utters itself in true major thirds and sixths,. or in perfect fourths and fifths. We admire individual voices in proportion to their adherence to the enharmonic scale. Thus common conversation is in reality a type of song, the intervals and modulations of which are easily discerned by the trained ear. To the skilled physician the voice is an index to the vitality, a diatonic detective of physiologic and psychic conditions and variations, or, to coin a word for the purpose, a sanometer. As the law of nature is harmony, deviations from this law or inharmony constitute disease. This brings us to the original announce ment. HEALTH CONSISTS OF HARMONIOUS VIBRATIONS. It is a legitimate inference that the restoration of vibratory harmony is unquestionably and absolutely the only method of radical recovery from any and every deviation from the standard of health. This does not involve the mapping out of a new fad. On the contrary, it recognizes all systems of therapeutics possessed of any proved value as auxiliaries. The means of correcting inharmonious vibrations are as various as are all other processes and resources of nature. Every remedy of proved value, every sanatory observance and appliance of merit has its forte. A choice of means is open to all with ample room for the exercise of taste, judgment and discretion. But in this connection a direct and entirely rational means has been long and universally overlooked. It is at last beginning to be recognized and studied. It is pregnant with promise and full of hope for thousands of cases that are classed as "obscure neuroses," and of "hereditary tendencies" that have passed as hopeless. The direct, subtle and surprisingly potent influence of sonorous vibrations in promoting and restoring vital harmony is being quietly and tentatively studied by advanced and thoughtful investigators, and the ex periments thus far attempted in this country and abroad are meeting with a success that frequently astonishes both patient and practitioner. The field is as wide as the world, the study intensely interesting, and the ultimate results as yet incalculable. But as in other departments of physiologic and pathologic study prophylaxis or prevention is worth ten times as much as cure, since it is far easier to keep the vital vibrations in accord than to depend on the professional tuner to restore them after they have fallen into a jangle. This can be done by surrounding oneself with an atmosphere of scientifically adapted harmony. To coin another appropriate word, this is Sonopathy. Where griping grefes the hart would wounde, And dolefulle dumps the mynde oppresse, There musicke with her silver sound, Of troubled mynds, in every sore, Sweet music hath a salve in store. O heavenly gyft that rules the mynd, To comforte manne, whom cares would nippe! Since thow both manne and beste doth move, What beste ys he wil the disprove? -Shakespeare. Thus the pioneers have staked out the ground and the foundations of the coming structure have been laid. The symmetry and style of architecture to be wrought out in the superstructure remain to be disclosed. Whom shall we honor as the founders, faculty and docents of this new school? Not those would-be master philanthropists who have built universities and endowed libraries; not even those who found palatial hospitals; not any of these, but the great souls who have invoked fragments from the music of the spheres and wrought them into forms of immortal beauty, into sublimest anthems, oratorios and operas! Inspired composers, directors, impresarios and divine tone-artists, who in all ages have moved the world, and transformed the human race from savagery to civilization! Let them be dubbed Doctors of the Divine Art, priests and priestesses of the realm of harmony. For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, more than glad to commend those of sterling merit, especially in the line of goods for invalids, children and the aged. This will explain the following: "In every case where I have suggested the use of Eskay's Albumenized Food," says a Philadelphia physician, "the stomach has been in a peculiarly irritated condition, which has been allayed by the food. One Whose golden touch could soften steel and patient for whom I prescribed the food was a lady who had pneumonia three times, and her digestion has never seemed healthy since her first illness from that disease. She now has Eskay's Food every morning with her breakfast and declares her intention of continuing its use indefinitely on account of the soothing influence which this diet has had on her stomach. After having used the food a month she can eat all solid foods, which she could not do before." Says another from Massachusetts: "I need no testimonals to the value of Eskay's Food. I gave it to a cancerous patient whose stomach rejected every other preparation. The results were perfect, and I am now feeding her on this food almost entirely. A terrible nausea that had worried her constantly has ceased since I began with Eskay's, and now she can take food with comfort and satisfaction." From St. Joseph's Hospital, of Reading, Pa., this good word: "We used your Eskay's Albumenized Food in a case of phthisis