In Hospital and Private Practice during Epidemics, and in their own persons, when ill, Physicians have demonstrated the Value of Valentine's Meat-Juice in Samuel W. Burns, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.: "I order VALENTINE'S MEAT-JUICE for patients almost every day. I have lived upon it for weeks myself, while convalescing from Pneumonia and I know of its great Dr. Med. Franz Hering, Court Counsellor, Leip- zig, Germany: "I first found an opportunity for trying the value of VALENTINE'S MEAT-JUICE in my own family, a member of which was ill with a severe nervous Influenza which lasted for months. The convalesence was greatly advanced by VALENTINE'S MEAT-JUICE. Loss of appetite and gastric troubles disappeared, and from day to day she gained in strength." The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge; the only knowledge that has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. 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Notify us promptly of any change of address, mentioning If you want your subscription stopt at expiration of the time paid for, kindly notify us, as in the absence of such notice we will understand that it is the sub- scriber's pleasure, that the subscription be con- tinued and we will act accordingly. When John B. Murphy makes a state- ment it is sure to be received with the re- spect due its author. When the great Chi- cago surgeon announces that the day of the internist is at hand, it behooves us all to consider the meaning of its annunciator. To us it is evident that Dr. Murphy re- fuses to be bound by the laws of inanimate mechanics. To him the human body is somewhat more than a piece of machinery. A wonderful machine it is, too, whose in- tricacy, whose adaptability we are just be- ginning to comprehend; but a machine en- dowed with vitality, with passions, emotions, volition. The surgeon who takes out a cal- processes leading to the formation of the calculus, and the means of reversing them. This means an ever-increasing impetus to the study of physiology. The anatomist has done his work; the histologist has re- vealed the innermost secrets of our mechan- ism. The most promising student at our Now, the dead and embalmed subject of the dissecting room must give place to the living, breathing, sentient human being en- dowed with life, with senses and sentiment, passions and appetites, needs and the will to secure their fulfilment. Of the ancient Buddhistic concept of man, we have mas- tered the first, the material, Rupa. above Rupa rise Jiva, Linga, Kama, Manas, Buddha, until we contemplate in Atmi that emanation from the divine that illuminates and gives meaning to the soul, the Ego. We shift from the dissecting room to the physiologic laboratory and to the clinic rooms. We study men alive and in health, until we are ready to recognize any diver- gence from the standard. Our conception of the rôle of the physician is illustrated by a story told by the late Peter D. Kyser. While contemplating a case in which he was profoundly interested, he fell asleep. In a dream he saw the patient, as if his body were transparent. All the processes of life were unveiled to his view-the blood coursed thru the vessels, the glands elab- orated their secretions, the lungs inter- changed the gases, the nerves flashed their messages to the brain centers and received back its commands. In one part of the mechanism there was a derangement, and the sleeper noted that this was not the dis- order he had diagnosed. He awoke, and imprest by the dream he hastened to the How many of us have so consummate a knowledge of human physiology that we do so, and in our waking moments see so clearly the operations of the human economy, is an ideal that we have yet to reach. Some such thought was probably in Dr. Murphy's mind when he made the remark quoted. May we find the surgical fraternity, who have rendered such brilliant services to mankind during the past quarter century, still proving their title to leadership in the profession by applying their energies to the problems presented by the Living Man. The National Antinarcotic Bill is Finally Passed. The National Antinarcotic Bill finally passed the House of Representativs at Washington, D. C., on December 10th. It had been previously passed by the Senate, and received the signature of the President on December 21st. This is the compromise measure at length agreed upon by the conference committee. The President was certain to sign it, as he had favored such a law thruout his administration. With this issue of THE WORLD the beginning of the fight for proper regulation of narcotic distribution is won. Our readers will undoubtedly recall the many editorials we have printed favoring a proper control of narcotic distribution. Nothing could be done to control it that did not affect the medical profession in some way. The end we aimed at was to secure the enactment of a law that, while properly regulating this matter, would not interfere with the proper practise of medicin, particularly by the family doctor. The national antinarcotic bill as finally passed is essentially a compromise measure, many interests opposed to the medical profession's aims and interests endeavoring to tie the hands of all physicians by preventing dispensing of these remedies. However, we feel that the profession can get along very well under this bill, and we hope it will put a stop to the illegal sale and improper use of narcotic drugs. We print below a copy of the bill as passed by Congress. Next month we will present our readers with pertinent comments on the bill as affecting physicians. The law will go into effect March 1, 1915. Text of Harrison Bill. Be it enacted, etc. That on and after the first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifteen, every person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, sells, distributes, or gives away opium or coca leaves or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof, shall register with the collector of internal revenue of the district his name or style, place of business, and place or places where such business is to be carried on; Provided, that the office, or if none, then the residence of any person shall be considered for the purposes of this act to be his place of business. At the time of such registry and on or before the first day of July, annually thereafter, every person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, sells, distributes, or gives away any of the aforesaid drugs shall pay to the said collector a special tax at the rate of $1 per annum; Provided, that no employee of any person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, sells, distributes, or gives away any of the aforesaid drugs, acting within the scope of his employment, shall be required to register or to pay the special tax provided by this section; Provided further, that the person who employs him shall have registered and paid the special tax as required by this section; Provided further, that officers of the United States Government who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for the various departments of the army and navy, the public health service, and for government hospitals and prisons, and officers of any State government, or of any county or municipality therein, who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for State, county, or municipal hospitals or prisons, and officials of any Territory or insular possession or the District of Columbia or of the United States who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for hospitals or prisons therein shall not be required to register and pay the special tax as herein required. It shall be unlawful for any person required to register under the terms of this act to produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away any of the aforesaid drugs without having registered and paid the special tax provided for in this section. That the word "person" as used in this act shall be construed to mean and include a partnership, association, company, or corporation, as well as a natural person; and all provisions of existing law relating to special taxes, so far as applicable, including the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and forty of the revised statutes of the United States are hereby extended to the special tax herein imposed. That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make all needful rules and regulations for carrying the provisions of this act into effect. Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter, exchange, or give away any of the aforesaid drugs except in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom such article is sold, bartered, exchanged, or given, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Every person who shall accept any such order, and in pursuance thereof shall sell, barter, exchange, or give away any of the aforesaid drugs, shall preserve such order for a period of two years in such a way as to be readily accessible to inspection by any officer, agent, or employee of the Treasury Department duly authorized for that purpose, and the State, Territorial, district, municipal and insular officials named in section 5 of this act. Every person who shall give an order as herein provided to any other person for any of the aforesaid drugs shall, at or before the time of giving such order, make or cause to be made a duplicate thereof on a form to be issued in blank |