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ployed the sulphate of zinc, tannic acid, carbolic acid, and other drugs have been employed.

Many injections of solutions of these drugs have been employed and in some cases they have done good, but the experience of the profession is now that the same and even greater good can be accomplished by other more certain means. Injections are not made correctly, and do not reach the surface affected often and many times failure is due to this cause. Again they very often cause irritation and do harm by enhancing the diseased conditions present.

Annie, aged 22 years, married and the mother of one child. She has been suffering from leucorrhoea for a year. I could account for this only on the ground that her cervix had been inflamed by an attempt that she had made to produce an abortion on herself. This patient was anaemic and complained greatly of weakness. She had a very profuse discharge, which often contained considerable pus. She was given treatment for anaemia and Unguentine diluted one-half its bulk with vaseline, was applied to clean non-absorbent cotton and put in position so that the diseased surface should be covered with the remedy. For the first week this was applied twice daily, but after that time the discharge was less and she employed the remedy less often.

Improvement in this case was constant after the first week and the patient made a complete recovery, being under treatment only about six weeks. She is now, after a year, well and has had no recurrence of her affliction.

Corinne J., aged three. The mother of this child kept a boarding house and feared that the little daughter had been mistreated by some one. She was found to suffer from seat worms. This patient's labia would be closed almost with the discharge that poured out from them. The seat worms were given a quietus in the proper treatment and Unguentine diluted with half vaseline was applied over all tangible parts of the vulvae. After this treatment had been employed one week the little patient had entirely recovered.

Mrs. G., aged 33, had been a suffer for a long time with leucorrhoea, which was of the vaginal variety, and which was very profuse and purulent in character. This woman had some anaemia and her appetite was indifferent. Appropriate treatment remedied this condition, and application of Unguentine diluted, every other day as the conditions seemed to warrant, brought about a complete recovery in five weeks. This patient has had no recurrence of the attack after eight months. Her strength is good and she is in good spirits and in every way the picture of vigorous health.

I will close this article with these briefly given clinical histories, the space at my disposal being too limited for further histories. We may add, however, that this treatment so largely employed in Louisville, is bringing such good results that it will gain further extension by the profession, who are generally quick tocast off old time and unsatisfactory methods for modern and scientific measures.

Resinol Chemical Co., Gentlemen: I have been using your Resinol Ointment for about two years. I first used it in an obstinate case of Scrotal Eczema, and the result was magical. Since then I have prescribed it in cases of pruritus ani, pruritus vulvae, eruption of poison oak, hemorrhoids, herpes, and tinea capitis, and in all cases the results have been very gratifying. I think a fair trial will convince the most skeptical of the value of the ointment. It has given me better results in the class of cases in which I used it, than anything I have used in twenty-two years' general practice. Wishing you the success your remedy deserves, I am, yours very truly, R. Frank C. Browne, M. D., Providence, R. I.

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WHAT DO YOU FEED THE BABY? Carnrick's Lacto Preparata and Carnrick's Soluble Food are the right foods, because in their preparation, the main points considered are the age of the child and its digestive powers. It meets perfectly the nutritive physiological conditions of all children under six months of age, and will nourish them perfectly when all other foods fail. mixed according to the directions, it corresponds with healthy mother's milk in taste, color, physical appearance and chemical constituents. Carnrick's soluble food meets perfectly the physiological conditions of all children after they have reached the seventh month of age. It differs only from lacto preparata by the addition of soluble starch and dextrin, and will nourish perfectly a child from the seventh month to the end of lactation without the addition of any other food substance. Both of these foods are now put up by the vacuum perfection process, which practically removes all the air from the interior of the glass jar, and they will keep perfectly in any climate for any length of time. Samples of Carnrick's lacto preparata, or samples of Carnrick's soluble food, and also a copy of "Our Baby's First and Second Year," will be sent to any physician upon request.

