Show I A NON PATENT MEDICINE Universally Used by the Medical Pro Pro- What Is the most Important remedy known mown 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 very successful practitioner there is one medicine given to patients which physicians phy phy- find more important than any other Strange to say this is the quite universal and Ineffective bre bread d pill pm which after all aU is not bread but only so-called so on account of its harmless nature The bread pill pm is sometimes nothing more than a plain sugar pellet pellet pel- pel let et at others where a liquid prescription tion Is given a weak solution of sugar and ind water or a mixture of powdered licorice or gentian both harmless drugs when given in the weak proportions proportions Ions prescribed by the doctor Of course the principle use of the bread pill pm Is in the case of a patent patient pa pa- tent tient tient who who imagining himself ill calls calis in his family physician and the latter knowing his patient to be perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- well prescribes the bread 1 pill But probably the most opportune of all times for the use of the bread pill pm Is when the man of science makes a visit to a particularly ill patient but whose symptoms are of such a nature that he is perplexed as to the charac- charac jt f ter of the disease or where they have not developed sufficiently for him to det determine the true nature of the case In this event he does not wish to display display dis dis- dis- dis pl play y his ignorance or what in reality may be but an apparent lack of knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge since at some stages it is impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to accurately diagnose a 0 case but a frank admission of or this kind would destroy the patients patient's confidence in his ph physician And so at this juncture juncture juncture junc junc- ture the tho bread pill pm steps in is given to the tho sick eick person with no apprehension sion of ot any harm resulting |