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Show Fooled on Taste. "Do doctors know how their own medicine tastes?" was a question put to a group of physicians. "To be sure," said one. "but we have hard work to convlnco our patients pa-tients that wo do. 'If ou only knew how this beastly Htuff tastes, doctor, you wouldn't ask mo to take It,' Is tho complaint they make when dosed with nn especially 'disagreeable concoction. con-coction. And they aro hard-headed people, too, who say that people who nro by no means raving In delirium. No matter how sincerely I may protest pro-test It Is hard to pcrsuado them that I do know how the stuff tastes Just as well as they do. "'How did jou find out about It?' b ono pf their trump questions. 'You havo never been laid up with all the diseases In tho dictionary. How did you learn what tho different remedies tnsto llko?' "It never occurs to the nvernge patient that testing drugs Is a part of a medical student's education, and that no man Is qualified to practice until he has Warned tho flavor of tho medicines he prescribes." |