PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. The Clinical Reporter. D. M. GIBSON, M. D., Editor. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. W. W. GILBERT, M. D., Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: ONE YEAR, $1.00; SIX MONTHS, 50c. Remit by Draft, Post Office Order, Postal Note or Registered Letter at our risk. Make all drafts or money orders payable to THE CLINICAL REPORTER, ST. LOUIS. Telephone Connections. BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS for review, EXCHANGES, CONTRIBUTIONS, and matter for the Edito should be addressed to D. M. Gibson, 241 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo. This journal is not responsible for the individual views of contributors. Address all correspondence relating to subscriptions, advertising or business management to BOVININE IN CONSUMPTION. From the prevailing disbelief, which was almost a despair, the recent knowledge that Consumption is curable is rapidly disseminating. This is not due of any miraculous medical specific that has appeared, or ever will appear; nor to climate alone, for cases originate in California, Colorado, the Riviera, and the most noted resorts of the swiss Alps; but it is accomplished by the rapid restoration of tissue-waste with nutrition that contains all the elements of the human body, in right proportions and ready for immediate assimilation, to enable the system to build faster than the malady can break down. While it has been abundantly proven that the tubercle bacilli is often the means of perpetuating Consumption, it never has been satisfactorily demonstrated that it is the sole cause of the disease. No doubt every human being in the civilized world is sooner or later exposed to this germ, but only a small minority are susceptible to its infection. The great majority are immune by virtue of normal vigor, normal nutrition, which does not furnish the nourishing nidus for this bacillus. The long and feverish search for a drug that shall demonstrate its right to be called a specific has been almost abandoned. The thousand and one alleged "cures" or specifics for Consumption have all proved cruel delusions. Tuberculin is a sorry example. Creosote, Cod Liver Oil, Guiacol, and all their derivations and modifications have signally failed. Recent searchers have confined their efforts mainly to the field of antagonizing serums, but instead of reaching favorable results, it looks as though the whole serum theory would, ere long, be abandoned as a mistake. There is no positive cure for consumption outside of an element or influence that restores normal nutrition that enriches the blood and builds the tissues. This being accomplished, Nature does the curing. The sooner we all accept this demonstrated fact that general vital recuperation, by whatever means it may be accomplished, is the only cure that is scientific, that has ever been known or ever will be known, the less time we will lose in conducting the battle royal with this fatal scourge. Those who recover Patients who die of Tuberculosis, starve to death. from Tuberculosis are fed to health-cured by feeding. is not necessarily nourishing, no more than eating is assimilating. Thousands of victims of this wasting disease starve with stomachs full, and plenty more within reach. There is no dearth of elegant and costly viands -it is availability they lack. They call for an exhibition of vito-chemic force which the consumptive's stomach does not possess. Bovinine does nothing of the kind. It is living tissue pabulum in natural solution and instantly available. It responds at once to the demands of the starving organism. Life nourishes life, cell rebuilds cell, and the life of all cells is the circulating, vivifying fluid, the sap in the tree, the blood in the animal. Plants transmute crude inorganic matter into organic forms; animals take up vegetable organisms and advance them to a higher stage. Each advance is an intensification, a rise in the vital scale, a further refinement of cell structure and cell function. Bovinine quickly and permanently restores the broken constitution of the consumptive by supplying the vitalized protoplasm, living cells, ready for instant appropriation, without taxing the digestive system. It builds up the demoralized system by furnishing the ready-prepared pabulum, and by resting them, restores the digestive and assimilative functions. The victims of consumption starve because the vital organs tire out and give up the struggle, surrendering to the forces that disintegrate and destroy. Bovinine bases its claims wholly on its direct and positive influence in restoring vital tone, flesh and strength to the debilitated system. It begins at the foundation by restoring the blood. It supplies the shattered and wasted organism with exactly what it must have in order to recuperate, and supplies it in a form that is immediately available. DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Dr. C. T. Williams (British Medical Journal) believes the initial signs of phthisis in most cases are crepitation and slight dulness in the suprascapular region. He believes the location rather than the physical signs are of most importance. Signs of no significance at the base are very serious at the apex. He says the earliest sign to be heard is crepitation-the crepitation heard on coughing. Dulness is important, but in some cases there may be no dulness at all. 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