Show THE FAMILY DOCTOR By Dy John Joseph Gaines M. M D. D i Y WARNINGS AGAINST I heard a blithering charlatan charlatan charla charla- tan the other night hawking ha a no well-known well nostrum and for s cry ery imaginable up trumped-up reason urging the simple list- list toner to buy it You have heard this thi ballyhoo many times delivered det de de- livered H-ered t ered in a solemn almost voice I imagine trey sell millions of bottles of thE she he stuff nothing stu stuff nothing certain about out it but the pay for it This nostrum you are assured assured assured assur assur- ed is good for everything from snake bite to gangrene 1 It was being e exploited as a cure for r ivy poisoning common at this season Somebody in despair des des- despair D pair ir had swabbed the infected area it area ea it acted like magic magic- The plo ing dramatist said the victim hard had accidents touched poison Pelson oak Th That t name is as ac a ancient as the nostrum racket Poison oak indeed 1 j Absolute ignorance nce was shown in the reference to the ina in hr f area Ivy poisoning is ja janot 3 not an infection No more than a burn by fire is an in in- It is simply an intense acid irritation irritation no no infection- infection germs in the process I 1 have an idea that ivy acid would destroy many infecting micro There is no infected area in poison poison- ing Carbolic acid is one of the I deadliest poisons on earth it I needs no germs to aid it in killing folks The commercialized huckster that tells you his stuff will win make wholesale slaughter of germs in so many second is is good to be wary of b he D t probably never saw a germ in lin his life he is simply out to do a million dollars worth of bu Ci- Ci n- n iness i- i ness and you pay the freight ht J dear reader Ask your fall physician who has been trained trained trained train train- ed by the best m methods known |