OFFICIAL JOURNAL WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS Next Meeting, Kansas City, December 26-27, 1895 Have You Secured Space in the CHRISTMAS HERALD? Battle Creek, Michigan. Incorporated 1867. The largest, most thoroughly equipped and one of the most favorably located in the United States. It is under strictly regular management. Eight physicians, well trained and of large experience. A quiet home-like place where trained nurses," "rest cure," "massage," "faradization," "galvanization," "static electrization," "Swedish movements," "dieting," baths," "physical training." and all that pertains to modern rational medical treatment can be had in perfection at reasonable prices. A special Hospital Building (150 beds) for surgical cases with finest hospital facilities and appliances. Large fan for Winter and Summer ventilation, absolutely devoid of usual Hospital Odors. Delightful Surroundings, Lake-side Resort. Pleasure Grounds, Steamere, Sail-boats, etc, Trained nurses, either sex, furnished at reasonable rates. J. H. KELLOGG, M. D., Sup't, Battle Creek, Mich. PURE GLUTEN The undersigned have for several years been manufacturing a pure gluten for a few physicians. We are now prepared to furniet to the medical professi..n the one pure gluten biscuit manufactured in America. For samples and prices, address, Sanitarium Health-Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich. As Digestible as Mothers' Milk. Cows' milk modified by the PEPTOGENIC POWDER is just as digestible as mothers' milk,-no more so, the baby has to do the rest. FAIRCHILD'S PEPTOGENIC MILK POWDER affords the only known method of modifying cows' milk to the standard of human milk. FAIRCHILD BROS. & FOSTER, New York, A PRACTICAL MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. HIRAM CHRISTOPHER, M. D., Editor. To contributors of Original Articles, a liberal number of copies of the HERALD will be given (or mailed free of expense if addresses are furnished), and the publishers will furnish reprints at cost, application for same to be made when copy is forwarded. Illustrations will be furnished FREE for all articles requiring same, if drawings are furnished. Address all correspondence relating to subscriptions and advertising to MEDICAL HERALD CO. Sixth and Charles Streets. (See Publishers' Bureau.) BY CHAS. W. ADAMS, A. M., M. D., KANSAS CITY, Mo. Professor of Gynæcology, University Medical College, Kansas City, Mo. READ AT THE NEW MEXICO TERRITORIAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, LAS VEGAS, N. M. T IS a difficult matter, in many instances, to recognize, in a diseased condition, what is real and what is the result of our own desires. It requires boldness of thought, as well as mental courage, to attempt to stem a tide which is settling all one way. It gives little encouragement to the conservative mind to be held as too obtuse, if not too obstinate, to grasp so-called advanced or majority ideas. To such an extent is this often carried, that it seems, that what is desired of a consultant is not a careful, conservative, scientific opinion, but rather a daring bold operation, or in other words: blood, and plenty of it. I am led to make these observations, not from a carping, criticising standpoint, but because in so many different directions in the same field, I am unable to find the conditions which I have heard my colleagues say they find, following them in the same line of thought, study, observation and practice. Having abundant opportunities for investigation, I do not by twothirds find cases which require operation, which if they do not sacrifice life, at least cause irreparable mutilation. Hence I have chosen to place my observations before you, under the idea of the "Errors which are made under the head of Cancer, Ulcers of the Os and Cervix Uteri, etc." It is a curious fact that ever since there has been a reasonably safe surgical method for the removal of these diseased conditions, how lavish Nature has been in scattering them about. |