oue thinks of persecuting them. No one cares enough about them to bother to dispute with them.

The fellow who gets persecuted is the one who is trying to maintain personal righteousness, individual truth telling, undeviating fidelity to truth.

The preacher who dares to utter what he knows to be the truth. The lawyer who refuses to defeat justice. The professor who keeps nothing back for fear of those who have authority over him. The employe who abhors to do anything to cheapen, say anything to deceive, to mislead, by spoken word or silence, those who must necessarily trust him. These are the ones that suffer persecution.

But the preacher who advocates temperance, or denounces orthodoxy, or attacks the creeds of other churches, or berates the rich man, or condones the aristocrat. These men may think they are wonderfully courageous. They may imagine that they are inviting persecution. But not so. They are perfectly safe. They are in no danger whatever. Persecution for such matters is a thing of the past.

It is the preacher who dares to confront pews with righteousness in everyday affairs. That dares to rebuke laziness, injustice to subordinates, wicked indulgences. Dares to live himself with that frugality and simplicity that become a Christian minister. Dares to ignore the many frivolities and needless. proprieties by which he is hedged in. He is the fellow that suffers persecution. He is the one that gets the worst of it every time, if he persists.

No, the days are not past in which men and women suffer for righteousness' sake.

I afterward treated a number of patients quite successfully, among them a young girl about nine years old, who had chills for the better part of two years, missing them for a few days at a time during the said two years. They were of the third day variety.

Her father had tried several doctors, besides patent medicines, and still she did not get rid of the chills.

He came to my house and asked if I thought I could cure her. I told him I could try, and if I failed what I did would do no harm. So he decided to have me treat her and I told him to bring her to my house early the next chill day, which he did, and I treated her.

The treatment consisted in rubbing the spine with the open hand, rubbing over the liver with open hand, heating the hands by rubbing them briskly together and placing them over the kidneys, instructing her to take several full breaths.

The result was, she missed her chill. He brought her back next regular chill day and I repeated the treatment. She never had a return of the chills, as I saw her some three years later and she told me she had never had a chill after my first treatment.

I may say I added suggestions and thought health thoughts for her.

I do not know what effected the cure and give the experience for what it is worth.

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Natural Protection From Germs.

NY healthy man or woman is naturally protected against disease germs. Let me make one or two quotations from Elie Metchnikoff, in his book entitled "Immunity in Infective Diseases."

"The digestive organs are furnished throughout with a defensive apparatus against micro-organisms (disease germs); this consists in an accumulation of lymphoid tissue in the form of patches or groups of solitary glands-the tonsils, Peyer's patches, and the solitary glands of the intestine. These organs produce a large number of phagocytes (health germs), which are able to come

Various causes have been suspected as being the origin of the disease. The excessive use of meat as a food. Overeating, conjoined with sedentary habits. Want of fresh air, outdoor exercise. Excessive use of beer, coffee and cocoa is sometimes mentioned as a cause.

Muscular strains, followed by exposure to cold or dampness, sitting in draughts, sudden cooling off when in a perspiration, are no doubt exciting causes, although in all probability these exposures would not produce rheumatism unless there was an over-amount of urates in the blood at the time. People suffering from weak nerves are especially liable to it.

The symptoms are too well known to need much description. When a patient is perfectly quiet the pain sometimes ceases. The slightest attempt to move brings on the pain.

Rheumatism usually comes on suddenly. There is little or no elevation of the temperature. In lumbago the muscles are liable to cramp upon the least motion, causing the patient to suffer tremendously. Coming on suddenly, upon a person in usual good health, with violent cramps of the large muscles of the back, the disease is sometimes mistaken for cardialgia and renal colic. The diagnosis, however, is usually very easy.

The patient usually gets well, whatever treatment may be used. Hot applications, especially dry heat, seem to be helpful.

