attack so quickly. I kept up the saloquinine in 5-grain doses, three times daily, and am now treating him for the after-effects of malaria. He has since removed to the city, and although he has taken large doses of the drug, I failed to observe any unpleasant symptoms, and not the slightest evidence of irritation. From my observations with this new quinine derivative, I therefore feel warranted in bringing it to the attention of the profession, and recommending it especially in pediatric practice, and in those frequent cases in which there is an idiosyncrasy towards the ordinary cinchona preparations. DR. G. FRANK LYDSTON, of Chicago, will shortly publish a work on sociology, entitled "The Diseases of Society.' The work will embrace the crime question, social evil, etc. Dr. Lydston has paid much attention to the subject, and we await the volume with, interest. Funeral of Dr. Love. The funeral services for Dr. Isaac Newton Love, who died on the steamship Aurania, were held on Monday afternoon, June 22d, at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, at Eighty-sixth Street and West End Avenue. Many prominent physicians and his fellow members of clubs were present. The pall bearers were Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, Dr. John H. Girdner, Charles Marchand, Paul Hafnee, Hector H. Hume, B. T. Whitmore, and Dr. Walter Wyman, Surgeon-General of the Marine Service at Washington, D. C. Floral offerings were sent by the Lotos and Colonial Clubs, the American Medical Association, and the American Association of Medical Editors. The body, temporarily placed in a vault in Woodlawn Cemetery, will be removed to St. Louis.-N. Y. Med. Jour. and Phila. Med. Jour. Hagee's Cordial Cod Liver Oil. Hagee's Cordial Cod Liver Oil is very highly recommended for all cases of lung trouble, as a restorative in children as well as in adults, after pneumonia and la grippe. In bronchitis in old people it is excellent. It is palatable, easily assimilated and is a good tissue builder. Often where preparations of cod liver oil have been taken without the least benefit, Hagee's will be found to do the work.-The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet. PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL WINSLOW ANDERSON, A. M., M. D., M. R. C. P. LOND., etc. W. F. SOUTHARD, A. M., M. D., Managing Editor. COLLABORATORS. C. F. BUCKLEY, B.A., M.D., L.R.C.P.Edin., etc. H. D'ARCY POWER, L.S.A.Eng., L.R.C.P., Ire. P. C. REMONDINO, M. D. GEO. C. MACDONALD, M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed. W. E. TAYLOR, M D. W L. ADAMS, M.D. CARL C. HANSEN, M.D. GEORGE H. POWERS, A.M., M.D. J. H. DAVISSON M.D. C. A. RUGGLES, M.D. FRANK HOWARD PAYNE, M,D. A. W. MORTON, A.B., M.D. CHAS. E. JONES, A.B., M.D. WM. J. JACKSON, Ph.G., M.D. WM. A. BRYANT, M.D., D.D.S, P. A. DUBOIS, Ph G. WALTER F. LEWIS, D.D.S. H. N. ROWELL, M.D. CLARK L. ABBOTT, M.D. LOLITA B DAY, M.D. ROBERT E. O'CONNELL, D.D.S. CHAS W. MILLS, A.B, M.D., D.D.S. B. F. WILLIAMS M.D. WILLIAM BURFIEND. D.D.S. JOHN M. STOWELL, M.D. BERTHA WAGNER-STARK, M.D. J. H. SEYMOUR, M.D. CALVIN W. KNOWLES, D.D.S., M.D. J. C. HENNESSEY, D.D.S. The Editors are not responsible for the views of contributors. All matters relating to the editorial and business departments should be addressed to the PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL, 1025 Sutter St., San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER, 1903. Editorial. "CURES." 66 A remarkable number of cures are in vogue in San Francisco. Few of us realize how many different methods of treatment are practiced for the cure and alleviation of human suffering. Some "cure" by faith and some by food, and there are those who profess to "cure" without either, for a system of "starvation cure" is also prevalent. There are those who "charm" diseases away as papillomata (worts) were once treated. The Indian "medicine man still enchants or charms away the devils causing illnesses. More civilized societies use exorcism for the same purpose. The Chinese herb specialists "cure" diseases of "white devils" with dragons' blood and the heart of lizards. Professors of theology and preachers of the "Lord's Holy word" practice pneumatopathy or "mind cure." Another sect advocates "Christian Science cures," others " magnetic cures," and still others "spirit healing cures." Some use light to effect "cures," others darkness. Some use water cures," others olive oil or grapes or nuts or coffee without the bean. Psychotherapeutists vie with pneumatotherapeutists, pneumatopathists with electro-metaphysicists and the thermatologists with the hydrologists and astrologists. One marvels at the testimonials published by this literary genius or by that policeman about the wonderful "cures effected by "Payne's celery compound, or "Warner's safe cure. Is it the 40 to 70 per cent of bad whisky found in these nostrums that "cured" the literary genius of Bright's disease and the policeman of sleeplessness? Or, was it damphology that cured both? "Light Cures."-The blue glass cure held its sway for the credulous who could afford the luxury. At the present time it is the sun's rays and the electric rays, Finsen's method, violet and actinic rays, that are seriously engaging the attention of the educated physician and others from a therapeutic standpoint. Far be it from us to belittle any legitimate therapeutic agent, light, sound, color, air, water, food, or suggestion, when legitimately used. Dietetic Cures.