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Show 8elf Dortorlnc In Euldeiulc. Self doctoring is always duugrrous, except for the simplest ailments. Few persons understand the significance ol their symptoms; the difficulty of doing so is greatly increased by tho complex nature of most diseases, and the modification modifi-cation of treatment dnmaudud by individual indi-vidual temperament and hereditary tendencies. ten-dencies. Even if the patient knows what ails him he is not likely to know the remedy, tho Bize and frequency of the dose, and the proper regulation of the diet in connection with it. How profound is thegmioral ignorance ntion this subject is shown by the enormous enor-mous consumption of medicines. Multitudes Multi-tudes of people try one nostrum aftor another in utter blindness. If all such compounds were thrown into the sea it would save every year millions of dollars and thouwtuds of lives. During tho prevalence of a widespread epidemic self doctoring becomes peculiarly pecul-iarly perilous. Foar is in the air, and is more contagious than smallpox itself, tinder its influence men fly to drugs either to ward off the dreaded attack or to cure a disease which very likely exists only in the patient's excited imagination. The impaired condition of the system under this ill advised dosing invites the very attack which the dosing was intended in-tended to avert. Youth's Companion. |