Show modern medicine tho great improvement in tho present as compared with tho past methods of administering medicines deserves a passing comment scarcely a generation ngo the threat of u boso doso of tho nauseous drugs 0 tho day was sufficient to suppress the worst of evil propensities in the most wicked boy when actually in need of medication he was held in the chair and gagged to exhaustion in the parental anxiety to measure the capacity of hia unwilling with the bulky contents of the justly hated bottle frequently the struggle had more to do with the perspiration than alie medicine very often for obvious reasons the bottle broke before the fever castor oil was a punishment rhubarb was a terror and denna an abomination the nauseous mixtures of our grandparents are now replaced by the elegant and almost tasty compounds of modern pharmacy the essentials of the former medicines are now given in the forms of condensed extracts and alkaloids in proportionately reduced bulk and in consistently concentrated form single remedies with special indications take the place of the old fashioned shotgun mixtures tablets pellets and pills no longer offend the palate and even quinine the bitterest enemy of taste now sues for favor in sugar coated armor the irritable stomach which denies the usual approach to the internal economy is now diplomatically checkmated by an injection under the skin which although a longer way round is a surer way home dr george F shrady in forem |