tions require but a few moments this lamp will enable the surgeon or physician to make from 150 to 300 examinations of throat, nose, etc., after which the cells can be renewed at a cost of 50 cents. The lamp, no larger than a buckshot, is remarkably brilliant, and the stem is almost as slender as a pair of knitting needles. The regular attachments include the lamp with extension stem, throat mirror, laryngoscope, and tongue depressor, each with lamp attachment, and convenient length of duplex, silk-covered cord.

For specialists there are extra attachments, consisting of several sizes of laryngoscopes both plain and magnifying, urethroscope, interrupting handle, etc.

A. M. Hess and Company, 835 Broadway, New York.

UTILIZATION OF MILK PROTEIDS.

THE inventor of some destructive agent, as deadly as dynamite, or a new gun that can be fired fifty or a hundred times a minute, and that is capable of sending a bullet through half a dozen men or a dozen inches in thickness of hard oak or Georgia pine, and of killing at two miles, is dubbed a hero, and loaded with emoluments, patent protection and money; while the inventor of a new food product of value is at best classed with the promoters of proprietary medicines. This attitude of the public, and to a large extent of the profession, is perhaps a result of the unscrupulous efforts of those who from time to time exploit worthless products under high sounding names. But rational people, and especially physicians, should discriminate between shoddy and substance in foods, as well as in drugs and pharmaceutic preparations.

For years the food chemists have pushed their experiments in various fields and in no one have their efforts been more successful than in connection with milk products and milk derivatives. The milk-food companies may be counted by the score, and they

have accomplished much in the way of additions to nutritive products derived from milk. Milk is the first food of the infant, and its value in connection with the dietary of adults has been limited only by its keeping qualities and portability, as increased by condensation, the addition of sugar (which impairs its dietetic value) and by certain processes of combining it with malt and other substances.

The proteids contained in milk are probably more assimilable by weak stomachs than those supplied by any other foodsource. It has therefore been a long, stern chase, on the part of dieto-chemists, to discover a method of extracting these proteids and presenting them in a form that ensures both palatability and permanency.

This has now been done, the product being very aptly named Plasmon.

Plasmon is the proteid principle of milk, perfectly sterilized and reduced to the form of a dry powder, in which condition it occupies little space, and keeps indefinitely. It is readily soluble, easily digested, and is relished and retained by the most sensitive digestive organs.

In the treatment of a very large class of the diseases and disorders of nutrition it is a godsend to the often scant armamentarium of every practising physician.

WE all have our troubles. We also like to tell our troubles. In this we greatly err. Like any story, troubles grow with the telling. It is to no easement of the spirit that we rehearse the worries of the day in the bosom of our families or carry our family troubles into our circle of business friends. If our friends were not more considerate than we the whole course of life would be one tale of woe. The most of our troubles we ourselves make or magnify. Those that come in spite of us are sent for our edification in grace and patience and not for the burdening of our friends.-Public Policy.

Book Reviews.

COHEN. A SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS. A Practical Exposition of the Methods, Other than Drug-Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease and in the Treatment of the Sick. Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D., Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at Jefferson Medical College; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Rush Hospital for Consumption, etc. In eleven octavo volumes. American, English, German and French authors. Vol. VI., "Dietotherapy and Food in Health." By Nathan S. Davis, Jr., A.M., M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in Northwestern University Medical School; Physician to Mercy Hospital and Wesley Hospital, Chicago; Member American Medical Association, etc. Published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 1901. Price for the set complete, $27.50 net.

It is a decidedly encouraging sign of the times, a harbinger of promise for the race, of substantial progress in the cause of the gospel of health for which the GAZETTE has been battling, lo these many years, when we can announce a volume-one of an important series-with the above title. We say important series, but lest the expression be passed over as a commonplace and conventional commendation, let it be added that we consider this series of volumes by all odds the most important, the most progressive and the most promising work of the past half century-perhaps of all the centuries.

It indicates that medicine is not always to be a synonym for mystery, and that the practice of medicine is not wholly an empirical system of selecting and administering drugs. From Hippocrates to Sydenham, and from Sydenham to Solis-Cohen, all great medical teachers have from time to time acknowledged the potency of natural elements, forces and agencies in the cure of disease; but it has remained for Dr. Cohen

and his associates in this monumental undertaking to systematize our knowledge of natural remedial agencies, of prophylactic and curative measures that do not reek of the laboratory. The demand for and appearance of this work makes a virtual epoch in the history of medicine and the advancement of the art of maintaining and recovering health.

The word Dietotherapy does not occur in any of our latest English lexicons. The word, as far as we know, was first proposed by the proprietor of this magazine. It has had but a limited use: but as a derivative it is so natural and easy that its synchronous adoption by several authors-a probable fact is not at all remarkable. Dr. Davis has supplied its definition at the outset.

"Dietotherapy is the application of foods to the preservation of strength, flesh and energy, or to their repair when diminished by disease." This is sufficiently comprehensive, and so clear as to leave nothing to be added.

Whether accidental or designed, from the fact that this volume has been issued in advance of its regular order (Volume V. is to follow instead of preceding it), it may be assumed that either the editor, the publishers, the patrons, fate, or some one of the quartet has conspired to give it priority as a recognition of its fundamental nature and practical importance.

Dr. Davis has not been generally recognized as a specialist in dietetics, but his work in connection with this volume places him at once in the front rank of writers and compilers on the subject of nutrition. He has treated the subject from the prophylactic, as well as the therapeutic standpoint, and in all essential particulars his conclusions are quite abreast with the most advanced teachings of physiology. Necessarily he has drawn heavily on general medical literature and on the results of investigations by experts employed by the United States Government to make food analyses and to establish food values by actual tests on selected subjects at the various experiment stations.

In editing so great a mass of heterogeneous material it would be a miracle if there were not some scientific, statistical and literary contradictions. The critical reader will detect a few of these, but in the main the author states his own opinions with the authority of firm conviction, and without making himself appear dogmatic.

He treats first of Food in Health, Utilization of Food, Uses of Water in Dietetics, Elements of Food, Proteids, Fats and Oils, Carbonhydrates and Salts.

He then considers Quantities and Kinds of Food Needed in Health, Animal Foods, Milk and Milk Products, Eggs, Vegetable Foods, Cereals, Roots and Tubers, Peas and Beans, Green Vegetables, Fruits, Fungi, Spices and Condiments.

Chapter IX. takes up the subject of Beverages-Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, and Alcoholic Beverages-to which by far more space is allotted than to all the other items combined.

Chapter X. is devoted to Diet in Health; Chapters XI. and XII. to Infant Feeding; Chapter XIII. to Food as a Cause of Disease. This concludes Part I.

Chapter I. of Part II. treats of Diet in Disease, under the heads of Feeding the Sick. Chapter II. discusses Diet in Infectious Diseases; Typhoid Fever, Typhus, Dysentery, Cholera and Dengue.

Chapter III. continues this study with a consideration of Diet in Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Erysipelas, Septicemia and Pyemia, Malaria, Tuberculosis, WhoopingCough and Diphtheria.

Chapter IV. is devoted to Diseases of the Stomach, including Dysphagia and Odynophagia, Vomiting, Dyspepsias, Acute Gastritis, Chronic Gastritis, Dilated Stomach, Gastric Ulcer, and Gastric Cancer.

Chapter V. proceeds with Diet in Diseases. of the Blood, including Simple Anemia, Chlorosis, Progressive Pernicious Anemia, Leucemia and Pseudoleucemia.

Chapter VI. is devoted to Diet in Diseases of the Intestines, Liver and Peritoneum, the subcaptions being, Diarrhea, Entero-colitis, Appendicitis, Intestinal Ob

struction, Constipation, Catarrhal Jaundice, Cholelithiasis, Cirrhosis of the Liver, Ascites and Peritonitis.

Then follows Chapter VII., which treats of diet in Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, including Laryngitis, Laryngismus Stridulus, Bronchitis, Emphysema, Asthma, Croupous Pneumonia, Pleurisy and Em

pyema.

It is scarcely necessary to complete the list of diseases for which an appropriate diet is carefully outlined. In a word, no morbid condition is slighted, the list ending with a discussion of the diet in Gout and Goutiness. The volume closes with a carefully arranged and very full index.

It can not help but prove a reliable and timely guide to every practitioner, hygienist and sanitarian who is fortunate enough and sufficiently enterprising to consult its pages.

HOME ECONOMICS. By Maria Parloa. Illustrated. New York: The Century Co. In the preface the author aptly says: "Home economics covers a vast field, to which nearly all the arts and sciences contribute.

Few women have the time to devote to investigation and experiment in all the lines that bear upon the making of a home. In these days of specializing, it would take a large library and much time to cull from the various sources the kinds of knowledge that bear directly upon the making and management of the home. The aim of this book is to supply such knowledge in a clear, practical and concise manner.

"This book treats of the conditions which make the soil under the house and in the immediate neighborhood healthful or unhealthful, the changes in water caused by proper and improper conditions, the sources and characteristics of fuels and oils, besides giving careful consideration to the material that enters into the construction and the furnishing of the home."

To say that Miss Parloa has done this work and done it well is to say all that need be said in praise of this very practical and valuable work. The economy that it most emphasizes is the economy of health, and this is of far more vital importance than all the other economies.

THE WHEREWITHAL, or New Discoveries in Cause and Effect. Townsend. The Wherewithal Manufacturing Publishing Co., Philadelphia.

The ancient biblical saw about the making of many books will have to be revised. The new version will not pass the tribunal of the "higher criticism unless it reads, 'There is no longer anything queer in the making of queer books.""

