Reviews.

MEDICINE, PAST AND PRESENT. By Dr. A. Juhel, Paris, Translated for, and published by W. J. Morrison, 43 Broad street, N. Y.

[We handed this work to a gentleman who has practical and special knowledge of the subject, who has kindly reviewed it for us as follows.-ED.]

The author contrasts the past and present polyphar macy of the schools with the concentrated and isolated medicaments of the Dosimetrists, and shows the great advantages possessed by the latter over the former.

He reviews the rise and progress of this so-called new system, and compares results under the different lines of treatmat, giving alkaloidal medication the first place in therapy. He says: "Dosimetry is the tomb of the specialties-it is therapeutics in action; the definitive condemnation of the so-called expectant method of treatment, whose results are so murderous in acute maladies."

After presenting the question in its various aspects from a theoretical stand point, the author gives a fair number of cases where the methods advocated were preeminently successful, and finally concludes as fol lows: "Dosimetry is not a dogma, an article of faith ; it addresses itself simply to the judgment and reason of the physician. The means it employs are at the same time rational and powerful. The touchstone is the bedside of the patient

While we may not coincide with the able author of this paper in all that he says, yet, from experience and observation, both pharmaceutically and clinically, we are prepared to give the alkaloidal and other granules the first place in medicinal administration.-W. H. WALLING, M D.

For Ourselves and Others.

doses."

How HANDY it is, when called to a dangerous case, to have the proper medicines with you to commence treatment at once. How pleasant it is to know that your medicines are so agreeable, that they will be readily taken by la ties and children. How satisfactory it is to have medicines that are absolutely accurate. Dosimetric" means "in measured The very word We are quite well acquainted with the manager of the Philadelphia Dosimetric Co., 2009 Arch Street Philadelphia, and know that he thoroughly understands his work. Just think! A vest pocket case of a round dozen vials of 100 granules each, (three dollars actual value) for only one dollar, and even that refunded to you if you become a patron! See their adv. on page xvii.

THE proof of the value of a genuine article be may seen in the number of attempts to counterfeit it. By this test Van Houten's Cocoa is proved away beyond all the very best.

PHENACETINE BAYER-In these days, when influenza, in its protean forms, is likely to come suddenly upon us at any moment, it is well to remember the splendid services of this medicament in the condition cited. Combined with Salol, it holds the first place in tho list of remedies for the dreaded "grippe,' soothing the nervous condition, lowering the temperature, and dispersing the pain. Phenacetine-Bayer should be tried in all acute, febrile conditions. Its action is so prompt, safe and effective and the relief it determines is so well-marked and continuous, that it is daily grow

ing in popularity with the practitioner. In all rheumatic and rheumatoid conditions Phenacetine Bayer is also a most valuable remedy, while in the neuralgias and migraine, it is, without doubt, our best analgesic.

HABITUAL CONSTIPATION WITH PALPITATION OF THE HEART. In habitual constipation with palpitation of the heart the following prescription gives most excellent results. It has also the great advantage of being palatable and pleasant to the taste:

..48 minims

Cascara aromatic (Stearns') 1 fluid ounce
Tincture nux vomica..
Tincture digitalis.

Simple elixir q.8. ad.

..60 minims .4 fluid ounces

M Sig.-A teaspoonful three times a day after meals.

SEND to the Maltine Manufacturing Co., N, Y., for a complete list of the maltine preparations, and their formulæ, as promised in adv. pages.

YOUR nervous patients will be pleased with Neurosine. Send to the Dios Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo., for sample.

SEE the wonderful $7 "Leader" of Willis H. Davis & Co., Keokuk, Iowa. A model medicine case. THE drugs made by Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich., are so thoroughly good that physicians all unite in praising them.

Now that you have made your annual collections you will need a victor safe.

THE Upjohn Pill and Granule Co., Kalamzoo, Mich. furnish a fine line of pills

THE following epitaph is in the graveyard at Childwald, England:

"Here lies me and my three daughters,
Brought here by using Seidlitz waters;
If we had stuck to Epsom salts,

We wouldn't have been in these 'ere vaults."
-Can Prac.

