could be in school only half a day. He should sleep in a ventilated room at night; that is to say, the window to be raised, even though he has to be especially clothed at night, to keep him warm, with woolen pajamas and night cap. This latter I do not think will be necessary. He should sleep alone. Every morning a cold rub would be an excellent thing for the boy. much better than the warm bath at night. I wish you could see to it yourself that he is rubbed thoroughly. Stripping him entirely naked, continue the rubbing until he is thoroughly warm, then take him into a warm room to dress him. Standing him in the sun before his clothes are put on is an excellent practice. Teach him to breathe violently through the nose, by closing one nostril and forcing the air through the other, then changing to the other nostril. The back part of the nose in this way will be ventilated, and it will help to get rid of the catarrhal condition.

The spray of which you speak would be greatly benefited by the change from glycerine to vaseline. I would therefore advise it. It should be used after the cold rub and the nose cleaning in the morning. A glass of cold

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I think I should omit the bath at night. If you can only succeed in giving him a cold rub in the morning and succeed in giving it so thoroughly that his skin is thoroughly warm, you will begin to see an improvement in his power to resist the cold. At first you had better begin it in a room thoroughly warmed, but as you proceed you will be able to give it in a room as cold as the one in which he sleeps. You should use your hands to do the rubbing.

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Blood Purifiers.

Query: Will you please advise me as to what is the best blood purifier, with certain results? I am very well, but blood must be bad, because my back is covered with large pimples, and complexion is bad at times.R. J. P., New York.

Answer: The blood is the product of the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe. The blood may be, therefore, vitiated from either of these sources, food, water or air. The remedy is necessarily a correction of the source.

The blood may be also contaminated by derangements of the digestion. Even though the food is well selected, the water pure, and the ventilation perfect, if digestion is much deranged there will be secondary products formed in the stomach and alimentary canal, which leads to impurities in the blood, a condition known as autointoxication. The blood absorbs some of these unnatural products, and is thus contaminated.

Again, the remedy is removal of the cause. Autointoxication is so frequently the cause of impurities of the blood, that laxative medicines have come to be regarded as blood purifiers. A teaspoonful of Epsom salts in water at night, makes as reliable a blood purifier of this sort as any other.

However, laxatives are only palliatives. They simply move the contents of the alimentary canal more rapidly in their course, and thus prevent to some degree the absorption of their noxious materials. To make a permanent cure is to discover exactly why the digestive organs are deranged, and cure them if possible.

These derangements quite commonly depend upon improper diet. A frugal, simple diet, with the free use of water and fresh vegetables, is sometimes sufficient to correct the difficulty. Especially raw vegetables, such as lettuce, celery, onions, radishes, spinach, and the like. Sage tea and sassafras tea are frequently used with good results.

The chief cause of pimples on the skin is the presence in the blood of an excessive amount of uric acid salts. These salts enter as an ingredient into the perspiration, and in passing through the skin irritate and produce pimples.

The presence of an excessive amount of urates in the blood indicates that the blood does not contain a sufficient amount of free oxygen to properly oxidate the nutritive materials in the blood, and sometimes correct excessive urates. Free respiration in the open air by daily physical exercise, conveys to the blood more free oxygen, and in this way urates are also prevented.

In cases where outdoor exercise is not available, Lithia salts have been used for the purpose of neutralizing the excessive urates in the blood. There are various kinds of Lithia waters, that have been used with more

or less success. I have had prepared, for my special use, a Lithia tablet for such purposes. Many of the Lithia tablets are practically worthless. In order to be quite sure that I was bringing to my patients the best form of Lithia salts, I had them prepared for my own

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My advice is, however, to correct the condition, if possible, through diet and physical exercise. There is no objection to the use of Lithia salts at the same time the diet and exercise are being used. But I do not like to have my patients rely chiefly upon internal medication. To correct the habits upon which the excessive urates depend, is the most rational and effective way of permanently removing them.

