-and spoons are dreadfully out of fashion.-New York Weekly.

Bill Regulating Proprietary or Patent
Medicines.

A bill has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Legislature which provides that any and all proprietary or patent medicines prepared, sold, or of fered for sale in Pennsylvania shall contain upon a label a true and correct copy of the formula, ingredients or constitutents of the same, together with a true and correct printed statement in English of the several and respective quantities or proportions thereof. No person shall be employed or engaged in the manufacture and the mixture, compounding or preparation of any proprie tary or patent medicine who is not a regular graduate in pharmacy and so registered under the laws of this State. Persons violating this act are liable to a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment of one year, or both, one-half the fine to go to the person furnishing the information. -American Medicine.

Life Nourishing Life-Bovinine. The origin, evolution and interdependence of the different species of animals are themes ever full of interest.

Waiving all discussion of the origin and evolution of the species, as well as other questions of biology and mythology, it is conceded that man was created "a little lower than the angels," but a great deal higher than the highest of the brute family.

Practically, as declared in Holy Writ, man was given dominion over the beast of the field and the fowls of the air. He can not cope with the elephant or lion in strength, but he can devise traps and pitfalls in which to capture them. He can not run with the deer nor fly with

the eagle, but he can invent explosives swift enough and rifles accurate enough to overtake either of them.

Brain triumphs over brawn; mind conquers muscle. The ponderous elephant obeys the pusillanimous prod of his pigmy keeper, because the prod is wielded by a superior intelligence. Timid philosophers and pessimists indict this fact of supremacy and dominion as a mere opportunity for cruelty. It is nothing of the kind. It is predestination-a part of the original plan.

Throughout the entire length of the chain, the lower orders contribute to the higher. But for this law of interdependence and necessity the progress of the race would have halted ages ago, and in its noblest representatives of to-day would rank no higher than the recently discovered "little bushmen" who skulk in the jungles of unexplored Africa.

Life sustains life-it is the law, order and sequence of Nature. Our present knowledge does not enable us to define this mysterious life, but we know how it is nourished. The animal transmutes plant, pulp and seed into assimilable nutriment, dissolves it in a saline fluid (serum) and sends it coursing through the distributing channels of the body. It is free from waste, distilled, refined, perfected by unerring vital chemistry -it is ready for instant use.

Bovinine is this vital fluid, perfectly sterilized and protected from deterioration. In Bovinine the life-giving elements that go to sustain and build the body retain all their nutritive integrity, ready for immediate absorption into the circulating medium, that medium through which all degenerative processes are interrupted, all repairs accomplished all growth induced. There are no artificially prepared foods to be compared with it, since Nature herself com

to replenish the impoverished current. In short, it is an ideal builder, repairer and nourisher in all conditions where an instantly asimilable nutrient, is required.

Strange Epitaph in Moreton, in Marsh Churchyard.

Here lie the bones of Richard Lawton, Whose death, alas! was strangely brought on;

Trying one day his corns to mow off,
The razor slipped and cut his toe off.
His toe, or rather what it grew to,
An inflammation quickly flew to,
Which took, alas! to mortifying,
And was the cause of Richard's dying.
From Gloucestershire (England)
Notes and Queries, Vol. ii, p. 6.

Sig. Teaspoonful every three hours. Mix.

After the fourth dose of this mixture, the temperature dropped to normal, vomiting ceased, stools became less offensive and diarrhoea was checked before the medicine was all used, and the child discharged well.

Case No. II.-Althea B., age 7 months. Symptoms identical with Case No. I, except small quantities of blood appeared in the stools. Same treatment given with the addition of ten drop doses of paregoric to the Bismuth mixture. The third day the little one was convalescent.

Case No. III.-Herman T., age two years. Bowels moving every half hour -very offensive, vomiting, temperature 104° F., great prostration. Child nearly moribund.

Prescribed the calomel, but every dose rejected by the stomach as soon as taken. Gave small pieces of crushed ice to control vomiting, and instituted high colonic flushings, by means of a soft catheter, attached to a fountain syringe, with a twenty-five per cent. solution of GlycoThymoline in tepid water. After first flushing temperature came down to 102°, vomiting ceased and child went to sleep. Ordered the Bismuth mixture and left instructions to repeat the flushing of the colon every four hours with the solution of Glyco-Thymoline. Child well on the sixth day.

WOMEN WISH TO REPLACE MEN AS HEALTH INSPECTORS. The Women's Rescue League, of Washington, has submitted a report to the board of health, to the effect that men have proved failures as health inspectors, and that women should replace them; they state that they followed up the men in their recent inspection, and found much that had been overlooked. What seems to be a serious blemish in the report, indicating a lack of a sense of humor in these energetic ladies, is the statement that they were greatly annoyed and frightened by the large number of rats encountered. Perhaps the men could be retained as an advance guard for the women, their duties to be confined to abolishing the rodents; otherwise a health inspecting costume must be devised, omitting the skirt, and including a riding boot.

NEVER neglect to test the patellar reflex in all nervous manifestations.

Teh Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter.

A Journal Devoted to the Science of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery.

Published Monthly by the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 226 Huron Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

JAMES RICHEY HORNER, A. M., M. D., Editor. HUDSON D. BISHOP, M. D., Managing Editor.

