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The Treatment of Catarrhal Conjunctivitis.

By Milton P. Creel, M. D.,

As a curative means I have come now to rely on what I term the antiseptic treatment. This has been productive of better results in my hands than the old-time remedies.

In carrying out this treatment I first have the nurse to bathe the eyes thoroughly with this antiseptid mixture:

Hydrozone, 3 grains.

Aqua, q. s. ad oz. iv.

This mixture is used three or four times daily, as the case may appear to demand. Just as often as this mixture has been copiously applied and the eyelids have been dried, I apply, by means of an ordinary glass medicine dropper, two drops of Marchand's Eye Balsam.

This remedy reaches every part of the conjunctiva by the movements of the lids, and it is not irritating; the patient generally makes rapid progress to recovery.

By this trestment I have found my patients to recover in from thirty-six hours to three days. In fact my success has been such that I now rely upon this treatment entirely in this affection.

Four months ago an epidemic of catarrhal conjunctivitis broke out in a boarding school. I was called and ordered these remedies used on every case that presented itself. The nuns told me that all the cases got well speedily.

Mr. Samuel S., age 39. This patient had been suffering, as he put it, with "sore eyes" for three days. It was a simple case of catarrhal conjunctivitis, but gave him great discomfort. On the treatment described above he entirely recovered in two days.

Mrs. Laura S., aged 22. This patient thought she had something in her eye, but examination revealed catarrhal conjunctivitis. On this treatment she made a speedy recovery.

These are only two of the several hundred cases treated on the antiseptic principles.-Medical Summary.

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EDITORIAL.

We Are All Scoundrels.

In a recent issue of the "Philadelphia Medical Journal," Editor George M. Gould took occasion to relieve himself of the following billingsgate concerning members of the Homeopathic school:

"The down right scoundrels, the out and out nostrum traders, the sectarians are treated by us as the prairie wolf, and tramp dogs, the solitary elephant, the forest cats, etc., are treated by their brethren. We expel them, and they are known as enemies forever. Of course they continue to use the education stolen from the profession, and their old knowledge of civilized life to commit depredations on their former masters. This is in accord with renegade ethics."

How does that strike you fellow renegades? The doctor hands us a pretty bitter dose this time-a vile compound of gall, wormwood and venom. Shall we swallow it and look pleasant or fling it back to the coyote who offers it?

Gould's deliberate and insulting statement is not merely the individual opinion of the author, but is intended to express the consensus of opinion entertained by the Allopathic organization for all Homeopaths. The Gould cat discloses not only his own claws but likewise those of all his fellows. Does it not bring back to every one of us reminiscences of treacherous treatment by these self-styled prairie wolves of old medicine?

The animus thus openly expressed by Editor Gould should be a lesson to every Homeopath. We shall find that our pretended Allopathic friends are after all but treacherous dogs, or something worse, always and all the time, if we but take the trouble to unmask them.

If we are wise we will never again forget that "our former masters" are never, under any circumstances, our real friends, in whatever guise they may happen to appear, whether as cat, dog, or wolf, or great big solitary elephant.

We of Colorado have special reason for being wary of any advances from these wily representatives of the old school, and next winter when they come courting us with a view to securing partisan legislation for the protection, ostensibly, of the dear public, but secretly and covertly for discrimination against Homeopathy, let us tell them that "our old knowledge of civilized life" and our old knowledge of their true character have brought us to the parting of the ways and that hereafter we shall travel our way alone.

Only very recently we had an excellent object lesson from the state board of medical examiners in its treatment of the Denver Homeopathic College, which fairly illustrates the malevolent spirit of the old school toward Homeopathic institutions. Of course this effort fell flat, as a matter of fact, but the purpose for which it was instigated, that of casting odium upon the school, was in a measure accomplished and they are using it to-day, after their usual cowardly methods, to stab us in the back.

We hope our schools and colleges will take heed of these things and assert their independence of everything Allopathic. Let us make all of our institutions so distinctively Homeopathic in all lines that there can nowhere be any doubt as to our teaching and our practice. To do this we need not resort to narrow prejudice and partisanship. We need only to be honest with ourselves and with our patrons. Be Homeopaths in fact and in truth; support Homeopathic institutions; see that our students are taught Homeopathy in Homeopathic colleges and do all things fairly and openly for the advancement of the cause we believe to be right.

It's up to You, Governor Thomas.

In its senseless and wholly uncalled for quarantine against the bubonic plague by the Colorado state board of health, it now finds itself up against the real thing, in the way of a protest from the Japanese government for discriminating against her subjects who may desire to pass into and through Colorado from the west. It seems that the state board limited its order of exclusion to the Chinese and Japanese and it is to this feature that Japan raises objection; claming that the people of Japan have nothing in common with the Chinese; that the Japanese are not subject to the plague; that they do not associate with the Chinese at home or abroad, and that this attempt to place them on a common level with the Chinese is unwarranted and insulting to a degree. The Japanese ambassador therefore calls upon the United States to remove all restrictions of travel and communication in the state of Colorado so far as Japanese subjects are concerned. Of course Japan does not recognize any authority in Colorado officials and looks only to the general government. Now what will Uncle Sam do about it? The old question of state rights seems likely to be involved unless the all important state board and our doughty governor shall conclude to waive the question and abolish the foolish quarantine order. The present governor is a gentleman from Kentucky, sir, and unless he can be mollified the integrity of the United States may be seriously involved. Then, too, the dignity of the state board of health is to be considered. It has said the Japs cannot enter Colorado's sacred soil, and must not this dictum be maintained. even at the hazard of a breach in the entente cordial between two great nations like the United States and the empire of Japan ?

We of Colorado are wont to forget, ordinarily, that we have a state board of health, but now that a great opportunity presents itself to let the whole world know what a virile thing it may be come on occasion, even though it practice the most arrogant discrimination against a whole race of good people. What can we do but stand manfully by our state institutions? Just wait

till Uncle Sam and the Emperor of Japan receive a few yards, more or less, of patriotic verbosity from our invincible chief magistrate. Then will the wheels of diplomacy turn backward and the wisdom of our omnipotent board be vindicated. Don't monkey with our buzz saw executive. United he stands, all right, but a fall would certainly divide him in twain, if nothing more.

Health in the Philippines.

Exaggerated reports about the ill-health of the American soldiers in the islands have been spread, and it has been asserted that army medical officers have not been able to cope with fevers and other forms of disease.

Dr. Joseph J. Curry, a member of the board of army medical officers appointed to investigate the diseases of the Philippines, recently returned to his home in Boston, on leave of absence, and in an interview he contradicts many of these reports. Dr. Curry says that the chief cause of illness has been the lack of sanitation. The board of health has grappled with this question and has already made a new city out of Manila, and is teaching the people the value of sanitary laws. Among the soldiers, dysentery is the chief cause of disability, and this is mostly due to the drinking of polluted water. Some of the men refuse to drink the boiled water which is furnished them for their canteens, on account of its warmth, and prefer to drink from cold springs. The malarial fevers, according to Dr. Curry, are not as severe as those in Cuba, and it is only in the most swampy districts that they are dangerous. There are at present approximately 50,000 soldiers in the Philippines, but, in spite of the unsanitary conditions that have been encountered in the cities, and the ignorance of the men in regard to drinking polluted water, the sickness has been comparatively light, and the work of the medical officers is constantly reducing the percentage of men under care.

The investigation of tropical diseases, that is now being car