nate, for I find that the books will be 25 cent books, and the quarterly series one dollar per year. While we will not continue the offer made last month, we will for the present receive advance orders at 15 cents for the money book, soon to appear, or 50 cents for the quarterly series for one year (four books on public questions).

Events are occurring so rapidly concerning our relations with Spain and Cuba that what may be written to-day may not apply tomorrow. The contemplation of the horrors of war are exceedingly unwelcome to me. To extend a helping hand to a suffering and oppressed people seems commendable, but I would rather see our own house putin order first. We should first eliminate suffering and injustice from our land of plenty. However, humanity climbs upward by a tortuous and painful path. Suffering and injustice will long have a place among us, but if we count time by centuries we can easily see that the world is getting better. While there is an occasional ebb as well as flow, in many ways we can see improvement by decades. Sociology is taking its place among the sciences, and man's relation to his fellowmen is a study which is a fit companion to our noble profession.

If we get into a protracted and expensive war, look out for an attempt to issue bonds -gold bonds-to pay such expenses. If it is necessary to issue any paper for war expenses, let us demand that it be issued as paper money, a legal tender for all debts, both public and private, without any exceptions whatever, and redeemable by being received by the Government for all obligations due to it. A promise to pay a certain amount of some metal is illogical and unnecessary. The Government will pay this paper money out for war supplies, salaries of officers, wages of men, etc., and receive it back again in payment of taxes of all kinds; customs, duties, internal revenue, etc., and for postage stamps. Gold and silver are not necessary in these transactions; they would only be in the way. And bonds are worse yet. Take the interest off our national bonds and they would immediately become money; leaving their hiding places, they would enter into productive enterprises. If interest had never been placed upon them they would have been money all this time, a blessing instead of a burden. On the other hand, if we would place interest on greenbacks or even on postage stamps,

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they would be taken from their channels of usefulness and be locked up in iron safes for the interest-they would be changed from a blessing to a burden. We have enough burdens. A few people like bonds; but let us be wise in the interest of the whole people.

Messrs. Putnam's Sons, 27 West Twenty-third Street, New York, have issued a third and enlarged edition of "A General Freight and Passenger Post," by J. L. Cowles, Esq., a member of the Connecticut Bar. We scarcely need to say anything in addition to what we have already said about this remarkable book. It is increased to about double its former size, and the new matter is as interesting and spirited as the old. Those who are interested in the transportation problem (and everyone should be) should read this "practical solution of the railroad problem," and then circulate it among friends. The price of the new and enlarged edition in cloth is listed at $1. They now also issue a paper-covered edition at 50 cents. If any reader of this magazine will purchase a copy of this book, and, after reading it, say that he is dissatisfied in his purchase, the Editor will agree to refund his money upon receipt of the book and a statement to the above effect.

Two Important Issues.

Something more than a year ago a gentleman called on me with a letter of introduction from Prof. Frank Parsons. He was earnestly aflame with interest in the telegraph question, having read Prof. Parsons' articles on that subject in the Arena. He was on his way to Washington to see if some arrangement could not be made to have Prof. Parsons' facts incorporated in a speech before Congress, which could then be distributed freely among the voters of the country. I gave him a letter of introduction to a United States Senator, which I afterward learned led to a very satisfactory interview. Before he left my office he said that he wished to frankly state that he was a Republican in politics, and that he wished to see his favorite party take a proper position on the telegraph question. I told him that I was glad to learn that he was a Republican; that I was born and raised in that party; that it has a grand history, but at present needed just such men as he, with progressive ideas on pressing questions; that I hoped he would remain in that party and strive to influence it to quit talking of past glorious history, but address itself to the present needs of the people. Before leaving I suggested that he get a copy of Mr. Cowles' "A General Freight and Passenger Post" to read on the train. This he did, and Mr. Cowles' book opened his eyes upon the railroad question as much as Prof. Parsons' articles did on the telegraph question. He has ever since devoted much time and energy to spreading the light on these two questions. This gentleman is Mr. Jay D. Miller, attorney-at-law, 7 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill. I have corresponded with him freely since the meeting mentioned above, and recently received from him a little pamphlet which he has just issued, called "Finance and Transportation." I have not yet read it quite thru, but as I read page after page I feel a desire that the World family" should enjoy the treat with me. It is a pamphlet of 96 pages, of a size that will easily go in the pocket; prices, single copy, 15 cts., two for 25 cts., ten for $1. Now, to gratify my wish expressed above, I have concluded to pay for