The Reporter solicits original articles, short clinical articles, society transactions and news items of interest to the profession. Reprints of original articles will be furnished authors at actual cost of paper and press-work, provided the order is received before the publication of the article. If authors will furnish us with names before their article is published, copies of the journal, containing their production, will be mailed free of charge (except to addresses in Cleveland) to the number of one hundred.

The subscription price of the Reporter is $1.00 per annum in advance. Single copies 10 cents. The Reporter has no free list but sample copies will be given on request.

The Reporter is mailed on the 15th of each month. All matter for publication must be in the hands of the editor by the 25th of the preceding month

When a change of address is ordered, both the new and the old address must be given. The notice should be sent one week before the change is to take effect.

If a subscriber wishes his copy of the journal discontinued at the expiration of his subscription, notice to that erfect should be sent. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired.

Remittances should be sent by Draft on New York, Express-Order, or Money-Order, payable to order of THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER. Cash should be sent in Registered Letter.

Books for review, manuscripts for publication, and all communications to the editor should be addressed to J. Richey Horner, M. D., 275 Prospect St., Cleveland, O. All other communications should be addressedCleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter,

143 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Subscription Problems.

[Read before the American Medical Editors' Association, at New Orleans, May 4, 1903, by C. F. Taylor, M. D., Editor of the Medical World, Philadelphia.]

Experience has forced most of us to realize that ordinary business rules have been largely at a discount in the field of medical journalism. The country has been flooded with free sample copies without stint or limit, subscription accounts have been neglected until forgotten by both debtor and creditor, and in every way the doctor has been led to believe that the paying of a subscription to a medical publication is a matter of very little importance. There are several classes of medical publications that

can afford to encourage and continue this very unsatisfactory business condition indefinitely. First and most reprehensible is the journal that is published. for the purpose of "boosting" and "booming" proprietary medical preparations in which the editor and publisher is financially interested. This kind of a journal is likely to have "the largest circulation of any medical journal in the world." That is easy. It is only a matter of buying more paper and sending out more "sample" copies to keep ahead of the most enterprising legitimate competitor. But these copies are not sent out with the expectation of obtaining subscriptions, but for the purpose of advertising proprietaries that are exploited in the reading columns, in editorials, answers to queries, etc.

The

plan is as transparent as that of the distribution of patent medicine almanacs free among the laity, in order to promote the sale of nostrums. It is strange that this plan has worked so well and so long among doctors, and it is strange that the strenuous Mr. Madden, third assistant postmaster-general, has not gotten after this class of so-called "medical journals."

Possibly a little less reprehensible is the class of journals whose editors and publishers are not financially interested. in proprietaries, but who can be hired, either directly or under the guise of an advertising contract, or in some other way, to publish "clinical reports" concerning this, or the other proprietary. This kind of a vender can send his free sample copies broadcast, as per contract with the chiefly interested parties, and thus eke out a living without much of an income from subscriptions.

If every medical periodical in our great country would attend strictly to the subscription end of the business, the

benefits arising therefrom would be exceedingly great. The chronic dead-beat would be eliminated, the careless and negligent among those disposed to be honest would be brought up to the point of systematically remitting for the magazines that they really want, refusing all others, while the prompt and reliable portion of the profession would be served. with better journals, because the promptly-paid editor and publisher could afford to give better service. Also, advertisers would find that their announcements would hit the mark" better than in the present condition of conglomerateness.

The ideal condition is a medical journalism devoted entirely to the scientific, financial and sociological interests of the profession, with no taint of commercialism, and a professional clientele in which each individual contributes his mite, in the form of a faithfully paid subscription price.

A New Departure.

In these days when a gullible public prescribes for itself from the patent medicines on the frieze of the trolleycars, or takes the profitable substitution that the druggist passes over the counter, it is no wonder that physicians feel a bit out of sympathy with the venders of drugs, and make unfavorable compari

sons between the commercialism of the men who supply medicines and the science of the medical profession that prescribes them.

But we should never forget that were it not for the great manufacturers and importers of drugs we might still cull our own herbs, and use our own mortars and pestles. As an indication of the aid that such houses may be to physicians, we call attention to the colored plates of pathogenic organisms that have been prepared for the profession by the house.

of M. J. Breitenbach Co., the importers of Gude's Pepto- Mangan.

No text-book and no one work on pathogenic bacteria contains such a number of excellent diagnostic illustrations, nor such beautiful examples of lithographic art, as these.

Many physicians are too far from libraries and laboratories to be able to put into practice the training of their college days. They need just such a set of reference plates to be able to make microscopical examinations. The recognition of this need and the care that has been taken to fill it shows a spirit of enterprise in this firm that we wish might serve as an example to others. For, if, instead of advertising to the public, the manufacturers of drugs would make such valuable contributions to science as lies in their power, there might be more sympathy between them and physicians.

The full set of sixty cuts has been prepared to send to any physician who writes for them, from the firm of M. J. Breitenbach Co., New York.

Sanmetto Endorsed as the Most Valuable Remedy in Kidney, Bladder and Urethral Affections.

Sanmetto is a valuable preparation. Indeed, I have found it one of the most valuable remedies in the treatment of

gonorrhea and all kidney and bladder affections, either acute or chronic, and can endorse same to the medical profession. CHAS. E. BARMM, M. D.

Indianapolis, Ind.

Hahnemann Vindicated.

The "modern science" of yesterday asserted that the limit of the divisibility of matter was reached at the 12th potency, or what corresponds to that, but the science of the day shows that this is a gross error, as witness the following, which we clip from an exchange: