A Little Visit With Collier will tell patient when the pressure is in the right place. It is a very simple thing, yet important to a sufferer. The raw beet poultice, Page 585, October issue, if as good as writer claims, is invaluable and should be remembered by every reader. If Querist Mrs. H. W. B., Mo., Page 583, will make panada for the child in case your buttermilk does not remedy it, I think she will have no further trouble. In support of my suggestion I will say that some years ago I was at a boarding place where a crying infant kept the boarders awake nearly all night. They told me of it. The M. D. had given paregoric, etc., but it quieted the babe only while under its influence. I said, "It is hunger that ails the child." "Oh, no," replied they, "the mother has an abundance of milk." I said that may be, but her milk evidently has not the requisite nutriment in it that the child needs. Noting their doubtful expression and knowing that seeing only is believing with some people, if not many, and fearing they might by delay prolong the suffering of the babe, I said, please get me the rolling-pin, some crackers, warm water, sugar and nutmeg. They did it and laughed at what they deemed a mere project. When made the babe ate heartily of it, crying ceased, opiates discontinued, boarders were all surprised at the sudden cessation of the S 71 nightly crying and thanked me for the relief obtained by them. The cure for smoking, Page 583, is simple indeed if it will cure the habit. A young man asked me for a remedy to stop smoking. I said, "Smoke Duke's Mixture. I see in a public print that it is nine parts pasteboard and one part tobacco. So that at your first smoke of it you will have overcome nine-tenths of the habit and resolution should enable you to overcome the other one-tenth of it in a week and so be freed entirely from it." In regard to Querist H. G., Page 586, I would have thought the free use of distilled water as the only drink, tepid baths, evacuation of bowels with tepid water thrice a week, and after each movement of bowels so caused, to inject a pint or quart of tepid water into the bowels and retain it for a half hour, would have been good. Teeth, Page 571: The best set of teeth, or as good as I have ever seen, were those of a 70-year-old seaman. In reply he told me, "When we were in port once a chap came aboard selling tooth brushes. I got one, used it once and threw it overboard, and never used one before nor since.' His teeth had worn shorter from use, but he had lost none. I never believed in brushing the teeth hard; teeth differ, it may do for some, not others. Collier's Patent Articles. By H. H. HERSHEY, Columbus, Ohio. EVERAL years ago Collier, publisher of a weekly, came out in glowing headlines that patent medicines were poison and that after this expose these medicines would be relegated to records of the dark ages. This alleged expose, if perhaps written during the seventeenth century, might have been considered a contemporary twin brother with the existing superstition then prevalent. His assumption of these medicines, therefore, was more a matter of fiction than that of truth. In fact a prominent publication styled Adams, the writer of the Patent Articles, as having be come quite a noted fiction writer through this expose. Collier, in his write-up, sought all demerits of the preparations he attacked. He steered clear of the good they were doing, fearing that this would rob him of the sensational yellow journalistic attributes if he said some patent medicines. were good. So he called them all frauds and poisons. It is, therefore, quite evident that these articles were inspired for a sinecure purpose, since they were called poisons. It is quite evident they were written not for the good of the pec ple, but for a commercial gain. Shortly after the completion of the series they were sold to the American Medical Association, and by it distributed either directly or indirectly to the various legislative bodies, etc., but to avoid the appearance of doing it for political purposes, the association advertised this series in their official organ for sale at ten cents a copy, or cheaper for larger quantities. It is hardly believable that such an intelligent and representative body as the American Medical Association should indorse and participate in the profits of this series of articles, originated undoubtedly to gain more subscribers for Collier's Weekly. Truly, it is time for the American people to rebel against the selfish and uncalledfor ethical code of the American Medical Association, when it uses such means to foster a self-styled medical trust, whose powers are to be dominant over the life, liberty and even the pursuit of happiness of the American individual, which is in direct contravention to the basic principles upon which our Government is founded. No wonder the people are rebelling against this debasing practice of this association, and using their own judgment in the choice of such remedies as they know by former experiences have done them good and even saved their lives. These remedies Collier called poivery sons, and the American Medical Association OK's what Collier's Weekly said, by now distributing this collocation of lies and deceit to deceive the American people under their official sanction. Verily can we, must we believe that the official organ of the American medical profession is once more relegating itself back to shades of ignorance and deception as existed in the age of witchcraft, and all for a purpose of deceiving the people so that the association in its move may style itself as the recognized official trust of the human body of the world? You would be surprised to know how many doctors there are, scattered all over the United States, who believe in medical freedom. Doctors of all schools. If we can bring them together, get them to march under one banner, we can make it lively for the American Medical Association. This is what we hope to do. A Remedy for Cold Feet. By F. N. SEITZ, Mechano-Therapy Specialist, Albany, 0 most prevalent troubles encountered by medical men is cold feet. It is astonishing what a vast number of people suffer from this seemingly trivial but exceedingly annoying condition. The