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Full text of ' Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 Vol. V THE CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Incorporating The Los Angeles Journal of Eclectic Medicine AND The California Medical Journal (Published by the California Eclectjc Medici'l Collage) 1912 O. D., Editor Issued Monthly Price, $1.00 per Year Foreign $1.50 Single Numbers, 1 5c Editorial Office 818 Security Building Cor. Fifth and Spring Los Angeles, Cal. The California Eclectic Medical Journal Vol. JANUARY 1912 No.

1 >P Original Contributions *P SANTONINE. D., Los Angeles, California.

Read before the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society. Santonine is the active principle of the plant santonica. The herb grows in nearly every section of our country and is one of the native wild plants which are found growing in the College Botanical Garden. Its common names are wormseed and Jeru- salem oak, and is readily recognized by its characteristic odor. Children who have ever taken McClains, or some other kind of fluid patent-medicine vermifuge during the past fifty years or more, have a distinct and abiding recollection of its taste, as this plant is almost always an ingredient in every such mixture. Scientifically it has been classified as Chenopodium, artemisia, ambrosia and erysimum, but whichever of these names is the correct one matters little, as it is preferably called by the famil- iar and euphoneous name of santonica. Or other fluid preparation, is now seldom used in medicine, owing to its dis- agreeable taste, but is ordinarily dispensed in the form of santonine.

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Which is almost tasteless. It can be used in powder, but is more conveniently given in a tablet triturate, which always divides the dose accurately, one-fourth of a grain being the average dose. If a smaller dose is desired the tablet can be divided, or the dose can be increased t:>two or more tablets. It is not objectionable to a child and may be eaten like candy, dissolved in water, or swallowed like a pill.

The dose of santonine is from a quarter of a grain to two gains. The United States Dispensatory gives the dose from ten to thirty grains, which is evidently excessive and dangerous. The smallest dose of any drug that will have the desired effect and afford the needed relief, is the quantity that should be used. The Eclectic method of prescribing medicines in fre- quent small doses is much preferable, as a rule, to giving large doses at longer intervals. An over dose of five grains, or more, is poisonous and dangerous, as it has been known to cause con- vulsions and death.

With ordinary caution, however, no dan- 2 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL gerous effect is ever produced. During the past forty years in which I have used the medicine freely (and I commenced using it when I started in practice), I have never seen the slightest evil effect and regard it as perfectly safe in all cases if us«d in the small dose. When administered it imparts a bright saffron hue to the urine, so that it is always best to advise the mother Dr nurse what to expect, as they might become fright- ened by the sudden change in the color of the urine, if not in- formed. Santonine is known as a good worm medicine and so it is; but this action represents only a small fraction of its real value. Its full value is too little knDwn, for which reason I desire to call attention to the agent at this time. As a pleasant and reliable vermifuge it is the remedy par excellence and will expel both stomach and pin worms.

Worm symptoms are vari- ous and numerous, but those that are usually present in such cases are: a whitish ring about the mouth, slight swelling of the upper lip, much picking of the nose and the uttering }f shrill cries during sleep. Although these signs are all well known worm symptoms, yet they do not infallably denote the presence of worms; but they do always indicate irritation of some kind in the intestinal canal, whether produced by worms or some other cause, and call for santonine. A quarter or half grain tablet, according to the age of the child, should be given every two hours until three or four doses are taken, then followed by some mild purgative. I do not say that a physic is absolutely necessary to success, but a soft state of the bowels will naturally aid the expulsion of worms if there are any. If there be no worms in the stools it is safe to conclude that there are none and that the irritation which caused the symptoms was produced by something else than parasites. Afterwards, the medicine should be continued in less frequent doses for one or more days, when the worm symptoms will have disappeared and the child well.

Some- times, after a vermifuge is given and no worms are seen, the conclusion is reached that the worms have been killed and dis- solved into slime. Anybody who chooses to believe such a fiction is. Of course, welcome to do so but it is not in the nature of things for living matter to dissolve and disappear in that manner. A remedy should be selected for its known specific effect, rather than merely for what 'it is said to be good for.'

Some medicines have but one specific action, while others may have two )r more. The value of a remdy depends upon its power to relieve suffering and cure the sick; but common sense must CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 3 be used and not more expected of a remedy than it is capable of doing. The real value of santonine, I believe, is found in its power to relieve and control a train of nervous reflexes, which arise from disturbance of the organs that are located in the abdo- men and pelvis. The reflexes for which santonine is known to be specific, are those recognized as worm symptoms and already described. It will cure worm fever, which is reflex and due to local irritation; and convulsions, that are produced in like manner are also cured when the worms are expelled and the local cause of irritation removed. In using santonine as a remedy for worms, I discovered that it also relieved some unpleasant nervous symptoms that were not caused by worms; and for many years it has been my chief reliance in treating nervous children.

The only mention that I have ever seen of its benefit in such cases is in the eighth edition of Ellingwood's materia medica. He also seems to have ac- quired his knowledge, as I did mine, by experience and in a similar manner. The remedy is perfectly adapted to a class of fretful, crying children who have indigestion and a faulty bowel movement, with a tendency to diarrhoea and are poorly nourished. It is especially adapted to those nhildren that are restless and do not sleep well at night, who roll and toss in bed. Grind their teeth, have bad dreams and cry out in their sleep. Give such a child one-quarter grain tablet in the even- ing and a second or third one during the night, if necessary; but usually the first dose quiets the little patient and it seldom has to be repeated. I can do no better than to here quote Dr.

Ellingwood, who says: 'I advise with full assurance of satisfactory results that this remedy be used freely in the treatment of reflex irritations. I do not think it will be necessary to give it in large doses. From one-half a grain to a grain and a half in an extreme case will. I think, be sufficient. I would suggest that it be used in the re- flex irritations of pregnancy, especially when there is scanty urine, or where there is a deficiency of renal action with much local irritation. Also in the beginning stages of albumenuria of pregnancy I am confident that it will do much towards pre- venting puerperal convulsions, if given early. I think there are some cases of vomiting during pregnancy that will be quickly allayed by it.

I advise that if it be in hysterical condi- tions and in those difficulties where there is irritation of the ovaries and irritation at the menstrual epoch, especially if it is accompanied with some pain. 'Santonine is a positive remedy with which to increase the secretion of urine in children. It gently stimulates the function 4 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL of the organs, promotes normal secretion and relives irritation.

It is without doubt our best remedy to restore the secretion in post-scarlatinal and post-diphtheritic nephritis.' Any physician who has never used santonine as a diuretic has missed a good remedy. It will not only relieve suppression, but will also start the flow in retention of urine. It gives tone to the bladder and materially increases its expulsion force. It relieves irritation of the entire urinary tract in both old and young, but is especially to be thought of as a remedy in the urinary difficulties of the aged and particularly in cases where there is inability to void the urne. BEFORE AND AFTER LABOR. Blankmeyer, M.

D., Aransas Pass, Texas. Read before the Texas Eclectic Medical Society. It is not often the doctor is consulted or notified, until very near the day of labor, unless the prospective mother is not doing as well as her good lady friends think she should.

Then the doctor is consulted by the husband or sent for, to know what is best to do for the wife's swollen feet or the dizzy spells she is having. If the patient has been pregnant before and gone to full time with swollen feet and no treatment, she will not recognize the seriousness of such a condition, unless advised to notify her doctor, in the future, as soon as she notices any swelling. If you are consulted or engaged one or more months in ad- vance it is your duty to advise your prospective patron about the danger of heavy lifting, pressure of the abdomen, as in washing, and especially not to raise the arms to extreme heights as in hanging up clothes, house-cleaning, picture hang- ing, etc.

Common sense would suggest these warnings as it would also other matters to avoid during the months of gestation, but that kind of sense is too often not in evidence during this time, in some of the very best of well-regulated families. Do not take for granted all women know such things, and even if your patient does, it will show thoughtfulness on your part and will be advice well received. A fruit diet will have a tendency to encourage pliable bones and small ones, especially if a meat diet is avoided, which en- courages muscle and a large baby. Encourage exercise which besides regular walks should in- clude the regular household duties she has been accustomed to; in fact, insist that the patient should NOT lead an idle life if you want the help of the muscles during labor. CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL. 5 Abdominal breathing is good to develop strong muscles, so this, coupled with massaging of the abdomen and perineum five to ten minutes each evening, especially the perineum, will be time and effort that will bear 100 per cent interest. It will not be necessary to spend $1.00 for the so-called Mother's Friend, as 10 cents worth of sweet oil will answer as well, although olive oil will satisfy the patron better, as it is more costly and not so common as sweet oil.

'While the hot, wet towel to the perineum during the comple- tion of the second stage of labor will be fine, it will not prevent as many lacerations as the massaging with olive oil for two or more months before the lying-in period. This is the most important treatment you can give Primipera, especially if over 30 years of age. DO NOT FORGET THIS. If your patient is a primipera or has been subject to hard and slow labors, the foregoing advice, coupled with Lloyd Mitchella Compound, teaspoonful every four hours for six to eight weeks before confinement, will assure an easy birth and a grateful patron. If you have no Mitchella Compound, prescribe Lloyds Sp. Mitchells; Viburnum; Pulsatilla and Macrotys, aa one dram; Glycerine, half ounce; aqua q.

To make 4 ounces; tea- spoonful four times a day. If the limbs are swollen use Sp.

Apocynum 1 dram; Sp. Veratrum gtt xxx Glycerine, half ounce; Aqua q. Four ounces; teaspoonful two to four hours till relieved; but if you will see that the liver is kept active you will not have swollen limbs to contend with.

As it is often the small things in the practice of medicine that make our best friends, it will be worth your while to explain to your prospective patient the process of labor, how to help pains and prolong them by the steady, even breathing with closed mouth and the slow relaxation as the pains leave. Show her the policy of no fussing and the benefit of the clinched fingers over the fundus of the uterus; but if she must and will not use the clinched hands over the domen, then use a napkin with opposite corners tied, so as to form a loop. This placed over the knees gives a good means of self help, at the same time steadies the knees; avoids the interference of friends with your effors to help and gives general satisfaction; more so than any slipper contrivance or sheet around the bed-posts.

Also instruct the mother about having four or five pads made from newspapers covered with cloth, which when soiled can be destroyed. They are inexpensive, clean and aseptic. Much more could be said on advice before labor, but the fore- 8 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL going should be enough to bring out ideas from others better qualified. As to the after-treatment, there will seldom be any necessity for much if you have been consulted in time and you and your patient have done your duty before birth. If you have not been too hasty to deliver the Placenta, you will not have any of the secundines to pass two or three days after delivery, accompanied with that tale-telling odor of danger. Whether a good or bad delivery, it is always policy to be on the safe side by ordering a germicide like the Pix Creosol tablet placed next to the mouth of the womb twice daily for a few days after birth, for which thought I am indebted to Dr. Gates of Waco.

Do not tell your patient she does not need anything for her after pains, but make them lighter and easier to bear by giving Sp. Jaborandi; Viburnum; Phytolacca and Veratrum aa gtt xx in four ounces of water and order a teaspoonful every three hours. This also has a tendency to ward off breast trou- bles and brings a good flow of milk.

If you have neglected this step of precaution and the breasts show signs of hardening, or if you are called to a case of caked breasts applications of hot water saturated with Epsom Salts will overcome the inflammation and prevent suppuration. See that the bowels are moved at least fourty-eight hours after birth and allow but easily digested food so long as patient is confined to bed, being governed much by the habits and sur- roundings of your patient as to your selection of what foods to advise. Much has been written of late, as to the necessity of the new mother lying in bed nine to ten days, as has so long been the custom; which no doubt depends much on who your patient is and her power of endurance. The average American woman needs the ten days and more, to allow her generative organs to go back to the normal conditions. Complications arising must be met as each case indicates, but avoid complications in many instances by the Golden Rule of Obstetrics, 'Medlesome midwifery is bad.'

'STAMPING OUT TUBERCULOSIS' (Contined). Laws, Los Angeles, Cal. The previous paper gave a few glimpses at the stage work constantly being played by the Medico-Political Trust. As this is the tragedy of modern times, if not of the ages, it is important to know who the contestants are. And methods of warfare.

CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 7 By request, the Executive Secretary of the 'National Asso- ciation for the Study and Preventiou of Tuberculosis' sent me much literature, from which the following facts are obtained: 'The Association is the American representative of the In- ternational Association, with headquarters in Berlin.' There you have it, friends of liberty, standing out in bold relief. Could any possible good to America come out of poor old despotic, autocratic, atheistic Berlin?

So it seems that the A. Is dominated by the American tentacle of this foreign monster. Now let us hear what it proposes to do, and is already doing: 'Forming Societies in every state, city and town of the coun- try.'

'Procuring the passage of laws extending the scope of sani- tary regulations and the authority or health officers.' These are samples of a long list, and enough to show that this foreign parasite is in our midst, and who is responsible for the pernicious activity so much complained of. The contestant on the other side is a growing body of Amer- ican people of rare intelligence and patriotism, who propose to defend what liberty we have left at whatever cost. 'The chief task of the Society is a broad educational cam- paign.' Yet their literature and conduct abound in absurdities and contradictions. The very idea of an utterly intolerant despot- ism coming into our tolerant America, and posing on the stage as an angel of mercy, is surely a gigantic absurdity that all can see. Mercy and love of humanity are not found in close fellow- ship with compulsion and intolerance.

This spirit of intolerance is the most striking feature in every stage performance of the above named societies. Every doctor is branded sectarian that is not wearing the Berlin label Their tearful pretense is to save people from Tuberculosis in order to get laws passed to install them in monopolistic power. Like the Oil and Steel Trusts, they reach out in all directions, invading our schools and churches. This Berlin brand has been ' ' working for six years to check the spread of tuberculosis in America.' They found good soil in the A.

To grow what they wanted to plant. They dominate all societies, great and small, in America, of the allopathic school. They have grown a lot of Congressmen and a Senator in Oklahoma, and a dictator at the White House, as that edict 'in the Panama Canal Zone' clearly indicates. Recent attacks on candidates for the Board of Education in Los Angeles, show the kind of 'enlightenment' these societies 8 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL are engaged in. The people have already learned to vote for those the machine doctors try to down.

These 'Societies in every State, City and Town' are evi- dently meant for political incubators, to hatch legislators, con- gressmen and a Quixotic senator, now and then, like the one from Oklahoma. The tuberculosis scare mania serves to keep the incubator hot, and many innocent workers watching and waiting to see the results. As 'we now have five congressmen, and reason to believe soon we will have twenty-five,' the incubators must contain a good supply of congressional eggs.

They put none in till 'pledged to obey orders.' All other matter brought to the stage in this stamping-out farce are mere tricks to scare as many as possible and hold public attention, such as 'preventing the spread of tuberculosis,' sleeping out of doors, and many other things that may be good in some degree. The object of this brief paper is to give a clear statement of the origin and aims of this foreign spirit that has so serum crazed our A. And all its branches, that in this 'stamp- ing ouc business, the doctor is more dangerous than the disease; and a despotism is being stamped into our nation. D., Los Angeles, California. On my return trip from the national meeting in Boston a year ago, I came by the Northern route and stopped a day in Seattle on Puget Sound. Here I met some of our Eclectic physi- cians — Dr.

Frank Brooks, Dr. Cole, in a brief friendly conference. Li speaking of the superiority of Eclectic medicine, Dr.

Cole mentioned the great value of achillea, or yarrow, as a diaphor- etic in fevers. I remembered what he said and after returning home was able in a measure to verify his statement. I failed, however, to remember that he had written up the subject, and that it was printed in Ellingwood's Therapeutist for May, 1909, until reminded of the fact by him in a reply to a letter of in- quiry. The agent is indicated in any case of fever regardless of its cause, when the temperature rises above one hundred degrees, with skin dry and secretion arrested.

In the absence of fever it has practically very little, if any, effect. His method of adminis- tering the medicine is to add one drachm of the specific medicine to a pint of warm water and letting the patient drink it all at a single dose. Snugly tucked in bed the patient soon begins to perspire freely, until the sweat pours in a stream from every CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 9 pore. Soon as the perspiration is fully established improve- ment begins to take place. Pain and restlessness are relieved and the temperature rapidly falls to normal and stays there.

It produces complete relaxation of the system and increases the action of every eliminating function and especially of the skin. It causes no depression like jaborandi, but is always a depend- able diaphoretic and a safe and certain method for breaking up a fever. One dose is usually sufficient to accomplish that object, but occasionally it is necessary to repeat the dose. In closing his report, he says: 'I have taken all sizes of doses of aehillea up to a teasponnful in hot and cold water when my temperature was normal, and outside of a slight diuretic action have never had the slightest effect from it. Have taken and given it with 100 degrees of temperature or over and never failed to get profuse diaphoresis without a corresponding de- pression as one would naturally expect. My marked results have been in adult acute febrile conditions and seldom have I had to administer more than one dose or make more than one visit; which goes to show that, from a business standpoint, I have lost considerable money by three years' use of the most certain drug in the Materia Medica.' D., Marble City, Okla.

Not many physicians know anything about corn oil, and some have never heard of it. So it would not appear that an article on corn oil would be out of place. Recently I became interested in corn oil and wrote to several physicians that were professors of materia medica in medical schools about it and was surprised to learn that even some professors of materia medica in class 'A' regular medical schools had never heard of corn oil and did not know anything about it. I must confess myself that I had never heard of corn oil, until recently never saw it men- tioned in a work on materia medica or saw it listed in any price list of drugs. I never heard it mentioned during my four years' medical college course. The reason why corn oil has not re- ceived more attention and not more generally known I cannot say.

It certainly looks like at least more would have heard of it. I do not know how long corn oil has been on the market. Bevill of Waldron, Ark., writes me that he has heard of it for eighteen or twenty years, but had never used it. The only literature that I have ever seen on corn oil is an article, 'Corn Oil in the Treatment of Tuberculosis,' by John Ritter, M. D., Instructor in Medicine, Rush Medical College Journal of the American Medical Association, July 4, 1908. 10 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Ritter begins this article by emphasizing the fact that in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis oils and fats take foremost rank.

