"A ship surgeon of the North German Lloyd and chief assistant physician of the German imperial navy, reports that bromural was employed with the best results during a number of trips, partly with very stormy weather. The excellent hypnotic properties were very evident, and the effect on the development of seasickness was very gratifying, especially in nervous, overworked individuals, particularly if the remedy was given prophylactically at the beginning of the trip. In those predisposed to seasickness, from five to ten grn., according to constitution, were given before the first large meal. This dose was repeated the first evening before retiring, and the same treatment continued on the second and, if necessary, on the third day.

"Most patients expressed their satisfaction at having obtained sufficient quiet sleep during the first night. On the following morning the appetite did not fail. If the above treatment was continued throughout, nausea did not appear. Good results were also seen in headache. After ten to fifteen grn. a quiet, refreshing sleep set in. On

awakening, the patients all had an excellent appetite.

If the treatment was begun later, after symptoms of seasickness had already appeared, larger doses were necessary, and the administration had to be continued over a longer period. In conjunction with proper diet, the patients, however, were made more comfortable and the duration of the illness was shortened.

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School Boards.

OME time ago we had a legend on the cover of this Journal that read: "School Boards Make Schools. Such Schools Make Fools." Some people doubtless thought the saying a hard one. We will let the School Board of Chicago speak on the subject. At a recent meeting of the Chicago School Board the following words were said as a part of a long quarrel between members of that board in a regular board meeting:

"Trustee Guerin said: 'Now, I want to tell this board,' he said, 'and the taxpayers of Chicago, that their public schools are a failure from the point of view of efficiency. I want to ask why is it a fact that seventy-five to one hundred of the parochial school pupils are successful in the Normal School examinations as against successes of only thirty per cent. among the candidates from our public schools? It is because the instruction in the parochial schools is good and the instruction in the public schools bad. I know that the public school instruction in arithmetic, grammar, reading and geography is poor. For what are we spending $12,000,000 a year on our schools?'

"Dr. Guerin, you are a nuisance,' exclaimed Schneider.

""This scene that would disgrace any public body, should not have occurred in the board meeting,' said Robinson, and in future I will insist that rules of order be maintained.'

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"Trustees Sonsteby, Mills and Post declared that Dr. Guerin had not exaggerated."

And so the merry war of words went on. Nice fellows they are to have charge of the public schools of Chicago. What else could be expected? School boards are composed of ward politicians. Such men are not fit to have charge of a livery stable, much less a school. At least their function should end in erecting and caring for the school buildings, and school superintendents should be elected by the people to take charge of the schools. I repeat, "School Boards Make Schools. Such Schools Make Fools."

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The Bygone Curette.

HE curette is a long sharp surgical instrument shaped something like a shoe buttoner, but much larger and with either a sharp or toothed edge. It was used to scrape out the womb. The operation was known as curettage and was a bloody one which removed the mucous lining of the womb. It was done on this and that pretext against which I have frequently protested in times past. My opposition has been regarded as the words of a disturber, rather than a prophet. I felt sure that time would reveal the truth of the matter. Well it has. In a review of this sort of surgery Lucy Waite, M. D., who is head surgeon of the Mary Thompson Hospital for Women and Children, of Chicago, discusses the history of curetting. In what she says I find my sentiments so fitly expressed that I will give her exact language:

She says: "Time was that the curette was as much in the daily use of the busy surgeon as his own knife and fork, and any one with an attachment of an M. D. was supposed to be qualified to use it. It was hardly considered an operation at all, and the more ignorant a physician was of his case. the more cheerfully he ordered out his curette. 'Only a curetting' was a common expression in every hospital op

erating room. But now that countless women have gone to their graves, and many more have been made invalids by this deadly instrument in ignorant hands, those who have done the least damage with it have laid it aside.

"The gynecologist is done with the sharp curette except for diagnostic purposes. Unfortunately this is another example of the imitators continuing after the originators have learned wisdom. There is no doubt but what a great change has come over the profession in regard to this important subject during the last decade, and it is quite certain that another decade will find the curette missing in the surgical armamentarium."

I have some reason to believe that the continued use of the curette is mainly for the purpose of producing abortion in an ethical and strictly professional way. With any other instrument the operation would be called criminal abortion.

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more facility than to the laity. A few dollars spent judiciously, advertising in exclusive medical journals, will reap quicker and far greater harvests than a like amount expended in newspaper advertising to catch the public. The writer believes there are several good reasons for this fact. Perhaps the physician is ever ready to try a new remedy (?) because he has become disgusted with the results of treatment by drugs with which he is familiar. Perhaps he is more willing to try something new on the public than the public is to try it on itself. Regardless of reasons, the fact remains that the wise maker of dope gets the medical profession to introduce it to the people by means of the ethical Latin prescription. Later the laity become familiar with the drug and then the manufacturer uses the endorsements and testimonials of the medical

profession to sell his product direct to the people.