-Alimentation is a subject taken up by many "cures," fads, religions, doctrines, isms, pathies and eccentrics. As a rule, all animals eat too much, especially that branch known as the "bipeds without feathers." Carefully compiled statistics show that many more people die from overeating than from overdrinking. Overfeeding. is particularly noticeable among that part of the human race which indulges in cannibalism, in the islands and in those countries supposed to practice Christianity, namely, England, Western Europe and America. Dietetics as a science is of great importance. There are some of us who "eat to live" and perhaps those who "live to eat;" nevertheless scientific alimentation in rheumatism, diabetes, obesity, Bright's disease, debility and other well known pathological conditions, is of the greatest importance and deserves much more careful consideration from the educated physician than it receives... The Milk Cure.-In many conditions, particularly chronic kidney lesions, a milk diet is to be recommended, but when a fashionable physician puts all his patients upon a milk diet, of from one to three gallons daily, shall we put him down as a fadist, or were all his cases of Bright's disease cured by his wonderful methods? The whey cure comes in for occasional and usually illadvised prolonged use with the rest of the remarkable dietetic uses and abuses practiced by those who follow "cures" as a fad. The no coffee cure has lately been promulgated by some of our friends that find substitutes for the Arabian beverage in roasted cereals. The reason it was proclaimed a "sin" by the Mormons to drink tea or coffee was because tea and coffee could not be grown in Utah. The articles had to be purchased from the Gentiles. Throughout Eastern Europe, Turkey and Egypt coffee is considered not only a "holy" drink but also wholesome food. That too That too many dried apples may be eaten, as the poor Indians were advised to do and then drink a lot of water afterwards, no one will deny; that coffee in moderation hurts the average individual we do deny, and the "no coffee cure" must be placed among the fads. Water cures are perhaps less detrimental to health whether the water be taken inside or used outside. The practice at some springs of drinking this water or that at the rate of two or more gallons per day has no scientific reason in it, unless it be for a specific purpose advised by a competent medical man. Hydrotherapy.-Water used upon the body at different temperatures and by different methods is undoubtedly followed by many beneficial results. The various bathsArabian, Turkish, Russian, Nauheim, medicated and nutritive-are all of more or less therapeutic value according as they are administered. A cold bath in typhoid fever is perhaps the best possible treatment in suitable cases. The same bath in measles or pneumonia would be decidedly injurious. Does the so-called hydropathist possess sufficient knowledge to know when and under what conditions baths should be administered? We think not. Baths should be prescribed by the qualified medical man and not by men following any ism or pathy or fad. Baths of hot vapor, and hot dry air bakes are most useful in suitable cases. The latest water cure consists of placing a patient (it does not say for what diseases) in a tubful of water at 100° F. He is to remain in this tubful of water for many days and nights-eating, sleeping and living in a bathtubful of water! Baths of milk, oil, bouillon, broth, beef-tea, etc., are no doubt useful at times in wasting diseases for their nutritive qualities, when food cannot be given by os or bowel. Olive Oil Cure.-Another recent cure is olive oil. Now, olive oil is a good, pure vegetable food, but when one is fed upon it morning, noon and night, with no other food of any kind, and then has it rubbed all over his body three times daily besides, it would seem to a dispassionate observer as though one was getting a little too much of olive oil. The cures reputed from this agent administered in this way are many, ranging from corns to cancer. Grape Cure. For a number of years patients suffering from various ills have been sent into the vineyards in the south of Europe to pick grapes-for themselves. They must eat grapes, for they get nothing else from early morning until late at night, skins, seeds and stems presumably. Ten days seems to be the fashionable period in which to effect a cure. The more esthetic grape cure patients now squeeze the juice out of the grapes, leaving skin, seeds and stems behind, bottle the juice, and for those who believe in unfermented wine, cure themselves with grape juice while it is fresh and for those who believe with St. Paul, they cure themselves with a bottle or two daily after it has become sufficiently fermented to bring out the boquet and aroma to make it palatable. Grape Nut Food.-Of recent years we have "cures" of grape nut food. The composition of this "food" is not known to the writer, who ventures the opinion that grape seeds would not form the most wholesome food in the world. Fruit Cures.-Unfortunately, most of these "cures" are connected with some religion or other. Why it should be believed that fruit is the only food for man, we do not know; that such a belief is neither rational nor scientific in any sense, we do know. Lean Meat Cure.-Among the many fads or "cures" we find one consisting of the exclusive diet of lean meat and water. The time it requires, the amount of meat eaten daily and the diseases cured by this process of feeding are not set forth. Raw Food Cure. We attended a very pleasant raw food feast once in the Hawaiian Islands, Live shrimps |