pyretic action. It has been proven not to depress the heart, after the manner of many other coal-tar preparations. Each Antikamnia Tablet contains 5 grs. of the drug (the usual dose), which can be repeated every fifteen or twenty minutes, until three or four doses have been taken. Antikamnia and Codeine Tablets consist of 434 grs. of Antikamnia and 4 gr. of Codeine and have been especially brought forward for the treatment of pain where spasm or physical causes of irritation exist. Neuroses due to suppressed or irregular menses, particularly during the menopause, seem more amenable to this combination than to Antikamnia alone. Antikamnia and Codeine Tablets are especially indicated in membraneous affections of the lungs, throat and bronchii. Both tablets merit a trial in neuralgia and spasmodic ailments and as their freedom from injurious action upon the heart and circulation is invariable, they will certainly continue to be received by the profession with favor.-Edinburgh Medical Journal. SIZE AND DISEASE. PROPERLY speaking, giantism is a disease. Dr. Charles L. Dana, of this city, long ago gave out the opinion that many so-called giants were cases of excessive pathological development, rather than cases of excessive pathological growth. According to Professor Brissaud, giantism is nothing else than acromegalia. M. Brissaud has demonstrated that the combinations of giantism and acromegalia are far from being uncommon, and that the general symptoms of each one of these diseases are observed also in the other. According to M. Brissaud, acromegalia is the giantism of adults, while giantism is the acromegalia of adolescents. -Medical Record. THAT amusing raconteur, Josiah Flynt, tells a tall story in Lippincott's Magazine for September called "The Won't Go Home." It is a surprising melange of Chinese curiosity, some American speculators, and a steam calliope, and if the reader is looking for good fooling, here he may have it. APHORISMS. GOOD Breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little selfdenial for the sake of others.-Chesterfield. The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.— Junius. JUS' KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON. If the day looks kinder gloomy An' your chances kinder slim; If the situation's puzzlin' An' the prospects awful grim, An' perplexities keep pressin' 'Till all hope is nearly gone, Jus' bristle up and grit your teeth, An' keep on keepin' on. Fumin' never wins a fight An' frettin' never pays; There ain't no good in broodin' in These pessimistic waysSmile jus' kinder cheerfully When hope is nearly gone, An' bristle up and grit your teeth, An' keep on keepin' on. There ain't no use in growlin' New Orleans Times-Democrat. POISONOUS PERSPIRATION. THE question of the toxic qualities of perspiration, though not quite a new one (inasmuch as M. Berthelot, at a recent meeting of the Paris Medical Academy, reminded his listeners that, if Africanus can be believed, the perspiration gathered from a horse was used in ancient times to render arrows poisonous), has recently formed the subject of research. Several experiments have proved that human perspiration is toxic. A series of guinea-pigs and rabbits were killed by inoculations of perspiration gathered from a flannel shirt worn by a healthy young man after dancing a cotillon. A glove worn by a lady who danced vigorously through a ball was utilized for inoculations with equally deadly results. Arloing's more recent experiments show that perspiration resulting from muscular exertion is more toxic than that consequent from a vapor bath. M. THE Connection between hysteria and the teeth does not at first sight seem very apparent, and yet there is no doubt that the effects of the former upon the latter are very decided. A doctor has recently been investigating the effects of hysteria upon nutrition, especially in connection with the teeth, and he tells us that the first change noted in their appearance is an erosion of the enamel at different points which leads. to atrophy, exposing the underlying tissue in the centre of the tooth. The enamel is destroyed, the dentine is exposed, becoming very friable, and breaks down readily and is absorbed. The teeth are very painful, and do not yield to any treatment except extraction. It is said that when these changes are well under way, nothing will arrest the disease process. THE BEGINNING OF BEET SUGAR. THE great sugar-beet industry of the world owes its very existence to a discovery of Vilmorin. The original sugar-beet grown in France did not contain enough sugar for commerce. The amount of sugar could be easily determined in the beet, but in making the test the reproductive qualities of the plant were always destroyed. Vilmorin learned how to extract the pulp without destroying the plant, and by selection and cross-breeding he grew a plant upon which the great industry is now founded. We owe also to Vilmorin the present carrot, a vegetable which was nothing more than a thin, dry, hard, woody root, unfit for the stomach of a sheep or a cow. Year after year, he sowed in a bed and carefully examined every root. By selecting seed from only the best plants for the new sowing, he produced a carrot with more flesh and less wood. The horse-radish, the turnip, and, indeed, the potato vine, were once plants with thin, dry, woody roots, without the least suggestion that they would ever develop into food for man or beast.