A NOTED ENGLISH BISHOP had for years nursed the fear that he would some day become paralyzed. On one occasion, at a dinner, he suddenly iuterrupted the guests at table by exclaiming that his worst fears had been realized at last; that he was paralyzed in his right lower limb; that he had been pinching his thighs for some moments and was unable to detect the slightest feeling. A lady sitting next to him assured him that he was mistaken, for it was her limb he had been pinching instead of his, the silk of the lady's dress being difficult to detect from the silk of the bishop's robe. He was cured.-Harper's Monthly.

DON'T LOOK FOR FLAWS:

Don't look for flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them

It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind,
And look for the virtue behind them.
Don't waste a curse on the universe-
Remember, it lived before you.

Don't butt at the storm with your puny form,
But bend and let it blow o'er you.

The world will never adjust itself
To suit your whim to the letter;

Some things must go wrong your whole life long.
And the sooner you know it the better.

-Med. Age. SEE our Official Formula of American Hospitals. The experience of all the best hospitals for only one dollar.

DOCTOR, at this season of the year you have great regard for the care of your horse. Then don't fail to use the "Never-slip" horseshoe.

FOR a general tonic use Syrupus Roborans, made by Arthur Peter & Co., Louisville, Ky.

You will get the benefits of opium, without the deleterious effects, by using Svapnia. Samples from C. N. Crittenton, 115 Fulton street. N. Y.

THE office tables made by the New Table Co., St. Louis, Mich., are very fine and useful.

THE Londonderry Lithia Water is the conqueror of the uric acid diathesis,

FILL up your case with Mulford's tablets.

GIVE Apioline a thorough trial in menstrual irregu larities.

WISDOM FROM THE SAGES:

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.-Lord Beaconsfield

The lazy man aims at nothing and generally hits it. -James Ellis.

The world has a million roosts for a man, but only one nest.-Holmes.

SEE the specialties prepared by Wm. R. Warner & Co. Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. Franklin.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

SEE the fine trusses, supporters, etc., made by the Empire Truss Company, Lockport, N. Y.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.--Alcott.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.-James Russell Lowell.

We have used a Kidder battery for five years with entire satisfaction.

The keenest axe with which to hew the human heart into a piece of ice is that of ingratitude.-Cedelta.

It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them.-La Rochefou cauld.

Men are the builders of their own destiny and more especially of the destiny of their children.--Lyof N. Tolstoi.

FREDERICK STEARNS & Co., Detroit, Mich., make a Send for fine line of pharmaceutical preparations. samples.

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.-Carlyle.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.--Ruskin,

The great political problem of the age is not the tariff, nor silver, nor civil service reform, but the child. --Mrs. A. A. Claflin,

The world deals good naturedly with good natured people, and I never knew a sulky misanthropist who quarrelled with it but it was he, not it, that was wrong. --Thackeray.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before it resembles the meeting with an old friend.--Oliver Goldsmith.

FOR Consumption, colds and LaGrippe, use Freligh's tonic and tablets.

Ar this season you should become thoroughly acSend for free quainted with Dukehart's Emulsion, bottle to the Dukehart Co., Baltimore, Md.

LOOK HERE! DOCTOR! I want you to know my Dosimetric Granules, so I make this special offer. Send $1.00 and I will forward by return mail a nice nine-vial pocket-case filled as follows: 100 each, aconitine, strych. hyosciamine, digitaline, podophyllin, copper arsenars., iate, codeine, quin, ars. and glonoin. Then if you are not satisfied send it back and get your money. If you become a customer, deduct $1.00 from your first cash order of not less than $10.00.-Yours Fraternally, DR. W. C. ABBOTT, Ravenswood, Chicago, Ill.

IN BAD SHAPE.--Visitor to sick woman: "How are you feeling this morning, Mrs. O'Toolihan ?"

Mrs. O'Toolihan: "Och, leddy, it is that bad oi am wid a complication av troubles-rheumatism, lumbago and all; and it was only this marnin' that the doctor, Hiven rist his sowl, said there was decided symptims of convalescence.-Bazaar.

FULL many a man both young and old,

Is sent to his sarcophagus,

By pouring water, icy cold,

A-down his warm esophagus.

DULLARD.-So, old man Richly is dead at last. Brightly. I wonder he lived so long with all the doctors. Why, Dr. Scalpel had a hack at him, Dr. Piller had a hack at him and a dozen others. Dullard. And now the undertaker has him. Brightly. Yes, by gum! and he's the worst. got seven hacks and a hearse at him -Lowell Citizen.

