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This booklet is a collection of the remedies and prescriptions published in Volume 32 of The Columbus Medical Journal, and in almost every case the remedy has been found valuable in the home treatment of disease. Almost all of the remedies have been given to the world by non-medical people who have tried them in their homes and found them valuable, as well as simple. The prescriptions given therein are written in plain language and can be filled for a few cents by any druggist. While some of the remedies are old stand-bys and have had years of use, still others have never been published before; and this booklet will be found exceedingly interesting to any mother who cares for the health of her family and who does not call in a doctor for every little ache or pain.

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of a corporation. The company deducts one dollar a month from each one of its employes' small wages, that this stripling may ride in his auto and dress in fine linen while maintaining a small sanitarium where sometimes as many as five cases at a time are cared for from among 800 men.

Of course if these momentous cases don't take all his valuable time, he is at liberty to take outside patients and thereby turn a penny for the rainy day. This insures the poor fourteen-million-dollar lumber company against a suit for damages and keeps one young man on velvet. I would regulate him.

Then there is the appendix gang, who make a study of men who have an extra six hundred to a few thousand and an extra appendix. They take the whole thing, pickle the appendix in alcohol, and sometimes the dollars, too. If the case is successful the patient wakes on the other side. He has paid his fare and crossed in the regular way. Strange the poor have so few extra appendices-can't we regulate this?

The government should appoint an expert commission to regulate these men whose professional oath prevents them from regulating themselves and allows the quacks and malpractitioners, if duly stamped and registered M. D., to cut, cripple and poison, not only the present generation, but generations yet unborn.

Useful Remedies.

By R. G. Hayes, 31 Lincoln St., Dover, N. H. In The Columbus Medical Journal I see sweet spirits of nitre mentioned for fever sores. A friend of mine got badly poisoned with poisoned ivy on his person and found almost instant relief and cure by the use of it as a wash.

Many use alcohol to bathe with to reduce fever. In my judgment and experience saleratus and water are much better, especially if the patient is inclined to nervousness, for it doesn't leave the skin dry, as does alcohol and water.

Man's Immortality.

Query: In the May issue of The Columbus Medical Journal you have an article, "Man's Immortality," by Dr. R. C. Bayly, of St. Louis. This gentleman says we cannot tell when the presence of man began, etc. Is this just a burlesque, or does Dr. Carr sanction the article? Please let me know through the Journal.-D. W., Ohio.

Answer: I have no censorship over contributed articles. I want every man to speak his own piece in his own way. Very few of the contributed articles express my opinion exactly. Many of them express exactly a contrary opinion. When I write an article. however, I try to say things exactly as I believe them to be. I have noticed several times my editorials were in absolute conflict with the contributed articles.

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article, I would like to have you write an article on the subject. Make it short. I know of course you will treat Dr. Bayly civilly, and if you object to anything he has said, set forth your objections for the benefit of the readers.

The objectionable sentence in Dr. Bayly's article, "Therefore so far as we know, the earth and man have no origin; if they have we are utterly unable to find it,"-I think perhaps the last part of the sentence might be regarded as correct, but to say that the earth has had no origin of course is a misleading statement. I hope it will result in your giving your views. If it does, the article has served a good purpose to invite living discussion on living topics from live men.

The Fumigated Band.

An Antiseptic Baby and a Prophylactic Pup Were playing in a garden, when a Bunny gamboled up.

They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised,

For he wasn't disinfected, and he wasn't Pasteurized.

They said he was a Microbe, and a Hotbed of Disease,

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sand-odd degrees.

They froze him in a freezer that was cold as banished hope,

They scrubbed him with permanganate and carbolated soap.

With sulphuretted hydrogen they bathed his wiggly ears,

They clipped his frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears,

They donned their rubber mittens when they took him by the hand,

And elected him a member of the Fumigated Band.

Nowadays there are no Microbes in that garden where they play,

For they bathe in pure formaldehyde a dozen times a day;

They take their daily ration from a hygienic

Tapeworm.

Columbus, Ohio

self at the table, have a constant itching of the nose, and my sleep is always disturbed by horrible dreams. My habits of life in the past as to eating and exercise were such as Any to be good breeding ground for same. prescription or advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated.-J. N., Pa.

Answer:

The question with a case of this kind is to be sure you have a tapeworm to deal with. A great many people have been fooled with such symptoms as this, and the physician fooled along with the patient. Now it is agreed by all authorities that the only positive evidence of tapeworm is the passage of a portion of it. If there is a tapeworm of any considerable growth it will pass away in pieces perhaps half an inch long, a whitish substance which represents one joint of the These keep coming away and sometimes several links are hitched together. Nothing but this is absolute evidence.

worm.

To be sure, the symptoms you present are significant of tapeworm, and are usually present where there is a tapeworm, but it does not prove it by any means. If you want to make sure of this, however, I would advis? you to fast twenty-four or thirty-six hours, eating nothing but pumpkin seeds. After you have kept this up for, say, a day and a half, take a good dose of castor oil.

