ers, and consequently are, as a rule, an intelligent set. Many of the vegetarians, or a great many of them, earn their living with their brains; students and literary men, or those whose occupation is sedentary (as clerks), gain most benefit from the adoption of a non-flesh diet. The general health of the vegetarian is better than that of the meat eater, and there are good reasons for this; the rule is for him not to smoke and not to take stimulants. He also believes in fresh air, regular exercise and bathing.

If the vegetarian breathes impure air then he suffers with chest complaints and lung diseases the same as any one else. No human being is immune against disease where they breathe impure air. If he abstains from taking exercise or bathing, then he suffers from diseases due to neglect of these rules; if he over-feeds he suffers from excess like others.

The temper of the vegetarian is good, as a rule, and he takes a more cheerful view of life than his meat-eating friend. Excessive stoutness is a disease almost unknown amongst vegetarians; we have studied the vegetarian mode of living from a doctor's standpoint, and our conclusions are that if intelligently carried out, it is the best diet a man can adopt.

In trying vegetarianism, the first great need is whole wheat bread. We do not mean whole wheat as some style it, with the outside hull or bran taken off of the wheat by a process of steam before the wheat is ground. Bakers make and sell to their customers a brand of bread they call whole wheat. It is a fraud upon the face of it. Whole wheat means all the grain, bran shorts and all. The reason why we should use the entire grain are many. The coarse or outside hull or bran contains most of the mineral matters of the wheat, such as phosphates, iron, etc. Just beneath the outer coat is a layer of cells containing much of the nitrogen in the grain, and the greater part of this, together with mineral matter, is lost when we throw away the bran

You have heard that some foods furnish fat, other foods make muscle, and still others are tissue-building and heat-forming. You know that most foods have one or more of these elements, but do you know no food contains them all in such properly balanced proportions as whole wheat, meal bran shorts and all. The bran contains phosphorus, which is one of the best brain foods and nerve bracers of all the other foods combined, wheat, oats, barley, maize, peas, beans, lentils, rice, sago, tapioca, greens, roots, fruits, fresh and dried, and many other things not enumerated, including nuts and vegetables, and the product of the dairy. All grains should be thoroughly cooked, and the vegetables steamed, if possible. The fruits are best

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I am constitutionally opposed to sumptuary laws, or laws calculated to regulate personal habits, and I have said, in my own way, a great many times, exactly what you say in the two paragraphs in which you are quoted. We are a representative government, and any attempt to restrict the wish of the people, as expressed through the ballot box, is practically repudiating our form of government.

At least two-thirds of the counties of this state have gone local option. The counties where the larger cities are located still remain wet, with several others. Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati will be the storm centers some day, where the drys will probably be defeated. It looks now as if Columbus would be the first one to make the attempt. Franklin county, in which Columbus is located, has already started a petition, and the election will occur some time next fall. It is hard to tell which way the election will go. Sentiment may change before that time. As it stands now, I believe the drys would win, notwithstanding the large majority which Columbus would give in favor of the wets.

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The saloon is an anomaly in society. It is not the product of the moral evolution. is the creature of so-called temperance laws, that had the effect of protecting the trade and driving it into the hands of disreputable people. Having created such a monstrosity, the only thing left to do is to kill it and get rid of it.

I believe if the liquor business had been let alone absolutely, the sale and manufacture had been undisturbed by temperance laws, holding those who deal in liquors responsible, applying Sunday laws to them exactly as they

are applied to other people, having no special laws or taxes or licenses, in short, treating the manufacture and sale of liquor exactly as the manufacture or sale of sugar or vinegar, my idea is that then we would not have had any trouble with the matter. At least, no so much trouble as we have had. Liquor would have been worth twenty-five cents a gallor

and its very cheapness would have made the saloon an impossibility.

However, I may be wrong. At least, now that things are as they are, every county should have the privilege of voting on the subject. Then, if the people want to absolutely prohibit the sale of intoxicating beverages they have a right to have it that way.

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EING a reader of The Columbus Medical Journal, I have been very much interested in a number of articles appearing in this Journal with reference to Viavi, and especially the one in the May number by Dr. Maud L. Dunn, concerning her experience with Viavi in the treatment of diseases of women, which moves me to write of the experience I have had along the same line. However, I reached my conclusion by a different route than that taken by Dr. Dunn. As she puts it, she had run the gamut of ethical remedies, watching the results of many operations and so often finding them disappointing, that she turned elsewhere to find some method of treatment that would not simply be effectual in the treatment and cure of the diseases of women, but a treatment that, while it cured, would leave no bad effects. She adds that after a long and varied experience with the Viavi System of treatment she has found it to be just what she was looking for a rational, common-sense treatment that restores a normal, healthy condition throughout the organism. Her experience began with ethical, collegetaught remedies and surgical treatment.

