may some day come back to me in the shape of seasonable aid from some brother who has a few pointers himself and, like me, is willing to "whack up."-The Kansas City Medical Record, July 1906.

The Awakening.

The whole medical profession of this country is but just waking up to the fact that it has been slumbering and dreaming for many, many years, says the California State Journal of Medicine. But already signs of a new activity are in evidence in many portions of our country. In many communities the best physicians will not make insurance examinations for less than $5. They are discussing the lodge practice evil and coming to realize the insult to professional intelligence in proffering a pittance for wholesale professional services. Most physicians who are not either moribund or densely ignorant are beginning to ask "impertinent " questions about the composition of the all too numerous "secret proprietary" medicines offered to them by glib-tongued "detail men." Occasionally we hear a protest against the gratuitous educational remarks of some boorish drummer who undertakes to tell physicians all about the special and particular virtues and advantages of the nostrum manufactured by his particular "house." Most of the state journals are very much awake and are working hard to try and wake the slumbering members of the profession; but, unfortunately, some are either asleep or, to judge from their advertising pages, are to be classed with the predatory privately owned journals. Doubtless the respectable element in these particular associations will prevail in time, and these few state journals will then cleanse themselves and "be good."

Meatox-Powdered Dry Beef.

Meatox is absolutely free from preservatives and it keeps for any length of time in unsealed containers.

The essential difference between Meatox and meat juice or meat extracts is that Meatox contains all the nutritive elements of beef, while liquid extracts of meat are merely stimulants.

Meatox contains from 65 to 70 per cent. of proteides and albumoses, and about 2 to 3 per cent. of common salt, 2 to 3 per cent. of gelatine, 2 to 3 per cent. of fat, 7 to 9 per cent. of water, and inert substances.

1 lb. of Meatox contains the nutritive substances of 5 to 5 1-2 pounds of fresh beef.

Meatox can be given to dyspeptic patients in its original

CANADIAN PRACTITIONER AND REVIEW.

Antiphlogistine

(Inflammation's Antidote)

if it be used for the application of Antiphlogistine hot and thick in the various inflammatory and congestive conditions.

Antiphlogistine

Depletes Inflamed Areas,

Flushes the Capillaries,

Stimulates the Reflexes,

Restores the Circulation,

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powdered condition, 1-2 ounce morning, noon, 6 p.m., and 10 p.m.

It can also be administered with milk, cream, fresh butter on toast, filtered water either cold or warm, beef tea or bouillon, honey, pure malt, soft-boiled eggs or soft omelet, cereals, barley, wheat, rice, etc., cooked green vegetables.

Two ounces of Meatox being administered to a dyspeptic patient every day, in connection with the little amount of other foods of which he can partake, will supply him with all the proteides contained in 11 ounces of fresh beef. This is a little more than anyone needs to eat every twenty-four hours in order to keep up his strength.

In diabetic cases two or three ounces of meatox per twentyfour hours will supply the patient with the necessary amount of proteides without overtaxing his stomach.

Soldiers in the field can be fed with two or three ounces (per day) of Meatox in connection with cereals, rice, cooked green vegetables, etc.

Sailors can be fed with two or three ounces (per day) of Meatox either plain or mixed with cereals, etc., so that it would not be necessary to give them salt meat more than once or twice a week in connection with cereals, thus preventing scurvy, which causes so many victims in the navy.

One ton of Meatox contains as much proteides and albumoses as six to seven tons of beef, while it does not require any ice to preserve it either in transit or in stock, and it does not deteriorate with age.

As I am certain you will be interested in this new food, it will afford me great pleasure to send you a liberal supply for experimenting purposes as soon as I am ready to put it on the market.

Meatox is flavored with 1 per cent. of celery extract so as to make it palatable.

Treatment of Lupus.

At the 1906 Congress of German Scientists and Physicians (dermatological section) marked interest was awakened in the report of Veiel of the cure of a large number of patients suffering from lupus by using a ten per cent. pyrogallic acid ointment. The results shown were admitted to be in every respect superior to those secured by other methods, not excepting the Finsen and other light methods of treatment.

The one especial disadvantage of the use of pyrogallic acid ointment was stated to be the pain caused.

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is a powerful regenerator of the blood. Microscopical examinations prove that it builds blood, increases the number of red corpuscles and hæmoglobin in a remarkably short space of time.

PEPTO-MANGAN (“GUDE") is ready for quick absorption and rapid infusion into the circulating fluid and is consequently of marked and certain value in all forms of

Anæmia, Chlorosis, Bright's Disease,

Rachitis, Neurasthenia, etc.

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ir original bottles containing xi. It's Never Sold in Bulk.

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Holmes and Semmelweis.

It would appear as if the tardy honor received by Oliver Wendell Holmes on account of his discoveries regarding puerperal fever is likely in some degree to diminish the fame of Semmelweis. It is natural, therefore, that a countryman of the latter, Dr. Györy, of Buda-Pesth, should think it right to distinguish between the works of these two great men. He points out, without in any way diminishing the merits of Holmes, that the discoveries of Semmelweis were not merely in advance of the views of Holmes, but were in a certain way opposed to them. Holmes fought for the position that puerperal fever is a contagious disease; Semmelweis proved that puerperal fever and pyæmia are essentially the same process, or, to put it in modern phraseology, that puerperal fever is a form of sepsis. We know now that both were right, though we do not, with the stricter contagionists, regard puerperal fever as specific. In Semmelweis' time, however, the gap between the two views was a wide one, and Semmelweis devoted much of his later writing to combating the contagionist view. It is a psychological fault that the public is in the habit of tagging to any great advance in science some one name, forgetting that discoveries are rarely sudden or the work of one man. It does not take any of the honor from Lister that he was preceded by Pasteur. Neither is Semmelweis' merit the less in completing the edifice of which Holmes had laid the foundation, and of which, long before Holmes, Gordon of Aberdeen had mapped out the lines.— Medical Press.

Aga-icin in Night-Sweets.

A young man who had come from Arkansas to this healthy climate to try to recover from an attack of phthisis pulmonalis, his brother having died from the same disease a few years before, sought treatment for night-sweats. Following a course of the mild chloride of mercury, I prescribed aromatic sulphuric acid and agaricin, the former to be taken three times a day, the latter at bedtime in ascending doses if necessary. was not required in larger doses than two granules of 1-67 of a grain.

It

The advantages of active-principle therapy are the purity of the drug, the singleness of its elemental content, the ease with which combinations can be made, and the great variety which can be easily carried into neighborhood practice.-Neal, American Journal of Clinical Medicine.