understand that many journals are taking advertisements for whatever figure they can get, but this will not be the policy of the publishers of this paper. If we cannot get a fair price for our advertising space we will not sell it. Because John Smith is hard up, never intends to pay his bills, and sees fit to sell a page in a worthless paper for twenty-five dollars a year, is no reason why responsible publishers should follow the same tactics. It is no wonder that so many medical journals have died; it is simply because they were not run on business principles. The publishers of this journal are not physicians but are business men and run their business on correct plans. The editorial work is done by physicians • and they understand what physicians need, as well as we understand what the business department of the journal should be. We trust these lines will clearly put before both our readers and our advertisers the position this journal will occupy. ABOUT ADVERTISING AGENCIES. The following from the Medical Mirror on advertising agencies is right to the mark: A new candidate for journalistic honors in the field, writes us to know if we do not think that it is a good thing for a new journal to secure the benefits of these newspaper directory reports to bolster up their advertising rates. We answer emphatically, no. Build up the subscription of your journal along the lines of the profession, conduct it personally editorially and from a business standpoint, however much you may leave the details to others. Bring yourself and your journal in close relation to advertisers and ignore absolutely these "advertising agency trade journal" efforts in the direction of bull dozing. We believe that the time is coming when the postal department will call a halt in this matter of trade journalism. We believe that legitimate journals the country over should ask for a change in the law, even to the extent of relinquishing the rights of second class mail matter and stamping each number mailed with one or two cents as the government may dictate. Wild cat trade journalism would then be a thing of the past. DR. S. B. PARSONS, 2809 Washington Ave. -AND DR. SCOTT PARSONS, Jr., 3862 Olive St, SURGEONS. Will visit the country to perform operations or in consultation. L. C. MCELWEE, M. D. 215 S. Jefferson Ave. Materia Medica a Specialty. DR. J. MARTINE KERSHAW, DISEASES OF THE Brain and Nervous System. 3500 Laclede Avenue, ST. LOUIS. Office Hours 8 to 10 a. m. Will visit the country in consultation. W. A. EDMONDS, A. M., M. D. 2924 Washington Ave., ST. LOUIS. Diseases of Females a Specialty. Will go to the country in consultation. DR. WM. C. RICHARDSON, SPECIALTY: Diseases of Women and Surgery. 304 N. Eighth St., ST. LOUIS. Hours, 11 to 12 m. and 4 to 5 p. m. Will visit the country in consultation or to perform operations. Telephone No. 3743. GENTLEMEN:-I have practiced medicine quite a number of years, but I have never used remedy that acted with such marvelous effects for good as your "Helonia Tablets." Leucorrhoea vanishes like magic. I am Yours truly, A simple and efficacious method of treatment that does away with the uncertainty of medicated vaginal injections. DIRECTIONS.-One or two to be inserted into the vagina each night followed by a warm water douche in the morning. Put up in elegant shape for Physicians' prescriptions only. Send for Samples and Literature. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. THE REAL VALUE OF THE MEDICINAL PEROXIDE OF HYDROGEN PREPARATIONS FOUND IN THE MARKET.* BY H. ENDEMANN, PH. D., CHEMIST. Formerly Associate Chemist to the New York City Board of Health. In this valuable article the writer states that a standard solution of medicinal H2 02 must answer the following tests: 1. It should contain at least 15 volumes of available oxygen. 2. The quantity of free acids contained in 100 cubic centimetres should require not less than 1 c. c. and not more than 3 c. c. of normal volumetric soda solution, to be made neutral. Such a small quantity of free acid is not objectionable. 3. It should not contain any soluble baryta salts. 4. It must be free from sediment. By referring to this table, it is easily noticed that brands No. 7 and No. 12 are valueless. The brands No. 8 and No. 9 are not fit for medicinal uses, owing to the fact that they contain traces of soluble baryta salts. The brand No. 3 has a heavy sediment of sulphate of baryta, which may be considered inert towards the system, but is certainly detrimental to the keeping qualities of this preparation. Brand No.14, which is sold as a ten volume solution, is really twelve volumes, but it is too acid. Brand No. 5, which is sold as a fifteen volume solution, is really 16.55 volumes, viz.: About 10 per cent. above the standard. The brand No. 2, which is sold without any mention of volume, is really a 27.35 volume solution, viz.: JAMES A. CAMPBELL, M. D., Prof. of Ophthalmology and Otology. W. A. EDMONDS, A. M., M. D., Prof. of Gynecology. WM. C. RICHARDSON, M. D., Prof. of Obstetrics and Surgical Gynecology. L. C. MCELWEE, M. D., Prof. of Materia Medica and Drug Pathogenesy. W. L. GALLOWAY, M. D., Prof. of Dermatology. J. C. CUMMINGS, M. D., Prof. of Sanitation. W. JOHN HARRIS, M. D., Prof. of Genito-Urinary Surgery. T. W. CONZLEMAN, M. D., Prof. of Materia Medica. JESSE S. SARGENT, M. D., Lecturer on Physiology. SCOTT PARSONS, JR., M. D.. Lecturer on Pathology. For further particulars write to Wm. C. Richardson, M. D., Dean, 304 North 8th Street. S. B. PARSONS, M. D., Prof. of Didactic Surgery. L. C. McElwee, M. D., Registrar, 215 S. Jefferson Avenue. Either Dean or Registrar vill be glad to furnish any and all particulars. HAHNEMANN. HERING, DUNHAM, DAKE, HOLCOMBE, APRIL, 1895. LIPPE, WALKER. No. 5. The ST. LOUIS JOURNAL OF HOMEOPATHY is a magazine established for physicians by physicians; the official organ of the members of the Medical Profession of America. The experiences of the laboratorical delver and of the bedside clinician are solicited. Short articles preferred. A Plea for Conservatism in Surgery-Horace Packard, M. D., Boston, Mass.... Trephining for the Relief of Hemorrhage from the Cavernous Sinues Due to Fracture of the Notes upon a Case of Perforation of the Uterus During Curretage-J. W. Hickman, M. D., Why so Many Doctors?. Appendicitis A Contrast-Howard Crutcher, M. D., Chicago On the value to the Surgeon of Mustard as an Antiseptic-Roswell Park, A. M., M. D., HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI The Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association of the Homœopathic Medi- PERSONALS.. 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