Are the Osteopaths Increasing? scarlet fever, and when I made my accustomed morning call the following day I found them, too, greatly improved; in fact, enjoying the same degree of convalescence as had all of the others. Since the above I have had numerous cases of this disease, and also measles, and have always resorted to "darkening" the rooms wherein my patients were confined with red cloth, putting usually two thicknesses up to each window, and am firmly convinced that every case has not only been benefited thereby, but in each instance a much speedier return to health has been the result. In publishing the above the editor of The Medical World almost apologized for doing so. He said: "It can do no harm." In my opinion the article needs no apology. I believe every word of it. My experience has fully confirmed the idea that red light in the treatment of scarlet fever, measles and smallpox is of great value. I am glad that some of the medical profession is awakening to the fact that there is something in the world of healing of value besides drugs. T Not Increasing. HE Osteopaths are not increasing. So says Wm. Smith in the Osteopathic Journal: "Osteopaths, do you know that three years ago there were as many men in practice in this country as there are now? All the schools together last year graduated fewer than 35 men and women. Last year, with deaths, those giving up the practice owing to ill health and those starved back to their old profession by those in practice in the towns to which they had gone to locate, amounted to fully as many. Our death rate was greater than our birth rate. In other words, in three years our profession is numerically not one whit stronger than it was three years ago. Do you know what that means? Look at Homeopathy to-day, after an existence of over a hundred years, where does it stand? The Eclectic School of Medicine had much to recommend its practice; where is it today? To have success in anything in this world we must have union, the 91 practitioner must understand that every cure which a fellow practitioner makes helps him, helps Osteopathy." So long as the Homeopaths were persecuted by the regulars, they stood together and flourished. But so soon. as they were admitted as regulars, they fought each other and languished. The same happened to the Eclectic School, and the same thing is happening to the Osteopaths. Fraternity is better than fight; any where, all the time, always was, always will be. Don't you think so? P Assaulting Innocent Children. LEASE read the following letter from W. S. Whitman, from Washington, D. C., and also read the newspaper clipping that follows. It's enough to make. one's blood run cold to know that such things are going on in the hospitals that have been intrusted to take care of the sick little ones: 934 New York Ave., Dr. C. S. Carr, 44-48 West Broad St., My Dear Sir:-I enclose an article. cut from the Washington Herald of September 30. This is a sample of what the learned (?) doctors are doing here in Washington. I have been at the exhibit and heard their lectures, read their books, and all that I can get out of it is that the poor fellow that happens to get consumption should be put away as soon as possible to keep every one else in town from catching it. I have always believed that people in fairly good health were free from all danger of "catching" it, but if I am to believe all that I see here, I am sadly mistaken. Referring to the enclosed article. again. How about the poor little children that this wonderful scientific experiment is being tried on? Suppose the "experiment" is a failure, you will notice that it says they were inoculated with "deadly" bacilli, who is to be held. for their death or useless life? Patrick Henry said: "Give me liberty or give me death." It looks to me as if the "dear public" was getting the death end of it. Before closing let me thank you for the good things in The Columbus Medical Journal. You are certainly doing a good work; a hundred times more good than all the International Congresses on Tuberculosis in Christendom. Yours very truly, W. S. WHITMAN. Nine little children, all under fifteen years of age, tuberculosis patients at the Children's Hospital, Thirteenth and W Streets Northwest, were inoculated with deadly tubercle bacilli on Monday night. A delegation consisting of Dr. Acker, Dr. Henry G. Beyer, Dr. Kober, and Dr. D. Laszio Detre, professor of bacteriology at the University of Budapest, who represents Austria at the International Congress on Tuberculosis, will to-day act as a jury to determine the results from a new method of diagnosis discovered by Dr. Detre. This serum, Dr. Detre says, will disclose the type, degree, and stage of the infection. It forms one of the most remarkable and significant features of the congress. The children are suffering from tuberculosis of the spine, bone, skin and lungs, and for this reason were selected for the test. Three inoculations were made on each child, which, the discoverer says, was necessary, and which consisted of concentrated old tuberculin, filtrate of a culture of human tubercle bacilli, and filtrate of bovine culture. The name of the new discovery is "differential cutaneous reaction," and is a modification of Prof. Pirquet's procedure. Dr. Detre claims the patients in early stage of tuberculosis, regardless of the nature, are susceptible to the toxin. The examination of the patients at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon will consist of viewing the small pimples, the result of the injection of the bacilli. If, as Prof. Detre claims, the pimples are hard and present a feverish, red color, or small eruptions, as he says has been the case, it will be a matter of little difficulty to announce the nature of the disease, and through what channels it was contracted, human or bovine. The state of the pimples will also determine how far the disease is advanced. The toxin will also aid in establishing just what portions