Through it we should learn to do business upon business principles, and our patrons would respect us and pay us as they do other business men. All other lines of business are organized for mutual protection and profit. The medical profession stands alone, without unanimity, without concert of action, every fellow for himself, a conspicuous example of inefficiency and lax business principles. The Health Commissioner Heeds Our Suggestions. We are pleased to note that Denver's health commissioner has been prompted, by our suggestion in the February CRITIQUE, to look after the beer makers as well as the bread makers, and he is now busily engaged in sampling the various brands of beer dispensed in this city. But why limit his investigation to beer? Section 457 of the health ordinance of the City of Denver declares that "No person being the manager or keeper of any saloon, boarding house or lodging house, or being employed as clerk, servant or agent thereat, shall therein or thereat offer or have for food or drink, or to be eaten or drunk, any provisions deleterious or unwholesome, or poisonous substance, or allow anything therein to be done or occur prejudicial to health." Section 504 provides that— "The health commissioner may condemn or cause to be destroyed any fluid or substance intended for food or drink whenever he is satisfied that its consumption might be dangerous to health." What a grand opportunity is thus afforded Dr. Carlin to serve a suffering community and effectually preserve the public health. The Clergy and the Christian people of Denver have been pleading with the Mayor and the City Council to help them in suppressing the liquor traffic. The Fire and Police Board have also been exhorted to lend their aid in this work, but all claim that they are powerless against the saloons. The discovery that authority to regulate the sale of liquor has been given to the health department, where it very properly belongs, ought to prove one of the very highest importance to the people of this city. Placed upon the practical basis of protection to the public health, who is so well qualified to judge of the evil influences of the liquor traffic as the honest and conscientious health commissioner? He does not need to be told that the use of intoxicating beverages does more to injure the individuals' health than all other agencies combined. The worm of the still every year destroys more lives than all of the contagious diseases; or than war or pestilence or microbes, or all of these together. The law distinctly declares that "The health commissioner may condemn or cause to be destroyed any fluid or substance intended for food or drink whenever he is satisfied that its consumption might be dangerous to health." The power thus vested in our health commissioner is clear and explicit. All that is now required to make the ordinance effective is a commissioner with sufficient moral courage to enforce the law. Is Dr. Carlin the man? The energy and apparent sincerity displayed by the commissioner in conducting the ordinary affairs of his department, even to trenching upon the rights of his professional colleagues, leads us to believe that he will not fail to seize this opportunity of initiating one of the greatest health measures of the age. Consumptives Will Be Welcome. In one of its recent bulletins the State Board of Health had the courage to state its position on the question of quarantining against consumptives, as follows: "Neither does the board wish to be misunderstood as to Colorado's climate. That this climate has saved the life of many who have come early cannot be doubted. There is no need to talk of quarantining against con- This declaration of the board is extremely gratifying to us, for the special reason that THE CRITIQUE has been the only medical journal in Colorado to express an emphatic opinion against any form of quarantine, and for the broad general reason that it is right and rational. We know that strong pressure was brought to bear upon the board by certain influential members of the old school who were earnest advocates of quarantining the State against all consumptives, absurd as it must appear to any who will give the subject a moment's unselfish thought. The position taken by THE CRITIQUE on the question was the only logical one for the board to adopt, and its present attitude will meet with the approbation of the great majority of the intelligent people of Colorado. THE State Board of Health has also decided to investigate the food and water of the State, and to that end will employ a pure food commissioner and a water commissioner; one to sample the various foods sold in the state, and another to test the suspected water. That is all right, gentlemen. THE CRITIQUE pledges its support to every such laudable undertaking, but why limit your work to such minor matters as food and water? Why not go a step further and tackle the great evil of our times? So far as water and food are concerned, the people are reasonably safe judges of their purity, and little harm ever comes from that source. In order to accomplish a real good, something worthy of the board and of the state they represent, a liquor commissioner should be appointed. If such commissioner be fully qualified for the position, and is honest, he will tell the board that liquors are more destructive to health than all the tubercle bacilli that ever existed in the state. One saloon can do more harm to the peo ple in a given time, than all the adulterated food in all the stores of Colorado. Food Adulteration. A congressional committee has been investigating the food manufacturers, and in its recent report to the Senate shows conclusively that many of the foods in common use are most viciously adulterated. Some of the witnesses examined by the committee, admitted that adulteration was a common practice among manufacturers and dealers. One dealer said that his stock of spices was frequently adulterated to the extent of sixty per cent. The principal adulterations used is cocoanut shells, which are used in all peppers, cloves, cinnamon, ginger and similar seasonings. The committee will recommend legislation to prohibit the manufacture and sale of all harmful foods, and that articles of food which are merely cheapened by the use of adulterants shall be marked in such a way that their true character shall be known to the purchaser. A bill is now pending in the Senate which provides for the establishment of a "pure food department" under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. Under its provisions, the sale of articles not up to a certain standard of purity will render them subject to seizure and confiscation. It is to be hoped that some effective legislation will be speedily enacted and put in force throughout the United States. The Monument Fund. President McKinley has signed the bill granting a site to the Hahnemann Monument in Washington, D. C. Now let all help to raise the balance necessary to finish and put the monument in place. Every doctor ought to give something and give it at once. THE CRITIQUE will gladly receive and forward subscrip tions to the Monument Committee. The next thirty days ought to see the fund completed. THE CRITIQTE is regularly read by a large number of our most influential citizens, and from these we have received many words of commendation. It is our purpose to make the journal clean and palatable for all classes of readers, lay as well as professional. In the discussion of questions pertaining to public health we shall endeavor to be just, impartial and fair toward all, reserving our right to freely criticise persons and measures whenever occasion demands. SO FAR as we have been able to learn, THE CRITIQUE was the first medical journal to advocate the suppresion of the saloon as an advance measure for the protection of the public health. Formerly the spleen was supposed to be the seat of the affections, and the frequent allusions to it in the literature of the past is in accord with this idea. The following are examples: B. "In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Spectator.-J Addison. "For though I am not splenetive and rash, Hamlet, Act 5, Sec. 1.--Shakespeare. "Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, |