By E. C. Roemele, M. D., Frankfort, Kentucky. Case 1.-E. J., aet 24. Diagnosis: Chronic nasal catarrh. Duration, three years. Patient complained of a feeling of fullness in the nares and increase of the secretions, the character being thick and greenish, which dropped posteriorly into the pharynx, causing paroxysms of "hawking" which were more marked in the morning just after arising. The voice had a peculiar nasal intonation, the sense of smell was abolished almost entirely and hearing was impaired, due to the extension of the inflammation into the eustachian tubes. The patient also complained of a constant dull headache. I at once prescribed glyco-thymoline and had him use the K. & O. nasal douche every four hours, using the glyco-thymoline in twenty-five per cent solution. I directed him to spray his throat with an atomizer, using undiluted glycothymoline every four hours and also gave him one teaspoonful of glyco-thy moline four times a day internally. This was done on account of the catarrhal condition of his stomach. After two weeks the "hawking" had ceased, his voice took on a more natural tone and hearing and smelling senses were improved. He continued to improve when after fifteen weeks he was entirely cured. There has been no return during the past ten months. Case 2.-Willie Green, aet 7. nosis: Hypertrophy of tonsils. case was referred to me by Dr. Diag This D., to have his tonsils removed. The doctor stated that he had used every known remedy to reduce them, his last resort being iodine, which he applied in undiluted form, also giving him internal treatment. When I examined his throat I found the tonsils extremely large, so large in fact that the opening was not as large as a slate pencil. He was a terrible mouth breather and could easily be heard from one room to another. He would not consent to the operation and his mother would not permit us to administer chloroform. I then decided to attempt to cure them without the operation. I prescribed a pound bottle of glyco-thymoline and directed the mother to spray his throat thoroughly every three hours with an atomizer. She called in again in one week and the swelling had subsided and the child ceased to breathe as hard as he had breather. This same treatment was continued. He was returned to my office in three weeks when the tonsils were normal in size; he kept his mouth closed when he slept. The treatment was continued several weeks longer when he was discharged as cured. It has now been eight months and no return whatever of any symptom of the disease. Case 3.-Ella N., aet 27. Diagnosis: Rhino-pharyngitis. Duration, six years, presenting characteristic symptoms of severe type. Patient had to vomit after each meal on account of "hawking" the mucus out, which she said would drop into her throat. When she would arise in the morning she would have to "hawk" and cough half an hour before she would be relieved of the mucus which she said came out of her throat in the shape of round balls. I directed her to use the K. & O. douche, filling it with glyco-thymoline pure, flushing out the nasal cavities three times a day and directed her to spray her throat with glyco-thymoline, one part to one of water, three times a day. Improvement was immediate. After five weeks instead of using the glyco-thymoline in the douche in undiluted form she was di rected to dilute it with one part of water. After the fourth day she ceased vomiting and "hawking." This treatment was continued, however, for four months, when she was discharged cured. THE THERAPEUTIC USES OF easily demonstrable. The statement "properly prepared" is used advisedly, for it is a fact that the methods employed have much to do with the strength of witch-hazel preparations, and, consequently, their therapeutic action. Over sixty years ago, the Pond's Extract Company began the preparation of Pond's Extract, selecting there It is a fact of no little significance for the best and most luxuriant growths that Pond's Extract of Hamamelis Virginica has been known and employed by the medical profession for over sixty years. Any remedy that can thus endure the severe tests of time and practical experience must have a fundamental worth of more than ordinary degree. To be sure, not all physicians have held the therapeutic usefulness of Hamamelis in the same esteem, and some have undoubtedly under-estimated, or completely disregarded, its value. But certain recent studies and researches, both clinical and chemical, have emphasized, in a very positive way, the fact that Hamamelis has welldefined pharmacology, and reinforced -if such a thing were necessary-the therapeutic claims that have been made for it: The recent chemical investigations of Scoville are worthy of special note He reports that he has examined the fatty substance which, after distillation of witch-hazel twigs, rises to the surface of the distillate, and that the oil evidently consists of a terpene with a small portion of an alcohol (about 7 per cent.), and a still smaller amount of an ester, which justifies the conclusion that the soluble substance is a terpene-like body analogous or closely similar to the derivatives or constituents of the essential oils. The anodyne, antiseptic, astringent and styptic action of the terpenes of this class are well known, and that these properties are found in properly prepared extracts of witch-hazel, is of the shrub at the season of the year when richest in extractive material, and perfecting a process whereby an extract of uniform strength and efficiency was produced. As a consequence, during all of these years Pond's Extract has been the standard product of its class, and its purity, unvarying quality and re liable remedial action have created com The desideratum for the relief of this condition is a remedy which will not only stimulate contraction, but