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To show the utter foolishness of some of the mining propositions put out, I have just received from a subscriber who has evidently joined the volunteer ranks to keep me posted, a proposition which I must quote a little from. It is headed: "Last Chance to Share Mohawk Riches." Here is a quotation from the printed matter:

Ore worth $25 a pound is the latest from the FrancesMohawk, not a little seam of it, but a big bunch, the kind that makes fortunes from a very small hole. It was encountered on Tuesday night and has developt into the most important find in the lease, if not in the entire Mohawk claim.

The ore comes from the 280 foot level, directly underneath the rich stope on the 220 level. The leas ing company will declare a dividend within a few days, and the knowing ones have it framed up for about 25 cents a share. The company has been taken from the prospects and is now listed with the mines.

Now, do you suppose they are foolish enuf to mine great riches and hand the riches out to you? When such things as the above are true, you don't hear anything about them. There are always people about the mines who are not slow, and they snap up everything that is really good-not for you, but for themselves. It is only when there is a better prospect to get riches out of your pockets than from the mine that you are bothered. That seems an easy and simple thing to learn, but some people never learn it. "The fools are not all dead yet," and they never will be.

The Issue Defined Again.

I wonder how many doctors really care what appears in the advertising pages of the journals to which they subscribe. And I wonder how many of those who do care know just exactly why they care; and how many can give consistent and discriminating reasons for or against any given advertisement. Whatever the answer to the above

question may be, I think the number of doctors who feel a concern as to what is put before them in their medical journals is increasing; and I also think that the discriminating ability of the average doctor is growing. To test whether or not doctors really care, suppose some wild speculativ scheme such as used to appear in nearly all the other journals, and still appear in a few of very careless standing, should appear in THE WORLD! What do you think would hap pen? The howl that would be set up would reach from ocean to ocean, and from the Gulf to the Klondike. So you see, progress is being made. Of course this is against the financial interests of publishers, but we must sacrifice money to the higher ideals of our calling, just like doctors should do all they can to prevent sickness, even tho it be against their financial interests. A man who lives and works for money alone, lives and works on a very low plane.

After we get the medical publishing business above the antikamnia level, what will be the next step? This has bothered me considerably, but I suppose when the time comes the next step will be made clear. doctors seem to be taking a greater interest than ever in the antikamnia matter. For example, see the following:

The

DEAR DOCTOR TAYLOR :-The inclosed antikamnia advertisement was cut from the Oct. number of the Albany Medical Annals. This journal has carried their "ad" for a long time. Cordially yours, P. G. WALler.

New Baltimore, N. Y., Nov. 3. Too bad. The Annals is a good journal, with a good standing in other respects. It has been on my exchange list for years, and I don't know how I happened to miss it when I first made up the antikamnia list.

DEAR DOCTOR TAYLOR:-I inclose a clipping (antikamnia adv.) from Wis. Med. Journal of Oct. '06. I see you mention Milwaukee Med. Journal and Wis. Med. Recorder in your list, but not this one; and this one is the official organ of the State Med. Society of Wisconsin. Fraternally, B. G. STOCKMAN.

Woodville, Wis. Nov. 2.

Two bad. I wanted to see the antikamnia list grow smaller; but it seems to be growing larger. We will have to add the above two to the list.

Encouragement in my efforts to raise the standard of medical journalism comes to me every day. I will here present a letter which is decidedly out of the usual-will present it only to condemn it, for the doctor has allowed his enthusiasm to carry him too far; but I withhold his name, for there is good stuff in him, and he will see the importance of proper restraint:

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:-Let the good work against the Medical Brief and antikamnia and any others of their class be continued. I heartily approve of your procedure. My way of fighting them is this: secure all the samples and sample copies I can, conveniently with the smallest expense, and then burn them. They surely can't print and mail the Brief for I cent, and that is what it costs to get one. Now I

believe if we were to keep it up with a concerted, united action, it would certainly embarrass them to a certain extent, and would cost each doctor only a few cents each year, and the results of the samples would be negativ. Do not publish my name with this, or they will stop me. I have five or six friends that are doing likewise. Now if we could have, say, 500 or 600. OHIO.

