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IMPERIAL GRANUM
GRANUM FOOD

IS INDEED RIGHTLY CONSIDERED A SPECIFIC IN SUMMER
DISORDERS, ALTHOUGH IN NO SENSF A MEDICINE, IT NOT
ONLY NOURISHES, BUT IS OFTEN THE ONLY TREATMENT
REQUIRED TO REGULATE THE EXCESSIVE DISCHARGES

In intestinal disorders, it is often advisable to give Imperial Granum
with water alone for a few feedings and then gradually add milk.
This method insures ample nourishment with least possible taxation
SAMPLES ARE SENT FREE ON RECEIPT OF POSTAL REQUEST

John Carle & Sons, 153 Water Street, New York City

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could succeed in arousing her. During the last week in May of this year the sleeper, who was closely watched during every moment of her long slumber, was seen to move her right arm, then her head, and at last, slowly opening her eyes the young girl-now in appearance an old, old woman - looked wonderingly round the room.

The physicans present spoke to her, but, though she apparently had a desire to reply, no words came from her mouth. For twenty minutes the heart continued to beat, and the doctors were in high hopes of saving her life, when, raising herself by some extraordinary and momentary effort, she uttered a few unintelligible words and fell back dead.

Men and women who have slept for periods of six months and longer seldom live after their awakening. An exception to this, however, is found in the case of a Russian of the name of Piatkowska, who is reported to have slept for seven months in his home in a small village some twenty miles from Moscow. Piatkowska, who had served ten years in the mines, was a man of forty, strong and wiry, though he had always been subject to periodical fits of slumber which had lasted for two and three days at a stretch.

In 1893, according to a Russian writer, he fell asleep while working in the fields, and was there found by his wife. She had him carried to their cabin and laid on the trestle bed, so that he might have his sleep out in comfort as he had done on many previous occasions. The next day and for several days he still slumbered, and when a week had gone by his wife became alarmed.

She managed to secure the services of a local doctor, whose practice was among the peasantry, but though he tried his best to awaken the sleeper all his efforts

were futile. The doctor visited the patient for five months, when his duties called him to St. Petersburg, and he was obliged to relinquish the case.

Another physician, however, undertook to watch the man, and two more months passed. No effort was made to feed the sleeper, and he did not appear to have lost flesh to any great extent.

In the spring of 1894 the man, who had been lying on his back, was found to have turned over on his left side, his left arm being tucked under his head. The doctor was quickly sent for, and after examining the patient he injected a powerful hypodermic, which took instant effect. The man opened his eyes, stretched his arms above his head, yawned, and attempted to get out of bed.

But his limbs were weak as an infant's and he would have fallen had not the doctor pushed him back. He was carefully fed and nursed, and in a fortnight was sufficiently recovered to go about his work.

A more recent case was that of Winifred Earle, living in Sixth avenue, New York, who fell asleep in December of last year, and, after slumbering for three days, was sent to Bellevue Hospital to see if the physicians there could succeed in waking her. Everything, from electric batteries to saline injections, was tried, but without success.

The girl who was only sixteen, continued to slumber peacefully for three weeks, when a slight movement of the eyelids was noticed. A strong light was held before her eyes and a few moments later she awoke.

So weak had she become, however, that though every effort was made to save her she gradually sank. and after two days fell into that deeper slumber from which there is no awakening.-Chicago Tribune.

Here is a man who has tried nearly every form of cod-liver oil, including the plain oil. His stomach will tolerate none of them. He can eat but little food and continues to lose weight and strength. What shall be done with him?

Prescribe Hydroleine. It will stay down. It will give him an appetite, improve his digestion; his color will become better-showing that new blood is being created; sleep will be less disturbed and he will gain in weight and strength. You can depend on Hydroleine.

Literature sent on application. Sold by druggists generally.

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The Hannum Laboratory

Examinations of Blood, Urine, Sputum,
Milk, Pus, Waters, Stomach Contents,
Anatomical Material, Food Products, etc.,
for diagnostic and scientific purposes.

CHEMICAL,

BACTERIOLOGICAL and
PATHOLOGICAL.

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Oral Sepsis as a Cause of Pernicious

Anaemia.

In an article on this subject by William Hunter, M. D., Edin. F. R. C. P., London, published in The Lancet (Jan. 27th, 1900), the author gives the following conclusions

"1. Pernicious anæmia is a special form of chronic blood poisoning-a toxæmia.

