Show IV YAR j T TO TOi DOSER 0 Oft DRUGS t 01 f t t j t I It U You tG Get Sick I jt l e t ed At Atthe the Increased t Cost Ie 0 1 I i rj it jt f i I eoJ eople e o hare haye to to pay tor for the that filling rUling filling of pre pr pre prescriptions zi or or the refilling of one may find themselves l Mort of that Change hanger A p J lion tion that before the be war It h- h l would co cOt cost t you u 75 75 I cents ma n now cost cOlSt you u from w 90 DO ceni to I 25 and of or I n 1 course think the druggist druz yr y has bu made fa Ia mistake i J r For example le 1 to 10 cents S worth orth of of tb fore the f war war started tin A August t 1914 I a lJ ml might s suffice ones for ODes needs needs for months wJ while while bow how 10 cents centa dose worth might d do fot tor t one n Jh I The following tr fro ll fth the ther k Weekly Drug Market y i t be interesting and at l least tK tar t Instructive The w bo the cost ost to to the whole whole- lr w W r I I saI ho cannot an Increase n to t ly the retailer Jn JD l like erMio ratio a sr C n on ou tesiP 11 r K i V j V WOE I O OX DOSER O OX I Continued from page 1 I can cnn the retailer increase the price to the consumer to equal the rise rise So tho consumer consumer con con- sumer Slimer does not shoulder th tho whole burden Th Present 1 Cost ost of 1 Drugs Unparalleled The high cost df elf living h ho hsc f been a common topic ot of for some time past but bast the high cost of being kept from dying or even of lust just being sick bids fair I 1 to exceed it The present high prices pricE'S of drugs and ha have ve never been equaled eIn ein e ev in the times of our o ow ow Civil CI War The following list shows show some of the more remarkable jumps in price th tho prices es of July 1914 a athE athe athe the time Ume of the outbreak the Ht European war with tho the high point reached sines then Int Increase rease I IPer Per Cent I Belladonna slum bromide 1500 Quinine 1200 Sage Carbolic acid acid 1001 Calomel 1800 Potassium permanganate Saccharin 60 In some somo of ot these instance os us in the case of belladonna I t the lt rise in price is due to the tho fact that this drug is largely cultivated In and from Germany and Austria 11 li lithe the case of ot the tar coal-tar products products pro pro- ducts the reason is 18 found in the use of many of th basic basc substances in the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of explosives thus carbolic acid is largely used in III making the explosive known as picric acid sometimes sometimes some some- times called and all available stocks are being diverted to that use so 80 far fara faras a a. as possible Quinine is so high in price because so 80 much is used in the treatment of febrile conditions arising in troops exposed ir iI Iq the trenches tren tren- ches |