DRUGS £8 AN OUNCE.
Some of the most important drugs have become so scarce that doctors are greatly handicapped, especially as it is difficult to substitutes for some of them. This scarcity has resulted in exceptionally high prices. | Atropine is 3d and 4d a. grain (£6 to £8 an ounce), while eserine (poisonous ; alkaloid) is worth more. Both these drugs are indispensable in ophthalmic surgery. The scarcity of atropine is due to the dearth of fbelladonna, the raw material from which it is extracted, which is obtained from Central Europe. Phenacetin, a'popular headache and neuralgia remedy, is now twenty-two times the price charged before the war. t I".-Aspirin, another very .popular di*ug. is now twenty times dearer than it was 'in "1914.' Salicylic acid and salicylate 'of soda, remedies for rheumatism, are 'worth eighteen times their pre-war price.—London paper. r
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13998, 31 January 1916, Page 2
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140DRUGS £8 AN OUNCE. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13998, 31 January 1916, Page 2
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