High Grade Serums and Bacterins.

The physician desirous of achieving the utmost possible success finds himself each day using a greater variety of serums and bacterins.

Clinical experience with modern standard biologic products must convince even the most ardent adherent of drug therapy or surgical procedure of their extraordinary efficacy in that extensive and extremely troublesome class of ailments due to the presence of microorganisms.

The beneficial results obtained from the intelligent use of these comparatively new remedial agents are so pronounced, so rapidly produced often, as to prove startling to the therapeutist accustomed to the slower action of drugs. It is evident that in the therapeutics of the near future biologic medications and drug therapy will go hand in hand.

The Abbott Laboratories recognizing in properly prepared serums and bacterins the best available means to obtain a desired therapeutic result, are prepared to supply every tried and desirable biologic product in syringe packages and ampules. The "Slee special" syringe is acknowledged to be the most practical and convenient container available and is used exclusively by the Board of Health of New York City.

The prices are as low as is consistent with perfection of product, and the demand for Abbott Biologics is steadily increasing. A 32 page booklet, "Biologic Products and How to Use Them," and a copy of "Prices Current," a cloth bound 400 page volume filled with practical success-making information can be obtained on request from The Abbott Laboratories, Ravenswood, Chicago. Better secure your copies now.

The Element of Uncertainty.

In the treatment of disease the element of uncertainty with special reference to individual idiosyncrasy, must always be considered, but the element of uncertainty as to the therapeutic action of a remedy can be eliminated providing ordinary care is exercised in selecting drugs or remedies which are not inert and have proven their efficiency.

For over 45 years, Hayden's Viburnum Compound has maintained its reputation as therapeutically efficient in the treatment of Dysmenorrhea, Menorrhagia, Post-partum Pains, Puerperal Convulsions and in pain resulting from spasmodic contraction.

It is a well known anti-spasmodic and as it contains no narcotics nor habit forming drugs, no disagreeable after effects is the result of its administration.

Given in teaspoonful doses, administered in boiling water, it will not disappoint you, thus eliminating the element of uncertainty, and as it is not a secret remedy, but a carefully compounded and ethical pharmaceutical, it will render most satisfactory results in those conditions wherein especially indicated.

The Doctor and His Automobile.

No longer is an automobile a luxury for the physician. Now that cars are available that are thoroughly reliable in every respect, that can be depended upon to go the instant they are called upon, and keep going day in and day out, "up hill and down dale," as long as fuel and oil and provided, they are an absolute necessity for busy doctors. It is not necessary to refer to the many advantages that accrue to busy practitioners from owning good automobiles. The greater convenience, the larger amount of work that can be done, and the saving in expense, have all been demonstrated time and time again. But there is one benefit that comes from owning and driving a high class car that we have never seen mentioned. This is the soothing, quieting, restful effect which comes from speeding along in a car that has ample power, runs like a watch, is as comfortable as an easy chair, and finally that affords perfect protection against any and all weather. There is such a delightful sense of ease and comfort to be de rived from driving such a car that one feels at peace with the whole world. The little cares and worries fade away and annoyances that seemed overpowering are forgotten in the joy of seeing the road slip by and hearing the soft purr of the motor. Restful indeed is the effect produced and one quickly gathers new poise, and the power to meet and overcome all unpleasant or difficult problems.

Of all the cars that medical men have found particularly adapted to their exacting requirements, none has proven so nearly perfect as the beautiful Paige Coupe. If ever an automobile deserved to be called an ideal doctor's car it is this one. Beautiful in appearance, with the class and dignity a doctor's car should have, it is unexcelled in the essential details of convenience and reliability. Splendidly equipped, nothing that could add to its serviceability has been omitted. Lack of space precludes any extended description of this beautiful car. The reader is urged to turn to the advertisement on page 43 and then send for a booklet which will give full information concerning every detail and specification. No doctor who has the slightest idea of getting a new car should fail to investigate the Paige Coupe, for there is no automobile available to-day that offers so much at the price asked, or that comes so closely to being the ideal car for the doctor.

The Value of Nerve Sedatives.

To talk about doing without nerve sedatives in cases of hysteria, neurasthenia, insomnia, epilepsy, and disorders of that type, is like talking about doing without fire to warm ourselves. The time may come when we shall be able to make direct use of the sun's rays, and do away with stoves and furnaces and even electric heaters; but not, we think, during the lifetime of the present, or even the next generation. So that time may come in the distant future, when we shall not have to sedate these neurotic patients, but it is not yet, and it is not much practical comfort to them to preach to them about that future millenium. What they need just now is a safe and effective sedative; one which will give them the desired rest, and facilitate their recovery, and at the same time carry with it no danger of habitslavery. Such a remedy will be found in Neurosine. There is nothing mysterious or quackish about Neurosine; it is composed of tried and standard drugs, put up in elegant and palatable form. The Dios Chemical Company, of St. Louis, Mo., will send you samples by mail on request.

Weak Heart in Anemias.

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In all anemic conditions from acute chronic disease, the heart is appreciably reduced in functional vigor through the illnourished state of the heart musculature. After the battle has been won in pneumonia, typhoid, malaria, the exanthemata, and in most other diseases where the field of action has been filled with struggling and opposing vital forces, leaving debris and waste to poison the patient, Cactina Pillets will be found a most efficient remedy. Cactina pillets not only regulate the heart's action, restoring the normal rhythm and giving steadiness to the impulse, but, as experience has shown, this remedy is in some was a most decided "tonic" to the organ itself. In some selective way Cactina seems to act as a true heart "nutritive," thus building up the vitality and functional vigor of the heart. Cactina has no cumulative action, as has digitalis, and may be given in chronic states with the best and safest results.

DOSE:-One Teaspoonful Four Times a Day.