pulmonalis in which there was an irritable stomach, complete loss of appetite, and especial repugnance to milk. The Eskay's Food was relished and retained by the patient, and constituted his chief aliment until he had so far improved as to be able to take the regular diet of chronic invalids. We regard the food as a valuable addition to our dietary." Other physicians say: "I used Eskay's Albumenized Food in a case of irritable stomach following an attack of grippe in a lady seventy-two years old. It was acceptably received and retained with beneficial results, the stomach then being able to retain the necessary medicaments." "Eskay's Albumenized Food has proven to be all that is claimed for it. It is easily assimilated, very nourishing and strengthening. Having tried it on myself, a sufferer from nervous prostration and chronic gastritis of about two years' standing, I can with all confidence recommend it as a food par-excellence for the nutrition of the sick." "I find Eskay's Albumenized Food increases the lacteal flow in nursing women and also improves the quality. Dyspeptics who can retain nothing or very little on the stomach are able to retain Eskay's Food, almost invariably being benefited thereby." CARBOLIC ACID AS AN ANTI TOXIN. PROFESSOR BACELLI, Director of the Royal Medical Clinic of the University of Rome, has been employing plain hypodermic injections of carbolic acid instead of the many antitoxins on the market. His example has been followed by many of the professors in Italy, France, Germany and Russia, and the claim is made that the simple carbolic acid injections are followed by better results than are the serums. The strength of the carbolic acid solution used varies from two to three per cent. It is made by dissolving the purified crystallized acid in distilled water. The dose for hypodermic use is three to four centigrammes daily.-Canada Medical Record. THE FEBRUARY GAZETTE. As we have once before remarked, we are constitutionally modest, and always prefer to let the make-up and matter of each number of the GAZETTE be its own herald and eulogist. But we cannot refrain from calling special attention to the many good things in this issue. We might be pardoned for singling out several of the leading papers, but it is hardly necessary. They will all, no doubt, catch the eye of appreciative readers. If any reader has a criticism to offer we shall be glad to receive that also. BOSTON MODESTY. On the ceiling of one of the rooms of the Boston Public Library are a number of dancing Cupids in bas relief. Also they are nude. It is this latter fact that is causing some of the women of Boston to protest, They cry out that it is shameful and scandalous, and they want the horrid things torn down. While those "nasty Cupids" remain on that ceiling, these modest ladies declare, they will be compelled to stay out of the library and get along without such books as they are unable to borrow from their neighbors. Consequently the Boston library board has another ticklish question to decide. Indeed, the Boston Public Library board seems to be compelled to work overtime in disposing of ticklish questions. It began with the Bacchante, several years ago, and it has been continued almost without interruption. Worst of all, however, the trouble is spreading. The Boston women are boycotting art galleries in which nude representations of the human form divine mitted to hang undisturbed for years in are exhibited. Paintings that had been per Boston parlors are being reframed so that liberal displays of neck and bust once looked upon as harmless shall no longer offend, and it is said that beautiful "Madonna and Child" pictures, which formerly had honored places in Boston homes are beginning to appear in second-hand stores and junkshops. This brings us to a story about one of these modest ladies of Boston that ought to be told here. The stork, being disposed to be friendly, called on this sensitive creature and her husband not long ago and left a beautiful little babe for them to love and cherish. A physician who happened to be visiting them at the time picked up the precious little one, and, holding it, kicking and and squalling, before its exquisite mamma, said: "Here, look at your boy." "Doctor!" she exclaimed, almost fainting from the schock, "how dare you hold a nude child up before me?"-Chicago Record. Department of hygiene. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATE AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. THE ADVANCES MADE IN METHODS OF EDUCATION. A REVIEW OF PROF. TADD'S RECENT WORK. BY HATTIE P. WALLIAN. J. LIBERTY TADD has recently issued a volume entitled "New Methods in Education," in which he advocates enthusiastically a new departure in drawing and manual training for our public schools. In his preface, he states that his work "suggests new methods of education, but only such as have stood the test of many years' searching investigation and practical application. It aims to show by actual results that art instruction, real manual training and nature study rightly conducted and properly correlated with other studies. should begin at a tender age and continue throughout the elementary and higher