The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-10
are necessary in the building up of the
entire human frame.

are necessary in the building UP of the
| entire human framA
| The use Of X-rays may lead to perma-
| nent and irreparable alterations of the
| skin. Behrend mentions a case of a man
| In which the hand and nails were seri-
ously affected. The injuries are similar
! TO those produced by burn. After pro-
| ionged or repeated exposure to the rays
| the nail is loosened, and In some cases
the matrix is destroyed for good. In the
same way hairs are loosened, and the
| hair producing structures may be per-
| manently destroyed. The Journal of the
American Medical Association says it be-
| hooves the physician and expert in charge
| vention In view of the possibility of NAL
practice suits and hostile verdicts after
| the employment Of the X-ray
$50
| DIR. Wilson, of Louisville, records
| case where a cigarmaker had lost
| brother who died Of tuberculosis also
! cigarmaker, with whom he worked and
whom he nursed for three or four years
| Cigar making was carried on in the sick
| room. and. there were doubtless other
clgarmakers In the same room. No care
was taken to dispose of the sputum.
| and 1t is probable that this dried and
| formed dust settling upon tobacco, and
AZ - pOSS4OiS THAT InSy may nave pur-
sued the old plan OF moistening the end
Of the cigar with saliva, there being great
risk in either case of disseminating the
! disease The question naturally arises as
! 10 the dissemination of infectious ma
terial by means Of cigars.
The Medical Press, speaking OF golf,
says: ut has been said that every other
man In America Is now so addicted to
Scotch ways and habits that he wears
heather tweed. plays golf. drinks Scotch
and says 'Hoots, mon" A great deal
might be said in favor of golf as a
mental and nervous tonic, but not to the
exclusion OF other sports which have
many of the same ADVANTAGES In heart
ies1ons. arterial Qualifications or certain
historical conditions golf is not to be
despised as a medical agent, but 1t is
pre-eminently in functional nervous dis
eases that our great Anglo-Saxon game
Is to me recommended both for preven-
ton and cure.
Quinine is derived from an Indian
name, Kina-Kina, meaning the best bark
OF ALL CtnchIna, the technical name of
the tree, from which the bark Is derived.
Is named after the Countess Gel. Gin
chona, wife of the viceroy OF Lima. had
been cured Of an attack of periodical
Fever by the use Of this drug, and in
remedy did not become popular until
1870, when 1t was given to Louis XIV. by
an English doctor named Talbot Accord
Ing to others 1t was introduced by Jesuits
and for that reason 1t is sometimes called
Jesuits bark AS much Of the bark was
brought from Peru that also has given 1t
the name Peruvian bark
Twenty-Five years ago there were but
500 women physicians in the United
states. Today there are 1900 or one
to $4,000 inhabitants The first woman
doctor OF whom there is any record was
Miss Elisabeth Blackwell, enrolled in the
Medical Register" Jan. l, 1s49 Now,
prejudice having been overcome women
doctors are to be found In every portion
or the world, even In the far East. one of
the best known among the latter being a
Chinese Lady, DR.. HUI King Eng, the first
physician to the household Of Ii Hung
Chang. DIR. Eng took her degree in the
United States. and is now In charge Of a
hospital at Foo Chow.
The state board Of health of California
recently created much adverse feeling by
their proposed rational and stringent
measures for the absolute exclusion OF all
consumptives from the state. Recently
they have decided not to quarantine the
state against the consumptives Of other
olution recommending that in all state
institutions those afflicted with tubercu-
losis be separated from the other inmates
The Medical News, commenting upon
this, says: while tuberculosis is I'M
doubleday contagious, 1t is not SO to such
degree as to make quarantine regula-
tons apply to it,
DIR. Oliver. Of London. in a report by til l.,
departmental committee appointed to in
vestigate dangerous trades, gives curious
facts relative to label licking extensively
practiced in thread mills and aerated
water factories. From a medical point of
view this Is most prejudicial to health
since analyses of the labels show that
they frequently contain copper and lead
Full timers lick from forty to fifty
gross of labels a day, half timers" lick
from twenty to twenty-five gross d day
DR.. Oliver found one woman who complet
ed forty-five gross of bobbins a day, or
allowing a ticket for each end of the
oobbin, ninety gross, that Is 1880 labels
a day. ~ se
On the borders of Epping forest, a few
miles from London, is a vegetarian sana-
forum where the fresh air treatment is
adopted altogether. with strict dieting,
the consumption of flesh, fish or fowl be-
ing absolutely prohibited. The results of
this system. It Is claimed. are most bene-