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MERCK & CO., New York

Powerful Toll TELEPHONES

and Party Line

Loud Speaking, Long Distance telephones for Farmers and Rural Lines a specialty. Fifteen years' experience. Our Generator rings 25 to 40 phones on one circuit. Liberal discount on the first instrument sent to any locality.

It will pay you to write us for catalog and introductory prices on all styles New Model Telephones before purchasing else. where. We challenge all rivals.

Special Inducements to Physicians. ELLIOTT TELEPHONE CO., Indianapolis, Ind.

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BUT HOW "EFFICIENT."

Our machines embody new important inventions which appeal to every physician on sight. These features are controlled by us and cannot be obtained in any other make of therapeutic devices of this character.

"BUY AN UP-TO-DATE MACHINE."

We solicit your correspondence.

Jerman Medical Electric Co., Indianapolis, Ind.

ADVENTURERS Will not persist

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PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND DENTISTS

who are protected against suits for alleged MALPRACTICE by a policy in

THE FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK

HIS company will defend its clients against any such proceedings at its own cost and if damages are awarded will pay same up to Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars for injuries suffered by one person, or Five Thousand for injuries suffered by more than one person, for a premium of Ten Dollars a year. Insurance for double above amounts at same ratio. Agents in all Considerable Towns

Special formis of Accident & Health Insurance for Physicians, Surgeons & Dentists

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famous names in this line there is none more widely known than Pabst. See adv. on page 30.

A combined faradic and galvanic battery with diagnostic lamp, operated by nine dry cells. No acids or liquids. Does this interest you? See Williams's adv. on page 24, and remember that for a limited time he is offering physicians a discount of 25 per cent.

Aesculus Cones for hemorrhoids. See adv. on page

8. you ever investigated the long and elegant line of pills, parvules, etc., made by Wm. R. Warner & Co., of Philadelphia? Their adv. on page 29 will give you a hint. This is an old and well-known firm; you have no doubt already dealt with them often, but we doubt if you are acquainted with the great extent and variety of their line. Write to them for samples and literature.

There are many questions besides the curing of the sick that a doctor must correctly handle if he would succeed among the often ignorant, but at the same time critical, people who form his clientele. See adv. The Physician and His Patient" on page 7.

Tonic Beef is a scientifically prepared stimulant nutritiv. Being completely predigested, and containing no sugar or flavors of any kind, it can be borne by the most delicate and fastidious palate and stomach, and can be absorbed practically entirely by any patient. It is made from fresh choice beef, crackt wheat kernels and fresh eggs. Sharp & Dohme. See adv. on page 14.

See Jones' offer of a six-quart case of "Old Tom Jones Bourbon Whiskey" (the real Kentucky article) for only $5.00, on page 22.

Uterin wafers are a most convenient form of medication. Have you tried Naphey's yet? See his adv. of 100 for $1.00, on page 4.

Unguentine made its way thoroly into the favor of the profession even when it was offered in only one form, but now that its enterprising manufacturers are preparing it in a half dozen different attractiv forms it will certainly be used more widely than ever before. See adv. on page 24.

Before spending your money for office furniture be sure to write to the W. D. Allison Company for information on the subject. Even if you are not thinking of getting any new office furniture just yet, better get their catalog. You do not know what you need until you find out what wonderfully convenient tables and cabinets they make. See adv. on page 26.

Dr. Wanach, of St. Petersburg, has used Bruns Airol Paste-airol, one part; mucilage acacia and glycerin, of each two parts; white bole sufficient to form a soft paste-with excellent results in the treatment of wounds, and found that in many cases it dispenses with the use of bandages and other dressing material. The application is very simple. With a spatula the paste is applied thick over the sutured wound and a thin layer of cotton is placed over it. On the following day the paste and cotton will be found to have formed a firm plate which remains hygroscopic, in the latter respect differing from collodion. After four, eight, or fourteen days the entire mass (Continued over next leaf.)

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RARE chance for doctor. Residence, $3,500 practise, rail

"The sample of Anasarcin tablets you sent me did excellent service, and I inclose $5.00 for which please send me their value in tablets." tion. (Signed) E. H. Carpenter, M.D. See the Anasarcin adv. on page 22, and try it in your next case of dropsy.

road town; county seat; fine climate; little opposiAlso drug store and stock of drugs. Address "Texas Doctor," care of MEDICAL WORLD. GOOD location; collections all good, no opposition. House, office and barns for sale or rent; immediate possession. Dr. Jones, Bevington, Iowa.