of the human anatomy are most susceptible to each type of bacilli. It does not appear that those injections. of deadly bacilli into the blood of sick children are done for the benefit of the sick one. It is done only to test some new theory, and to refute some old theory. Using the sick, young or old, as material for experimentation, is barbarous, unscientific, cowardly, and ought to be criminal. We might a great deal better do as ancient Sparta did with her defective children. tive children. Just take them to the mountain, drop them down and let them die from exposure and neglect. Better die from exposure in the open air than to die of blood-poisoning in the gloomy wards of a city hospital. I Chiropractic Treatment. By Wм. F. BOOTH, D. C., Crockett, California. AM an interested reader of The Columbus Medical Journal, and have found it a very good guide in many instances. I have often seen articles in the Journal, and thought that I would like to write you, but would wind up by deciding that you had correspondence enough without mine. However, in the last issue are two cases that I must refer to. The first is the inquiry as to "Hare Lip." We had a boy born with this terrible disfigurement, and a cleft palate, also. We were advised to have him operated on as soon as possible. We took him at the age of six weeks to the hospital and had the work done. It was not altogether successful, and he will have to be operated on again. Don't let that mother who wrote you have her child subjected to the impression that was made on our child's mind. The fact that he was helpless, that there couid not be anything administered that would relieve him in any way, while for fiftyfive minutes they cut and sewed, has left A Preacher's View of Health him so nervous that his own shadow will scare him. A later operation is preferable and will be more successful, in any case, owing to development. We have seen a case where the result was far better, in a child who was marked almost identically, where they waited until two years had passed. The second is the inquiry, "Spinal Disease." I am not presuming to say that this case can be cured, not having had an opportunity to examine, but will cite you a case seemingly similar that came under my care: A young married woman, the mother of three children, had had fair health until the development of her spinal trouble. She was taken down suddenly, sent for the family physician, who pronounced her trouble sciatica, and treated her accordingly. Not getting any bet A 93 ter, in fact getting worse, she was re- I presume that it is just a coincidence, but you will note that you have Dr. S. M. Langworthy's ad. immediately under this inquiry. Why not suggest to her friends that they take her to a Chiropractor? LIFE BY CONTAGION. By E. A. KING, B. D., B. H., Pastor First Congrega. CCORDING to adequate medical authority contagion is defined as "the communication of a disease from the sick to the healthy, either by direct contact of a part affected with the disease, or by indirect contact through the medium of the excretions and exhalations of the body." The diseases thus communicable are such as measles, smallpox, tuberculosis, etc. With this fact we are perfectly familiar and this is common ground. The particular part of this principle or fact of "contagion" that has not been made familiar is that ever enlarging and stimulating truth that health is also contagious. This is not as yet scientifically demonstrated in the same sense in which the contagion of disease is proven. Το the strictly scientifically inclined person, I suppose, the claim I am now making may be considered a mere assertion. However this may be, I feel sure that the world is coming quite generally to believe in the curative value of faith, confidence and joy. Fear of sickness, the dread of the cold, accompanied with a low vitality, constitute rich feeding ground for disease germs, and fertile soil for hypochondria. There is no way yet devised of measuring the health generating power of a strong, vigorous, healthy, happy person. No one will really ever know for sure how many incipient aches, pains and serious diseases have been routed by the healthy individual who has laughed disease in the face and has gone forth regularly in rain or sunshine to do a day's work. Who has not seen the sick and weary revive and smile at the coming of the noble physician, scintillating with health and hope! What good doctor does not know that in countless cases he has saved more people from serious sickness by his personal magnetism, his hope and confident cheer, than by his pills and liquids! Even the great and good English Jowett says: "We do not make nearly sufficient allowance for the influence of the spirit upon the body. The hopeful temperament is very frequently a more potent element than the doctor's medicine in ridding the body of sickness and disease." Dr. Paul Dubois has also said, and has given proof of his words, that we can by means of the mind and by our moral deportment escape illness, prevent certain inborn functional troubles and diminish or suppress those that already exist. How often, too, has the sick one, the weary one, suffering from overwork, worry or pain, been permanently relieved by the sudden and unexpected visit of a radiant personality who throws light and sunshine all about the house. But why argue further for a point conceded by all? Gloom, discouragement and sickly symptoms are as truly and more evidently radiated from the bodies and the minds of weak and fretful pessimists. And one thing more must be said. Health and happiness are radiated from persons who exercise taste and judgment in dress. If you will but observe the uniform of the trained nurse you will notice that there is a soft refinement about it that is attractive and winning. Her presence in the sick room is assurance, cheer, and comfort. So it should be in the home where mother is, and where father is, with the children and with each