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Show ! GOOD FOOD SURPASSES S DRUGS i NKW YORK city spends thirty-live , million dollars each year main-i main-i milling Its hospitals. Of this amount, ten millions, or nearly one-third, are spent for food. This is quite different from the old idea of a hospital. People used to think they went to a hospital to take j medicine. They know better now. A hospital Is a place for making sick I people well, not for dosing them un-j un-j necessarily. i A hundred years ago doctors didn't ; know what caused diseases or how i they could be prevented, so the only ; thing they could do was to give such medicines as they had. in the hope of ; restoring the patient to health. The ! wise doctor today doesn't give tyiy 1 medicine unless he knows that It's i going to help the patient. Of course. this means that what medicine Is given I todav Is much more necessary and ! boneticlal than the larger quantities ! that used to be administered. Doctors ! give fewer drugs today because they i know more than their predecessors did. j Ilos-pltals spend more money for food ; than they do for medicines, because I they know that every patient needs to be properly nourished, while comparatively compara-tively few need drugs. With our better knowledge of the chemistry of foods and the processes of digestion w-e are nb'e to combine feeding nnd medication in a way that the old-tltne doctor never thought of. A certain amount of Iron is necessary for health. If you must have It In a hurry your doctor gives you a proscription proscrip-tion containing Iron, which will rapidly liHTfnse the amount of iron In your blood. Put he would rather give It to yon ln a natural wny through your food. The Iron you gci In fresh vegetables vege-tables and fruits Is better suited for your bodily needs than the iron you get in pills and In bottles. So the doctor today gives bis patients, pa-tients, either at home or in the hospital, hos-pital, many needful substances In their fond which he formerly had to give In the form of medicines. When he does give medicine, he gives It because It Is necessary and he gives the smallest amount thnt will do the work. Every capable physician knows to day that It is Just as Important for his patient to have the right kind of foe1 i the right kind of medicine. |