This was followed by a demonstration of pathological tissues from surgical cases as follows, by Dr. Caryl Potter: (a) Myosites Ossificans. (b) Mesenteric Cyst. (d) Exophthalmic Goitre. Dr. Conrad, chairman of the program committee, announced that the moving picture machine had been ordered, and membership in the Clinical Film Company had been closed and the outfit expected to be ready for use at the next meeting. At the suggestion of Dr. Caryl Potter, the undergraduate and graduate nurses were to be invited whenever subjects that would interest them would be shown on the film machine. There being no further business before the society, the meeting adjourned. W. F. GOETZE, Sec. "The The Pneumonia Convalescent-In spite of all the modern advances in scientific therapy, and the improvements in the general handling and management of acute infectious diseases, acute lobar pneumonia still deserves the title ascribed to it by Osler: Captain of the Men of Death." There are, however, especially during the fall and winter months, many cases of the lobular or irregular pneumonia that so often complicates or follows la grippe. When this condition supervenes it is more than likely to follow a subacute or chronic course and convalescence is frequently long delayed. Under such circumstances, in conjunction with treatment designed to hasten resolution, a general blood tonic and vitalizing agent helps materially to shorten the convalescent period. Pepto-Mangan (Gude) is of much value in this field, because it not only increases the solid elements of the blood, but also acts as a true tono-stimulant to the organism generally. As Pepto-Mangan is free from irritant properties and constipating action, it is especially serviceable in the reconstructive treatment of the devitalization following the pneumonia of aged. Medical Society Calendar 1918 NATIONAL Am. Med. Association..... RESOLUTIONS OF A ROTARIAN The fourth year of the Great War. REALIZING that it is given to me to live in the most momentous epoch of human history-in I AM RESOLVED that in this, the fourth year of the Great War, I will devote my energies and RESOLVE to keep a wholehearted faith in the ultimate triumph of the Right; to go through I RESOLVE to deal fairly in all things with my fellow men, scorning to profit from their neces- I RESOLVE to remember, with as much humility as my nature permits, that I may not possess I RESOLVE to be ever mindful of the sacrifice made by the strong young men who are fighting I RESOLVE, as a means to becoming a more loyal patriot and a better citizen, to be a more Conscious of how little I can do to serve my fellows and my age in this time of trial I RESOLVE to bring, so far as I am able, every act of my daily life to the test of the Rotary Caumn The Monthly Song Sermon THE DEBT WE OWE DR. G. HENRI BOGART, Shelbyville, Illinois. Sometimes, in our hundrum of hurry, We fail to remember the Past; Today, with its flurry of skurry, To the Past owes a total so vast, The price passes human compare. We join, then, Past, Present and Future, The Now, shrieking strident for place, The "Past that is dead" sang a poet, Is owing to forebear. We know it Nor can we repay them for birthrights Have hewed from the mountains, their graves, We bring to the Future the glories All round us, the magic of living A monumental bit of work, commemorative of the pioneer had been completed by a friend and was to be unveiled, and I had happened to speak of it to a "prosperous man of business,' one of the sort who can close a mortgage or squeeze the unfortunate, and he said "What does it amount to, those people are either dead or so old that they don't amount to anything." Indignation gripped hands with disgust, then blazed into a blind, unreasoning anger, I wanted to punish the man and I asked him whether he did not believe in paying his debts. He pompously avowed that he did, when I said "Then do you not know that but for the debt you owe those who have made the world what it is, you would be a frightened ape, perched in the forks of a tree, listening for a foe all thru the night and anxiously scanning the surroundings at dawn to see if a banana had ripened in the night and escaped the clutches of some more daring beast, else a hairy cave man creeping from some hole in a cliff, with a club or boulder seeking an unsuspecting snake or lizard for breakfast "You owe the mass of humanity for all you have and if you do not pay it by helping those to come, you are a bankrupt pauper." He said that he did not understand, and that I was insulting. I replied "Your soul is no better developed than the caveman's, you could not know a generous thought and I consider you as incapable of insult." To my disappointment, he turned away, and I went to my office and wrote the poem for this sermon. I realize that I was wasting my indignation, shooting at a sparrow with a 42 centimeter gun, but as a whole, do we realize the enormous debt we owe the past? There is Dr. Stephen Smith of New York, who gave the world the first actual city sanitation, who now at ninety-three lectures and is writing a history of surgery. When he started, the death rate of New York was above fifty per thousand, it is now less than