Therapeutic efficiency in the use of the bromides is often as dependent on the avoidance of untoward effects as on the attainments of maximum physiologic activity. For this reason Peacock’s Bromides offer the most satisfactory bromide therapy, for not only does this happy combination of carefully selected bromide salts insure all the benefits of the most active bromide preparation, but it does so with the great advantage that gastric disturbance and all tendencies to bromism are reduced to a minimum. This is why in “particular cases” so many physicians are in the habit of insisting on the use of Peacock’s Bromides.

Notwithstanding the large number of Hypophosphites on the market, it is quite difficult to obtain a uniform and reliable syrup. “Robinson’s” is a highly elegant preparation, and possesses an advantage over some others, in that it holds the various salts, including iron, quinine, and strychnine, etc., in perfect solution, and is not liable to the formation of fungus growths. (See advertisement in this issue.)

“Many cases of acute coryza and naso-pharyngeal irritation are often due primarily to the streptococcus rheumaticus and respond to the usual rheumatic therapy.”

In these cases commonly called “colds,” generally deep-seated, painful and exhausting, Tongaline mitigates the congestion and by rapid elimination of the poison or germs, promptly relieves a condition often very obstinate and if not corrected within a reasonable time, attended with serious results and always with a tendency to become chronic.

For special stimulation to the kidneys, Tongaline and Lithia Tablets; if malaria is indicated, Tongaline and Quinine Tablets.

The amount of actual harm done with the best intention, by continually supplying the digestive organs with digestants, or ferments, instead of encouraging them to generate their own, is doubtless greater than we realize. It is not very often that one need order predigested food for a patient, although occasions may and do present themselves when this is advisable. But the indiscriminate use of pepsins and similar substances from the vegetable kingdom, in the management of many patients with weakened digestive powers, is scarcely to be justified. A much more useful remedy, because of its being a true stimulator to the digestive functions, gastric and intestinal, is Seng. This well known preparation contains the active principles of Panax (Ginseng), and is especially useful because it stimulates the physiologic activity of the digestive glands and thus “helps them to help themselves”—obviously the most desirable therapeutics in all functional cases. It should be remembered, therefore, that Seng is not a ferment to digest food which weakened organs can not care for in their natural manner. Instead, its action is to restore tone and vigor to the secretory structures so that they are able to evolve and supply their own ferments. Seng is a very agreeable remedy to take, and its benefits are manifested in surprisingly short order. In convalescence from fevers or diseases impairing the digestive functions it is unquestionably one of the most efficient remedies being used by medical men today.

The world is full of fallacies—It is fed upon half truths. It drinks in sophistry and then wonder is expressed that the millenium is so long deferred.

Take for instance the unfortunate use of the terms “expensive” and “high-priced” or of “costly” and “cheap.”

Price—be it high or low, is what one pays.

It has nothing to do with what is received.

Quality on the other hand, is what one gets, or fails to get. Service ditto.

A useless, or inferior article or service, even when bought for a low price, is expensive and costly!

On the other hand, the better or higher the Quality or the Service that is obtainable, the higher the price—which is a great natural law. Hence, high-priced should, and usually does men, high quality or service.

In fact, a moment’s reflection will show that the impression created in the mind of a person of average intelligence, by the word “cheap” applied to a person or a thing, suggests inferiority.

A cheap person or thing is apt to prove the most expensive. A high-priced person or thing usually turns out to be the most economical.

And, it is a most important fact that this applies with especial force to therapeutic agents of any kind intended for use by the physician, and with fulminant emphasis to drugs or agents that have to be put into the human body.

The physician who hesitates or is influenced by “high price”, provided he knows the reputation and standing of the parties marketing the product, is false to his obligation to himself and to his patient.

All of which applies with especial force to mineral oil and particularly to Interol.