Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1917 — HERE’S A WAY TO' SAVE DOCTOR BILLS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S A WAY TO' SAVE DOCTOR BILLS

Physician* Give Free Advice By Which Parents May ■ - Profit. It was an association of gentlemen, professionally physicians and chemists, all of whom were born in the drug trade, so to speak, and who have been connected with it all their lives, who first gave to the world Castoria, which as every one knows is a pleasant and effective remedy for the ailments of infants and children. It las always been recognized as a mertorious preparation, and its reward las been the greatest popularity ever enjoyed by any remedy ever put upon the market; attained, not by : lampoyant advertisings appeals to ignorance or vulgar prejudice, but by inherent merit. All physicians recommend it, and many, very many, prescribe it. Many parents call in the family physician. Many other parents take advantage of what the physician told them when he was first called in consultation. All good family physicians say: “Give the children Castoria.” Healthy parents know this remedy of old, for they took it themselves as children. It was more than thirty years ago that Castoria made a place for itself in the house*: hold. It bore the signature of Charles H. Fletcher then, as it does today. The signature is its guarantee, which is accepted in thousands of homes where there are children.

Much is printed nowadays about big families. ‘ Dr. William J. McCrann, of Omaha, Neb., is the father of one of these much-read-about families. Here is«what he says: “As the father of thirteen children I certainly know something about your great medicine, and aside from my own family experience I have, in my years of practice, found Castoria a popular and efficient remedy in almost every home.” Charles H. Fletcher has received hundreds of letters from'prominent physicians who have the same esteem for Castoria that Dr. McCrann has. Not only do these physicians say they use Castoria in their own families, but they prescribe it for their patients. First of all it is a vegetable preparation which assimilates the. food and regulates the stomach and hpwpls. After eating comes sleeping and Castoria looks out for that, too. It allays feverishness and prevents loss of sleep, and this absolutely without the use of opium, morphine or other baneful narcotic. Medical, journals are reluctant to discuss proprietary medicines. Hall’s 'Journal of Health, however, says: “Our duty is to expose dangerous and record the means for advancing health. The day for poisoning innocent children through greed or ignorance ought to end. To our knowledge Castoria is a remedy which' produces composure and health by regulating the system, not by stupefying it, and our readers are entitled to the information?’