fourteen. His plans went out, all over this nation, yet how many, even in the profession, ever heard of him? This is one solitary instance of the countless list. We cannot pay what we owe to those who are of the Great Silence, the bill has been indorsed to those who are coming after us. Are we paying it? Are we even living up to the possibilities of spreading the good and the happiness available among the folks who fall under our influence? Are we seeking to extend our influence? Do we know and live the precept of Christianity that makes us each one his brother's keeper? I care not about the creed or the profession of a man, I judge by the results of his religion. I do not like those "Successful operations" so splendidly done, so brilliant in technique, if the patient recovers to drag out a miserable existence, or to die from some complication. Are we paying our great debt of the race? LONG AGO We had ideas very strange, We told a waiter, "Keep the change," But prices kept an upward creep, We used to sing a pretty song, We lifted up the chorus strong, We thought the winter time was great, When we could gayly sleigh or skateOh, for the comforts out-of-date, Long, long ago! -Washington Star. Poems the Doctor Should Know EVERY MOTHER (Buy Bonds) Each twilight for three wondrous years My boy and sweet wee girl sleep safe. Chastened, I watch them, for I know Whole nations died to keep them so! Whole nations died to spare me grief! No merit mine-it is but chance That I in safety rear my boy, While you know naught of sheltered joy, Mothers of Britain and of France! And now, beneath a foreign sky, For Freedom, all that men hold dear, At home break faith with those who die? 100 Garfield Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. (The exquisite poem above is from the pen of the widow of the late Dr. Flavel B. Tiffany, formerly president of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley.-Ed.) LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY The fountains mingle with the river, In one another's being mingle- See! the mountains kiss high heaven, -Percy Bysshe Shelley. THE CROOKED CLOCK You seem very innocent from your shelf, It lacks sixty minutes of all that you say With your fraudulent hands o'er your faceBut as we need light to prepare for the day I will pardon your fib with good grace. 'Tis true you curtail, now, the time of the night, And you probably pilfer some fun, But you wake us, you bet, by the "dawn's early light" For a new strangle hold on the Hun. So, camouflaged clock, here's more speed to your works, 'Till Judgment Day comes for the kaiser'Till the Austrians, Bulgars, and likewise the Turks, Are sensibly sadder-and wiser! -O. C. A. Child in the New York Times. COURAGE Courage is not just To bare one's bosom to the saber thrust, Alone in daring. Courage is to grieve, To have the hurt, and make the world believe You are not caring. Courage does not lie Alone in dying for a cause. To die Is only giving. Courage is to feel The daily daggers of relentless steel -Douglas Malloch in the American Lumberman. DON'T BE A PESSIMIST Just buckle in, and keep your grin, Don't ever say: "We may not win," When things go wrong and skies look black, And wail where'er you walk about The following telegram from St. Louis is self explanatory. Dr. A. W. McAlester, Kansas City, Mo. Your attention directed to following telegram from Washington. exists for several thousand additional medical officers in army and immediate work, some for training, and others to be held in reserve. county committees to speed up enrollment as effectively as possible. and make personal canvass. An urgent need navy, some for Please urge your Please publish MAJOR W. H. LUEDDE. If you can enlist for immediate service, please telephone or wire Captain Hayden, or Dr. A. W. McAlester, Kansas City, Mo., for application. The Doctor's Funnybone The Melting Pot Good Advice Keep your eyes peeled, your lips sealed, and your heart steeled. Similar Cases "Vaccinated on Grand Avenue," read a headline in a Kansas City paper. This recalls the incident of the Vancouver girl who was vaccinated on the North Arm.-Vancouver (B. C.) Province. Birth Control The announcement that the birth rate in Germany has decreased nearly one-half in the last three years ought to go a long way toward making the war popular everywhere, especially with the "birth controllists." Stupid Humanity There are times when one feels that humanity is too stupid to be saved and when one feels like going away from here and leaving the world flat on its back. Only one doesn't know where to go-Chicago News. They Still Joke in England "Just ask Dr. Jones to run round to my place right away. Our cook's fallen down stairs, broke her leg; the housemaid's got chickenpox, and my two boys have been knocked down by a taxi." "I'm sorry, sir, but the doctor was blown up in yesterday's air raid and he won't be down for a week."-Punch. Mistaken Contempt It was justly said by Emperor Charles V that to learn a new language was to acquire a new soul. He who is acquainted only with the writers of his native tongue is in perpetual danger of confounding what is accidental with what is essential, and of supposing that tastes and habits of thought, which belong only to his own age and counry, are inseperable from the nature of man.