Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-14 | Page 4 | Harking Back

HARKING H U G BACK BACE 1 i The e garb yarb arb Doctor who w o dosed the Swope family with his homemade preparations prep rations and became became a figure in ina ina a celebrated J murder case case In hi in conse consequence consequence consequence quence may be a sort sCitt of John the Baptist heralding a new new era Per Perhaps Imps haps it would be better to say the re return return return turn to former methods of medical practice of the signs of the times is that physicians physicians are re showing a disposition to abandon proprietary compounds and return to the toots roots roots and and H herbs ad administered administered administered ministered by the ne country doctors doctors The New York Tork Medical Jour Journal Journal Journal nal in hr the course of or a long article on thia tendency says We are hopeful that return once orice more to the use of or the cinal plants and drugs for the utility of ot which of o thousands of years ears vouches vouch s This sentiment has been expressed re recently Gently by an eminent teacher of ot pharmacology who 10 in a pro prophetic passage sees a time when medicine having thoroughly ruined Its It digestion with s syn n all remedies remedies and n tested all the organs or ans of ot the animal body will return once more to vege vegetable vegetable vegetable table drugs and employ them to toa toa toa a greater extent than it does at present For the last forty or fifty years the shelves of the drug stores have been groaning beneath the weight of the patent medicines Some of them th m were prepared in accordance with the latest discoveries of science Many lIany of them were bad wholly bad Those used by physicians in their practice were presumably good and may have performed the work for which they were intended The point against the use of proprietary pro proprietary proprietary compounds by the physicians ph lies in the fact that it to indi indicate indicate indicate cate that they do not know as much about writing prescriptions as they should or about the action of or the drugs they prescribe except it be betaken betaken betaken taken in doses prescribed on the label pasted on the bottle Be that as it may we are going back to the good old root and herb days if it the New ew York medical author authority authority authority ity is to be e believed