Are all Doctors to be Condemned? there were no animals dissected to help him form an opinion, and He promises in the New Testament that the time will come when His followers will be able to do greater works than He did. And I believe the time is near at hand for His prophecy to be fulfilled. Dear friends, let your Journal preach this. truth. Persuade the doctors, do not condemn and ridicule them. Some of them have done so much for me that I feel deep gratitude, besides believing their profession to be the noblest and most useful on earth. You know Jesus was both priest and king (doctor), the Divine Healer. I do not think you have read anything from my own writings where I condemn the whole medical profession. I belong to the medical profession myself, and I am in good standing with them, and always have been. I have many friends among the doctors. I do not condemn any of them. All I ask is fair play among them. One school of doctors undertakes to condemn another school of doctors. My idea is to let them alone, let them have an equal chance. I have said over and over again in my magazines that I am opposing no school of doctors, no set of doctors, I oppose only that doctor who is trying to oppose other doctors. I believe exactly as you do, that the physicians will see the folly of vaccination and vivisection some day. We shall have to be patient and long suffering with them. It is a noble profession and some day it is going to come out of all its errors and superstitions. Frequently articles appear in our Journal written by others in which the medical profession as a whole is condemned. I give both sides a fair show. But if you will notice my editorials, they make no wholesale condemnation of any class or set or profession. I believe there is good in them all. Indeed this is the very reason the ethical physicians do not like me. I give ethical and unethical the same respect, the same criticism, and have equal faith in the sincerity of them all. 231 I criticise their acts, not their sincerity. I differ, but do not condemn the motives of any one. Diseases of the Colon. By J. W. SEIP, M. D., 1021 State St., Erie, Pa. I re DO not give any more credence usually to discussions of medical topics in the secular press than other physicians, but the recent report by the press of a perfectly healthy western physician and surgeon having his entire colon moved with the conviction that "the breeding ground of diseases would be eliminated," thus making himself "practically immune from ordinary ills," offers scientific pabulum for serious reflection and deserves more than a passing notice. The operation was successful-died only the third day— so that he accomplished "perfect elimination from disease" and not only "practical" but permanent immunity from all ills. This doctor was a recognized authority in surgery, and frequently contributed to its literature. Other surgical writers frequently quoted him in substantiation of their contentions and dogmas. He was undoubtedly an exceptionally able surgeon as far as that goes. His knowledge of anatomy upon which surgery is based principally was no doubt, too, of a most commendable order; but as to knowledge of physiology, at least that subdivision known as digestion, and in which connection dietetics cannot be omitted, he was obviously and so woefully ignorant as to foolishly sacrifice himself. Where a surgeon thus deluded, in spite of his superior knowledge, deliberately sacrifices himself, what must be the character of his work upon patients? That the doctors are not possessed of that broad culture in things medical and for which they propose to stand, the public begins to see. Did it not see fit to patronize preferably the many new cults (schools) of medicine, they would not exist. Did doctors specialize more, the bulk of the profession's present opprobrium would soon be removed. Then some would study exclusively diseases of the digestive tract and relegate the general surgeon to his legitimate sphere. Then surgeons ignorant of digestion and dietetics would possibly learn to cease doing useless operations on patients and stop killing themselves. That the colon is the breeding ground for possibly the majority of common ailments, is conceded by pathologists. But the fault is not in the colon itself. The principal function of the colon is one of absorption. Now the colon can certainly only absorb what passes into it from the small intestines and the stomach above, and the latter can only pass along what after their part in the process of digestion is accomplished. This brings us to what all authorities on dietetics teach, namely, that with a proper diet the colon cannot and will not be a hotbed of disease. This simple little physiological fact our noted surgeon obviously did not know. But what is a hotbed of disease, and why is the colon one? According to Webster a hotbed is "a bed of earth, etc., heated by fermenting manure, or other substances, covered, etc." This is exactly what people make of it with their highly seasoned and made dishes and gluttony, particularly those who never go to the table without meat on it, and possibly eat nothing else. Such forget that the human subject was never intended to be much of a meat eater, and that when it is all meat, the larger part of it will simply rot, with probable periodic diarrhea as Nature's outlet, or at best accompanying constipation. Where or what is that carnivorous animal that does not suffer from consequent costiveness? This is not the case in the herbivora. Chronic constipation is mostly met with in meat. eaters. He who daily spends the longest time in the toilet, to the olfactory disgust of the other inmates of the house, you can always put down as an excessive meat eater. He too lays the foundation for appendicitis, gall stones, "biliousness" and diseases of the liver in general. He it is of the dirty complexion, the foul breath, animal temper and poisoned system in general, if he is not a working man. In such cases the kidneys and most other organs suffer likewise with the liver. Bright's disease and others of the kidneys are the professional and leisurely gentleman's retribution for eating and drinking what only the working man can burn up properly and utilize sufficiently satisfactorily so as not to irritate and inflame these excretory organs. Rheumatism, lithemia, degeneration of the walls of the blood vessels, cerebral, hemorrhoidal and other hemorrhages with their innumerable hosts of diseases are more frequently due to what the colon is compelled to absorb and empty into the circulation, than to all other causes combined. The first ones to take "cold," grip, etc., are always those whose excretory organs are weeks and months behind time in