taken. Now you
know that part of what I have ted
you is true. 1t did not taste bad, did
it?" And it surely did not. NOW"
said Mr.. Webster, 'let me tell you
something else. You have just taken,
| condensed. of the curative principles
of the Gods liver what you would find
| in SO per cent. of it's volume of cod
| liver oil. You can therefore imagine
that if it is necessary to take this
remedy. how much easier it Will be to
derive benefit from it than it used to
be when cod liver oil was administered.
DO you realize that formerly you only
obtained a small proportion of these
same curative properties in whole
pint of that horrible oil. Doesn't that
! tell the story to you?"
you will have to excuse me now.
for as you see, / am more than driven.
OF course l am getting the advantage
| of the discovery by having the goods
| first on my shelf, and also by being
| directly connected with the Now York
| house.
The reporter thanked Mr.. Webster
for his Kindness, and left him, WONDER
| ing to himself whether after all man
had to be born on purpose to be IA
| nous. or whether notoriety and good
| fortune did not sometimes come as
| matter of luck. Il
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