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Show We wish Christrr y , prospeiov y Year for evX one. BOYD PARK i MAKERS OF JEWELRY 66 MAIN STRtCT SW.T IAUE CITY I !l Typewrit I. All makes Rented. Repa''" I 1 V rite for prices-$7.SOdp')' Utah Office and Scli i 3 2 W. 2nd South Salt I KELP WANTED j'VwSfJ towns need barbers; Kr cwt-ii J tor men over ri rn Ituirc. f - (rood H9 olticers comml if"!,,". In few weeks. Call or write, moi ' Si beT"' Coll.ge, 43 8. West Temple St.. SalLak"c?ty DRUGS FEARFUL AND AWFUL j Amazing Concoctions That Our Ance. ' ti.,-8 Swallowed, Believing That They Had Medicinal Virtues. The medicines used down to even recent days sound most extraordinary to our ears. As late as the eighteenth century dried toad was seriously considered con-sidered a specific against the plague. In an article in the New York Medical Med-ical Journal Dr. William Renwiclc Ridded of Toronto, Camula. mentioned a few of the remedies In vogue. A plaster made of arsenic was applied ap-plied to cancers. Rleeding was practiced prac-ticed on all occasions, even in the time of our grandparents. But the sovereign remedy of all was known as mithridatium or theriaca. This was the great antidote of Roman pharmacy phar-macy : It originally had 40 or 50 ingredients, in-gredients, all vegetables, but Nero's physician, Andromachus, added the flesh of vipers. -very physjclnn had his own variation of the form -.- F Matteoli in the sixteenth centu, ' " ' no less than 120 ingredients into ; The name theriaca or thenac,-., der which it was commonly known, , was derived from the Greek "therion,": I a wild beast, as the stuff was consld- j ered a specific against the poisonous ! bites of beasts and serpents. The French word "theriaque" was corrupt- ' ed into the English "treacle," and the medicine was known in England as "Venice treacle." It was the famous Sydenham who first opposed the use of drugs. In fact when Sir Richard Blackmore asked him for a good guide In practice, he replied: "'Don Quixote," and declared that the arrival of a good clown would do more for the health of a city than that of 20 asses laden with drugs. |