CREAM Baking Powder. PURE ABSOLUTELY PURE AND WHOLESOME. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is made from cream of tartar, a product of the grape, and the most healthful of all fruit acids. Dr. Price's Baking Powder raises the bread without fermentation, and without affecting or changing the constituents of the flour. Fresh bread, cake, biscuit, griddlecakes, etc., raised with Dr. Price's Baking Powder, may be eaten by persons of dyspeptic tendencies or the most sensitive stomachs without distressing results. Food for the sick requiring to be leavened is made more nutritious and healthful by the use of this leavening agent than by yeast or other baking powder. NOTE Cheap and imitation baking powders are recommended and their sale pushed by certain grocers because of the greater profit in them. These imitation powders almost invariably are made of alum. Alum costs but two cents a pound, while cream of tartar costs over thirty cents. Alum is employed simply because it is cheap, but every physician knows that the use of this corrosive poison in food is at the cost of health. Think of nursing mothers, delicate girls and sickly children being fed on food made with alum! My desire and aim have been to utter nothing but the truth. I have no love for error in any form or in any field of knowledge."-HIRAM CHRISTOPHER. The Medical Herald. At its recent meeting in New Orleans the American Medical Association, by a tardy action, regrettable only for its tardiness, however, sought at one stride to make progress, delayed so many years, and it can scarce be said, with reverence, to lay aside the "Code of Ethics, "a document long, long past its age of usefulness and in its stead install "The Principles of Ethics" as those principles have been understood by the best and noblest members of the medical profession. The "Code" has been practically dead we are told now, and were told often in days gone by, but if so it was a strange demise. Its absurd restrictions, its imperative demands, its insulting references, its narrow views regarding medical investigation, caused more bitterness, more discord and more hate than will shortly pass away. These unfortunate elements so overshadowed the nobler principles and sentiments with which they were. interwoven as to almost destroy the power of the latter for good. The letter of the Code strictly enforced embittered some of the noblest and best of our race and drove from association with the legitimate, truth-seeking, truthloving members of the real profession of medicine some of the brightest minds that have adorned this or any age. It did more, like the cruel jibes of "The Quarterly Review" and the heartless diatribes of brutish men it killed many a medical Keats who sought to enter a profession whose mission he had been given to understand was to heal wounds and banish pain, yet learned with a grief unto death that its real action too often was to cut and slash the quivering flesh of gentle, noble, men, and produce anguish which death alone could banish or God himself destroy. How many of us can recall the look either of hate born of ridicule or of pitiful, burning, despair upon the face of some man who, because environment caused him to seek and acquire knowledge at seats of learning varying a little from what "the Code" thought or ruled was "regular" when he sought companionship with men some of whom perhaps were his school or college mates, dear to him as the dearest things of his life, yet they were "regular," he "irregular," and he found himself cast out and a great gulf fixed and a barrier of hate and ridicule of venom and scorn as impassible as the mind of man or the machinations of perdition could build, reared before him to remain until the year 1903 should come so far as the greatest of medical associations was concerned. Twenty years ago the Medical Society of the State of New York took the precise ground taken so late by the larger society. Through these years the men of that society endured excommunication, anathemas, reviling and venomous misrepresentation as inconceivable as it was uncalled for and incompatible with every instinct in the being of large souled men. But the day for which many of the members of this society longed and which some, yes, a vast multitude, of the best and purest of those whose names are written on their records, closed their eyes in eternal sleep still hoping, still longing, never saw, is here, and it is the privilege and exalted duty of the members of the American Medical Association to congratulate the New York Medical Society, to thank them for their long, faithful fight, while the association metaphorically, if not literally, asks to be forgiven. for the outrageous conduct of the past twenty years. And when manly reparation has been made let the legacy of hate and bitterness as far as possible be planted deep, so deep that there may be no resurrection with its parent and progenitor-the Code of Ethics. There need be no explaining of the code any more, the writer never did explain it or subscribe to it, except with the oral and written declaration that its unseemly parts be expurgated, and within two years when it seemed, though fortunately the reality never came, that subscription in toto or withdrawal from a society were to be alternatives his resignation was offered instanter. The undesirable parts of the