patient takes to the drug store and perhaps pays a dollar again for the medicine. It is safe to say that the average patient applying to the doctor and purchasing his medicine involves an expense of at least two dollars, oftener much greater than this.

In case of patent medicine, however, the patient goes to the drug store, sees this medicine for one dollar or less with directions for use, and the chances of its helping him are certainly as great as if he had applied to the physician. Many of the patent medicines are excellent remedies. Their formulas were devised by the very best medical authorities and they are made of the purest drug materials.

Even if the patent medicine men were not guided by moral scruples, still it would be to their interest to have good formulas and to use good drugs. It does not cost any more to have a good formula, to make a good compound, nor does it cost any more to carefully select the drugs, than it would to make a compound from a poor formula and of inferior drugs. Business instincts alone would guide the patent medicine men to make their remedies as useful as possible. As a rule I believe they do.

I am not advocating patent medicines for my readers at all. Neither am I advocating any other medicine. Right living will do away mostly with the need of medicines. As far as possible this Journal is devoted to the prevention of disease and the advocacy of some other remedies than drugs. That does not hinder me from speaking the truth as I see it concerning patent medicine. I honestly believe there have been as many cures made in chronic diseases by patent medicines as with the medicines prescribed by the physician. Perhaps more.

At the same time the patent medicine man is selling his products, many of them at least, are conducting an extensive correspondence and furnishing wagon-loads of literature that will do a great deal of good in making the common people familiar with many useful facts concerning health and dis

ease.

Any doctor who condemns patent medicines without any discrimination is either woefully ignorant of the patent medicine business, or else he has allowed his feelings to destroy his veracity, like other men. Patent medicines are good and bad-honest and dishonest. I presume if the truth were known there are as many honest patent medicine men as there are in other classes.

Some day civilization is going to advance to that place where patent medicine will not be needed. No doubt of that. I shall certainly do all I can to hasten that day. But, in the meantime, if the people must have medicine, there is no reason in the world why they should not use those medicines known as patent medicines. They are just as safe and just as effective in my opinion as the medicine they would receive if they applied to a regular physician.

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Trall and His Teachings.

By SUSANNA W. DODDS, M. D. IN MOST works on theory and practice, the drugs prescribed for the sick are said to "act" SO and so; whereas, Trall taught that drugs (dead matter) cannot act upon the living organism, but are always acted upon by the vital powers. To illustrate: Even a wholesome article of diet, as bread, if taken into the stomach, does not act upon it. On the contrary, the stomach and other organs act upon the food; the digestive fluids are thrown out by the gastric follicles, and the food is changed in character before it is taken up by the absorbents, and appropriated by the tissues. The action is not on the part of the bread, but of the organs concerned in digestion.

But suppose a drug medicine has been swallowed; where does the action begin, and what is the nature of

it?

There is vital resistance at the very outset-organic war. This takes place in order to expel the offending thing. If the drug is an emetic, the action of the stomach will be reversed,

and vomiting will occur. of the quickest and safest rid of a poison.

This is one ways to get

If a cathartic has been administered, the vital warfare is shown differently; the drug is carried into the intestinal tract, abnormal peristaltic action begins, and the intruder is thrust out of

the vital domain. Where the medicine

is a diaphoretic it is conveyed into the general circulation, and afterward thrown out by the skin. But if a diuretic is taken, the poison after entering the blood is eliminated by the action of the kidneys.

It will be seen, therefore, that the manner of expulsion will depend very largely upon the nature of the drug; some medicines are best handled by one organ or set of organs, and some by another. Not only so, there are poisons so deadly in their nature, that if taken in considerable quantity, not one of the depurators, nor all combined, will be able to handle them suc

cessfully. Such drugs are the opiates. These, if taken in any considerable amount, will deaden the sensibilities of the nervous system. Often they kill as by a shock. Their very presence in the system is destructive, and many a life has been sacrificed by their use. They have well been called the nerve paralyzers, or life destroyers.

The language employed in medical books, is often at variance with Trall's teachings. For example, most writers speak of the "physiological action" of a particular drug. Trall assured us that such a thing is impossible; that when a drug is administered, the action is not only on the part of the living organism, but it is pathological in its nature. The system will do its best to get rid of the drug. If the effort is successful, the principal harm done will be in using up a certain amount of vital force. If unsuccessful, not only is vitality lost and time wasted, but the life of the patient may be imperiled. This dabbling with drugs is not an innocent pastime; many a patient, though

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he escapes with his life, may be a great sufferer for years to come.

The writer of these pages became an early victim of drug medication. My mother said that before I was two years old, I had taken calomel enough to kill a horse, which ruined a naturally fine constitution. Pray, how many of my readers have had a similar experience? But an inheritance of good vitality will often accomplish much. For more than fifty years I have not swallowed a single dose of drugs; and in all that time, my health on the whole has been better than before, when I was taking medicine for every little ailment.

The beauty of Trall's teachings, in what he termed the true healing art, was that he showed the people the best methods of preserving health, as well as how to retain it when lost. First of all, he explained what is meant by good health. It is that condition in which there is complete balance. of vital function. Every organ is doing its legitimate work; no more, and no less. It is by crippling a bodily function, in the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, that the balance of vital action is lost; some other organ must do a part of the work which they are unable to perform. What is called the "normal play of all the functions," is simply another name for perfect health.

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