THE POLICY OF HONESTY

When we began business, we determined to treat everyone alike; to have one price for all; to take back, immediately and without question, anything that failed to prove as represented. When a physician wrote us that some preparation had not produced the result that our salesman had told him that it would produce, we immediately requested that physician to return the preparation at our expense, and upou its receipt, we immediately returned to the purchaser the full amount paid by him for the preparation. This was only honest; but it was a very good policy. We began in the cellar of an Eighth Avenue Drug Store. Then we moved to a small loft in John Street. Then we took another loft, and another, and another. And then we bought ninety acres of ground at Orangeburg, New York, and built a large laboratory and cottages. We have never borrowed, owed, or imitated anything. We know that "Honesty is the best policy," and that to this policy" we owe a large part of our rapid increase in business. But we could not have succeeded under this policy unless our preparations had proved their superiority over other remedies. Physicians would not have continued to prescribe Pa-pay-ans Bell unless Pa-pay-ans Bell had shown them better results than did other anti-dyspeptics. Doctors, to live and succeed, must retain their patients, and obtain more patients; and to retain their patients and to get more patients they must prescribe remedies that produce satisfactory results. The only sure test of ability is success. The most successful men, both in reputation and financially, are the largest prescribers of Papay-ans Bell. This statement we will prove to every physician who asks. Two

men, whose standing is as high as that of any two men in this country, have been prescribing Pa-pay-ans Bell, in indigestion, for nearly ten years. Over seventy thousand physicians, by our records, are now either prescribing or dispensing Pa-pay-ans Bell, and its an

nual sale exceeds three hundred million tablets. We are now in a position to prove our claim, at our own expensethat Pa-pay-ans Bell is the best antidyspeptic in use. We will prove it by delivering, gratis, to any physician who has not used Pa-pay-ans Bell, two hundred, five hundred, or a thousand of these tablets if desired-enough to convince any physician, by what he sees it do, that Pa-pay-ans Bell is the best antidyspeptic at his command-enough to prove its superiority over any and all other anti-dyspeptics in use. We have

accumulated a large reserve fund for this purpose and will, upon request, immediately and without any expense or obligation on the part of the physician, deliver enough Pa-pay-ans Bell to satisfy any physician, by what he sees it do, that Pa-pay-ans Bell is the best remedy that he can prescribe in indigestion. If you don't know, and want to know, address, Bell & Company (Inc.) Orangeburg, New York.

Assured therapeutic results can only follow the administration of active remedies. Extemporaneously prepared preparations, in lieu of time tried and clinically proven products, especially where dependence must be placed upon crude drugs of uncertain strength due to improper selection of deterioration from age, has resulted in dissatisfaction to the physician and disappointment to the patient, who has a just right to expect benefits as a result of the remedy prescribed.

For twenty-six years Hayden's viburnum compound has remained standard both as to quantity and quality of its component parts as well as to the uniformly satisfactory results following its administration.

Hayden's viburnum compound is prepared with that care, both as to the selection of drugs and in the proper combining, to make it a perfect and dependable product which is impossible where a substitute formula is extemporaneously prepared from the stock and with the limited facilities of the average drug store.

Druggists doing a large prescription business report a phenomenal increase in the demand for granular effervescent aperients. There are any number of these upon the market of various grades of efficiency; but physicians seem to prefer the simple salts, prescriptions calling for sulphate of magnesia and sodium phosphate outnumbering materially those demanding compounds of known or partially secret character. Saline laxative (Abbott) seems to be regarded as the representative preparation of magnesium sulphate and as it is even stronger than the official magnesi sulphas effervescens and decidedly more pleasant to take, it is very generally given the preference.

Saline laxative (Abbott) is obtainable in air-tight tin containers, also in bottles, and comes in three sizes, small, medium and large, so that any desired amount may be prescribed with the assurance that it will reach the patient in first-class condition.

If in the next case of dysmenorrhea, you will at least give Hayden's viburnum compound a trial, administering it a few days prior and during the menstrual period, we are confident that your patient will experience the same beneficial result as has been the case during the many years Hayden's viburnum

compound has been before the profession.

In amenorrhea, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, Hayden's viburnum compound has proven of unquestionable value and as its reputation has been built up and maintained solely upon its merits as a reliable remedy in the treatment of diseases of women, we are confident that if you will use it in your next case, you will be as well satisfied, as have been those who have for years placed their dependence upon it. Ow- ing to the popularity of Hayden's viburnum compound and its large sale, it is extensively imitated by other manufacturers. To assure satisfactory beneficial results, the original H. V. C. should only be administered. We would be glad to send samples and literature upon request. New York Pharmaceutical Co., Bedford Springs, Bedford, Mass.

The fall reason brings cool weather and raw winds. This condition checks elimination through the skin. More work is thrown upon the kidneys. It is not always that they are equal to the extra task imposed. Imperfect elimination is the result. The autotoxic state which soon develops is expressed in either so-called gouty bronchitis, with or without asthma, gouty eczema, recurrent tonsillitis, or rheumatism. To establish adequate elimination is to remove the cause and thus affect a rational cure. The ideal eliminant in such cases is alkalithia, made by the Keasbey & Mattison Co., Ambler, Pa.

The physician who prescribes Gray's glycerine tonic compound in original bottles, knows that he is getting a product representing quality, uniformity and therapeutic efficiency. The definite responsibility of a reputable firm always insures reliability, and the manufacturers of Gray's glycerine tonic compound are proud of the faith they have kept with the medical profession.

VOL. XI

No. 11

THE LIMITATIONS AND THE USE OF PARAFFIN IN COSMETIC SURGERY

By Charles C. Miller, M. D., 70 State St., Chicago.

(Continued from Page 314 October Recorder)

A great deal has been written regarding the injection of paraffin and many special forms of syringes have been recommended. Complicated syringes with jacketed needles and electric heating appliances are unnecessary as paraffin may be injected cold with a strong, all metal syringe, provided such syringe has a screw piston arrangement. After considerable discussion operators have not been able to show advantages from the use of paraffins in the high melting points so that it is unnecessary to use an agent with a melting point very much above body temperature. The author has of late used paraffin compounds melting at approximately 115° F., and such have been used because they are conveniently injected at room temperature and pass readily through the ordinary hypodermic needle in the solid

state.

The injection of the agent in the solid. state much facilitates the technic as it is possible to have the sterilized loaded syringe always ready and no complicated

apparatus is to be dealt with; the operator simply sterilizes the skin over the site of the proposed injection before beginning. In the cold injections absolutely no haste is called for and the injection is absolutely under the control of the surgeon.

INJECTIONS OVER THE NASAL BRIDGE.

Injections made to raise the nasal bridge may make a striking change in the appearance of the profile, yet such injections are frequently made to the disadvantage of patients. When the skin over the nasal bridge is placed unduly upon the stretch reddening of the skin is liable to develop. Such redness is not liable to develop if the parts are not over-injected. The skin over the nasal bridge should be movable before an attempt is made to raise the nasal bridge by paraffin injections and in all cases where it is held down by cicatrices such should be divided previous to the injection.

Division of scars subcutaneously with a narrow-bladed knife is not difficult, but the operator may have some trouble in keeping the skin mobile after such division. No arrangements are necessary to prevent the "wandering" of the paraffin when it is injected in a solid string. Injections of the nasal bridge demand the building up of a narrow bridge and the operator cannot be too