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SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS. 66 Chemist and Graduate of the "Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris" (France). Charles Marchand Dr. J. FEHR'S 28 Prince St., New York. Compound Talcum" MOST EXCELENT "Baby Powder" "The Hygienic Dermal Powder" FOR INFANTS AND ADUTS. Originally investigated and its Therapeutic Properties discovered in the year 168, by DR. FEHR, and introduced to the Medical and the Pharmaceutical Professions in the year 1873. COMPOSITION:- Silicate of Mag PROPERTIES:- Antiseptic, Anti nesia with Carbolic and Salicylic Acids. zymotic and Disinfectant. Useful as a GENERAL SPRINKLING POWDER, with Positive Hygienic, Prophylactic and Therapeutic properties. BEST DRESSING JULIUS FEHR, M. D., Ancient Pharmacist, Advertised only in Medical and Pharmaceutical publications. HOBOKEN, N. J. ESTABLISHED 14 YEARS. Vapo-resolene FOR WHOOPING COUGH Cresolene is a chemically pure product from coal-tar, of greater antiseptic power than carbolic acid. Vaporized in a closed room, Cresolene will cure the most severe case of whooping cough. The odor of Cresolene is not unpleasant and may be inhaled by ony one without harm. Cresolene is used with success as a remedy or preventive in Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Asthma, Catarrh, Croup, Bronchitis, etc, and whatever the treatment in zymotic diseases Cresolene from its great antiseptic power and the way in which it is used, is a valuable assistant. The Vaporizer is six inches high, and vaporization is affected by a kerosene lamp. Vaporizers with Cresolene, $1.50. Cresolene, small bottle, 25c.; large, 50c. Sold by druggists. WHAT SOME PHYSICIANS SAY OF CRESOLENE. J. H. EGAN, M. D., in the Medical Summary, Treated fourteen cases Pertussis (Whooping "The average duration of treatment was eight days, the benefit being so immediate that the Vaporizers were not used every night. There was entire freedom from spasmodic coughing during the time the Vaporizers were at work. "I have treated common Colds and Sore A. C. MESSENGER, Resident Physician, Soldiers' Throats with invariable success, one night being The Vapo-Cresolene Co. usually sufficient to effect a cure." Schieffelin & Co., Sole Agents. 69 Wall St., New York City. WILMOT CASTLE & CO., 16 Elm Street, Rochester, N. Y. For quite a time we have heard much on the general absence of suitable education on the part of young men who enter on the study of medicine. The much that has been published on this subject is an indication of the lack of this fitness. The consequence has been an awakening on the subject, and some very positive expressions of opinion have been given. What has been said has borne some fruit. The standard for matriculation has been raised; the lowest requirement being made a first-grade teacher's certificate; the highest an A. B. from a reputable college of Science and Art. When this shall be made the lowest, then we may rest for years to come. This is a qualification for the study of medicine that may be regarded as adequate and satisfactory. An A. B. is not to be taken, as we understand the matter, as simply a measure indicating an amount of scholastic knowledge, but particularly as an evidence that one's mind has thereby been trained to study and has learned to think. The ingestive work but fills a capacity of volume, and remains useless unless digested and assimilated by thought and reflection. The acquisition of knowledge is to give us material on which to think, and by thinking to train the mind for all mental work. No one realizes the need of this training more than the teacher, unless he may not have learned this art. But the profession of medicine is not the only one that labors under the disadvantages arising from too low a standard of education on the part of those who enter formally on its study. We know our own deficiencies better than any one else, and speak of them among ourselves, and are sufficiently shamed by them to make the effort to be rid of them. This is 550 commendable, and the effort will bear fruit. Whether encouraged thereto by other professions or callings in life, it matters not. Our own appreciation of the need is a vigorous stimulus to the effort, and well nigh half the cure. But there is encouragement from without, and of such a character as to make the physician feel and be assured that he will not labor in vain. The profession of law is in as sad a plight in this particular as is that of medicine, and there are strong cries lifted up for improvement as respects the same things. Here is what Judge Brewer, of the Supreme Court, says of the unfitness of law students to enter on a study that demands the highest qualities of mind and its training by a preliminary