A PRACTITIONER DEVOTING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN: "In the treatment of choleraic diarrhoea we are safe, it matters not at what time we may be called, in administering some antiseptic medication, something which will prevent fermentation, and have a destructive effect upon the septic germs more than likely present in the alimentary canal. Happy effects are often secured by the use of Listerine properly diluted; a favorite prescription is the following:

Lambert's Listerine. Glycerine (c. p.), Syr Simpl. Aquae cinnamon, aa ozj. M. Sig. Teaspoonful every one, two or three hours, as may be indicated.

Taking into consideration the component parts of Listerine, it impresses me favorably as a prophylactic and remedial agent for cholera, along with other intestinal disturbances. The eucalyptus, thyme, gaultheria and boraric acid which it contains are all antagonistic to germ life and oppose fermentation. The preliminary diarrhoea (cholerine, as it is called) may well receive teaspoonful doses of Listerine combined with the same amount of glycerine; in fact, I should be inclined to recommend to the laity this combination as a prophylactic measure."

PREVENTION OF HAY FEVER.-In the January 21st, 1899, number of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Alexander Rixa, of New York, contributed a very interesting article on "Prevention of Hay Fever." After a highly interesting historical review, and a brief survey of the results achieved in the past few years, the writer resumes the results of his own investigations.

His ingenious research for a number of years, regarding the etiology of hay fever, lead him to admit that the pollen of the Roman worm-wood, ragweed (ambrosia artemisae-folia) is the primitive and active cause of this peculiar disease. By inhaling these pollen he produced the symptoms of genuine hay fever. He writes as follows:

From the time I found the pollen to be the exciting cause of the disease, I concluded in a logical way upon the proper treatment. I conceived the idea of rendering the receptacle aseptic by preparing the soil for the reception of the pollen. Naturally, they will find no proper soil for a possible generation, propagation or development, destroying their existence in embryo, so to speak, and with it the real cause of hay fever. For this purpose I decided on the following

treatment:

About two weeks before the onset of the disease I commence to irrigate or sterilize the nasal cavity and the post-nasal spaces with a harmless antiseptic solution, using the douche and atomizer. After giving a great number of antiseptics a fair trial, I decided on Hydrozone as the most innocuous and most powerful germicide. Hydrozone is a 30-volume aqueous solution of peroxide of hydrogen. At the beginning I use it for irrigation, diluted in the proportion of one ounce of Hydrozone to twelve ounces of sterilized water. Nearing the period of the expected onset of the disease, I increase the dose to two or three ounces of Hydrozone to twelve ounces of the sterilized water, according to the severity of the disease, using the douche, either tepid or cold, four times a day-morning, noon, evenings and at bedtime-while during the intervals I use the atomizer, with a solution of Hydrozone and pure glycerin, or sterilized water, one to three, thus keeping the nares perfectly aseptic during the entire period, and preventing the outbreak of the disease in consequence thereof.

In most obstinate cases, when there is still some irritation in the nasal cavity, I give as an adjuvant the following prescription:

Acid boracic, gr. xx. Menthol, gr. iv. Glyco-thymoline, oz. ii. Sol. coucain B. 4 per cent, q. s. ad. 02.ii. Sig. Use in atomizer. As a rule this treatment was sufficient to avert the disease and keep the patient in perfect comfort.

"A TRUE DISINFECTANT"-For purifying the waste pipes, closets, sinks and all waste carrying arrangements, for sprinkling about the cellars, store rooms, etc., Platt's Chlorides has proven a most reliable and economical disinfectant. It is a colorless liquid and when diluted and sprinkled about leaves no stain or smell while it instantly removes any foul odors and destroys disease breeding matter. A quart bottle will last an average family a month and it can be obtained at all druggists.

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FRANK PARSONS NORBURY, M. D. AND THOS. A. HOPKINS, M. D.

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Volume XVI

Bickerings.

AUGUST FIRST

Editorial Department.

