ated with every-day life and household 
; requirements. 
\ If we are suspected of being a bit old- 
}fashioned, we shall readily concede the 
| point, for we freely admit a leaning to- 
\ ward those vegetable and botanical drugs 
which our forefathers used with so much 
(now offer them. To us it seems clear 
j that, in the quest for the new and differ- 
‘ent or modern, much of real value has 
Rabeen sacrificed. We believe that, in the 
substitution of chemical and synthetic 
drugs for the natural vegetable and bo- 
_tanical drugs whose use goes back to the 
dim shadows of antiquity, we have gone 
altogether too far and paid altogether too 
much for the doubtful advantage of ef- 
fecting a change and getting something 
_ different. 
— But, though we have firmly adhered 
to the natural products of soil or forest, 
‘in preference to those developed in the 
‘laboratories of man, we have spared no 
‘trouble or expense to avail ourselves of 
“every improved method for treating and 
“preserving those botanical drugs or sup- 
‘plying them in prepared form for ready 
juse in the conditions for which they may 
be indicated. The result is that our im- 
‘proved methods for preserving or combin- 
‘ing these botanical drugs, with a mini- 
“mum of loss in their natural strength in 
‘crude or original state, have increased 
|the medicinal powers and possibilities of 
those drugs and the products compounded 
‘from them. Though we employ substan- 
“tially the same botanical drugs that have 
_been in common use since time imme- 
'morial, we have profited in our methods 
of handling those drugs from the experi- 
ence of others as well as from our own 
experimental work and observation. 
' While we offer you what may be old in 
substance, for nature is consistent and 
constant, we present it in such improved 
condition and form as reflect the best in 
i current thought. 
It is because of these policies and be- 
liefs, upon which this business was found- 
ed and has been consistently maintained 
\through many years, that we solicit your 
‘patronage. 
i Yours for the best in botanical drugs, 
i INDIANA BOTANIC GARDENS. 
