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Show norance or for mercenary reasons are opposing the sale of all household remedies, why is it not equally necesfor patients to know the composary To one not qualified, and few sition of the remedy prescribed by a are, to discriminate intelligently bebetween physicians prescriptions, pro- physician f Does any sane person a in the that lieve opium physicians prietary medicines and nostrums, it is less potent or less likemay seem little short of a crime to prescription ly to create a drug habit than the opihiivt even that physicians prescriptions are in any manner to um in a proprietary medicine? As a nostrums; nevertheless, an impartial matter of fact, more have been made examination of all the facts In the and the carelessness of criminal through, case leads irresistibly to the concluignorant physicians than by any other sion that every medicinal preparation compounded and dispensed by a physi- means. Unquestionably, there are a number cian is, in the strict sense of the word, a nostrum, and that the average, of proprietary remedies on the market prohibitproprietary remedy i3 the sales noof which shouldwillbe be when doubt and ed, they to the average superior of the Food and the requirements physicians prescription. What is a nostrum? According to Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many the Standard Dictionary a nostrum is are frauds, pure and simple, and some "a medicine the composition of which are decidedly harmful. Of the average proprietary remedy, however, it is kept a secret. Now, when a physician compounds and dispenses with may truthfully be said that it Is distinctly better than the average physihis own hands a remedy for the treatment of a disease and it is authorita- cians prescription; for not only Is its 13 pretively stated that probably 60 per composition less secret, but it for the by reputable pared proprietor of ail cent, physicians prescriptions in this country are so dispensed the manufacturing pharmacists in magnifnames and quantities of the ingre- icently equipped laboratories and undients which constitute the remedy der the supervision and advice of able are not made known to the patient chemists, competent physicians and Hence, since its composition is kept a skillful pharmacists. It should not be secret by the physician, the remedy or considered strange, therefore, that so to prescribe prescription is unquestionably, in the many physicians prefer proprietary remtrue meaning of the word, a Simon-pur- e these nostrum. Furthermore, the pre- edies rather than trust those of their own devising. scription compounded by the average to more is be a than likely physician IN LONDON. ALL RELIGIONS perfect Jumble replete with therapeutic, physiologic and chemical In- Faithist Community Latest Addition compatibilities and bearing all the earto Its Queer Sects. marks of pharmaceutical incompetency; for it is now generally admitted The Faithist community has that unless a physician has made a established a modest footing in of and special study pharmacy passed and whose comprehensive gospel some time in a drug store for the purfrom the creation of man to ranges pose of gaining a practical knowledge the and labors of the gods and "glory of modern pharmaceutical methods, of the Etherian heavens, is goddesses he is not fitted to compound remedies the latest addition to the long list of for his patients. Moreover, a physi- London's religious sects, which are cian who compounds his own prescripnow almost as many as the days of tions not only deprives the pharmacist the In London the Chinaman of his Just emoluments, but he endan- burnsyear. his incense stick In more than of for is the lives it gers patients; one in the east end, the Maonly by the detection and elimination hometan has his mosque, the Malayan of errors in prescriptions by clever, his temple, near St. Georges street competent prescriptionists that the east; the Parsees worship the sun in safety of the public can be effectually Bloomsbury, the Mormons have a misshielded from the criminal blunders sion in Islington, and in many parts of ignorant physicians. of the the Buddhists and Nor can it be said that the average Ancestormetropolis Worshipers perform their physician Is any more competent to strange rites. Of Christian sects in formulate a prescription than he is to London there are at least 300, includcompound It. When memorized or di- ing the Cokelers, the disciples of Wilrectly copied from a book of favorite liam SIrgood, the Walworth shoeprescriptions by famous physicians, the Peculiar People, who preor medical maker; or from some fer prayer to physicians; the journal, the prescription may be all the followers of Joanna that It should be. It is only when the Southcott, the prophetic serving a to is required originate physician the Shakers and the Seventh maid; formula on the spur of the niqment that his incompetency is distinctly ev- Day Baptists. ident Seemingly, however, the physiWOMEN IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. cians of the United States are little worse than the average British physiIn Many Ways They Had Easier Lives cian; for we find Dr. James Burnett, Than Their Descendants. lectuier on Practical Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Edinburgh, lamenting The women of the sixteenth century in the Medical Magazine the passing and earlier times had easier lives than of tho prescription and bemoaning the those of our generation. To be sure, fact that seldom does he find a "final there are a hundred labor saving deman" able to devise a prescription vices which were unknown to even In "good contracted Latin. them. But In at least two Important And what, it may be asked, is the respects they had the advantage over status of the written prescription the their descendants. They waged no prescription that is compounded and conflict against dirt such as we carry dispensed by the pharmacist Is it, on from morning till night. The Eliztoo, a nostrum? It may be contended abethan had no prejudice against garthat the patient, with the written bage in his front yard, vermin in his formula in his possession, may learn bedroom, decaying rushes on the floor the character of ?he remedy pre- of his banquet hall, or soiled lace in scribed. So, possibly, he might if he his sleeves. The strength of arm and understood Latin and were a physician which now goes to keeping clean spirit or a pharmacist, Mt as he usually pos- was left to the medieval lady for other sesses no professional training and tasks. Moreover, although her clothcannot read Latin, the prescription is ing was gorgeous rich wdth embroidpractically a dead secret to him. ery and lace, and heavy with jewels Furtheiniore, the average prescription It was not subject to rapid changes of Is so badly written and so greatly fashion. The cut of a sleeve or the abbreviated that even the pharmacist, of a skirt was settled for five hang skilled as he usually Is in deciphering rather than five months. Life years is constantly medical hieroglyphs, was then free from the modern terror obliged to interview preservers to of "looking like a last year's rag bag. find cut what actually has been preYouth's Companion. scribed. It may also be contended, that Inasmuch as the formula Is known THE LOAD OF THE LAZY. to both physician and pharmacist the prescription cannot therefore be a se- This Man Worked Hard in His Own cret. But with equal truth It might be Particular Way. contended that the formula of any nostrum Is not a secret since it One of the neighborhood loafers sat 1s known to both proprietor and comfortably smoking his fjul pipe, acfor It must not he forgotten cording to his daily custom, in the prethat, according to reliable authority, scription room of a drug store. He 95 per cent, of the proprietors of was soliloquizing aloud to the clerk. patent medicines prepared in Here is a sample of his sound, conthis country have their remedies made tented philosophy: "I'll tell you what! for them by large, reputable manufacA man is mighty miserable If he ain't turing pharmacists. But een should got nothin to do. when he aint work-in- ' a patient be able to recognize the at somethin. I know It I've tried liatu! s of the Ingredients mentioned in both ways an' I find that there ain't a f.miiuU he would only know half nothin that makes a man more miserthe story. It Is seldom, for in dame, able than doin' nothin. But, you that alcohol is spei Uically mentioned know, there's two kinds of work; one iu a pieseiiplion, for it is usu iky of them is where a feller goes to work masked In the form of tinctures and at six In the mornin an works with flu! extracts, as are a great many h.is hands till six at night. The other other substances. It is evident, there- is where a feller sits around an thinks. , fore, tli.it the oi dinary formulated pro I aint neer happy unless Im work-inbut I dont believe In that first sei.piioft is, to the average patient, little K ss than a strict remedy or nos- kind of woik. I heliexe In thinkln all trum. day long, an thats harder than the Oil the other hand, the formulae of other kind, I can tell you you Just neary all the proprietary medicines try It if you don't believe me; u man that aio exploited exclusively to the Is mighty miserable when he ain't STATUE TO G. F. HOA Wliittal, Janies Logan, brands O. Dal-quois- t, Stephen Salisbury, Charles II. Hutchins, A. George Bullock, Philip J. O'Connell, Paul II. Morgan, Henry A. Fund for Erection of Memorial to Dead Marsh, Arthur P. Rugg, William B. Rice, Henry A. Bowman, Homer P Statesman Raised by His NeighLewis, Jacob L. Coding, John F. Jan-drobors in Less Than a G, Stanley Ilall, Napoleon P. Week. Huot, Nathaniel Paine and Charles M. Worcester, Mass. The George Fria- Thayer. The money was raised through popble Hoar memorial statue, which is to be placed on the common somewhere ular subscription, the gifts beginning near the city hall in a few months, is rapidly being completed under the direction of the sculptor, Daniel Chester French, at Glendale. It is to be erected by the citizens of the home city of the former senator. The plaster cast in accordance with which the statue itself is to he made varies little except in size from the model first shown to the trustees, nothiug important having been changed