NO MORE “NASTY MEDICINE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 3

NO MORE “NASTY MEDICINE”

HALIBUT LIVER OIL TASTELESS AND CONCENTRATED I LONDON, Sept. 24. The Chemists’ Exhibition, which opens to-morrow at the New Hall of the Royal! Horticultural Society, brings to an end the threatening phrase, “Nasty Modicum.” No longer will the ohifdrou be coerced by threats of cod-liver oil administered in gigantic tablespoonfuls.; no longer will the dyspoptic or the invalid complain that ho might ho restored to health if only he could stomach his medicine. For the chemists have so. successfully put their minds to the subject of eliminating the unpleasant taste and appearance of medicine that the taking of modern medicine is almost in danger of becoming a vice. Take the ease of cod-liver oil, for instance. Cod-liver oil, the doctors very properly assure us, has enormous healthgiving properties, but there must be thousands of people who would almost forego a return to health rather than endure a tablespoonful of it. The chemists have therefore conspired to produce a new medicine having the same properties, but so highly concentrated that where a tablespoonful needed before, only a drop is wanted now. This is an extract of halibut-liver oil, which is 60 times as strong as cod-liver oil, and is i almost tasteless. DISINFECTANT NOVELTY Then there is the important question of disinfectant. For many years chemists have been at work trying to devise a disinfectant which will be effective in j dairies and in the sheds where cows are milked without affecting the taste of tho milk. Milk, as everyone knows, is 1 highly susceptible to odours in the air, but at last the experts have devised a disinfectant which can be employed not 1 only in the dairies, without affecting the tasie of the milk or butter, but which I can actually be employed during that ■ most critical period when the cows are being milked. This newly-invented spraying material has the additional advantage of keeping flies and insects away from cows while they ' are being milked, and so prevent them from being tormented at a moment when immobility and peacefulness are most required. 1 It was stated that a similar preparation is being manufactured for use by human beings, and will shortly be put on the market. This will keep off flies and mosquitoes, will have no smell, and will not evaporate. This year’s exhibition displays a lmndred-and-odd chemical preparations which ought to relieve the housewife of many little unpleasantnesses hitherto unavoidable. There are all sorts of medicines “disguised’’ as barley sugar, butterscotch, sarsaparilla, and lemonade. ! There are cosmetics which do not “run” even under the heat of cooking over a five or stove. There are hair-oils which do not stain pillows or cushions and which yot impart a glossiness to tho hair. There are hair bushes and nail : brushes which, while they claim to he ! as efficient as tho stiffeat of bristlos, stroke tho scalp or tho flesh with tho softness of silk.