Thomas Bassett Keyes of Chicago would agree with him on this assertion as Dr. Keyes is the author of three books, all teaching that tuberculosis can be cured by hypoderimc use of olive oil. Ritter speaks of cod liver oil and olive oil in the treatment of tuberculosis and says they are expensive and the price as a rule beyond the reach of most tubercular patients. Of course we must agree with him when it is given by mouth in doses from one to four ounces. The price of cod liver oil and olive oil was what caused Dr. Ritter to use corn oil, as it was much cheaper. He prescribed corn oil for patients with pul- monary tuberculosis, in place of cod liver oil and olive oil, at the Central Free Dispensary of Chicago.

He says: 'The low price of maize oil combined with all the good qual- ities of a palatable and wholesome oil makes it an ideal oil for patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.' He further states: 'I am convinced from many close observations that as a good tissue builder it is fully equal to cod liver oil or olive oil. The ingestion of corn oil is well tolerated. It does not cause nauseous eructations which usually follow the taking of cod liver oil and the prolonged and increasing dosage is always borne by the stomach. ' ' After reading Dr.

Ritter 's article, I wrote him and asked him some questions, which are as follows, with his answer after each one: 1st. 'What is the average and maximum dose of corn oil? From a teasponful to a tablespoonful. How often do you repeat the dose? With each meal. Do you give the plain oil, if not, how do you give it, or can the plain oil be used with as good results as any, if desired?

Plain or as an emulsion, if desired. Is corn oil as well tolerated by the stomach as olive oil? Is the therapeutic action of corn oil different from olive oil? Could corn oil be used hypodermically? I have never given it hypodermically, I do not advo- cate the giving of any fixed oil hypodermically. Has your opinion of corn oil changed any since your article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, July 4, 1908? CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 11 I asked Dr.

Abbott of Chicago a few questions and received the following reply: 'Corn oil is stable. The dose is the same as that of olive oil or other bland vegetable oils, i. E., from one-half to four ounces. There is no appreciable differ- ence in Ilk' therapeutic action of corn, cotton seed or olive oil.' The Corn Product Refining Co.

Of 26 Broadway, New York, offered me corn oil for $7.05 per 100 pounds prepaid to Marble City, Okla. In regard to what Dr. Ritter said regarding the hypodermic use of corn oil and other oils, I wish to say there is a valuable article, 'The Utilization of Fats and Oils Given Subcutaneously.'

D., May, 1911, Archives of Internal Medicine. This article was based on experiments made in the Laboratory of Physiology of Cornell University Medical School. M ills used olive oil, cotton seed oil, peanut oil, corn oil and other oils hypodermically in animals, and his conclusions are valuable. He considers the hypodermic use of oils of value in diseases. It would be a treat to any physician that is interested in oils and especially their hypodermic use, to read Dr. Mills' article. Keyes uses olive oil in large doses hypodermically for the cure of consumption and various other diseases.

He does not use ethyl chloride spray before the injections. Possi- bly corn oil could be used hypodermically in place of olive oil and be much cheaper. QUESTIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS Los Angeles, December 6, 7, 8, 9, 1911. Answer Eight Questions Only and Identify Four Slides.

Describe the difference between hypertrophy and hyperplasia, and under what circumstances does each occur? Name five hemolytic substances. In what way do the histologic changes found in cloudy swelling of the heart differ from those foud in fatty degeneration of the heart?

VVhat structural or organic changes are most likely to be re- sponsible for constant and excessive irregularity in the heart's action extending over a prolonged period of time? Descrbe the heart changes which frequently accompany crou- pous (Lobar) pneumonia. Describe the condition present in hypostatic congestion of the lungs and under what circumstances is it most likely to occur. Locate and describe the pathologic changes which occur in acu*3 bulbar paralysis and name the most common causes. Describe the condition of the patient and the morbid anatomy likely to be found during the first few hours in a case of thrombus of the middle cerebral artery on the left side and the condition of the patient likely to be found in a favorable case at the end of several weeks.

What form of nephritis is most likely to accompany or foilow 12 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL a severe attack of scarlet fever and describe the pathologic changes most likely to be found in the kidney. In what way do the changes found in the tyroid gland in exoph- thalmic goiter differ from those found in the more harmless or benign forms of goiter?

Identify two slides. Identify two slides. Answer Eight Questions Only. What histological characteristics would enable you to distin- guish a transverse section of the duodenum end of the stomach?

Make drawings. Describe a cerebro-spinal nerve fibre and tell how it differs from the sympathetic nerve fibre. Make drawings. Name the primary blastodermic layers from which each of the following structures are developed: (a) Retina; (b) heart muscle; (c) hair; (d) cerebellum; (e) liver cells; (f) tendons; (g) secereting cells of pancreas; (h) voluntary muscle fibres; (i) Epithel- um of bladder; (j) lining cells of pleura. Make a drawing of a transverse section of the spinal chord — showing principal motor cell groups — white and gray matter in the various tracts in the former. In what respect do bronchioles differ from the bronchi of medium size? Make drawing of the latter.