Don't, brother, it isn't fair fighting. Let our contests be open and in the bright light of day. As to the Medical Brief, it is decent now. That is why I stopt my exposures of it there wasn't anything left to expose. "Old Doc" and his articles disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed up him and his prolific pen. The editorials, tho now quite few and short, have lost their almanac flavor, and no more commercial write-ups appear. The contributed articles are able and excellent. Instead of continuing criticism, let us forgive the past, and congratulate Dr. Lawrence upon thus crowning his old days with journalistic respectability.

As to antikamnia, it now has a champion -a Wisconsin medical editor. Several clippings of an editorial in the Oct. issue of the Wisconsin Medical Recorder, page 337, have been sent to me. Thanks, friends, but I had already seen it. He says that he believes that antikamnia "is not being advertised to the public." Don't you think he would better read THE WORLD? He criticises THE WORLD for advertising California Syrup of Figs, because it is advertised to the laity. He does not realize that some things can be advertised to both the profession and the laity with perfect propriety. Syrup of figs is a simple, pleasant laxativ, used by the laity for the same purposes that castor oil and Epsom salts are used, being preferable, particularly for children, because of its agreeable taste and mild action. The object of advertising it to doctors is to merely acquaint them with the fact that it is simply a senna syrup pleasantly flavored, figs being used to help in making it pleasant, and to give it a name attractiv to the laity. There is no effort to mislead the profession, for the facts are plainly stated in the advertisement. It is not expected that doctors shall prescribe it and charge for so doing; but it is desired that when the doctor is called and finds syrup of figs in the house, that he shall know that it is simply a senna syrup; and with this knowledge he can use his pleasure about allowing its use or ordering castor oil or some other preparation to act on the bowels. Would the Wis. editor object to advertising an agreeable preparation of castor oil? We have done so, and stand ready to do it again whenever it may be offered. If the antikamnia people were as frank about the composition of antikamnia as the fig syrup people are concerning the composition of their syrup, it would be a point in their favor. Here is one important difference. But the

vital difference is that antikamnia, tho every effort has been made to keep its composition secret from the profession, is known to be composed chiefly of acetanilid, a dangerous drug; and being so, it is advertised in the most insidious and effectiv way to the laity (see Nov. WORLD, page 433, and many previous issues of THE WORLD). The tablets are recommended for men's worries and women's ills, aches, and pains, the laity being urged to keep them about the house, "or for convenience in your pocket or purse." We know that self-drugging with dangerous drugs is a bad thing for even doctors to do; but this wholesale placing of a dangerous drug into the hands of the laity for self-drugging, the people not knowing the dangerous character of the drug that they are urged to use so freely and familiarly, is particularly pernicious, and a menace to the public health that the profession cannot endorse. Can the editor of the Wisconsin Medical Recorder endorse it when he realizes the magnitude of . the evil? It is all right to advertise simple and safe laxativ preparations, prepared foods, as Mellin's or Horlick's food, "evaporated cream," egg-o-see, etc., to both the profession and the laity; but it is an entirely different thing to put a dangerous drug into the hands of the laity, and urge its free and ready use for trifling pains. Does the editor of the Wisconsin Medical Recorder see the difference? If any WORLD reader is unable to see the difference and appreciate its importance, we urge him to give up the practise of medicin, and chop wood, or do something else that doesn't require much exercise of the brain.

To the best of my knowledge, the antikamnia list of medical journals stands as follows: I ask those in the list who expect to discontinue the antikamnia advertisement with the close of the year (1906) and enter the new year without it, to kindly notify me before December 12, so that I can omit them from the list.

The Great Weeklies: The New York Medical Record. The New York Medical Journal (with which the Philadelphia Medical Journal and the Medical News are now consolidated). The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

The State Organization Journals: Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Society. Western Medical Review, the Journal of the Nebraska State Medical Association. Wisconsin Medical Journal.

