Show POWERFUL DRUGS A score of ears ago dlugi wei e given in quite crude forms iho pills alien aged were large enough to excite at pre henison 0 in i obliged to tike them antil quite ie bently nil medicines leave contained more or less extraneous matter which added bulk but bot virtue t them gradually the chemist eliminated such matter until at last drugs ft ire furnished in nearly it not quite pure form lint he di 1 not atop there he nest applied him belt to extracting alie active principles of medicinal agents and now neaily all the powerful remedies are aed in what wo might term highly form us with a ready illustration of this great change the powdered leaves were once given in I 1 two doses and the extinct of 11 e I 1 same in one halt grain doses at alie present time wi hai e aconite ua the real virtue of acotto in leighly concentrated form and the dose f thit 19 from 1 to I 1 of 1 grain of course a a full dose might be made exceedingly aej aa a matter of fact it is piu up in ery small granules flie in Is that in taking medicine ona roust be exceedingly care fill to follow the physician s to the letter 1 because the pills aie small one must not assume that they bait be tikon recklessly V man not long ago deceived himself in that way altti roost disastrous results his 1 hy 01 dered some ten granules scaife ly larger than pin beadi winch con H very ow drug lie tt is cautioned to take only alnee times a day but thinking to expedite mat I 1 ter he to k all of them it one d 0 o and joined the majority ft I 1 i clerah |