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Show . MYSTERIES OF MEDICINE. Doctor Know What Drags "Will Do. bat Not Why They Do It. "When a person takes a dose of medicine," medi-cine," said a doctor, "he never stops to consider what a wonderful provider nature na-ture is. When jou consider that we are able to give drugs which will go though the entire system without having any effect ef-fect spon any part or organ until it codv8 perhaps to some nerve upon which it expends all its force, it is indeed in-deed a miracle of the most wonderful kind. We don't know why it does it, but we know what it does. The progress in materia medica has been wonderf uL By provings the specific effects of drugs have been discovered, so that they can be given with specific results. Medicine is gradually emerging from the dark Talley of guesswork into the bright sunlight sun-light of scienca ' 'The modern physician does not make a mixture of seven or eight drugs, hoping hop-ing that some one of them will produoe the effect desired. He does not take chances upon striking a remedy one in Beven. He knows now just what drug will produce the rtsulta he wants, and he ' prescribes that I attended a man the other day who had not been sick for 20 or 30 years. I went into his room, and after observing his symptoms asked for half a glass of water, into which I dropped a small pellet, a triturata The old man looked at me after I had given Jiim a dose of it and then smiled. ' 'Well, doctor,' he said, 'you treat-ed treat-ed me for this complaint when I was .sick many years ago, and I must 6ay the remembrance of 'the taste of the medicine medi-cine you gave me then is still vivid. I don't think that a person could have mixed a more horrible concoction than that was. Now you treat me for thp s came disease, and the drug is almost j tasteless How do yon account for that? j " 'Progress,' I replied. And progress Iit isl Every day increases our knowledge knowl-edge of drugs and our power to alleviate Buffering and save human lif a ' ' Pittsburg Pitts-burg Dispatch. |