Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-10
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 inven-
lions. Then think Of what happened TO
them when they were sick. Lucky was
the man who was not pounced upon by
a doctor and often literally bled to
DEATH
That was only starter Of what was
soon TO follow Long, deep draughts
brewed from horrible-tastn herbs
we're continually administered. Rene
Jies without number, each worse thai.
the other followed quickly No Won
der SO many Of our ancestors died
young No wonder life insurance sta
tistics show that we come from a short
lived race.
1t Is in medicine like everything else.
The day Of barbarism In treatment Is
nearly over. No longer does the doc
tor deprive the patient Of his very life's
blood right at Sme when he needs
every particle OF strength No longer
does he compel the poor sufferer to abb
serb untold amounts of barks, herbs
and mineral solutions right at a time
when Nature should be left to herself
to stralghten out what might only be a
slight trouble,
The modern physician knows that he
can administer the vital principles OF
bis remedies in q concentrated form,
You do not find your doctor brewing
tea or asking you to chew huge guam
titles of Cinchona Bark where quinine
Il necessary. No longer does he admin
ster a bolus Of opium to deaden pain.
Not much. A hypodermic syringe
charged with the active principles of
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 Vino, Wine Of Cod
Liver Oil, which is nothing more or
less than q 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 ne may understand the full value
Tor which cod liver oil has been pre-
ncribed. Every one knows its objection
able features. Every one realizes that
there are many cases Of wasting dis
eases that could have been cured by
the use of cod liver oil, had II been
possible to administer the obnoxious
remedy; but every one does not know
that when they were taking cod liver
oil in It's old form they were absorbing
into the system vast amount OF vile
smelling, obnoxious tasting grease that
was absolutely powerless of doing them
any good, hut were simply taking II
because II was vehicle that conveyed
the peculiar medicinal principles that
II was the intention Of the doctor 10
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 admin
stered even 10 the most delicate pa
tlent without It's being apparent that
cod liver oil or anything connected with
IL is being taken. The greater strength
Of the new preparation will also enabli
the patient to receive greater amount
Of necessary medicine than was posi-
bic to administer before, The conse
quence will be that the good for which
the medicine Is desired will be accom-
plished in much quicker time, The
harm that was formerly caused
to stomachs will be entirely avert
ed and the result will be that
vlnol in but a few years will EN-
tirely supersede, as a medicine, cod
liver oil In any other known form.