DR. JOHN S. WILLIAMS died at his home at Gladys, Va., April 9, 1905, aged sixty-nine years. He was born in Campbell County, Va., and graduated at the University of New York in 1859. He served as an assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. He was a member of the Medical Society of Virginia, as are two of his sons, Drs. H. B. and W. L. Williams.

DR. WILLIAM HARPER, M. D., Tulane University of Louisiana Medical Department, New Orleans, 1852, formerly of Tallahatchie County, Miss,. surgeon in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War, and for many years a practitioner of Minter City, Miss., died at the home of his daughter in Memphis, Tenn., March 30, 1905, from organic heart disease, after an illness of six weeks, aged seventy-six.

Editorial.

RATIONAL TREATMENT OF INFANTILE DIARRHEA.- For years the treatment of diarrhea in children, commonly known as summer complaint, has been a stumbling-block for the practitioner mainly because the true nature of the disease was never thoroughly understood.

As a matter of fact, the prevention of the disease is quite easy, but as it depends altogether upon the parent who has the children in charge, neglect is always accountable for the sickness. The result is that the physician is seldom called until mischief has been done.

Under the circumstances, rapid treatment has to be resorted to if fatalities are to be avoided. The main point is to modify the diet, suppressing objectionable food, particularly milk not properly modified in strength and sterilized. Meanwhile the bowels should be kept in a thoroughly aseptic condition.

An experience of ten years or more has demonstrated that this is better accomplished through the use of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder; one teaspoonful or less of this Powder diluted in a pint of tepid water makes an ideal washing for the intestine as an enema.

The same Antiseptic Powder proves also eminently beneficial administered internally. This fact is amply demonstrated by physicians who have for years made a clinical use of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder.

Among them may be quoted Dr. A. F. Kerr, physician and surgeon of the C. & O. R. R., who enjoys a very large practice in Virginia; he said as far back as Dec. 22, 1897, writing to J. S. Tyree, Chemist, Washington, D. C.:

"DEAR SIR: I was not aware until I received your letter of the 17th inst., that I had originated a new field of usefulness for your Antiseptic Powder. It is true the thought was entirely original with myself, but it never occurred to me but that many other physicians were using it in the same diseases. I refer to its use in diarrhcal and dysenteric disorders.

"Being familiar with its use in those conditions for which you recommend it, the thought occurred to me that the peculiar combination of the Powder ought to make it a valuable remedy in the intestinal diseases of the summer months, so two summers ago I began its use in diarrhea and dysentery, and was so well pleased with the results that I have continued its use in these diseases ever since with the most satisfactory results. I have prescribed it in doses of 1-2 to 2 grains in connection with the usual remedies and also used it locally in solution of a teaspoonful to a quart of warm water thrown into the bowel.

“Within the past few weeks I have used it exclusively as a gargle and throat wash in diphtheria, and found it very useful in such cases. I prescribed it also as a prophylactic with gratifying results.

"With the limited use I have made of it in intestinal disorders and diphtheria, I am convinced that it is well worthy an extended trial, and that those using it will not be disappointed."

Since then the same eminent practitioner, in answer to an inquiry, has sent to Mr. Tyree another communication which proves quite conclusive. It reads in part under the date of May 14, 1903—

"You ask me as to the use of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder in dysenteric troubles and my method of using it.

"I use it in conjunction with calomel and other remedies prescribed in intestinal disorders.

"A favorite prescription with me is the following: R Calomel, gr. 1-4; morphine, gr. 1-16; Antiseptic Powder, gr. 1-2. Mix and make chart. No. 1. S. Six to twelve such powders given every one or two hours and followed by salts or oil.

"I also use the powder in the proportion of one teaspoonful to a gallon of warm water with the colon tube.

"Any one following this line of treatment need not fear losing his patient if he sees him in time.

"I will add that no matter what combination I use my main reliance is upon the calomel and Antiseptic Powder."

To emphasize further his faith in Tyree's Antiseptic Powder, Dr. A. F. Kerr added in another communication:—

"I have been using Tyree's Antiseptic Powder in diarrheal and dysen

teric disorders for eight or ten years, and find it invaluable in the treatment of these diseases, and I would as soon dispense with my calomel as the Antiseptic Powder. It occupies an easily accessible position in my medicine case."

This opinion has been fully indorsed by hundreds of physicians whose names it would be too tedious to mention. Incidentally, however, the clinical experience of I. Saint-Just, M. D., formerly Paris correspondent of the Medical Brief, is worth mentioning. He says:

"In St. Louis, during the summer months, the mortality among children from entero-colitis is particularly appalling. With a population not exceeding 600,000, it is not an unusual occurrence for the Board of Health to record a daily death rate of 80 or 90 children. It has been my experience to contribute against my own will and for deficiency in my medical armamentarium to this enormous percentage of mortality.

"I may add, however, as a redeeming point, that since I resorted to Tyree's Antiseptic Powder I never lost more than 1.7 per cent. of my cases of entero-colitis in children, and in most instances I was called too late or the patients were more or less tuberculous. For this reason I do fully not only endorse but recommend to my fellow-practitioners the use of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder. Its composition, I understand, is well known to the medical profession. It contains five grains each of menthol, thymol, eucalyptol, gaultheria, and carbolic acid, triturated under very heavy pressure with borate of soda, the blandest of all alkaline salts, and with dried alum, the mildest of all potash astringents.

