Show THERE IS A REASON the med cal times explains why doctors oppose patent medicines the medical times for april in a moment of frankness explains the whole opposition of physicians physician sto to pat ent medicines which are taken with out a prescription in the tol fol owing words we will hardly repeat here the specific statement to the effect that in one year 62 has been ex on patent medicines in the united states enough to give every practitioner in the country a yearly income of 2 in the face ot of such facts as these all talk of love of hu hit inanity manity altruism self abnegation and the like becomes cheat and ing it appears to us that such bun c combe 0 in be should give place to homely common sense reliable able authority states that the gross amount of the patent medi cine business is about 40 in stead of 62 but taking the medical timea times figures as correct they represent an outlay of considerably less than 1 per capita for home cation rhe cost of doctors tees fees ex elusive of medicines except such as are it r e dispensed tor for the same period probably was approximately this is reached by allowing an average income of 2 to each of the physicians in the united states even allowing that 6 gross business of 62 is to be divid ed between physicians phi the in come of each would not be increased more than |