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they pick and'crioose the medicines • ' ! • ' . •.. • " Do you? Do you take your prescription with a pinch of salt? Do you drop some medicines because you believe too many medicines are bad? Cut down doses at your whim and fanrjy? Then you're not on your way to recovering very fast! Your doctO'S prescription is the most compatible and effective combination — of the right medicines in the right doses. to be administered at certain times daily for so many days. If you alter this combination in any way, you are reducing the efficacy of the treatment. And only delaying your recovery or intens'fying the ailment. Give your doctor's prescription the importance it deserves. Have faith in it. After all. you should be the last person to prevent him from getting you well. World leaders in Vitamins /ROCHE/ Advertisement from an Indian general readership magazine. 88