The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22

rats as one of the most important meas
ures to prevent the dissemination of the
plague in this country but the means
suggested are questionable. Poison may
Kill the rats but it leaves a decaying
body which is most offensive to smell and
may become a culture ground for disease.
A poisoned rat or mouse invariably
crawls into hole to die and the remains
can't be located without tearing the
house down. By all means, both for rea-
sons of comfort and hygiene, kill the
rats, but don't poison them Keep a
good dog or cat or invest in a, trap or a
Flobert rifle and either bury or burn the
bodies.
The authorities of Manchester, Eng
land, which has population of over half
a million, have just undertaken to build
a smallpox hospital to cost $500, 600 1t
will be located at Darlington Moss. a
tract of waste land belonging to the city
which has been reclaimed and made fer
tile No doubt the neighbors will oppose
the building OF the hospital. for the POS
sibility of the aerial spreading of disease
from hospitals and from passing ambu-
lances is an uncomfortable one to think
of. Every ambulance used for the con-
veyance of persons suffering from con-
tagious diseases should be thoroughly
equipped with all possible arrangements
disease. and there is an opportunity for
some inventive genius to perfect an asep-
tic ambulance
Dr. Thorndike, after study of mental
fatigue, disbeheves that fatigue begins
as soon as work begins, and thinks that
it is greatly influenced by mistakes and
inappropriate reaction fully as much as
by the amount of work. He says that
mental fatigue is not like that of the body
and that it's warning signs are more COM
pIeX and ill-defined. and for that reason
are too often neglected There is no re-
liable symptom and no measure of the
degree of exhaustion of mental force, and
the signs of danger are at present but
vaguely understood, even by physicians.
Dr. Porter claims that gout and rheu-
matism are due to one of two causes, an
excess of food OF diminished supply of
food. the result being that of defective
oxidation in the body. uric acid and other
products being evidences of imperfect
processes, and not products of the disease
itself. This suggests form of treatment
in which only as much food is given as
can be properly oXidized by the system.
due care being taken that the digestive
system is in such good condition. that it
can properly digest food.
The causation of lockjaw is usually as
sociated with perforating wounds from
rusty nails, but a case is recorded in the
Lancet in which man forty-fiye years
Of age pricked his heel with a needle
and fourteen days after developed typical
symptoms of tetanus. The treatment
consisted of fifteen grains of bromide of
potash and of choral given every four
hours, the dose being increased later to
thirty grains The patient recovered.
That some good may grow out of evil
is shown by a case which happened in
Williamsburg A man was in need
of, but dreaded. an operation for appen-
dicitis. He got mixed up in row and
was stabbed in the abdomen. so the sur
geon at the hospital. before sewing up the
wound. improved the opportunity to re-
move the appendix. The patient recovered
and is now very grateful to his former
opponent and bitter enemy.
Sanatogen is new a1buminoid compound
of grayish white color having a slight
odor and not unpleasant taste. 1t is COM
posed of 95 per cent caSein and per cent
phosphate of sodium. DR.. RybucZka
claims that it Is highly nutritive. easily
digestible and readily assimilated, stimu-
lating the appetite in various diseases,
acting as a sedative, especially in the
sleeplessness of nervous exhaustion, and
increasing the weight
DR.. Coley, while believing that alcohol
Is sometimes of value as medicine, ad-
vises against its use unless one is con-
vinced that no other safer remedy will
produce the desired effect, and he espe-
cially gives warning against it's use in
trivial ailments.
PRESCRIPTIONS.
For the catarrhal sore throat, often fol-
lowing the influenza, DR.. Atkinson rec
ommends: Carbolic acid, II grains; bo-
rox, drachms: bicarbonate of soda, /
drachm; glycertne. u ounce; rose water
sufficient to make ounces This may be
used as a gargle or as a spray.
For bronchial catarrh the following is
useful: Sulphate of morphine, y grain:
syrup of squills, drachms; syrup of lac
tucarium Qettuce) " ounce; water,
drachms. The dose is a teaspoonful every
second. third or fourth hour.
In cases OF severe bronchitis, following
the Influenza. the following is recon-
mended by Atkinson: Chloride of am
monia, 1 drachm; Brown mixture (com-
pound mixture of licorice), ounces. The
dose is tablespoonful every three or four