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FOR roads and pay. Dr. Quesenberry, Worthing

OR SALE-Physician's residence. Good society, school,

ton, Ky.

Sumner, Mich.

"Turn to your text-book on surgery today and refresh your memory upon what constitutes the succession of definit changes'; also note if you please the condition of the circulation in the part affected; then FREE Good opening. Michigan. Enclose stamp. Box 3, remember Antiphlogistine is the most approved method of counteracting these varied abnormal condi-Roomed house, hot water heat. Half acre, fruit, horse, SALE-$2,500 unopposed practise. Modern ninetions whether they exist in deep-seated organs or superficial structures. If you believe in moist heat, road outfit and medicines. Price $2,500, practise alone; venesection, cupping, hot stupes, blisters and other team, etc., $500. Sick. Address X, Haverhill, Mass.

methods of counter-irritation, lay aside all prejudice $1.000 villa medical practise and drug store in

and take up Antiphlogistine." Quoted from the Antiphlogistine adv. on page 9.

One thousand elegant Labels free. See adv. on page 13.

There has been considerable discussion in THE WORLD recently concerning driving lamps for physicians, and many have advised acetylene as the only remedy. But a new one is now presented to our readers: The Atwood Manufacturing Company guarantee their 'Stay-Lit" to be wind proof and that it cannot be jolted out; and it burns kerosene. See adv. on page 13.

In ordering malt extracts for your patients, do not order anything in the form of a malt extract that your druggist happens to keep and recommend; he often

of 350 people, northern Illinois. No opposition. Doing $3,000 business. Fine opportunity. Do not answer unless you mean business. Address Box 48, Mokena, Ill.

$2.500 practise free to purchaser of property:

95 per cent. collectible. Ten miles from Dayton. Address Doctor, 20% West Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio.

FOR SALE $2,000 practise free to purchaser of my

erty; office fixtures, drugs, horse, buggy, etc. Price $1.200 if taken soon. True value, $1,800. Population, 500. Address P. O. Box 7, Kincaid, Kas.

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advantage to see to it that your patients get what can be relied on. Milwaukee is famous for its beers and malt extracts of all sorts, and among Milwaukee's

UNOPPOSED practise for sale. Railroad town in western N. Y. Established sixteen years. No real estate. Address "X," care of MEDICAL WORLD.

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See MERCK'S MANUAL,

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ICHTHARGAN "Quickly kills

Clinical Reports to Physicians.

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OR SALE-$1,250 buys residence, office, barn, etc. Practise $2,300; little competition. Property worth more than money asked. Address Box 13, Sulphur Hill, Indiana.

A GREAT CHANCE for a physician. I offer for sale a residence and office in Donnelly, Minn., a village of 200 population in a prosperous agricultural district. Six room, well finished and modern. Three lots with lawn and garden. A great bargain. Write for details. W. M. OSTRANDER, North American Building, Philadelphia.

DOCTOR Your fishing tackle will never be complete until you have one of our Perfection Artificial Bass Baits, which float. Positively the most successful Bait made, as it will take larger bass and more of them. Sent on receipt of 50 cents postpaid, and your money back if not satisfied. Address

HUBBS-NEER MFG. CO., BUTLER, OHIO

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For 10c. will mail and insure against breakage. I also offer the HICKS' THERMOMETER (mailed, insured), 85c.; with certificate, $1.10. A Centigrade scale thermometer (mailed, insured), 50c. These offerings are special and limited. My thermometers are largely used in hospitals.

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Microscopes and Supplies, Etc.

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usually be removed in toto without inconvenience to the patient. Suppuration about the sutures very seldom occurs, and if it does happen (in scalp wounds on unclean individuals), the secretion is constantly taken up by the paste and deep suppuration prevented. The airol paste is not disturbed by saliva, nasal secretion, or urin; and in gastrostomies the sutured part of the wound remains free from reaction. In laparotomies its use is also of great advantage, doing away as it does with cumbersome dressings. Excoriations, burns, superficial wounds, granulating surfaces heal as nicely under the airol paste as under the dry scab. Irritation is never caused by the paste. Artificial eczemas frequently heal after a single application. -Klin.-ther. Woch., ix, No. 48.

