M. et Sig. Give one ounce of the mixture in a drench of warm water every 30 minutes until relieved.

For acute indigestion, cramp or spasmodic colic, renal colic, etc., certainly next to a specific. Hardly a day passes but what we see a lame old horse still in faithful service for his master. Spavins, ring-bones, windgalls, and growths of all kinds with attending lameness may be speedily relieved with:

Sulphuric acid (by weight)....3j.

MY HOME.

Editor Medical Summary:

I am not so distinguished that it is a matter of interest or importance where I was born, or where I live, but as I am somewhat known to your readers, I thought it might be all right to say "where I hail from." However, I don't "hail from Appomattox!" I was at "Shiloh," all the same.

Editor Medical Summary:

I would like to ask the SUMMARY readers who have had personal experience with vibrators the following questions and have them write me direct:

1. Do you get satisfactory results from a vibrator?

2. Can a vibrator be run successfully with cells?

3. Is a vibrator very easy to get out of order? 4. Do any or many people object to vibratory treatment?

5. What is the best vibrator made for office use?

6. What is the best one for portable use? 7. What is the best book on vibratory therapy?

If you do not answer with a typewriter, please write plain.

Hartshorne, Okla.

J. A. BURNETT, M.D.

DR. D. L. FIELD

I was born in Jeffersonville, Ind., and am penning these lines within a stone's throw of my birth place. So I must have "toted fair" all these years, or I wouldn't be here.

Jeffersonville and surroundings has a population of about 16,000. It was laid out as a town in 1818, the plan suggested by no less a person than Thomas Jefferson, for whom it gets its name. We have one of the largest car works in the United States, the greatest boat-building yards in the West. All the great steam boats plying the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are built here. We have also about the largest quartermaster's depot in the country, from which supplies of all kinds are stored and shipped on order to the army. We have also one of the finest, most extensive "reformatories" in the United States, and usually 1200 men under 30 years of age are confined there.

We have plenty of railroads, viz.: the B. & O., the Pennsylvania, the Big Four, and can reach the Monon and the Southern railroads in a few minutes. We have splendid trolley lines to Louisville, New Albany and Indianapolis.

For physicians, we are supplied with ten regular, one homeopath, and one I can't place. We have splendid homes, plenty of air room, and the finest, cleanest water to be found anywhere. Having such good water, the health of the city is distressingly good. If it were not that such large numbers of our people find employment in Louisville, there would be almost no sickness at all, especially none from drinking water. Of course, there are cases of diseases from causes found everywhere. We are not compelled to live in apartment houses, as nearly every one owns his own home, with large grounds, shade and fruit trees, etc. In my own neighborhood we have lots 213 feet deep, fine lawns, and plenty of peach, apple, cherry and pear trees. On my own lot I have four peach trees, one cherry, one apricot, a Japanese walnut, and a pecan tree coming on. We have plenty of Catawba, red grapes and Concords. So we can live.

Jeffersonville, Ind.

D. L. FIELD, M.D.

[While the above is of a somewhat personal matter, nevertheless it is the kind we all like to read-how and where the other fellow lives. Dr. Field has been a valued SUMMARY Contributor for many years, and we are sure our readers will excuse us in this digression. We wish to do him full credit, however, therefore we sent for his latest photograph and had an electroplate made, so that all who read can see his face as well as read about his home and how he lives.-ED.]

Give your experience in the treatment of typhoid fever for one of our fall numbers.

In the treatment of enuresis of children, where belladonna fails, try atropine, one dram in one ounce of water. Give one drop of this solution for each year of the child's age giving it three, four or five times a day.

CREOSOTE (BEECHWOOD.)—ITS ADMINISTRATION IN SOLUTION.

Editor Medical Summary:

The use of beechwood creosote in certain pulmonary troubles is rapidly coming to the front, and rightly so. The following method is one that I have used in administration of same, and it has been my experience that it is the most reliable, efficient and accurate method that we have:

Take a sufficiency of lime, freshly prepared, and convert into calcium hydrate by the addition of water 2:1. Cover the vessel and allow the contents to cool. Pass the product through an iron wire sieve by gentle agitation. Place the sifted calcium hydrate in a suitable percolater of glass, porcelain, or earthenware. Add creosote with constant stirring. It is best to use an excess of lime (slaked) for continuous production and the original quantities should be 3 pounds of calcium hydrate to 1 pound of creosote. The gross molecular proportion in which these bodies combine are 64:124. When reaction is complete add sufficient water to produce a thin magma. Allow to stand a day, then proceed to obtain the solution by percolation. The sp. gr. of the liquid for use should be 1.010 to 1.012. Where the first collection is below this, return and repercolate. A pound of creosote should yield 20 pounds of finished product. When this has been collected more creosote should be added to the lime and the process may be continued for months. Solution of creosote has yellow color, turning red on standing. It should be preserved in wellstoppered bottles.

