The forces of Nature do all the curing. It is the business of the physician to direct those forces, to check them when excessive, and to supply needed material. Hence the office of the skilled physician can never be dispensed with.

Sometimes it is possible to interpose a chemical antidote, corrective or neutralizer. Oftener it is a special element of nutrition that is lacking.

To meet the requirements of the recent advances in the healing art it has been necessary to coin new words. Hence, Dietotherapy, Nutriotherapy, Aerotherapy, Kinesitherapy and others.

Keeping well is much more economic than getting well, and it is far easier to maintain than to regain health.

These and kindred ideas are steadily being disseminated throughout the community, at least among those who are beginning to read and to think for themselves.

The cry that here and there goes up to the effect that "a little learning is a dangerous thing," is often too true; but it will fail to block the wheels of progress. For men may come and men may go, but progress goes on forever.

DIETETIC POINTERS.

ACCORDING to Lord Kelvin, whom the scientists are just now lionizing, "It is a metaphysical doctrine that thought swings in great slow cycles, the learning of one becoming the ignorance of a second, and the brilliant speculation of a third."

To corroborate the statement he quotes the fact that Lucretius advanced much of the modern atomic theory hard upon two thousand years ago, and Omar Khayyam proposed a calendar even simpler than the

one now current.

There are plenty of conundrums in science that still await satisfactory solution. It is not long since the nature and relations of atoms and molecules was uppermost as

a topic among scientists. Now it is ions, electrons, anions, and cations that need explanation. Such is the confusion among electricians that, according to the Philosophical Magazine, "the whole subject is open to the charge that it is degenerating into metaphysics."

These and other abstruse speculations may worry our waking hours, and tend to the induction of insomnia; but they do not hinder us from knowing that nutritive substances pronounced chemically identical are sometimes radically different in their food values and availability. For examplean old and very nutty illustration-chemistry is too stupid to detect the difference. between a pile of paper rags and a package of sugar, or between the Kohinoor and a cartload of anthracite.

This ought to be a sufficient explanation of why patients literally starve to death while being stuffed with articles of diet that are chemically correct and competent. One substance may be chemically and theoretically much superior to another, and dietetically worthless in comparison, because it lacks a mysterious and vital something to make it acceptable and assimilable. This explains the cause of many dietetic failures, and much of the confusion among dietetic authorities. This is why the tables are such blind guides.

The medical book markets and the medical journals are full of diet tables-that few read and nobody follows; yet they are all choke-full of science and theoretic exactness.

Why is it that theoretic and scientific feeding does not always nourish?

According to some of the more recent philosophers and metaphysicians, the present generation is a remnant and reminiscence of the Age of Brain, the evoluted descendants of intellectual athletes, represented by the Bacons, Shakespeares, Goethes, Keplers and the like; and we are merging into an Age which the poets jubilantly declare is to be the Age of the Heart, the Age of Love!

Now, the heart is neither more or less

than a compound, compensating and selflubricating pump. Its diameter of cylinder and length of stroke vary with each individual; and while its valves are self-adjusting, they sometimes trip or become obstructed, and then, if not speedily relieved, the organism itself becomes a wreck.

Furthermore, in the absence of a proper and plentiful supply of pumping material, the most perfect pump imaginable becomes useless. When pathologists talk glibly of "heart-failure," the term is often a misnomer. It is oftener the supply-stream than the heart-muscle that fails. If a well or water source gives out the pump “sucks air." It is just the same with the heart.

With the vital pump the result is quite similar, but we call it "heart-failure" or paralysis.

This vital pump is the power-house and distributing reservoir of the entire organism. Skimped in the supply of circulating medium its walls grow slack; in the parlance of the mechanic, it slips its belt or skips cogs. It must have a flush supply of pabulum to push into the empty arteries, or else the system begins to starve. Its own muscles starve, and it soon exhausts itself in a vain endeavor to act as purveyor of pabulum that does not exist. The goadings of digitalis and strophanthin, of cactus and convallarin, are delusive, because, supplying no new material, they only hasten the time when the systole will cease, the pump will "suck air," and finally stop-for lack of material with which to flush its valves!

In all the wasting diseases the heart is at last compelled to shut down, not for repairs, but for want of work!

THE MANIA FOR NOMENCLATURIA-ELONGITIS.

A CERTAIN class of scientific and medical writers seem to have a genuine mania for wearing literary stilts and evolving long

names.

