TWO CASES OF GASTRO ENTERIC CON

DITIONS.

Willis E. Cummings, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Case No. I. Mrs. C, 52 years old, suffering from a chronic diarrhoea of ten years standing, gave every evidence of tubercular nature. Usual remedies I had been using gave no lasting effect. Having found Glyco-Thymoline very advantageous in the ordinary summer complaints of children, I made use of it in this case, flushing out the bowel about three times weekly and giving 2 dr. in one-half glass of warm water every four hours during the day, per mouth. The condition of the patient improved almost immediately, tenderness and tympanites stopped, and in two weeks the patient presented apparently a normal bowel. Patient is now gaining in weight. This extremely satisfactory result I have decided was due largely to the correction of the fermentative processes, due to improper secretion of the glands, restoring in a measure the healthful action of the same.

Case No. II.-Mary A―, child 12 years of age, gave a history of Dysenteric discharges for period of two weeks. Severe case, discharges very offensive, almost Typhoid in character. My usual method in these cases during the last two years has been to use Liq. Bismuth or Chalk mixture in combination with a GlycoThymoline base, but cases of this nature needing more active measures, I flushed out the bowel with Glyco-Thymoline 2 dr. to pint of warm water. I have to report its effect most rapid. Diarrhoea checked within six hours and a lessening of pain and temperature immediately after this flushing. I cannot speak too highly of the value of the intestinal irrigation in these

cases.

PROOF OF THE LORD'S KINDNESS.

As one of the great Atlantic liners was nearing the end of its voyage recently a

wealthy passenger on board gave a champagne supper to the other male passengers. Each one of those invited was to render payment by singing a song, dancing a jig or telling a story. Among those on board was one person who had won a reputation for moroseness, for in spite of the constant stream of moss grown tales which one is forced to listen to on shipboard he had never tried to revenge himself by telling one of his own. Accordingly, when his turn came to speak everyone listened eagerly.

"Gentlemen," said he, as he rose to his feet, "I can't sing a song or tell a story, and I have never danced a jig, so I can only offer a conundrum. In what way is the Lord kinder to a turkey than to man?” Of course everyone gave it up. "Because," came the answer, doesn't allow it to be stuffed with chestnuts till after it is dead."

"He

WHY PHYSICIANS SHOULD USE HALL'S PERFECT ABDOMINAL AND UTE

RINE SUPPORTER.

This is an age of progress and these Supporters are as far in advance of all other in Scientific principals as the Surgical Instruments of the present day are over those of a Century ago.

They are so neat, light and pliable, and fit so perfectly that they do not interfere in any way with the free movement of the body.

They are so easily adjusted and give such quick relief that women like to wзar them.

They so quickly relieve the sufferings arising from Uterine displacements that ladies want them.

In pregnancy they relieve all pelvic pressure, preventing varix, dropsy and many other sequels that follow pregnancy.

After child birth they raise the enlarged and tender Uterus to its normal position,

allowing the Uterus as well as the enlarged blood vessels to contract to their normal condition.

When worn for a few weeks after confinement, they allow the abdominal muscles to contract and resume their normal tension, leaving the woman as neat and perfect as before confinement.

After abdominal or pelvic operation, they support the tender and relaxed pelvic organs as well as the abdominal muscles, allowing the wounded parts to contract and become strong.

These are the reasons why physicians and surgeons should use these supporters. Every physician or surgeon who uses them will be surprised at the good results from their use.

NATURE'S NEEDS.

A brief consideration of what may be termed the physiology of disease will throw much light on the subject of the needs of nature in the period following the subsidence of the symptoms.

Symptoms may be said to be intensified physiological functions accentuated to such an extent as to constitute abnormalities. This is true of fever, pain and the whole host of symptoms ascribable to special organs and tissues. Emaciation and nervous exhaustion ensue because the processes of disease, requiring as they do fuel for increased oxidation, deplete the patient of nervous force and tissue structure. Nature's method of repairing waste-by food -is prevented, because the digestive organs share in the general enfeeblement consequent upon disease. The patient has neither the inclination to eat or the physical powers necessary to digest and assimilate food.