after the sculptor's fiist idea was presented for the board's approval. As the statue is that of a seated figure, complications of choice regarding Jts position are expected to arise. Those in special interest make no prediction as to what part of the common the statue will occupy, but there is general opinion that its environment should be a matter ol selection after the full effect of the completed memorial can he studied. The sculptor's commission calls for the delivery of the siatue by October of this year, and the progress of the work at the sculptor's summer studio gives assurance that the memorial will he ready for dedication at the tune expected for the exercises. with one cent each from school chilThe George Frisbie Iloar memorial dren and running up to as high as fund was raised in about a week. On $ ,0n0. In less than a wreek the sum May 23, 1903, Mayor Walter H. Blodof $20,000 had been received, and then gett called a mpeting in his olllce to the board of trustees went ahead with talk over plans for the memorial. The its plans. All who have given anyspirit of the meeting was unanimous thing to the fund have received a for the erection of the memorial, so Hoar certificate, so called because ithe following board of trustees was each hears the likeness and a copy chosen: Mayor Walter II. Blodgett, of the autograph of the dead statesthe Rev. Thomas Griffin, Matthew J. man. 1 SNXONFLICT WITH A STATE. NEED OF WILL POWER. Federal Judge Rules Rate Bill Penalty Clause Invalid. Means Asheville, N. C, Peter Connelly Pritchard, who decided that the penally clause of the new state rate bill Out nowhere is the restraining and direction of the will so needful as when the mind is thinking. Thought pour Into the mind from every direction, and the faster the weaker we Let a man be proshappen to be. trated by fever and he finds it hard to keep his thoughts front running to the end of the earth, until he may actually "wander In delirium. In ordinary life desultory thoughts are not only of no use, but may he as injurious as they are worthless. When, as In worry, they are of a disturbing nature, they may jar the mental machine till it wears out by its own friction. The paramount need, therefore. Is for some great steadying governor, a3 that part of a steam engine is well named; or, in other words, we need a will too strong to be diverted by any thoughts from its purpose. Any one who thinks, speaks, and acts only according to purpose, is a giant among scatterbrains, because it is the will that achieves. Wo are ever meeting men with brilliant mental gifts who are sad failures merely because they lack tenacity of purpose, which means lack of will power. To exert influence over Lis fellows, a man must have a constant Inner power of which he who goes about shoots and brings down himself ol'tener than anyone else. Dr. William Hanna Thomson, In the Every- of North Carolina is unconstitutional. Judge J. C. Pritchard. AnJ who has been United States district judge since 1904, has risen to that high position from a penniless Absolute Essen- tial of Success. , "half-cocked- " boy. When a boy of ten he started to walk from his Tennessee home, whore he was born, to North Carolina, with bodys. ten cents and a chicken sandwich in WINTER SPORT IN SUMMER. his pocket. He stopped at Ilakersvllle, Roan N. C., a little town at the foot of Pleasure Enjoyed An mountain, and applied for work and by July Visitors to Switzerland. food at the office of the country newspaper. He got both and began his London. Though the Swiss valleys tareer as a printers devil. He work- are basking In the early summer suned hard for a number of years and the mountains still retain their shine. Identified himself with the Republican mantle, and on their northern wintry party. He first got a small appointsnow descends to a point the slopes ment In the Internal revenue service below the snow line. Tourists far marHe was and promoted gradually. ried a Miss liowman, the daughter of a prosperous farmer. Judge Pritchard was the nominee of his party for governor of North Carolina In 1SS3. In 1890 he was a Doth limes candidate for congress. he was defeated. Marion RuMer conceived the scheme of fusing the Republicans and Populists and Pritchard was his foremost ally. "Fusion" won by a large majority. In 1901 Illtchard was elected to the United States senate and represented North Carolina there until four years ago, when he Summer Coasting In Switerland. was made district judge. 