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Bursa.

Query: Can you tell me anything about bunions? I went to my home in Ohio last summer, got a new pair of shoes. I only wore them once or twice. They did not feel good on my feet, although they were large enough. After coming home I wore them a week and tney made real bunions on each of my large toe joints and I have suffered everything with them. I put on blue clay bunion plasters, wore one three days, put on another and wore it three days. It relieved it some, but I found that wet bandages helped them more than anything else. It would take the swelling and inflammation out, but when I take the wet bandages off they still inflame and are sore. I wear no shoes, keep them done up in wet bandages, with dry clothes over. Will they get well from this treatment, or what shall I do?-Mrs. A. M. F., Hot Springs, Ark. Answer: It seems strange that you should have developed bunions so quickly. I doubt somewnat whether they really are bunions. It looks to me more as if the irritation the shoes caused has produced a bursa. This is due to the inflammation of the synovial membrane, which furnishes the joint water, and is called synovitis. A bunion is a more chronic condition, and is acquired by continued pressure, which produces often a thickened condition of the bony tissues, and while it is the result of chronic synovitis, it is quite different in its history and pathology from the true bunion.

Leave off the application of wet bandages. If you wear shoes at all, you must cut a hole in the side as large as the swollen part. But I should judge from your letter that the place is so large it would be impracticable to wear shoes at all. Paint the part lightly with tincture of iodine, painting it as far as the swelling

goes.

If the bowels are at all costive you should keep them open by the use of Epsom salts; a heaping teaspoonful at night is probably sufficient. But if your bowels are regular you need not do that. It is barely possible that you will need to take some constitutional remedy before you are through with it. For the present, I think it will be sufficient for you to get four ounces of the compound syrup of Sarsaparilla, which you can get at the drug store already made up. Take a teaspoonful before each meal. You had better write me again in two weeks, then I shall decide whether or not you need any more treatment.

How To Love Life.

Query: I wonder if you would not speak a word of kindness. I am distressed of mind and body. My life to me has been one succession of blasted ideals and useless efforts, and I feel that I am falling into despair. My affliction robbed me of an education. My married life has been an up-stream business-to

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me there stands an awful blank of mis-spent life and so filled with remorse and regret that I can hardly live. You seem to have a way of brightening, won't you try to offer some encouragement?- Mrs. W. C. E.

Answer: I wish I could talk to you face to face. I am sure I could help you. I scarcely know what your troubles are, but whatever they are, the following reflections may interest you:

God has something for every one to do in this world. He never requires you to do something that is impossible. If you have been trying to do something, your failure is due to one or the other of two causes. First, you were trying to do it without His constant help and strength. Are you asking God to lead you? Do you always apply to Him when you are in doubt or distress? When you need counsel and courage? If you do not, of course, you could not succeed.

Now, first, lay aside all regrets as to the past. It is useless; it is even wicked to use your time regretting about the past. Give your whole attention to the present. The only way you can atone for the past is to make the present all it should be. Ask God what He wants you to do. I am sure there is something right there at home you can do. You can do it well. Lay aside all fear of the future, all regrets for the past, and put your whole energy into the now, to-day. Read these words over several times and try to put them into practice.

You may write me again as to how you succeed, and I will help you all I can. I wish I could show you how beautiful life is, if it is rightly lived. The most obscure, the most humble, may live useful and beautiful lives, if they will rely upon the source of all life.

Sciatica.

Query 328: This pain in my hip is said to be rheumatism by one or two doctors here, and I believe it is now myself. At times the pain extends to my knee just above the joint, extending over the top and sides (more in the inside). When I get up in the morning I seem to be free of it, but by use of leg it returns.

A few years ago I had muscular rheumatism between my shoulders. I have tried plaster and liniment. I think it is in the blood, and must be taken out. What is your opinion?— J. A. K., Illinois.

Answer: I do not think you have rheumatism, strictly speaking. You have what is