Evil indulgences, even bad habits do not of themselves produce disease; it is the depletion of power through increased vital activity that does this. As long as the power of life continues sufficient to easy and efficient vital work, man may indulge the worst habits, and not only not suffer disease but instead, gain from them apparently increased vigor. Diseases come on the reaction, and are laborious and painful due to deficiency of power only because their occasions give ease and comfort by rapid expenditure of it. Here is the true. explanation of the effects of stimulants and tonics; they compel in the present increased vital activity and apparent vigor, but as the power they seem to give comes out of the patient, and not out of the drug, there is necessarily reduced vigor in the reaction corresponding to the previous increase of it.

In this condition, also, we have the true explanation of the mysteries connected with the sudden onset of diseases. Their true cause is not the draft of air, exposure to contagion or the little overtaxation. to which they are ascribed; it is long continued evil habits which give a delusive feeling of vigor by the very means and at the very time they are exhausting the power, that produces the soil for the growth and development of the germs. It is not that the patient caught smallpox, diphtheria, consumption or typhoid; few of those who are exposed ever catch them; their germs are only the spark that sets off the powder; it is the exhaustion of vitality due to the stimulating condiments, table beverages, smoking and drinking habits of the people which while they seem to be health-promoting are really diseaseproducing, that does the mischief. The kidneys are among the first organs that default in their work, producing rheumatism, gout, neuralgias, nervous weaknesses, dropsies, and a whole train of evils, and finally Bright's disease, heart failure, etc., all because they are kept so busy carrying out the common-salt, spices, alcohol, products of over-feeding and indigestion that their legitimate work is left undone.

But I must not continue to weary you with disquisitions on a subject with which you are all so familiar; but crave your indulgence. while I cite a couple of cases illustrative of the principles here advocated. A month since a lady, in care of her sister, came to my institution because she had been rejected by my neighbor who refused. to receive her though she had been recommended to him by her physician who wrote of the bad heart, murmurs to be heard at both base and apex, taking from five to seven drops of Strophanthus every four hours, which had acted better than digitalis, with Codeine Sulphate, I grain, to induce sleep, which has acted better than morphine. Bromides she did not seem to be able to stand.

I agreed to take this woman under one condition, viz.: That she stop all her drugs. With many misgivings she finally consented. The result was marvellous. All her bad symptoms disappeared; she has slept well and is now really a specimen of very good health notwithstanding her heart murmurs still continue.

A worse case came in the same way the next week. My neighbor refused to receive her, telling her to go to a hospital and get tapped. She was enormously swollen with abdominal dropsy, feet also swollen, liver greatly enlarged, patient emaciated in the extreme, mitral regurgitant murmur and heart decidedly enlarged as diagnosed by my assistant, Dr. Howell. She was hopeless, but didn't want to be tapped. With the full conviction that the theories that I have been here advocating would apply to her case with fine results, I agreed to receive her. I put her in care of nurse, stopped her heart tonics, put her upon a milk diet, but did nothing whatever to reduce her dropsy, strengthen her heart or effect any other purpose except to quiet, soothe, rest and recuperate her vitality. Heart tonics, kidney stimulants, sweating baths, and every one of the empirical processes usually recommended for such cases, I rejected as calculated to reduce vitality and prevent recovery. The first week she lost nine pounds of water; in twenty-one days she lost twenty-four pounds, her heart has become greatly improved, and she is today weighing only 95 pounds, her dropsy has substantially disappeared, her appetite is enormous and she is evidently gaining flesh.

Will she get well? Ten years ago an exactly similar case came under my care, but who had insterstitial Bright's disease in addition to the dropsy and heart complications. She was enormously swollen, her breathing was also greatly affected, was confined to her bed and she too was offered only tapping for relief. I put her under the same treatment as our present patient is having and in five months every vestige of her disease had disappeared and for several years afterward she continued in good health as long as heard from.

Mr. H., a prominent lawyer from an Ohio town, came to me nearly two years since, having suffered for a year with severe cough, great debility and as Dr. Fanning, my assistant, reported an awful heart, which missed nearly half its beats which heart tonics for months had failed to relieve. He staid with me three months, was entirely relieved of his cough, his heart became regular, his debility ceased and he returned to his home and wrote me three months later that he was the leading counsel in a great railway case in his town.

He brought his wife to us six months ago, who had been helpless with rheumatism all winter. Dr. Fanning, my assistant, gave her

careful examination and reported to me "that woman's going to die of Bright's disease." But she didn't. But she didn't. I gave her personal attention for three months, when she returned home in good health-her rheumatism and every other ailment having disappeared. In all these cases the indicated remedy was employed to relieve symptoms, but with a firm conviction nevertheless that Nature will cure if we give her a reasonable chance.

I don't know how to make a liver, lungs, heart or kidneys, and so I don't know how to repair them; but I know of an intelligent force that made these organs, and therefore does know how, and is more interested in their repair than you or I ever can be, and all that is needed to the patient's recovery is to accumulate this power, supply the conditions for its normal working, and then get out of the way. Meddlesome medicine is quite as bad as meddlesome midwifery about which we all have heard.

THE HYGIENIC AND CLIMATIC TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.

