Special Notices.

SYPHILIS.-When a patient presents himself for treatmeat he should be placed upon the following recipe (which fully meets all indications) until the symptoms disappear, his appetite is improved, and a general feeling of vigor and activity exists. Hydrarg. bichlor., 2 grains, iodia 6 ounces. M. Sig: One teaspoonful after each meal.

Iodia is prepared by Battle & Co., St. Louis, and contains extracts from the green roots of stillingia, helonia, saxifraga, and menispermum. Each fluid drachm also contains five grain iod. potass. and three grains phosphate of iron. The tendency of the profession is too much toward discarding every thing but mercury. I have often seen mercury alone or combined with iod. potass. fail to heal secondary ulcerations, which speedily disappear when combined with vegetable alteratives. It is therefore best to have the good effects of the only three reliable remedies at once, viz., mercury, iodide, and vegetable alteratives (which is obtained in the above prescription). Lectures on venereal diseases by W. F. Glenn, M. D., clinical professor of genito-urinary and venereal diseases, medical depatrment Vanderbilt University.-Southern Practitioner, May, 1898.

MORE ROOM NECESSARY.-The Chicago Eye, Ear Nose, and Throat College, after one year's existence, has been compelled on account of its large attendance to seek more room. The attendance has increased to so great an extent during the past few months that the Board of Directors saw that it would be necessary in order to maintain the high standard of teaching adopted by the school to have more room. Fortunately at this time a large space on the same floor has been vacated and has been immediately leased by the college. The acquisition of this space will make it possible to teach at least three times the present number. It is the intention of the directors of the college to make this the foremost school of its kind in this country, and with the new space and great additions made to the present equipment will undoubtedly make it so. Write secretary for catalogue.

J. B. DANIEL: Dear Sir-I have tried your Passiflora Incarnata on myself for nervous irritability with very gratifying results. It seems to be all that is claimed for it. I shall continue to use it myself when necessary, and prescribe it for my patients where it is indicated. I shall in future get my supplies from your agents in New York City. Respectfully, EDWARD MCGUIRE.

94 Varick Street, New York City, May 27, 1897.

SANMETTO IN CYSTITIS, PROSTATITIS, AND IRRITABLE Bladder.—I have been using Sanmetto in my practice for two or three years. I have used it in a good many cases of cystitis and in all cases of irritable bladder, with the most gratifying results. Arlington, Ky. R. T. HOCKer, M. D.

Ex. Pres't. So. Western Kentucky Med, Assoc.

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Original Articles.

PROFESSIONAL FRIENDSHIP."

BY WILLIAM LANE LOWDER, B. S., M. D.
Author of "A Pilgrimage, or the Sunshine and Shadows of the Physician."

"When true hearts are withered,

And fond ones are flown,

Oh! who would inhabit

This bleak world alone?"-Moore.

Sophocles says: "What good man is not his own friend?" Young states that a foe to God was ne'er true friend to man; some sinister intent taints all he does. Dryden says: "Want gives us to know the flatterer from the friend." The Bard of Avon makes Cassius say: "A friend should bear his friend's infirmities." Webster's definition. of a friend is, "One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection, that he seeks his society and welfare-a well-wisher."

Egotism, hatred, avarice, intemperance, immorality and infidelity are at enmity with professional friendship. Any member must purge himself of these evil genii before he knocks at the door of professional friendship for recognition and admittance. To have professional friends. we must be worthy of them. All physicians should be friends-promoters of each other's welfare, success, and happiness. All gentlemen who are members of our noble profession will be friends. Friendship is founded on confidence, confidence on integrity, and without integrity there can be no friendship. It is the duty of the physician in his daily

*Delivered before the Lincoln County, Kentucky, Medical Society, at Hustonville, Ky., September, 1897.

intercourse with his professional brethren to treat them with the utmost respect and courtesy. It matters not how humble or obscure may have. been the birth or surroundings of your brother practitioner in early life, or what may have been his calling or trade previous to his professional life, he has a just claim on your kind offerings-courtesy, favor, and respect. Let us remember that while our brother may not have been brought up in the schools of the learned, he may have been trained in one far superior for eliciting the powers of an original mind—that severe school of adversity, that perilous ordeal where the feeble minded perish; but the great and pure of heart come out of the fires purified and resplendent in tenfold brightness. Let us also remember that Pride is unstable and seldom the same, that she feeds upon opinion, and is fickle as her food; or as Dr. Holmes says, in Poems of the Class of '29, "A few brief years, and who can show

Which dust was Bill and which was Joe?"

How endearing is the title of friend; what a charm in the very name of friendship! How the mind turns at once to the circle at the fireside, for it is here that friendship is seen in all its beauty and intensity. The mother's devotion has ever been the theme of the poet's song and the minstrel's strain, and filial love has been promised in its fulfillment. Desolate, indeed, must be that heart which can not look back to the early quiet joys of home.

