. Wisconsin medical recorder . d for ice cream, cake,etc., are efficient and harmless. Carmineand other colors are put up in pelletform for this purpose. Many patients do not imagine that they derive the benefit from pills andtablets that they do from liquid medi-cine. They should not be limited toeither kind. Some people want to taste their medi-cine; the majority do not unless it isvery palatable. One class of individuals prefer theirmedicine in concentrated form andanother desire a voluminous them out. It is well to tell the patient in a gen-eral way what results he may expectf
. Wisconsin medical recorder . d for ice cream, cake,etc., are efficient and harmless. Carmineand other colors are put up in pelletform for this purpose. Many patients do not imagine that they derive the benefit from pills andtablets that they do from liquid medi-cine. They should not be limited toeither kind. Some people want to taste their medi-cine; the majority do not unless it isvery palatable. One class of individuals prefer theirmedicine in concentrated form andanother desire a voluminous them out. It is well to tell the patient in a gen-eral way what results he may expectfrom the medicine. It may be thatthe medicine will not do a great deal ofgood, but the good that it does will bematerially supplemented by your sug-gestions. A woman whom I was once givinga renal sedative vowed that she felt themedicine in her kidneys the moment sheswallowed it. Hopeful and helpful auto-suggestions may seem foolish to us, butthey do the patient good. A DRY SUBJECT Original Sketch Drawn by Grace M. Norris, M. D,. Medicine is Such a Dry Subject WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 273
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