DEARER DROSS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 234, 3 October 1913, Page 2

DEARER DROSS.

LONDON, Aug. 23. The increased cost of living is even pursuing one to the sick-room. Many of the medicines in frequent use in every household have slowly but steadily risen in price, and there are prospects of still further increases. At this time of the year the trade in drugs and medicines is generally slack, but in a few; weeks' time the autumn will ai'rive, and then more attention will be demanded from doctors and chemists.. Sufferers from influenza arid' rieui'd-lgia who have hitherto found miiriine a useful remedy, discover that- they have to pay almost double the price which has hitherto been asked, The ' reason is that an agreement rcgulatig the supply has been reached by the Java growers of the cinchona tree, from the bark of which quinine is produced, and the European makers.