ticable, the accumulation of dust beneath the floors, and in other situations where, under existing conditions, it is liable to harbor. Finally, let it be our constant aim to minimize the generation of dust in all populous places, and, where its production is inevitable, to secure the adoption of all reasonable means of keeping it out of the general atmosphere. EAT MORE CANDY. IN a paper in Woman's Home Companion Dr. Woods Hutchinson says there would be little need of cod-liver oil if children were given plenty of pure sugar, taffy and butterscotch. In short, he says, sugar is, after meat, bread and butter, easily out next most important and necessary food. You can put the matter to a test very easily. Just leave off the pie, pudding or other desserts at your lunch or mid-day dinner. You'll be astonished to find how quickly you'll feel "empty" again, and how "unfinished" the meal will seem. You can't get any workingman to accept a dinnerpail without pie in it. And he's absolutely right. The only thing that can take the place of sugar here is beer or wine. It is a significant fact that the free-lunch counters run in connection with bars furnish every imaginable thing except sweets. Even the restaurants and lunch grills attached to saloons or bars often refuse to serve desserts of any sort. They know their business! The more sugar and sweets a man takes at a meal the less alcohol he wants. Conversely, nearly every drinking man will tell you that he has lost his taste for sweets. The more candy a nation consumes the less alcohol. The United States government buys pure candy by the ton and ships it to the Philippines to be sold at cost to the soldiers in the canteens. All men crave it in the tropics, and the more they get of it the less "vino" and whisky they want. In fine, the prejudice against sugar is born of puritanism and stinginess, equal parts. Whatever children cry for must be bad for them, according to the pure doctrine of original sin; besides, it costs money. I know families in the rural districts yet where the head of the family groans over every dollar's worth of sugar that comes into the house as a sinful and "unwholesome" luxury. No man ever understands Shakespeare until he is old, though the youngest may admire him, the reason being that he satisfies the artistic instinct of the youngest and harmonizes with the ripest and richest experience of the oldest.HUXLEY. METHOD OF TRANSMISSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. I. TRANSMISSON BY THE DISCHARGES FROM THE A. Diseases transmitted by fecal matter. Cholera and choleraic diseases. (Dis- B. Diseases transmitted by the secretions of the respiratory tract. (Expectoration, sputum, etc.) Scarlet fever. (Secretions from the nose and throat. Fragments of the skin during desquamation can also transmit the disease.) Measles. (Discharges secreted by the Diphtheria and diphtheritic membrane. (Sputum and the Epidemic Cerebro-spinal meningitis. (The mucous from the cheeks and nose.) Pulmonary tubercolosis. (Dried sputum and moist particles of sputum thrown out in coughing. Sometimes fecal matter and the products of suppuration.) Whooping cough. (Expectoration.) Pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia. (Sputum.) Mumps. (Mucus discharges from the mouth and nose.) C. Diseases transmitted by secretions, suppu ration and desquamation. Smallpox. (Discharges from pustules and particularly the dried crusts.) Scarlet fever. (Fragments of the skin during desquamation.) [See also above.] Bubonic plague. (The matter from ulcerated or gangrenous pustules and from buboes.) Puerperal infection. (Vaginal secretions, pus, lochia.) Purulent ophthalmia in the newborn. (Pus from the child's eyes.) Erysipelas. (Serous discharges and particles of skin detaching from the inflamed surfaces.) Food Analysis The examination of cereal foods by chemical analysis as usually carried out by our Food Commissioners, is apt to be, in some cases at least, misleading. While Inorganic Chemistry may be termed an exact science, the nutrition of the body tissues is by no means such, and to try to estimate the true "food value" of an organic vegetable product, for example, grape-nuts, from the findings of the laboratory alone, is misleading in the extreme. A chemist may correctly assert that sugar or butter contains more Calories per cent than grape-nuts. But, to live on sugar or butter is at once seen to be impossible, while persons have been actually sustained for months on grape-nuts and milk or cream, when everything else tried, had proved unavailing. The reason is, grape-nuts contains in promptly available form, all the various food elements in wheat and barley-the proteids, carbohydrates (the latter largely soluble or easily made so in the system) and those highly important" cell-builders" the organic, elemental salts-phosphates, etc. These salts are required in such small amounts by the system, that it is no wonder they have been overlooked by many. But biology teaches that protein and water alone cannot produce new cells-that phosphates, etc., are absolutely necessary. Grape-nuts, made of whole wheat and barley, contains this cell-building material so essential to metabolism, yet not measurable in Calories! The practical, clinical and dietetic value of grape-nuts far exceeds any mere laboratory estimate, as has been proven by thousands of cases, over a period of a decade or more. Liberal samples will be sent prepaid to any physician who desires to. test for himself, the actual food and tissue-building value of grape-nuts, and who will send name and address to POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. 