Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — Saving Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Saving Medicine.

It is a bad custom, when physicians’ prescriptions are discontinued by a patient, to stow away the remnants in vials apd boxes. Preparations carefully compounded for special cases and conditions may become absolutely injurious by lapse of time, and under certain circumstances some articles change their character by being kept in small quantities. There are a few simple preparations which may be kept in the house, though even of these the fewer kept the better. But, of all things injurious, among the most so is the giving to one person, without medical advice, the medicine prescribed for another. It would seem in some families that the members consider themselves as residuary legatees, entitled to appropriate all the remainders of the doses prescribed for a relative by a physician after his visits are discontinued.— Philadelphia Ledger. * The proprietor of the Plain Dealer, Fort Madison, lowa, Mr. J. H. Duffus, write*: “Two years ago I was cured of rheumatism in my knee by St. Jacobs Oil; have had no return; two applications did the work.”