-Success. HOME-MADE OXYGEN. WHEN we need oxygen gas for the calcium light or for medical use, we must now buy it from a manufacturer, compressed into heavy iron cylinders. It is possible that in the future, we may be able to make it as we want it. M. Jaubert, a French chemist, has devised a substance that he calls "oxylith," which consists of certain of the higher oxids of the alkaline metals. When water is poured on this substance oxygen is disengaged, just as acetylene gas is produced from calcium carbid in the ordinary acetylene cycle-lamp. This property makes it possible to devise a simple generator which will produce fresh oxygen just when it is needed, and only as long as it is needed. M. Jaubert was led to his invention in the course of an attempt to make a simple renewer of air for submarine boats.-Success. YOUR SHARE OF MONEY. HAVE you $28.66? If you have not you are short your per capita share of the money circulation of the United States, and some one has what would be coming to you if the money that is in circulation were equally divided. This statement is made without reservation, on the authority of the latest report of the Treasury Department. Another thing; you are entitled to seven cents more than you were one year ago, according to this same report, even though there has been allowed for an increase of 113,000 in the population, for in that same time there has been an increase of more than $65,000,000 in the money in circulation. So you see you are better off than you were a year ago if you get your dues. In fact, you are getting better off all of the time. What has happened since 1879? The population has increased fifty-eight per cent., and the money in circulation has increased 176 per cent., and more than onehalf of that increase in circulation has been in gold or in gold certificates. EXPERTS attached to the Imperial Health Office, Berlin, Germany, have published a bulky pamphlet, which gives the results of their protracted experiments to determine. the effect of borax upon the human system. The tests were made upon four men, and were carried on for two years. They claim to have proved absolutely that borax in the human system retards the assimilation of albumen and fats, and interferes with the renewal of tissues. A single dose of borax remains in a man's body for eight days. The continued use of borax, even in small quantities, causes an excessive loss of liquids and a decrease in weight without increasing the subject's thirst and hunger. In some cases, the experts declare in their pamphlet, these phenomena assumed a threatening aspect. ENERGY UTILIZED. In contrast with the "liquor bill" the St. Louis Globe-Democrat places a concise review of the achievements of "a great railroad epoch." Here is a vivid contrast between what is accomplished by energy wasted and energy utilized. The amount of money spent for the liquor traffic during the seventy-four years covering the history of railroad construction is vastly greater than the cost of the entire railroad plant in the United States. Who can correctly por the difference in benefits derived from these two classes of expenditure? The results for the good welfare of the people are farther apart than the lighting power of the sun and of the moon. In this contrast there is a lesson that each person should learn. Prosperity for the individual and prosperity for the nation can come only through the utilization of all energy for good and useful purposes. Public Policy. TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR THEM. CENTERVILLE, N. J., June 1. - With these words Rev. Mr. Hahn took leave of his little flock here: "Brothers and sisters, I come to say goodbye. I don't think God loves this church, because none of you ever die. I don't think you love each other, because none of you marry. I don't think you love me, because you haven't paid my salary. Your donations are moldy fruit and wormy apples, and by their fruits ye shall know them. "Brothers, I am going to a better place. I have been called to be chaplain of a penitentiary. I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am there ye may be also. May the Lord have mercy on your souls. Goodbye." Book Reviews. PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, VOL. III., SEPTEMBER, 1902. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 421 pages, 26 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid to address. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00. Lea Bros. & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. What we have said by way of commendation concerning the previous issues of this important series of publications is fully. merited by this third volume for the current year. Diseases of the thorax, and its viscera, including the heart, lungs, and blood-vessels, are aptly and adequately covered by William Ewart of London, a specialist whose writings are well-known to American readers, and always as perspicuous in statement and elegant in diction. His treatment of this important group of prevalent maladies is in his usual happy vein. He gives the practitioner a well-digested knowledge of all the recent advances in this field of study. Prof. Gottheil, of New York, treats the subject of Dermatology and Syphilis in a style to command the admiration of every earnest seeker after light in this field that has been explored and re-explored again and again without exhausting its fertility in new developments. Dr. Gottheil is now recognized as one of the foremost writers on this fruitful topic, interest in which increases with each passing year. Prof. Spiller, of the University of Pennsylvania, treats Diseases of the Nervous System in a way to interest physicians in ordinary practice as well as specialists. Obstetrics, the Management of Labor. Obstetrical Surgery, and all allied compli cations and accidents are aptly handled by Prof. Norris, of the University of Pennsylvania. As a whole the volume will be found a satisfactory and up-to-date compendium of the freshest knowledge and recent advances in the subjects treated. The general practitioner who would keep abreast of the times without being compelled to wade through the wilderness of diffuse writings that more or less prevails in current medical literature will help himself efficiently by procuring and keeping within reach all the volumes of this helpful series. THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. For the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By L. Emmett Holt, M.D., LL.D., with 225 Illustrations, including nine colored plates. Second edition revised and enlarged, pp. 1161. