tration, the case of baby's sore throat mentioned on Page 700, Medical Journal, could be cured in a single treatment, and the same process of treatment would cure, if persisted in a couple or more weeks, asthma, tonsilitis, laryngitis and all diseases of the throat, face, eyes and nose, such as catarrh, facial neuralgia,

etc.

The cure of prolapsus uteri, by the editor, is a new idea to me, and I shall try it the next case, in connection with magnetism, of course; but for laceration, by over- (un)-skillful doctors, who are in too much of a hurry (I wish people would employ midwives and thus avoid the injurious artificialities of physicians), for ovaritis, etc., magnetism is a certain and speedy cure. The average time is twelve treatments, though I required fifteen on one of my last cases, and on another only six treatments. Both had been injured by the attending physician at child-birth, some years before, and the doctors were insisting on a surgical operation in each case as an only means of repairing the injuries they had caused.

Then there are two cases of depleted nerves, or neurasthenia, mentioned on Pages 706 and 707, which in my mind only magnetism will cure. Possibly Osteopathy or Hydropathy would restore them, but the process would be tedious. There was a case of neurasthenia which came into my hands a year or two ago. I promised to have him out in a couple of weeks and should have done so, but after I had given him the second treatment an osteopath butted in, and he is yet sick and on the osteopath's hands. I have cured dozens of such cases since. Now I am not writing this to advertise myself, but to advertise the system. This can be done anywhere with very little study, though if the reader expects to make a business of healing, he should study tolerably well the nervous system, and operate from the nerve centers outwardly to the efferents. As soon as the "Manual of Magnetic Healing," of which there are only three hundred copies left, is exhausted, I purpose issuing a new edition, with cuts of the nerves and classification of diseases arising from them, with causes, etc., so that any one can

have a complete system of healing, or more complete than in my present book.

I should be glad of one or two students, one of them to take my business in a couple of years, as it is time that I should leave off treatments of the sick.

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Some Old Fogies.

By B. F. WILLIAMS, M. D., Amory, Miss. T HAS been a good while since I heard from you and I concluded I wanted to write to you again. Now, in the beginning, I want to say to you I am one of those "Old Fogies" that have been rolling pills for forty-five years, and in that time I have done a wonderful amount of work, but the modern science (?) in medicine and surgery would if possible lay all of us "Old Fogies" back in the shade.

For instance, we have just been passing through a wonderful scourge of scarlet fever and a fearful form of socalled diphtheria, but the wonderful (?) advance we have had in medical lore in this country in the last decade has put a quietus on all fear from the effects of those fearful diseases. Horse serum is the antidote that has come to the front, and I have noticed one thing-where the parents had the money to pay the five hundred dollars per dose (?) for this wonderful specific (?) the poor little child (or children) had the diphtheria. And if the five was not there, the case was not diphtheria. Now how is that?

My utmost sympathy has been aroused for the poor little suffering child when it would have to submit to the many operations required of putting this wonderful specific into its blood and at last die, which has invariably been the case with at least nine out of ten that have come to my knowledge.

Now, for fear I may be wearying you, I want to say there are three of, us "Old Fogies" here in this place that have not seen any diphtheria here. At the same time we have had a wonderful amount of croup, colds, sore throat, etc., which is common here in the beginning of the fall. But we have not found any use for antitoxin.

Now, is it because we did not know when we saw diphtheria, or was it because we did not have, nor could not obtain this wonderful specific, that our patients recovered? I have not lost a single case myself, neither has the other "Old Fogies," except one.

Now, there is a screw loose somewhere and I am in search of more light, and if you have got anything that will enlighten me along these lines I will be under lasting obligations to you to please forward it. I have held that this horse serum is a fearful humbug, or I am one. And if a child got well on whom this blood poison was used it did so in spite of the treatment. Now, is this a display of my ignorance? I have treated a great many cases of diphtheria since the late war, among them one eminent physician, but I have never had any confidence in the wonderful "New Discovery" and hence have never used any. Now, give me all the light along these lines you can conveniently.

I heartily agree with every word of your letter. It is not for me to enlighten you, you are already enlightened. It is very plain that the doctors have not been able to fool you with such nonsense as antitoxin, etc. Go right on in the way you are going.

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The Problem of Life.

