veal that a very heavy percentage of cases of diabetes mellitus can have their origin traced to the causes here set forth.

In my experience I have found that while dietary limitations decrease the amount of sugar, I have not been able to see that the general health has been markedly improved, and in some instances, the withdrawal of sweets, and other restrictions of diet have not materially lessened its excretion.

Some two years ago my attention was called to arsenauro as a therapeutic agent for this disease, and as arsenic had on the whole given better results than any other drugs, I gave it an extended trial. The results in all cases were better than those wită other remedies, and in the probably neurotic cases cures were effected in nearly every instance. In almost every case the amount of sugar became noticeably lessened within a period of ten days or two weeks; one case was practically cured in two months, and in others repeated tests showed no trace of sugar in from three to four months. The general health improved in every instance, the drug in no case causing any untoward disturbance, either local or general. In emaciated cases an increase in weight and better color, due to a marked increase in red blood corpuscles, was noticed even before any marked diminution of the sugar occurred.

In conclusion, it may not be amiss to say that at least two of these cases first presented themselves to me on account of having been refused life insurance because of sugar in the urine, nor is it amiss to add that within the last few months both cases have been accepted for policies of good amounts, no sugar being found after repeated tests, the writer not being the examiner in either instance.-Abstract H. D. B.

FEEING THE NURSE.-EVIDENTLY THINGS ARE getting in bad shape in England, if we are to believe the statement made by a correspondent in a recent number of The Lancet. There are rumors that there is a division of the fee among some of the members of the profession here, but this division is between the surgeon or the consultant and the family physician of the patient. On the other side, however, they seem to have gone one better and a division of the fee is made with the nurse. According to the correspondent, certain medical men over there are paying sums from a shilling to half the confine

ment fee, or more, to the nurses in attendance, who, to use their own words, make their living from "following the doctors." This tipping of the nurses is done with the hope that the recipient of the fee will recommend the doctor to future patients and, in other words, act as his drummer. As The Lancet editorially comments, the probability is that things are not quite as bad as this correspondent makes them out to be, even in England, where tipping is such a common every-day and every-where affair.-Journal of the American Medical Association.

NEWSPAPER MEDICINE.-MRS. THOMAS SHELton was operated on this morning at the home of her son Alfred, for necrosis of the bone, by Dr. Herrick, assisted by Drs. Burke and Coutant. A piece of dead bone was removed from the tibia of the right eye.― Country Newspaper.

VERY FEW CITIES IN THE COUNTRY POSSESS a finer hotel than the Hollenden, which has been chosen as the official headquarters of the American Institute of Homeopathy at its next meeting, which is to be held in Cleveland..

е Hollenden is a high-class transient and residential hotel, situated at the corner of Superior, Bond and Vincent streets, in the city of Cleveland, accessible to all street car lines, principal buildings, places of amusement, and in the centre of the business and shopping district.

It has four hundred rooms, each connected with the office by telephone, and furnished with every comfort of home. No expense has been spared to surround its guests with every convenience. Parlors, reception and drawing rooms, handsomely furnished, are provided for the patrons of the hotel and their friends.

The accommodations and capacity of the hotel for caring for large conventions, meetings, etc., is unequalled by any hotel in the country.

BE SURE AND READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN this number. If there is any preparation which you would like to try do not hesitate to write the advertiser for samples, mentioning the Reporter.

THOUGHT HE WAS COMPARATIVELY SAFE.A colored man, at Pittsburg, Kansas, thus

ounces of glyco-thymoline (Kress) in a pint of warm water, irrigated the bladder twice a day for three days; cause seemed to be entirely eradicated, and patient is in good health for the first time in a year."

WOULD COME BACK.-IKEY, JR. "FADER, I soldt a pair of pants to Mr. Cheatman for six-fifty, but he only had six tollars, and vill stop in tomorrow and pay der rest.”

Ikey, Sr. "Mine son, you've been swindled. He von't come back."

Ikey, Jr.-"Oh, yes he vill, fader. I gif him a pair dree sizes too small."-Baltimore World.

JONATHAN HUTCHINSON, F. R. S., GENERAL Secretary of the New Sydenham Society, has requested Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., of Philadelphia, the American agents of the Society, to announce the publication of "An Atlas of Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Pathology," selected and arranged with the design to afford, in as complete a manner as possible, aids to diagnosis in all departments of practice. It is proposed to complete the work in five years, in fasciculi form, eight to ten plates issued every three months in connection with the regular publications of the Society. The New Sydenham Society was established in 1858, with the object of publishing essays, monographs and translations of works which could not be otherwise issued. The list of publications numbers upwards of 170 volumes of the greatest scientific value. An effort is now being made to increase the membership, in order to extend its work.

THE NURSING WORLD CLINICAL RECORD.The well known wholesale druggists, John Carle & Sons, of 153 Water street, New York City, who were established in 1817, and who have for so many years been headquarters for the justly celebrated food, Imperial Granum, inform us that they are publishing a new and vastly improved edition of their Nursing World Clinical Record, which, in the past few years, has already run through six editions. The special features of the new book are simplicity of arrangement, detachable leaves, with a special table for recording the temperature on each sheet. Grievous mistakes are oftentimes avoided by supplying the nurse with a sick room chart which can be legibly discerned and easily kept.

to readers of the Reporter, enclosing their professional card to the following address: John R. Carle & Sons, Dept. R., 153 Water St., New York City.-H. D. B.

WHAT THE GIRL SAW. THE DUTIES OF A certain sea captain kept him a long time away from home. During his enforced absence his wife had become quite a society lady. So, when her husband returned, a recherche reception was given complimentary to him. He had not been drilled in manners and other things esthetic, and did no have clothes suitable for the occasion. His wife finally prevailed upon him to have a full-dress suit made. The style of the trousers and coat was excusable, but he could not see the sense of having the vest cut so low. On the evening of the function Le donned his dress suit and wore a button in the lapel of his coat, the only evidence of his rank and profession.

At the reception, a young lady who had been introduced to him stood conversing with him and noticed the button in the lapel of his coat. "I see you're naval," she said. With suffused and perspiring face, nervously fingering in the region of his umbilicus, the captain stammered: "I told the tailor he was cutting that d- -n vest too low."-Ex.

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE publication of the New Century Edition of the catalogue of Otis Clapp & Son, Boston, Mass.

It has been their aim in its preparation not only to produce a price list of medicines and supplies, but also to make it a valuable book of reference. It contains a therapeutic appendix, which is devoted to a brief description of some of the more important of the newer remedies, special pharmaceutical preparations from their laboratories and other items of interest to the physician. This appendix gives an epitome of therapeutic indications of some of the newer remedies, and the results of clinical experience in the use of their pharmaceutical preparations. believe that every one of our readers will find something new which will be of value to him and amply repay him for a careful perusal of this section of the catalogue.

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