The Family Doctor.

Try cranberries for malaria. Try a sun bath for rheumatism. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas. Try gurgling lager beer for cure of sore throat.

Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.

Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.

Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.

Try buttermilk for the removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains. Try the croup-tippet when a child is likely to be troubled in that way.

Try hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain, and renew frequently.

Try taking cod liver oil in tomato catsup if you want to make it palatable.

Try hard cider-a wineglassful three times a day-for ague and rheumatism.

Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.

Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid, to relieve whoopingcough.

Try a cloth wrung out from cold water, put about the neck at night, for a sore throat.

Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your shoes, when traveling in cold weather.

Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.

Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold, piercing wind.-South Dent. Jour.

Dangers in Lean Meat.

Practical experience, as well as theoretic considerations, lead to the conclusion that a lean meat diet continued for any length of time is incompatible with health. Leading medical teachers in France are sounding the note of warning against the use of an exclusive meat diet in diabetes, a disease of which lean meat was formerly supposed to be almost a panacea. A close study of the history of these cases has shown that an exclusive meat diet is not infrequently a cause of death, through the accumula

tion of so great a quantity of ptomaines within the body that the kidneys are unable to cope with them. Professor Boofelt says: "It is the duty of the physician who places his patient upon a lean meat diet to inform him of the fact that he is living close to the border line, and that his situation is like that of a man walking along the brink of a precipice; that he must on no account submit himself to the influence of an anesthetic without first undergoing a few days' preparation, including an entire change of diet; and the truly wise physician will further instruct his patient that it can not be safely adopted as a continuous dietary without the risk of constitutional injury."-Public Health Journal.

Appendicitis.

Now, what are the diagnostic points that are the most prominent? My observation has been that there is one symptom that is never absent-understand, I say never; that sign is vomiting early in the very onset of the disease. True, it may be only once, perhaps twice; it comes almost instantly with the onset or first intimation of pain. Show me a case of appendicitis, and I will show you a patient who will tell you that he or she vomited almost the very first thing. Very likely not again, unless after several days no one has interfered, and general peritonitis results, then, of course, vomiting occurs.-H. B. Perry, Atlantic Medical Weekly.

A Safe Anodyne.

Dr. Chas. W. Murphey, Salem, Ind., says: The fact that Papine is only mildly constipating, if at all, does not derange the stomach, or cause nausea, etc., makes it preferable to opiates for the relief of pain of whatever character; and it is my practice to use it instead of opium for the palliation of pleurodynia, gastralgia, colic, after-pains, dysmenorrhea, wakefulness from toothache and tonsillitis, hemicrania, and other painful ailments too numerous to mention. In these affections I give a teaspoonful every hour till eased of pain. If pain is intensely severe, I have not infrequently given two drachms for the first dose.

Those Who Should Not Use Alcohol. Dr. Clauston, of Morningside Asylum, Edinburgh, says no one should use alcohol:

1. Who have any family history of drunkenness, insanity, or nervous dis

ease.

2. Who have used alcohol to excess in childhood or youth.

3. Who are nervous, irritable, or badly nourished.

4. Who suffer from injuries to the head, gross diseases of the brain, and sunstroke.

5. Who suffer from great bodily weakness, particularly during convalescence from exhausting diseases.

6. Who are engaged in exciting or exhausting employments in bad air and surroundings in workshops and mines.

7. Who are solitary or lonely, and require amusement.

8. Who have little self-control, either hereditary or acquired.

9. Who suffer from brain weaknesses, the result of senile degeneration.

Pruritus Ani.

Mathews declares that this is the most intractable of all the diseases of the anus or rectum. A permanent cure can be secured only by removal of the exciting cause or causes. Among the local causes, the Maryland Med. Jour. mentions pediculi, eczema, erythema (in fat people), thread worms, lack of cleanliness, hemorrhoids, fissures, and eczema marginatum-the last being readily cured by rubbing well into the parts, nights and morning, for a week or so, an ointment containing from ten to thirty grains of chrysophanic acid to the ounce of vaseline. Among reflex or constitutional causes are stone in the bladder, chronic inflammation of the deep urethra, urethral stricture, pelvic tumors, uterine derangements, functional hepatic disorders, diabetes, constipation, and gastro-intestinal disorders, especially that form known as atonic dyspepsia, which is induced by smoking, drinking, and irregular habits of eating and sleeping. These latter cases are best treated with a light breakfast, no luncheon, a good dinner, plenty of hot water an hour before and between

meals, and correct habits generally. A method which is always useful is divulsion of the sphincters under anesthesia, followed by thorough scraping away, with a sharp curette, of all the thickened and parchment-like membrane.

Intestinal Lithiasis and Intestinal
Gravel.

Dieulafoy affirms the occurrence of an intestinal lithiasis in man, analogous to the formation of biliary, renal and vesical concretions. Sand, gravel, and stone formation may be observed.

The material consists partly of fecal matter, and partly of inorganic matter, calcium and magnesium salts predominating. The condition is accompanied by entero-colitis membranacea, and is frequently associated with the uric acid diathesis. Exceptions, however, as in the case of cholelithiasis and nephrolithiasis are not uncommon. The disease may, on the one hand, give rise to but little discomfort, while on the other hand, and more commonly, severe attacks of intestinal colic occur, which are followed by the elimination of sand, gravel, or sandy concretions, with or without mucus masses. The attacks must be sharply distinguished from similar attacks referable to gall-stones and appendicitis.-Ex.

Intestinal Disorders.

Dr. E. R. Palmer, Professor Physiology and Physical Diagnosis, University of Louisville, says: I have used Listerine daily since its first introduction, and would not be without it. I have given it internally in various gastric and intestinal disorders, notably those accompanied by fermentation and flatulence, and in diarrhea, when the stools are inclined to be of a foaming nature, finding that even fifteen or twenty drop doses will suffice, but ofttimes employ larger doses to advantage, with decidely beneficial results.

Heart Troubles.

Dr. P. H. Grimes, Hennessey, Okla., has had good success with Cactina Pillets in both functional and valvular troubles of the heart.