imals of your size are always destroyed, as being of dangerous and savage nature. Our teeth, as you have doubtless observed, are not those of the creatures who devour flesh. It is, indeed, maintained by Zee and other philosophers, that as, in remote ages, the Ana did prey upon living beings of the brute species, their teeth must have been fitted for that purpose. But, even if so, they have been modified by hereditary transmission, and suited to the food on which we now exist; nor are even the barbarians, who adopt the turbulent and ferocious institutions of Glek-Nas, devourers of flesh like beasts of prey. "In the course of this dispute it was proposed to dissect you; but the Tae begged you off, and the Tur being, by nature, averse to all novel experiments at variance with our custom of sparing life, except where it is clearly proved to be for the good of the community to take it, sent you to me, whose business it is, as the richest man of the State, to afford hospitality to strangers from a distance. It was at my option to decide whether or not you were a stranger whom I could safely admit. Had I declined to receive you, you would have been handed over to the College of Sages, and what might there have befallen you I do not like to conjecture." Mr. Howells, in his "Altruria," advances a similar thought; and to one who will give the matter serious consideration, it is evident that should the population of the earth continue to increase at the present rate for a few thousand years, the time would come when the habitable portion of the earth would be so densely populated by human beings that it would be necessary to economize food, and land devoted to food production, to such an extent that it would be impossible to depend upon so wasteful a method. of nutrition as the use of food at second hand in flesh consumption. England's Drink Bill.- The London Times recently published an article in which the drink bill for England for 1992 is put down at a little more than $700,000,000. The cost of beer and wine was a little less than in 1891, but the expenditure for intoxicating liquors. for each family was a little over $90. REVIEWS. A Rational Treatment of Prostatic Obstruction in Old Men. - By G. Wiley Broome, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Broome takes issue, in this paper, with Magill and others, with reference to the advisability of prostatectomy. He also opposes systematic catheterism. The systematic use of the catheter invariably gives rise to infection, and so increases the patient's sufferings. Besides, the systematic use of the catheter soon destroys the ability of the bladder to empty itself, and furnishes an efficient means of evacuating the bladder only for a short time, it being impossible to use the catheter in such a way as to completely drain the bladder. Sir Henry Thompson's assertion that habitual catheterism will for two years permanently destroy the power of the bladder to empty itself, is abundantly confirmed by the experience of many surgeons. Dr. Broome's method is based upon the suggestion of Sir Henry Thompson, which aims to relieve these cases by supra-pubic drainage. Dr. Broome's principal improvements consist in opening the bladder at a second operation, by means of puncture with a trocar, and inserting a catheter made self-retaining by a screw thread cut upon it. He claims that in his cases of atrophy of the inflamed prostate, the restoration of the func. tion of the urethra was secured by a few months' rest of the bladder secured by this method. Pharmaceutical Specialties of the Farbenfabriken vorm Friedr Bayer & Co., Elberfeld, Germany, who, in addition to the remedies herewith described, prepare SULFONAL-BAYER SALOPHEN, LOSOPHAN and ARISTOL. OR LITHIASIS, acute and chronic gout, uric acid dyscrasia, and the gouty diathesis generally, no remedy has succeeded so well as PIPERAZINE. In Renal Colic and Urinary Hemorrhage, also, it is especially efficacious. PIPERAZINE-BAYER is made by a new process whereby its cost is greatly reduced. PIPERAZINE-BAYER is supplied in half ounces, ounces and tablets. In painful conditions it may be combined with Phenacetine. 'HIS WELL KNOWN REMEDY has justified in the most exceptional manner the opinions of medical men touching its value in modern therapeutics. Phenacetine is indicated in all acute, inflammatory, febrile conditions, and all forms of pain. It is the safest, while the most active, of the antipyretics and analgesics. PHENACETINE is supplied in ounces, tablets and pills; also in various combinations with Salophen. Sulfonal, etc. Trional RIONAL is a nerve seda- TRIONAL is administered in Physicians who wish to have the published testimony concerning the therapeutic action of these preparations, or information as to their chemistry or physiological action, should address Sole W. H. Schieffelin & Co., Agents NEW YORK. (For the U.S. PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. GLYCOZONE FOR GASTRIC ULCERS.- Dr. Cyrus Edson, of New York City, states with reference to the therapeutic value of glycozone for gastic ulcers as follows: "Glycozone is, in the opinion of the writer, the best known agent for the treatment of gastric ulcer. It is also one of the best remedies for the treatment of the stomach, catarrh of chronic alcoholism, and for chronic gastric catarrh from other causes. It is excellent for atonic dyspepsia, and for acid dyspepsia. The writer has seen very gratifying results from its use in these distressing maladies." SENNINE IN ECZEMA AND VENEREAL ULCERS.— W. R. Herdesty, M. D., of Eureka Springs, Ark., claims excellent success in the treatment of eczema and venereal ulcers, stating as follows: "In two cases of eczema covering the inner side of thigh, I applied the Sennine just as I received it from you, that is, full strength, dry, and I am happy to say it acted like a charm in both cases. 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