The above is what a professor of pharmacy says about the use of secret medicines by the doctors. The professor's name is Riley D. Moore, and his address is Grand Junction, Colo. I think he is exactly right. First, the doctor tries it on the public, then the people try it on themselves, then the doctors kick.

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Feeding the Baby.

NA very excellent article in the Medical Summary, F. J. Fralick, M. D., of Greenville, Michigan, tells how to feed the baby, beginning with the first month, and carrying it along to the end of the seventh month. This bill of fare is intended only for babies who for any reason are deprived of mother's milk. I hope hope every prospective mother will keep this article, so that if such an emergency should arise she would have at hand specific directions for feeding the baby as it ought to be fed.

Any one using this baby food successfully, who wishes to thank the author of it, should write a letter to Dr. Fralick expressing her gratitude for his excellent advice.

For the First Month.-Cream, 6 ounces (skimmed from a quart bottle). Boiled water, 24 ounces (in which is dissolved three teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar). Bicarbonate of soda, a pinch.

Place the bottles in a pot of cold water and rapidly bring it to the boiling point, then remove from the stove and allow bottles to remain 20 minutes in the hot water vessel; they should then be rapidly cooled by placing and keeping on ice.

For the Second Month.-Cream, 6 ounces (as above), milk, 3 ounces. Boiled water, 24 ounces (with three teaspoonfuls of sugar), salt, a pinch, soda bicarbonate, one-quarter teaspoonful.

For the Third Month.-Cream, 6 ounces, milk, 6 ounces, boiled water, 12 Ounces (and (and three teaspoonfuls sugar), barley or oatmeal gruel, 12 ounces, and add soda and salt.

For the Fourth Month.-Cream, 6 ounces, milk, 8 ounces, water, 8 ounces (boiled water), gruel, 16 ounces, sugar, three teaspoonfuls, and soda and salt.

For the Fifth Month.-Cream, 6 ounces, milk, 9 ounces, barley or oatmeal gruel, 24 ounces, granulated sugar, 4 teaspoonfuls, bicarbonate of soda, 4 teaspoonful salt.

For the Seventh Month.-Cream, 6 ounces, milk, 9 ounces, barley or oatmeal gruel, 21 ounces, soda, 4 teaspoonful, salt, granulated sugar, 4 teaspoonfuls.

The food must always be pasteurized and cooled as given in the directions for the first month.

To make the gruel, use two tablespoonfuls of barley or three of rolled oats, soak in cold water over night; next morning add one quart cold water and boil steadily for four hours down. to a pint, then strain through muslin. Gruel should be made fresh each day and kept on ice. Use barley gruel, unless the baby is inclined to be constipated, then use oatmeal.

Magnetic Healing.

By FRANK R. SIPLE, Magnetic Healer, 921 Shorb St., Canton, Ohio.

NE year ago, in February, 1908, I was called to see a lady in the village of Beloit by the name of Mrs. Alvin Hawkins, who claimed she had been a sufferer twentyfour years. After having a little confidential talk with her I learned her trouble had been brought on by the birth of a child which had left her in a very weakened condition and gradually she became worse, as none of the medical doctors was able to relieve

her, of which she said they had several,

and had tried other treatments.

I found her in a very sad state of mind, propped up in a chair on a couple of cushions. After talking with her a few minutes I said to her, "lady, I can

help you, build you up and make you feel like a new person." At this she smiled and said, "do you think so?" I replied, "I know it." I asked for a glass of water. This I held in my hands for about ten minutes; then I told her to drink it, which she did.

I suggested to her that the water would act on the bowels, which it did, with splendid results. After giving her the water I placed my hands on her head and used mental suggestions on her. She passed off into a light sleep, but was very receptive to the suggestions I gave her and I assured her, "now you will feel much stronger and will get stronger after each treatment," which she surely did. After my first treatment she said that she felt better already and that she had great faith in me, which of course was pleasing to me, for then I knew I would be successful with the case.

Well, the results are that after the third treatment she was able to call on her neighbor; when for two years before that time she was not able to leave her home. After the fourth treatment she called on her daughter to spend the day, which was about one-fourth of a mile from her home, and surprised the entire neighborhood, and for the fifth treatment came to Canton to my office, a distance of twenty-six miles, on the street car, and walked over two miles, going to and from the car.

These treatments were kept up twice a week for about two and one-half months, then once a week, and then down to one every two weeks, which took about five months, till I gave her up as cured. I received a letter from her a few days ago saying she was "feeling fine," and thanking me many times for what I had done for her, and now I hear she has taken four boarders to cook and work for, which is more than I ever expected.