My experience began with the Viavi System of treatment. For a number of years I was so situated that I had an opportunity of noting very closely the work done by one of the Viavi branch offices. Becoming interested in what they claimed to accomplish, and desiring to convince myself as to what Viavi would really do, I kept track of a large number of cases placed under the treatment, watching them from beginning to end. The result was that Viavi did the work claimed for it; some cases slowly, such as tumors, lacerations, ulcerations or troubles of long standing, in other cases ridding the system of diseased conditions and restoring full health and vitality in a remarkably short time. Always, or at least in all cases under my observation, results, whether accomplished rapidly or slowly, were the same; disease was eliminated from the various organs, restoring them to a clean, healthy condition, performing their functions normally and painlessly. And, fur

ther, in every case noted the general health was built up, the nervous system invigorated and from every appearance a healthy, normal condition seemed to be reached, not so much by medication as by nourishment.

All this I knew of Viavi before I took up the study of medicine. When I began my medical course I was neither prejudiced toward Viavi or biased against it. The fact is, I was still surrounded by the glamour through which most of the laity look upon the medical profession. Nearly all of us, from our childhood experiences, look upon the physician as a very important personage-a man of deep learning, wisdom, gravity and mystery; a man who has delved deeply into the mysteries of the human body and who has learned to conjure with dangerous drugs with which to restore health. It sometimes takes a course in medical college to dispel the glamour and to disillusion one from the supposed specific potency of drugs or of the knife. But it did not take me long to discover that there are few drugs that can be called "specific" for certain named diseases, and that radical treatment, or surgery, cannot always be depended upon.

And, while I am a regular practitioner, having had the advantage of two different schools and know Materia Medica pretty thoroughly, I am willing to admit that I am acquainted with no remedy or combination of remedies that are so effectual in treating diseases of women as the Vitvi System of treatment. My study of Anatomy, Histology and the Physiology of the human body has led me to believe that the theory of the Viavi System of treatment is more rational than that of the usual medication by other schools of medicine, and my experience verifies the fact that Viavi gives far more satisfactory results in every way than the regular professional local, internal or surgical treatment.

I know of several physicians who are fully acquainted with Viavi and who know the above facts as well as I do, but for ethical reasons they will not admit it. Most of the physicians of today (ethical socalled) prescribe proprietary remedies. In

fact, the majority of their prescriptions are "ready prepared," being compounded by the various chemists in their well equipped laboratories throughout the country. I have in mind one who procures from the drug store a certain proprietary remedy which is advertised for dysmenorrhea, and this he dispenses as his own private remedy. I have also seen physicians prescribe this certain remedy for their patients, although they are ethical. And, while this is a good preparation, no doubt, yet it only gives temporary relief. If the doctor knew and would tell his patient that Viavi is a specific in the treatment of dysmenorrhea he would forfeit his claim of being ethical, and besides the patient would be permanently relieved of her trouble and there would be no more fees for him.

All physicians do not do this, of course; there are many among the profession who are broad and liberal and humane enough that after they have tried their own remedies will direct their patients to proprietary remedies that are known to be effective in overcoming certain troubles.

For my part, knowing what I do of the rationale of the Viavi treatment, and also the uncertainty of the application of drugs and surgical treatment, I cannot do otherwise than advise the Viavi treatment for certain conditions. I am not criticising or trying to lower the medical profession; I belong to it and I believe the medical profession is composed of men who are conscientious and painstaking in their work of alleviating human suffering, and they possess the knowledge and skill to enable them to do it, but I do know that too often a physician loses sight of his knowledge of physiology, putting too much stress upon pathology, and in that way he loses all trace of the cause, depending upon symptoms and products. As in tumor cases, by surgery the product of the condition is removed, while the cause still remains, and that is why the tumor often reproduces.

These diseases so familiar to women have baffled the knowledge and skill of the best physicians and surgeons. So if a physician, under a secret formula, has been able to compound a treatment which is effectual in these cases, then for my part I would rather advise this Viavi treatment for my patients who may need it than to keep them on other remedies that do not cure them.

Leaving out the humane part of it, I believe, from a business standpoint, it pays the doctor in the long run to cure his patients, even if he must resort to a proprietary remedy, rather than to continue his professional, ethical remedies and keep a cloud over the home of his patients. I believe, in this era of education and Christianity, we should broaden ourselves and thoroughly investigate, with an unbiased

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mind, what is best. It is the narrowminded physician who allows himself and his patients only a limited expansion of their thoughts. And yet we are taught to be broad, giving unto others as we would have them give unto us.

