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THE ADVERTISING DOCTOR.

THE medical profession cannot hope to wage successful war against the advertising quack until the public is made to understand why the charlatan advertises and why the honest physician does not. The atmosphere of mystery with which Christian scientists, magnetic healers, and the like, surround themselves, affords sufficient protection from the criticism which would be likely to have weight with their feebleminded followers. But not so secure is the self-styled eminent universal specialist, who depends for his success upon lying, and often obscene, advertisements, the absurdity of which can be demonstrated in a way that will convince even the densest intellect. With him the sun of prosperity will have forever set when it becomes a matter of common knowledge that his object in publishing lists of symptoms (which he knows the lay mind cannot properly interpret) is to mislead the imaginative and credulous into believing themselves to be the victims of disease, and that in publishing his absurd claims to superior skill and knowledge he deliberately sacrifices both honor and selfrespect for cash. Even now the majority of intelligent laymen understand that the doctor who advertises in the usual way is at once a disgusting egotist and a designing scoundrel, whose privilege to impose upon the ignorant members of society should be taken from him by due process of law. Texas Medical Journal.

Save tea leaves and use when wet for the same purpose; they are equally good in preventing dust when sweeping.

ALL futures are fruits of all the past.Edwin Arnold.

PROLAPSUS OF STOMACH AND HYPER-ACIDITY.*

BY DR. W. H. KINNICUTT, Cleveland, Ohio.

THIS case came at recommendation of physician. Had been treated by lavage and medicinally.

Upon examination the stomach was found to be 31⁄2 inches below normal position. Exercise prescribed as follows, for morning and night:

(1) Twist-bending right and left five times in each direction (adding one more bend each day).

(2) Lying on back and practising strong abdominal contractions, in groups of five, three such groups, adding one count daily up to ten; rest between groups.

(3) Knee to chest alternately, five times each in groups with rest between; this to three such groups.

(4) Abdominal contractions in standing position (count same as when lying down).

In gymnasium three times first week, four times second week, then daily.

General work of business men's class deliberately and guardedly.

Fourth week showed as follows: Natural movement of bowels, stomach two inches below normal line; still dieting but without usual discomfort or symptoms; gain of three pounds in weight.

Seventh week: Stomach in normal position: digestion normal, except upon one occasion, when very starchy food was indulged in gain of fourteen pounds over first weight.

Now continuing almost daily in gymnasium and as vigorous as any member of the class in the exercise; color improved and all previous abdominal bandages discarded. Analysis of stomach contents normal.

His doctor generously says the exercise is responsible for the improvement.

He still continues morning and night exercise.

*Medical Critic.

Book Reviews.

By

QUAIN'S DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE. various writers. Edited by H. Montague Murray, M.D., F.R.C.P., assisted by John Harold, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., and W. Cecil Bosanquet, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., third edition, rewritten and revised throughout. New York. D. Appleton & Co., 1902.

The two former editions of this standard work were accepted by well-read physicians in all English-speaking countries as being well up in the list of medical classics. Progress is the order of nature as well as of the day, and this fact is well illustrated in this third revised and rewritten edition. The two volume edition of 1894-its one fault being its comparative overwieldiness-has been compressed into one more wieldy volume, not so much by omitting any essential matter as by the use of a better and thinner quality of paper and a condensed but conspicuous type page.

The practitioner who has this attractive. and comprehensive volume within easy reach has no excuse for being rusty in the general principles of medicine. The one whose library does not contain it will not realize-until he procures it-how much he is daily handicapped. It is a reference work of inestimable value.

DAWN THOUGHT, a Volume of Pantheistic Impressions, and Glimpses of Larger Religion, by J. Wm. Lloyd, Wellesley Hills, Mass., The Mangus Press.

"This is a book, O reader, that you will not agree with, but if you read it you will never forget it, and ten years from now it will seem truer to you than to-day."

This quaint and utterly unconventional volume opens with a poem:

EHT TERCES.

"O give me the grace of a tolerant heart, Of a thought so large as the sphere of

men,

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strangely enough, upon a subject to which I had before given but slight attention indeed-namely, Pantheism.

Indeed I rather disliked Pantheism, for no better reason than this, that its logical end, I thought, was Nirvana, and Nirvana, I concluded, and had been told, meant annihilation to the individual."