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"TWENTY Minutes for Refreshments."--The fond and happy mother is always glad to stop in her busy rounds and give from her generous maternal fountain the natural nourishment for her adored offspring. What more beautiful sight? Yet often the mother is deprived of this precious privilege by failure of this important function. Thus the baby suffers all the disadvantages of a dependence on artificial feeding, the indirect cause of so much infant mortality. Nutrolactis will bring to the willing mother the longed-for ability to nurse her infant The New York Infant Asylum has used nearly a thousand bottles of Nutrolactis within the last eighteen months. See the adv. and beautiful picture in this issue. Send for a sample bottle (sixteen ounces) and mention THE MEDICAL WORLD.

THE TRUE INVENTOR.--He must possess geniusnot the genius of the artisan, but of the artist-the power to create, not to elaborate. He must be patient, considering every detail relating to his discovery, not rushing into print and patent office with half digested ideas that require the subsequent supervision of trained experts to reduce to practical shape. He must have sufficient means to support himself and his family-if he possesses one--and to produce practical evidence of his discoveries in order to illustrate to the capitalist or promoter their advantages. He must be forbearing under rebuff, indifference or ignorance on the part of those whom he seeks to enlist in his support -Electri city.

"WHAT is it makes the rain come down!"
Asked little Bessie Dight.

"It used to be the Lord, my dear,

But now its dynamite."

-Buffalo Express.

M. Sig.--Teaspoonful four times daily.

Two CONSULTATIONS. --Customer: "Is Rubnose's Rheumatic Remedy good for acute rheumatism, the result of a cold?"

Drug Clerk: "I--I don't know. I'll see." (Whispers to proprietor.) "Have we Rubnose's Rheumatic remedy ?"

Propriotor: "No, only Bullfinche's." Clerk (to customer): "No; not half as good as Bullfinche's,--Harpers Bazaar.

THE Sozo iodol compounds have often been treated of in our columns. If you would learn just what they are, what they will do and how to get them, address the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo.

THE Hoff's Malt Extract, imported by Tarrant & Co., is genuine.

THERE is power in pepsin. If you believe it not send to the N. Y. & Chicago Chemical Co., 96 Maiden Lane, N. Y., for samples.

THE web goods made by Flavell & Bro., 1005 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia, are fine and substantial.

FOR Something elegant send for a bottle (free) of Marshmallow cream, to the Diamond Laboratory, Nangatuck, Conn.

SEE adv. of Lilienmilch, and send to New Jersey Manufacturing Co., Jersey City, N. J., for a free sample.

RAPID TRANSIT, LIMITED.--You may travel a long way on whiskey, and travel fast while you are going, but you can't get back when you want to.

A GREAT enthusiast on the subject of chest-protectors recommended them to people on every occasion. "A great thing," he would say. "They make people more healthy, increase their strength, and lengthen their lives." "But what about our ancestors?" he was asked. "They did not have chest-protectors, did they ?" "They did not," was the triumphant reply "and they are all dead now-all dead."--Ind. Med. Jour.

You can hold a surgical practice if you use Mar chand's Peroxide of Hydrogen.

KEEP your journals in a MEDICAL WORLD binder.

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WE wish to add our voice to that of our fellow practitioners in the petition to Congress for a cabinet minister of public health. our readers know, we have frequently expressed ourselves in favor of such ideas. This we advocate, not as a class measure, for, instead of being to the financial interest of the practicing physician, it would have an opposite tendency; but because, when the welfare of the whole people is deeply concerned, all private and class interests should be allowed on'y secondary consideration.

Surely the he. Ith of the people is a matter of public concern. If commercial, industrial and educational interests are sufficiently important to justify governmental consideration, how very much more important than all these is the matter of preserving the health and lives of the people.

A cabinet officer, empowered with due au

thority and supported with sufficient means and force, and cooperating with the health authorities of the various states, could be of great service to humanity. It is along the line of governmental supervision that disease producing agencies are to be reduced to the minimum. It is in this department of human affairs that an ounce of prevention may be said to be worth whole tons of cure.

