HAVE aLL BEEN GASSED WAO WISHED! The Sun Dial D.iscusses (in the New York Evening
Sun) the New Cure for Cclds discovered by Arny Doctors, which Consists of Breath
ing a small Quantity of Chlorine Gas:
Have yo’i a cold? Tf so, never mind sending for the doctor* Send for the gas man
Gas (chlorine type) has been found to give reiie
in trio neadj throat and lungs. Several thousand
inglv during the last few weeks, including the ?
better and none of them have felt any worse *
ftp patients suffaring
people have been gassed
resident* kfosi of them
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felt
Consequently doctors are predicting great things for the chlorine gas treatment.,
intimating it nay be of immense benefit in very serious illnesses* The public
is keenly interested* The fully equipped home of the fat me may have to have
two gas: \ systems, one for cooking and one for asthma«
Yi/hy drop three dollars to a doctor when you can drop twenty-five cents in a gas
meter and get better results?
Chlorine gas was used extensi/ely durin^ the World har, but nobody who took it
noticed that it did them any gcod. course, it wasn’t being distributed in
those days according to the doctor's prescription.
Groat progress has been made in medicine and surgery since the war. Nubbdy
would be particularly startled by an announcement that liquid fire had been
found a sure sure for cnills, TUd? a marvelous remedy for housemaid's knee and
barbed wire an ideal substitute for mustard plasters.
Smoke screens, grit up in capsule form, soon may be offered in cases of inidAwr
atory rheumatism, rickets and lumbago. On sale at all druggists' .
Patients are showing gigns of skepticism. They suspect the Government is sim
ply trying a new method of gectiig rid of surplus war materials.
It nay be a move to set up the Army Sa.les Stores in opposition to the aispen
saires and apothecary sh-»ps.
Some possible testimonials might read as follows:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
For years I suffered from pains in the head, distressing twinges in the
muscles of the back, specks before the eyes and extreme lan^or. I tried evsrv
thing. Sever months ago Major Prentice: iDeepdish o' the A rim* Chemical Service
suggested I try smokeless newsier. I took two barrels of this wonderful remedv
in a glass of cold water before and after eating and am now so strong that I
am afraid of myself. The Army forever’.
(Signed) Aloysius McGee.
dr something like this:
DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
U. S. A*
Gentlemen:
I am glad to recommend Gen, Briggs Concentrated Essence of Sword
Polish to all victims of chronic hay Tfe/er and hives. The Argy did a crreat
thing for humanity when it salvaged the sword polish left over from the war
and converted it into liniment , For years I had been unable to walk, but heard
of the Essence of Sword Pol?.sh and gave three botxles to my oldest boy., I am
now able to walk without the slightest difficulty. (Signed) Jeremy Jenks,