"2. It is the result of a special infection of the digestive tract, especially of the mouth and stomach, and probably, although to a less degree, of the intestine.

"3. The chief source of infection is through the mouth from long-continued and neglected cario-necrotic conditions. of the teeth, and sometimes, possibly, from stomatitis arising from other

causes.

"4. The usual effect of this infection is a chronic infective catarrh of the mouth and stomach, which may in time lead to deep-seated changes, e. g., ulcers of the mouth and tongue, chronic glossitis and atrophic changes in the tongue, or chronic gastritis, with atrophy of the gastric glands.

5. The evidences of the infectivity. of the organisms of dental decay are overwhelming.

"6. The infection is chiefly streptococcal, and probably derives its special characters from being of a 'mixed' character.

"7. Such infection the more readily occurs if the stomach or intestine is already, from any cause, the seat of dis

ease.

"The above conclusions suggest certain new considerations in regard to treatment, of which the chief one is the importance of minute attention to the hygiene of the mouth, and especially of the teeth, with the immediate removal of every source of infection."

The importance of oral cleanliness, which is emphasized by Dr. Hunter in the above article, has lately received much attention from the medical profession. Various forms of infection, both local and general, have been traced to the mouth and teeth. In Glyco-Thymoline we have an excellent antiseptic mouth wash which not only cleanses, but on account of its alkaline re-action prevents further decay.

It is a well known fact that the formation of lactic acid causes decay of the teeth, and that this process is absent or at least proceeds very slowly when the saliva is alkaline. Normal human saliva is slightly alkaline, but the alkalinity is so weak that few months are capable of a prompt recovery from the acid condition, nor is the alkalinity usually strong enough to counteract the acids of decay; hence it seems rational to endeavor to supply this deficiency.

Saliva is composed in part of mucus, which is readily soluble in a properly combined alkaline solution, while it is insoluble in alcohol, ether or acid solutions. Bacteria develop rapidly in this undissolved and undisturbed mucus in and about the teeth, causing continued and increased acidity of the saliva.

These facts indicate that an alkaline solution is needed at the portal of the body for protection.

Dr. A. H. Peck's analysis of a number of mouth preparations proved that but one of the many had the essential feature for the purpose desired, namely, that of alkalinity; this solution was GlycoThymoline.

Alkaline saliva seems an undoubted aid to digestion, and if it can be induced to flow and be kept alkaline, many stomach disorders will disappear.

The mucous membrane, under the action of Glyco-Thymoline, becomes hard

(Oxydendron-Sambucus-Scilla Compound.)

A SPECIFIC FOR DROPSIES

DOCTOR :

If you know a thing to be a fact, it is not wrong or unethical to say so. Neither does it smack of quackery or Charlatanism and should not shock the sensibilities of any, however refined, cultured or zealous of medical ethics for us to claim that ANASARCIN is a specific in dropsies, when clinical experience has demonstrated (such to be a fact If quinine is a specific in malaria, much more is ANASARCIN in dropsies resulting from disease of the heart, liver or kidneys: because that a trial of it in hundreds, yea, thousands of cases has not resulted in a failure known to us where directions have been followed. Besides being a specific for dropsies, it is a permanent cure in the conditions mentioned when begun early and continued a sufficient length of time, i. e. until the diseased organs regain normal function. ANASARCIN is composed of the active principles of Oxydendron Arboreum, Sambucus and Urginea Scilla, and is sold exclusively to physicians or druggists for physicians. Trial box free with literature and testimonials furnished physicians on application.

ADDRESS

THE ANASARCIN CHEMICAL CO.,

WINCHESTER, TENN.,

U. S. A.

London Agents: THOMAS CHRISTY & CO., 4, 10 and 12 Oid Swan Lane, Upper Thames St., E. C.

Hall's Perfect Abdominal & Uterine Supporters.

The Wonderful Supporter for replacing the displaced uterus and for supporting the abdomen after pelvic and abdominal operations.

They are based on scientific principles and are as far in advance of all others as the Surgical Instruments of the present day are over those of a century ago. They are so neat, light and comfortable to wear and give such quick relief that ladies like to wear them. They are being used and endorsed by the best physicians and surgeons of the country, and the wonderful results obtained from their use surprises those who have used them.

Essentials in
Pharmaceutics.

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