There is no better application for lumbago than ordinary cotton batting, baked in the oven until it is thoroughly hot, then put in a thick layer over the whole area affected, and fastened with a bandage. This should be frequently changed, having a new one ready to put on as soon as the other is removed. It can be used over and over again.

People subject to muscular rheumatism should avoid all those things above mentioned as causes. A hot, dry climate is best.

The free use of pure water is an excellent preventive. This is probably the reason why so many mineral waters have

acquired their reputation of curing rheumatism.

Abstinence from meat in some cases seems to be advisable, although it is not always necessary, and does not always produce the desired effect.

A belladonna plaster upon the parts affected often does good. Mustard plasters are of doubtful efficacy, although they may be used whenever they seem to give relief.

Hot water bags are to be mentioned. Liniments containing chloroform. Two ounces of sweet oil, to which a dram of chloroform has been added, makes a liniment that sometimes gives relief. It may be especially useful when the disease is confined to the head.

Liniments containing laudanum and aconite are used. As good a way as any to prepare this liniment is to add thirty drops of aconite to one ounce of laudanum. This liniment should only be used in cases of muscular rheumatism where a small surface of the body is involved. It should be painted very carefully, with a camel's hair brush, over the affected muscle. It must not be used too freely. It often gives immediate relief. Sometimes the tincture of belladonna is used instead of the laudanum.

In articular rheumatism the joints should be kept as flexible as possible, moving and rubbing them each day as much as the patient can bear.

The joints may be painted with iodine, afterwards bandaging with flannel, although care should be taken not to irritate the skin by using the iodine too freely.

Sometimes cold applications. Place a cloth wet in cold water over the joint, cover with oil silk, and bandage. This should be worn at night and taken off in the morning. As long as any pain remains in the joint after the removal of the wet bandage, a dry one should replace it.

The principal use, however, which any physician can be in cases of muscular rheumatism is to make diligent inquiry into the habits of the patient, and then correct such habits as ought to be cor

rected, in order to prevent a recurrence of the disease.

The duration of the disease is very uncertain. Sometimes it will last for months. Nothing seems to stop it. In

other cases it will leave of itself in a few days.

Some cases of lumbago are immediately relieved by a hot sitz bath. Ironing the affected part with a hot flat iron, the skin being protected by flannel, often gives great relief in lumbago. Or a hot flaxseed poultice, changed as often as it becomes cold.

A tremendous effort of the will seems to overcome the disease. I knew a case once of a strong man who was to deliver a very important lecture. He found himself unable to get out of bed in the morning, on account of lumbago. He was absolutely unable to turn over in bed. He sent out notice that he could not possibly deliver the lecture, and some one else would have to be substituted.

A strong-minded person, who was much interested in the success of the lecture, came at once to the bedside of the patient, and insisted upon his getting up. He said to him: "We simply can not get along without you. You must come. There is no sense in your shirking your duty in this way."

Such talk infuriated the patient to a frenzy. He sprang from his bed in a rage, and would have attacked his accuser if he had not suddenly left the

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HE publication of an article in last month's JOURNAL concerning Viavi has brought out a large number of inquiries as to what Viavi really is and what it does. Instead of answering each letter personally, I will make this article serve as an answer to all.

To some of my readers Viavi seems to be a new thing, but the fact is it has been doing its healing work for

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The result was, he delivered his lecture with perfect ease, without the slightest symptom of lumbago. But an hour or two after the lecture he was suddenly seized with lumbago again, and it was several days before he recovered. By a supreme effort of his will he was able to control the disease for a short time. Doubtless there are cases in which the disease has been entirely overcome in this manner.

Simple, frugal diet. Outdoor exercise. Some vocation that inspires the mind and furnishes exercise for the body. Freedom from worry. Absolute control of the mind and nerves. Cheerfulness of spirit. These are the best preventives.

Laziness. Idleness. Worry. The use of drugs. Narcotics. Over-eating. These are the things that are chiefly to be avoided.