For Static Machines see the Jerman adv. on page 17. Not how cheap, but how efficient" is their motto, and it is a mighty good motto for the purchaser also.

"I have used Neurilla in cases of dentition with good results."-A. L. Fetterling, M.D., Westville, I. T.

All have read of Finsen's Violent Ray experiments and been interested in the success he achieved; and now the Violet Ray apparatus has appeared as a commercial actuality-at a reasonable price. See adv. on page 12.

See the Elliott Telephone adv. on page 17. It does not pay to try to get along without these conveniences.

"To induce catharsis without the objectionable sequelae common to a majority of laxativs, no remedy responds to the need of the physician with more satisfaction and celerity than Syrup of Figs." Quoted from the Calfornia Fig Syrup Co.'s adv. on page 23, which see. We advise you to read this adv. carefully; there is nothing you need more, especially with women and children, than an efficient laxativ that is at the same time pleasant.

The Office Treatment of Rectal Diseases. See adv. on page 8.

Galvanism, faradism, static electricity and x-ray: On these subjects address the McIntosh Co. See their adv. on page 31, and if you do not find there what you want, drop them a line; they can equip you thoroly and well with anything in the electro-therapeutical line. Send for their catalog; it will prove useful to have at hand.

What do you rely on in troubles affecting the brain, nerve centres and spinal cord, and where a safe but. powerful aphrodisiac is needed? If you have not tried Freligh's Tonic, do so. It is made by the well-known firm of I. O. Woodruff & Co., 99 Reade street, New York, N. Y., who also make Freligh's Liver Medicin, and Freligh's Heart Drops. These prescriptions left by Dr. Freligh are probably old friends of the most of our readers, but those who have not yet become acquainted with them should send for samples. Ample samples are free. See adv. on page 5.

Elixir Six Iodids for anemia, syphilis, and wherever an alterativ and tonic is needed. For formula, indications for its administration, etc., see adv. on page 15.

For hysteria, insomnia, and nervous prostration-in fact wherever nerve rest is needed-try Passiflora. See adv. on page 31.

"Hints on the Treatment of Diseases of Women " sent free; also samples of Micajah's Uterin Wafers. This is an old and well-known remedy. See adv. on page 15.

For burns, syphilitic, varicose, and indolent ulcers, try Pixine. This remedy has met with great success.

A scientific unguent ethically placed on the market. See adv. on page 26.

Have you investigated the merits of the Philo-Burt spinal apparatus? See adv. on page 12.

There is everything in a name, if that name be a particular brand, or trade mark, guaranteeing the quality and uniformity of a given product. It is well to keep this in mind when buying grape juice or ordering it for your patients, and order Welch's. See adv. on page 23.

Arnold L., age 24 years, German. Diagnosis wound of the left cheek, the result of being thrown from a street car. Patient admitted to hospital March 10, 1902. The wound was filled with gravel and dirt, and involved almost the entire side of the face. space in the centre of the cheek, 2 x 11⁄2 inches, was completely denuded of skin. In this case, it being de sirable to have the wound heal rapidly and with no evidence of scar, I determined to use grafts of normal skin sufficiently large to entirely cover the denuded surface. These grafts were secured from the patient's arms. The wound was drest as in the other cases, the dressing being kept wet with Bovinine. March 17 the dressing was removed, and the wound was entirely healed, leaving no evidence of a scar whatever; but around the periphery there was some decided redness. This is probably the most rapid case of healing of this class on record.

Parke, Davis & Co.'s Antidiphtheritic serum and their Ideal Vaccine are both, like everything else that this great house puts out, as good as can be produced. See their adv. on the last cover page of this issue.

Every physician should have some good local anes thetic that he knows he can depend on, get thoroly acquainted with it, and use it. Dr. R. B. Waite's local anesthetic, advertised on page 8 of this issue, is very highly recommended. See the adv.

"I have weighed Peacock's Bromids in the balance, and not found it wanting as a most efficient remedy for the prompt relief of all nervous excitement, epilepsy, uterin and cerebral congestion, hysteria, neurasthenia and, in fact, any convulsiv or reflex neurotic derangement. It can be depended upon always."-Alfred R. Schoenig, M.D., Billings, Mo.

