Show ARE 11 BY THE TUE PRIC j High Eligh Cost of Drugs in in C G many Seriously Handia Handi Doctors in Treating Ma Cases of Illness I 1 KARL H. H VON WIEGAND WIEGAN Univ Universal Service Staff ent BERLIN March 25 c C prevail In German medIca cles es Ph Physicians no longer such uch medicines as they know to t most flost effective but only such as ag t patient can afford to pay for This tragic state of affairs is d dhe dj the he fact fast that the drugs possessing most nest powerful curative proper prop must be imported and paid for a. a a dollar lollar rate J The physicians keep their prese ion formulas and the late latest t iffs Lff lying side by side on their de and nd try to fit the price to the p pot of ot their p patients t tOne 4 One of the most moat drastic Instance the rise In drug prices Is that o out nine which Is now selling for 1850 0 ti its prewar value Just when the i In enza wave is at Its height to J nothing of the thousands of easer cases permanent malaria among the I bled soldiery which participated the Balkan campaigns 1 RISE BEGINS J This enormous rise In the prices price all Important drugs began last Nov Novi ber at the time of the j fall of the mark and corresponding of ot the dollar 1 The two outstanding medicines S the S house apothecary of everyman every everyman everyman man family are aspirin and castor the former of which now costs costs f f times its prewar price while castor casto Is six fifty-six times as dear as In 1914 Castor oil was used by the gall gallor the military barracks both by re rca rea of ot f Its cheapness and its efficacious as the soldier inclined to report si 51 1 was soon cured of this habit after n ing swallowed several doses of nauseating remedy S 1 j Another popular drug now lacking lackin the family medicine chest Is rhu i This comes from China and Is held by the English who termine Lermine its price in the world m mar maj German erman wholesale drug mercha must now pay marks for 4 J pounds of the best quality of rhubarb S Vas Vaseline line Une the basic ingredient d most salves Is imported from Arne Amex and has gone up 50 per cent lan lanol l which is extracted from sheep's w v has undergone the same increase S geons and surgical clinics are feel fee very keenly the prohibitive pried prica nitrate of silver solution now sell for marks a kilogram or I pounds 1 S BOTTLES AND CORKS To the increased prices of all aU d q whether imported or native mu must added the very marked Increase bottles ottIes and corks now selling for fi times Umes their prewar prices The Ih price of cork is explained h by th tf that hat it must be bought In Spain Spam wIthe wl wI the coal scarcity has reacted upon glass lass blowing industry ff The greatest econom economy Is exercised the he use and conservation of sec hand bottles but this has only cr cra a aan an tn evil within an evil as the gl gI manufacturers have already the he chemists the they will be obliged d shut hut down the industries if th tb the I Imand mand nand for medicine phials does no noC not C crease rease This Is not a case of C on the part of the German dr as they S Sting are prevented from from's s 's ting ing an arbitrary scale of prices b official drug tariff fixed b by the I ional council i I Some idea of the additional bu burc borne by the consumer Is shown figures published by the generals general s 's fund of the city of Berlin BerUn which ding di dl ing the first half halt of the year ear 1921 pi p druggists' druggists bills to the amount of ji 1 marks marks marks-at at which time the thed d lar was selling for only 70 cents 1 I |