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ments after they have read the carefully prepared reports of such states as Massachusetts relative to her mineral springs and have accepted year after year the great mass of testimony of competent men accompanied with evidence of the truth of their assertions, that natural springs supply the purest water known to nature.

The damage which Dr. Vail can do to the recognized mineral springs in this attack will be trifling and only with the illiterate classes; but the injury which he may do to the medical profession of which he is an acknowledged member, will not be so light.

We have tried to read the doctor's rather complicated and labored sentences fairly and intelligently and should only be glad to learn that we have misunderstood him, but we ask for a bill of particulars, instead of "the sound as of many waters."-Editor.

The hospital of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at Albuquerque, New Mexico, was recently destroyed by fire.

Baron Nathaniel Rothschild donated the sum of $200,000 to the Polyclinic Hospital, of which Dr. Alois Monti, the well-known pediatrician, is director, October 24. The capital is to remain untouched, but the interest is left entirely at the discretion of the managers of the hospital, which contains 140 beds.

A hospital strike is reported in the contagious disease hospitals at Zaandam, where the nurses actually fled from the institution, abandoning the inmates to their unfortunate fate. The Burgomaster, not knowing what to do, telegraphed to the Convent of the Brothers of St. John, and these good people after little delay arrived and took charge of the institutions.

As an offset to the above we notice that general orders by General Chaffee call attention to the heroism of Miss Alice Kemmer, of the army nurse corps in the Philippines. While on leave of absence Miss Kemmer learned that a nurse was needed to care for two smallpox patients in Manila. Although she had never had the disease, she gave up her leave and volunteered for the dangerous and loathsome duty. For two whole months, in the hottest weather, she was shut up alone with her patients, doing both day and night duty, and never having more than two hours' sleep at a time. Both patients were nursed back to health.

A MOST SEASONABLE SUGGESTION.

As the time is fast approaching when there is a demand for cough remedies, it will not be amiss to present a suggestion and a good remedy. In place of opiates which always dry up expectoration, disturb digestion, cause constipation, and render the patient uncomfortable and drowsy, it is desirable to employ the most efficient and popular cough sedative of the present day, namely: Antikamnia and Heroin Tablets. This remedy relieves cough by its soothing effect upon the air passages, but does not interfere with expectoration, and, in fact, renders it easier by stimulating the respiratory muscles. Only a very small dose, one tablet, every one, two or three hours, for adults, is required to produce a satisfactory result.-Notes on New Pharm. Products.

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Thoughts woven and linked together to form the warp and woof of a stimulus to a plan of action, are like a quiver of arrows. isolated fugitive thought is like a flying arrow without direction, it finds its resting place-somewhere. How many times have you cudgeled your brain for a good thought of yesterday which, like the arrow, flew somewhere; how many times have you longed for a mind mechanically pigeon-holed where you could store valuable data, ready in an emergency case at your fingers' ends. Now that thought arrow may be arrested and placed in your quiver ready for use as occasion demands. You say, "How is it done?" We would refer you to the advertisement of the Library Filing Cabinet Co. of this issue. We find their cabinet of great value in the office of this journal and would heartily recommend it to our subscribers as a "thought saver" and a "time saver."

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MALTINE.

Neoferrum-The New Iron.-This new and important addition to The Maltine Company's list of standard remedies appealed to the medical profession the instant it was introduced. It presents iron in an entirely new form-the Malto-Peptonate-a discovery and product of the Maltine laboratories.

Neoferrum possesses several very important advantages over all other iron preparations, in that it has nutritive value and digestive (starch-converting) power.

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A Tried and Valued Friend.-One of the leading practitioners in Nebraska writes: "My experience with Maltine dates over fifteen years, and I have ever found it a tried and valued friend. In the large group of diseases where malnutrition is a most conspicuous feature, Maltine plain or combined is the sine qua non of treatment.

I cannot speak too highly of Maltine with Cod Liver Oil. Your vacuum process prevents rancidity and removes the odor and taste of the oil, which, with its reliability, make it the peer of any oil preparation on the market."

NEW INSTRUMENTS AND DEVICES.

THE LEE INTESTINE HOLDER.-The Lee Intestine Holder, which is designed for end-to-end suture of the intestine, is not a new instrument, but one which is proving its usefulness so generally that it is more of interest today than it was in 1901 when Dr. Edward H. Lee first described it in The Annals of Surgery. The instrument can be readily adjusted to fit any intestine and any desired tension or relaxation may be given the parts during the operation. The instrument consists of two pairs of pivotal arms forming, when extended, a double cross, and adapted, when in position, to have the cut ends of the intestine extended over them. The outer surfaces of the arms, coming in contact with the intestine, are serrated to prevent any movement of the intestine after it is in position. The device has been used with excellent success for about two years now. Full description of the device, with eight full-page half-tone engravings, will be forwarded upon request of physicians by Messrs. V. Mueller and Company, 166 Ogden avenue, Chicago.