their work. When the hopper, the colon, pours dirt, bacteria, poison, faster into the system than the emunctories can possibly grind and carry them out, can it be otherwise than that those who maintain such "breeding grounds of disease" are chronically sick and fill premature graves? Nothing so effectually ages one prematurely as the continued irritation of foreign substances in the circulation, besides paving the way for pleurisy, peritonitis and all kinds of inflammation of the heart and blood vessels. To keep your colon and with it the whole system clean and the functions of the different organs normal, healthy, keep unnecessary and superfluous dirt How to Learn Chiropractic should. Let us put the blame not on the poor colon, but on ourselves. We are to blame. S That Orthodox Cure. OME time ago Dr. J. T. Robinson, of Tarpley, Texas, sent me manuscript containing what he denominated the code of the American Medical Association. This alleged code goes on to give thirty-five paragraphs, setting forth the principles and practices of the American Medical Association. In the prefatory remarks at the beginning of the article, Dr. Robinson failed to make clear that the code was merely an attempt on the part of some critic of the American Medical Association to put into categorical statements the spirit and policies of that association. As the article appears, some people have been misled to believe that it is the actual code printed and promulgated by the association. Had I known that there was any danger of such an interpretation of this article, I should not have printed it. I do not believe that the American Medical Association has ever printed such a code. Nor do I believe that a majority of the members of the American Medical Association are actuated by any such principles or spirit. It does, however, fairly represent the spirit of much of the legislation which political doctors have succeeded in getting passed through various state legislatures, and with a very little stretch of the imagination it could be regarded as the unwritten code of the executive board of the American Medical Association. I wish to state, however, in this connection, that I have been familiar with the code of the American Medical Association for some time, and while there are certain paragraphs in the code that I have frequently criticized, the code as represented by the article that appeared in The Columbus Medical Journal, entitled "Orthodox Medical Ethics," does not at all fairly represent the regularly_authorized code of the association. The managers of In writing to advertisers, please mention 233 the American Medical Association are altogether too politic if not too honorable to come out boldly and advocate any such code of ethics. Their tactics would hardly permit them to make a public announcement of such intentions, even if they had them. There are, however, very few allegations made by this alleged code, that could not be substantiated by the aetion taken by some one of the medical societies that form an integral part of the great political phalanx known as the American Medical Association. It is not their code, however. At least not their published code. Water in Bread. Some bakers add to the flour for bread making potatoes or sugar or salt or rice flour; either of which absorbs and retains a greater per cent. of water than flour. This enables the baker to sell water for bread. This is more liable to happen when the bread is sold by weight than when it is sold by the loaf. THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. Hay Fever. By FRANK B. GILL, 430 Beacon Ave., St. Paul, Minn. I have been a hay fever sufferer for eight or nine years, and constant inquiry among druggists and such doctors as I have met, also reading diligently various magazines such as Health Culture and your Journal, has not brought me within reach of a cure. Now, it seems to me that with the efforts I constantly make after thorough cleanliness, plenty of fresh air at night and as far as practicable during the office day also. living on two meals of simple, plain food, I ought to be rid of it, or that by this time some earnest seeker after health would have announced a real cure for this trying affliction. We can't all pack our trunks and go to the Pineries for two months, or even a couple of weeks every year, so must suffer day after day. This last two seasons my trouble has not been so extreme, but still a slight fever seems to hang on, noticeable particularly when I am out in the sunshine and for some hours afterward; also my nose is blockaded continually. These are the mild symptoms I now have. A month ago my eyes were inflamed and my nose was like Tennyson's brook, running on forever, besides the extreme sensitiveness of the mucous lining of the nose, and the other features of hay fever. May I ask that you refer to this distressing affliction in your magazine, stating if a cure that is absolute and without danger of imparting something more serious, such as asthma or consumption, is possible, and how such an elysium may be reached? I am very much interested in your statements concerning hay fever. You certainly make it very vivid and also point out in strong language the insufficiency of doctors in treating the case. I have always said, and will say to you again, that nothing but change of locality can be regarded DR. CARR'S HELPFUL HOME BOOKS The book entitled "Dr. Talkwell's Sketches," is written in language easily comprehended by the average reader. It gives some of the author's experiences which come to him by associating with the so-called lower classes. Cloth bound, 60c; paper, 32c The book entitled "The Girl and Her Mother," contains twenty-five articles devoted to talks with girls. 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This is because they have in their blood a large number of strong, healthy. virile white blood corpuscles. These white blood corpuscles are known to the pathologists as phagocytes. There are millions of them in the blood. and when the blood is healthy these little living corpuscles constitute the standing army of the human system. When disease germs undertake to enter the blood through cuts or sores on the skin or through the mucous membranes of the stomach or lungs, these phagocytes meet the disease germs and devour them. Many a battle royal is fought between the phagocyte and foreign germs that ought not to be in the blood. As said before, when the blood is healthy the phagocytes are well able to protect the system from the disease germs unless the disease germs are artificially introduced into the system by vaccination or injections of serum or experimental inoculation. 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