The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-22
Home Health Club

SUBSTITUTES:-Yo are at liberty to contradict but later on you will agree with me when I say that there are substitutes tha are better than the original. Just a few illustrations: Nature produced a small, hard, sour apple; there has been developed by man many substitutes that are not only far more beautiful to look upon but more nourishing to the body and vastly more pleasing to the appetite.
 The delicious big navel orange is another substitute that is far and away better than the original; and I believe you will admit that the splendid clothing and other woven materials of the present day are bet ter than the original big leaves and skins of animals worn originally.
 The same is true of many articles of food. The delicious whole wheat bread that may be had at the pres ent day is so far and away superior to the rough cakes made origin ally as bread that no one of intel ligence would want to return to the primitive methods still used by some uncivilized tribes.
 As a present day product, no one will deny that pure, clean, well-made dairy butter is a perfect article of food but the substitute made with OILS, nut pTOuuClS ana pas teurized milk is far better and more wholesome than majority of the but ter that is put up in unclean, and insanitary surroundings, handled in a very careless manner and handed out to us by the average clerk or dealer in foodstuffs.
 Sunshine Is the original heat but we find that fire is the first substitute, and while 1t is good, the gentle ra- diation from a hot water heating plant in your home Is not only better than the original camp fire but Is more healthful because in a properly ventilated and heated house, there are no draughts of cold air on your feet or at your back while your face is almost blistering from the fireplace glow.
 The same rule holds good in medi- cine and surgery. Nature left the broken bone or the wounded flesh to heal as best it could. Surgery re- stores the wound almost to the nor nal condition. For those that are past the middle life glasses are substitute for the keener vision of youth. individual telephones for the defective or original hearing; while the laboratory gives the refined extracts or alkaloids in place of the original crude drugs.
 One of the most striking exam ples that I might mention is the modern use of Ipecac, considered one of the few Indispensable herb reme- dies. Its use is readily traced back for several hundred years and yet in it's original form it was not only a dis agreeable but sometimes dangerous remedy because of the naseauating effect upon the patient. The alka1oid substitute for the original drug is far more effective in tonsilitis, bron- chitis. amebfc dysentery, and pyorr- hea, and has none of the nauseating effects. I could name many other drugs and remedies that were good in the original form but the substi- tute is far better.
 I have no sympathy with the sales man who tries to sell an inferior arti- cle a. substitute merely because he makes more money on the coun- terfeit. but in cases where the extra price is charged for well known rem edies. merely because they are ad- vertised widely under a certain name, then take the same product under the other name at a lower price.
 Liquor antisepticus and Hsterin are pra actically the same Most druggists make the former and sell it for about half of what you must pay for lis terine.