100 copies, to be distributed as follows: Send a postal card to Mr. Miller, stating that you are a subscriber to THE MEDICAL WORLD; that you will carefully read the pamphlet at your earliest possible convenience; that you will then pass it to some of your leading patrons (preferably Republicans, as Mr. Miller is a Republican). Do this, and you will receive the pamphlet free until the 100 copies that I pay for are all gone; don't be too late. This will be a good thing for you to do until our "Rational Money" is completed.

As a taste of Mr. Miller's book, he refers to the fact (giving figures) that the railroads charge the Government an annual rental on postal cars exceed-, ing each year the full value of the cars, and 8 cents per pound for carrying mail matter besides. Upon this he comments as follows on pages 30, 31, 33 and 34:

"If a selected few farmer constituents of congressmen in the several congressional districts of the United States could, by virtue of a decree of congress, rent their farms each year for more than their value, they would, by reason of this genuine 'paternalism,' be in 'clover,' and soon acquire and absorb most of the valuable property of the United States.

"In order to maintain this iniquitous advantage and permanently fasten it upon the people, they would abandon their over-alls, plow-shoes and hickory shirts, as well as the business of rolling clods, weaning calves, feeding pigs and milking cows for the more lucrative and important duties of controlling politics and misdirecting the ship of state, in behalf of their own selfish interests. They would doubtless employ statisticians to make reports on social economic questions calculated to allay the suspicions of the people, and also secretly combine and acquire a controlling interest in influential newspapers, and, by coloring and discoloring the news, falsely educate society.

"Should, then, any patriotic citizen seriously petition congress to repeal this unholy congressional decree, and thus threaten to interfere with this paternalistic special privilege commonly known as a 'private snap,' he would be promptly advertised by this 'influential press' as a 'demagogue,' a 'crank,' a 'calamity howler,' a 'pestilential agitator,' and probably an anarchist.' Congressmen would be warned by this combination to shun him as a 'dangerous citizen,' whose petition should be refused; and a failure to heed this warning would mean bitter and determined opposition at the ensuing election. Who, then, are the dangerous citizens?"

"The New York World shows the railroads are 'plundering,' while debaters at Washington occupy the attention of the people. Unfortunately, many States seem to take pride in filling the halls of congress with orators rather than with closely-scrutinizing, common, everyday citizens, conversant with the practical affairs of life. The real work of congress, or any other legislative body, is done in committee, and congressmen have by their eloquence but little more influence upon legislation than has the sound produced by the bray of an ass. This eloquence, unlike that of former days, is now generally used to augment party strife, and thus keep the people divided, but rarely is it employed to correct any deeply-rooted, powerful and influential evil. The eloquence of a congressman usually serves the purpose of a sky-rocket to attract the attention of the people away from the real issue, while the great manipulators of finance and transportation, with their long and felonious fingers are pilfering the pockets of children whose grandparents are yet unborn." "

Which One?

Some day, some bitter day to be,
You two together, hand in hand,
Will wait the changeless mystery

Whose meaning none can understand;
And one will leave the darkened place
Bowed with a grief too hard to bear;
The other, with a calm, white face,
Will know no more earth's pain or care-
Which one?

Some day you two will be alone

Together in some darkened room, And one of you, with sob and moan, Will cry out in the awful gloom, And beg the other for one word

With which to ease the heart that breaks; The other, still and cold, unstirred, Will sleep the sleep that never wakesWhich one?

-Medical Mirror.

Practical Points.

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Have you tried the new remedy offered by the Walker Pharmacal Co. for cataract? People have a horror of a cutting operation on the eye. Can you blame them? If their cataract can be dissipated by the use of medicine, should they not be given the benefit of it? and you the credit for it? See adv. and send for report of cases.

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Keith's Avena Sativa, and other concentrated medicines. Send for free manual.

