The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-27

completed 14O. 900 references In duplicate. all
being arranged for the reference OF stu
dents visiting the British Museum as the
work progresses.
The morphine habit, according to a re-
cent French work. is most prevalent in
Germany, France and the United States,
the number of victims being large, also,
in Russia, Sweden, Turkey and the remote
East. Entire villages in Germany are SAID
TO be addicted to the use of the drug; not
less than 40 per cent. of the male victims
are supplied by the medical procession, 10
per cent. being men of leisure, per cent.
merchants, and the smallest numbers De-
ing found among peasants, clergymen ana
politicians. OF the female victims, 45 per
cent. are women of leisure and 10 per cent.
are wives of medical men. Hypodermllc
injection of mOrphia laudanum uIlnklng
and opium smoking are the various forms
of indulgence, the most fashionable being
probably the first named.
A sudden and complete change of diet is
means Of regulating the human machine
whose Importance seems to be too little
considered. DR.. Angel Money, of London,
states that it finds most application in
chronic disease, often of nervous charac-
ter and not uncommonly in affections of
the mucous membrane. The substitution of
brotns, hsh and flesh for milk and farl-
nacea Will often correct the condition OF
the mucous membrane that enables thread
worms to develop. Chronic catarrh will
often yield to similar treatment, and aSth-
matte attacks may sometimes be made to
cease for long periods. Commissions in chill
dren are frequently aleviated in like man.
ner. A dilated stomach or fatulent dys-
pepsia may be treated by withdrawing
sugar and starch from the food and re-
placing them by pure proteids, with salts,
eXtractives and water, the merits of sweet
breads, tripe. calf's head and feet, UNI
sweetened jellies and many vegetables be-
ing too little appreciated in such cases.
The main secret of the effects of such foods
Is the absence of liability to ferment and
generate gases. Experience proves that
most OF the benefit of a complete change of
diet is obtained during a short period only,
and, indeed the therapeutic value may
sometimes lie in nothing but the change.
1t was only seventy-two years ago-a
single life span-that DR.. Kitchener wrote
that not more than ten achromatic object
glasses of six-inch aperture had been made
in 1925 years, ard predicted that future
opticians might take a like period for per-
fecting the object glass of that size. The
magnificent forty-one-inch Yerkes object
glass recently completed has a light-grasp-
ing power about forty-eight times as great
as the lens that so excited the wonder of
the English physicist. This great object
glass, like the Lick thirty-six-inch, is the
work of an American optician, made for
an American observatory, and the most
powerful foreign telescope is that of Pull
kowa, with a thirty-inch object glass of
American make. These achievements in
instrument making are paraleed by the
p1OSI6SS Oh science in the new world.
American astronomy, which has yielded
SUCH amazing developments in late years
u.s. as Prof. E. S. Holden points out, scarce
ly more than half a century old the first
working observatories having kbeen estab-
llshed as late as 1S45, although the first col
lege observatory was opened at Chapel
Hill, n. c., in 1881. With the present SUI
perior equipment of apparatus and OBJ
servers, what may we not expect in the
future! The first Observatory in Europe was
erected at Nuremberg in 1872, the observa-
tory at Greenwich dating from 1875 and
that of Faris from 1867