Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17
MODERN PRESCRIBING.
Doctors Methods Better Than
They Were Years Ago.
The Patients Lot Also Much Improved.
Large Doses Of Nauseating Medicine No Lon.
ger Necessary.

Our fOrefatherS ala not have such a
delightful time, after all. Just think
of the roundabout way they were
Obliged to accomplish the MANY things
that are done by us every day, almost
without thought, by means of modern
inventions. Then think of what hap
pened to them when they were sick.
Lucky was the man who was not
bounced upon by a doctor and often
literally bled to death.
That was only a starter of what was
soon to follow. Long, deep draught;
breWed from Notwithstanding herbs
were continually administered Reme-
dies without number. each worse than
the other. followed quickly. No Won
der so many of our ancestors died
young. No wonder life insurance sta
slort-lived race.
1t is in medicine like everything elise.
The day of barbarism in treatment is
| nearly over. No longer does the doctor
deprive the patient of his very life's
blood right at a time when he needs
every particle of strength. No longer
does he compel the poor sufferer to
absorb untold amounts of banks, herbs
and mineral solutions right at a time
when Nature should be left to herself
to straighten out what might only be
a slight trouble.
The modern physician knows that he
can administer the vital principles of
his remedies in a concentrated form
You do not find your doctor brewing a
tea or asking you to chew huge guam
titles of Cinchona bark. where quiniae
| is necessary. No longer does he ad-
minister a bolus of opium to deaden
pain. Not much. A hypodermic
syringe charged with the active prin-
ciples CT opium morphine does the
work better and does not do as much
| damage for Nature to repair.
Right on this line comes news OF a
| recent discovery that will undoubtedly
prove to be the most valuable one yet
made. 1t is that of Vinol Wine of Cod
Liver Oil. which is nothing more nor
less than concentrated extract of the
active medicinal principles found in
the liver of the live cod.
! The above explanation is about all
that is necessary to give one, in order
that he may understand the full value
of this discovery. Everyone knows the
uses for which cod liver oil has been
prescribed. Everyone knows it's OBJ
jectionable features. Everyone realizes
that there are many cases of wasting
diseases that could have been cured
by the use of cod liver Oil, had it been
possible to administer the obnoxious
remedy: but everyone does not know
that when they were taking cod Liver
Gil in its old form, they We're absorbing
into the system a vast amount of vile
smelling. obnoxious tasting grease that
was absolutely poWerless of doing
them any good. but We're simply taking
1t because it was a vehicle that con-
veyed the peculiar medicinal principles
that 1T was the intention of the doctor
to give TO them.
Here is where this new discovery will
benefit the world. These principles,
separated from the fat and all other
unnecessary features. dissolved in a
delicious table wine, can now be ad-
ministered even to the most delicate
patient. without it's being apparent
that cod liver oil or anything connected
with it is being taken The greater
strength of the new preparation will
also enable the patient to receive a
greater diFounL OF necessary medicine
than was possible to administer be-
fore. The consequence will be that the
good for which the medicine, is desired
Will be accomplished in a much quicker
time. The harm that was formerly
caused to stomachs already weakened
by disease will be entirely averted and
the result will be that Vnol in but 4
few years will entirely supersede, as a
medicine. cod liver oil in any other
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