Show Personal Persona Health Tendency Grows to Employ Few Shotgun Medicines By Dr William Villiam Brady In the good old days shotgun therapy was the height height- of fash- fash ion on In the notebook which I began keeping 11 the he day I first saw aw the head n nurse u r s e on the theu sur surgical u r g i c e a 1 side and nd knew she was h heaven heaven- heaven H e a v e n- n i sent are ent are severa several sever- sever i a al 1 formulas of favorite prescriptions prescriptions prescriptions of the great doctors of those days cash ays cash formula formula formula for for- mula including Dr Brady tram from rom six to fourteen Ingredients At the time I recorded these formulas formulas formulas for for- mulas in the notebook I had great faith aith in the efficiency of the medicines medicines medi medi- cines for they were prescribed by bythe bythe bythe the foremost physicians of the day Just why I put so much blind faith aith in the wisdom of doctors who vho were my teachers in medical school chool it is difficult to explain now Shotgun mixtures were popular with physicians a few decades back In a murder trail held In Canandaigua the bumbling old family amily doctor of the defendant who was vas charged with murder of his wife with prussic acid had a wretched time of it on the he witness stand stand stand-he he had given the women shortly before her demise demise de de- de- de mise some tablets for a cold Just what tablets Well some Borne tablets he had used for years for fol such uch conditions Yes yes but please lease tell the court what the tablets tablets tab- tab lets ets contained doctor The poor old Id duffer squirmed under the ordeal ordeal ordeal or or- deal and finally recalled that they were say Punk Havers' Havers No Jo 3 but just what the ingredIents ingred- ingred lents were cre the doctor c could not re- re you call all you see he had been using them hem so long that The defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's attorn attorney e introduced Punk Havers Haver's catalogue and the doctor found No 3 and read the list 1st of ingredients some ingredients some half dozen lozen drugs as I recall The defendants defendant's defendants defendant's de- de attorney left a strong impression with the jury that some of the drugs in the No 3 tablets might have had something to o do with the case At any rate the he pitiful admission of the doctor that hat he really didn't know what drugs he was giving the patient in her final illness taught me to worry along somehow in practice without using shotgun mixtures That applies to medicines Few physicians if any employ shotgun mixtures today The preference now Is for the rifle one medicine at a time To be bel sure we are In Inclined tn- tn dined to sound Bound off a little too much about our scientific therapeutics but the fact remains that doctors generally prescribe simpler medicine and less of ot it than ever before Whether the rifle is superior to the shotgun in combating diseases is another question QUESTIONS 11 ANSWERS VERS Sound Information on Epilepsy About requests for literature literature literature litera litera- ture came a as a result resul of your mention mention mention men men- tion of National Association to control epilepsy 22 E E. St. St New York 21 N. N Y Answer Thank Answer Thank you The pamphlet pamphlet pam pam- The Green Light issued by bythe bythe bythe the association is particularly helpful to any anyone one Interested inthe in inthe inthe the subject But why two separate separate separate sepa sepa- rate organizations Why not get together You and The American Epilepsy League 50 State St. St Boston 9 Mass Copyright 1918 John F. F Dille Co |