GUARD THE CHILDREN'S CHESTS.
: A FAMOUS DOCTOR'S MESSAGE TO MOTHERS. Dr. Gordon Stables, the famous English Medical author, pens a timely warning about the ailments that affect children's chests, which should be taken to heart in every Australian home. The doctor says:— "Do you know that von aro criminally negligent if you neglect the very first symptoms of a cold settling on your child's chest?
"Do you know that in Peps—if a. box is kept handy—you havo an ever-present Temedy of a most pleasant character, but certain and sure in its good effects?
"Don't neglect a cold, then. Don'.t neglect a cough, for, be what it may, as light as it may, there ie always a serious side to it.
"Keep cool, mother, l>nt do your duty. Don't hurry off to the chemist's shop for common lozenges and mixtures of peppermint and laudanum, or other dangerous drugs that may mean death to your boy. Just keep the boy in the house a bit, and give him Peps." A box of Peps in the home at this time of the year may snve you pounds in doctor's bills, as well as long periods of anxiety, if these wonderful tablets are used as soon as your child's sleep is disturbed by a cough. Peps contain no opium or other harm* fill drugs, and can be given to a child, Cither' , whole or crushed to a powder, with the assurance of absolute benefit. Get Peps from your nearest store or medicine vendor; Is. Gd. or 3s. a bos. llead Australian Dopot, 39 Pitt Street, Sydney.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3135, 13 July 1917, Page 6
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262GUARD THE CHILDREN'S CHESTS. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3135, 13 July 1917, Page 6
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