-Macaulay. Merely Suggestions Someone has written a book on "The Mind of Arthur James Balfour." Other volumes of the series are thought to be in preparation, including: "The Biceps of Jess Willard." "The Larynx of William Jennings Bryan." "The Medulla Oblongata of Senator Reed." "The Ring Finger of Lillian Russell." "Cerebrum versus Cerebellum in Charles S. Whit man.' A Matrimonial Prize A young man who, during his brief career, had never been required to do very much labor at home, enlisted for the present war, and is now in a training camp "Somewhere in America." A few days ago his mother received a letter from him in which he said that he had never worked so hard in his life, that he had been doing kitchen work, making beds, washing and drying dishes, etc., and that when he returned from the war he would make some fellow in California the very best wife there ever was.-Los Angeles Times. ¶ Atropine is the most reliable and longwinded stimulator of the respiratory system.-Free, Med. Fort. Mays advocates treating old ulcers by applying cold, unheated, freshly expressed beef juice.-So. Clinic. In anterior poliomyelitis Charponneal advises veratrum and aconite during the acute stage.-N. Y. M. J. ¶ Garnak treated cancer with quinine hydroiodide, gr. 71⁄2 three or four times a day, with remarkably encouraging results.-N. Y. M. J. ¶ Should it not be possible, by radiotherapy, to check the growth of tubercle bacilli in cultures in the human body?-Zueblin, Amer. Med. ¶ It is important that we recognize the possibilities for early manifestations of cardiac weakness and incompetency.-Smart, Med. R. of R. ¶ Rehfuss (N. Y. M. J.) finds delay in the gastric digestion by no means unusual, always pathologic, not confined to any one morbid state. ¶ Diabetes-Antipyrin is doing good when, as the quantity of urine falls, the specific gravity also falls or at any rate remains stationary.-Robin. The contention that intestinal stasis can furnish no adequate evidence as a cause of neurasthenia does not offer a sound basis.-Macy, Med. R. of R. ¶ I reserve von Noorden's treatment for lean diabetics threatened with acidosis or acetonuria, who have not improved on milk diet.-Robin, Le M. M. To strengthen the digestion, take a little of everything edible and especially of things that disagree; for thus you will accustom yourself to them and learn to digest them. ¶ Diagnosis between perforated ulcer and appendicitis-The essential thing is to proceed at once. Differentiate after you have found the trouble.-Wilmoth, Lancet-Clinic. ¶ Amerigo reports a man who was poisoned by four drops of a 2 per cent solution of cocaine dropped in the eye. Four drops more induced incoherent raving.-Pan-Amer. S. and M. J. ¶ Mental habits are so communicable from one to another that they seem almost to be contagious. Many finally become helpless to the fixedness of their mental habits-Moody, Texas S. J. M. ¶ Under Victor Robinson the Medical Review of Reviews is not a dusty museum or collection of mummified relics, but a real live journal, every page imbued with the abounding vitality of its editor. ¶ Feminine unrest threatens to crystallize about the question of painless childbirth. The demand of the women is just. It is up to us to remove the curse from childbearing as far as we are able to do so with safety to mother and child.-Dorrell, Texas M. J. ¶ Infantile Paralysis-Suspecter case-clean out with calomel and salines; disinfect with sulphocarbolates; apply nonirritant antiseptics to nasopharynx; calx sulphurata to saturation; calx iodata may help; aconitine or gelseminine for fever; nuclein as a vitalizer. -Am. J. Cl. Med. Notes on Reliable Remedies Need an Office Assistant?-If you want an assistant in your office, doctor, one that is competent and willing; one that will make money for you from the start, read over carefully the offer of the ThompsonPlaster Co., on adv. page 58, this issue. It is the best thing we know of in the whole realm of office assistants. For Sale at Great Sacrifice-X-ray and electrical apparatus. Owner on active duty in army, paying storage: 1 Kelly-Knott x-ray machine, 1 Victor combistat, 1 Victor high frequency, 1 Kelly-Knott tube stand, 1 tube holder, 1 light cabinet, 1 filmoscope, 2 x-ray tubes, 2 lamps for treatment and high frequency electrodes. All new three years ago. Good as new now. Cost $1,600. Will sell for $500. For further information address X-Ray, care Medical Herald. Therapeutic Value of Yeast-There is every reason to believe that increased attention is being given by many careful physicians to the therapeutic value of Yeast. It has been known for some time that claims have been made that Yeast possesses certain dietetic value and not a few physicians have employed Yeast locally, with a great degree of success. French medical literature contains frequent references to Cerevesine which is an elegant and effective form in which to use Yeast, both locally and internally. The results that have been obtained from the use of this remedy are sufficient warrant for the suggestion that it would be well for every physician to get acquainted with