60 of Is age. yeavs Judge Pritchard who are now "doing" Switzerland lie Is considerably above medium have, tiu'tviore, an opportunity of height, and, in fact, always appeared in the winter sport of sledgquite a giant among such men as Sen- ing uiid-p.u tienhii !y pleasant conators Chandler and Quay, near whom ditions, it being to start from he sat in the senate. "zero" nvc ay up on the mountain side and to slide down to the verge of A Ventilation Test. few minutes. It is very Laid to make an Impres- "summer heat" within a sion on those people who defend their Crusty OH Gentleman, possessions on ail occasions. A wom"Seme people .tie so queer, said an was explaining to a visitor the Now, many advantages of concrete hollow ti e young mother with a pout. think then- - is nothing that should be block construction, of which the walls m-of her nc-- homo were built. applet luted than a generous "The air spaces in the walls afford cl. lid " "What are you referiing to, Wjr insulation against heat In summer and cold In winter," she explained. dear?" asked tier neighbor. "Why, the baby, I had him In the "'Besides, such walls afford ventilation ear yestciday and light In front sat 4 and Insure a more healthful house." The visit tr reflect od a moment and misty old gentleman with sldo whin-keis- . Four times the baby offered him loplled: "Our fran.e house must be quite as a stick of candy and each time ho only Winn the soft candy got well built. Every night we ln k the cut In tho cellar and have to let her stuck In his side whiskers ho broma out of the attic In the morning." very Deiy and told the conductor. Was n't h- - rude." Youth's Companion. e po.-siLl- 1 j opium-addic- cocain-flend- ts s ready-prepare- specially-prepare- ready-prepare- d Bal-ha- Joss-hous- text-boo- Unable to Do Even Housework cause of Kidney Troubles. n lav-me- WILL BE UNVEILED AT WORCESTER, MASS., IN FALL. TEN YEARS OF PAIN. ARE PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS NOSTRUMS? e Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer Copyright: 1907: Hope. God pity the man who has lost his hope. Who drags through the heated day Who works with a heart in his breast like lead As dead as his sodden way! God pity the man who has lct chance. Who toils as the wooden wheel. With never a thought of the things done Nor hope for his future weal! his un- God pity the man with a heart of stone, The man who is slave, indeed. Who sows with a brain that is dull and seared And sees but the falling seed! God pity him! Yes. for his all is dead! , His form is the merest clay The wounded frame of a blasted hope That died ere the judgment day! Idlewild Fancies. Many fellows get so used to hunting for work that they feel lonesome and disappointed when they find a job. Oil the hinges 'on your furnace doors. Summer is flitting away. Soon wife will disturb your evening comfort by insistent and' repeated demands that you go and fix "that furnace. Aint women the contrariest? No man should be held to account for kissing a pretty girl with a dimple. There are some temptations too much for even the strong man. A certain pastor of a certain flock told his congregation the other day that any man who drew a salary exceeding $25,000 a year was a thief, because no mans services were worth more. That puts me safely on the side of an honest man, all right! A New York poet wants to know what he shall sing when all is sung. Why not the Doxology? The automobile can still give the horse the horse laugh when it comes to accidents. The horse caused over 800,000 accidents last year but, of course, there are more horses than automobiles. medical profession as well as those woi kin." of a large percentage of the proprieIn Praise of the Pie. tary remedies that are advertised to I. aura Simmons tells in an article the public (the patent medicines) are published in full. Under why good New Englanders Ehould the Food und Drugs Act, every tnedl- - stick to pie, and calls attention to the clnnl preparation entering interstate fact that Emerson ate it three times commerce is now required to linvo the a day, and says that pie is the ladder New England has climbed proportion or quantity of alcohol, by which to its place of proud eminence. She opium, cocain and other habit formwhelher any sensible per ing or harmful ingredients which it questions may contain plainly printed on the son was ever known to forage at ths midnight hour for predigested cereal As physicians prescriptions label. seldom or never enter Interstate com- or the innocuous prune. She does not merce they are practically exempt un- believe that many Now England anceder the law. And if It he necessary stor died of apoplexy, due to pie, but for the public to know the composlA counsels all to go on pie eating, despite tlon of proprietary remedies, as Is the fact that the fiat tus gone forth contended by those who through ig that It Is vulgar to eut pie. pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me. and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doans Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MilburCo., Buffalo, N. Y. jr, tfj n CAME PRETTY FAST FOR PAT. At That, He Had Had Only What tho A Philadelphia that physician says not long ago he was called to see an Irishman, and among other directions told him to take an ounce of whisky three times a day. A day or so later he made another visit and found the man, while not so sick, undeniably drunk. "How did this happen? the physician demanded of Pat's wife, who was hovering about solicitously. Sure, dochter, an tis just what you ordered, an no more, that he had, she protested. "I said one ounce of whisky three times a day; that could not make him drunk, the physician said. "He has had much more than that. Divil a drop more, dochter, dear, Sure an ol didnt she declared. know just how much an ounce w'as so oi wint