Whlle, unfortunately, this whole ale prevention of disease will never succeed in entirely abolishing the necessity for measures of cure, yet it is well understood that it will greatly diminish the demand for actual medical practice. Yet there is not a physician so selfish that he would not joyfully welcome such a long step in advance in human progress. Let us be at least as zealous in protecting the people's health as we are in preserving the nation's honor. Let us have a thoroughly organized public health department, from the cabinet minister to the humblest village health officer.

Drugs Which Raise the Body Temperature.

THE list of such drugs is very limited, indeed, as is also the number of emergencies in which the temperature is found to be below normal, requiring their use.

An early but very temporary effect of alcohol in small doses is a slight elevation of the temperature. This is followed by a reaction or reduction of temperature below normal.

Chloride of gold, when pushed to its full physiological effects, produces the fever known as "auric fever." This should not be confounded with the "gold fever" of 1849.

Belladonna is the most important of the drugs capable of raising the temperature, and was, perhaps, the first one in which this property was demonstrated. The adaptation of this fact to the treatment of certain diseased conditions, characterized by weak peripheral or capillary circulation, forms a very interesting

series of therapeutical problems, destined, we think, to occupy more attention in the future than in the past. Just here we are led to wonder if this property explains the successful use of atropine and chloride of gold in connection with the treatment of chronic alcoholism. The congeners of belladonna have this property to only a very slight degree, if at all.

Phosphorus, in large doses, elevates the temperature. It is likely that this fact is not available therapeutically.

Cocaine, caffeine and drugs containing them, elevate the bodily temperature, and may be used quite safely for this purpose.

This is not, professedly, an exhaustive list of drugs possessing this wonderful property, but rather is given for the purpose of stimulating research and thought on the subject. However, we believe that the more important agents possessing this property are here enumerated.

The Death Kiss.

THIS means, for the purpose for which we wish to use it, " Kissing the dead." This revolting custom, to which too many yield in their affectionate devotion to the deceased loved one, possesses danger to which every physician should called the attention of the public. The body of a person who has died of disease-whether of a distinctly contagious disease or not-is not a wholesome object. How often have we seen an entire family lingering around the coffin and repeatedly kissing the beloved features still in death and already beginning nature's process of slow dissolution; and how many subsequent cases of sickness have we thought might be traced to that as, at least, a contributory cause. On this subject the London correspondent of the American Lancet gives the following information:

"It is reported that the Servians have a curious custom of giving a parting kiss to their deceased friends before final burial, and the observence of it has caused a serious epidemic of diphtheria. The Police Prefect of Belgrade has accordingly issued stringent orders against the custom; prohibiting it for the present, however, only in the cases of those persons who have died from that malady."

illness should be "Let no one kiss me after I am dead." This need not require that a corpse be regarded with a sense of horror, with which many seem to regard it, but merely as a tenement which the former occupant has left and which no longer represents him.

The custom of kissing sick people is also very dangerous and should be discountenanced as strongly as possible.

In this season's recurrence of the epidemic of influenza physicians of extensive experience in the treatment of the disease have found that the coal-tar antipyretics have not done so well as in previous years, The reason of this is that the predominant symptom this season was vital depression rather than acute pain. As the new antipyretics promptly relieve the pain but markedly increase the depression, the reason for their decline in popularity is apparent. The immediate stimulating treatment by camphor or appropriate ammonia salts. followed by a tonic regimen, including nux or its alkaloids, seems to be all that is desired in this disease.

Rheumatism and Pharyngitis.

In obstinate throat affections, when local treatment seems to fail, bear in mind the effect of the "rheumatic dyscrasia" upon the tonsils, uvula, pharynx and larynx. Often a total cessation of local treatment followed by general anti rheumatic treatment will be speedily successful.

Medical Socialism.

THE Canton of Basle, in Switzerland, has recently voted free medicine and free medical attendance to every citizen with an income less than 12,000 francs ($2,400).

In case of difficulty in removing a placenta try the reflex stimulation of a rectal injection of cold water. Dr. John Morton, of Mussoorie, India, reports success with that method in the Indian Medical Record.

THE doctor really pays a very little part of what a thoroughly good medical journal is worth to him. If a journal is not worth ten dollars a years it is not really worth the time it takes to read it, as that is the most important element of the cost of the doctor's information. Take those journals that will give the most useful information to you in practicing your