Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
MODERN PRESCRIBING
Doctors Methods Better Than
They Were Years Ago
The Patients Lot Also Much
Improved
Large Doses of Nauseating Medl-
cine 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 with
out thought, by means of modern IN
Vention. Then think of what hap
pened 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 drauShts
brewed from horrible-tastinS herbs
were continually administered. RENE
dies without number each worse than
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 treat
ment is nearly over. No longer does
the doctor deprive the patient of his
very life's blood right at time when
he needs every particle of strength.
No longer does he compel the poor
sufferer to absorb untold amounts of
barks, herbs and mineral solutions
right at a time when Nature should
be left to herself to straighten out
what might only be a slight trouble.
The modern physician knows that
he can administer the vital principles
of his remedies in a concentrated
form. You do not find your doctor
brewing tea or asking you to chew
huge quantities of Cinchona Bark
where Quinine is necessary. No long
er does he administer a bolus of OPP
ium 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 re-
pair.
Right on this line a discovery was
made that proved to be the most valu-
able one yet made. 1t was that of vi
mol, which is nothing more or less
than a concentrated extract of the
active medicinal principles found in
the liver of the live cod combined with
beef peptone, iron and manganese
peptonates and glycerophosphates.
The above explanation is about all
that is necessary to give one, in order
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
it's 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 administer the OBJ
not know that when they were taking
cod liver oil in it's old form they were
absorbing into the system q vast
amount of vile-smelling, obnoxious
tasting grease that was absolutely
powerless of doing them any good,
but were simply taking it because it
was a vehicle that conveyed the pecu-
liar medicinal principles that it was
the intention of the doctor to give to
them.
Here is where this new discovery
will benefit the world. These princi-
Piles, separated from the fat and all
other unnecessary features, dissolved
in a delicious table wine can now be
administered in Vinol even to the most
delicate patient without its being ap-
parent that cod liver oil or anything
connected with it is being taken. The
greater strength of the new prepara-
ton will also enable the patient to
receive a 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 a.
much quicker time. The harm that
was formerly caused to stomachs al
ready weakened by disease will be en-
tirely averted and the result will be
that Vinol in but few years will en-
tlrely supersede, as a medicine, cod
liver oil in any other known form. At
the following drug stores in this city
they are always glad to give more in
formation about Vinol: George A
Gorgas, Kennedy's Medicine Store
Kitzmiller's Pharmacy, c. f. Kramer
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