becoming imbued with the belief that mineral waters have to offer them many benefits, and this belief is increasing constantly. The United States, by its natural resources and the popular interest in the matter, is destined to become one of the greatest if not the very greatest nations of mineral waters and mineral water users in the world. This should all come about through the agency and under the patronage of the American medical profession and the profession would gain thereby. Will this be the case, or will our patients wander away from us to use the mineral waters in a hap-hazard way, with just enough good results to keep them convinced that our attitude against mineral waters is both bigoted and wrong? We complain in our virtuous way that the mineral springs are, many of them, conducted and advertised like patent medicine lines. There is some truth in this, perhaps. Our mineral springs are not getting the proper intelligent medical supervision, and yet they are giving ample results to convince intelligent people that they have great virtues. It will not soil our delicate hands to rescue our valuable springs from this objectionable condition. Certainly we should not be deprived of these excellent therapeutic forces on account of some ethical prejudice. The mineral springs of the country need us, but not a whit more than we need them. No intelligent physician can deny the efficiency of mineral waters. His appreciation of the value of these waters is usually in direct ratio to his knowledge of the subject. European therapists, in whose footsteps in other lines we delight to tread, are firm believers in mineral Doctors and educated laymen since the days of Hippocrates have not all been fools or victims of delusions. We do not believe in mineral waters or we do not use them in our practices because we know so little about them. If we knew so little about opium or strychnia we would not use them either. Confidentially, our apathy in crounotherapy is merely an evidence of our lamentable ignorance of the subject-merely an evidence, in fact, of one point in which we are deficient in the education of the fully equipped therapist. You can get along without knowing anything of mineral springs. We once got along without knowing of ether, antisepsis or vaccination. We didn't miss because we did not know what we missed. We can get along without mineral waters. It is possible that, with mineral waters, some of our patients may find that they can get along without us. Doctors' Wants. WANTED. We want a reliable medical student to represent us in every medical school in the United States. Fair compensation and duties which will not conflict with school work. Address, Manager, The Chicago Clinic, 40 Dearborn street, Chicago. FOR SALE.-One Turner Gasoline Thero-Light Outfit, in good condition. A combination of portable Bunsen burner with a mantle attachment which converts it into a lamp giving a white light of 500 candle power. As a blast lamp the flame may be turned in any direction. Manyscope attachment which gives an ideal light for oculists and laryngologists and an attachment throwing a brilliant light by means of a lens for microscopic work at night. Address "Light," care of The Chicago Clinic, 40 Dearborn street, Chicago. Only drug store in a town of 500 and only medical House, lots and barn for sale, together or singly. County, Wisconsin. Address A. C. Huleatt, M. D., FOR SALE. practice in same. Located in Pepin Arkansaw, Wis. INFORMATION WANTED.-In the compilation of the lists of mineral springs for this journal and for other purposes it is our desire to hear of any mineral springs which are not generally listed, but which have, in the opinion of medical men, some therapeutic value. We shall highly appreciate all such information if addressed to Dr. Geo. Thos. Palmer, 40 Dearborn street, Chicago. At the annual dinner of the New York State Medical Society, held recently in New York, the Rev. Merle St. C. Wright, of the Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church, created a mild bit of excitement by advocating or suggesting the practicability of euthanasia. Mr. Wright held that a city like New York might be divided into districts and each district might have a commission made up of prominent doctors and clergymen to whom all cases might be referred for approval. It should be provided, he held, that the members of the family of the hopelessly sick patient should consent or apply for approval of his doing away and that the patient should himself agree to the procedure. He then held that science should bend every effort to make the death as pleasant and as free from unhappy incident as possible. This all calls to mind the plan of some visionary, expressed some time ago, to have a "house of death," to which the hopeless invalid might go and enjoy an evening of "wine, woman and song" in surroundings most delightful, to go to sleep after his evening