The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-11-12

hollsm. by this time she had ac-
quircd a tinc, typical ease of pat
-mcdicinc dyspepsia That idea
never occurred to her, though. She
next tried Dr. Miles Anli-paln pills
more acclanIlId, and finally de
cided-having read some adNcr',s-
Eng literature on the subjcct-ll at
she had cancer. And the reason she
was leaving you, Mrs. Clyde, was
that she had decided 10 go to n
Scoundrclly quack named Johnson
who conducts a cancer institute IN
Kansas City. where he llecces I'M
fortunatcs out of their money on
the prclcnse that he can cure cancer
without the use of the knife"
Cant you stop hers" asked Mrs.
! Clyde anXiously.
"Oh, I've stopped her! You'll find
the remains Of her patent medicines
in the ash-barrel. | flatter myself
I've fixed her case"
Grandma Sharpless gazed at him
solemnly. ANY doctor who claims
to cure is quack.' Quotation from
DIR. Strong she said.
Nearly had me there" admitted
he. Fortunately | didn't use the
word cure. II wasn't a case of
cure. IL was a case of correcting a
stupid. disastrous little blunder in
mathematics"
Mathematics, eh?" repeated Mr..
Clyde. Have you reached the point
where you treat disease by algebra,
and triangulate a patient for an OPP
cration?'
mot quite that. But poor Maggie
suffer red all her troubles solely thru
an error in figuring by an incompe-
tent man. A year ago she had trou-
BILE with her eyes. Instead of GO
ing to good ocuist she went to
one of these stores which offer ex-
aminations free, and take il out in
the price of the glasses. The ex-
animation is worth just what free
things usually are wOrth-or less.
They sold her pair of glasses for
two dollars. The glasses were fig
ured out some fifty degrees wrong.
for her error of vision. which was
very slight anyway. The nervous
strain caused by the effort of the
eyes to accommodate themselves To-
the false glasses and, later, the ac-
cumulated mass of drugs with which
she's been insulting her insides. arr
all that's the matter with Maggie
That is, the glasses caused the
headaches, and the patent medicines
the stomach arrangement" said Mr.
Clyde.
And the general break up. though !
the glasses may have started both
before the nOstrums ever got in /
their evil work. Nowadays, the wis, !
doctor, having an obscure stomach |
trouble TO deal with, in the absence I
Of other explanation, looks TO tn,
eyes. Eye-strain has a most potent
and far-reaching influence on di-
gestiOn. | know of one case OF ,
chronic dyspepsia, Of a years stand |
ing, completely cured by a chang
Of eyeglasses
AS a financial proposition" said
Mr.. Gormley, your nurse must have
come out at the wrong end of tho
horn"
Decidedly" confirmed the doc
tor. "She spent on patent medicines
about forty dollars. The cancer
quack would have got at least n
hundred dollars out of her, not
counting her railroad fare. Two
hundred dollars would be a fair es-
Innate of her little health-excur
sion among the quacks. Any gOoG
physician would have sent her to
m Ocullst, who would have fitted
proper glasses and saved all that
expense and drugging. The entire
bill for doctor, Oculist, and glasses
might have been twenty-five dol
airs. Yet they defend patent medi-
zines on the ground that they're
he poor mans doctor"
Mr.. Gormley rose. poor mans
undertaken, rather" he amended
Well, having sufficiently black
guarded my own business, think
I'll go. Here's the whole thing
up, as see it. II pays to
90 to the doctor first and the drug
yist afterward; not to the druggist
lrst and the doctor afterward."
DR.. Strong walked over to the gait,
With him. On his return Mrs. Clyde
What an interesting, thoughtful
nan. Are most druggists like that?'
They're not all philosophers OF
he trade, like Gormley," said DR..
strong, but they have TO be pretty
Intelligent before they can pass the
Pharmaceutical Board in this state,