Rather than attempt an ordinary review of this volume we give mere snatches, abrupt declarations, culled here and there throughout the book:

"I am, I exist, is the foundation of faith, the primal postulate.

"There is but one. Call it what we please, the Universe, or God, or by any other name. The serpent has his tail in his mouth; the chain of causation and relation is nowhere broken, nor can be. If one created the Universe he must have made it from himself, for there was nothing else to make it from, and it must still be himself, as the body is the man in his outward aspect.

"Love is the mending of the shattered sphere.

"No other view of the Universe can so satisfy the soul of man as this, because no other contains its largeness, its promise of infinite expansion.

"Pessimism is a symptom of disease and stagnation. Lice do not trouble fat cattle. "Waste no time in remorse but step on your mistake and make it lift you up.

"Recognizing evil as the 'dirty work' of the Universe, a necessary part of the great plan [this religion], has no hatred for even that.

"Evil is good, but good is better.

"This religion cannot easily be comprehended by the masses. To them a paradox is a manifest lie or an obsurdity; your Pantheism to them is profanation, your God-inall a blasphemy.

"Life is an agreement of contradictions. "Everything shall feed you but nothing shall satisfy your hunger.

"Every nature, like a root pushed through the soil, selects its own nutriment,

and rejects all elements which do not feed it.

"The real Kings wear no crowns, the true nobles have no titles, genuine courtesy has no forms, sincere virtue recks not of moral rules, wisdom is above custom, liberty drops law, love knows only its objectthe godly man has no dogma, creed, Bible ritual or temple. . . He drops all forms and rules and 'principles' as outworn tools, and follows reverently all the inner impulses and restraints, living his own life as frankly as a bird, 'letting himself go' as a brook runs, in peace with eternal world currents and his own soul. God is in him and all the world is with him.

"Society is an individual composed of individuals, who again are composed of lesser individuals, and so on almost ad infinitum. And the Universe is a great individual composed of all.

"All nature is a prophecy of man; man is a symbol and epitome of God.

"Cunning and peril both demand privacy, but when we neither fear nor hate we are open.

"There are those who would attain perfection by leading one-sided lives; by excluding all that we call wicked, harsh, low, crude, rough, vulgar or unrefined. But such lives are failures in the sense that they shoot wide of the target. The mass of men instinctively avoid these as 'unco guid,' overnice, too-refined.

"We have the feeling that the sinless man is a sort of sickly deformity, and do not envy him; we suspect the oathless man; we trust not the tones that are always sweet; we are afraid of the always gentle, or deem them weak, and we have no confidence in our friend till we have received his confession and mapped his faults.

"Like a mule we must have 'roughness;' and when we have milled out all the harshness of our wheat we shall find that our superfine flour is not sufficient, and what we have taken out must be supplied in some other form or the nutrition of the system suffers.

"We cannot pick out a part of life and

leave the rest. Nature will not have it so. She insists on the normal. There is always the other side.

"When two souls and bodies really fit and answer each other in tender love, there is the real marriage; where they conjoin without this fitness there is adultery, and when this fitness fails there is divorce.

"And this without regard to the legal or illegal pronunciamento. The attempt to marry by law is like the attempt to make royalty, nobility, manners, and the rest, by law.

"The conjunction of the incompatible is the true adultery, and is condemned as such in every kingdom and province of Nature."

We have thus quoted enough of this iconoclastic brochure to give every inquirer a hint as to its nature. To the many it will be incomprehensible, heterodox and irreverent, because they have not climbed to its standpoint. To the few it will be an intelligent message, and such will not be content until they have read and reread the whole, not merely twice, but many times.

MORPHINISM AND NARCOMANIAS

FROM

OTHER DRUGS. Their Etiology, Treatment and Medico-legal Relations. By T. D. CROTHERS, M.D., Superintendent of the Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Ct.; Editor of the Journal of Inebriety; Professor of Mental and Nerof vous Diseases, New York School Clinical Medicine, etc. Philadelphia and New York : W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902.

Of all the afflictions or defections to which mortals are subject drug addiction is doubtless the most disastrous, insidious and destructive. The history of Morphinism is a history of horrors untellable, of deceit and hypocrisy and crime inconceivable, and of depravity and suffering that no pen can describe.

