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HYDROZONE

IS THE STRONGEST ANTISEPTIC KNOWN.

One ounce of this new Remedy is, for its Bactericide Power, equivalent to two ounces of Charles Marchand's Peroxide of Hydrogen (medicinal), which obtained the Highest Award at the World's Fair of Chicago, 1893, for

Stability, Strength, Purity and Excellency.

CURES DISEASES CAUSED BY GERMS:

DIPHTHERIA, SORE THROAT, CATARRH, HAY FEVER, LA GRIPPE, OPEN SORES: ABSCESSES, CARBUNCLES, ULCERS,-INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY ORGANS, INFLAMMATORY AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT: TYPHOID FEVER, TYPHUS, CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, WOMEN'S WEAKNESSES: WHITES, LEU

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CORRHOEA,-SKIN DISEASES: ECZEMA, ACNE, ETC.

GLYCOZONE

Both Medal and Diploma

Awarded to Charles Marchand's Glycozone by World's Fair of Chicago, 1893, for its powerful healing properties. This harmless remedy prevents fermentation of food in the stomach and it cures :

DYSPEPSIA, GASTRITIS, ULCER OF THE STOMACH, HEART-BURN, AND ALL
INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT.
Send for free 152-page book giving full information with endorsements of leading physicians.
Physicians remitting express charges will receive free samples.

AVOID IMITATIONS.

Hydrozone is put up only in small, medium and large size bottles, bearing a red label, white letters, gold and blue border, with signature. Charles Marchand's Peroxide of Hydrogen (medicinal) is put up only in 4-oz., 8-oz., and 16-oz. bottles, bearing a blue label, white letters, red and gold border, with signature.

Glycozone is sold only in 4-oz., 8-oz., and 16-oz. bottles, bearing a yellow label, white and black letters, red and blue border, with signature.

THESE REMEDIES ARE PREPARED ONLY BY

Mention this publication.

Charles Marchand

Chemist and Graduate of the "Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris" (France). 28 Prince St., New York.

Charles Marchand

SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS.

Oakland Hydrogen Dioxide

is a stable, pure solution of H2 O2, made in accordance with U. S. Pharmacopeia requirements, and thoroughly reliable for all medicinal purposes. It is free from pressure upon opening bottle, retains its strength from four to six months, corked or uncorked.

In DIPHTHERIA, ULCERATIVE PROCESSES, NOSE and THROAT affections, BURNS, LEUCORRHOEA, and in all cases where a non-irritating antiseptic is indicated it is of surpassing value.

Sample and monograph containing full instructions for use, free on receipt of 15c. to repay express charges.

The Oakland Chemical Co.,

465 & 467 West Broadway,

NEW YORK.

THE DENVER MEDICAL TIMES

THOMAS H. HAWKINS, A. M., M. D.,

WESLEY T. Sunley,

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Editorial Department.

Typhoid Fever, the Water Company and the Health Commissioner.Typhoid fever is rampant in Denver at the present time. In 1880 we had very much such a summer, as regards rainfall, as we have had this year. The summer of 1880 was hot and dry, the alleys and streets of the city were dirty-filthy in the extreme. The water supply of Denver was blamed. There were at that time a great many wells in use, yet, if we remember correctly, the fever was just as prevalent in the parts of the city where well water was not used. The people who drank the Holly water had typhoid fever; those who drank the well water had typhoid fever; those who lived on the ranches miles away from the city, whether they drank well water or ditch water, had typhoid fever; people living in the mountain towns drinking snow water or beer had typhoid fever.

The same is true this summer. The fever is not confined to Denver; they have it on the ranches near Denver and far from Denver. Those living in Denver who boil the water or drink artesian water, so far as we have been able to learn, are not exempt from typhoid fever. There is a common cause. What is it? We frankly confess we do not know.

Last summer when we had a great deal of rain and during other seasons when there has been a great amount of rain the number of typhoid cases was small. This year the city, as to its streets, alleys, etc., is unusually dirty, unusually foul and filthy; it is unprecedently so. The dry weather, that is, the small amount of rainfall, leaves all of this filth near the surface, and the little rain. that we get, or the occasional big rain, readily washes the filth containing typhoid germs, or otherwise, into our water supplies. During a dry season, such as we have had this year, a wise health commissioner whould have had the city unusually clean, would have taken unusual precautions to prevent typhoid fever. A great abundance of rainfall gives rise, not only to thorough flushing and cleaning of our streets and alleys, but it produces deep soil drainage.

Whether the Union Water Company is supplying the people of Denver with water loaded with typhoid germs or not is a very important question, but, granted that our water supply is at fault, that it is to blame for the typhoid fever, the next question arises, "Who is to blame for this polluted water"? The Union Water Company cannot control the elements constantly operating, either directly. or indirectly to pollute the sources of our water supply.

It seems to us that there are several questions which ought to be settled: first, that the drinking water of Denver is the source from which comes our typhoid fever; second, how does the water of the Union Water Company become so infected; third, how may this condition be remedied and, in the future, prevented; fourth,but really of very little importance-who, if anyone, is directly to blame in this matter; fifth,—and of very great importance--how are we to bring about a thorough and proper investigation.

Medical Education in Colorado.-We have received a very large number of letters from various members of the medical profession in Colorado, commending and endorsing the views of our editorial on "Denver Medical Colleges," published in a preceding issue of this journal. We give the following extract from one of the many letters received:

"I most heartily agree with you in the sentiments expressed in your editorial. You, in my estimation, will do the state a favor in rigorously protesting against such an unjust misappropriation of Colorado funds. We, as a profession, tax payers and all citizens should heartily endorse and subscribe to everything contained in your editorial."

We could give many similar extracts from letters received from

Denver doctors, protesting even more vigorously against the appropriation, by the Board of Regents of the state, of funds for the carrying on free medical schools.

Ohio State Board of Medical Examiners. -We are pleased to note that this board does not recognize foreign diplomas. We have for some time taken the stand that this country should not recognize foreign diplomas. It is questionable whether we should recognize our own diplomas, but surely not those of any other country. Twothirds of those practicing in the United States, holding foreign diplomas, are incompetent, but even if they were all competent and as competent as the graduates of our own schools it would still be a bad policy to recognize in this country foreign diplomas as a passport to the practice of medicine.

We do not claim that all the graduates of American schools. are competent. The fact is, we are beginning to be of the opinion. that all graduates, whether of this country or of Europe, should be compelled to undergo an examination before a state board of medical examiners before being admitted to practice. The position which we have taken heretofore and which we hold now is that a competent board of medical examiners should be secured--a board of medical examiners not interested in medical colleges directly and that this board should examine all candidates for the practice of medicine in the state, but that none should be eligible or admitted to examination before this board unless he be a graduate of an American college having a curriculum in every respect equal to the requirements of the American Medical College Association; that the college must require a four years' graduate course of not less than six months each; that graduates of foreign colleges must attend at least one course of lectures in an American college and pass a satisfactory examination. In short, anyone, to be admitted before this board or granted a license to practice medicine must be a graduate of a reputable American medical college.

America is the dumping ground for European refuse, but let us see to it that European physicians, whether competent or incompetent, if dumped on our soil, must at least pass through an American refinery before they are permitted to put out their shingles to practice medicine.

Foreign Doctors in New York.—Out of three thousand physicians in New York, two thousand four hundred are foreigners and only six hundred Americans. So says the Western Medical Review. The Western Medical Review might have added that out of the two

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