Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-14
MODERN PRESCRIBING.
Doctors Methods Better
Than They Were
Years Ago.
The Patients Lot Also Much
Improved.
Large Doses of Nauseating
Medicine No Longer
Necessary.

Our forefathers did 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 happened to them when they
were sick. Lucky was the man who
was not bounced upon by doctor
and often literally bled to death.
That was only starter of what was
soon to follow. Long. deep draughts
were continually administered. Rene
dies without mum Der, each worse than
the other, followed quickly. No
wonder so many of our ancestors died
young. No wonder life insurance
statistics show that we come from a
short-lived race.
1t is in medicine like everything
else. The day of barbarism in treat
ment is nearly over. No longer does
the doctor deprive the patient of his
very life's blood right at time when
be 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 time when nature should be
left TO herself to straighten out what
might only be slight trouble.
The modern physicia knows that
he can administer the vital princi-
Piles of his remedies in a concentrated
form. You do not find your doctor
brewing a tea or asking you to chew
huge quantities of cinchona bark
where quinine is necessary. No
longer does he administer bolus of
opium to deaden pain. Not much.
A hyperdermic syringe charged with
the active principles of opium; NOR
phine does the work better and does
not do as wuch damage for nature to
repair.
Right on this line comes news of q
recent discovery that will undoubt-
eddy prove to be the most valuable
one yet made. 1t is that of Vinol,
Wine of Cod Liver Oil, which is moth
ing more or less than a concentrated
extract of the active medicinal prin-
ciples found in the liver of the live
cod.
The above explanation is about all
that is necessary to give one, in or
der that he may understand the full
value of this discovery. Every one
knows the uses for which cod liver
oil has been prescribed Every one
knows its Objectionable features.
Every one 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 admin :
lister the obnoxious remedy; but every
one does not know that when they were
taking cod liver oil in its old form,
they were absorbing into the system
vast amount of vile-smelling, OBJ
Misunderstanding grease that was abso-
lutely powerless of doing them any
good, but were simply taking it be-
cause it was vehicle that conveyed
the peculiar medicinal principles that
it was the intention of the doctor to
give them.
Here is where the new discovery
will benefit the world. These princi-
Piles, separated from the fat and all
other unnecessary features, dissolved
in delicious table wine, can now be
administered even tc the most deli
cate patient without its being appar-
ent that cod liver oil or anything con-
nected with it is being taken. The
greater strength of the new prepare
ton will also enable the patient to
receive greater amount of necessary
medicine than was possible to admin
lister before. The Consequence will be
that the good for which the medicine
is desired will be accomplished in n
much sucker time. The harm that
was formerly caused to stomachs al
ready weakened by the disease will be
entirely averted and the result will be
that Vinol in but few years will en-
tirely supersede, as medicine, cod
liver oil in any other known form.