HOSPITAL FOR NERVOUS DISEASES TORONTO This devoted exclusively etc. No cases of alcoholism or drug habitare received. TERMS::: MODERATE APPLY TO CAMPBELL MEYERS, M.D., DEER PARK, ONT, THE VISIBLE UNDERWOOD More UNDERWOOD Typewriters are in use than all other STANDARD All Makes of Rebuilt Typewriters. Duplicating Machines. United Typewriter Co., Limited, Typewriter Supplies. Toronto, Ont. remaining in bed for weeks, depending upon conditions in individual instances. The bromide [i. e., the Arsenauro] must be gradually increased. Few patients will bear large doses from the beginning.-J. F. Carter, M.D., Sc. D., Ph.D., Wau-. kegan, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine; ExPresident of the Illinois State Medical Society, etc., etc. (Abstract of paper read before the Section on Medicine of the Illinois State Medical Society, at Springfield, May 15-17, 1906. Ill. Med. Jour., January, 1907. The bibliography is omitted.) Published in The Illinois Medical Journal, also in The Therapeutic Medicine, for April, 1907. Women as Nurses at the Front. J. Taburno, of St. Petersburg, in his "Truth about the War in Japan," furnishes strong evidence that the place for women nurses in war is not at the front. His observations in the Russian army show that the presence of women nurses among the fighting men is decidedly objectionable from both a moral and a military standpoint. The Japanese had no women nurses in the field, as they took the ground that their presence would be detrimental to the service in the conditions existing in active field work. That the Japanese did not suffer by their exclusion of women from the zone of military activity seems to be proved conclusively by the statistics made public by Baron Ozawa, vice-president of the Red Cross Society of Japan, in an address before the International Red Cross Conference in London last month. As reported in the Army and Navy Journal, Baron Ozawa said that the Japanese ambulance corps dealt with 622,688 cases during the war be tween Russia and Japan, while the number aided in hostile camps and on hostile ships raised the total number of cases. treated well above a million. This service was rendered at a cost less than $2,500,000. One of the orators at the conference, General Priou, a French delegate, took quite the opposite grond, advocating an increased use of women as nurses. Admiral Rixey, of the United States Navy, has recently put forward a plea for trained women nurses in the Naval Hospital, but not, of course, on shipboard. In our own army the woman nurse found lodgment during the war with Spain, though the results of the experiment were not altogether happy. On the whole, it would seem that, while women are useful as nurses at base hospitals, their presence in the field is apt to prove of doubtful advantage.-New York Med. Journal. Each fluid ounce contains: Hypophosphite Lime 3 Grains Maltine with Hypophosphite Soda 3 Grains Hypophosphite Iron 2 Grains Hypophosphites These three important salts in the proportions indicated above are recognized as invaluable in the treatment of Rickets, Deficient Ossification, Muscular Debility, and all Mental and Nervous Diseases attended with an anemic state of the blood. The usual mode of administering them is in Syrups of Cane Sugar-these are inert, while the base of Maltine with Hypophosphites is a powerful nutrient. Samples on application. The Maltine Company TORONTO The World's Standard DUNCAN, FLOCKHART & CO.'S FLEXIBLE CAPSULES An ideal form of Medicament-never vary in strength. EASTON SYRUP CAPSULES In these the ingredients of this well-known syrup are presented in a concentrated and readily assimilable form. The capsules are very small and as there is no act on on the teeth, patients readily take them. In many cases the absence of acid and sugar is of decided advantage. It is important to mention that the iron in these capsules is in SOLUBLE form and not in the condition of insoluble Phosphate of Iron-which is apt to pass through the intestines unchanged. Prepared in three sizes. Capsule No. 214-equivalent to 20 min. Easton Syrup. For sale by all retail druggists. R. L. GIBSON, 88 Wellington St. W., TORONTO Gastro-Intestinal Ailments of Young Children. By H. B. Brown, M.D., Waukegan, Ill. As the hot weather approaches the usual number of cases of gastro-intestinal ailments will confront us, and if we be not alert the same mortality as of old will occur among our little patients of one and two years. The keynote to success in the management of these cases is to see that correct feeding is enforced and to keep the alimentary canal as clean and nearly aseptic as is possible. If this be done much suffering can be obviated and many little lives saved. Every medical man these days is capable of giving correct advice on infant feeding, the care of bottles, accessories, etc., if he will only take the time and trouble to make the mother understand how important it all is. The doctor's suggestions on this matter are too often regarded as simply platitudes and not thought of seriously until the child is in the throes of a severe illness. The following clinical reports are illustrations of my usual method of handling the more common but serious gastro-intestinal diseases we meet during the heated season. Ethel G., aged ten months, suffering from cholera infantum; bottle-fed. Was passing watery stools every few minutes. Temperature had been considerably elevated, but was now slightly abnormal. Mouth and tongue parched. Considerable emaciation and scaphoid abdomen. Circulation weak and respirations labored. In fact, an extreme prostrate condition. Treatment: I put four ounces of Glyco-Thymoline with eight ounces of water and gave it as a high enema, causing it to be retained as long as possible. This was repeated every hour or so until the bowels were thoroughly cleansed and the stools diminishing in number. Gave one-tenth grain of calomel every two hours until the discharges showed the characteristic greenish color. Also gave the following: After eight hours the child was able to take nourishment and retain it. This consisted of cold, pasteurized milk diluted with an equal portion of lime water. Child was given all the cold water and lemonade she wanted. She made a good recovery. Jennie M., aged fourteen months, suffered from gastroenteritis with much fermentation. Bowels swollen and tympanitic. Fever of a remittent type due to autotoxemia. Child |