nection with immoral advertising in certain papers and periodicals and suggested that the Society take some action to prevent the continuance of this practice. On motion the president and one member were appointed to confer with the proper authorities with regard to the suppression of this method of immoral advertising.

It was further proposed and adopted that the literary committee prepare a printed list. of papers to be read before the Society during the coming winter.

For the next meeting the following questions were proposed for discussion:

1. What is understood by "general treatment" and what is the proper length of time for applying it?

2. For what acute conditions is mechanotherapy available?

3. When should Swedish Movements be used in connection with massage?

4. What apparatus or mechanical contrivances are used in connection with the treatment of infantile paralysis?

The secretary was authorized to buy: a copying machine (hektograph or mimiograph), for copying notices to be forwarded to members; also books for recording answers to questions discussed by the Society, and to be used as dictionary or vocabulary in connection with tehnical terms occurring in connection with Mechano-therapy.

Meeting adjourned to Saturday, November 1, 1902 at 8 o'clock P.M.

child puts in a game the more good it is doing him. When a child tires easily and loses interest in running and games, wishes to sit still and keep quiet, you may conclude there is something wrong. For the ordinary healthy child who naturally takes to games and outdoor play, the gymnasium is not necessary, but the pale, thin, flatchested child is the one who needs an interest kindled in him for games and exercises, and encouragement in outdoor sports. Parents can do a great deal in this way for their children.

It is a mistake to muffle a child up in a bundle of garments and keep him indoors because the temperature is a few degrees below freezing. A child's circulation is generally considerably better than an adult's, and if a child is constantly catching cold it is usually through overfeeding and poor blood, or through breathing over and over the impure air of a room. Have the clothing distributed evenly over the body. How many times does one see little tots muffled up to their ears, and a numerous ripple of skirts, but with thin stockings and shoes to protect the lower part of their bodies. Children need freedom of movement, and they invent numerous games themselves, which tend to their developmnt and form a constant outlet for stored-up energy. This should not be repressed but rather encouraged. So-called "tom-boys" almost invariably grow up into beautiful, strong

women.

It is as well, however, to guide this wonderful energy of children into the right

CHILDREN.

ALL means of physical development for young children, says Miss Cecily Buscall in Good Housekeeping, should for the most part take the form of play and games arranged in such a way as to favor a good position of the body and correct breathing; no chest-cramping movements. Children take naturally to games; the greater part of their lives is spent in this way, through them they develop. The more abandon a

fers great advantages. If a.child thinks he is being watched, he will not do anything at all, but without any apparent watching, by a few suggestions here and there, and occasionally entering into the "fun," parents can guide and greatly help the physical development of their children.

Children take quickly to running and jumping movements which increase the amount of oxygen, renewing the blood and building up tissue. building up tissue. All exercise should be

taken where the air is pure, and the less

child will progress more quickly in his studies than the sickly one; his brain is better nourished, he will also be more controllable. There is little fear of children overdoing; when they become tired they will rest without any one telling them to do so. The effect of games is general; in any exercise given for more special effect, the more of abandon and the play spirit introduced, without detracting from the exercise, the greater the benefit derived from it.

Even for the child who is natrually strong and inherits a good constitution, it is as well to give some guidance to his sports and means of physical development. As soon as school begins the child often acquires bad habits of sitting and standing, round shoulders, drooping head or curvature of the spine. If these are not corrected, they develop into serious deformities, which may take years to overcome in later life. It is well to examine children occasionally at this age. Let them stand in an upright position, arms at sides and heels together. Notice if there is any difference in the height of the shoulders or hips. If there is, this should be attended to at once; as the sooner a curvature of the spine is attended to the quicker and better the results. The thin, weakly child should have constant attention given to his physical development. With the right means taken there is no reason why all weakness should not be overcome, the flat, contracted chest raised and broadened, the thin neck rounded, the drooping head held erect, and health, strength and beauty of form be attained.

NEW TREATMENT FOR BOILS.

OXYGEN under pressure is introduced into boils and carbuncles, by means of a Pravaz needle and pump. The pain diminishes very rapidly, and the next day there is a noticeable change. In a few days cicatrization takes place.

If you Want a Good Stimulant, Take a Whack at the Woodpile.

INSTEAD of wearing out their strength in contortion machines, relief-seekers should flee to the woods and the mountains, should pitch their tents in some neighboring wooded highlands and share the fun of hoeing out a trail to the next spring; should gather raspberries in the deep clefts, and climb trees in quest of squirrels' nests; should fetch their own fuel from the pine-knot bottoms, and arrange expeditions to the highest peaks of the neighborhood.

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In that manner, a two-weeks' Elysium will suffice to lay in a reserve store of health for several months of town life; and, besides, experience will prove that work with a practical purpose and the stimulus of visible results enables an invalid to beguile himself into an amount of exercise unattainable by the manual of the horizontal bar.