What microscopic structural differences would enable you to distinguish a section made perpendicularly to the surface of the ventricle of the heart from a like section from the uterus? Trace the course of the urniferous tubule in the kidney — name its divisions and the characteristics of each portion. (a) How do medium sized arteries differ histologically from tne great arterial trunks? (b) Illustrate by means of diagrams or draw- ings. (a) Name the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, (b) Which contains the most fibro-elastic tissue? (c) Which is best supplied with blood vessels?

(d) Which contain neither nerves nor blood vessels? What feature would enable you to recognize a section of (a) spleen, (b) cerebellum, (c) suprarenal gland, (d) thyroid gland, (e) cerebrum. Make drawings or sketch of each. Identify two specimens. Identify two specimens.

Name the muscles concerned in each of the various movements of the shoulder joint. Give the relations of the inferior vena cava. What structures would be cut by a cross section through 5. Describe the internal or inferior calcaneo scaphoid ligament. Describe the deep cervical fascia, the fourth dorsal vertebrae? Give the origin of the cochlear and vestibular nerves.

Discuss the excretory apparatus of the liver. Describe the conditions tending to minimize the effects of violence upon the spinal column, (b) What portions of the spinal column are most subject to injury? CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 13 9. Describe the spermatic veins.

Why are they particularly liable to become variocese? Describe the arrangement of the essential structures com- prising the gray substance of the spinal cord, (b) Same for the white 11. Outline or describe the surface markings of the heart on substance. The anterior chest wall and give position of the various orifices, (b) Locate the area of superficial cardiac dullness, also the area of deep cardiac dullness.

Describe the superior cervical ganglion, (b) Give its rela- tions. Answer Ten Questions Only. Name two bacilli resembling tubercle bacillus, and explain in detail how you would differentiate the three. In a suspected case of typhoid fever (second week), how would you make a bacteriologic diagnosis? How is Tuberculin C used to diagnose tuberculosis?

Give three methods. Describe three ways in which bacteria propogate. What is meant by anaphylaxis? What produces erysipelas, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, carbuncle, elephantiasis, Malta fever? In a case of suspected tuberculosis of the kidney, how would you confirm the diagnosis?

Draw pictures of magnified cholera bacilli, diptheria bacilli, diplococcus catarrhalis, sarcinae ventriculae entameba histolytica. How is the diagnosis of rabbles made in the dog? Where is the infectious material found?

Discuss the bacillus pyocyaneus. What is the object of using diptheria antitoxine in a case of diptheria, instead of diptheria vaccine?

Explain how the bacillus tetani act after the introduction into the system through a punctured wound. What kills the patient? CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY. Answer Ten Questions Only.

In what forms does A1203 occur naturally? Name and describe the allotropic forms of carbon. Give two methods of making glucose. Demonstrate by formula the action of yeast or glucose. How may oxalic acid be distinguished from magnesium sul- phate? What are the constituents of olive oil and how would you separate them?

What will result when a mixture of lead oxide and stearin is heated? Give a method for the quantitative determination of the de- composition of proteins in the body. Give the tests for phenol poisoning.

Discuss poisoning by carbon monoxide. Name twenty poisons which may cause sudden death. Define and discuss the 'corpus delicti' of toxicology. Classify and name the tonic agents which may cause in- sanity. 14 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL GYNECOLOGY. Coccygodynia, definition, causes and symptoms. Differential Diagnosis, Hydronephrosis and Ovarian cyst.

What are the most common pathological results of complete laceration of the perineum? Anatomy of the perineum and its functions. Differentiate Eczema and Herpes of the Vulva. Methods of exploration of the Urethra Bladder and Ureters for diagnosis.

Cancer of the Bladder, diagnosis and symptoms. Pregnancy complicating Carcinoma of the Uterus, diagnosis, what would be your advice, why? Differentiate pelvic peritonitis, cellulitis, salpengitis. Define the terms Thrombosis, Phlebitis and symptoms of each. Atrophy of the Uterus, etiology and symptoms. Disorders of menstruation. Name three of the most common and symptoms.

Answer Ten Questions Only. What effect has altitude (4000 to 8000 feet) upon the normal? Upon the diseased? Name at least three resorts for the tuberculous in Arizona or California (in either or both) and give some of the advantagesous characteristics of each. Give your opinion as to the advantages and disadvantages of sleeping out of doors.