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Sacrificing Cattle.

O WONDER the price of meat is high. No wonder the poor people cannot afford to use much meat. If cattle are to be sacrificed on account of some brain-cracked theory of tuberculosis all our cattle will finally be exterminated.

Remember, I am not advocating the use of diseased meat. Not at all. If cattle are sick in any appreciable way, if their sickness gives any sign that can be ascertained by a regular veterinary surgeon, neither the milk nor meat should be used. But when any one has to resort to the tuberculosis test to discover whether cattle are diseased or not, then it becomes imediately a farce, a destructive, wasteful farce.

I quote from a press article from the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. In this article the following statement is made:

"Argentina requires that all cattle imported into that country shall be subjected to the tuberculin test upon arrival, and as a consequence exporters from the United States have had the test made on cattle intended for shipment. The results of these tests showed that in some of the purebred herds nearly 50 per cent. of the animals were diseased and in consequence sales were lost.

"Figures for the last year secured from abattoirs where Federal inspection is maintained show that over 10 billion pounds of meat was inspected, 46 million pounds of which was condemned, nearly three-fourths being for tuberculosis."

This foolishness will have to stop some day. The people will get on to the game after a while. Better pension the germ hunting doctors. It would be cheaper.

proof that their brain power is not developed. It is also universally understood that vegetarian nations propagate at an alarming rate. Orthodox vegetarianism has in many cases the same effect on European nations, thereby showing that a vegetarian diet does not enable its followers to control their sexual natures. As a proof I will quote Mr. Wallace's diet, which was published in the Morning Leader. It consists practically of whole meal bread (without yeast), butter (without salt), a little pale roasted coffee, pure cane sugar and fresh fruit. I ought to mention here that Mrs. Wallace, his wife, editor of the Herald of Health, considers herself the most advanced teacher of vegetarianism.

Here is a chance for the Government of all nations to test my statements about certain foods causing abnormal sexual desires. Professor Chittenden, of the Yale University, and Professor Wiley. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, should engage men and feed them on the diet mentioned above. The men should, be kept under strict supervision. Daily reports should be made, to see how many days they were able to live a continent life on this vegetarian diet. The results of these experiments would be surprising and of untold value to posterity, because no sane person will tolerate in future sexual unrest, when it can be easily prevented by selecting a proper diet.

If the poor were universally fed on this diet the world would soon be overrun with

degenerates, because it has an irritating effect upon the procreative organs up to old age. Hence old men with their young children would both fall a burden to the parish, being unable to provide for themselves. An excess of vital fluid is the result of wrong irritating foods, just as expectoration is caused by wrong foods. Both conditions are unnatural and can be easily cured by a suitable diet.

A haphazard fruitarian diet (nuts and fruits) has even a worse effect on the sexual nature than orthodox vegetarianism. If a fruitarian diet were adopted generally public morals would become those of the monkeys, a step lower than those of the vegetarian nations.

Humanitarians agree that the condition of the poor cannot be permanently improved until women learn how to regulate their families. Knowledge is most easily acquired when we have a strong brain. The most effective way, therefore, to solve the problem of over-population is by preparing our minds to grasp new ideas. When women have learned how to produce a strong mentality and will power by the use of digestible brain foods, they will have no difficulty in arranging their married life. It is a well known fact that certain foods largely influence the procreative organs.

Therefore by avoiding these foods, the births of all unwelcome children can be prevented, because no brainy woman with strong will power can be forced in civilized countries to become a mother without her consent, and such a woman has also too much common sense to inflict a life of misery upon innocent beings.

The subject of diet has not received the attention from most social reformers which it deserves. It will be found that a nation of brainy women and men will soon solve social problems, just as certain brainy people have conquered the difficulties in their own lives.

Whether orthodox vegetarianism, fruitarianism or a brainy diet will produce the best quality of brainy women and men the future can only reveal.

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Long Distance Therapeutics.

R. C. B. LYMAN, a practitioner of psycho-therapeutics, of Rockford, Illinois, lately received a very interesting letter from India. An official in India, of high caste, applied to the doctor for treatment. In his letter to the doctor he says:

"I have been a nasthmatic patient for nearly ten years. I have been under treatment of many a doctor and used many medicines, with only temporary relief. After a lapse of a few months the asthma has re-appeared in its full vigor. Our subdivisional officer witnessed by complaint and had the kindness to say that I could be easily cured by your will power. I therefore request you will please to take pity on your poor patient and free him from his troubles by means of your will power."