'In my estimation the direct effect of the trituration under this heavy pressure is to enhance the aseptic and antiseptic properties of carbolic acid (the most powerful of the phenol group), which otherwise would prove harmful. Undoubtedly Tyree's Antiseptic Powder is the remedial preparation which deserves the consideration of the true practitioner." Dr. M. E. Chartier, of the faculty of Paris, France, has expressed also in no unmeasured terms a favorable medical opinion of Tyree's Antiseptic Powder, which, by the way, has passed the experimental period, particularly in the successful treatment of cholera infantum and kindred diseases.

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"There are," he says, no specifics in medicine, yet it may be claimed to some extent, if medical reports, furnished in good faith, are to be believed, that this antiseptic preparation is truly almost a sure cure for diarrhea, dysentery, and ailments due to identical causes."

NO MORE HEALTHFUL, stimulating, and generally beneficial application can be made to a diseased mucous membrane than Kennedy's Pinus Canadensis.

AN EXQUISITE REPRODUCTION of a remarkable painting practically given away. "The Three Most Beautiful Roses," by Paul de Longpre.

At the urgent solicitation of the Woman's Home Companion, Mr. Paul de Longpre, who is the greatest painter of flowers in the world, consented to make a painting of what he considered The Three Most Beautiful Roses," and the painting is without doubt one of the masterpieces of this great artist. This magnificent picture is reproduced in all its original grandeur on the cover of the Woman's Home Companion for June. Although this cover is an accurate reproduction of a painting worth hundreds of dollars, yet the June number, which has this exquisite cover, may be obtained at any first-class news-stand or direct from the publishers for the trivial sum of only ten cents.

Mr. Paul de Longpre is justly styled the "King of Flower Painters." He not only paints roses, but every flower that grows, and is the highest authority on flowers. His paintings are found in the most select homes. Some have sold for as much as seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).

Artists, art critics, and competent judges all agree that the covers of the Woman's Home Companion far excel those of any other magazine. The Woman's Home Companion is a magazine which in beauty and excellence, art, stories, illustrations, fashions, etc., excels all other home and family magazines. The Woman's Home Companion is published by the Crowell Publishing Company, New York City, also Chicago, Ill., at One Dollar a year, and is the favorite magazine in nearly half a million homes, where it is read each and every issue by three million people.

COCA EMPLOYED IN MALARIA.- For centuries coca has been accepted by the Peruvian Indians as a specific for malarial fevers. When the Indians open a grave in search of relics, they chew coca leaves to propitiate the "evil spirits," and it is a fact that those who do not chew the leaves are attacked with a malignant sore throat. So, too, the Cascarilleros, or cinchona gatherers, in going to the unhealthful forests in search of bark, "regard coca as a remedy against malaria superior to quinine." — Mortimer's Peru: History of Coca, p. 115. Whether coca alone will eliminate malarial poisoning in this climate is not fully established, but it is very probable that because of its influence as a depurative of the blood stream, it may do so. Certain it is that coca can be employed with quinine to advantage. When so used, it wholly prevents that peculiar nervous irritability induced by quinine which is so annoying to many who are obliged to use that specific. Coca is calmative to the cerebral circulation, and in this action is superior to the bromides. In the depression from grippe, a hot grog of Vin Mariani has been advocated by the highest authorities, both here and in Europe, to dispel the nerve-racking malarial

pains in the muscles, and it is positive that if coca is not a true specific for malaria, it is the most useful adjuvant that can be employed in the treatment of the aggravating cachexia and blood impoverishment following that disease.- Coca Leaf, April, 1904.

TRIFERROL AN IDEAL FERRUGINOUS TONIC.- This is a very palatable, readily assimilated liquid hæmatinic and reconstructive, containing 1.5 per cent. triferrin, tincture aurantii aromat, chinæ comp., etc.

Indicated in anæmia, chlorosis, scrofula, rickets, and all conditions of debility.

According to Professor Bunge's now widely accepted theory, the nucleinate of iron represents the first step in the formation of hæmoglobin; Triferrol, therefore, since it contains the paranucleinate of iron, exhibits iron in the form of an organic compound, which is almost identical with the iron compound of the blood, and, in consequence, an object has here finally been attained which therapeutists have aimed at for many years.

Triferrol has a pleasant taste, and is, therefore, willingly taken even by children. It is readily assimilated, and rapidly increases the proportion of iron in the blood, and soon trebles the amount of iron in the liver; it does not blacken or otherwise deteriorate the teeth; it does not cause any unpleasant by-effects, such as headache and constipation, nor any digestive disturbances, but is well tolerated, and stimulates the appetite.

Dose: One teaspoonful, three times a day, with or after meals.

WHAT ARE YOur Summer PLANS?—A profusely illustrated booklet of famous resorts for the asking.

Summer Resorts" is the title of one of the most attractive and handsome booklets ever issued by a Southern railroad. It is just off the press, and copies will be mailed free to all who apply to W. L. Danley, General Passenger Agent, N., C. & St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn.

The booklet is profusely illustrated with half-tones of famous scenes, historical and otherwise, and pictures taken around the numerous summer resorts along the line of the road.

It is well known that the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the "Lookout Mountain Route," is rich in its historical associations. More important battles of the Civil War occurred along the line of this road than any two others in the South.

It occupies a position of just as much prominence in the Summer Resort" field, as it traverses a country that occupies the same standing in this particular in the South that the highlands along the Hudson River and the Adirondacks do in the East.

The booklet gives a description of these summer resorts and for what