Describe in detail one of two methods of pro- viding for sleeping out of doors off the second floor of a city dwelling. What are benefits of a cold plunge bath on rising? By whom should it be avoided? What should be the temperature (Fahrenheit) of a uot bath? Temperature of a tepid bath? In the warfare against the typhoid fly, what is a good method of destroying maggots in horse manure without destroying the fertiliz- ing value or removing the manure? Name six benefits derived from medical inspection of schools.

How many cubic feet of air space should there be for each child in a school room? Describe the Etiology of Malaria. Why are the arid plains and mountains of California, Arizona and New Mexico beneficial to many cases of tuberculosis?

Describe sterilization of milk. When would you use this method? Describe Pasteurization of milk.

When would you use this method. In what portion of the external auditory canal is cerumen secreted? When the accumulation of ear wax is excessive, what should be the method of removal? What are the objections to washing the teeth over stationary wash basin in Pullman car or hotel?

Answer Ten uestions Only. What are the distinctive phenomena which characterize the contraction of nonstriated muscle? What evidence of fatigue do nerve fibers exhibit?

Dscribe the tnoic activity of the spnal cord. Dscuss the Pain sense. (a) What are the general conditions which influence blood- pressure and blood-velocity? CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 15 (b) How does the rate of the heart beat vary according to sex, size and age? Discuss the nature of the action of vaso-dilator nerves. Describe the circulation of the lymph.

What is the origin of the negative pressure in the thorax? How are the carbohydrates absorbed from the intestinal cav- ity? When the chyme enters the intestine, to what new conditions is it subjected? LI, What evidence is there which seems to indicate that the pancreas has an important internal secretion? How is the loss of heat regulated by the body?

Answer Ten Questions Only. What do you understand by the following named diameters of foetal head. Occipito-fronta; Occipito-mental and fronto-mental, giving their measurements?.. Describe the conditions of the pelvis that you (Jonsido; in'dicate the induction of premature labor?

In abortion which retained secundines and infection, will you kindly discuss the matter of curettement from the standpoint of early or late operation? If the case came to you late, what would you do? In abortion which retained secundines and infection, what form of infection counter-indicates eui rettemenl,.,nd wh- r?

Describe the proper management of the.' Breast,s?a) B^fyi.e labor, (b) After labor when child is still bom': 6. How would you determine between puerperal sepsis and other inter-current fevers?

What would be the symptoms of an intramural fibroid of uterus and how may it complicate the diagnosis of pregnancy in early stage? What are the diseases most common to the foetus in utero?

What is the function of the chorion? What do you understand by the operation of embryotomy? How would you tell the difference between a first and subse- quent pregnancy? How would you make a diagnosis between vertex and breach presentation? GENERAL DIAGNOSIS Answer Ten Questions Only.

Name the white blood cells and give the diagnostic value of each. Describe Interstitial Nephritis. Give the symptoms and signs of empyaema.

Differentiate a dorsal dislocation of the hip from a fracture of the neck of the femur. Describe the symptoms and signs indicating a cerebral hem- orrhage following an injury to the head.

Give the causes of hemsturia and give the symptoms upon which you would base a diagnosis of renal tuberculosis. Give the symptoms and signs of hyperthyroidism. Name the causes and splenic enlargement and describe spleno Myelogenous Leukaemia. 'What are the percussion findings in (a) Emphysema of the lungs;; (b) Beginning pulmonary tuberculosis; (c) Pleurisy with ef- fusion; (d) Aortic insufficiency in the stage of failing compensation; (e) Pneumohydrothorax? Describe the Adams-Stokes syndrome.

Describe Psoriasis. Give the signs and symptoms of gastric ulcer. The California Eclectic Medical Journal The Official Organ of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of Cali- fornia, the California Eclectic Medical College, the Southern California Eclectic Medical Association, the Loe Angeles County Eclectic Medical 8ociety and the Los Angeles Eclectic Policlinic. UKl lioi i:>A.M., XI. JIACI.KAM, M.l. M I>AMOCialr Kflltor Assistant Kdllor SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: John Ubi Llovd, Phr. M., Cincinnati, Ohio.

D., Saugatuck, Conn. D., Indianapolis, Ind.

Finj.kv Rllingwood, M. D., Chicago, 111. Pirr8 EpwiK Howes, M. D., Boston, Mass. Habvey Wj Feltek, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio.

D., San Francisco A. Contributions, Exchanges, Books for Review and all other communications should *>e. Addressed to The Calitobnia Eclictic Medical Journal, 818 Security Building, Los Angelas,' Call/onus. Original Articles of Interest to the profession ire sojlcit^c'. AH rejected, manuscripts will be returned to writers.

No anony- mous letters or discourteous communications will be printed. The editor Is not responsible for the views of contributors. THE SUCCESSFUL TEACHER. It is not necessary to be either a profound thinker or an original investigator in order to be a successful teacher.

