Show u THOUSANDS OF LIVES SAVED By Mothers Medicine ChesV and Patent Prescriptions Commenting on attacks made by certain eastern publications on some of the best known and most valuable of the worlds proprietary medicines tho Committee on Legislation of the Proprietary Association says All through tho country districts In every state of tho union you will find In the farm houses the old family remedies sometimes called patent medicines many of which have been In use In the same household for generations gen-erations Among such people the old fashioned proprietary medicine always al-ways at hand with full printed Instructions In-structions for use is one of tho necessities I neces-sities of life To families in tho country many miles from a doctor such remedies are invaluable Mothers medicine chest has saved many a life and met many a threatening sickness at the thres hold and turned It out of doors So far from constituting selfprescription as Is often pretended acquaintance with a patent medicine often obviates 1 obvi-ates the necessity of such a step for I here is a prescription already made up the effect of which is well known One of the greatest advantnges of such medicine Is that its constant formula i for-mula gives It the character of a single drug so far as uniformity of result Is concerned and the peoplo who uso It know from experience Just what they can count on which Is more than can be said of many physicians prescrlp tions frequently obtained at a far greater cost and trouble |