to the drug store an asked, an the lad hes a broth of a boy, too told me that an ounce was 16 drams and Pat has had thim regular, an no more! Harpers Weekly. Used Ink for Bluing. One can never be too careful about apparently harmless articles setting about the house, said a housewife the other day. "Not long ago my husband brought home one of those big tall bottles of ink from the office. It had got to be such a nuisance buying one of t the small bottles every time we ran out of ink, that he said he would bring home a supply. "About a week after that I got a new maid, and when she did the washing she took the big bottle of ink for bluing. Of course every stitch of our white clothes in the washing was ruined. Punishment by Inches. A Bergen (Genesee county) to-da- y 1 sharp, shooting five-cen- Sande-manlan- s, r; from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused by Byron Williams. k manu-factuie- Be- An Ohio man eats a teaspoonful of sand every day. He does not chew the sand merely washes it down with water. He also takes great care not to eat food containing lime and he does not swallow his toothpicks. He says that by following these rules he is curing his Indigestion and has no fear of lathing and plastering his in- Justice of the peace has adopted an original scheme for the dispensation of justice. Henry Meyer, 27 years old and seven feet two inches tall, was a prisoner in his court for stealing four bags of oats. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, one day for each inch of stature and one for each bag. Nunda (X. Y.) News. A Big Loser. Mrs. Myles I see the son of a London dry goods man is- a bankrupt, having managed to get rid of $2,100,000 since he came of age. Mrs. Styles Oh, well, boys will be boys! Mrs. Myles Well, this looks as if a boy had an ambition to be a bridge whist player. - terior. A shortage of wind is reported from Kansas, the wind mills standing idle ffiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiimiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiup and the cattle thirsty. This Is about I the only thing Kansas has been Bhort of for many years. Where are the FOOD populists? It is claimed that the foot grows larger by day and shrinks by night. If this be true, buy shoes in the afternoon when your feet are at their zenith, so to speak. Looks frequently are deceiving. Sometimes a young man whose appearance would suggest that he retired very late the night before, hasn't been to bed at all. According to a country paper a detective was walking the streets of the village incognito the other day and everybody knew it. The coffee has a mean way of being too hot when you have to hurry to catch your train down town in the morning. Ever notice it? Sometimes the longest a woman loves a man is until he is short. The woman who die-- on the stage always feels flattered when she hears someone weeping in the audience. A poor young man would not long so to marry a tall, but rich, young lady if he were not so short. I know a fellow who changes his shirt every morning, but never has been known to change his mind. lie is too blamed neat and obstinate for this world. FACTS - An Opie Read Story. Opie Read Is very superstitious. While on a reading tour with Ben King, the poet died suddenly at Bowl-inGreen on the night he recited "If I Should Dio Tonight. Commenting on the incident, Read Baid: "There was a curious chain of circumstances that night. It was the 13th of the month, It was the thirteenth town of our tour, thirteen sat down to the table with us at supper, and thirteen darkies, thinking that Ben and I were jolng to give a minstrel show, sat la the front row of the balcony." g 1 Grape-Nut- s I FOOD I 1 A Body Balance 1 Feople hesitate at the statement that the famous lood, Grape-Nutyields as much nourishment from one pound as can be absorbed by the system from ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or ats. Ten pounds of meat might contain more nourishment than one pound , of but not In shape that tho system will absorb as large a proportion of, as the body can take up Grape-Nuts- from one pound of Grape-Nuts- . This food contains the selected parts of wheat and barley which aro prepared and by natural means predigested, transformed into a form of sugar, ready for immediate assimilation. Teople in all parts of the world testify to the valuo of Grape-Nuts- . A Mo. man says: "I have gained ten I can food. pounds on Grape-Nut- s truly recommend it to thin people. lie had been eating meat, bread, etc., right along, but there was no ten pounds of added flesh until Grape-Nutfood was used. One curious feature regarding true health food is that its use will reduce the weight of a corpulent person with unhealthy flesh, and will add to the weight of a thin person not properly nourished. Thero Is abundance of evidence to prove this. Grape-Nutbalnnces the body in a condition of true health. Scientific selection of food elements makes Grape-Nut- s good and valuable. Its delielous flavor and powerful nourishing properties have made friends that In turn have made Grape-Nutfamous. Theres a Reason. 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