other. Carelessness in dress, in manners, in personal hygiene, accounts for much discord, sorrow, pain and dis tence, "If it does no good, it will do no harm." I don't believe it can be taken into the body and not do good. Of course there are some cases that respond very slowly because recuperative power is very low, but if used faithfully and persistently, results are sure to come. I have never had a failure with Viavi where it was used faithfully. The grand results I have seen from its use have given me a great deal of confidence in Viavi. There is nothing that will bring such quick relief and open up the lungs in pneumonia, as Viavi Cerate. It relieves the congestion at once and, of course, inflammation must subside. In cases of severe and deep from Mrs. C. E. Hallowell, of Beneburns, let me quote you from a letter zette, Elk Co., Pa.: "We had just moved into this house and I was up stairs putting down a carpet. I had put my baby in her high chair and set her by the cook stove in the kitchen. I heard a fall and a scream and I flew down stairs to find her lying on top of a red hot stove. I can never tell you the awful condition her little face and hands were in-just cooked. I grabbed my box of Cerate and I just. covered her little face thick with it, then I bandaged her up, leaving only one opening for her to breathe. I tied up each hand and wrist after using a In ten plentiful supply of Cerate. minutes she had stopped crying and gone to sleep. The neighbors all said I would rue it for not calling in a doctor, but they think differently now. Not a scar on her face and only one small scar on one hand, where the burns were so very deep. I would not be without my box of Viavi Cerate, not for any money. If mothers only knew its value in the home, none would be without it." No scar tissue forms in case of in jury if this Cerate is used, because it furnishes Nature with the material to do her repair work. If surgeons would only realize its value and use it after operating they would have a wonderful revelation in Nature's healing process. The tissues never become tender or in A Real Reform in Prison Work flamed and no odor develops, but a natural process of healing begins at once. It is the greatest assistance to Nature in overcoming the results of injuries that has ever been given to the world, and I am not exaggerating when I say this, as its value has been demonstrated time and again. A prominent woman here who is a Viavi patron said to me some time ago: "I shall never be without a box of this Cerate in the house as long as I have a home, because I have learned of its value." T Prisons and Prisoners. HE prisoners in the United States, men, women, boys and girls, are almost without exception managed, fed and disciplined by politicians. Coarse, thoughtless, grasping, hard-hearted politicians. They got the job of attending to prisoners for the pay there was in it. They got their place by political pull, and have no more interest in the prisoners than they have in the bricks out of which the prisons are made. The prisoners are to them simply a means of getting a position, a salary, of leading an idle and worthless life. Almost without exception this is the case, throughout the length and breadth of the United States. It comes like a refreshing breeze in a desert land to read of some one who is doing things differently. Harris R. Cooley, Cleveland, Ohio, has charge of the workhouse of that city. He treats the prisoners as if they were men, and not beasts. He has taken off striped clothes. Abolished the lock-step. Given the prisoners freedom to come and go like other workingmen. Instead of spending their days and nights in dark cells and stuffy work shops, the majority of his prisoners are working out in the fields, without guards. The dormitories in which they sleep have neither bars nor bolts. Great orchards and vegetable gardens are being planted by these prisoners, and a large tract of land near Cleveland is rapidly being converted into one of the most 95 beautiful spots in the world. The prisoners are doing the work. And glad to do it. Their lives are made tolerable. Their hearts stimulated to better things, and their intellects quickened. Night schools take the place of dreary vigils in lonely, unlighted dens. This man Cooley was a short time ago a Campbellite preacher. Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, used to be a member of his church and teacher in his Sunday school. When Johnson found his way to the front, financially and politically, he remembered his old pastor, who was then preaching in a little red brick church on an unfashionable street in the City of Indianapolis. He asked the Rev. Cooley to come to Cleveland and help him take care of the petty criminals and paupers of that city. He came. Cooley did. He brought with him a big heart. And a big head, packed full of hard common sense. He knew nothing about the ways of politicians, nor the manner in which prisoners had formerly been treated. He had a notion that all men were brothers, all had souls to save and lives to live. He turned away sharply from the precedents established in prison work, and the result is simply marvelous. Or The prisoners do not run away. if they do, they become tired of living the life of a fugitive and come back again. And paroles. He causes a great many of his prisoners to be paroled, to give them another chance in the great big world of life and activity. And in the vast majority of cases the prisoners live up to his expectation. Why cannot this be done everywhere? I have been a suffering witness for the last twenty-five years of the manner in which prisoners are generally treated. I never could see any sense in it at all. The average prisoner is as good a man as the average keeper. He is disjointed in some way from society. At least, some of them are. Many of them have committed no offense. They are simply the victims of persecution. From the time they are arrested until they are discharged |