1 Scurf or Head Scall. (Scales from the hairy scalp.) Purulent conjunctivitis and granular D. Diseases transmitted by the infected blood Yellow fever. (Mosquitoes.) Probably leprosy. (Fleas, lice, spiders, etc.) II. TRANSMISSION BY OBJECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN SOILED BY SECRETIONS OR DISCHARGES. The patient's blood. His clothing and linen. (Handkerchiefs and underwear and bed clothing.) Toilet articles and household utensils. (Drinking glasses, cups, teaspoons, plates, Sponges, etc. Playthings, books, pencils, pens, etc.) Walls and furniture. (Bed, chairs, carpet, curtains, walls, doors, windows, etc.) The seat and framework of latrines or water closets which have been soiled by the excrements of the patient. Holes or ditches into which his discharges Washwater used in the toilet or baths given Certain articles of merchandise soiled by III. TRANSMISSION BY INDIVIDUALS. Germs can be transmitted by individuals who have taken care of or visited the patient and by those who have handled or carried soiled articles, if these individuals are not careful to cbserve the proper measures of precaution and disinfection. They can also sometimes be transmitted by letters. IV. TRANSMISSION BY CERTAIN ANIMALS. In certain diseases, such as the plague, yellow fever, exanthematic typhus and probably leprosy, etc., the disease can be transmitted by certain animals, such as rats and insects -mosquitoes, fleas, lice, bed bugs, spiders, etc. Flies, which easily soil their trunks and their feet in excrements or sputum, play an undoubted part in the transmission of disease germs (typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) -Bulletin New York State Board of Health. EFFICACY OF OCCASIONAL VOMITING RETCHING and vomiting is often of service to stagnation of bile, even though little or nothing be evacuated from the stomach, by simply squeezing the liver and gall-bladder between the diaphragm and the abdominal walls, and then mechanically driving the bile, mixed with mucus, out through the hepatic duct into the intestine. It is a far preferable mechanical measure to that of massage of the gall-bladder, which is too risky for general use.-LANDER BRUNTON. THIRST AFTER ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS.-The distressing thirst after abdominal operations, where fluid by mouth produces vomiting, is best relieved by subcutaneous infusions of normal salt solution; or by the insertion of a tube into the rectum, connected with a bag of saline solution placed just above the level of the patient's hips, allowing the injection of water drop by drop and so slowly that no irritation of the rectum is set up. The patient may in this manner receive small quantities of water for hours.-American Jaurnal of Surgery. THE doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.-HUXLEY. NOTICE. ON and after May 1st our only address will be Orangeburg, New York. We have built a laboratory and cottages on ninety acres of ground, twenty miles from New York City, on the Erie and West Shore Railroads, and are prepared to meet any demand for our products. Every year, for ten years, we have been obliged, by increasing business, to either move or enlarge our quarters. We are now located where, for some time, moving and enlarging will be unnecessary, and where there will be no excuse for delay in shipping our products. We sincerely thank the physicians whose confidence and patronage have made this change necessary and possible. After May 1st, 1908, kindly address all communications to BELL & COMPANY (Inc.), THE Opsonic Theory Demonstrates the Scientific Value of Antiphlogistine T1 (Inflammation's Antidote) HE resisting power of the body against disease is relative to the opsonic value of the blood and the severity of a localized disease process depends largely upon the retardation of the flow of the blood to that part. The phagocytes may gather, but unless they receive the full amount of the normal flow with its opsonins, resisting power is lost and suppuration takes place. We must either increase the opsonic index of the blood so that the small amount flowing through the infected part may be of normal opsonic value, or, what is simpler and as effective, dilate the bloodvessels and let the blood, with nature's own method of combating disease, circulate through the area desired. Heat dilates the blood-vessels, but to be effective it must extend to the periphery of the infected area, when it will not cause suppuration by increasing the bacteria. An antiseptic poultice is the best method of conveying heat. There is but one method of poulticing which commends itself to thinking physicians, and dressing is with the antiseptic, hygroscopic, plastic Antiphlogistine (Inflammation's Antidote) |