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Show Your Health. New Pain-Killer, Metopon, Surpasses Morphine By Jsmes W. Barton, M. D. When we ee a loved one suffering suf-fering unbearable pain, it is only natural that we feel like giving a those who need It most (cancer sufferer), metopon can be obtained ob-tained only by physician and hospitals, hos-pitals, who must stats patient' name, condition, amount of metopon meto-pon needed. It is on receipt of this report that a further supply of metopon will be Issued to physician physi-cian and hospital. Caaceri It' Symptom aad Treatment We never should forget that cancer is curable If discovered early. Send today for Dr. Barton' booklet entitled "Cancer: Its Symptom and Treatment" To obtain it Just inclose 10c and a 3c stamp, to cover cost of handling ii iiiii an drug, however strong, that will give relief from pain. Then we remember that the most effective effec-tive drug is morphine, mor-phine, and realizing real-izing how easily the mor p h i n e habit can be established, es-tablished, we are at a loss a to what should be done. Dr. Barton and mailing to the Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Home Service Bureau, Salt Lake City 10, Utah, and ask for your copy. i It will come a a great boon to sufferers with unbearable pain, and as a great aid to physicians, to learn of the properties of the new pain-relieving drug known as metopon hydrochloride. In the Canadian Medical Association Asso-ciation Journal, Dr. Nathan B. Eddy, Bethesda, MdM states that through funds provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Na-tional Research council undertook a coordinated program to study drug addiction and search for a nonaddicting analgesic (pain killer) kill-er) comparable to morphine. The principal organizations banding together to find such a drug were the Universities of Virginia and Michigan, the United States public pub-lic health service, the treasury department's bureau of narcotics, and the health department of the state of Massachusetts, which brought together chemical, phar-malogical phar-malogical and clinical facilities for the purpose of study. Metopon is the drug which these worthy organizations have given to pain-racked pain-racked patients throughout the world. Metopon is derived from morphine mor-phine and is much like it In iU actions, is twice as effective in relieving pain, and its effects last longer. It seldom causes vomiting and does not cause depression of spirits and dullness of mind. Another great advantage Is that metopon can be taken in tablet tab-let form by mouth, no hypodermic injection needed. However, to make thia drug available only to |