The volume before us consists of eleven sheets of cardboard each 5 by 81⁄2 inches in size. On these cards, which are bound together in a book cover, are printed and suggested to authors and educators a systematized plan on which to build essays and educational efforts.

The object stated is to depose faulty methods of education and to teach pupils and people how to plan their work so as to make it more effective and more methodical.

The initial statement is that "Education excepted, every system, idea, manufacture, process, has advanced in the march of progress, by enterprise, invention and their achievements."

"Education alone (how to think, how to read, how to study, and how to observe), awaits a public sentiment, to lay aside faulty methods of teaching and thought with comparatively fruitless results, for The System which, by self-evident fact, and easy demonstration proves its usefulness and power for effective results."

Then follows a list of "Departments" and "Seven Questioners and their Definitions," which are designed to start the student and investigator right and to lead his efforts into systematic channels and toward definite and comprehensive results.

The Surgical Clinic, Vol. I. No. 1, for Jan., 1902, has finally put in its promised appearance-not quite in time for notice in the march Gazette.

To those who are familiar with the Alkaloidal Clinic-a goodly and an enthusiastic family, by the way-we need only say that the Surgical Clinic is conceived, constructed and conducted on the same wide-awake and refreshingly practical lines-with the bare change that its field is surgery.

The initial number is every way creditable to both editors and publishers.

"COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA."

For March.

THE March Country Life in America heralds the coming of spring, and, with added pages, offers a profusion of superb pictures relating to all sorts of wild and domestic life of the woods, the fields and of country places. The estate feature, this month, is the "New England Garden Home" of Mrs. Jack Gardner, showing the Italian and Japanese landscape architecture. Other leading articles are: "The Sugar-Bush," which treats pictorially of the unique American industry of maple-sugar making; "The Animals of the Farm" a bit of farm philosophy; and a poem of John Burroughs entitled "A March Glee." Several really notable features are by experts in photography. Of these A. Radclyffe Dugmore contributes "The Life of the Trapper" with photographs of a one-armed trapper and his two St. Bernard dogs in the snowy Canadian woods; camera-shots of big game by A. G. Wallihan illustrate an article on "The Passing of the Blacktail"; and a series of beautiful photographs of flying fish-hawks are the work of Alfred J. Meyer, whose camera was placed within a few feet of their almost inaccessible nesting sites. Then, of course, there are articles for the man who lives in the country. "The Return to the Soil" is an editorial discussion of the successes and fail

ures of the city man in agriculture and country home making; and, further, along practical lines, "Common Sense in the Poultry Yard" treats of the selection of stock with pointed suggestions on care and management of fowls, while in various articles and departments timely hints are given about greenhouses, hotbeds, and lawn-making on the home grounds and on the golf green. A "calendar" of various country pursuits includes, not only the more quiet pleasures amid the birds and flowers of the March woods, but also spring hunting and fishing, and suggestions for some novel sports. Altogether, the success of this most beautiful of magazines is inevitable; it grows monthly in number of pages and breadth of feeling for the outdoor world, and already is twice the size originally planned.

DON'T SAVE MONEY AND STARVE THE MIND.

How many there are who have been very successful in saving money, but whose minds are as barren of anything beautiful as is the hot sand of the Sahara Desert! These people are always ready to invest in land, stocks or houses, but are never able to buy books or collect a library.

We know men who started out as bright, cheerful boys, with broad, generous minds, who have become so wedded to moneymaking, so absorbed in their business, that they cannot find time for anything else. They never travel or visit their friends. They consider it foolish or extravagant to go to the opera or a good play; the daily paper limits the extent of their reading, recreation of any kind is relegated to a faraway future, and yet these men are surprised when they retire from business late in life to find that they have nothing to retire to, that they have destroyed the capac ity for appreciating the things they thought they would enjoy.-Success for February.

NOTHIN' DONE.

WINTER is too cold fer work; Freezin' weather makes me shirk.

Spring comes on an' finds me wishin' I could end my days a-fishin'.

Then in summer, when it's hot, I say work kin go to pot.

Autumn days, so calm an' hazy, Sorter makes me kinder lazy.

That's the way the seasons run.
Seems I can't git nothin' done.
SAM S. STINSON, in Lippincott's Magazine.

EVEN the best literature abounds in sarcastic flings at the healing art. Here are some samples:

"See, one physician like a sculler plies; The patient lingers, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him more swiftly to the Stygian shores."

"Physicians, of all men, are most happy: What good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit the earth covereth."

"Physicians mend or end us,

Secundum artem; but, although we sneer In health, when ill, we call them to attend us,

Without the least propensity to jeer."

Doctor, have you ever studied the advantages of whole wheat as a food? A fine chemical treatise on the whole subject, entitled "The Vital Question," will be sent free by addressing Mr. Green, care of The Natural Food Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.