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Show Home Medicine Saves $$ London (UK)- The availability avail-ability of home medical ion saves the German people $500 million annually, accorJmg to Dr. Ludwig F.i hard, If the same criteria were applied to this country's needs, U.S. medical medi-cal care savings would amount to some $2 billion annually, The former West German Chancellor and noted economist, econo-mist, speaking at a World Federation Fed-eration of Proprietary Medicine Manufacturers meeting, said that this represented the savings in doctors' fees and additional medicines made possible by nonprescription pharmaceuticals. pharmaceuti-cals. Supporting I'.rhard's point, Dr. John Fry, past president of Britain's Royal College of Gcn- ernl Practitioners, predicted that his country's National Health Service would collapse without the availability of nonprescription non-prescription medicines. The World Federation of Proprietary Medicine Manufacturers Manufac-turers is an international association asso-ciation of non prescription drug manufacturers, Its chairman is Donald L. Bryant, senior vice president of Miles Laboratories, makers of Alka Seltzer, and other proprietary products. Bryant affirmed the organization's organi-zation's intention to work closely close-ly with other branches of the pharmaceutical industry in self-regulation self-regulation wherever possible. |