Griffith's Compound for chronic rheumatism-the best of its class.

Teutonic-a malt tonic.

Ergotole has largely replaced the old-fashioned, irritating fluid extract of ergot.

See Geo. C. Frye's half page.

It weathers the storm-Pabst malt extract.

See Marchand's Eye Balsam, facing first page of reading matter, and send for book and sample.

Many tablets for little money. See advertisement of Weeks Drug and Chemical Co.

Do you ever feel shaky about prescribing coal tar derivatives for headaches, pains, high temperature, etc.? If so, you can avoid this risk by using Garofen. See adv. and send for a free sample. Have (Continued over next leaf.)

We are pained to announce the death of Mrs. Waugh, wife of our valued contributor, Dr. W. F. Waugh, of Chicago. Mrs. Waugh was a remarkable woman in many ways, particularly in her helpfulness to her husband in his professional work. She made herself so completely a part of her husband's life that her loss leaves a void that is awful to contemplate. Yet Dr. Waugh's article in this issue, written only the second day after the funeral, shows how mind can rise above the most prostrating sorrow. The Doctor's tender nature, a nature in which what we under

stand by the word "heart" is so large a part, makes his suffering all the more keen. Let us hope that he will be a true philosopher at this time when it is exceedingly difficult to be philosophical. We will venture to assure the Doctor that the thousands of readers of these lines extend to him their sincerest sympathy. Those

of us who have been thru this dreadful ordeal can assure him that time is, truly, a healer. Weeks will make no perceptible difference, nor will months; but as the years begin to count one, two, etc., new interests will crowd the old sorrow to a secondary place, and hope of usefulness or of achievement will make life worth living again.

June-The Bride Month.

June, the month of roses, the happy time for mating, the season when

"So sweet, so sweet the calling of the thrushes, The calling, cooing, wooing everywhere." When breezes blow and deep blue skies are flecked with fleecy clouds. No time of the year has been so favored of the poets, possibly because all Nature seems suggestive of wedded bliss, even the songs of the birds leading to thoughts of happy mating and joyous honeymoons. Perhaps Lowell's lines in his "Vision of Sir Launfal" breathe the spirit of the month more nearly than any that have ever been written. He says:

"What is so rare as a day in June?

Then, if ever come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays."

But the physician has little time for looking at the world thru poets' eyes. He

may have the most delicate aspirations, the most sensitive appreciation of the beautiful, but it is the practical that chiefly claims his attention. As Nature airs her charming garb of green and rose, and breathes the balmy sighs that prefigure the sensuous torrid heats of summer, the doctor is compelled to devote his attention. to the seamy side of the picture and resign himself to dancing attendance to dancing attendance upon his annual crop of "June colds" early diarrheas, cholera infantum and cholera morbus, with here and there a case of pneumonia. He must take his thoughts from flowers, evening zephyrs, the songs of birds, and consider the contents of a boy's stomach or the condition of a child's bowels.

Early fruits and vegetables, particularly green apples and cucumbers, bring their penalties with their pleasures. The warm days tempt to undue abandonment of clothing, an indiscretion which is promptly avenged by the cool nights; the thirst caused by the increasing temperature is heedlessly gratified by iced drinks and the resulting digestive disorders are apt to be laid to the charge of anything rather than the unhygienic proceedings of the sufferer himself.

There is little doubt but that in the ranks of troubles incidental to this season, disorders of the intestinal tract are facile princeps. Consideration, therefore of the etiology, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of such is likely to prove of practical value to the general practitioner, and with this point in view THE WORLD collates what is best in current literature, presenting needful facts in concise form, so that "he who runs may read."

ACUTE DIARRHEA.

Possibly the most frequent of the intestinal disorders is acute diarrhea, or catarrhal enteritis. With this trouble there will be a history of injudicious eating, either of unripe fruit or of articles like ice cream, cream puffs and veal, or even the excessive drinking of milk or

water pure or impure. Tyson says that altho "hot weather favors intestinal catarrhs, especially in infants and older children, they are not so much the direct result of the heat as of its effect in weakening the resisting power of the child and favoring the decomposition and fermentation of food. The effect of heat on the nervous system of the very young may reasonably be regarded as a factor in increasing the irritability of the gastro-intestinal tract or so diminishing its functional power as to render the ingesta irritating. Cold, or rather a chilling of the body by a fall in temperature, is often followed by enteritis. Sometimes a hyperactivity of the liver will cause diarrheal discharges.