She had suffered with awful pain in the back, and her bowels threw off great quantities of mucus, and nothing would stay on her stomach. This she said had been her trouble for the past twenty-four years. Her husband said.

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to me the first time I called, he would be the happiest man in the country if only his wife could go around and drive out with him in the buggy. said, "she will." This he This he thought sounded too good to be true, but he said, "I hope it will be true." So after the third treatment I said to him, "do you think now I can bring your wife out all right?" "Yes," he said, "I believe you can. You are all right with your work."

Now, where the patient can be put into a deep sleep or a semi-conscious. or receptive condition, I call this my mental hypnotic suggestions, as I make no verbal suggestions while I am giving the treatment, and yet the patient will pass into this condition and the receptive mind takes on and acts. out the suggestions. Some are more receptive than others and respond very quickly, while others are positive and are slow to respond, but drop right in line and after a few treatments respond with as much success as those who are more sensitive and easy to influence by mental suggestions.

This lady will truthfully verify all I have said about her case. If there are any doubting my claims in regard to these treatments, they must enclose stamp if they expect an answer. Address MRS. ALVIN HAWKINS, Beloit, O.

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Home Remedies.

By C. L. ROTH, R. D. No. 3, Chenoa, Ill. N FEBRUARY'S Journal you invite your readers to tell what medicine they are using, keep in the house, and use oftenest. The medicine (?) I am using oftenest is water; generally cold, but once in a while warm. I drink of it nearly every day, not every day, though, as sometimes for a day or two or longer I don't get thirsty. I usually do on days when I eat a good deal of fruit, or juicy vegetables.

I also bathe myself every day in cold water, generally only a towel wash, but on days when the thermometer falls towards zero, in a cold room to do it, it is generally cooling enough,

though I know of some who have practiced the cold morning wash for a number of years, want their water very cold, and when there is plenty of snow, they use it for rubbing down their warm skin.

I also have the Biochemic Tissue Salts in the house, from the 3rd to the 30th potency, at least some of them; am using the 6th mostly, not for myself, though, as I have not been using any kind of medicine for the last eight years or so, with the exception of a few doses of Natrum Phosphoricum, to see what effect it would have, and only once in those eight years have I taken a few doses.

But I am keeping them for my family and occasional neighbors, who don't like to wash themselves every day over the whole body, and like to eat pastry too well.

The wife and daughters have taken more magnesia phos. than any of the others,, as sometimes it may be a whole year before they feel the need of something else.

My son, past seventeen, hardly ever is in need of medicine, either; he may take some ferrum phos. or natrum mur. once a year, when he has a cold, and then not always, as he may take a sweat in a bath cabinet once or twice a year when he has a cold, and then wash off when he comes out of the cabinet with cold water, after that drying himself vigorously and taking lively exercise afterward, or going to bed if he should need it.

By eating much fruit and vegetables, at proper times, raw when possible, and properly cooked when they cannot be taken raw, one don't get sick so easily, and when one does get sick, a person has a better and quicker chance of recovery.

Last spring I had a heavy fall and had my shoulder mashed badly and my arm lamed. Thinking it would get all right again in a few days or weeks, but it did not, I went to an Osteopath and he gave me about fifteen treatments, also one treatment by a Chiropractor, which all helped me.

The Osteopath also put Denver mud over my shoulder about half a dozen times.

We also employ the syringe for taking large injections, a few times a year, that is, when one of the family. don't feel well, or, in my judgment or theirs, needs it. I know these injections are one of the greatest helps there is, in most diseases, and are enough, with a well regulated dietary, breathing exercises, the right attitude of mind, to cure a good many incurable (?) diseases.

I also think there are a great many herbs that have great medicinal value, and other medicines, too, but as we are just as liable to employ the wrong thing as the right, and thereby often do much harm, as I have experienced in my life, we generally leave them. alone, and employ with very few exceptions the above mentioned remedies only.

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Doctors Defended.

By MRS. G. W. Moss, Eastport, Me.

THINK your attitude toward the medical profession an unjust one. It reminds me of

Martin Luther. He, you know, instead of co-operating with the righteous part of those who were in authority in the Catholic Church, seceded from his church, entirely proving thereby the truth of the Bible assertion that "a man's enemies are those of his own household." Because there are misguided and unscrupulous members in the association is no reason that the whole fraternity is to be held up to the contempt of the public.

Over in Baltimore the other day at a meeting of scientists there was a resolution passed endorsing vivisection. I felt grieved and indignant, but do not blame the whole medical fraternity for it. It was caused by a blindness of vision. When they know the truth, as I believe they will soon, every one of the endorsers of vivisection will recant.

You know when Jesus was on earth He cured all manner of diseases, and