MARCHING FROM several years back, during the autumn, the troops stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, have suffered severely from intermittent and remittent fevers. In July of the present year the post surgeon, Captain W. H. Arthur, recommended that a practice. march be made, for military purposes so far as the military view was under consideration, but for medical purposes as well, so as to remove the troops to non-malarious localities during the season of active infection at Fort Myer. The recommendation was approved by the higher authorities, and the command, consisting of four troops of the Sixth Cavalry and a detachment of the band, with Captain Arthur and some men of the hos

FROM MALARIA,-For

pital corps, left the post September 8, and returned, after a march of 260 miles through northeastern Virginia, on October 5. Their route took them through Warrenton, Sperryville, Strasburg, Winchester and Harper's Ferry. Good camping grounds were found at all points selected, with plenty of running water, usually of excellent quality. A few cases of malarial fever occurred during the first week, none afterward. The total number of cases was 8 in the com

mand of 220 men. The sick report showed 12 cases during the same period among the 80 men left behind in garrison. In the corresponding period of 1895, 88 cases occurred in the Fort Myer command, then 268 strong. These results are regarded as highly satisfactory. The command. will, no doubt, have fewer cases of recurring malarial fever during the coming winter.-Ibid.

TEN HYGIENIC APHORISMS.-The late Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, of Bellevue Hospital, is said to have framed the following decalogue of health precepts: (1) "The best thing for the insides of a man is the outside of a horse. (2) Blessed is he who invented sleep--but thrice blessed the man who will invent a cure for thinking. (3) Light gives a bronze or tan color to the skin; but where it uproots the lily it plants the rose. (4) The lives of most men are in their own hands, and, as a rule, the just verdict after death would be— felo de se. (5) Health must be earned-it can seldom be bought. (6) A change of air is less valuable than a change of scene. The air is changed every time the the wind is changed. (7) Mold and decaying vegetables in the cellar weave shrouds for the upper chambers. (8) Dirt, debauchery, disease and death are successive links in the san e chain. (9) Calisthenics may be very genteel, and romping very ungenteel, but one is the shadow, the other the substance, of healthful exercise. (10) Girls need health as much-nay, more than boys. They can only ob

tain it as boys do, by running, tumbling-by all sorts of innocent vagrancy. At least once a day girls should have their halters taken off, the bars let down, and be turned loose like young colts."-Med. News.

It is said that a recent Syrian couple landed at Ellis Island, the husband being fifteen years of age, and the wife thirteen.

Dr. C. N. Van de Poll, of Amsterdam reports a case in which the same patient was successfully operated upon by the Cæsarean method three times. All three children lived and the mother is now well. At the last operation it was necessary to do a Porro.

THE DEGRADATION OF BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.-The devotion of a ward in Bellevue Hospital to the exploitation of a secret drink cure is an unfortunate occurrence, and we are very ready to believe that the New York Commissioners of Charities were unaware of the far-reaching consequences of this serious blow to the medical profession. It is not possible to make a layman understand the vital importance of those few rules which, whether written in a code of ethics or not, are accepted by the reputable members of the profession. We know their value and we realize that without them medicine would

fall rapidly from the highest place among the profession to the level of green-grocering. Each one of us might have our show window filled with our infallible nostrums for all

ills; the public streets and the vacant alls would set forth our appreciation of our own merits; and the bitter struggle for commercial success would soon destroy all scientific ardor.

Secret remedies in medical practice have always been humbugs; and the men who have claimed to have them have always turned out to be frauds. This is the teaching of experience. The action of the commissioners is unwise, in that it is an insult to the entire profession; it may be that it was even unlawful.' What can we expect, however, from men who have been guilty of the political trick by which the public hospitals have been turned over to three private corporations.-Editorial Clinical Recorder.

Plans have been filed for the erection of additional buildings in connection with Bellevue Hospital. They will cost about $130,000.

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Dogs are to be banished from the streets of New York as being unsanitary, if not dangerous.

Dr. Henry A. Mott died at New York, November 8th, being fortyfour years old,

UP-TO-DATE TREATMENT FOR EPILEPSY.-Hydrocyanate of Iron-Tilden has been meeting with phenomenal success in combating this dread disease. Epilepsy is an affection so very intractable, as a rule, that the ordinary remedies and methods fail to give even slightly satisfactory results, indeed they often appear to hasten the very disturbances which they are intended to correct.

Many of the most eminent neurolgists have abandoned the bromides and now rely entirely upon the efficacy of the Hydrocyanate of Iron Tilden. J. H. Dearborn, M.D., Beverly, Mass., writes, "I am using Hydrocyanate of Iron-Tilden in a case of Epilepsy that has baffled the skill of eminent physicians in London and the States; with marked success. I can heartily recommend it."

Literature and epitome of cases in practice will be furnished upon application to The Tilden Company, St. Louis, Mo., or New Lebanon, N. Y.

FOOD IN INFANCY.-Looking at the analyses of milk, it would seem that a small addition of water to cow's milk, brings it down to human milk; while some contend for a small addi

tion of sugar. a Nor need necessarily

the sugar be cane sugar; a little maltose sugar is easily procurable, as in Mellin's Food, for instance. The advantage of maltose sugar, in whatever form, to milk is, that maltose sugar rather undergoes lactic acid.

fermentation, while cane sugar undergoes acetous fermentation-and acetic acid is far more irritant than lactic acid, whether free or in combination with a base.-From Manual of Dietetics, J. Millner Fothergill, M.D.

N. C. Med. Jour.:

"For many years I have used Exgotole S. & D. exclusively where I desired to produce vaso-constriction, and I may say that in no instance yet has it failed me. In uterine hemorrhage it ranks easily first of all drugs acting through the circulatory system: and on account of the small dose necessary, as well as the promptness of its affect, I think it deserves to supersede all other preparations of Ergot."

DR. J. M. HAYS, Examiner in the Practice of Medicine, Board of Medical Examiners, of the State of North Carolina.

Write to Mr. A. F. Scott, Cronly, N. C., for a sample of fibre, made from the long-leaf pine. It will cost only a postal card, and it you have never seen this material, you will learn something that will be worth knowing.

Pyroctin is a new product, manufactured by the Pyroctin Chemical Co., of Columbia, S. C. It possesses anodyne, antipyretic and febrifuge properties. The manufacturers will be pleased to furnish samples on ap. plication.