Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — A Fact. [ARTICLE]

A Fact.

In an Interview with a leading drug house the New York World, Nov. 9, 1890, gives the’following'' comment on the proprietors of reliable patent medicines: <*He is a'specialist, and should know more of the disease he actually treats than’ the ordinary physician; for while the latter may come across say fifty cases In a year of the particular disease which this medicine combats, its manufacturer investigates thousands. Don’t you suppose his prescription, which you buy ready made up for 50 cents, is likely to do more good than that of the ordinary physician, who charges you any where from $2 to 510 for giving it, and leaves you to pay the cost of . having it prepared? “The patent medicine man, too, usually has the good sense to*conflno himself to ordinary, every-day diseases. Ho leaves to the physician cases In which there is immediate danger to life, such as violent fevers. He does this because, In the treatment of such cases, thero are other elements of importance besides medicine, such as proper dieting, good nursing, a knowledge of the patient’s strength and so on. Where there istmo absolute danger to life, where'the disease is one which the patient can diagnose for himself or which some physician has already determined, the patent medicine maker says fearlessly: ‘I have a preparation which Is better than any other known and which will cure you.’ In nine cases out of ten his statement is true.” This is absolutely true as regards the great remedy.for pain, St. Jacobs OIL ,It can assert without fear of contradiction, that it is a prompt and permanent cure of pain. It can show proofs of cures of chronic cases of 20, 30 and 40 years’ standing. In truth it rarely every falls if used according to directions, and a large - proportion of cures Is made by half the contents, of a single bottle. It is therefore the best From an interview. New York World.