Creosote (Beechwood) may also be administered in the pure form in the ordinary gelatine capsules, which are sealed after the method I described in the Journal A. M. A., April 20, 1912, page 1220, for the administration of tinct. ferri chloridi. The disadvantage with this method is that it liberates pure creosote in the stomach which is a powerful irritant.

The average adult dose is m xv to m lx, and may be combined as desired with other medicinal agents.

H. A. SHARPE, Ph.C., M.D.

L'Anse, Mich.

DOGMAS IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, AND RELIGION.

Editor Medical Summary:

Dogmas in the medical profession and religion have done more to depopulate the earth than disease, war and pestilence all counted, and the end is not yet. Truth cannot be reformed or abrogated by friend or fce; it ever stands out bold to the discomfort of the scheming false one. It is a universal habit with dogs to lick their sores and wounds until they are healed. There is more truth in instinct than in habit. Man is a slave to habit, no matter whether it is for good or ill, and there is no class of men more absorbed in habit than physicians. This holds good both from a professional and business standpoint.

Faith is necessary to a life triumphant. A physician and dollars are necessary to the life militant. Dare any one deny this? The professional man and the business man, as a rule, cannot work well together in the same clothes. There is a difference between a successful physician, and a physician who is successful. The former heals the sick, and the latter has a bank account. Some physicians have not, because they ask not, and some have not because their patients pay not. Hence they invest not, even in books, or the booming gold mines.

When a physician visits a patient and prescribes such medicine as is indicated by the condition of the case, he makes a note of all the symptoms and history of the trouble, the pulse, temperature, and general surroundings, and when he leaves the patient, he is so absorbed in the well-being of the sick one, and the expected action of the medicine, that he for the time being has no thought for the dollar in the case, and no memorandum made often makes the bill less. Oh, that the sick ones could appreciate such devotion and unselfishness on the part of the good old doctor.

There is no more honesty in a uniform fee for professional attention by physicians than there is in buying eggs by the dozen. There are big eggs and little eggs, and the difference in food value is considerable, but the people discern not.

At whose door can the blame be placed for all the troubles complained of by physi

cians? If physicians are enduring injustice, is it from the people or from the law of the land? Are they on the square between themselves? The object and purpose of these remarks is to throw a little light into some of these dark niches and thereby guide the physician to his own.

At the present time there is a flood-tide of advice in the medical journals for physicians, some wholesome and practicable and some the reverse. Mental activity acts as a thermometer indicating deep concern in something vital to some important question well defined in the advice offered. To the man of medicine, the great questions are, Who am I? What is my object and purpose in devoting all I am and all I have to a calling which evolves so much physical and mental unrest? Any man who has chosen the medical profession upon a business basis will be disappointed, and he should be. Whilst we should make the business side of a physician's life a topic for due consideration, yet the business department of the physician must always be subordinate to his high calling as a professional man.

G. CURSON YOUNG, M. D. Washington, N. J.

THERAPEUTIC INSTABILITY.

Editor Medical Summary:

If there is any one cause more than another why many of us fail in healing the sick, it is because we vacillate in applying the remedies suitable to a given case. We are prone to unsteadiness and impatience. The sine qua non is to get a correct line on a given malady, and address our remedies definitely and perseveringly to the case. This I try to do. I was called to see a typhoid case of three or four weeks' duration, which had been under the care of another physician, and I found a mantlepiece covered with partially emptied bottles, capsule and powder boxes galore. The patient's mother told me that her account at the drug store had already reached nearly forty dollars, and she was not financially full-handed either. Such things are absolutely inexcusable.

Jeffersonville, Ind.

D. L. FIELD, M.D.

PHENOL-PETROLATUM HYPODERMIC

TREATMENT FOR TUBER-
CULOSIS.

Editor Medical Summary:

The interest of the profession in the phenol-petrolatum hypodermic treatment for tuberculosis seems to be so general, and my results so encouraging that I am taking the liberty of forwarding you my directions for its administration with the request that you give it a place in the SUMMARY thereby enabling me to reach a large number of the profession who are not familior as yet with the treatment.

Liquid carbolated petrolatum is as its name indicates, carbolic acid incorporated in liquid petrolatum.

It is prepared in 1-2% and 1% solution. Any manufacturing chemist can make it. The treatment is as follows:

Fifteen minims of the 1-2% is given daily for 15 days; and 15 minims of the 1% every second day for 30 days.

It is given subcutaneously in the back, with an ordinary hypodermic needle.

There should be an interval of from 10 to 20 days between first and second course.

Where the expectoration diminishes rapidly the treatment should only be given every second day.

The temperature changes are characteristic in that the highest temperature of the day will gradually work itself down until the noon-day finds it at its highest.

The febrile symptoms eventually disappear, bringing the 7 A.M. or subnormal teinperature to normal.