It is in just this class of cases that the restorative effects of Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp. are most pronounced. Because of its alterative, tonic action upon the gastric mucous membrane, it takes hold of the dormant, torpid nutritive functions and stimulates them to normal physiologic activity. Appetite is engendered, atonicity of the digestive functions is abolished, and the patient is able to eat,

digest and assimilate a sufficient amount of food to replace waste of tissue, impoverishment of blood and depletion of nervous force. It thus duplicates and reinforces Nature's recuperative powers; hence the value of Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp. in convalesence from la grippe, typhoid fever, malaria, pneumonia, etc. It can always be relied upon to effect the desired results in all forms of anæmia.

HYSTERECTOMY FOR CANCER OF UTERUS.

By T. J. Biggs, M. D., Sound View Hospital, Stamford, Conn.

Mrs. T., age 47, American. Diagnosis, carcinoma of uterus. Entered hospital Oct. 10, 1901, in a greatly run down condition. She was put on an absolute bovinine diet, until Oct. 14th, when at one o'clock she was given a high rectal injection of bovinine and salt solution, three oz. of each, and at two o'clock, under ether anæsthesia, I performed an abdominal hysterectomy. Just before the uterus was detached from the vaginal wall, the patient showed considerable shock, and consequently the nurse was ordered to give her another high rectal injection of bovinine and salt solution, two oz. each. She responded to this beautifully. The operation was completed by the closure of the abdominal wound, the pelvis being drained through the vagina. Patient was put to bed with the pulse weak and 112. She was given another high rectal injection of bovinine and salt solution, three oz. of each. In twenty-five minutes she was conscious, pulse greatly improved, being 100, and full in character. No nausea, thirst or vomiting. The second day the vaginal drain was removed, the wound and the vagina treated by injections of bovinine pure, employed t. i. d. Previous to every injection of bovinine into the vagina, the cavity was washed out with borax solution. These injections were continued three times a day up to Oct. 16th, when twice in twenty-four hours was deemed sufficient. She was now allowed a light general diet together with bovinine. Oct. 24th, the stitches were ro

moved and the abdominal wound found to be healed. From this time on her recovery was uninterrupted and she was discharged cured, Nov. 16th.

BILL NYE'S EXPERIENCE IN A HOSPITAL.

I have just been sent to the hospital for twenty days. My physician did it. He did it with an analysis. Anybody who amounts to anything nowadays gets analyzed. I like it here very much.

Sunday, 3 P. M.-An analysis to-day shows more casts, fibrin, gelatin and some zinc and copper. The chemist also discovers that in 1853 I fell from an apple tree and tore my panties in two places.

Pulse

Monday, 4 P. M.--Temperature twofifths of one degree above normal. regular, but sluggish. Have got all my business arranged, even to terms for shipment home.

Another chemical and microscopical analysis made yesterday of sputum, showing traces of nicotine and other poisons. Adieu, kind friends, I'm going home. A sweet young novice, who is training for a nurse, took my pulse this A. M. Took quite a while to find it, but I did not murmur or repine. I am trying to learn to love everybody, for to that bourne to which my chemist says I am going I should carry with me no emetics, no animosities.

The life here at the hospital is delightful, and while I am fading away it is a joy to have loving hands bathing my little footies and manicuring my knobby brow.

Good-bye, wicked world! After December you will have to pay your own taxes, so the chemist says, for traces of one lung, also floating island and ice cream, were found in this last analysis. Do not mourn for me, kind friends, and choke and sob and make yourselves sick. It will be in vain. Just live as I have done, so that you may come where I am at. Live upright lives and run the lawn mower about every ten days over my That humble grave during the summer.

is all you can do. Weep not. In me you have lost a man who can never be replaced, but never mind-the world will

have to drag on somehow. here all the time.

I couldn't be Anybody with a par

ticle of sense could have seen that I couldn't live forever.

P. S.-While penning the above words a messenger boy has come swiftly in with a note from the chemist. He says in his note: "We regret that an error was made in your case by our assistant, who, in the rush of business here at the college, has got your analysis somewhat confused with that of the justly celebrated horse, Nancy Hanks. We unfortunately got the sputa mixed. On going over your case again we find that, whereas, there are signs of glanders in the Hanks analysis, you are, as a matter of fact, almost too healthy."

So to-day I leave my kind little nurses in their neat attire. Good-bye, girls, I'm going home where they know me. No one there will count my fevered pulse in the still watches of the night. No one there will put a nice hot-water bag, tnat feels like a Mexican hairless dog, at my feet.