The rememberance of a parent's love hath often come back to the lone wanderer like a long forgotten strain, to cheer him in his lonely solitude and calm his weary spirit; and feelings of hatred at the world's ingratitude have given way to kindlier emotions, as he thought of his earliest, his truest friend, his mother. It causes his memory to revert to the old home, with all its familiar surroundings, with its moss-grown roof, that in turn "lets in the sunshine and the rain," to his pious father and his sainted mother, who have long since crossed the dark river and "rest under the shade of the trees"-that silent depository of the lowly dead; to the bright-eyed brother and the golden-haired sister of long ago, and the coy little maiden who in turn kept house for him one day, his brother the next, and a little grassy mound on the hilside, across the meadow, near the greenwood rises to view, and a few "pious drops" gather in the eyes, as "he thinks of her he loved so well and those early broken ties." How fond recollection calls to mind his dumb playmates: his faithful dog, his gentle cow and his playful colt-all "have quietly mingled their bones in the dust."

Throughout all animate nature is this principle recognized. The humble ant shows attachment to its fellow-workers, and the busy bee will permit no intruder in its hive, and so up through the scale of created beings is the ruling principle evident, increasing gradually in power until in man under the guidance of reason it is displayed in its full development. It is the basis of patriotism-that love of country which nerves the arm and fires the heart to protect our native soil from the step of the invader-our hearth-stone from the finger of the oppressor. It imparts hope to the exile when the sweet strains of some home melody strikes his ear, with all its hallowed associations. High and low, rich and poor, acknowledge its power. It heightens the joys of wealth in the palace, and alleviates the misery of squalid poverty in the hovel. Even the wicked, whose hearts have been worn away by the constant drippings of evil, yield to its influence. What noble instances of heroism has it produced! It has comforted the "departing soul" of the martyr in its celestial flight. It was seen at the cross of Calvary, when Rome, prould Rome was in her pristine vigor; when, amid revilings and reproaches, that ever faithful band of followers stood by and witnessed the last agony. It guided the lone woman "at the peep of dawn" to the narrow cell" to see where they had laid her Friend and Savior.

History has given us a beautiful account of the ties of friendship that existed between Damon and Pythias. The former having been condemned to death obtained permission from Dionysius to visit his home and bid farewell to his family, kindred, and friends, the latter gives himself as a ransom in prison, pledging his honor, to suffer the punishment in his stead in case he did not return at the appointed time. Damon was punctual; and this striking instance of friendship so affected the king that he at once pardoned Damon and became his friend.

"But whether on the scaffold high,

Or in the battle's van,

The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man."

What a noble instance of true friendship is represented in the death of Christ. This is the kind of friendship that is of value. A friendship that is not willing to give and do more than it receives is base indeed. To the man whose mind is indeed aright, there is no pleasure so great as the consciousness of having done a good action. The incense of prayer and praise is doubly fragrant, when performed by deeds of benevolence

and kindness. Oh, how much we all need a brother's helping hand! We start on life's voyage down the stream of time; the banks are strewn with flowers-we do not see the hidden thorns, we do not inhale the lurking poison-we glide on gently, the distant mountains bright with hope, and all beyond an expected Paradise. But will the stream be always smooth? Shall we not feel the thorns? Shall we not inhale the poison? How cross the mountains? The pilgrim's staff may break in ascending their rugged heights. How welcome, then, a brother's hand, to ease us a little of our burden.

"Teach me to feel another's woe,

To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,

That mercy show to me."

How sacred should be that tie of friendship which binds the physician to his fellow, no one can know or feel until experience has taught the lesson and left its impress indelibly engraven upon the heart and memory by a lifetime of toil, of care, of privations, of want, of anxiety, of perplexity, and a hundred other ills consequent upon and attendants of his professional life. Unhonored and unsung must he commence the struggle for recognition and maintenance, for conquest, defeat, or victory. Years of poverty, years of severest toil, years of study, onward must he go midst heat and cold, midst storms and adversity, with but an occasional gleam of sunshine to cheer him along life's rugged, thorn-strewn pathway; uncompensated, unappreciated, a mendicant, a slave, to obey the behests, commands, dictates, and calls of every one, however ungenerous, unappreciative or ignoble, and life itself may prove the sacrifice in the discharge of his professional duties. To whom then must we look, aye, from whom expect condolence, sympathy and a just regard, if not from those who travel the same rugged, thorn-strewn pathway, if not from our own brotherhood, who by sad experience have been taught these terrible truths. The duties and obligations no man, at least a member of the medical profession, who should be endowed with ordinary intelligence, need be misguided or misdirected; neither must he misinterpret or misunderstand his professional duties to his brethren. It may all be summed up in one scriptural injunction: "Do ye unto others as ye would that others. should do unto you." Charles Kingsley says:

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long,

And thus make life and death and the great hereafter
One grand sweet song."