Show FACTS ACTS r concerning SELF medication the primary folly of self medication lies in alia inability of the ordinary individual to diagnose biag n se his 1 own ailments and the first e essential ss n t i 1 of any competent treatment is an accurate diagnosis it has been said that he who treats himself has a fool for a doctor it is to symptoms rather than the underlying disease that manufacturers of patent medicine arid and appeal no physician will prescribe for a patient without some knowledge of what disease or condition he is treating certain drugs have spec specific iffe actions on body tissues therefore the physician first 3 the disease to be tre treated atol and then he ls is able to prescribe such drugs drue s as may produce the desired results most of us may not be expected to look 1001 for the t things lings omitted in I 1 medicine advertising but for the safety of ourselves and our families we can refrain from self medication and go to a physician with our ills ile he is the only one competent compete lit to dla diagnose gnose and treat them VERLE EAKER county nurse |