Show ALCOHOL IN MOST MEDICINES indispensable requisite in compound ing of some prescriptions it la Is ot of course true that some proprietary prie tary medicines contain alcohol and nearly all liquid medicines prescribed by physicians contain it no honest bonest man will defend the sale bole of cants canto under the gulbe of medicine but every honest man should protest against a s system stem or of wholesale dentin elation born of malice or ignorance nee of pharmaceutical and fos by selfish interests it la Is as fumed that alcohol Is the cause of in temperance but there Is a great dif dl ference between alcohol and it if a substitute for alcohol could be found tor for use in the manufacture ot of medicines its ita discoverer coverer would mould render a great service service to the profession ot of pharmacy and the science of medicine for alcohol Is a very ex pensive expensive ingredient and a cheaper substitute would be gladly accepted anfor tun abely tle the word mord alcohol alcoa 01 in the minds of many people to Is associated excle with bar rooms drunkenness and all forms of degradation and vice this Is due to a lack of knowledge by the general public of the fact that alcohol is an indispensable requisite in drugs tinctures tinctured tures and fluid extracts all fi fluid u id extracts and tinctures tinctured tures on this th druggists drugg ests shelves contain from 20 tc 90 per cent of alcohol and of al all liquid medicines prescribed by phy more than asper cent ceat contain it in large proportions alcohol Is required to preserve or ganic substances from deterioration and from freezing and it Is also re quiren to dissolve substances not ble in water mater while babp it contributes to their preservation when dissolved diluted alcohol Is largely bartely emp employed loed in fluid extracts and Nh whenever enever a fc 16 reater strength of alcohol la Is required as aa a solvent for extracting medicinal pran pirt n chiples the medicine is of such buch a char acter as aa to preclude pie clude a dosage and for this reason preparations even it if containing 60 50 per cent or more ot or alcohol are practically less intoxicate at ing than beer in such cases the character of the medicinal constituents Ls Is such as to absolutely forbid the taking of the medicine in any way except in veo small doses and at stated intervals only to assume that any great number of proprietary med iciness are used as aa beverages is the verlest absurdity |