| Show USED BY THE DOCTORS ninety per cent of the drugs pre bribed ascribed are patent medicines the opposition lon of ts of those hose whose experience hat been neither far reaching nor prof flable to patent medicines ninety per cent of all mugs that clans use tire are put u up and compounded liy by concerns concer nH fl are in fact patent just as truly as it if they advertised in the tha nes newspapers papera ilia doctor knows little or nothing of pharmacy anti and is therefore glad to depend on the very cities which tn III public he condemns just as aa he Is obliged tn in many eaves to depond on the diagnosis of the pa lent himself evin bitici publicly do crying what he calls self diagnosis how lapold has haa bom the growth of tho the professional use of or apro pro medicines la Is shown in an article writ writtie for the journal of the Arne american rIcan ledl cal association for r 2000 by A al D LL 1 D lie ile relates that hat 50 pie compounded la in several drug stoies to carefully examined from 1850 to lo 1870 no was waa tomu for patent or kropi detary medicines in ili 1874 but ono one tion in ili 1500 called for ready to use remedies Ile 1875 and 1880 the number calling for patent or pio prie tary medicines equalled equal led amo aft 0 per cent of tho the total this increased to 6 per cent in the philoa between ISSO and 1890 in it was 12 per cent in 1898 it was 15 per cent and in 1902 2902 1903 as horn 20 to tn 25 per cent dr jacoba sa BO a that in a large store ho be was assured that 70 per cent of tho ilia pi descriptions m were ere for I 1 patent or pi opi letar medicines and this probably la Is approximately the correct proportion at the he plesent time from this it bould seem meem that it if tile the patent and medicines are bood enough foi to proscribe prescribe in seven beven cases out of ten they are good enough for family use in caspa cases of necessity and where the symptoms are veil mell knon and as easily under stood b the people as by the doctors |