HERNIA AND TRUSSES.

No argument is needed to convince a ruptured man of the necessity of wearing a truss. Trusses have been relied upon for the relief and cure of hernia for centuries. Life insurance companies which accept the ruptured make it an obligation to the applicant to wear a truss. Their only interest is a moneyed one and is evidence of the importance of a truss. Sir Astley Cooper in his great work on hernia, says, "A person under these circumstances (without the rupture being properly retained) lives in constant danger, as numerous accidental causes may produce strangulation of the prolapsed intestine, the consequence of which will be fatal unless early and well-directed [surgical] skill be employed." When ruptures are left alone or ineffectually held back, the course of

the affliction is toward greater and greater increase in the size of the sac, and further and further protrusion of the viscera. Below the age of puberty, ruptures have a tendency toward a spontaneous recovery, if kept reduced by a properly fitted truss. Hence, the extreme importance of supplying a ruptured child immediately with a proper truss is obvious. In adults there is no such marked tendency toward recovery. However, a certain percentage even of these cases can be cured permanently by the use of an effective truss.

A new truss has recently been brought to our attention that we feel satisfied marks a new era in this field and will ultimately revolutionize the truss business. It is known as "The HustonWoodward Automatic Truss." It will retain the rupture under any and all positions of the body; will do this with much less pressure than any other truss made; it can be worn without any of the discomfort imposed by the use of any other trusses; it is light, cleanly and durable. Neither is its bulk such that its use will show through

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The principle is a new one, a departure from any hitherto in By means of a spring the pads are kept constantly applied to the body at the source of protrusion of the intestine-at the internal opening of the rupture-and neither breathing nor any other motion of the body can displace them. The pressure exerted is gentle and yet sufficient under all circumstances to retain any form of rupture. The spring, by arrangement of set screw, has a rocking motion which allows the body to sway from side to side or assume any position without the pads leaving uncovered the rupture, because the spring-pads are so attached to the body-wire that any motion of the body-wire does not disturb the pads. No better demonstration of its merits can be given than by its use upon infants and children. It is no easy task to fit an infant a few weeks old so that there shall be scarcely a mark of pressure on the tender skin, while the hernia, however difficult to retain, does not escape in the least under the crying, retching, and straining incident to that early age. So gentle is the pressure and so perfectly is the rupture retained that it is believed fully ninty per cent of users under twenty-five years of age and a large percentage of older persons will experience a permanent cure.

The truss is manufactured by Huston Brothers, the surgical supply firm, 113 Adams street, Chicago. They mail full particulars gratuitously, and we suggest any who are interested in this subject to write them.

Doctors' Wants.

Things for sale at Especial Bargains-Things desired by responsible doctors-Practices for sale and locations open. Advertisements of less than ten lines printed free for our subscribers.

FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.-Two electro-therapeutic and two Waite and Bartlett static machines. Address German Medical Electric Co., Indianapolis, Ind.

FOR SALE.-Administrator of physician's estate offers a few instruments, all new patterns of best manufacture, very cheap for cash. For list of instruments and prices address, 23, The Chicago Clinic.

FOR SALE. Two or three vapor bath cabinets, best manufacture, at very low cash price. For particulars address, 24, The Chicago Clinic.

POST-GRADUATE WORK.-Can save any physician money in his scholarships in post-graduate work. Address for particulars, 25 The Chicago Clinic.

INFORMATION.-On all health resorts and mineral springs in the United States furnished to physicians without cost. Every detail fully given, stating class of accommodations, expenses, etc. Disadvantages of a resort as fully stated as the advantages. Address, 27, The Chicago Clinic.

MAGAZINE CLUBBING.-We can offer you clubbing rates with this journal and almost any magazine or newspaper in the country at such rate as will surprise you. Address, 29, The Chicago Clinic.

WANTED.-Medical students, or young men or young women, in any vicinity, for profitable work occupying a very small part of time. Address, 28, The Chicago Clinic.

SURGICAL LITERATURE.-Complete literature on Lee's Intestine Holder with eight handsome full-page half-tones free. V. Muller & Co., 266 Ogden avenue, Chicago.

DESKS FOR SALE.-Absolutely new, oak, office desks, equal to any $25.00 desk, shipped on approval for $13.75, fully guaranteed. Write for description and color plate. Address 30, The Clinic.

MEDICAL BOOKS.-If you want any books of any publisher, new or second hand, do not fail to address, No. 31, The Clinic.