Number 3

DANTE had but little use for the man who was constantly grumbling, given to bickerings, and discontented without just cause, To such specimens of frail humanity, he assigned the lowest place in his Inferno, by which was implied that the scolding, grumbling, fault-finding, bickering individual was above all the least desirable inhabitant of even an Inferno. In the medical profession today there are a FEW (?) individuals presumable candidates for this undesirable territory in Inferno, "the land of least happiness." These candidates are found everywhere, yes, even within the sacred circle of a great college faculty, and if the walls of the faculty room could talk, oh! how little would some great men seem. Again, in the medical society, in the committee room and elsewhere, we find bickerings as detestable as they are selfish, as uncalled for as they are useless, and as iniquitous as they are immoral.

Bickerings are the signs of small, narrow, congested lives; two by four uncultivated character roaming about in a six by ten, petty, vain natures. Bickerings may have their origin in the attempt of certain pompous turkey-gobbler individuals, to attract the attention of their fellows. They want to be the drum major of the procession, and have the whole medical world watching them as they pass by. In their vanity they choose such small tin-horn methods, and believe themselves great in so doing. Bickerings belong to such people, and, alas! there are many such people in the medical profession. They occasion jealousies as deep dyed as the secret hatings of the Mafia, they create the famous physicians' quarrels-break up medical societies, or prevent their formation, and sometimes murder and suicide follow in their train.

Human nature is the same the world over, but culture tones down the rude out-croppings of any savage natures. Physicians are intensely human, and by reason of their profession are open to criticism and to have their privacy invaded. And when base competition, that selfish wedge in the hands of a jealous rival frequently insinuates itself into the private affairs of a physician, and with seeming free licence trespasses upon privacy lays open for criticism his acts, public and private, then it is that danger

lurks in bickerings; efficient medical service suffers, and the medical profession as a profession is made the object of public ridicule and slander. In almost every community rivalries exist, but let it be said to the credit of the profession, that hatred is only found where true culture is lacking. We believe that this dictum holds good wherever applied; the true culture of the medical profession of a community is best judged by the friendships existing between its members. True culture carries with it the thought that the test of a strong nature is in its simplicity. "No character can be simple unless it is based on truth; unless it lives in harmony with one's own conscience and ideals." Where you find such evidence of the quiet, unobstrusive culture in a community, you will find but little bickering, few quarrels, and a united profession. "Men who carry on their shoulders the fate of a nation are quiet, modest, unassuming." Physicians who love their profession, who believe in it and in themselves are sure to be men of that stamp, and as such seek to cultivate simplicity and live to make themselves of use in the world.

F. P. N.

THE genus beggar thrives in cities as nowhere else, and while the sick, the halt and the blind have a right to the sympathy and support of a natur

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ally generous public, at the same time they owe us some consideration. Our streets are the business field of numerous more or less maimed solicitors, some but slightly objectionable, others so mutilated that they are absolutely horrible. Within a few days a man has appeared on our streets, who by some accident has lost his eyes, his nose and a part of his upper lip-with the exception of cotton in the open nares, his face is uncovered and presents a sight shocking to even those who have enjoyed the privileges of the dissecting-room; what the effect must be on sensitive women and children is easy to imagine. Against such a display we must protest; such a case excites our profoundest sympathy, but the state should care for such, and should see to it that their infirmities are not paraded before the unwilling gaze of the thousands of men, women and children who pass along our streets daily. While not a believer in all that is ordinarily considered possible under "maternal impressions," I have no doubt many prospective mothers will spend months in anticipation of evil, because they have seen this horrible sight. Sympathy for these women should far outweigh our sympathy for the cripple, they should be spared such sights; he and others like him should be banished from the public thoroughfares. In this instance the dress of the new arrival says that he came from the country-he should be returned at once, or else placed in some of the city's charitable institutions. Such a terrible picture should be kept from the public, even though the unfortunate himself objects. T. A. H.

THE bisulphate of sodium is an excellent remedy in lead poisoning, as it speedily eliminates the lead from the system.

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