For example, the British Medical Journal has this:

Duodenocholedochotomy for Retained Gall-Stones at the Duodenal End of the Commond Bile Duct, by Dr. Henry Betham Robinson.

Sir Astley Cooper, had he heard such a title read would have undoubtedly asked the author, "What the devil do you mean?" A modern New York surgeon would perhaps modify the question to, "What's that he's giving us?"

There are plenty of new words cropping up in the medical journals. In fact, every graduate who boasts a little Greek knowledge now seeks to edge his way to the front. by proposing new names for old objects as well as for new processes and operations. Here are a few gleaned from recent readings:

Sialosemiology, sinusitis, corneomandibular, gastricoline, ionization, phoresis, anaphoresis, electrolytes, phthinoid, cryoscopy, sulphion, abiotrophy, psittacosis, eosinofila, basofila, jaline, chromocytes, artifact, roseine, myko-protein, plasmolysis, zooglæa, cytoplasm, neurone, chimiotaxis, macrophags, phylaxins, and alexins.

FRUIT SEEDS AND APPENDICITIS.

MANY very intelligent people are deterred from swallowing the seeds of berries, grapes and other fruits, lest the lodgment of these small bits of indigestibleness may induce that dreaded accident, appendicitis.

This fear is utterly baseless, since the healthy appendix is protected by a valvular arrangement which prevents even the smallest seeds from entering it. It is only after inflammation has already destroyed its normal protection that any foreign substance can gain access to it.

To feel compelled to eschew all seedy berries and fruits is to seriously curtail one's dietary, and it is entirely unnecessary. In fact, the free and constant use of ripe berries and fruits of all kinds is one of the

best preventives of this dangerous disease. Fruit-eating prevents or helps to overcome constipation, and constipation is the most prolific cause of appendicitis.

The physician should thoroughly disabuse his patients of this mistaken notion. All All the smooth seeds are harmless.

USEFUL HINTS.

THE grape fruit is said to have in smaller degree the qualities of quinine, and will actually allay inflammation and break up malarial disorders if taken in time. It acts directly on the liver and possesses mild purgative properties.

Three pints of water daily should be drunk by the average man.

Many persons, says a well-known doctor, though not actually sick, keep below par in strength and general tone, and he is of the opinion that fasting during the long interval between supper and breakfast, and especially the complete emptiness of the stomach during sleep, adds greatly to the amount of emaciation, sleeplessness, and general weakness we so often meet. Physiology teaches that in the body there is a perpetual disintegration of tissue, sleeping or waking; it is, therefore, logical to believe. that the supply of nourishment should be somewhat continuous, especially in those who are below par, if we would counteract their emaciation and lower degree of vitality; and as bodily exercise is suspended during sleep, with wear and tear correspondingly diminished, while digestion, assimilation and nutritive activity continue as usual, the food furnished during this period adds more than is destroyed, and increased

There is nothing more soothing in cases of nervous restlessness than a hot salt bath just before retiring.

Girls and women are benefitted by riding the bicycle, but the fair sex is cautioned not to over-exert.

Let the lashes alone. Too much trimming is certain to weaken the strength of the eyes. Girls who go to the hairdresser's every week or so to have their hair clipped or crimped, and permit the officious operator to shape their lashes, may be paying for eyeglasses in a few years.

People will eat hot dishes and wash them down with iced drinks, and then wonder why their teeth cannot stand such a terrific and sudden change of temperature.

a marvel that the teeth do not crack completely with the alternate roasting and freezing. Filled teeth are extremely sensitive to such action, and neuralgia frequently results.

results.

WOMAN'S BEST AGE.

DURING the recent celebration of the eightieth birthday of that noted New England preacher and scholar, Edward Everett Hale, in response to some congratulations, because of his mental and physical vigor in spite of his years, he is reported to have said. that a man is not to be measured by the years that have gone over him as much as by what he has during these years taken in and is capable of giving out. We believe this is a wise proposition.

There is scarcely anything that the average woman is so sensitive about as her age. There are few unmarried women that like to admit that they are over thirty years old.

The New York Evening Journal in commenting upon the subject recently says:

Not years, but lack of mental freshness makes a woman old.

The highly prized girlish years, from eighteen to twenty-five, are really years of

babyhood. The most beautiful women in the world, able to attract and hold the greatest men, have almost invariably been women past thirty-very often they have been past forty.