stages of education. "This book is not merely a technical manual of drawing and design, of modeling and carving, of construction in wood and metal, or of the fine arts but is designed to demonstrate the remarkable educational power of these methods when rightly used, the economy of their universal application, and their beneficial effect in helping to qualify the individual to make the most of himself or herself." It aims to aid people remote from art centers and educational opportunities." Mr. Tadd devotes considerable space to a clear statement of the principles upon which he bases his work, not because these principles are radical, or essentially new, but because in spite of the time which has elapsed since Aristotle first advanced them, they still need emphasis. He aims to correct the evil, Emerson pointed out when he said, 'We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if we believed in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understanding to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words. We aim to make accountants, attorneys, and engineers, but not to make able, earnest, great-hearted men. Tadd says, "If we are to plant anything in the young or give them any capacity, it should be the power to perceive in their environment the good, the true, and the beautiful. To teach them a trade only, or fit them for business or commerce only is a mistake. The manual training methods that make the use of tools and workshop exercises the main end, make pupils thought less machines. The first tools to be used and trained are the mind, the eyes and the hands. It is of little use that the pupil has built a machine by mechanical movements if his hand is not sure, his eye not true, and his mind not balanced. I make this plan for organic skill first because I have tested many pupils from divers institutions, and have found almost invariably that without instruments of precision-rulers, compasses, gauges, calipers, etc. they are powerless." The hand, the eye and the brain are to first acquire conscious control and then automatic control. In every grade from the lowest, the chil dren are required to work in the four departments of drawing, designing, clay mod eling and wood carving. Thus are acquired all possible physical coördinations. "The work of making forms in clay reinforces the drawing, carving in wood reinforces the modeling." The system of rotation varies with the different schools. "In some the pupils change from one branch to the other in each lesson, in others a piece of work in each branch is finished before the change is made. This method is very stimulating to the pupil, and especially shows for what he is suited. By these methods. all pupils without exception develop their capacities. All according to their degree of intelligence are prepared to do skilled work with tools and hands in the different vocations open to them after very little preliminary training because they have skilled hands, true eyes, and a certain amount of power of expression and originality. "Memory and ambidextrous drawing are made an important part of the course. The endeavor is to make by nature study and drawing permanent impressions of beauty that will be a joy to the pupil in their after lives, no matter how poor and sordid their lives may be. So powerful is the influence of a knowledge of beauty and the joy that comes from it that it is possible to make a contented mind in the midst of the most toilsome drudgery. Morality is embodied in nature." Ideas of goodness and badness are received from things. Whenever children are taught to use their own faculties, their power of choice and of intelligent selection become developed, until, by habit, preference for the good and dislike for the bad become ingrained. Experiments in a variety of prisons prove conclusively that the inmates owe their condition partly to the lack of development in their handicraft. If we are ever to get true morality as well as intellectuality, it will be by making the young recognize the rightness of things. Thought and action are organically connected, and education consists in firmly uniting them by repetition and habit. Material things, plants, flowers, crystals, ani mals, never cheat. vibrates with truth. All nature hums and from metals, stones and wood ring out "The tendency of the present methods in education is to overtax the memory. Instruction by telling is a feeble mode of impressing the mind. To the child the word symbolizes no more than his own ideas. First then, secure ideas, connect these ideas with intelligible words, combine these ideas and words with appropriate actions, secure a complete working of this mechanism in each instance until it becomes conduct. We grasp the objects, facts, and processes of nature in time, and space by embodying them. Expressions through the various sense channels should be related and associated in thought, and registered organically by repetition. They must become a part of us ready to be used when needed. "Mere book learning does not diminish. crime. It takes very much more. It requires training to gain habits of self reliance and self-control, a training that will make people act more instead of less. |