will impart tone to the uterus as well. Such a remedy is Hayden's viburnum compound. Its action is superior to and far more lasting than ergot and is devoid of the toxic effects of this drug. Where there is a burning sensation, when urinating, sanmetto in teaspoonful doses three or four times a day usually gives relief. If the urine is alkaline ammonium benzoate in connection with sanmetto will prove helpful, and citrate of potash when the urine is acid. DEAR DOCTOR For RHEUMATISM And Allied Complaints Prescribe GRIFFITHS' Compound Mixture of Guaiac, Stillingia, Etc. For Acute and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Etc. It contains Guaiac, Stillingia, Prickly Ash, Turkey Corn, Colchicum, Black Cohosh, Sarsaparilla, Salicylates of the Alkalies, Iodide Potassa, and other well-known remedies, acting as a powerful alterative, so combined as to be acceptable to all patients. It has been before the profession over twenty years, and has proved perfectly satisfactory in 95 per cent of the cases indicated. Guaranteed by the manufacturers under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1907. It does not contain opium in any form, heroin, cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, acetanilide, or mercury, but they can be administered separate if indicated. FOR PROOF, we will, upon request, send you by express, a regular 8 oz. ($1.25 size) bottle as a sample for trial, providing you will enclose 40c for the prepayment of express charges. Griffiths' Rheumatism Cure Co. 67 3d Ave., Cor. 11th St., NEW YORK P. S. This mixture is carried in stock by the principal wholeale druggists in the U. S. THE CURE OF RUPTURE BY RARAFFIN INJECTIONS By Charles C. Miller, M. D. Author of "Cosmetic Surgery." Comprising a description of a method of treatment destined to occupy an important place as a cure for rupture owing to the extreme simplicity of the technic and its advantages from an economic standpoint. Pages 81. Cloth. Price, Prepaid, $1.00. Published by the Author, 70 State St., Chicago, Ill. OPTICS? THE OPTICAL JOURNAL Send for Sample Copies to the Publisher. 36 Maiden Lane, NEW YORK CITY PA-PAY-ANS BELL-A VALU ABLE REMEDY (From the New York Medical Journal, Oct. 31, 1908.) Time and frequent trials have conclusively demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the majority of physicians of this city, that the efficiency of Pa-payans Bell in removing the symptoms and discomforts of indigestion is far superior to that of anything else now in use. There is no sense in denying or questioning this fact as the proofs are many, multiplying, and close at hand. The great majority of all the physicians in New York City are steadily prescribing this remedy in the treatment of indigestion and the results from this prescribing are far superior to those from. the prescribing of any other antidyspeptic. There are no "ifs" about this remedy. You prescribe two or three tablets, with water, and the discomfort of indigestion disappears. You prescribe it again and again with the same results. You note that no objectionable results follow; you note that the patient improves in weight, strength, and spirits, and that he soon is restored to a normal condition. You have prescribed nothing but Pa-pay-ans Bell, and he has taken nothing else. This occurs again and again, a great many times in the course of a year. Can you then attribute these results to anything except this remedy? Is there any sense in denying or trying to ignore its proved efficiency; or in suffering or allowing your patient to suffer the pangs of indigestion? It is certainly the most efficient and satisfactory antidyspeptic in use today and "trial is proof." In an address delivered April 26, 1905, before the Danbury Medical Society on "The Practical Value of Old Remedies," John V. Shoemaker, M. D., LL. D., of the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Pa., spoke of hamamelis in the following terms: "Hamamelis Virginica, an excellent old-time remedy, has a well-defined range of usefulness within which it is without a rival. Externally and internally, it is sedative and astringent. It is used as a lotion and ointment in many diseases and injuries of the skin, in legulcer and varicose veins. It is serviceable in acute and chronic diarrhea, internal hemorrhages, bronchorrhea, epistaxis (nose bleed) and varicose ulcers, etc." Another prominent author says: "The distilled extract of hamamelis is a valuable application to sprains and bruises. Hamamelis is very useful in checking epistaxis, bleeding sockets after the extraction of teeth, bleeding hemorrhoids, and many other forms of hemorrhoids. An ointment is useful in seborrhea, acne, etc. When given internally, this remedy exerts an astringent and sedative action. It is also highly valued in the treatment of acute and chronic diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhage from internal organs, purpura hemorrhagica, varicose veins, ulcers." These statements from reputable men concerning the usefulness of hamamelis are well borne out in general clinical experience, provided always that a uniform, active product-such as is only found in Pond's extract-be employed. As the cold damp winds of fall chill the skin more of the work of elimination is thrown upon the kidneys. It is not always the function of the kidney can be adjusted to this increased demand, and imperfect elimination of waste products results. This autotoxic state gives rise to such conditions as rheumatism, tonsillitis, neuralgia, catarrhal bronchitis, with or without asthma, winter eczema and pruritus, catarrhal rhinitis, and many other less distinctly defined conditions. The best results in treatment are to be had from establishing thorough renal elimination. Nothing accomplishes this so promptly and so effectually as alkalithia in teaspoonful doses |