aseptic condition. This sterilization is accomplished without the loss of any of the nutritive principles of the food. The process. The scientific value of this process will be recognized by all. Its essential features consist in destroying all the many macro- and micro-organisms (vegetable and animal life). The sterilization is accomplished by heat and not by any chemical process. All full grown microorganisms are destroyed at once by the process. The spores of the bacteria and the eggs of the embryos are then rapidly developed to maturity, when a second sterilization. kills them all. Wheat and most other cereals contain micro-organisms of various kinds. Wheat flour and other meals are found to contain deleterious micro-organisms which not only destroy the flour but are injurious to health. Fortunately ordinary cooking destroys many of these, but others escape. Meat may contain a great many germs, animal and vegetable, which are not always destroyed in the cooking, such, for instance, as trachinæ, tape worms, etc.-not to mention bacilli tuberculosis. Vegetables are extensively contaminated and contain many germs inimical to health, such as the typhoid bacillus and others. Concentration Process.-In manufacturing these sterilized food stuffs, the water and waste material are eliminated during the process of sterilization, leaving all the nutritive elements in the concentrated products, as will be seen by the following table, issued by The Dean Sterilization and Manufacturing Company, of San Francisco: TABLE SHOWING REDUCTION IN BULK AND WEIGHT. This method of preparing food is at once scientific and novel, scientific in that it destroys all germs, and retains all the nutritive elements in their freshest and purest state, and novel in that it concentrates the bulk from 25 per cent to 90 per cent. The packages containing the various articles of food from flour and other cereals to meat, fowl and fish are hermetically sealed in air-tight and water-tight cartons. The food is therefore impervious to all climatic changes. It is also impervious to contamination from whatever source. We have examined many of these food packages. We have eaten some of the food and we find it to be all that is claimed for it, a pure, sterilized concentrated food. WHERE WILL YOU GO FOR VACATION? In seeking a solution to this question, which is sometimes perplexing, the physician's attention is directed to the country reached by the California Northwestern Railway. Along this line resorts are numerous and of sufficient variety to suit all tastes. If you want to be near the city, and within reach of sea breezes, go into Santa Rosa and Sonoma valleys. You will find warm days, cool nights, and abundance of fruits and flowers. If you wish fresh water bathing, camp by the Russian river as it winds its way by Sebastopol to the sea. If you desire to fish for the sly trout, or chase the fleet deer, hie to the redwoods of Mendocino. The sportsman will find a veritable paradise in the mountains of Mendocino and Humboldt. The clear, cold mountain streams are the natural habitat of the trout, and the hatcheries at Ukiah and Willits stock these waters with millions of young fish each year. Quail are abundant, grouse are not infrequently seen. The bold hunter who seeks larger game can chase the buck, the bear and the boar. Those who want only quiet and rest, can find the deepest seclusion and live near to nature's heart. There is plenty for the most critical and the most fastidious. You can take your choice. Try it. A Health Officer Retires with Honors. Dr. Frank Howard Payne, Health Officer of Berkeley, California, retires on his laurels April 17th, 1904, after having been in office two years. During his incumbency he has placed Berkeley in a very sanitary condition. Through his efforts all the milk supply has been improved from 50 to 90 per cent in cleanliness and purity. The milk ranches which were found filthy and dangerous to life and to which more than one epidemic of diphtheria and typhoid were traced, have been, through his untiring efforts, placed in wholesome sanitary conditions. The water supply has been purified, anti-spitting ordinances issued and in every particular the march has been upwards and onwards for better sanitation. It is to be hoped that Dr. Payne's successor will prove as careful, as conscientious and as efficient a health officer for Berkeley. A New Medical Journal Born in Philadelphia. There officiated at its birth Horatio C. Wood, Jr., M.D., accoucheur-in-chief. Associated with him are: Francis T. Stewart, M. D., William R. Nicholson, M. D., Henry W. Stelwagon, M. D., Samuel Horton Brown, M. D., David T. Huston, M. D. The baby journal comes to us a full term, well developed, healthy and vigorous child, christened the Therapeutic Review. Under the guardianship of its able sponsors there can be no doubt about its healthy growth and success. A Valuable Edition. The Colorado Medical Journal has issued a special edition on tuberculosis. The articles are written by well known medical authorities among whom we have Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco, Dr. F. M. Pottenger of Los Angeles, Dr. George E. Abbott of Pasadena of our own State. The Colorado Medical Journal is to be complimented on the timely exposition of this important subject and on the high-class articles which it published in its March edition, 1904. Sterilization of Catgut. Bloch's method consists in soaking the catgut in a solution of 1 per cent iodide, 10 per cent iodide of potassium in 100 per cent of water. Salkindsohn records that with the iodide the catgut loses its firmness. The better method is to use one part of tincture of iodine in 15 parts of a 50 per cent spirits of wine. The catgut can be placed in this solution for a week when it is ready for use and can be kept indefinitely in the fluid. Pullmans for the Consumptives. The Pullman Company will add to its equipment "hospital cars" to run to California on certain days of each week in which consumptives and every sick person must travel. This is a very wise precaution as there must of necessity be considerable danger to the traveling public that occupy cars which have recently been vacated by consumptives. The ordinary Pullman cars will be reserved for persons enjoying health. Bubonic Plague at Manila Exterminated. It is gratifying to note from the last letter of the Public Health Commissioner of Manila that during the month of October, 1903, there were only two deaths from bubonic plague and none from smallpox. Cholera claimed 104; enteritis, 56; beriberi, 34; dysentery, 23; typhoid fever, 14 and tetanus, 13. The Chinese population of Manila is being inoculated against plague. Intravenous Injections of Iodoform in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Thomas Dewar, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Dunblen, N. B., has issued a preliminary report on the injection of iodoform solution in tuberculosis. The doctor uses the purest iodoform obtainable in the purest ether, specific gravity .720. He insists that the solution must be made freshly. He uses from 5 to 25 minims each day. PERSONALS. DR. R. E. FOLEY will locate at Merced. DR. J. G. CANNON, of Yuba City, Calif., is dead. DR. PHILIP D. CARPER, of Los Angeles, is dead. DR. W. S. SMITH has located at Octave, Arizona. DR. A. FOURNIER will locate at Garnerville, Nevada. DR. J. MILTON BOWERS died at San Jose, March 7, 1904. DR. ANTHONY, recently of Oregon, has located at San Jose. DR. EDWARD H. ANTHONY has located at Mazatlan, Mex. DR. C. N. GARRISON, of Salt Lake City, died after a short illness. DR. C. E. BERNHARD, of Deer Creek Hot Springs, Calif., is dead. DR. B. F. SURRHYNE contemplates erecting a sanitarium in Modesto. DR. V. A. HAENSLER, of Philadelphia, is visiting at Redlands, Calif. DR. GILBERT CHADDOCK, a retired Eastern physician, died at Berkeley. DR. GEORGE A. HARE, of Fresno, has returned from his Eastern trip. DR. BRADBURY, of Modesto, died suddenly the first of March, 1904. DR. W. F. DOHRMAN, of San Francisco, died while visiting the South. DR. F. P. BLAKE, of Imperial, Calif., has been elected Health Officer. DR. JOHN PHILIP YOUNG, of Oakdale, died suddenly March 17, 1904. DR. L. D. SCHERER, a well known physician of Los Angeles, is dead. DR. A. E. HARDIN has been appointed physician to the Hotel Del Monte. DR. JOHN S. WITCHER died March 4th at the Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake. DR. E. H. GARRETT and MISS JOSEPHINE EBERLE were married March 2, 1904. DR. W. S. RUBY, of San Bernardino, committed suicide on account of ill health. DR. B. Y. OLDHAM, formerly of Lexington, Ky., has located at Los Angeles. DR. F. F. KNORP has moved his office to the Muirhead building, Market and Larkin streets. |