A woman lacking full mental development is like a green peach. She may be very pretty to look at. But that is all. Of course if she is to spoil before maturity, better take her, as you would take the peach, when it is a little green, rather than after it has spoiled.

And that fact-that women of maturity attract men worth while-is very unimportant compared with this other fact; that the mature woman is the best mother.

Constantly in studying the lives of those who succeed, you find that it is the tenth or even the fourteenth child that makes the family famous. Carlyle and Napoleon will do in widely divergent fields. Each was so fortunate as to have for mother a mature woman, at her best when the child was born.

H. W. BEECHER said: "There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible or hymn book, but which you can cure by perspiration and fresh air." External gymnasiums are scarce; golf and most other outdoor plays require some exertion of the brain. But when we walk we can give the mind a complete rest, and graduate our effort according to our strength. Let those who are feeble walk, at an easy gait, half a mile-when their muscles strengthen, a mile -and they will soon find the exercise a pleasure instead of a penance; it will dispel the gloom which they hugged, and their aches will vanish. Air is man's element. He has no more excuse to refrain from walking through it than a fish would have from swimming in water.-Review of Reviews.

FATE OF THE APOSTLES.

THE following brief history of the fate of the Apostles may be new to those whose reading has not been evangelical:

St. Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom or was slain with the sword at the city of Ethiopia.

St. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, till he expired. St. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree in Greece.

St. John was put in a caldron of boiling oil at Rome and escaped death. He afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus in Asia.

St. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem.

St. James the Less was thrown from a pinnacle or wing of the temple and then beaten to death with a fuller's club.

St. Philip was hanged up against a pillar at Hieropolis, a city of Phrygia.

St. Bartholomew was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king.

St. Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached unto the people till he expired.

St. Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel in the East Indies.

St. Jude was shot to death with arrows. St. Simon Zelotes was crucified in Persia. St. Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded.

St. Barnabas was stoned to death by Jews at Salania.

St. Paul was beheaded at Rome by the tyrant Nero.

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"A STITCH in time," applies to the garden as well as to needlework. So thinks that expert home gardener, Eben E. Rexford, and he tells in Lippincott's Magazine for September just what the amateur wants to know about "Fall Work in the Garden."

DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE DEAD PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 1799, pneumonia.

[Credited authorities say tonsilitis and a too free use of the lancet.]-Ed. Gazette. John Adams, July 4, 1826, debility. Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1826, chronic diarrhea.

James Madison, June 28, 1836, debility. James Monroe, July 4, 1831, debility. John Quincy Adams, Feb. 23, 1848, paralysis.

Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845, consumption.

Martin Van Buren, July 24, 1862, asthmatic catarrh.

William Henry Harrison, April 4, 1841, pleurisy.

John Tyler, Jan. 17, 1862, bilious fever. James K. Polk, June 15, 1849, chronic diarrhea.

Zachary Taylor, July 9, 1850, bilious fever.

Millard Fillmore, March 9, 1874, debility. Franklin Pierce, Oct. 8, 1869, inflammation of the stomach.

James Buchanan, June 1, 1868, rheumatic gout.

Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865, assassination.

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Andrew Johnson, July 31, 1875, paraly

SCINTILLATIONS AND SUGGES

TIONS.

THE Sum of our existence divided by reason never gives an integer number—a surprising fraction is always left behind.

No man is qualified to feel the worth of a woman that can reverence herself.

Ask not the echoes of your cloisters, not your mouldering parchments, not your narrow whims and ordinances ! Ask Nature and your heart; she will teach you what you should recoil from; she will point out to you with the strictest finger over what she has pronounced her everlasting curse. Look at the lilies do not husband and wife shoot forth on the same stalk? Does not the flower which bore them hold them both? And is not the lily the type of innocence? Is not their sisterly union fruitful? When Nature abhors she speaks aloud; the creature that shall not be is not produced; the creature that lives with a false life is soon destroyed. Unfruitfulness, painful existence, early destruction, these are her curses, the marks of her displeasure.

Nothing more exposes us to madness than distinguishing ourselves from others; and nothing more contributes to maintain our commonsense than living in the universal way with multitudes of men.-Gathe.

No longer need of worry about time. You have all the time there is; and all eternity, too, if there is any difference, is yours. No longer dread death; it is only one of the necessary changes and progressive steps which lead you to inheritance. Rise up in the dignity and majesty of your manhood, above pettiness of care and anxiety, and be as a god on the earth, conscious of your worth and destiny, large and frank and generous and free.-Lloyd.