education. There we see that the lack of the necessary education, as preparatory for the work, makes incapable as well as unprincipled lawyers, just as the same defects make like characters in medicine. The preventive for both is to be found in a liberal literary and scientific education. But hear what the distinguished Judge says: "If our profession is to maintain its prominence, a longer course of preparatory study must be required. The door of admission to the bar must swing on reluctant hinges, and only he be permitted to pass through who has by continued and patient study fitted himself for the work of a safe counsellor and the place of a leader. A growing multitude are crowding in who are not fit to be lawyers, who disgrace the profession after they are in it, while in at scramble after a livelihood are debasing the noblest of professions into the meanest of avocations; who, instead of being leaders and looked up to for advice and guidance, are despised as the hangers on of police courts and nibblers after crumbs which a dog ought to be ashamed to touch. It would be a blessing to the profession, and to the community as well, if some Noachian deluge would engulf half of those who have a license to practice." Now, if we could have some distinguished journalist, and one of the better sort of newspaper managers, use similar language of that class (if there is any other) of newspapers which defend charlatans in medicine, because they are profitable advertising customers, we might have more hope of being rid of those characters who prey on the public. Who shall it be? WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF GYNECOLOGISTS AND OBSTETRICIANS. The annual meeting of this society will occur in Kansas City, December 26 and 27, and the Secretary, Dr. T. J. Beattie, is hard at work preparing the program. From present indications, this will be the most interest. ing session ever held by this society, and members who contemplate reading papers should send their titles to the Secretary without delay, to secure proper place on the program. 551 The Physician's Library. MODERN MATERIA MEDICA, with Therapeutic Notes. For the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. By Otto Roth. Seventh Edition. Revised by Dr. Gregor Smith, Würzburg. One volume of 467 pages, octavo, muslin binding. Price, $2.00. Wm. Wood & Co., New York. From the number of editions which have been issued of this work one can fairly judge of its practical merits. The present edition is the seventh, from the same issued in Germany. It is full of prescriptions. The remedies considered are arranged alphabetically. The treatment of each remedy is concise and practical, features that adapt it especially to the busy practitioner. The present edition is "up to date," including the many new drugs which now form so important a part of the practicing physician's pharmacopoeia. HOME TREATMENT FOR CATARRHS AND COLDS; Leonard A. Dessar, M. D. Home Series Publishing Co., New York. This is intended as a household guide for non-medical persons suffering from diseases of the upper respiratory passages. It advises home treatment for diseases which we believe should only be treated by a physician, and, therefore, we do not consider it a safe book for the laity. There are many useful suggestions to physicians however, and we believe it should be in the hands of doctors only. With them it will serve a useful purpose. FOSTER'S PHYSIOLOGY.-Text-Book of Physiology; By Michael Foster, M. D., F. R. S., Prelector in Physiology and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England. New (sixth) American edition, with notes and additions. In one handsome octavo volume of 922 pages, with 257 illustrations. Cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers. Professor Michael Foster's Physiology is not surpassed by any other Physiology now before the profession. It has run through many editions. and is yet the leading text-book used by physicians and students of England and the United States. In the sixth edition-the last-issued by Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, the work has been improved by a revision. of the text and a consequent change in the structure of sentences and the omission of useless verbiage; and such additions have been made as tend to make the work more practically serviceable to both physician and student of medicine. Much of what is said in the work is elucidated by an Appendix, which gives the chemistry of the organic substances which constitute the fabric of the organism. One reads the work with pleasure; the thoughts are made to lie on the surface, and are clothed in a simple and clear style. The book, to us, is very satisfactory, and read with the greatest pleasure. We prize it highly and cordially recommend it. |