Ideal Maternity Belt, Ideal Uterin Supporter, Ideal Elastic Hosiery, Ideal Binaural Stethoscope, and Mr. Willis's remarkable bargain in the way of a pocket surgical case make a most attractiv page this month. See page 25. You can get whatever you want in the surgical line from Mr. Willis, and he can be relied on to give you your money's worth every time.

Iodin we want; but iodism we do not want; to get the one without the other has often been difficult; but there is a preparation now made that claims to have entirely overcome this objection; it is Burnham's Soluble Iodin. See adv on page 19.

Glyco-Thymoline should be one of your regular stand-bys. It is an elegant and efficient preparation. having the practical endorsement of every-day use of men high up in both the medical and the dental professions. Its makers speak of it as "a purgativ for the mucous membrane; you will instantly think of many cases where you need it. See adv. on page 7 and send for samples and literature.

Try Tongaline in your next case of rheumatism. Write to the Mellier Drug Company, St. Louis, Mo., for information concerning it.

Hydrozone and Glycozone have both made a great (Continued on next page.)

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Language is a growth rather than a creation. The growth of our vocabulary is seen in the vast increase in the size of our diction. aries during the past century. This growth is not only in amount, but among other elements of growth the written forms of words are becoming simpler and more uniform. For example, compare Eng lish spelling of a century or two centuries ago with that of to-day

It is our duty to encourage and advance the movement toward simple, uniform and rational spelling. See the recommendations of the Philological Society of London, and of the American Philo. logical Association, and list of amended spellings, publisht in the Century Dictionary (following the letter z) and also in the Standard Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary, and other authoritativ works on language. The tendency is to drop silent letters in some of the most flagrant instances, as ugh from though, etc., change ed tot in most places where so pronounced (where it does not affect the preceding sound), etc.

The National Educational Association, consisting of ten thous and teachers, recommends the following:

"At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association held in Washington, D. C., July 7, 1898, the action of the Department of Superintendence was approved, and the list of words with simplified spelling adopted for use in all publications of the National Educational Association as follows:

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securing the general adoption of the suggested amendments -IRVING SHEPARD, Secretary."

We feel it a duty to recognize the above tendency, and to adopt it in a reasonable degree. We are also disposed to add enuf (enough) to the above list, and to conservativly adopt the following rule recommended by the American Philological Association: Drop final "e" in such words as "definite," "infinite," "favorite," etc., when the preceding vowel is short. Thus, spell opposit," preterit," "hypocrit," "requisit," etc. When the preceding vowel is long, as in "polite,"

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unite," etc., retain present forms unchanged. We simply wish to do our duty in aiding to simplify and rationalize our universal instrument- language.

Infantil Convulsions.

Convulsions, as noted in infants, consist of clonic contractions of the muscles, accompanied by more or less tonic spasm, and accompanied also by loss of consciousness, followed by stupor or natural sleep. If the case progresses unfavorably the stupor deepens into actual coma, and the convulsions occur with diminisht intervals and increasing severity. The clinical appearance is well known to all practicians, but the investigation as to the causativ element, and the subsequent treatment, are by no means universally good.

The acute convulsion of childhood is always symptomatic, and needs to be sharply differentiated from epilepsy, tetany, asphyxia, laryngismus, etc. Any of the infectious diseases may be ushered in by a convulsion. Influenza, whooping cough, severe sore throat (especially if the affection be tonsillar), mumps, the exanthemata, gastro-intestinal diseases, may all be heralded by a convulsion, and it is not rare for chill observed in the adult in the onset of convulsions to take the place of the initial malarial fever, pneumonia, etc. Ingestion of indigestible food is perhaps the most frequent cause of convulsions in childhood, yet for reasons cited above the practician should be always on his guard and would better investigate every case carefully and guard his prognosis well. All authorities unite in denying that dentition is a cause of convulsions, and the reason this cause so often figures in diagnosis is that the attendant makes his diagnosis without sufficient investigation. While the inflamed gum is perhaps more prominent than the toxemia from indigestible food, or the maskt advance of some one of the numerous diseases which may be present, such source of irritation

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