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The Medical World ing narcotic addicts because one of his pa

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Second-Class Matter.

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tients was found with morphin in his pocket.
C. F. TAYLOR, M.D., Editor and Publisher. The utter foolishness of the statement
A. L. RUSSELL, M.D.,
J. C. ROMMEL, M.D.,

that physicians shall not treat a particular

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class of patients does not appear evident to

the revenue department, else it would not Entered at the Philadelphia Postoffice as

have been made. No government ever

would be so ridiculous as to interfere with SUBSCRIPTION RATES: To any part of the United States or Mexico, ONE DOLLAR per year, or FOUR

the cure of any of its residents. It would YEARS for Three DOLLARS in advance; to Canada ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE Cents per year, or

no more attempt to prevent the cure of narFOUR YEARS for Four DOLLARS in advance; to Eng.

cotic addicts than it would of the tuberculand and the British Colonies, FIVE SHILLINGS Six PENCE per year; to other foreign countries in the

lous or cancerous or, in fact, of those afPostal Union, the equivalent of_5s. 6d. Postage free. flicted with any other malady. Single copies, current issue, Ten Cents; previous issues, from Ten to TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. These If physicians are not to treat them, who

rates are due in advance. HOW TO REMIT:

are to do so? Just why the internal revenue For their own protection we advise that our patrons remit in a safe way, such as by department presumes to tell physicians that postal money order, express order, check, draft, or registered mail. Currency sent by ordinary mail

they cannot treat such cases is an enigma to usually reaches its destination safely, but money so us. There is absolutely nothing in the Har

sent must be at the risk of the sender.
We cannot always supply back numbers. Should a num- rison law to prevent a physician from treat-

ber fail to reach a subscriber, we will supply another,
if notified before the end of the month.

ing any number of narcotic addicts. There Notify us promptly of any change of address, mentioning is no limitation to his prescriptions, nor to

both old and new addresses.
If you want your subscription stopt at expiration of the his dispensing, if legally required records

time paid for, kindly notify us, as in the absence of
such notice we will understand that it is the sub- are made.
scriber's pleasure that the subscription be
tinued and we will act accordingly.

However, the prescribing or dispensing
Pay no money to agents unless publisher's receipt is given. of narcotics is a very serious matter. The
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of controlling the handling of such drugs, that they might be kept entirely out of the

hands of persons not using them properly. VOL. XXXIII NOVEMBER, 1915

No. 11

For the protection of both patient and phy

sician the doctor should have a consultant Prescribing for Narcotic Addicts Under the

in each case treated. Where two physicians Harrison Law.

agree as to the treatment, it seems to us We have received many inquiries as to a there could be no inquisitorial interference physician's status under the Harrison act in

by any government official.

In all cases treating narcotic addicts. It appears that where it can be shown that the patient is several doctors have been told that the Har- undergoing a reduction in the amount of rison law prevents them from treating that narcotics consumed the physician has nothclass of cases. A physician in Virginia ing to fear. writes us that he has been arrested by the The duty of physicians toward this pitiful internal revenue department for prescribing class of patients is to relieve them, and to for a morphin addict on the ground that his discourage in every possible way the conprescriptions called for too much morphin, tinuation of the habit. Steady reduction, contrary to the Harrison law. A physician with use of eliminatives and tonics, can in Texas writes us that he has been told by safely reduce the original quantity used to the revenue department that he cannot law- a minimum, which will be only a fraction fully treat narcotic addicts under the Har- of the amount originally used. This can be rison law and must cease to do so. A physi- done at home in the course of several weeks,

ner.

when the patient should be sent to a hospital Abelmann is endeavoring to learn, by or a special institution to complete the cure. experiments, whether cancer is parasitic or

The records which the Harrison law re- not. He believes it is. quires to be made make it possible for the Erwin F. Smith,' of the United States proper authorities to trace the drugs to the Department of Agriculture, says that, so consumer. If suspiciously large quantities far as known, all overgrowths on plants, are traced to any physician, it is entirely such as galls and common knots on forest proper that the authorities should call and trees, are caused by parasites. inquire into the matter. If any doctor is found guilty of using his professional rights

Bacteria of Trees and Men. and position to foster the continuance or in- Stephen J. Maher has been investigating crease of addiction to narcotic drugs, he these flora of the woods and studying their should be stopped with a firm hand and pun- effect on man. He divides them into: (1) ished. Such a man should be driven from spore-bearing bacilli, (2) non-spore-bearing the profession in disgrace.

bacilli, (3) cocci, and (4) yeasts, molds and the higher forms.

When a spore-bearing bacillus reaches The Origin of Bacterial Infections.

the limit of its power of vegetative growth, The scope of bacteriology is constantly either because it has covered the surface of enlarging As investigators go farther the hard medium on which it has been afield seeking the great “first cause” of in- planted or because it has produced a suffectious disease they are led to believe that ficient amount of toxins in liquid media to all germs have a single original parent, an inhibit its further development, each little Adam and Eve combined, so to speak. We rod (bacterium) transforms itself into have on more than one occasion called at- ovoidal or round shapes sometimes thicker tention to the work of careful investigators than the original rods and sometimes thinwho have found infectious diseases in

These shapes—the spores-are the plants due to germs. The chestnut blight resting stage of the bacillus. They undergo that has swept over North America is a no further change as they grow older, exwell-known example, in which our Ameri- cept that they thicken their outer capsule, can chestnut trees have been and are still and thus become somewhat more resistant being destroyed by an infection brought to such harmful influences as heat and acid. from Japan.

As soon as they are transplanted to a favorPlant Tumors.

able environment they grow again into rod

shapes and multiply as rods, · Packard' describes parasitic growthis on When the spore-bearing bacillus finds its trees bearing resemblances to tumors oc- life threatened by cold or starvation or by curring in human beings. One group of his poisoning by its own secretions it becomes illustrations shows a series of vegetable a spore or two spores. When its environtumors caused by a deposit of insect ova ment is merely difficult, not exactly threatupon and among vegetable cells. One pic- ening, the bacillus lengthens out into filature shows very large masses of carcinoma ments or develops internal coccal granules. quercus rubræ, a tree cancer found in great The only spore-bearing bacilli that cause abundance among the red oak trees of Cape disease are the bacilli of anthrax, tetanus Cod and caused by the bacillus phyto-phy- and gas bacillus. Much attention to these mato. He also shows pictures of vegetable three germs has been given because they tumors of bacterial origin upon the daisy produce disease. But the harmless sporecaused by bacterium tumefaciens. All these bearing bacilli that we often drink with our were artifically produced by inoculation

milk and that we always eat with our salad with pure cultures of the germs derived have received very scant attention by the from the plant tumors. Packard, in his article, displays a photograph of multiple Illinois Medical Journal, February, 1915; MED