Send Six Cents for our New Tourist Book, WONDERLAND, '96. CHAS. S. FEE, Gen. Pass. Agt. ST. PAUL, MINN. ALL PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE Terraline-a purified and tasteless preparation of Petroleum for internal use-a substitute f Cod Liver Oil and its Emulsions. It is not a patent medicine in any sense of the word, but is sold entirely on the prescriptions of physicians. TERRALINE CAPILLARY LA GRIPPE GROUP GENERAL ANAEMIA It stands to-day without a peer in the treatment of all inflammatory conditions of the respiratory tract. Administered in dessertspoonful doses, it modifies the cough, increases the expectoration, and generally improves the patient. Terraline is superior to Cod Liver Oil. It does not simply palliate the cough, but allays the pulmonary irritation, im proves the digestive and assimilative powers, and exerts a deleterious effect on micro-organisms. It produces the most positive results, and can be adminis tered indefinitely to the weakest stomachs without creating a repugnance to its use. Its effects are especially gratifying in the depressed condition following an attack of La Grippe. In the croupy coughs of children, and in Croup itself, it is prescribed with the greatest benefit. A physician writes that in a case of General Anæmia in an excessively chlorotic girl, the improvement was soon marked and progressive: She used Terraline three months and gained in weight five and one-half pounds each month. It is a reconstructive and tissue-builder of great power. DR. CHAS. H. STOWELL, Editor of The National Medical Review, formerly Professor of Physiology and Microscopy at University of Michigan, experimented on the lower animals and proved that Terraline is thoroughly emulsified by the digestive juices, and is absorbed without the possibility of a doubt. Any "Terraline," or preparation of similar name, is an imitation if manufactured at any place but Washington, D. C. We will send a dollar bottle, free, to any physician who will pay express charges of 25 cents. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE TERRALINE COMPANY 1316 L STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS ONE DOLLAR A BOTTLE DOCTOR, the blue line in the margin directs your attention to this paragraph, particularly. Our object in doing so is to ask you a plain business question. It is this: Do not you think the interesting and useful articles in this issue of the GLEANER is worth eight and onethird cents to you? Can you get business pointers cheaper? Twelve as good issues as this for One Dollar. See the point? In this issue of the GLEANER we are glad to present to its readers the full Itinerary of the trip to the National in June. Study it well, and you will conclude with us, that it is an utter impossibility to get as much trip, and the same first class accommodations here offered, for the money, under any other circumstances, or at any other time, and if you ever intend to go to the West, now is the time to go. The excursion is not only open to physicians, but to their friends and relatives and neighbors to everybody. Write to Dr. Howes that you are going. A surprisingly great number has already written us that they'll be with us. The price includes everything. ESSAYS, SKETCHES AND POEMS. I am glad to be able to say that subscriptions for my proposed book are coming in "right piertly." Even if enough do not order to justify an attempt at its publication, the kindly notices being given me by my brother journalists, together with the complimentary and cordial letters I am receiving from professional brethren, will amply repay me for the effort I have, so far, put forth. To know that I stand well with the medical fraternity is glory enough for me, book or no book. A number have, by letter, suggested that I make my book more medical than literary. Remembering what a splendid eclectic library we already have, especially with the late excellent contributions made to it by Professors Webster and Watkins, and keeping in mind what an enormous volume of medical lore is pouring through our journals, it would be inexcusably audacious in me to write a medical work. Besides, such a book is not needed now. It may be even truer that my projected work is not needed, and in a very important sense, it will not be a response to an imperative want. But medicine is a learned profession. The finished, polished physician is expected to be close to the front in polite literature and all that is kindred to it. I do not mean by this that he should be expected to discuss literary subjects as glibly as does the professional man of letters, but he should be up in standard fiction and poetry. He should therefore, I would think, welcome anything purely literary from one of his own guild. There is but one glowing crown of literary jewels on the broad brow of medicine, and that was furnished by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Is it too presumptuous in me to hope to add one little sparkler to that crown? If, out of the heretofore contemned host of irregulars, one of them may make even a weak contribution to pure literature, is that a thing to be despised by liberal medical men? However, much of my literary writings have a medical complexion. It is nearly impossible for the physician to wholly hide the doctor through any extended literary effort. Holmes did not even try to do it. I have felt it necessary to make this extended explanation on account of the character of many of the letters I receive: Many of the physicians who insist on my working a good deal of medical matter into my book, could, themselves, write a better medical work than I. Discussions of the occult, in the light of the higher philosophy; sketches, personal or not; essays, believed to contain some thought, and poems reaching from grave to gay-these are what my projected book will contain. Send in your names gentlemen. W. C. COOPER. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MURDER. How many poor mortals do medical practitioners positively kill every year? The number doubtlessly runs far into the thousands. This is because so many doctors have failed to learn that greatest of medical lessons-how not to kill. I would a thousand times rather risk my life with a thorough hygienist, than with the stiff-dosing drug enthusiast. This is not to say that drugs are not efficacious, for they are; but it is to say that they are vastly more often abused than properly used. Take the world over, four fifths of the prescriptions represent wild, haphazard guesses. Probably the most we can hope of a drug is that it will do more good than harm. It will not do this unless it is specific to the condition for which it is prescribed. This is one of your rock-ribbed facts. It is one of those facts which don't kick when you shoot them off. Now all those cases which have died because they were not correctly treated have been positively killed. The number runs up into multiplied millions. How many have been negatively killed. A very few have died as a consequence of incorrect diagnosis. Only a few, because accurate diagnosis does not pre-suppose accurate and safe medication. I do not underrate the value of accuracy in diagnosis, but the knowledge of what ails a patient does not carry with it a knowledge of what he needs. The keen therapeutist who is a sharp symptom student, but indifferent diagnostician, will be ten times as successful as the best diagnosticator who is a haphazard prescriber. Union of diagnostic ability with intelligent, definite, direct exhibition of drugs-this constitutes the equipment of the ideal physician. Death from exspectantism and tentativeness, is not frequent, but probably five per cent. die from this form of negativeness. It may be assumed that seven per cent. die consequently from these two negative features in the practice of medicine. This leaves ninety-three per cent. as victims of bad hygiene, misdrugging and horse-dosing. Of all who are killed by doctors then, ninety-three per cent. are positively and seven per cent., negatively, so killed. All of this is a powerful argument in favor of the allopathic expectantist, the homeopathic tentativist, and the eclectic specific medicationist. C. MARVELS OF THE UNSEEN. Day by day and more and more we are made to realize that there is no void in the universe. All that is, is material expression. Every foreward hitch of science is toward this conclusion as its ultimate resting place. This material theory will certainly, probably or possibly account for all known phenomena. Standard philosophy fails us miserably in our greatest exigencies. All occult manifestation depends proximately upon vibration: remotely upon the fact of universal substantiality. The consensus of all modern scientific thought points to vibration as the immediate cause of every observed effect. But vibration is possible to substance only. Vacuity-abstraction-cannot vibrate. In that class of phenomena affecting psychic manifestation, the will-itself an effect of vibration-is the central element. Thus hypnotism-dependent upon psychic telegraphy, which depends upon the eye's substantiality-is a will result. If will power were abstraction, as held |