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antiseptically treated vegetables. Saw patient eight months afterwards, pulse and temperature normal. The mother was delighted, so much so she intended later on to send her to the Normal College. Flirtus muchus marii young earlius.

CASE IV. Miss J. A. G., weight 246 pounds, eyes black and blue, complexion blue and black, hair dishevelled. A clear case of whoop-la. Been so for ten days. Upon close questioning ascertained she had been drinking whisky quantitatus gallorum. At once began treatment by lessening the quantiti quantus gallorum, limiting the same to no more than two pints per day. She came to the office next day-no signs of Paralysis. A well defined case of Smachi Furnituri. I was much pleased with this case. Showed treatment had markt effect.

The Rational Treatment of Grip.

The necessity of a powerful eliminant in every prescription for grip is self-evident. While antipyretics and antiperiodics may somewhat stimulate the excretions and relieve congestion, thereby controlling certain features of the disease, a complete cure cannot be expected until the grip poison is thoroly eliminated and the diseased organs enabled to resume normal functions.

The successful treatment of grip depends upon the thoroness of the remedy employed, hence we ask why temporize with antipyretics and antiperiodics when Tongaline always secures prompt and efficient, as well as permanent, results.

The internal use of Tongaline Liquid taken at short intervals in hot water, washed down with copious drafts of hot water, may be supplemented by its local application to the inner parts of the thighs and to the abdominal surfaces. Or as grip invariably renders the stomach irritable and the nerves sensitive, the disturbing effects of internal medication can be entirely avoided by the external use of Tongaline Liquid alone.

In fact, when the system is thoroughly under the influence of Tongaline, the progress of la grippe is arrested, and as a result there is immediate recuperation, followed shortly by a perfect

cure.

Practical Points.

Hypo-Substitute for Opiates.

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nary tuberculosis, and should be guarded against and investigated with a view to prophylaxis in no greater degree.

Turn where one may, the "great white plague is in evidence. The statement has been confidently made that one-third of all mankind are or have been affected with tuberculosis, and in this statement diseases of the bones and joints and affections of the skin and glands and various Pay no money to agents for the journal unless publisher's other depots of infection were not in

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A General View of Tuberculosis. There are more deaths annually from some form or other of tuberculosis, and particularly from that form which attacks the lungs and is known as consump tion or phthisis, than from any one other disease, take the known world thru. And yet there is no other disease the treatment and prophylaxis of which is so little understood, or against which there is so little care exercised.

The occurrence of a half-score cases of small-pox, or a single case of yellow fever or cholera, will rouse a community to wild

cluded.

In 4,250 necropsies made in one year in the city of Breslau, gross macroscopic lesions were found in 1,393, or at least onethird of all the cases that came upon the post-mortem table. Another investigator, Biggs, found characteristic lesions of the lungs in 60 per cent. of all the autopsies conducted by him, and of the cases on which post-mortems were held at the Paris Morgue, in 1894, 75 per cent. showed the lesions of pulmonary tuberculosis. many cases show lesions only under the microscope, and others recover without lesion, it is quite evident that there is little danger of over-estimating the importance of the disease, either in regard to frequency or the variety of its lesions.

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General belief in the profession is that tuberculosis, latent, active, or the remaing of previous lesions, is present in about two-thirds of all bodies. Investigation made with a view to determine the point, showed that in the bodies examined, evidence visible to the naked eye of the existence of tuberculosis was present on 66 per cent., was the cause of death in 53 per cent. of these, and was latent in 41 per

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cent., while it was of great importance in 6 per cent. In the cases of non-manifest tuberculosis, almost every other body examined showed a concealed depot of infection. These numbers, astounding tho they are, must be regarded as low, however, as the examination was grossly anatomic, the microscope not being used at all, and because, even with the most critical examination by an expert, concealed depots can be overlookt. Hence numerous writers and investigators believe that the disease is practically general in its scope of the human race, and that the individual absolutely free from the tuberculous taint, would be very difficult if not impossible to find.

The reason that the rate of the number of cases varies according to the different authorities, is to be ascribed more to the differing methods of examination than to the difference in frequency of occur

rence.

The more quickly fatal cases are now supposed to be instances of mixt infection. The tuberculosis in the body is invariably due to a single definite cause, the existence of the tubercle-bacillus, and is an absolutely specific process; it is almost invariably associated with some other affection. It is now generally recognized that the whole character of phthisis was not determined by the discovery of the bacillus tuberculosis, since it is known that tuberculosis of the lungs is not a pure process. This thought was developt from the fact that in order to obtain a pure test-tube culture of the bacillus, the air must positively be entirely excluded. The next step was the recollection that this exclusion of the air does not exist in the lungs, the bronchial tubes being opened to the air and exposed to constant contamination. Hence, tuberculosis as it exists in our patients is an essentially different process from that obtained by means of the laboratory cult

ure.

These complicating infections are generally secondary, and may be considered in some degree as wound infections. The

steps in the process may be described, first, an inherited delicacy of constitution, the diathesis of consumption, enabling easy invasion by the tubercle-bacillus ; second, the invasion and destructive processes of the bacillus, forming the "wound;" third, the invasion of the wound by the streptococcus or other virulent organism.

When it is considered that the hectic fever which is so characteristic of phthisis presents exactly the same characteristics as the septic fever following upon any infection of a septic nature, the solution of many of the problems in pulmonary tuberculosis that have led to so much controversy, and with some, to repudiation of the doctrine of the tubercle-bacillus as a causative agent of consumption, will be readily understood. The fever of consumption has its sudden evening elevation followed by sweats of an exhausting nature and later by morning remissions of temperature. This is identical with the pyrexia of erysipelas, of puerperal fever, and of all acute suppurative processes in which pus-producing organisms, and, notably, the streptococcus, play a part.

In the pursuance of this idea, conclusion follows that the destruction of tissue so universal in tuberculosis is possibly due to coexisting bacteria of a pyogenic nature, and that the hectic fever is caused by these, and is but a manifestation of a septic process. We are then in a condition to rightly consider the matters of heredity, the predisposition to attack, the best modes of prevention, and the best modes of treatment. Inquiry should be directed to ascertaining the origin of the delicacy that lessens resistance to disease, the mode of conveyance of the infecting principle, and the best modes of combating these dangers. Treatment of the developed conditions can be studied later.

Phthisis or Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Phthisis may be defined as a specific inflammatory disease of the lungs, caused primarily by the bacillus tuberculosis, and

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