of enjoyment, not to awaken again. These plans are all very well to talk about, but they must remain what the unregenerate would call pure and simple "pipe dreams." Publisher's Notes. Practical Experiments in Treatment of Anemic Conditions.Fritz Euler-Rolle, of Vienna, in a recent number of Wiener klinische Rundschau, quotes Heitzmann in the observation that pepto-mangan (Gude), unlike other chalybeates, does not have an injurious influence upon the digestive organs, and even increases the appetite. He also quotes the commendations of Ripperger. The author holds that this preparation is not only indicated in chlorosis or anemic conditions, but that it should be administered in all of those conditions where there is great weakness and where the general bodily tone is below par. In his own list of eleven cases in which pepto-mangan (Gude) was given we find one case of tabes with gastric crisis, one case of obstinate vomiting of pregnancy, one case of esophageal cancer with stenosis, four mild cases of diabetes mellitus, three of uric acid diathesis with arthritis, and one case of leukemia. The second series related entirely to anemia and chlorosis and comprised 14 cases making in all 25 cases. To state the matter briefly, the writer found that in each of the twenty-five cases there was decided benefit attendant upon the administration of Pepto-Mangan (Gude) and in no case was there the slightest disturbance of the digestive tract due to the administration of the ferruginous tonic. The preparation, owing to its abundance of peptone, was calorically a great nutritive value, since, according to various authors (Zunttz, Ewald, Pollitzer, Adamkiewicz), the albumoses and peptones are capable of replacing albumen completely, and when given in appropriate doses are able to restrict or even arrest the loss of fats, just like any other albumen. This is the more readily intelligible since the greater part of albumenous foods is absorbed in the form of albumoses and peptones, and re-converted into albumen by the intestinal mucus membrane and within the tissues. Sanmetto for Enlarged Prostate in the Aged and Enuresis Nocturna in Children.-"My experience with Sanmetto has been most gratifying," says Dr. W. H. Lyle, of Olpe, Kan. "I consider it the greatest remedy I ever used in cases of aged men with enlarged prostates. I am now using it in two cases of nocturnal incontinenceboth children are improving rapidly." "I prescribed Dioviburnia and Neurosine in a very obstinate case of painful menstruation with the most satisfactory results. I recommend this combination in the treatment of Dysmenorrhea and all PUBLISHERS' NOTES. 289 Uterine Diseases, accompanied by nervousness."-J. W. Keppel, M. D., 1007 Market street, Youngstown, Ohio. THE ADVANTAGES OF COMBINING REMEDIES. John Moir, L. R. C. P. and L. R. C. S. Ed., in The Therapist, London, says: "Latterly I have been using heroin very extensively in tablet form in combination with antikamnia, and found the combination to act charmingly, both for relieving pain and in procuring comfortable, restful sleep, so very desirable and necessary after sleepless periods, caused by a protracted, irritable cough. The soothing rest in these cases was also characterized by a light but well-marked fall in temperature; but the greatest benefit of all in this treatment is that, although the distressing frequency of the respiration was reduced, it was stronger and heavier and less spasmodic, with a beneficial effect upon the heart at the same time. The tablets I use contain antikamnia 5 grs., heroin hydrochlor. 11⁄2 gr., and were given every two, three or four hours, in cases of cough, bronchitis and respiratory affections generally, according to the severity of the symptoms, but usually one tablet every three hours. I found that the respiration was rendered easy, the expectoration was loosened without difficulty, and sleep was more readily obtained than with morphine, and unlike morphine there were no after-effects. I have personally been taking Antikamnia and Heroin Tablets three times a day for an irritating cough, with occasional inclination to breathlessness; so that I have every reason to be thoroughly satisfied with them as sedatives and calmatives." It is announced that Messrs. Fairchild Brothers & Foster, of New York, are now the sole agents for the United States for Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome & Company, of London. The product put out by this English concern which is now attracting attention is the "Tabloid" Thyroid Gland, which is said by many physicians and physiologists to be an article of superiority on account of the fact that it is the entire thyroid put up in a form which is easily administered and possessing the highest degree of physiologic potency. Samples of this product, if not already received by physicians, will be cheerfully forwarded without cost on application to the American agents. |