old axiom, "Keep the feet warm and the head cool," had its origin in sound physiological law. Cold feet are a menace to health and should be scrupulously guarded against. In every case without exception, it is due to the one cause, imperfect circulation This frequently gives rise to serious and sometimes fatal consequences. Congestion of the head and heart and catarrhal conditions are mostly due to this cause. Never interfere with free circulation in the feet. Never go to bed with cold feet, but by no means put the cold feet to a heater, stove or open fireplace to warm them, or the usual hot rubber bags when going to bed. All these doings can never restore circulation, but will lead more and more to effemination. To restore circulation it is much better to spend a little more time in briskly massaging and slapping the feet, also quick and energetic flexing, extending and rotating the ankle joints, or raising the body on the toes twenty to twenty-five times. This will be found highly beneficial in forcing the blood into the feet. One of the best means of overcoming this condition in very obstinate cases is the alternate hot and cold foot bath, taken as follows: Two vessels are used, the one filled with hot water, as hot as can be borne, and the other with cold water. Now begin to put the feet in the hot water for four and one-half minutes, then one-half minute Inconsistency of Examining Boards in the cold. In this manner changing three times. Combined with massage and gymnastics, as described above, I 73 and if faithfully and persistently practiced, the cold feet habit may soon be overcome. DRUGLESS HEALING. BY PROF. D. C. RICHARDS, 223 E. State St., Rockford, Ill. (This article is continued from the last issue of The Columbus Medical Journal.) SAY let every one who thinks he -knows how, help his fellow-man to the best of his ability. And if he is a fraud and only after the coin and does a real injury, let him be held responsible to the law, whether he be a drug or a drugless doctor, whether he be a college graduate or never saw a college. It is healing, it is health sick. people want, and they care not where you get your skill if you can deliver the goods and with the least delay. you choose men schooled in law and justice and who knew the proper requirements for a proper filling of the office? But as organization is the order of the day, and it becomes necessary for selfprotection, then it will be necessary to have a board of examiners. Now who shall they be is the question, and what shall the examination consist of? I am considerably amused at some of Brother Corbett's ideas in the November number of Journal. First he wants a high school education for a basis. I want to say here and now that any eighth grade scholar that has been thorough is qualified to qualified to thoroughly learn, understand and practice any method of drugless healing, provided Nature has done its part in giving him the natural qualifications, and if he doesn't possess these, no surplus or artificial education will ever make him a good healer. The list he gives might not be far out of the way, but a drugless healer would not need to be examined in them as a surgeon or drug doctor. They arrive at their conclusions in a different way. Now who shall be the examiners? He says have an Allopath, Homeopath and Eclectic. Lord help you, Brother, most of these fellows don't know any too much about the things they profess to practice. How could they know how to examine for something they have never learned and which eight out of ten are prejudiced against? Would you choose a blacksmith, a preacher and a doctor to examine for a position on the supreme bench, or would No, sir, we want men well versed in the things they practice and who have. practiced the same successfully not less than five years. Not political wire pullers, but men who will give each applicant a square deal. Any regularly chartered school should be recognized, but the board should satisfy themselves that new aspirants understand the principles of the methods they proposed using sufficiently well to do successful work. And, provided that applicants who held diplomas from one or more chartered schools and who could show good moral character and had been devoting their time regularly to successful practice for five or more years, shall not be required to pass an examination, but should be granted a certificate on proof of above facts. A drug doctor's diagnosis would not be satisfactory to drugless healers, but they could make that kind feel the pulse and see the condition of the tongue, get the patient to tell them how they feel bad, etc. The up-to-date drugless healer can tell more nearly the condition of the patient without asking questions by certain visible and perceptible signs he has learned to read than the average drug doctor can with all his paraphernalia. He can locate pain if they have it, tell if heart is bad, if constipated, whether nervous, can tell whether he has passed through serious sickness before, whether there are or have been head troubles, whether condition is improving or growing worse, whether there are hopes or not. If there are displacements he knows it. There are certain conditions he has learned that are plain to him; like the signs to the expert Indian trailer on the prairie, they are read like an open book. He don't have to let ordinary fever run until it burns itself out or runs into something else more complicated. He can cool the fever, reduce the pulse and have the patient sleeping like a tired child. Often before the prescription of the drug doctor can be filled, the skillful operator is able to raise or lower the pulse, increase or decrease the heart action almost at will and without putting anything into the body which might be injurious. Dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia are cured in a short time without drugs, after hundreds of dollars have been spent for drug treatment. Chronic constipation of years' standing is cured in a few months by causing a proper distribution of water to the intestines to keep the contents softened, and create proper peristaltic action, so the patient will be regular and dispense with pills and powders. Paralysis, rheumatism, neuralgia, insomnia, nervous