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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16785, 29 August 1916, Page 8

— War has raised tho cost of medicines not only by cutting off the supply fiom Germany, but also by reducing tho homo output. Even such necessary things js calomel, carbolic acid, and cod liver oil are from two and a-half to 11 times tho prewar prices (save the_ Daily News). German coal-tar derivatives like phenacctm and antipyrm could, no doubt, be produced m Britain if all the coal-tar wero not needed for high cxplo=i\ cs; and all those are from 12 to 26 times, tho lioimal price. Tho German proprictaiy food, Sanatogon, is being replaced by Sanagon, made in Tipperary. The published analysis shows this to be even richer in phosphorus than its German picdecessor, and chemists are selling it a Itlle cheaper. Worms. - SOME STRIKING SYMPTOMS. A child who is afflicted with worms will often be in an indifferent state of health. It becomes peevish and irritable, and will have a strong tendency to pick the nose, fand theie will be seve ■• itching of the lower bowel. Grinding the teeth and suddenly starting up in the sleep will also be noticed. The bowels are irregular, sometimes constipated, and at other times relaxed, with bloody discharges, as in dysentery, and not infrequently the discharges will be in flakes and shreds, which might be taken for partly-digested foot!. The best proof of worms is worms, and if their presence is suspected, immediate steps should be taken to positively establish the fact, and, once established, Comstock's " Dead Shot" Worm Pellets should be administered, according to directions. Worms require a specific medicine, and there is no remedy so effective as these Pellets. They kill the worms, destroy their eggs,