By J. B. Dunham, M. D., Wenona, Illiuois.

This is a question of absorbing interest; for while results are very unsatisfactory in the treatment of Tuberculosis with old or new remedies, alone, yet it has been fully demonstrated that a large percentage of these sufferers may be cured if the proper remedies can be supplemented by the proper environments. The patients presenting themselves for examination should be given the closest study. The microscope may not discover the Bacilli, but if it does the diagnosis is positive, and the best interests of the patient are served by stating the case plainly, and having him join with you in a battle for his life. I hear some objection to this, but such action enables the sufferer to join with you in a hopeful battle. Once the necessity for a fight for life is recognized, a strong point is gained. The patient should be at once placed where he can take a course of treatment in a sanitarium where all possible conditions are subservient to his recovery. He must have fresh air, with a maximum amount of sunshine and a minimum amount of moisture in a temperature that does not run high enough to be enervating. He may live in a well constructed tent easily ventilated, and quickly warmed near a commodious, well arranged Central building, where he can be comfortable during the day. He needs a good menu. Important as the above must be, still more depends upon the Medical Director who has these patients in charge. His knowledge and experience will guide him in a sensible.

insistence upon the observance of plain rules that will prevent autoand hetero-infection.

Experience has proven that all temperature cases should be in the open air the greater portion of the time no matter how cold the weather, but sufficiently well wrapped to be perfectly comfortable, and that they should lie still in some well protected alcove, where they can enjoy fresh air and sunshine at the same time. During this period such patients must eat all the nourishing food possible. Milk, eggs and meat stand first, with many appetizing dishes to be added. Regardless of what such patients may think, you cannot secure the observance of rules at home, and thousands of sufferers die every year who might live if they would move to a proper climate and join a good Homeopathic Tent Colony.

The effort to establish colonies in Illinois is commendable and should be encouraged, and particularly should one under Homœopathic management receive our prompt endorsement. It will, however, take at least three years to determine how the results will compare with such colonies located in Nature's great Sanitarium, the plateaus of the Rocky Mountain regions, where the summers are always cool and dry and the winters though very cold are still free from moisture. There sunshine is an almost ever present factor, month in and month

out.

In July, 1904. I made a trip to Colorado Springs, and having heard of the Nordrach Ranch, an institution devoted exclusively to the open air treatment of Tuberculosis, I determined to visit it. Through the courtesy of Dr. J. E. White, the medical director, I was enabled to do so. Upon my arrival, I was met and conducted through the institution by Mrs. White. The Ranch consists of a central building of twenty-four rooms, modern in every way, and well adapted for its purposes. In this central building all patients take their meals. A limited number of rooms are used for patients who are temporarily confined to the bed, preparatory to entering upon tent life. The most characteristic part of the Ranch is its tent colony, located about seventy feet from the central building, consisting at the time of my visit of twenty-eight tents. These tents are connected with the nurses' tent in the centre of the colony by electricity with call bells, so that in case of sickness at night the nurse and in turn the physician can be quickly called.

But one cure for tuberculosis is recognized here, and this consists of living almost exclusively in the open air, eating abundantly of the proper food, rest in temperature cases, graduated exercise in

others, and above all having patients at all times under the absolute control and direction of the medical director.

Six meals per day are virtually served to the guests. Milk as a food is recognized as of first importance with eggs second and beef third. As high as three quarts of milk per day are served per patient, with from six to twelve eggs and beef ad libitum. The sanitary arrangements are of the best. The Seabury and Johnson spit-cup is used exclusively, and no one is allowed to expectorate about the grounds, into their handkerchiefs or into slop-jars upon penalty of dismissal from the institution.

The Nordrach tent as examined on the ground is a most complete tent for the purpose, with matched wooden floor and a wooden and iron framework. At the apex of the tent, which is eight sided in shape, is a galvanized iron stationary ventilator, and upon each of four sides of the floor there is a narrow ventilator for the entrance of fresh air. The draft in these tents is most perfect, air entering at the bottom and passing out through the top as in a lamp chimney.

Patients have been kept in these tents in all seasons of the year for three years. Dr. White informed me that the best results are obtained in the winter. He considers cold air one of the greatest agencies in combating the fever of a consumptive.

Trained nurses are in constant attendance. Temperatures are taken of all patients three times per day and a careful record kept. Patients are weighed once a week and a record of weights is also made.

I was much pleased with my visit and more with the spirit of good cheer that pervaded the institution. A Chicago gentleman, a patient of Prof. G. F. Shears, told me that the institution was conducted in a very satisfactory manner. Dr. White is to be commended for the ethical manner in which Nordrach Ranch Sanitarium is conducted and also for being one of the first, if not the first Homœopathic physician to establish a tent colony in the United States. It is a method of treatment that, it is hoped, will save thousands of lives in the years to come from falling victims to the White Plague.

The Doctor insists that thousands die annually in Colorado who could be saved from the scourge if they could be under Homœopathic tent colony treatment at the proper time.

A tablespoonful of turpentine in a half pint of water kept simmering over a lamp is a splendid adjuvant to other therapeutic meth-ods in bronchitis of children.