prostration, asthma, bad habits-all these are helped or cured after drugs have failed, and with no danger of inducing the drink or drug habit. Treatment of Acute Gonorrhea. I N THE management of acute septic inflammations of the male urethra we should never permit ourselves to be carried away with the idea that any remedy can be considered a specific; still we should never lose sight of the fact that gonorrhea is an acute local inflammation, and when it is possible to place our patient in the proper hygienic condition, where rest in bed is possible, conjoined with a light, bland diet, and the liberal use of water, free from all sexual excitation, and under a normal psychopathic condition, combined with. the simplest remedies, remedies, most cases would recover without further treatment in about two weeks, the time needed for the resolution of all other acute inflammatory conditions occurring in other parts of the body. Gonorrhea will always continue to be a disease of long duration, with many complications and sequelae, until we finally train ourselves and our patients to understand that they are seriously ill when the simplest forms of gonorrheal infection occur, and that it is eminently necessary that they should remain confined to their apartments, and discontinue all manual labor, and to place their minds at rest for at least the first week or ten days. Very excellent. If every case of gonorrhea was treated as above, what a multitude of men would have been saved from a life-long state of wretchedness from stricture, enlarged prostate and cystitis, not to mention hopeless sterility. Buttermilk. By HORACE POWELL, M. D., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in Am. Jour. Clin. Med., July. I N ACUTE diseases I believe patients do better without sweet milk, as the casein is liable to coagulate in large lumps instead of in flakes, which materially adds to the danger of autoinfection. Buttermilk, either "as mother made" or that produced by the use of lactone, usually proves more acceptable to the stomach and intestines, while its disinfecting effect is desirable. I believe that soured milk will, in the future, be used much more than hitherto. Its nutritive and diuretic qualities will be better appreciated the more it is used. Its power to prevent and overcome gastro-intestinal infection will aid in the treatment of many acute diseases. In my opinion the advent of buttermilk in the practice of medicine is of more importance to the people than anything that has happened in the last twenty years. For twelve years I have been advocating the use of buttermilk as food for sick and well. At first I was alone so far as I knew, now I have plenty of good Snake Poisoning as a Medicine I treated a case, coming to me from another M. D. who had used lead, soda and other drugs, with no effect. After using the pyrolignine for one day, he reported himself well. On the wrapper is the formula, which is oak extractives, with crude phenol and ethyl iodine. I use it in all manner of inflammatory troubles of the skin, and am well pleased with the good results. I obtain. It is not my custom to laud proprietary remedies, but I am in favor of exploiting all good things in medicine. If agreeable, you may remind the boys of this, and my experience with it. The pyrolignine can be obtained at any drug store. I know by experience that 0 75 the remedy is a good one and am therefore glad to quote the above from the Medical Summary of August, 1908. Here is another one from the same journal by another doctor. Both recipes are worth preserving, as they are likely to be found useful in the season of ivy poisoning: Carbolic acid, twenty drops; glycerine, one ounce; water, one pint. These are mixed and are to be applied with a sponge, sparingly, as often as the itching returns. Enclosed find one dollar for one year's subscription to your Medical Journal. Altho never having seen a copy, I believe it to be a worthy publication.-J. R. BLOUGH, Southey, Sask., Canada. Snake Venom--A Life Saver. By EARLE WILLIAM GAGE, 610 Cherry St., Jamestown, NE of the most daring operations that ever occurred in all medical history, in the interest of mankind, was performed by Professor Raymond L. Ditmars, assisted by Mr. Charles E. Snyder, at the reptile house, New York Zoological Park, in the morning of April 26, 1908. This operation constituted the extracting of the venom from a live Lachesis Trigonocephalus (Lancehead viper), from Brazil, headwaters of the Amazon River region. Dr. Ditmars is Curator of the Bronx Zoological Park, was the "man of the hour," the only man of scientific ideas who braved the storm of facing, open and bare-handed, positively the first of this species of the snake world ever captured and exported from Brazilian country. The snake was captured by a band of men for Boericke & Runyon, homeopathic pharmacists, 11 West Forty-second Street, New York, and secretly exported to New York City by the steamship Aire. Dr. Ditmars readily volunteered to undertake the delicate and dangerous task of extraction. He gave an almost unexampled exhibition of bravery and coolness, which will result in an incalculable boon to thousands of sick and suffering throughout the civilized world. The lancehead was brought out of a glass case, with long poles, by two of the keepers and deposited on the floor of the reptile house, where a company of noted scientists was gathered. Dr. Ditmars, with his sleeves rolled up and depending entirely upon his skill and nerve for protection, approached the reptile. With a quick movement, he caught it back of the head with his right hand. Before it could coil in an effort to wriggle itself free, Dr. Ditmars caught the ugly body about half way and held the viper extended to its four-and-a-half feet of length. One of the keepers then approached with a wide-mouthed jar of heavy glass. Over the mouth was stretched a covering of medicated gauze. The mouth of the jar was jar was brought slowly toward the viper's head, and when it was within striking distance Dr. Ditmars sharply squeezed the snake's head and thus angered it. At the same time he thrust the head forward. The lips had curled back, exposing the fangs, and the snake bit vi |