When this condition is established, I feel justified in saying that the pathological processes are completely arrested, and the natural physiological functions will soon enable rature to complete the cure.

Give as a preliminary treatment small doses of calomel.

I strongly advise that you prohibit your patients from taking raw eggs, as I find in all egg-eating patients a gastro-intestinal complication that in every case accounts for the high fevers that accompany advanced tuberculosis.

The only contraindication for its use is nephritis.

STANLEY SEVIER WARREN, M.D. San Angelo, Texas.

A CORRECTION.

Editor Medical Summary:

Allow me to thank you for the kind and appreciative notice of "The Prescriber" which appears on page 95 of your May issue. There is a slight inaccuracy, however, to which I must call your attention. The price is not 6 pence, but just double that figure, one shilling (postage 2 pence extra). We accept U. S. A. unused stamps to the value of 30 cents; we have also an agent in New York who carries stock, Mr. Paul B. Hoeber, 69 East 59th street.

THE MANAGER.

137 George St., Edinburgh.

KINETIC THEORY OF GRAVES' DISEASE.

Dr. G. W. Crile, in Am. Jour. Med. Sci., January, 1913, says: Graves' disease is not a disease of a single organ or the result of some fleeting cause, but it is a disease of the motor mechanism of man, the same mechanism that causes physical action and that expresses the emotions; its origin is in phylogeny and its excitation is through either some stimulating emotion intensely or repeatedly given, or some lowering of the threshold of the nerve receptors, thus establishing a pathological interaction between the brain and the thyroid. This pathological interaction may be broken by diminishing the thyroid output, thus allowing the brain to regain normal control, or by securing physiological rest, which simultaneously secures normal control of the brain, which in turn will give the thyroid the opportunity of returning to the normal.

THE SEXUAL HEART NEUROSIS.

Dr. Gutman, in Stern's Archives, draws attention to Herz's three cardinal symptoms in phrenocardia, namely, pain in the heartregion, frequency, irregularity and shallowness of breathing and palpitation. The etiology bears pointedly upon the diagnosis. The cases are mostly in women or those with an unsatisfied longing for intercourse. Incomplete coitus is an important factor.

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THE TREATMENT OF COMMON SUMMER COMPLAINTS.

Editor Medical Summary:

INFANTILE COLIC.

When first called to treat a case of infantile colic, the first thing is to give relief by administering ten drops of the following: R Potass. bicarb.

Tinc. opii camph.

Tinc. asafetida

Aq. camphor,

Aq. peppermint

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This will give almost immediate relief; then leave calomel to be given in broken doses every half hour, until all is taken, dose according to age; this to be followed by teaspoonful of aromatic castor oil. The above prescription can be repeated in half an hour, if necessary to relieve the pain. Regulate the amount of food, and be sure that the formula given is not too strong. DIARRHEA IN BABIES.

Clean out, is the first and most important in this condition. This is best done in children by administering a teaspoonful of aromatic castor oil, then by giving the following:

R Bismuth subnit.

Salol ...
Powd. opium

Camphor

Oil menth. pip.

One tablet every hour for about eight doses, then less frequent as necessary. food for at least ten hours. If vomiting is present, give teaspoonful of the following every three hours:

R Bismuth subnit.
Hydrocyanic acid dil.

Elix. lac. pepsin ...

FURUNCULOSIS.

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Every day we read of some wonderful vaccine or serum that will cure this disease

and still they keep on experimenting to find one that will do the trick. This paper was written for the country doctor who does not have a full supply of all the vaccines and serums and other cure-alls. I am not condemning all vaccines and serums. We all know that some of them have a decided value, but it seems to me that many a patient is kept on suffering while some one is experimenting with some vaccine or serum, mostly because some firm has it on the market with a thousand cures to its credit, and in the end when the firm has reaped a harvest, the drug, or vaccine, or serum, or whatever it may be, is entirely forgotten and by that time some other firm wants to move on easy street, and they have found something wonderful through years of experimenting in their private laboratories, and again it is the same old story.

Some of the brethren may call me an old fogy, or an old moss-back, but in fact I am only an embryo in the medical profession. Now as to the treatment of furunculosis with ordinary drugs, I find the following to work well: A teaspoonful of sodium phosphate in the morning before breakfast; also take the following:

REchinacea (specific tinct.)....3ij.

Aqua..

.q.s. živ. M. Sig. A teaspoonful every two hours. Also take the following tablet, or it may be taken without the echinacea:

Arsenic sulphide ..... .gr. 1/67.
Calcium sulphide

Calcium phosphate
Phytolaccin

..gr. 1/32.

.gr. 1/10.

.gr. 1/24.

Sig. One, three or four times a day. The above treatment will in most cases suffice, but I have also seen where saturation with calcium sulphide has done a lot of good. H. D. LEH, M.D.

Hampton, Pa.