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 moment your father is drunk. How has his health been recently? Has he been taking any medicine?;

"'Why, for some time, six months, I should say, father has often complained of feeling unusually tired. A few months ago a friend of his recommended Peruna to him, assuring him that it would build him up.  Since then he has taken many bottles of it, and I am quite sure that he has taken nothing else.'"

From its very name one would naturally absolve Duffy's Malt Whiskey from fraudulent pretense. But Duffy's Malt Whiskey is a fraud, for it pretends to be a medicine and to cure all kinds of lung and throat diseases. It is especially favored by temperance folk. "A dessertspoonful four to

six times a day in water and a tablespoonful on going to bed" (personal prescription for consumptive), makes a fair grog allowance for an abstainer.

Medicine or Liquor?

"you must not forget," writes the doctor in charge, by way of allaying the supposed scruples of the patient, "that taking Duffy's Malt Whiskey in small or medicinal does is not like taking liquor in large quantities, or as it is usually taken. Taking it a considerable time in medicinal doses,

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