Show A NON NOS MEDICINE Universally Used by the Medical Pro Pro- What Is the most important remedy known to the medical profession A guessing contest might be established upon this question which would doubtless doubtless doubt- doubt less ess bring to the fore a great variety of remedies yet as stated by a a. very successful practitioner there is one medicine given to patients which physicians physicians phy phy- find more important than any other Strange to say this is the quite universal and ineffective bread pill which after all all is not bread but only so-called so on account of its harmless nature The bread pill Is sometimes nothing more than a plain sugar pellet pellet pellet pel pel- pel- pel let at others where a liquid prescription tion Is givena given a weak solution of sugar I and water or a a. mixture of powdered licorice or gentian both harmless drugs when given In the weak proportions proportions proportions prescribed by the doctor Of course the principle use of the bread pill Is in the case of a patient patient pa pa- tient who imagining himself ill calls in his family physician and the latter knowing his patient to be be perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- well prescribes the bread pill But probably the most opportune of all times for the use of the bread pill Is when the man of science makes a a. visit to a particularly ill patient but whose symptoms are of ot such a nature that he Is perplexed as to the charac- charac 1 i ter of the disease or where they have not developed sufficiently for him to determine the true nature of the case In this event he ho does not wish to display display display dis dis- dis- dis play his ignorance or pr what in reality may be but an apparent lack of knowledge knowl edge since at some stages it is Impossible Impossible impossible Im Im- im- im possible to accurately diagnose a a. case but jut a frank admission of this kind would destroy the patients patient's confidence In n his lIs physician And so EO at this juncture juncture juncture junc junc- ture the bread pill steps In In is given to the sick person with no apprehension sion of ot any harm resulting |