Seriously, what a blessing it is, when we are weary of work and the gastric functions go on a sympathetic strike and the solar plexus goes away and sits down on a stone pile to weep over the situation, that one can go to one of these cosy corners, out of the current of whoop and hurrah, and eat raw steak and be sort of made much of.—Exchange.

The semi-annual meeting of the North Eastern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society will be held Wednesday, October 29th, at Canton, headquarters being at the New Hotel McKinley, which was opened October 1st. The following program is announced by the Secretary:

"The President's Annual Address"

"Vaccination,", W.T. Miller, M. D., Cleveland. “Hyperaemization of Sclerotic Organs,”.

..H. F. Biggar, Jr., M. D., Cleveland. "Face Presentation,'.

. Katherine Kurt, M. D., Akron.

If this means anything it means that everyone who reads this note will make a strong effort to be at the meeting, because with such a varied and interesting program no man can fail of reaping great benefit from it. So do not forget the meeting at Canton on the 29th.

NOTICE.

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have in press a new work, "Diagnosis," by Clarence Bartlett, M. D., from whose stenographic notes Farrington's "Clinical Materia Medica" was published, and who, later, wrote the neurological section of Goodno's "Practice." When published, this new work on medical diagnosis will constitute, it is announced, one of the largest and

certainly the most complete ever published on that branch of medical science. It will include, we are told, every important modern diagnostic fact, and will at once place the members of our school beyond the need of referring to old school text-books on the subject, for they will have the best one in their own ranks. The book will probably contain between 1,000 and 1,100 pages, and will have a most thorough index. Ready in October.

Latest reports received from the chief quarantine officer for the Philippines, show plainly that up to the time of writing little progress had been made against the ravages of cholera. In some of the villages, he says, one-tenth of the entire population have died from cholera. The report for Manila from May 25 to June 7, inclusive, shows a startling number of fatalities, larger in proportion even than in the provinces for the same period. During these two weeks there were reported 132 cases and 118 deaths. In the provincial towns for the same period there were 1,108 cases and 722 deaths. In Manila during these two weeks four Americans were attacked by the disease, but no fatalities were reported.

Just as we go to press have received word of the very serious illness of Dr. Charles E. House, of Canton. We have not had any particulars and we are hoping that the turn for the better may come before these words are printed and that once more we may have him with us.

The secretary of the Institute still has a few copies of the splendid full-page pictures of Dr. Helmuth and of Dr. Talcott. Any member wishing a copy for framing can procure one by sending a request to Dr. Gatchell, 100 State Street, Chicago.

Johannes Orth, professor of pathological anatomy in the University of Goettingen, succeeds the late Prof. Virchow to the chair of pathological anatomy in the University of Berlin. Prof. Orth was for many years Prof. Virchow's assistant.

THE POOR BOOK AGENT.

Several Senators were discussing in the cloakroom the other day their experiences in getting rid of objectionable visitors. The talk recalled an episode in the life of the late Justice Field of the Supreme Court, whose temper was of the most irascible kind. He had given instructions to his servant one morning that he was not to be disturbed. Presently there was a ring at the doorbell and an aggressive book agent appeared.

"I want to see Justice Field," he said. "You can not see him," was the reply. "I must see him."

"Impossible."

The conversation grew more emphatic, until finally the persistent book agent's demands echoed through the house. At that moment Justice Field, who had been attracted by the altercation, appeared at the head of the stairs.

"William," he said, in a fiercely angry tone, "show the brazen, infernal scoundrel up to me; if you can not handle him, I will."

The book agent made no further effort to break into the Justice's presence.Washington Post.

Danbury, Conn., July 30, 1902.

Malt-Diastase Co.,

Dear Sirs:-I simply write these few

lines to inform you how well pleased I am with Maltzyme as a base for all mixtures containing the Iodides, Acetates, Citrates and Creosote, especially the Creosote. I am prescribing it (Maltzyme) more and more every day, and am becoming more and more convinced that it is the only satisfactory base on the market to-day.

I have now nine patients (chronic) who are taking Maltzyme in some mixtures, and all are pleased with the way it agrees with them; that is, their digestion is so much better when these same medicines are given in Maltzyme than it was before.

I am satisfied that if more physicians would use it as I do, they would have less trouble in the administration of this class of medicine.