Price—be it high or low, is what one pays. It has nothing to do with what is received. Quality on the other hand, is what one gets, or fails to get. Service ditto. A useless, or inferior article or service, even when bought for a low price, is expensive and costly! On the other hand, the better or higher the Quality or the Service that is obtainable, the higher the price—which is a great natural law. Hence, high-priced should, and usually does men, high quality or service. In fact, a moment’s reflection will show that the impression created in the mind of a person of average intelligence, by the word “cheap” applied to a person or a thing, suggests inferiority. A cheap person or thing is apt to prove the most expensive. A high-priced person or thing usually turns out to be the most economical. And, it is a most important fact that this applies with especial force to therapeutic agents of any kind intended for use by the physician, and with fulminant emphasis to drugs or agents that have to be put into the human body. The physician who hesitates or is influenced by “high price”, provided he knows the reputation and standing of the parties marketing the product, is false to his obligation to himself and to his patient. All of which applies with especial force to mineral oil and particularly to Interol. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, by Various