Probably no man living is more competent to write its history and suggest means for its remedy or amelioration than Dr. Crothers.

Many passages in this volume read like. chapters from a psychologic romance of the intensest and most tragic stripe.

The volume is not limited to the discussion of Morphinism but includes all the narcomanias, cocoainism, chloralism, chloroformism, coffee addiction, tea inebriety, tobacco inebriety, ether inebriety, and addictions from other drugs.

The work has no substitute in the lan

guage, and it needs none. The publishers have done their duty by it, type, paper and binding being all that could be desired.

These manias exist in every community. Every physician has numbers of themmany of them unsuspected-among his clientèle. Oftentimes they are rated as criminals when they should be simply recognized as invalids.

The physician who has not given careful study to this subject will be able to understand some of his obscure cases for the first time, after reading this work.

Dr. Crothers deserves the gratitude of thousands of unfortunate habitues, who will be indirectly benefited by his untiring labors and study in their behalf, as well as that of his appreciative colleagues.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D. Vol. I., March, 1902. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co.

THE first volume of this notable work for the current year maintains the reputation attained by previous issues. Dr. Charles H. Frazier treats of the Surgery of the Head, Neck and Chest. The three pages devoted to Meningitis are alone worth the cost of the annual subscription.

Dr. Packard's treatment of the subject of the Infectious Diseases is instructive and up to date.

Dr. Floyd M. Crandall devotes fifty-six pages to a résumé of advances made in connection with the Diseases of Children.

Prof. Hektoen, of Rush Medical College,

occupies eighty-six pages on the subject of Pathology, in which are discussed the most recent topics in this interesting field, including the Precipitins, Cytotoxins, Hamolysis, Immunity, Agglutination and General Bacteriology.

Under the head of Tumors he discusses the question of the alleged protozoön and parasites of carcinoma and sarcoma. In view of the claimed antiparasitic and germicidal power of the modified Roentgen Ray this subject has loomed into immense importance. Laryngology and Rhinology, and Otology receive due attention at the hands of Dr. St. Clair Thompson and Dr. Robert L. Randolph.

TWENTIETH CENTURY MEDICINE.

It will not be inappropriate to point out the manifest mission of medicine in the twentieth century. In the first place physicians all over the world will continue with increasing energy to pursue their researches into the cause of disease, with the consequent effort to find new and improved means of prevention and cure. In the second place, the medical profession, when thoroughly organized, will teach the general public the means that have been found to reduce the amount of illness, and to increase the general longevity, and will compel legislative bodies to give more heed to the everpressing necessities for improved sanitary laws. It will demand laws to check the adulteration of food, and to prohibit the sale of patent medicines containing poisonous drugs. It will also insist that our quarantine methods be made more effective, and that health officers be given greater authority. These and an almost indefinite number of other details of State medicine will be authoritatively dealt with by the organized medical profession of the twentieth century. There is every reason for the general public to watch and encourage the efforts of the profession of medicine during the years to come.-Forum.

A WOMAN'S FACE.

A MAN about to be hanged reviews his life. One vivid picture he recalls is this: Now he was in a ball-room. There were lights and flowers. He heard the voluptuous waltzes in chords of passionate yearning, and at his side was the smiling face of a woman, a face only too human in its sensuous loveliness. The pictures changed again and again, but thereafter she was always with him, and finally she wore his ring. Then poverty, biting poverty, came on them both, and she was at his elbow urging, always urging, that he must provide luxury for her, no matter what the cost. He yielded. He gave her all she asked. And the price was his honesty, a stain on a name unblemished for centuries. She had spoiled the castle of his will and destroyed all its defences, and so, when another tempter said "Drink and forget!" he drank.Clinton Dangerfield, in the May Lippincutt.

APROPOS of fruit, a contemporary tells us that our enterprising Transatlantic friends have discovered another means of utilizing their enormous harvests of fruits, and, at the same time, of avoiding all the risks and losses that are incurred by bottling or tinning. The new method is to compress the fruit into solid bricks. These can be done up in grease-proof paper, and so packed as to be kept from all contamination. At present the scheme is not in working order, there are some difficulties in the way, but once having hit on the idea we may be sure that our American kin will not allow themselves to be balked in carrying it out.

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