WAS NOT BUILT 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 processColasaya 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. 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 GynæIcological Chair we have endeavored to combine all the elements necessary to the successful examination and treatment of surgical, gynecological 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, 1416 Sarah Street · ST. LOUIS, MO. Mention Clinical Reporter. GREEN GABLES FOR The Dr. Benjamin F. Bailey OR 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 room. Large amusement rooms. Cozy corners everywhere. A delightful place in which to get well No physician can afford to be indifferent regarding the accurate filling of his perscriptions. 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 "Fellouts 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. It's The Ideal Emulsion Why? Because its formula is physiologically correct. Because it's not medicated, just easily digested fat. Because it's pancreatized, Nature's way of emulsifying fats. Because its menstruum prevents coalescence of globules in stomach. Because it produces no disagreeable after-effects. Because it contains no oxidized fatty acids to irritate stomach. Because patients like it,-it's palatable. Because it's economical-its fat content is high. Because it's ethical,-advertised to the profession only. Because it always contains the purest Lofoten Cod-Liver Oil. Because the verdict of the profession is that it can be absorbed and assimilated when plain oils and ordinary emulsions are rejected. Such are some of the chief reasons, briefly stated, why Hydroleine is the ideal emulsion. Sold by druggists. Write for literature. THE CHARLES N. CRITTENTON CO., Sole Agents, In recent years much has been done to limit the spread of communicable diseases and those fostered by unsanitary surroundings. The bubonic plague, if it is the same disease that depopulated whole provinces. in Europe in the 14th century, now seems easy of control in any civilized country. Within the memory of people now living, cholera has spread over Europe and parts of this country, and until within a few years there has been a sort of superstition that it would make periodic visitations in spite of all human precautions, but the spell has been broken. In later years it has been repeatedly brought to the shores of Europe and this country, but easily prevented from getting any farther, and now the dread of it is gone. More recently the seed bed of yellow fever has been given a sanitary overhauling, and, because of its circumscribed limits, it seems not unreasonable to expect that it will not be long before the disease is exterminated from the face of the earth. Widespread epidemics of smallpox prevail no more, and when sanitary officers get so that they give half as much attention to disinfection of the baggage of immigrants and soldiers returning from abroad as they do to vaccination, the disease will be practically eliminated from this country. Prevention of typhoid fever is well understood, and the principal reason for its prevalence in cities is that the politicians want the public funds for their own private use. In some localities the great white scourge has been wonderfully reduced, and, happily, by gentle educational methods rather than by the arbitrary tyrannical methods that have been the rule in dealing with smallpox, and which tend to excite secretiveness and antagonism among the people. Altogether, intelligent precautions for the prevention of contagion have accomplished results of which to be proud, and, if one did not stop to think too long about it, he might fancy that this vigilance had been exerted on all sides so that the risk of contagion is small, but every doctor knows better. He knows that there is a class of contagious diseases, widespread and of the most insidious character, against which no sanitary restrictive efforts are directed. Venereal diseases are as old as civilization, and, instead of coming in epidemics with long periods between, they are always here. With cholera or smallpox, people either die, or get well in a short time, but with venereal diseases they do neither, but live to transmit a taint to the third and fourth generations. Because of this peculiarity they do more to vitiate the human race than all other contagious diaeases combined, yet we see the strange spectacle of nothing being done by the public to check their spread. This is not because of any inherent difficulty from a scientific standpoint, but because of a public sentiment that has decreed nolime tangene on this subject. In these days of graft and corruption in public affairs and abortion and infanticide in private, it almost seems at times as if there was no public conscience, yet, when it comes to dealing with any matter connected with the social evil, the dominant public opinion is as vindictive and unrelenting as when the old Hebrews indulged in the pastime of stoning transgressors to death. Stone them to death! is practically the cry of the present day Pharisees against those who do not follow their rules concerning marriage, and many of them think that venereal diseases are only a fit punishment for such persons. But the fact is that the innocent have most of the consequences to bear. I do not know of anything more saddening than to be consulted by a previously healthy boy because he has contracted a disease whose seeds he will carry with him as long as he lives. He may have a father with the propensities of a Mormon elder, and he has probably been brought up on a stimulating diet; he is the product and the victim of heredity and environment, and others are more to blame than he, for the calamity that has befallen him. Severity of consequences will vary with the individual and the treatment he receives, but in the average case it does not require occult powers to cast his horoscope. He has been treated by his parents and teachers heretofore as if there was no sexual element in him; he has been kept as ignorant as possible in this respect and does not realize what has happened to him, but he will gradually learn more about it. With careful treatment the disease will probably subside so that in a few years he will marry and have children. Of these the first will die of diseases that may not be connected by people generally with the real cause. The later born will survive, but be weak and puny and models of propriety. In time they will marry and some of their children will have rickets or bip disease or consumption. A long line of perfectly innocent persons will suffer blighted lives and come to premature graves, until some survivors may outgrow the hereditary taint. In another kind of case a healthy, blooming young woman may marry a rake. Her managing mamma heretofore could not find words scorching enough to apply to such persons, but when this one, who had money and position in the business world, offered, she suddenly became more toler. |