A very simple internal remedy, which I have frequently found useful, is the oil of cubebs. Send to the drug store and get a nickel's worth. Drop five drops on a lump of sugar. This dose is to be taken three or four times a day. This will generally stimulate the kidneys to carry off the urates, and at least tend to prevent any injury to the kidneys and bladder.

At the same time, the free use of water should not be forgotten. A cup of hot water four or five times a day is always a useful adjunct to the treatment of muscular rheumatism. Should the weather be very hot, cold water can be substituted instead of the hot water. Ice water, however, should never be used.

VIAVI?

nearly a quarter century. I myself have known of it for the last ten years and during that time have met and known personally many of the people, both men and women, engaged in this health move

ment.

The history of Viavi is a natural one. It is the result of careful study by an intelligent physician. intelligent physician. A physician who had for years seen the inefficiency of drugs in curing disease, who had watch

ed the fearful results of the surgeon's knife, leaving the body maimed and mutilated and oftentimes destroying life. During these years it was insistently made plain to him that there was only one thing in all creation that could heal the human body and that was Nature. The best that man could ever hope to do was to assist Nature in her healing processes. He was convinced that drugs and surgery hindered rather than helped Nature in her efforts to heal. So in order to find something that might assist Nature in restoring health to the human body he went into Nature's great storehouse and selected certain healing herbs and plants, and after long and careful experiment finally evolved a method of preparation by which the healing properties of the plants were separated from the useless portions, and this finished product made up of the healing, lifegiving parts of the various plants proved to be a concentrated food for the blood and the nerves of the body. This vegetable product, which contains no minerals or opiates, but consists purely of vegetable ingredients, was named Viavi, which means "The Way to Health."

Viavi has proved to be an able assistant to Nature in developing and building up the body, eliminating diseased conditions and restoring health. The principle on which Viavi works is that of feeding. In fact, it is a predigested food so prepared that it can be taken up directly by the blood and used for the nourishment of the body. The blood is the stream of life and its function is to carry food or building material to every part of the body. As long as the blood contains plenty of nourishment, and circulates freely, all parts of the body will receive their proper supply of food and be maintained in a healthy condition. When we say the blood is bad we mean that it does not contain sufficient food for the various parts of the body, or that it contains impurities which it has gathered from some congested or diseased organ of the body, or which have gotten into the system through other sources. It is easy to understand that if the blood carries

poisonous material to the brain, to the stomach, the liver, the kidneys and other parts of the body, these organs will become weakened and diseased. They cannot subsist on poisonous elements. They must have pure blood, rich with nutriment, and this blood must circulate through them freely all the time. The vaso-motor nerves control the circulation of the blood, that is, they keep the blood moving by alternately contracting and dilating the walls of the blood vessels, thus forcing the blood on its way. If these nerve centers become weakened, then of course the circulation becomes weak, and we say we have poor circulation, which is the cause of numerous diseases and weaknesses of the body.

There are, then, two essentials in keeping the body in perfect health, namely, good blood and a good circulation. Good blood means blood filled with nourishment for the body. Good circulation means strong nerves to send the blood to every part of the body freely. It is because Viavi supplies good blood and good circulation that it has in so many cases healed disease and restored health. It is a blood and nerve food. Whatever may be the cause of disease, whether it be from taking cold, overwork, neglect or injury, we know that one of the first symptoms is congestion in some part of the body, and by congestion we mean an accumulation of blood in some organ or part of the body, or in other words, the free circulation of the blood has been obstructed, and unless this congestion is immediately overcome, the blood is filled with impurities and inflammation follows, and thus we have congestion or inflammation of the brain or of the lungs, of the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the bladder or of the generative organs, and if the congestion and inflammation are not checked, the disease progresses to ulceration, abscesses, suppurations, tumors or cancers, together with a breaking down of the nervous system. There is a long list of diseases called by various names, but all brought about by the same cause, namely, impeded circulation and bad blood.