Portsmouth Harrisburg. I Scarlet Fever: 22 4 Sandusky..... South Charl'ston I Upper Sandusky 1 Wellington...... 3 2 I I I I Typhoid Fever: Bellaire.. Cincinnati.. Cleveland Columbus East Palestine I I I 33333 Cases. Deaths. 13 I 4 252 5 6 I I I I Springfield. Toledo.... Wellington.. 2 Wellington . I .. Lorain. ... Measles: I Cincinnati. Medina.. No infectious diseases reported to health officers in 16 towns. At a recent meeting of an agricul- Tiffin.... tural association in Berlin, Professor Toledo.. Hilgard, director of the Agricultural Wyoming Research Station in San Francisco, gave an account of a method of getting rid of the destructive" field bug apparently a near relative of the Colorado beetle-which has lately been tried in the Western States of North America with most satisfactory results. plan is on the same lines as that so successfully carried out by Professor Löffler in the plague of field mice in Greece. The virus of a disease affecting the "field bugs" has been isolated, and is used to infect a few of these noxious insects, who are then let loose in the places where their congeners do most congregate. The result is an epidemic. which works such havoc among them as only the pen of Homer or Mr. Rider Haggard could describe. So fully recognized is the efficacy of this measure, that the farmers in all the NorthWestern States of the Union, notably California, Nebraska, and Kansas, now send living field bugs specially captured for the purpose to San Francisco to be infected, so that they may be utilized for the extermination of their kindred. Nothing is said as to the employment of anaesthetics.-British Med. Journal. C. O. PROBST, M.D., Secretary. The Tie that Binds, and Christian We are compelled regretfully to chronicle the sorrowful fact that Christian Science has been grossly insulted by the law, a certain judge having ruled that it may be, under certain conditions, inimical to health and a sound mind. It appears that the divorce law in one of the New England States permits of the dissolution of the marriage tie when one of the parties acts in such a way as to endanger the health, mental or physical, | considering a belief in Christian Science of the other. Basely taking advantage of this provision of the law, a man, not long ago, applied for a divorce on the ground that his wife was a convert to Christian Science and practiced faithcuring. It was not held that she had tried her science on him, but he disapproved strongly of her latest fad, and alleged that her espousal of the new doctrine had made him unhappy, glum, and generally cranky. He produced an array of medical expert testimony to the fact of his despondency and growing bad temper, and the witnesses stated as their belief that further brooding on the Christian scientific doings of his wife would imperil his reason as well as endanger his health. His wife said he was only "in belief" and she thought that a little application of her science, secundum artem, would take that belief out of him in short measure. Her diagnosis was not accepted, however, and the divorce was granted forthwith. There is, therefore, now, legal precedent for ----------------- a possible cause for divorce, for this A Case of Auto-Infection in Hamburger (Med.- Chir. Rundschau, No. 12, 1892, as quoted in the British Med. Journal, July 16, 1892, reports the interesting and suggestive case of a woman, fifty years of age, who had had for several years a tumor upon the left labium minus. It had grown to a considerable size and ulcerated upon the surface approximating the opposite labium. A short time after this small warty masses appeared upon the right labium minus on the surface in contact with the ulcerated growth, and these presently ulcerated as well. After removal the growths on both labia were found to be squamous epitheliomata.— International Med. Magazine. Mellin's Food For Infants and Invalids. A SOLUBLE DRY EXTRACT of Barley Malt and Wheat, for addition to Fresh Cow's Milk. Prepared upon the principles advanced by the eminent chemist, Baron Justus von Liebig. EXPERIENCE the supreme test has absolutely proven that the best solution of the problem of infant feeding was made by LIEBIG, and that MELLIN'S FOOD prepared with milk is the nearest approximation to, and is the BEST SUBSTITUTE for, Mother's Milk which has ever been devised. Mass. THE DOLIBER-GOODALE Co., BOSTON, MASS. |