Anders gives as exciting causes the ingestion of local irritants, overeating, toxic substances, impure water, atmospheric changes, excess or lack of bile. He says these diarrheas have as their chief symptoms slight griping or colicky pains in the abdomen, followed by diarrheal stools, the discharges consisting at first of feculent masses and latter of a watery, highly irritating fluid, either bright yellow or yellowish-brown in color, occasionally greenish from the presence of considerable bile pigment or from bacterial action. As a rule there is slight tympanitic distension. Some times high temperature is noted, and occasionally great weakring

The views of the profession concerning the treatment of this trouble have changed greatly. Anders advocates the rigid abstinence from all injurious articles, and, where the cause of the trouble is established to have been the ingestion of such, the giving of a light purgative. Give albuminous food in liquid or semi-liquid form, and enjoin rest in bed. He gives the following prescriptions:

abstention

Other authorities advocate from all food except in the case of infants, the giving of bismuth subnitrate or of chalk mixture and of tannic or gallic acid. in five grain doses, while the various chlor. odyns are recommended where there is severe pain. Hot fomentations over the bowels and the enveloping of the abdomen in hot flannel are well spoken of.

DIARRHEAS OF CHILDREN.

Three forms, more or less distinct, are recognizable in the diarrheas of children, -acute dyspeptic diarrhea, cholera infantum, and acute entero-colitis, A The first of these is mainly caused by dietary errors, and is most frequent with "bottle babies" Dentition and excessive heat are also factors in its causation. The attack is initiated with restlessness and slight fever and there is sometimes slight colicky pain, and, rarely, nausea. The stools are at first copious and offensive, often show evidences of fermentation, and often contain particles of undigested food. The trouble may be differentiated from cholera infantum by the lack of serous discharges. The progris is often bad among the puny children e poorer classes. The best remedies available are, first a purge, preferably of calcined magnesia, altho castor oil is allowable. This should be followed by bismuth sub-carbonate or prepared chalk in doses of 2 drams with grain doses of salol. Opium should not be given until other means to relieve pain have been exhausted.

A spice plaster applied over the epigastium often proves efficacious. Astringents are seldom indicated. The regulation of the diet is of the utmost importance, and all food that is given should be much diluted. Possibly the best food would be thoroly boiled milk (not pasteurized) diluted with either lime water or vichy. Give boiled

water, afterward cooled to a suitable temperature, but give of both foods and liquids. in rather scanty measure. In all infants wrap the body in flannels warmed by dry. heat, and see that the room air is kept fresh. If the child is seen and treatment begins before the stage of collapse, advise taking it in the open air carefully wrapped up. Do not sanction too much nursing and holding on the lap, and do not allow natural sleep to be interrupted.. The fever that is sometimes observed does not need direct treatment, but will subside with the diarrhea.

When the trouble is once under control care must be taken that matters do not swing too much the other way. It is imperative that the child be kept under observation for sometime in order that constipation be not established. It would be well to follow up the general treatment after convalescence by small doses of cal. cined magnesia given twice a week.

Where it is possible see that hygienic conditions are established. If the child has been living on some "food," examine into the mother's way of preparing it. If this has been correctly done do not hesitate to order another kind of food, since the first might cause a recurrence of the trouble, adding extraordinarily to the gravity of the prognosis.

CHOLERA INFANTUM.

Cholera infantum is a variety of acute catarrhal enteritis of intense severity, corresponding in symptoms and course to cholera morbus in the adult, but much more liable to a fatal termination. No specific cause has ever been found for the disorder, but modern writers ascribe it to the irritating effect of toxins generated in the decomposition and fermentation of food, since the history of almost every case discloses some error in diet.

Dentition and weather act as predisposing causes, and it also frequently develops from a mere dyspeptic diarrhea or from an attack of entero-colitis. It is less frequent than some of the other intestinal disorders,