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The best antiseptic for purposes of personal hygiene

LISTERINE

Being efficiently antiseptic, non-poisonous and of agreeable odor and taste, Listerine has justly acquired much popularity as a mouth-wash, for daily use in the care and preservation of the teeth.

As an antiseptic wash or dressing for superficial wounds, cuts, bruises or abrasions, it may be applied in its full strength or diluted with one to three parts water; it also forms a useful application in simple disorders of the skin.

In all cases of fever, where the patient suffers so greatly from the parched condition of the mouth, nothing seems to afford so much relief as a mouth-wash made by adding a teaspoonful of Listerine to a glass of water, which may be used ad libitum.

As a gargle, spray or douche, Listerine solution, of suitable strength, is very valuable in sore throat and in catarrhal conditions of the mucous surfaces; indeed, the varied purposes for which Listerine may be successfully used stamps it as an invaluable article for the family medicine cabinet.

Special pamphlets on dental and general hygiene may be had upon request.

LAMBERT PHARMACAL COMPANY

LOCUST AND TWENTY-FIRST STREETS :: :: ST. LOUIS, MO.

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VAGINAL DOUCHE

CHINOSOL

(Accepted by the Council on Pharm. and Chem., A. M. A.)

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CHINOSOL CO. PARMELE PHARMACAL CO.

54 SOUTH ST., N. Y.

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A Monthly Journal of Individual and Public Health.

EDITED BY JOHN B. HUBER, A.M., M.D.

Vol. XXX.

JANUARY, 1914

EDITORIALS.

SALUTATORY 1914.

CICERO declared, before the birth of Christianity, salus populi suprema lex; modern sanitation can, if given free scope, vouchsafe the public health. In ways most necessary to humankind is preventive medicine "making good." Through twenty centuries and up to Pasteur, a short generation ago, Cicero's words were hardly more than a rhetorical sentiment. Pasteur demonstrated beyond peradventure that germs are the essential causes of the infectious diseases, and declared that it is within human power to banish all such from the face of the earth. Koch and his co-workers based upon Pasteur's findings the science of Preventive Medicine, to-day the most pervasively beneficent agency within human experience. Personal, domestic, school and communal hygiene, as the terms are now understood, are derived from that noble science.

Infants no longer die through dispensations of Providence, but by milk demonstrably laden with disease germs. Only by reason of crass obduracy are many infections now endured. Preventive Medicine is adequately equipped to cope with housing, sewage, filtration-all the problems affecting life conservation, that enter into well nigh every phase of our infinitely complex civilization. And since many infections, such as tuberculosis and malaria, occasion tremendous material losses, preventive medicine has become a vital factor in sociology and economics.

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Indeed, the greatest and wisest statesmen have been, and are, realizing how Preventive Medicine has for its objects to curtail and, if possible, to obviate disease, to prolong life, and through improved conditions to make existence happier. Lecky observed: "The great work of sanitary reform has been perhaps the noblest legislative achievement of our age; and, if measured by the suffering it has diminished, has probably done more for the real happiness of mankind than all the many questions that make and unmake ministries.

And Dr. Eliot, of Harvard has written: "Preventive Medicine is capable in the future of doing away with poverty and misery, of remedying industrial disputes and of contributing to the cause of international peace. It is capable of removing those causes of human misery, poverty and sorrow which lead to internal rebellion and disorder and, among nations, to war and strife.

Nor is preventive medicine content to deal only with material diseases; it rightly concerns itself with mental hygiene and the assurance of a normal posterity—that is, eugenics.

It should now be observed that henceforth we don't expect to deal much with sex pathology; in point of fact we beg to set down here, with the endorsement "Them's our sentiments," the following from the New York Times: "In the campaign of filth, out of which no good can come, 'literature,' and that sometimes bearing the im

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