Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-02
HE EXPLAINS.
HE EXPLAINS.
Mr.. w. H. Marshall Tells
What He Knows.
A Boston Paper Investigates
the Merits of Vinol.
A Subject That is Agitating
the Whole Country.
(From the Boston Herald }

ttTOm the Boston Herald
There has reached us rumors of a
new discovery. Something that will
revolutIonize the practice of medicine
A remedy that has given sufferers
from wasting diseases hopes of re-
newed health and prolonged life.
OF enough importance have these
stories appeared that special inter-
view with w. H Marshall, proprietor
of the Harper house pharmacy, of
Rock Island, who is interested himself
in this new preparation which is called
Vinol, was thought advisable.
Our reporter had no difficulty in
finding Mr.. Marshall's place of bust
| ness. The first man he met, said:
''Oh' yes, Mr.. Marshall is the man
who has the wonderful new remedy
that will cure everything that people
always thought cod liver oil would
help. and he was speedily directed
to his enterprising and busy establish
| ment. Mr.. Marshall is business from
the word go. but rather objected to
the fame of this preparation being
spread abroad as discovery.
Why" said Mr.. Marshall, "this is
no more q new discovery than was the
a telescope. The discovery existed
simply in the fact of finding out a
means of getting at the truth we were
after. Perhaps the method might be
considered discovery, but what we
have found has been known for years,
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 been
prescribed by so many physicians.
You see it is Just this way. Cod liver
oil (perhaps you have taken it your
self is something that is very valu-
able in all sorts of wasting diseases,
and in itself is extremely disagreeable.
WIN, / firmly believe that great
many cases of consumption, even,
could be cured if it were possible for
the patient to take enough cod liver
oil to let its virtues become manifest.
For those who have a tendency to
sore throat, bronchitis, coughs, colds,
for every one of an auemic disposition,
it has always been considered as
simply invaluable; and yet it has
more often been necessary to abandon
it's use than it has been possible to
devise way of administering it.
Two eminent French chemists
started in and got interested in the
matter, and after years of study they
have succeeded in 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 is all
No hor he ~
last. We have found a way of get
ting the kernel out of the nut. This
Vinol that is so much talked about is
Just exactly that. 1t is the concen-
Irated essence of medicine found in
the Gods liver that does the good.
The grease is like the she'll of the
nut. absolutely useless, only it is
different from the shell of the nut be-
cause besides being useless it is ex-
tremely obnoxious and disagreeable
to sight. taste and smell.
1--WE have now taken this extract aud
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 proper
ton to do the greatest amount of
good. Here, drink this" said MIR.
Marshall as he reached for bottle
and poured forth what appeared to
be, and which smelled like, a delic-
ious, 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 "Ge ahead and drink it, 81
said Mr.. Marshall. The reporter did
so, and looked up. Eyes, / know.
but that is all right. 1 thought you
were going to give me some of that
Vinol that You were talking about.
custom to treat a man interviewing
you to drink like that
Mr.. Marshall laughed. ''Well, that
is ViDol that you have taken. Now
you know that part of what have
told you is true. Ii did not taste
bad, did it?n And it surely did not. |
rNow." said Mr.. Marshall, s'let me
tell you something else. You have |
Just taken, condensed, of the curative |
principles of the Gods liver what you |
would find in 90 per cent of its vol |
ume of cod liver oil. You can there /,
fore 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 curativeI
properties in whole pint of that hoI-
rible oil? Doesn't that tell the story
to youp
.sYou will have to excuse me now.
for, as you see. am more than |
driven. OF course am getting the
advantagesof the discovery by being
directly connected with the Boston
house,
The reporter thanked Mr.. Marshall
for his kindness, and left him.
vondar-inor Tn himself whathar after