Other Journals:

American Journal of the Medical Sciences ($5 per year; publisht by Lea Bros. & Co.).

Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics ($5 per year; the great surgeons, Senn and J. B. Murphy on the staff).

Annals of Surgery ($5 per year; J. Wm. White and other great surgeons on the staff).

American Journal of Obstetrics ($4 per year).

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe (ex-editor of The Medical News), editor and publisher.

American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.

Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter.

The Lancet-Clinic.

The Medical Standard. The Post-Graduate. Colorado Medical Journal. Carolina Medical Journal. Texas Medical Journal. Texas Medical News.

Charlotte Medical Journal.

Medical Times.

Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine. Medical Sentinel.

Medico-Chirurgical Journal.

Columbus Medical Journal.
Medical Era.

Regular Medical Visitor.

Los Angeles Medical Journal.

Medical Examiner and Practitioner.

Massachusetts Medical Journal.

Gaillard's Southern Medicine.

Kansas City Medical Record.
Milwaukee Medical Journal.
Buffalo Medical Journal.
Providence Medical Journal.
Memphis Medical Monthly.

Medical Progress, Louisville, Ky.

St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal.

Southern Practitioner.

Pacific Medical Journal.

Wisconsin Medical Recorder.

St. Louis Courier of Medicine.

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery
Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly.

Vermont Medical Monthly.
Brooklyn Medical Journal.

Northwest Medicine.

National Hospital Record.

Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry.

American Medical Compend.

Modern Eclecticism.

National Department of Health.

At the last meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ithaca, June 30, 1906, a committee was appointed under resolutions of that body, to promote the establishment of a National Department of Health by agitation in all legitimate ways for the purpose of creating a public sentiment in its favor. The naming of the members of the committee is in the hands of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale University, chairman of this section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The names of the Committee of One Hundred selected will be announced shortly. The movement in general already has the support of the principal journals of medicin and hygiene in the United States.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

Short articles of practical help to the profession are solicited for this department.

Articles accepted must be contributed to this journal only. The editors are not responsible for views expressed by contributors. Copy must be received on or before the twelfth of the month, for publication in the issue for the next month. We decline responsibility for the safety of unused manuscript. It can usually be returned if request and postage for return are received with manuscript; but we cannot agree to always do so. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.-RUSKIN,

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:-Of late there has been a tendency to decry the value of Ehrlich's Diazo Reaction as an early diagnostic test in typhoid fever. Journals and text-books have stated that as the reaction appears in other diseases, its value is problematical. This has not been my personal experience. In scarlet fever, where the reaction is particularly apt to appear, it is said, I have never found it, and during an epidemic of this disease, in which I tested the urin of every case that came under my care, I never found this reaction to occur.

It is also stated that it appears in the late stage of acute miliary tuberculosis, and in septic fever and measles. These exceptions should not detract from the value of the reaction, which will appear in every case of typhoid fever, even the mildest, at some stage of the fever, and is thus of particular value as a negativ sign, as its persistent absence in any case is sure to throw out the diagnosis of typhoid fever.

The solutions are made as follows:

Sulphanilic acid q. s. to saturation.

50 parts

1000 parts

(Should be thoroly saturated.)

Solution B. Sodium nitrite (not nitrate),

one-half percent in distilled water.

Solution C. Take of Solution A 100 parts and of Solution B 1 part.

Solution A will keep indefinitly.

Solution B is not stable and should be made fresh every few days and be kept in a cool place in a dark bottle.

To make the test, use freshly voided urin, filtered. Take of Solution C and urin equal parts; mix thoroly by shaking, and in a testtube partly filled overlay the mixture by concentrated ammonia water. At the junction a more or less pronounced crimson band will appear, best seen by holding test-tube against a white surface with light from behind. On brisk shaking, a light crimson foam will appear if typhoid is present; if not, the foam is light yellow or white. The dis

appearance of the reaction during typhoid fever will show that the stage of convalescence has been entered, and that precautions as to diet and exercise belonging to that stage of the disease must be considered. Altogether, the reaction has been very satisfactory in my hands, and several of my medical friends have told me that they have used the test with success. I am satisfied that the test is not known or used as generally as it should be, or that its value is underestimated; hence this communication. Morris, Ill.