Cerevesine. Literature and samples will be sent on application to E. Fougera & Co., Inc., 90-92 Beekman Street, New York City. The Ideal Saline Eliminant-Being a saline mineral water, rich in sulphates, Pluto Water acts in the intestines by its osmotic effect. The action is a double one. The salts contained in the water are slowly diffusing, therefore capable of holding and increasing the fluid contents of the bowels. It has been shown that not only is the volume of water increased but that, by reflex action of the intestinal glands, the internal secretion-succus entericus-is also increased. The absence of griping from Pluto Water is due to the fact that it acts as an intestinal bath rather than as an irritant of the mucosa, as characteristic of most cathartics and even calomel. The advantages of this kind of elimination are apparent, especially so when the continued use of laxatives becomes necessary. In all cases where prompt, efficient and harmless hydrogogue laxative or cathartic is indicated, Pluto Water is the one ideal eliminant. a A Veriable Prop- After the subsidence of the acute symptoms of any serious febrile disease, an examination of the blood will almost always reveal a degree of anemia in direct proportion to the severity and duration of the primary disease. It is thus always desirable in such cases to adopt measures to revive, restore and reconstruct, and with this object in view one should begin at the foundation, i. e., the blood itself. To construct new red cells, and reconstruct those which have become dehemoglobinized by disease, nothing is more potent in effect than Pepto Mangan (Gude). This standard preparation of organic iron and manganese supplies the vital fluid with the elements needed to reconstruct and restore its oxygen carrying capacity, by contributing the necessary hemoglobin. Pepto-Mangan is palatable, absorbable, and promptly assimilable. It encourages the appetite, without disturbing digestion or causing constipation. Post-Scarlatinal Dropsy-The careful physician is always on the lookout while treating a case of scarlet fever for a symptom or symptoms that indicate that the kidneys have become involved. Post-scarlatinal dropsy, indicating as it does a nephritis, is always a serious complication and one that demands prompt and careful treatment. The most important indication is to remove from the uriniferous tubules the cumulation of desquamative deteritous that results from the fever, by securing free diuresis and at the same time to sustain cardias action and to overcome the tendency to circulatory stasis which is favored by the intense congestion to which the blood vessels all over the body have been subjected. Anasarcin Tablets deserve the careful consideration of the physi cian, because by their action it is possible not only to sustain the heart and increase the circulation, but also to produce a diuresis which does not produce or aggravate kidney irritation and which secures not only the removel of effused fluid, but flow of salts and accumulated toxins. Anasarcin Tablets will be found not only to be dependable, but safe. The dose can be easily adjusted to meet individual conditions and the effect produced will be such as to relieve the physician of a great part of the anxiety which must be always felt when such a complication appears in the course of scarlet fever. Scientific literature in regard to Anasarcin and samples of the product will be sent to any physician on request to the Anasarcin Chemical Company, Winchester, Tennessee. Kora-Konia-The physician, surgeon or specialist in any branch of the medical profession, realizes the importance of having at hand for regular or emergency use, therapeutic agents which have been especially designed to meet conditions present. This applies not only to drugs intended for internal administration, but particularly to products used for the purpose of protecting the skin against irritation and for the relief of inflammation, pain, pruritis, etc. A powder intended for use by the physician, surgeon or specialist as a dusting or dressing powder, should be composed of carefully selected ingredients, carefully compounded and capable of exerting protective. absorbent, antiseptic, mechanically lubricant, soothing and healing action and effect. The calls for such an agent are many and to meet the various indica tions, Kora-Konia has been introduced to the profession. Many physicians use Kora-Konia exclusively and many others are beginning to become acquainted with its all-round value. For the dressing of burns. scalds, abrasions or minor wounds, accompanied by laceration, as a protective dressing for ulcers, moist or weeping surfaces, venereal sores, Kora-Konia is indispensable. It also acts as an ideal suture dressing, as a dressing in umbilical hernia and as a protective agent to prevent dressing or bandages from sticking or adhering to wounded surfaces. A package of Kora-Konia should be kept in the office, in the obstetrical bag and in the emergency kit, and will be found to act as a friend in need and a dependable agent, which the doctor can ill afford to be without. Samples of Kora-Konia will be sent to physicians on request to the House of Mennen. Newark, N. J. |