Compulsory Vaccination Laws. Query I have a boy six years old, and I sent him to school. The teacher has sent him home until I consent to have the brutal practice of vaccination. I mean to oppose it if I have to go to jail for it. What is the address of the anti-vaccination society in Pennsylvania? Could you tell me if the compulsory act of vaccination was repealed in the British Parliament some years ago, as I think it was. as that would make it non-compulsory now? Could you tell me what states have the compulsory vaccination act now?-J. N., Pennsylvania. Answer: As to the anti-vaccination societies, there are a very few of them scattered here and there, but they have no power to help you in any way. They are simply associations of a few people who hold sentiments opposed to vaccination. They have no legal status, no authority, not even any influence. Vaccination of Infants. In The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. the year 1908. An act relative to the vaccination of infants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in general court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Section one hundred and thirtysix of chapter seventy-five of the revised laws, relative to the vaccination of children under two years of age, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved by Eben S. Draper, LieutenantGovernor, Acting Governor April 1, 1908. Thus compulsory vaccination of children passes away in the State of Massachusetts. Good! I hope other states will follow suit. This is not the first time that the grand old State of Massachusetts led the way in the advance of decency and civilization.-(ED.) In all of the states the practice of compulsory vaccination is in vogue. In some of them there have been decisions from the Supreme Court, substantially asserting compulsory vac- HEALTH, STRENGTH AND BEAUTY cination, under penalty of expulsion from school. I do not know that there is any anti-vaccination society in Pennsylvania. Yes, the compulsory act of vaccination was repealed by the British Parliament about ten years ago. This, however, has no authority in this country. It is simply a matter of argument, as they had tried compulsory vaccination for a great many years. No, I cannot tell you what states have the compulsory vaccination act. In fact, none of them have such an act, but there is great liberty granted to the school boards in protecting the scholars from contagious diseases. While smallpox is not mentioned, it does empower them to do anything they think proper to protect the school in a sanitary way. But in several states there have been decisions by supreme judges to the effect that they have undoubted right to enforce vaccination. I admire your stand against it, but you will find the powers all opposed to you, and you will find no assistance from anti-vaccination societies. 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Running Sore on Shin. Query: I have had a sore on my ankle for two years. I struck it on an anvil just above the lace of my shoe, and it never healed up. Sometimes I have to walk with a crutch. It never was sore until I bumped it.— Mrs. M. M. S., Pa. Answer: I should judge that yours is a case of necrosis of the shin bone, or tibia. This bone lies near the skin, is poorly nourished, and is frequently subject to injuries like yours, and when injured is quite likely to develop necrosis or rotting of the bone. This condition of the bone will maintain an open sore on the leg, which will not heal until the necrosis can be rectified. The quickest and perhaps the only way to cure it is a surgical operation, by which the bone is scraped and freed of all the dead matter. Generally, when this is done, the sore will heal up, and the running stop. 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THE WILD-BERRY CO., Dept. 2, 374 Dearborn Ave., Chicago, Ill. In writing to advertisers, please mention THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. Boils and carbuncles are two essentially different things. By no possibility could any application or any treatment change a boil into a carbuncle, The two swellings are entirely different. A carbuncle begins as a carbuncle, and no mismanagement of a boil could change one into. a carbuncle. In the first place, the site of a carbuncle is different. Generally on the back of the neck. Sometimes lower down. The suppurating process of a carbuncle is entirely different from a boil. I do not know any better way to illustrate it than the difference between a violet and a daisy. The violet, as every one knows, is a single flower, while the daisy is a composite flower; that is, many small flowers packed together, each one perfect in itself. A boil is a single-celled, suppurating tumor. 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It may be that in an extensive laboratory, with very, excellent instruments, something of that sort might be done, although I would have very little confidence in it. A malarial subject, who has the malarial cachexia, is a person who is suffering from the loss of red blood corpuscles, which have been destroyed by malarial poison. There is very little use of trying to get well by the use of medicines, especially if the patient stays in the section where the malaria abounds. Get away, keep away. That is the only cure. There are people so constituted that they can live in a malarious section and not have malaria. Why they can do so no one knows. But somehow or other they are people who resist the malarial poison. Other people are so constituted that on the slightest exposure to malaria they get it, and keep it as long as the exposure lasts. 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Cereals for breakfast, meat and vegetables for dinner, fruits, bread and butter for supper; such an arrangement is all right. Osteopathy in a Nut Shell. Dr. Goetz's Manual tells you how to cure all diseases WITHOUT DRUGS. This is one of the many indorsements received: McLemoresville, Tenn. "Your Manual received, which I like very much. I can do anything that is laid down in the book, as it is so plain."-J. W. CARTER, Our Prospectus and Sample Pages, free, tells you all about it. NATURE'S CURE CO., Dept. L., No. 118 East Liberty Street, Cincinnati, O. THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. Query: The writer has been suffering with contraction of the sphincter muscle of the anus for some time. Will dilating the anus bring permanent relief? More especially would I like to know, if there is an oil or ointment that by continued rubbing upon the muscle, and an inch or two into the rectum, would soften or weaken the muscle, and thus remedy the trouble with only the partial dilating necessary to rubbing the ointment.-W. H. L., Alabama. Answer: Contraction of the sphincter muscle of the anus is brought about by some distinct cause, which should be known before it can be intelligently treated. If it has followed Treatment for Rheumatism. I have carefully read Query No. 126, in February number. I have for a number of years been taking all such cases of such rheumatic ailments, and treating on the plan of no cure, no pay. Should I be treating this case, would use a tub. Take a crock or something similar and put in tub upside down, and put sufficient water in tub to half cover the crock. Of course this water should be hot, as hot as he could possibly endure. While his heels are resting on crock, dip and shower on his knees for half an hour. Add hot water as needed. When through with hot water, dash quart of cold water on legs. First two or three days his knees may not feel quite so well as before beginning this treatment. After that they will improve. any operation or treatment for piles or ulcera- Eleanor Kirk's Books tion this should be known before any attempt to dilate it is made. If, however, it is a narrowness of the channel, an individual peculiarity, the case is quite different. The use of dilator plugs is perfectly harmless. You could use them yourself, and whatever might be the cause of the contraction you would probably gain some temporary relief. In fact, the relief might be wholly satisfactory and permanent. The dilator plugs can be obtained at almost any good drug house. If they do not happen to carry them in stock they will procure them for you. They come in sets. They should be used, beginning with the smaller and afterwards the larger ones. The directions, however, generally accompany them. As for the use of oil, if an ointment or oil was thoroughly rubbed in no doubt some good would follow. The oils which have the greatest reputation for relaxing muscles are goose oil, skunk's oil, and finally rattle-snake oil. The latter oil is esteemed by some as of especial merit, although perhaps it is really of no greater value than the others mentioned, which are much easier obtained. To get at this matter correctly, however, the cause of the contraction should be known. The condition of the contraction thoroughly understood. If it is due to the formation of new tissue, if there is any organic stricture there, or growth, or if it is a spasmodic contraction due to some abnormal sensitiveness of the parts, these things ought to be known. 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