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1902. Dr. Holt stands at the head of his profession in the matter of his specialty, and has been repeatedly honored by his confreres and by educational institutions. This work of his has taken its place as one of the leading text-books on the subject of the Diseases of Children. It would therefore seem presumptious for any one not a specialist to criticise or question its teachings in any essential particular. In a general way the reviewer, following the advice of Apollo, should hunt for wheat and not for chaff, when he essays to comment on any volume referred to him for the purpose. It is often embarrassing to be perfectly frank with both publishers and the public, or rather of that portion of the public for whom special volumes are written. But the publishers themselves, if they be honorable, despise a reviewer who adopts mere conventionalities and bandies platitudes when he sets about his work. Some publishers even go so far as to provide skeleton reviews and analyses in advance, leaving the hurried reviewer little to do but to weave in a few individual expressions, pro or con-but chiefly pro. All this is prefatory to a few minor criticisms or more properly interrogatories relating to some of Dr. Holt's preliminary chapter on the Hygiene and General Care of Infants. Why the inflexible law of nitrate of silver solution in the tender little eyes? Is it that all mothers are suspected of specific taint? How many millions have been neglected in this respect and with extremely rare exceptions escaped the dreadful ophthalmia neonatorium! Why a "large handful of salt to a gallon of water" in which to bathe the young and tender skin of the newly born? The use of a saline bath of that strength would make the toughened skin of the adult tingle, whereas the author soon adds that "the skin of the young infant is exceedingly delicate." But these are bagatelles in comparison with the good things Dr. Holt enforces. The directions for bathing, clothing, airing, sleep, general hygiene of the nervous system, exercise, etc., etc., are quite immune to criticism. The work as a whole is complete and satisfactory-a safe guide to practitioners who aim to do all that can be done to start the little buds of humanity on the devious road of life in the right and safe way. The physician who has Holt on "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood" at his command and familiarizes himself with its teachings will not go far astray in his practice among children. TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PROFESSOR PHELPS. Ar a meeting of the Faculty of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, held on October 8, 1902, it was resolved that a committee be appointed to draft a Minute in appreciation of the professional life and services of their late colleague, Professor A. M. Phelps. The committee subsequently made the following re port which was ordered to be sent to the medical journals for publication and to be spread upon the Minutes of the Faculty. In the death of Professor A. M. Phelps our School has lost a teacher and the medical profession is deprived of a member whose energy cleared the way for great progress in his field of work during the past twenty years. His was the spirit of the pioneer. Not content with things that have been done, but ever restless to find new vistas with new horizons, his single hearted devotion to the development of what is best in orthopedic surgery led him to engage in a constant warfare of ideas. No matter whether the ideas were those of colleagues or his own, no matter whether he was right or wrong, his energy gave life to the subject and set men to thinking. It is such active lives as his that keep subjects alive, that keep men aroused, and lead them to their utmost, and when this is for no selfish end, but solely bent in the interest of science, we have a public benefactor whose usefulness exceeds that of the capitalist who gives his million of dollars to the most worthy charity. The capitalist gains his fortune through his guidance of the work of others, and the scientist adds to the total of the world's knowledge by stimulating others to follow in his lead of investigation, or to take long steps in progress at his suggestion. In the professions there is a tendency for men to fall asleep upon the soft pillows of consensus of opinion, but men like Dr. Phelps realize that consensus of opinion is often wrong, because it represents the lines of least resistance, and he turned all sleepers out and made them uncomfortable until they had made their own new opinions. Dr. Phelps was impatient with those who were contented in their work, and as impatient. with himself, for he realized that great fields for giving help to suffering fellow-men lay still uncovered. According to human experience greatness implies the possession of constructive motives, nobility of purpose, catholicity of view, erudition. Dr. Phelps' motives were always |