The Falls City tribune., 1910-06-10
READY MADE medicines
THE TEXT or DR.. MoRSMANS
INTERESTING TALK.
Many Good Patent" Remedies,
The Difficulty for the Laity
Is In the Diagnosis.

| do not know any better name
for this class OF preparations than
To call them ready-made medicines.
Just as a mar a buy ready-made
clothing that will fiji him if he
ISM dcformed or Of irregular shape
so he can buy ready-made medicines
that will Fit his disease, if 1t isn't
unusual or complicated.
True, any one can go 10 the tailor
and be measured aud fitted exactly
even if he is deformed, and so too
he can 90 to a doctor and have his
diseases diagnosed and receive med.
icine adapted to his case. even if ii be
complicated. 1t goes without saying
that better clothing and better treat
meRt come from the tailor aud the
doctor. But the ready-made clothing
serves It's purpose and so does the
readymade medicine. | only apply
this term to the better class OF
preparations and DO not include nos
trums. castoria, Mentholatum,
Jaynos' Vermifuge, White Pine Com
pound are examples. There are
hundreds of others. The difficulty
in using ready-made medicines lies
in making Il diagnosis of the ease
and fitting the remedy to it.
OF course the tailor doesn't think
much of the ieady-made clothing nor
does the doctor have a very high re-
gard for ready-made medicines, but
silence is becoming to the doctor be-
cause he uses ready-made medicine
himself. lie doesn't call them that.
He calls them "pharmaeeuticals,' but
that is what they are and the doctors
kind of ready mades very soon be-
come the popular ready-mades be-
cause the doctor uses them and
thereby introduces them, to the great
profit of the manufacturer. This Is
just what the maker wants and is the
best advertising he can get. Lister
inc was first used by physicians and
1t has been a popular ready-made for
years. Sal Hepatica was introduced
by physicians, now 1t is bought as
freely as Castoria. Glyco-Thymoline
was introduced by the dentist; now
his patrons buy it. There are very
many cases like these, where the
doctors have started a very nice, prof
liable business for some other fellow;
and he Is still doing the same thing.
OF course there are certain kinds
of ready-made medicines that the doc.
tors never use. The doctor would
lot use Castoria nor Janyne's Vermi-
fuge, because they are already pub
lie property; and he has no need to
2 use them for he knows pretty nearly
what they are.
The physicians have used barrels oil
white pine compound, but o they
have nearly abandoned it, because ii
has become a popular remedy. Some
patent medicine men have the nerve
to advertise that the doctors will not
use their preparations because he is
envious of their success. That is the
r%ottenest kind of rot. The doctor is
not enyious. That isn't his posi-
ton. He thinks that the people use
these medicines too much; that they
resort to patents when they ought to
come to him, and he is right.
The public has a will of its own
and will do as it pleases about ready
mades, and the doctor and tailor are
both of them powerless, The great
trouble about ready-made medicines is
that the maker always claims too
much for their preparations. 1t is
misleading also in regard to diagno.
sis, because il always makes the
symptoms lead up to the disease; the