You may be sure of one thing, if there is a tapeworm there of any size it will bring a portion of it away. It may not bring it all away, but it will bring some of it, which will be sufficient to make the diagnosis certain. If you should get some pieces of the tapeTHE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

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worm in this way and uncertain whether you

have got all of it or not, the last joint of the small end should be examined carefully for hooks. You can do this yourself with an ordinary magnifying glass.

First soak it in a little water and alcohol. A teaspoonful of alcohol to a tablespoonful of water. Soak it thoroughly in that and examine it carefully with a hand glass. You will see the hooks that fasten it to the stomach, if they are there. If you should find the hooks you will know that the whole worm has passed away and you will not be troubled any longer. I do not guarantee that the above treatment will bring the worm, but it is sometimes sufficient and will be quite sure to produce the evidence whether you have a tapeworm or not, in which case it will be time enough to take something that will positively bring it away.

Be sure it is a well-corked bottle. Dip the end of a match or wooden tooth-pick into the nitric acid and touch the wart lightly. Then leave it entirely alone for a month. If it does not come off in that time, touch it again with the nitric acid. Be sure you touch only the wart, and not any part of the surrounding skin. This may leave a slight scar if not carefully done. The electric needle is the best way to remove these without scars.

X-Ray Abortion.

The sterilizing effect of the X-Rays upon the sexual organs has been known for some time; but until quite recently it was uncertain whether a similar influence was exerted upon the pregnant uterus. Fraenkel, of Berlin, would now seem to have settled the question by the employment of the rays in the case of a pregnant phthisical patient suffering from intractable vomiting of pregnancy, for whom ordinary surgical interference was absolutely contraindicated by her bad general health. Twenty-five applications of the rays for periods of from five to ten minutes each, without other interference, whether by vaginal examination or surgical procedure, resulted in spontaneous expulsion of the foetus, accompanied by pain and rather severe bleeding, which later, however, stopped when the uterus THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

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one of our High Priests of Ethics takes advantage of an opportunity to skin a member of the public out of a $5,000 fee for some trifling operation, they are quite likely to wink at each other and say, 'I told you so.'

"We may try and delude ourselves that we are very scientific, well learned, and so forth. But the cold facts are that the public are not getting a 'square deal' under our present system, and they know it.

"If the medical profession were doing right by the public, we should not see an army of poor devils traveling all over the country looking for special talent to cure their bodily and mental ills. We should not see another army joining a faith cult, trying to persuade themselves that their bodily infirmities are a figment of their imagination. We should not see yet another army of people with as curable a condition as asthma sitting up night after night inhaling some proprietary compound of niter and stramonium."

I guess that's all so. I'm afraid it is. At least it is exactly what I've been saying for several years. It may take a long time, but sooner or later the doctor is going to become a gentleman.

Find enclosed money order for one dollar for another year's subscription. Am well pleased with the Journal.-Dr. W. E. Maas, Anacortes, Wash.

Query: My daughter is troubled with a skin disease. She is twenty-seven years old, and has fairly good health. When she was a child very small white spots appeared on her stomach. Then later on, when she was about thirteen years old, a blotch appeared on her leg below the knee. Now there is a blotch on the back of the neck. There is no difference between those spots and the surrounding skin, except the white appearance. She has not had any special treatment. I asked one doctor what he thought caused the spots, and he said it was the lack of some

thing in the blood, but did not seem to know what to give. Neither my husband nor my. self has anything of this nature. Will you tell me if you think the Tissue Salts would be of any benefit?-J. A., Canada.

Answer: The trouble with your daughter is some defect in the pigment layer of the skin. Between the outer layer, epidermis, and the inner layer, derma, there is a layer called the rete mucosum, which is composed mainly of pigment cells. These cells are pink and black, which give color to the skin. Different proportions in these two pigments make the different colors of the skin all the way from black to the lightest blonde.

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There is an affection somewhat which the pigment cells are removed in spots, which leaves a perfectly white place. No one knows exactly the base of the trouble, neither is there any specific remedy.

The Tissue Tablet D was devised on purpose for skin deficiencies, and I know nothing better to recommend than this tablet. At the same time your daughter should be taking another tablet for the nerve centers, as such troubles with the skin are generally associated with nerve deficiency. I do not recommend the tablets as a sure cure. I am not certain whether they will cure her or not. All I can say is that they constitute the best treatment I know of. I have an idea if you would use one month's treatment of them you will be able then to tell for yourself whether the continued use of them would cure her. My fee for a month's treatment is two dollars, which includes the necessary tablets and advice.

She should be outdoors as much as possible, plenty of exercise. She should also avoid fatigue. Plenty of fresh vegetables and plenty of pure water are also to be recommended.

I enclose one dollar to renew my subscription to the Medical Journal. I like the style of exposing fraud in all directions.-Otis White, Salida, Colo.

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