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Dr. John Stewart, in the President's Address to the Canadian Medical Association, discussed at length some of the economic problems that have arisen in the last decade and their influence on the medical profession.

In part Dr. Stewart said:

"In the Report of the Royal Commission on Physical Deterioration, no evidence seems to be more interesting than that of Mrs. Close. This lady, who has given her life to the study of the domestic conditions among the laboring classes of almost every country in Europe, has no doubt of the deterioration in the physique of the laboring classes in England. And the explanation of this she finds in a diminished sense of duty, a debased ideal of the duties of wife and mother. Love of amusement and the attractions of the theatre interfere with

the old-fashioned domestic economy. Houses are untidy. Food is badly cooked. Early rising is a vanished virtue. The children are hurried off to school without proper breakfast, and the husband finds in the public house the comfort he is denied at home.

"What our profession requires to-day, even more than an increase in scientific knowledge, is more of the study which gave character to the great masters of the past, and a realization of the grandeur of the divine possibilities in man. True, we see much of the lower nature, weakness and suffering and sin, but we also see in every soul the capacity of Honor, Courage and Love. Let us rather look on these. 'Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things

are pure,

whatsoever things are lovely,

if there be any virtue, things.'

let us think of these

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Methylene Blue.

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This agent has gained a foothold as a remedy in spite of its intense power as a dye. Here are some of the uses to which it has been put successfully: For the relief of conjunctivitis and keratitis in variola, instillations of 0.2 to 0.3 per cent. aqueous solution, is said to be very efficacious; for open tuberculous abscesses, plug cavity moderately firmly every two or three days with gauze dipped in 0.5 methylene blue solution, then dried and sterilized. In abscesses not open inject, after puncturing, a 0.5 per cent. solution. or two injections are said to be sufficient. To suppress eruptions on mucous membranes in secondary syphilis, apply 10 per cent. solutions of methylene blue. For diagnostic purposes, eight grains administered two hours before cystoscopic examination aids by rendering foreign bodies, tumors, ulcers, etc., more conspicuous. The injection of a 5 per cent. aqueous solution may also serve as a test of the anatomical permeability of the kidneys.

These uses are aside from the employment of methylene blue in genito-urinary infections, malarial states and other conditions for which it has long been used.

Chronic Bronchitis.

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For chronic forms of bronchial catarrh, or winter cough, the alterative or stimulant expectorants may be employed, the former being generally more useful than the latter. the affection is likely to involve the lower rather than the upper portions of the respiratory tract the ammonia preparations are generally not so useful as in acute bronchial trouble.

Among the remedies to be relied on in chronic bronchitis. are: Iodides, terebini, eucolyptus, myrtal, oil of santal, copaiba, cubebs, tar, grindelia robusta, gaduol, guaiacol, etc.

etc.

When the expectoration is scanty and viscid, the iodides should be employed as in the following formula

When the lower and posterior portions of the air tract are involved a combination like the following will be found. useful.

Another useful prescription aside from the odor of the guaicol which may be objectionable is:

Sig. Tablespoonful three or four times daily.

The following is recommended by Murrell: