"ROME

WAS NOT BUILT
IN A DAY"

nor can an impoverished constitution be restored in a like time.

Everything, when building up a strengthexhausted body, depends upon the patient's assimilative power.

COLASAYA

Coca-Cola-Calisaya Tonic

not only restores the appetite for food but it makes that food do the most good.

Digestion is essentially a nervous process— Colasaya feeds and strengthens the tired nerves.

It gives tone and vigor to the entire alimentary canal and nervous system-the food is absorbed as well as digested.

With good assimilation and perseverance everything is possible.

Colasaya is a palatable, common-sense tonic-an alliance of cola nut, calisaya bark, erythrox. coca, and the tissue cell-salts of iron, calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium phosphates.

In sixteen-ounce bottles, 75c.-One dozen bottles, $8.00.
Sample sent for 25c. to pay mailing charges.

ZWARTS PHARMACY CO.,

Fourth and Locust Sts., ST. LOUIS.

This restorative was formerly called Coca-Cola-Calisaya Tonic, a name unwieldy to use and often leading to confusion with other preparations. The word Colasaya has now been adopted.

Surgical and Gynecological Chair.

SIMPLE, STRONG, ORNAMENTAL

In the MCDANNOLD Surgical and Gynæ-
cological Chair we have endeavored to
combine all the elements necessary to the
successful examination and treatment of
surgical, gynæcological and rectal diseases,
besides its value as a general utility chair,
for examination of the eye, ear, nose,
throat, chest, abdomen, and many other

uses that will suggest themselves to the practical physician.

PRACTICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE

The motions of this chair are universal, including the ROTARY motion, raising and lowering, and there are no complicated mechanism, noisy or intricate fastenings. One important feature is the universal head rest which can be put in any position with a single set

screw.

Send for catalogue and prices of this improved Chair and The McDannold Cabinets. Manufactured by

A. McDANNOLD,

FOR THE TREATMENT of all non-contagious chronic diseases.

Select cases of drug and alcoholic habitues received. In the suburbs of a most beautiful western city. In a section having the lowest mortality rate in the civilized world. A brick and stone building amid ample grounds. Every modern comfort and sanitary convenience. All forms of baths and every electric current useful in the treatment of disease. Thorough equipment and beautiful furnishings. Bright and sunny halls and reception rooms. Large amusement rooms. Cozy corners everywhere.

A delightful place in which to get well
And learn how to keep well.

No physician can afford to be indifferent regarding the accurate filling of his prescriptions.

ANÆMIA, NEURASTHENIA, BRONCHITIS, INFLUENZA, PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, AND WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD, AND DURING CONVALESCENCE FROM EXHAUSTING DISEASES,

THE PHYSICIAN OF MANY YEARS' EXPERIENCE KNOWS THAT, TO OBTAIN IMMEDIATE results, there is no REMEDY THAT POSSESSES THE POWER TO ALTER DISORDERED FUNCTIONS, LIKE

"Fellous Syrup of Hypophosphites

MANY A TEXT-BOOK ON RESPIRATORY DISEASES

SPECIFICALLY

MENTIONS THIS PREPARATION AS BEING OF STERLING WORTH. TRY IT, AND PROVE THESE FACTS.

SPECIAL NOTE.-Fellows' Syrup is never sold in bulk, but is dispensed in bottles containing 15 oz.

MEDICAL LETTERS MAY BE ADDressed to

MR. FELLOWS, 26 CHRISTOPHER STREET, NEW YORK.

NUTRIMENT THAT NOURISHES

Perhaps your patient's digestion is so impaired that food passes through inert. Hence extreme emaciation and loss

of vital force.

Prescribe Hydroleine. The starved lacteals will absorb it with eagerness. The patient will show better appetite and better digestion. Color will supersede paleness. Loss of weight will come to a standstill, then turn to gradual gain and general improvement.

Hydroleine succeeds where plain cod-liver oil and ordinary emulsions fail. Being right in principle, it does the work others cannot do.

Literature sent on application. Sold by druggists generally.

THE CHARLES N. CRITTENTON

Sole Agents for the United States,

115-117 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK.

CO.

In taking up for a few minutes of discussion a remedy as old, as common, and as well known as natrum muriaticum, I do so not in the expectation of giving you anything startlingly new, but, rather, in the hope of reviving some of your earlier knowledge; and there are but few of us busy, general practitioners, outside of the professorial or editorial chairs, who do not insensibly fall away from that hurly-burly acquisition of medical lore, gathered in those chariot-races for the one-time omnipotent diploma, which now so few of our sovereign states recognize.

In spite of our best intentions and endeavors we lapse into professional routinism. A busy life, not only in practising medicine, but in the almost vain collection of the few dollars so earned, makes mere study of remedies, or, indeed, any abstract study extremely difficult. With so great an embarrassment of riches as is provided in our homeopathic materia medicaspeaking now especially of the well-proven remedies which every homeopath carries in his pocket or buggy case-it is a large proposition to keep on studying and memorizing the oft-times wholly unrelated symptoms of those remedies in order to apply them to the occasional case in hand which is said to be worth two in the bush. Then coming outside of that muchly-worn pocket-case, and dropping into the broad stream of the several hundred others, more or less proven, we find the task is beyond the ordinary strength, and soon we discover ourselves using the thirty or fifty remedies of our fore fathers. Add to this; further, and finally, the almost infernal propensity of the modern day to drop out all medicines in favor of the knife, as by first intention, and I am caused to feel that I will not trespass unduly upon your time and patience if I ask you to listen to a few remnant ideas-a few wideawake and alive and well-proven points in this remedy-and, as I will add, in conclusion of my tuning of the materia medica fiddle, mainly as a pointer in the way of memory.

*Read before the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy, St. Louis, 1904.

I know of no remedy, unless it be my bete noir, bryonia, which appeals to me so strongly as a good and efficient medical arm as natrum mur. Indeed, I have many times to fight a momentary battle to keep my fingers off one or the other of these two well-worn corks, when a patient comes to my parish-practice office, for natrum mur, as we all know, is more often of use in the office than at the bedside; which is only another way of saying that it has its greatest value in chronic diseases. It is a slow-acting remedy, as the patient is himself a slow acting human machine.

I have always and ever found it difficult to study or reason out and, therefore, hold, a remedy which I cannot fasten securely under my hat by extraneous consideration, some mental feminine hat-pin, some prominent and permanent thing upon which I can hang that hat afore-mentioned. When I use belladonna I am most likely, though possibly unconsciously, reasoning along its poison lines, until I have found that poison picture in great or little, in the patient before me. This is true of aconite, of nux, of cuprum, of arsenic, and many others. In a smaller, or, a parallel sense, this is true, also, of natrum mur., although, of course, natrum has no poison record save that of extreme misuse in the crude. It must be apparent, therefore, at a glance, that I pursue this course as a matter of association of ideas, because of my inability to memorize or retain the many isolated symptoms with which our materia medica tomes are so plentifully garnished. My always dear Professors, Campbell, Schott and Morgan well remember that I was not burdened with any phenomenal phonograph or tar-bucket memory. If it were not for this mnemonic aid I question whether I could practice medicine at all except in parrot-like fashion, by diagnosing the disease, and then letting some philanthropic Combination Tablet foundry at so much per, supply me with ready-made tablets warranted to cure that disease; and thus there would drop out of the proposition all semblance of homeopathy, since the underlying and overhanging homeopathic principle is to treat the man behind the disease rather than his typhoid fever or diarrhoea.

Now, what is there about ordinary table salt to fasten itself on the student before and after his graduation? I said a moment ago that we know that aconite and arsenic and other of the poison remedies are familiar to all students because of the unmistakable outcropping peculiarities of these remedies which, if we study from a physiological and pathological rather than from their pathogenic standpoints, will soon enrich us with data that may be promptly transmuted into homeopathic indications. In natrum mur., if we will turn ourselves loose for an instant on everyday matters, away from chemistry and serum therapy, bugteriology and the like, we discover that salt taken improperly or immoderately produces in the well man a train of symtoms impossible of overlooking by any observant student, and not easily forgotten. Make that the starting point in the study of this remedy; reason along those lines, and, note how soon and how easy the further homeopathic study becomes. For one instance, eating too much salt produces thirst, and a thirst of such dimensions, intensity and color that it can