In stress of circumstances, city dwellers may try the compromise of an amateur carpenter shop, or, like Elihu Burritt, get an anvil to hammer out biliousness and blue devils.

Turner-halls, though, are encouraging signs of the times, and the healing art would enter a new era of success if the patrons of the nostrum-monger could be persuaded to try Dr. Boerhaave's plan and "counteract the disorders of the human organism mechanically, instead of chemically, by chopping down a bitterwood tree, instead of swallowing a decoction of its nauseous leaves."

The moral healing art, too, is important; it is equally important; for self-reliance has no more insidious foe than the despondency that so often follows the abuse of drugs, and yields permanently only to the magic of outdoor exercise.

Movement-cure associations are the harbingers of that reform, and the time may be near when invalids who insist on "taking something" will be advised to "take a

whack at the woodpile," or a walk in the park. Success.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS' GROWTH.

A MOVING picture of conditions in the United States at decennial intervals from 1800 to 1850, and annually from 1850 to 1902, is presented in a monograph just issued by the United States Treasury Bureau of Statistics, entitled, "Progress of the United States in its Material Industries." This monograph consists of a series of tables showing area, population, wealth, debt, money in circulation, banks and bank clearings and depositors, farms and farm values, manufactures and their value, revenues, expenditures, imports, exports, railways and their business, the shipping industry and many other features of national development, in the census years from 1800 to 1850, and annually from 1850 to 1902. The figures presented, regarding more than one hundred subjects, show an interesting, and in many cases a phenomenal, growth in the industries, production and transportation of the country.

The area has grown from 827,844 square miles in 1800 to 3,025,600 square miles in 1902, exclusive of Alaska and the islands belonging to the United States. The population per square mile, which was 3.6 in 1810, was 26.1 in 1902, notwithstanding the great increase in area meantime. The total wealth has grown from seven billion dollars in 1850 to an estimated ninety-four billions in 1900, and the per capita wealth from $307 in 1850 to $1,235 in 1900. In no feature has there been a greater fluctuation perhaps than in the public debt and interest charge. In 1800 the public debt was $15 per capita; in 1840 it had fallen to 21 cents per capita; in 1852 it was $2.07 per capita; in 1861, before the beginning of the war, $2.74, and then mounted rapidly until it became $76,98 per capita in 1865, gradually falling again after the war to $38.27 in 1880, $14.22 in 1890, $12.64 in 1893, $13.60 in 1896, and $12.97 in 1902.-New York Sun.

CASES FROM PRACTICE.

BY LUTHER J. INGERSOLL, M.D., Denver, Colorado.

THE following interesting cases are reported, not simply because they were cured, but because they were cured by Movements alone, after other usual forms of treatment had failed.

INJURY OF THE BACK.

1. In the fall of 1894, Burris, a lad of fifteen, large, strong, and very active, while playing a game of foot ball, in the "rush" received a severe injury in the small of his back, especially the spine. It soon became very painful and weak so that the slightest effort produced great suffering. For the succeeding three years he was in almost constant distress and unable to take any vigorous or prolonged exercise. He was under continual treatment by different physicians, the last before coming to me being a "noted nerve specialist," who kept him in bed three months, and finally told him he had "contusion of the spine," and that it could be cured only by having it "burned out with a hot iron." In September, 1897, he came to my office for treatment. From the time of his injury, now three years, he had grown slowly worse until every movement, even of the extremities as in walking, produced unpleasant sensations or real pain in his back which required hours of rest to relieve. There was a "dull hurting, sore, lameness." The sensations, nature, and history of the case, to me indicated Locomotor ataxia, or progressive paralysis. The point of injury was at the union of the lumbar and sacral regions. There was no swelling or discoloration.

The treatment throughout was by movement, mechanical and Swedish. At first and for some days it was very gentle, easy of execution and confined to the extremities, with long and absolute rest between each process. Later the hips, shoulders, and upper portion of the spine were treated. Grad

ually, as his strength and back improved, the point of injury was approached, also the duplicate and heavier movements were employed. During the whole treatment but one aggravation occurred. For three months he was treated almost daily except Sundays. Then for several months he was treated four to eight times per month. His improvement began at once, and progressed steadily until discharged cured. He remains well, April, 1899.

Mrs. B., age 50, had for many years suffered from chronic dysentery. Usually, when at her best, there were two or three early morning evacuations, but during an aggravation, there were twelve to twenty and sometimes thirty in twenty-four hours. The stool consisted of slimy mucus, often mixed with blood, and undigested food. There was great and painful dyspepsia with nausea. The stomach and bowels were filled with gas. There was a constant and most painful rectal trouble of inflammation and hemorrhoids, which forced the rectum down into an almost unbearable prolapse, with constant "heat," "throbbing" and "pain," which deprived her of refreshing sleep and made her afraid to take sufficient food. The kidneys secreted but little, and that was "thick, strong and high colored." The uterus was extremely sensitive, and prolapsed. At one time during an aggravated stool, the prolapse became complete the "uterus passing entirely outside," which she replaced. Mrs. B. was cheerless, unsupported by nourishment, drained by frequent evacuations, racked with pains of stomach, bowels, uterus and rectum, unable to take food or find rest in sleep, she was utterly exhausted. Herself and husband worn out were discouraged and almost hopeless.