It would be interesting to learn whether Dr. Lyman's will power in Illinois can be projected across the ocean to India in sufficient strength to cure this asthmatic patient. India is the home of the occult. It seems strange that they should have to apply to this young country, still in the heat and rush of commercial activity, for occult treatment. Maybe Dr. Lyman will have the goodness to inform my readers as to the results of his treatment. If he could send treatment from Rockford, Illinois, to Madras, India, at a single bound the doctor has got wireless telegraphy beaten by several thousand miles.

a small stencile brush or a feather, mix at a time small quantiy of each and apply very quickly over all the affected parts.

The Ichthyol will reduce the inflammation and the Callodion will protect the parts from the air. Retouch and paint wherever the disease spreads, and finally the third or fourth day wash all off, and repaint again if necessary. Of course, cranberries and rotten apples are good applied locally, but not as good as the above treatment, and cannot always be procured.

Meat should be eliminated from the diet. Belladonna, Rhusto and Arsenicien Alba are a great help taken internally. Collodion alone will relieve pain and limit extent in nearly all cases. More might be said, but I think this the best treatment. The above will save the people many dollars of doctors' bills.

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Typhoid Fever Vaccination.

CCORDING to a newspaper report, they are proposing to introduce into the army and navy of the United States an anti-typhoid vaccination. They hope that all of the soldiers and sailors will submit to be vaccinated with some stuff the doctors think will protect them against typhoid fever.

The soldiers are not to be forced to submit to this vaccination, but the dispatch goes on to say that "The whole matter is frankly to be put before the army, and individuals will be invited to volunteer for vaccination. No soldier or officer will be compelled to submit to anti-typhoid vaccination, but an effort will be made by lectures and examples to show the soldier the advantage of availing himself of such a simple way of escaping one of the worst and most dreaded of army camp diseases."

Of course they will be able to cause most of the soldiers to submit, quite likely.

The greater portion of the German army was once vaccinated with the germs of syphilis. The doctors of Germany got it into their heads that if each soldier was inoculated with syphilis in an artificial way, this horrible disease could be prevented.

For some reason or other the German authorities gave up this sort of vaccination. It didn't work out as they thought it would. But long before they gave it up they had succeeded in inoculating thousands upon thousands of German soldiers with the most damaging animal poison ever known.

Something like this will happen with our typhoid fever vaccination. Many thousand soldiers will be poisoned with the stuff, when the discovery will be made that it is no good, and something else will be tried. In the meantime, what about the soldiers that are submitting to this barbarity?

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I wish to put myself on record as saying that there is no such thing as an anti-typhoid serum or vaccination.

Further, that there never will be such a serum discovered.

Still further, that artificial immunity is a futile dream. That the only immunity from disease is good health, correct living and a strict avoidance of all vaccines, anti-toxins, serums and inoculations of whatsoever kind.

Cattle in Texas.

By J. G. Graniger, Rt. 4, Box 138, North Yakima, Washington.

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HAVE been reading your Journal and note the fairness of many remarks therein, and your appeal to any reader to contribute anything they may know which would be of use to other readers in any way.

Last winter I put in the winter in the Southwestern States and Mexico, and one is struck by the great many consumptive people who flock to the South, especially in winter time.

Now, there is a great deal said about stamping out this dreaded disease, and the modern scientific and sanitary conditions are freely advertised in booming all cities.

I will give you just one out of the many. San Antonio, Texas, is a nice and said to be a healthy town of about 93,000 people. There is a small stream runs through the city, into which all the sewers empty. Every rooming house I went into was about half full of consumptives, the cuspidors were filled with their Just spit, which was dumped into the sewer. at the south side of town there is a large cotton seed oil mill, and adjoining this are cattle corrals, in which the cattle of the range are brought to be fed the cotton seed meal, which fattens them for the market. The sewer flows through these corrals and the cattle drink this, and in order that there will be nothing lost, what the cattle don't drink is run out on the land and used to irrigate vegetable gardens.

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The beef thus inoculated is mostly sold in Chicago, Kansas City and other eastern markets. The horror of this must be seen be appreciated, and as long as these conditions exist, how can anyone expect to see any improvement in conditions.

The range cattle raised in most of the South should not be used for foods. They are raised, or at least most of them are raised, poor; they just simply exist and starve along until they are about three years old, when they ship them somewhere to be fed, so they can be turned into beef. I have seen them in Texas eating cactus; the poor things get so hungry they do not know what they are doing, and they will eat the cactus. Of course most of them die from the needles sticking in their tongues and throat.

Of course the cattle raisers will dispute this, but it can be substantiated by thousands. I am pleased to see, though, the cattle ranges