G. T. NELSON, M.D.

Dr. Malchow's Imprisonment. Editor MEDICAL WORLD:-I want to give you a little more information regarding the imprisonment of Dr. Malchow, author of "The Sexual Life." I have received so many inquiries regarding it since my article appeared in October WORLD (page 393), that I wrote to the District Attorney of Minnesota for direct information. I inclose his reply.

A prominent New York attorney said in a speech here ten days ago that there is not a medical book publisht which treats of sex which could not be supprest and the writer imprisoned under the existing Comstock laws-these very laws under which Dr. Malchow was prosecuted. What a shame it is that we have to be thus hampered by these religious prudes! Would it not be possible for us all, working together, to exercise influence to acquire remission of his sentence, and the publisher's also? We ought not to stand for any such nonsense, nor should we allow any of our number to be thus persecuted without doing all we can to prevent it. Let us hear more from you along this line and let us seek the help of others. Chicago. E. W. REEVES. Here is the letter from the District Attorney:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

OFFICE OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY,
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA.

ST. PAUL, Oct. 18, 1906. Dr. E. W. REEVES, 1660 W. 35th St., Chicago, Ill. DEAR SIR-Your letter of the 16th inst., relating to the case of Dr. Charles W. Malchow, is received. The doctor was indicted under Section 3,893 R. S. U. S., for having deposited in the mail a circular telling where, when, and how a certain lewd, lascivious, and obscene book entitled "The Sexual Life" could be obtained.

This case was regularly brought to the attention of this office for prosecution by the postal authorities who investigated the matter. The doctor was tried jointly with the publisher of the book, Olly D. Burton, at the October, 1904, term of the U. S. District Court sitting at Minneapolis. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both defendants. The sentence imposed by the court was one year at hard labor in the Minnesota State Penitentiary at Stillwater.

The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals on writ of error by the defendants. The judgment of the lower court was there affirmed, and the opinion filed February 19, 1906. During the pendency of the appeal the defendants were out on bail. They began serving their sentences in May of the present year.

You may be able to obtain a copy of the trial record

[According to this, the writers and publishers of the entire list of books given on page 370, September WORLD, are in danger of similar prosecution and persecution. Particularly would certain foreign written books dealing with sexual abnormalities, books which we have frowned on in our reviews, as they are "the limit," and serve no really practical good purpose, be in danger of suppression, with punishment of the publishers, but the writers would be safe, for they are not in this country. According to the standard set in Minnesota, could not every work on obstetrics and gynecology be adjudged "lewd" and "obscene," with punishment of the authors and publishers? How about the theatrical billboards in St. Paul? Do they display the forms of vulgar actresses in undignified attitudes, as in high kicking, etc., similar to such disgraceful displays in other cities? If so, would it not be well for the District Attorney to get after them and let alone serious-minded men who put out scientific matter, without illustrations, to a scientific profession? The vulgar billboards are displayed in the public streets, so that even pure-minded women and innocent children cannot escape them, and the low theaters where the performances are given are open to all who will pay the price of admission. The debasing influence of such billboard displays and such performances is incalculable, yet they are permitted to continue; while Dr. Malchow's book was not displayed to every class of the community, was not illustrated, and was advertised in a very modest way, we suppose to the medical profession only, tho possibly also to some extent to the other learned professions, and not to all classes of the community, including youths and children.-ED.]

That Wonderful "Gold Hairpin."-High Altitudes for Pruritus and Eczema. Editor MEDICAL WORLD:-I think I can throw a little light on the above subject (see page 369, September WORLD). Dear Doctor, it was not a pipe dream in the patient nor a deception by the doctor. The thing is real; I have seen and handled the goods. A short time ago, a waitress from the hotel called at my office and askt if there was any wire arrangement that a woman could have put into her womb and left there, that would prevent conception. I said, "No; all mechanical contrivances fail sooner or later, and do harm besides." She said, "You are not onto your job or you would not be working day and night."