HAT is the problem of life? Briefly stated, it is finding some work you like to do. A man who has found a job that he likes, a vocation that utilizes his powers, physically, mentally and spiritually-an activity that inspires natural interest, that man has solved the problem of life. The only problem there is to be solved.

He may be a poor man. He may be a man who accomplishes very little, wields very little influence outside of his private affairs. He may be an obscure man. He may be an illiterate man, but he has solved the problem of life. He likes his work. He does not need to look outside of his work

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for recreation or pleasure. Not that he has no interest outside of his work, not that. Nor need he be a man who has no sympathy or love for other kinds of work, but he does love his own work.

He gets up in the morning with fresh interest, new enthusiasm. He is tired at night, but not discouraged. He may not have accomplished half he intended to, but he likes the struggle, he enjoys the contest.

By ordinary standards of measurement he may not be growing, even. His business may be smaller than it was years ago, but his body and soul vibrate in unison with every day's labor.

It is almost a misnomer to call his activities work. No play could satisfy him as well. No travel or adventure tempts him to turn aside. His life grows fuller, because he loves his work. He has solved the problem of

life.

Appeal to Americans.

By A. P. OPICKA, Ph. D., M. D., Crestview, Tenn.

I

WISH to lay before the people the facts with reference to the attack that has been made upon me by the State Board of Medical Examiners.

Ever since I first came to Crestview I have been the subject of abuse and villification, by threatening letters, by the distribution of cards, and now, as I believe, by persecution instigated by competing physicians.

I was arrested for not having a diploma from one of their "regular" colleges and for practicing medicine without a license.

I submit this question to the public: With reference to a physician, what do the people care about the name of the school from which he comes? The people are only interested in results, and I claim that my professional record will compare most favorably with any. or all of those who have instigated this attack. I have alleviated suffering; I have healed the injured; I have restored the sick to health and have prolonged the life of many patients. I

have worked upon scientific lines and used judgment in my practice that was not necessarily borrowed from any man's school.

Which is the greater crime, to practice without a diploma or to put a healthy person into the everlasting sleep, by the injection of morphine? Or to operate on a woman, strong enough to walk on her feet, and have her die in a few hours after the operation? No district attorney ever followed up these cases, but they are very anxious to protect the "dear public" from a physician whose professional knowledge isn't countersigned by a select committee.

What can the public think of competitive physicians who scour the country among my patients for evidence that can be used against me? Haven't they got sins and blunders enough of their own making?

To the public, to patrons and friends who have so kindly expressed their good wishes and sympathy in this persecution, in this effort to establish an Inquisition in a free country, I express my sincere thanks, and must say that I am surprised and gratified with the kindly words given me even by relatives of physicians who are supposed to be behind this matter.

I shall not be driven away from my natural rights as an American citizen till the highest court shall have pronounced upon this class of legislation.

blood furnishing substances detrimental to the growth of bacteria and antidotal to their toxic substances. (See the theories of Metschnikoff, Buchner, Ehrlich and others.) All experiment goes to show that the more nearly normal the body organism is, the more of these "anti" substances can be produced for defense against disease.— R. E. HAMILTON, D. O., in the Journal of Osteopathy.

Just exactly what I have been saying ever since the "germ theory" was sprung on the medical profession. I was connected with the first wellequipped bacteriological laboratory established in the State of New York. (That of S. Up Degraff's, of Elmira, N. Y.) It was there I first saw the utter folly of trying to combat disease Anygerms by drugs or antidotes.

thing that will kill disease germs in the body will also kill the body. That is a solemn truth which the medical profession is just beginning to learn.

Diagnosis from the Eye.

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Answer: I have heard of the matter before. Dr. Lane claims to be able to diagnose different diseases by diagnosis of the eye. There may be more in it than I am inclined to believe, so I would not like to put a straw in the way of such a proposition. If the man who is practicing it is sincere in his belief and treats his patients with candor and interest, I would not oppose him in any way. There might be more in it than any of us imagine.

That diseases of different portions of the body should register symptoms in the eye, and that these symptoms by careful scientific interpretation can be treated to the benefit of the patient, is a proposition that is new, but may be true, nevertheless. Keep your eye on a man who practices such things and note what his results are and judge him by that rather than by his theory. That would be the way I should proceed in the matter.

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