code, as of any similar document, were made the shield of unprincipled scoundrels and aided to a more complete development a host of hypocrites who found their way into the profession of medicine, and alas one may be found even now, such, talked code fluently where it seemed to them necessary, yet skillfully evaded any principle which seemed to act as an obstacle in the way of their personal exaltation. The code is dead, may it be forgotten and its evil influence rapidly pass forever from the minds and lives of men. W. J. B. SUBJECTIVE THERAPEUTICS. Suggestion, hypnotism, mental therapy or whatever the thing itself may be called, is receiving quite a large share of attention in recent months, as shown by contributions in the columns of high class medical journals. as well as in the daily press. It is to be earnestly hoped that the medical profession may meet this old yet new line of investigation in a spirit worthy the workers and their research. As might be expected the editor of one of our eastern journals who installed himself as the chief counselor of the lesser lights and became the self-appointed conservator of the entire profession, has delivered himself of a brief yet very positive pronunciomento after describing himself freely and fully as being without any special information whatever on the subject. This should settle it for us, but for a strange perversity to be found in matters of truth, whereby it lives and grows, to the distress and frequently the destruction of ignorant or false opposition. A careful study of mental therapeutics, and it is pleasing to note that the staid old profession, in the grandly conservative old city of Montreal, among them Professor James Stewart, are receiving the facts and weighing them, will not hurt any man and it will benefit medical men by adding to their armamentarium a powerful means for their combat with disease. The articles by the late and deeply lamented Eskridge, in Shoemaker's Text-Book on Therapeutics, and elsewhere, and those by Prof. Kingsbury of Dublin, and Dr. Quackenbos, of New York, are among the most valuable available. Each of these writers met ridicule and worse, but their critics are silenced and their work lives and grows. The writer believes the word hypnotism and the detestable deception and assumed mystery of public hypnotists has more than any other thing delayed the progress now at hand in this remarkable field. To ignore this agent for the relief of pain and disease and as an aid to many surgical undertakings is to lose that which is the medical man's inheritance and his inheritance almost, if not quite, exclusively if he is not foolish enough to cast it aside. True he must meet ignorance and opposition, but such is any brave man's privilege and as a real privilege he enters the conflict unless he is a moral coward and mental incompetent. The placing of a person in the subjective condition may be made available for the patient's help in almost countless ways. So far as the writer cares to give an opinion at present it would appear that the busy physician will find this state the most satisfactory for relieving pain, nervousness, hallucinations, and unnecessary fear from a medical standpoint, and for the performance of minor surgical operations and the carrying out of surgical dressings, though as a means for producing and maintaining anesthesia there seems no reasonable limit. W. J. B. ST. LOUIS AND HER GREAT FAIR. Dr. Nelson W. Wilson, of Buffalo, writes entertainingly of St. Louis, her profession and her great fair, in the July issue of the Buffalo Medical Joarnal. Among other things Dr. Wilson says: "Truly Governor Francis is a study and one marvels at the capacity of the man for work and his grasp of detail, when one considers that no important step is taken in the numerous departments in the beautifully classic Washington University buildings on the hill, which are being utilized as administration headquarters, without "the Governor" passes on it. Truly, St. Louis is a delightful city, looking at it professionally. From an expositional viewpoint it will be a wonder city; politically it is stricken with a grievious malady, although a brave and honest man, Attorney Folk, is cutting into the rotten tissues with fearless hand; and it is a matter of professional pride that every physician in St. Louis, irrespective of school, college or society, is giving his aid to purge the town of its corruption. Dr. Laidley began a fight some time ago for a better water supply, and there are at last grounds for hope that with the assistance of his brother practitioners, and the decent element of the city, success will come and the health and lives of St. Louisians will not be subservient to the grafter's greed. "At the Marion-Sims-Beaumont Medical College, Dr. Bransford Lewis is professor of Genito-urinary Surgery. He is a young man, but he has done an immense amount of original work. Probably his most valuable contribution is his invention of the instrument for ureteral catheterization, which is generally termed a ureter-cystoscope. It was my good fortune to see Dr. Lewis use the instrument in collecting samples of urine from each kidney, and the ease with which the operation was performed was amazing. There is absolutely no possibiilty of mixture of the urines, and at the same time a complete cystoscopic examination may be made.' |