The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-10
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an enhanced proportion of mineral salt,
such as the phosphates of lime and potash,
which are necessary in the building UP Of
the entire human frame
The use of y rays may lead to perma-
nent and irreparable alterations of the
skin. Behrend mentions case of man in
which the hand and nails were seriously
affected. The injuries are similar to those
produced by a burn. After prolonged or
loosened and in some the matrix is
destroyed for good. In the same way hairs
are loosened and the hair-producing struc-
lures may be permanently destroyed. The
Journal of the American Medical Associa-
ton says it behooves the physician and ex-
pert In charge to take proper measures for
their prevention. in view of the possibility
of malpractice suits and hostile verdicts
after the employment of the ray.
DR.. Wilson, of Louisville, records a case
where a cigar maker had lost a brother
who died of tuberculosis, also a cigar
maker with whom he worked and whom
he nursed for three Or four years. Cigar
making carried on in the sick room,
and there were doubtless other cigar MAX
ers in the same room. No care was taken
to dispose of the sputum and it is prob
able that this dried and formed dust, set
ting upon tobacco, and it is possible that
they may have pursued the old plan of
moistening the end of the cigar with sa-
Iva, there being great risk in either case
of disseminating the disease. The question
IIxy riS m
infectious material by means of cigars.
The Medical Press, speaking of golf.
SAYS: 1T 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, 'Hoot, mon.' f" A great deal
might be said in favor of golf as a men,
tai and nervous tonic, but not to the ex-
clusion of other sports which have many
of the same advantages. In heart LESSONS,
arterial Qualifications or certain hysterical
conditions golf is not TO be despised
medical agent, but it is pre-eminently in
functional nervous diseases that our great
Anglo-Saxon game is to be recommended
both for prevention and cure.
Quinine is derived from an Indian name
kina-kina, meaning the best bark of all.
Cinchona, sthe technical name of the tree
from which the bark is derived, is named
after the Countess DEL. Cinchon, wife of
the viceroy of Lima, had been cured OF
an attack of periodical fever by the use of
this drug and introduced it into Europe
in 1854, but the remedy did not become
popular until 1876 when it was given to
Louis XIV by an English doctor named
Talbot. According to others it was intro
duced by Jesuits, and for that reason it is
sometimes called Jesuits' bark. AS much
of the bark was brought from Peru. that
also has given IL the name Peruvian bark.
Twenty-Five years ago there were but 500
women physicians in the United States
To-day there are 1900, or one to 1900 in
habitants. The first woman doctor of whom
there is any record was Miss Elizabeth
Blackwell enrolled in the Medical Register
JAN Il. 1919. Now. prejudice having been
overcome, women doctors are to be found
in every portion of the world, even In the
far East, of the best known among
the latter being a Chinese lady, DR.. HUI
King Eng the first physician to the house
hold 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 az Health OF Cal16ogu3a