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was very simple and mild for about ten days, being mostly passive, because of her great weakness. We then saw a gradual, but decided improvement. The evacuations were less frequent and less exhausting. The kidneys acted more freely. The urine was still thick and heavy, high colored, loaded with waste, dead, tissues from the cells, and lymph channels. There was less nervousness and headache, a more refreshing sleep, a sense of natural hunger appeared and relish and comfort after food. The diet was very plain, and the quantity limited. wanted her to have a natural, constant demand for food. The treatment now became more varied and vigorous. The duplicate movements, with deep kneading of the bowels, massage of the back and spine, were freely employed and enjoyed. The improvement was rapid in every part of the body; steadily the strength returned, and the recovery was complete. The rectal, uterine, kidney, bowel and stomach troubles disappeared. peared. At the end of four months she declared herself well and remains so now about two years. For brevity I have omitted many details, both of the case and its treatment. But it is one of the most wonderful and surprising cures I have ever known. If it had been wrought by some of the old fads of ancient heathenism, resurrected in our day, it would have been heralded as a miracle.

ANEMIA, IN NUTRITION.

Others and myself had long tried dieting, and hygienic measures, and every form of medication, but so far had failed to secure any permanent results. I now determined to employ only movement. As she was only able to sit up and to take a few steps, at a time, about her house, I visited and treated her daily by manual massage, and a few single Swedish movements. The treatment

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much "dizziness" on rising, and "blindness." The appetite was fickle or absent, but much thirst. The extremities were puffed and cool, palms and soles, hot and dry. There was obstinate, continual constipation, and an absence of the catamenia for several consecutive months. There was great tenderness along the colon, over the liver, stomach and bowels. The sleep was too sound, rather a stupor, except that it was disturbed by "such dreams." She had not a "particle of strength." In the fullest sense her trouble was "innutrition."

At first her treatment consisted of mechanical massage to the extremities and a few single Swedish movements, as her strength was too limited for anything more. Her diet was plain, albuminous, no fluids. while eating. She entered fully and cheerfully into the treatment. Her improvement was slow in making its appearance, but by the fifteenth day it was marked and satisfactory. Her treatment was now more vigorous and general, and kept well up with her increasing strength. At the end of one month she had so improved that her father, much against my wishes and judgment, deided to discontinue treatment" for the present." In his kind letter to me he says, "You have done my daughter incalculable good, for which we are grateful." I hear she is yet doing well, now four months since treatment was discontinued.

Here, as in all similar or chronic conditions, movement is a perfectly physiological process. It begins at once at the cause, which by elimination, it removes. It unloads the cells and allows alimentation to enter and restore the vitality.

and fleshy, three and one-half years old, had been "all her life unable to retain her urine, day or night, longer than about two hours." And although almost constantly treated by various methods and physicians, no lasting improvement was secured. In about one and one-half months she was cured by movement and remains so now, nearly two years.

HERNIA, (RUPTURE.)

Case 6. Mr. B., age 30, in general good health for ten years, and having also a right direct inguinal hernia of four years standing, was advised by his physician to "try movement." The protrusion was of usual size and form. There were strong indications of another Hernia upon the opposite side. He was treated one and one-half hours daily, less than one and one-half months. The truss was removed on the sixth treatment and not worn afterwards. He began to improve at once, in his general health, nutrition and strength continued uninterruptedly to complete recovery. The protrusion, or hernia, disappeared in about three weeks, and the opposite side became strong.

Case 7. Mr. R. had hernia of right side. for about eight years, and of the left side three years. He had worn a truss for several years and could not "dispense with his belt" as he was obliged to lift very hard, frequently. I removed the truss on the eighth treatment, and he did not replace it. He was treated about three months, but for over a month at the last, only occasionally. He then said "he was a sound man" and remains well, having no symptoms of protrusion on either side, now one year.

ENURESIS-WETTING THE BED.

Case 4. A lad of seven, tall, slim and indolent, had according to his mother "all his life" been accustomed to "wetting the bed nightly." This had continued despite dieting and treatment. He was treated daily less than two months, by movement alone, and was perfectly cured.

Case 5. A little girl of light hair, nervous

TWO OLD FRIENDS.

WE have received some Five-Grain Anti

kamnia Tablets, and also tablets of this drug combined with Codeine. Antikamnia, as its name implies, is an analgesic and anodyne and it has gained much favor in the United States both for this and for its anti