I admitted that I was not wise to any medical secret that would make me rich without work. She then told me of the golden jewel that she had secreted away in her womb. She further said, "You know that pretty, plump little girl, H-; she has a fortune in her little body, but is scared to death about doing anything for fear she will become pregnant. Now, I will put you next to something that will beat all the rest of your practise if you will examin this safety I am using and fit one like it on H.”

I was curious, also desired to prove to her that she had been humbugged, so agreed to examin her. She was a little doubtful about my ability to remove and readjust it without breaking it, but as the case was important, she submitted to the examination.

I was surprised when I struck the gold mine (I had not believed it was there); I found it necessary to dilate the cervix in order to remove it. Inclosed find a model

about the size of the original, which was made of spring brass wire, gold plated, with free ends brazed together. The principal difference in this and the usual cervical pessary that I have used in selected cases for years is the extreme length and size of the loop.

The regular pessaries come in assorted sizes; and in flexions, dysmenorrhea, cervical metritis, etc., they give good results and little, if any, discomfort to the patient. I believe that in healthy conditions they would cause uterin contractions, cervical ulcers, etc., but as there is a subacute or chronic inflammation with deep infiltration, they are tolerated with little or no discomfort. They are a little contrivance, invented by some honorable doctor for an honorable purpose. That doctor perhaps died poor; or worse, is living poor, while the genius of the Pacific Slope prostitutes and commercializes the idea and makes thousands of dollars by his wonderful invention," supplying a long-felt want; a boon to suffering women; something sure and cheap; agents wanted everywhere."

She explained that while working in a hotel in San Francisco, she had been solicited by a female agent who told her of the marvelous invention that would rejuvenate weak

women, and that it would cost nothing to see this wonderful doctor. She went-saw-believed, and was treated by the mysterious, wire-working genius who did surgical operations and made instruments at the same time, while the patient waited (in dilatation). The operation, which consisted in dilating the cervix, was quite painful, from her description. The doctor had a jeweler's brazing lamp, pliers, wire, solder, etc. He would give the screw of the dilator a turn and go on with the formation of his instrument. The psychical effect upon the patient was amazing; the operation, a question of the future.

To the "poor but worthy," the operation was $25, wire included; but he told her that the wealthy often paid $500. The agent was to have 5 percent commission for each patient that took the operation and a Little Wonder. They were sold under absolute guarantee (verbal, of course) that they would cure any kind of female trouble, acute or chronic, by establishing free drainage and holding the womb in place, which was all that was necessary, as the natural tendency of all womb diseases was to get well; just give nature a chance by drainage. His trump card was that no woman, while wearing it, could possibly become pregnant, as it held the womb open, allowing access of air, and that air is fatal to the male germ; it could live only where air is excluded, etc.

She had worn it eighteen months without any discomfort, it not affecting menstruation; and tho often exposed, she does not become pregnant. The fact that she had a miscarriage before this wire was adjusted, and gonorrhea since, would be preventiv causes perhaps without the wire.

The physical examination showed slight endometritis with patulous cervix and slight ulceration at os external, a condition not differing from most office cases requiring local treatment. There was some leucorrhea, but not profuse.

I did not fix H—, and they went to Wichita and struck an employment agency for transportation to Frisco. They have, no doubt, visited the Mecca and are, no doubt, now doing well in some western city.

If the doctor will send his case of senil pruritus to an altitude of from 7,000 to 9,000 feet, he will get relief. Also, that old chronic case of eczema that has worn patient and doctor out, and that tried other doctors, then osteopaths, hydropaths, magnetic healers, and christian science, then comes back and says, "Doctor, I know you cannot cure me, but Lord, man, can't you give a fellow something so that he can get a little sleep!" I have sent a number of patients with eczema to high altitudes with the happiest results. You will not get a fee, but you will get rid of an elephant that will be grateful. Arkansas City, Kan.

J. H. GUINN.