Drug Treatment of Diabetes. In the treatment of diabetes mellitus opium, of course, has long held first place among therapeutic agents. In the hands of many physicians papine (Battle) has produced identical results with those derived from the administration of opium or codeine. The employment of small doses at the beginning, and thereafter increasing until the required effects are produced or until narcotic symptoms are exhibited, when the dose will be held stationary or reduced, is the practice usually followed.

Chronic Catarrhal Diseases.-Chronic catarrh never fails to indicate general constitutional debility. Local treatment is always desirable but for permanent results efforts must be directed toward promoting general functional activity throughout the body, and a general increase of systemic vitality. The notable capacity of Gray's glycerine tonic comp. in this direction readily accounts for the gratifying results that can be accomplished through its use in the treatment of all chronic catarrhal affections, but especially those of the gastro-intestinal canal and respiratory tract. The particular gratifying features in the results accomplished by Gray's glycerine tonic comp. are their substantial and permanent character. This is naturally to be expected since they are brought about through restoring the physiologic balance of the whole organism.

Some Plain Facts About a Soporific.-For nearly forty years we have been making for the medical profession what we believe to be the ideal sedative, soporific agent, and the fact that its use at the hands of physicians steadily grows seems to be the best proof of its therapeutic value. Until within late years we put this product on the market under the name of Daniel's concentrated tincture of passiflora incarnata, but pirates began counterfeiting and forced us to protect the reputation our product had earned, and

PASADYNE accordingly we gave it the dis

tinctive name, pasadyne.

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grow our own plants on a large acreage and have done so all these years. In the manufacture of our product we draw upon every pharmaceutical advance, for we want to maintain the highest possible standard for pasadyne (Daniel). Hundreds of able clinicians have proven to their own satisfaction that pasadyne (Daniel) is equal in therapeutic power to the older somnifacients, and is free from their disadvantages. Whenever you need a sedative or a soporific, you may prescribe pasadyne (Daniel) with the fullest assurance that it will produce the results you want. It will not, fail you. A sample bottle may be obtained by addressing the laboratory of John B. Daniel, 34 Wall Street, Atlanta, Ga.

Johann Hoff's Extract of Malt with Iron, an Ideal Reconstructive in Anemia and Disorders of Nutrition.-Impaired nutrition and impoverishment of the blood are the constant and logical re

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sults of protracted disease. So commonly are these concomitants and sequels of disease found among all classes of invalids, and so full are they of peril to multitudes of afflicted humanity, that every new remedy promising relief to the sufferer is eagerly sought and faithfully tried. Anemia implies a deficiency of blood, or deficiency of the relative number of its red corpuscles, or possibly a lack of the normal amount of hemoglobin in the red corpuscles. The question may be asked-what has disease abstracted from the blood to cause its impoverishment? We answer, iron. Iron constitutes an integral part of the red blood corpuscles, and is necessary for their production. When they are deficient, it naturally follows that iron is lacking. For this reason, iron, from time immemorial, has been regarded as a sovereign remedy in the treatment of anemia. It not only supplies the material for manufacturing red corpuscles, but when administered in proper form, and in combination with other correctives of disordered nutrition, it aids the system to appropriate additional iron from food for the upbuilding of red corpuscles. Being required then, for the normal constitution of red blood, iron is practically a food, but as ill-health results from a deficiency in the number or quantity of corpuscles, and iron in substance, will often restore healthy conditions, we are justified in using it as a medicine until the organism recovers its lost ground. This being the case, the next point to settle is the form and combination in which it shall be administered. It is well known that the value of iron, as a hematinic is increased by its association with manganese, not only so, but oxidation is promoted, with elevation of temperature and increase of tissue-change. When these medicinal substances are presented in the form of peptonates, in combination with the nutrition and diastatic properties of malt, as represented by Johann Hoff's extract of malt with iron their therapeutic effects are signally augmented, and it will be conceded that an ideal chalybeate has been found. Any chalybeate which meets the threefold indication of increasing red blood, promoting general nutrition, and augmenting oxidation, answers most completely the wants of the system in anemia and disorders of nutrition. Johann Hoff's extract of malt, with iron, does all of these things, and for that reason constitutes the ideal reconstructive and rebuilder in the above class of disorders. The theory upon which this preparation is based, is logical, but when this theory has been verified by innumerable clinical applications, as evidenced by the testimonials of thousands of medical men, there is no longer a doubt that Johann Hoff's extract of malt with iron deserves the first place among chalybeate tonics. This product is presented in liquid form. It is palatable, readily absorbed and assimilated, and never exerts deleterious effects on the organism. It may be administered in wineglass doses, three times a day after meals.-Medical Era.

Besredka's sensitized bacterins are becoming very popular in France, but are only just beginning to attract attention in this country. It is claimed that they cause no local or general reaction, act more quickly than other bacterins, and maintain their action for a longer time. Mulford is the agency for America.

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Vol. XXXIII

No. 9

W. H. MICK, M. D., Omaha, Neb.

Our investigation in plate reading, is based on, accounting for the change of the impression recorded on an X-ray plate, an X-ray plate, when compared with the normal.

To have an atlas of normal shadows, cast by the X-ray, of every part of the normal body, would be just about as valuable as if you had the same microscopic slides and looked at the same through the microscope without an instructor. To the physician who has had little or no experience in reading X-ray plates, let me say this, that you must not get discouraged because you see very little on an X-ray plate. an X-ray plate. I know a number of men who are very clever surgeons and likewise physicians who say that they see but little in an X-ray plate, and the funny part about it is that some of these men believe that there is very little in X-ray plates. I am sure that if they had given themselves a more extensive study

*Read before the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, at Lincoln, Neb., March 26, 1914.

and had based their observations on looking at more than the few plates that they have seen elsewhere and of there own patients, they would see a great many valuable diagnostic changes which would reveal hidden pathology of a living subject, which is of equal value to the confirmative diagnostic evidence received by other methods. I do not think that a doctor is to be criticized because he does not see all there is to an X-ray plate at a glance, because radiographers generally have been increasing there knowledge of plate reading by constantly reading the plates that come under the observations in the literature and other X-ray laboratories.

The method I use to teach physicians to recognize normal shadows, was based on the following: I have a doctor start and learn how to load and develop plates of a hand first. Now there is nothing simpler to take than a hand. The only way to learn radiography to eventually become thorough all the way through is to learn the handling of plates and simpler things first. While it is very simple to take the toes and top of the foot, I still contend that if each step is