Such a man is a hard master in so far as his own work is concerned, but rarely is he so with regard to the work of others. Also it frequently happens that the work of his brain moves by such leaps and bounds that great difficulty is experienced by those less learned in following him at all. For the beginner such a teacher is a great misfortune, and yet our large universities vie with each other in the number of such men that they can carry on their staff; for, peculiar as it may seem, such men are supposed to be strong magnets to draw the young men about to enter college. The idea being that the students desire to be and are best instructed by the masters of a subject.

The fallacy of this assumption is recognized, however, by the governing body, for it is a long time before the student even touches elbows in the crowd with the so-called head of the department. In medicine the present trend is to have teachers who are not in active practice — or better still not medical graduates at all.

The result is that such teachers usually become confirmed hobbyists who believe and teach that their particular subject is CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 17 the only one of any importance. Not many decades ago a doc- tor's lore was derived mostly from his preceptor. Then the professional instructor came along, and being such a glib talker, it was assumed that he knew a lot more.

An assumption which was quite unwarranted in so far as practical work was concerned. However, the medical colleges go on teaching a lot of interesting but useless stuff which the student promptly for- gets as soon as he gets his license to practice. Having accom- plished this much he is now about to enter upon the work of his life, namely the study and treatment of disease, and he will be fortunate, indeed, should he now be favored with a successful practitioner as a teacher. For he must still learn the practical work, without which he cannot give valuable service and there- by earn an honest living.

Beside work in a hospital is a good thing, but it will not compare with bedside work in the home. What every medical student needs is a preceptor, even though preceptors are out of style. FLEXNER'S REPORT CONDEMNED.

The Council on Medical Education of the A. And Flex- ner's report on the condition of medical colleges, which has ex- cited so much attention, is reacting. Sound men everywhere recognizes that these efforts were scholastic and not founded on good sense and practical experience. A dozen papers have appeared within the last six months, condemning the extreme laboratory requirements and teachings of many of the large colleges as impractical and only valuable for advanced students. The arbitrary and dogmatic claims of what a medical college should be are reacting, and now the pendulum is turning.

One of the notable protests comes from President Hamilton of Tuft's College in Boston, in which he says, after a year's trial and a careful study of its effects in other colleges, he is convinced that the requirements now called for have not improved the quality of the men admitted, and that instead of raising the standard of medical practice, it will practically lower it. Demanding college degrees and high school diplomas as a necessity to enter the medical colleges, drives away a number of men who have had a far better preparation for practice as nurses, drug clerks, teachers and in other vocations of life, than the boys with a college degree, with not infrequently vicious habits and egotistic conceptions, which mar their whole after life. The high school graduates who are often most incompetent to enter upon any serious work of college study, and unsettled in their conceptions of life and never can succeed, because of 18 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL immaturity, incompetency to judge and unwillingness to study, except in the most perfunctory manner. He asserts that the schools which have prospered most from the bitter arraignment of the Carnegie Report and the foolish efforts of health boards to raise the standard have been the small, poorly equipped colleges. He says 'No set of purely mechanical tests can ever deter- mine the student's ability to do college work. The colleges are in great danger of yielding too far to the standardizing pres- sure, and forbidding entrance to, and actually driving out, some of the best and most promising youths of our country. It is true that the strict standard shut out many a boy of earnest purpose and great natural ability, who has all the real qualifi- cations for a future scholar, lacking only the artificial ones.

Many such young men are either barred from higher education altogether or forced to seek it in inferior institutions.' He says: 'Personally, I believe there is much injustice in the complaints of the secondary school teachers, that the col- leges are far too rigid in their demands and too technical in the enforcement of them. I have much sympathy with their de- mands, that the colleges should meet the schools half way, in- stead of compelling the schools to be governed by them.'

He declares that the entrance to colleges should be governed by the man, his life, his history and his general qualifications, not his technical knowledge. He asserts that small colleges can do far better work than large endowed institutions, and hopes that Tuft's College will never have more than 500 students in any one department. Beyond that their usefulness is very lim- ited. He outlines clearly the fact that all the smaller colleges, those that are called weak and poor, are profiting immensely by the foolish arbitrary standards of the so-called great colleges. Even the quacks feel it. The osteopaths and other pathies have increased classes and they are more and more popular as a direct result of shutting out men by rigid requirements that would make very respectable practitioners in the future. While this is a tremendous jar on the conceited assumption of exact knowledge of what the colleges should and should not do, it is only the reaction which naturally comes from foolish scholastic efforts to revolutionize present systems, regardless of the exact conditions.

While there are many poor medical colleges in the country, they can't be driven out by law. Nor arbitrary rules of political health boards. Public sentiment must show the proper schools and the proper methods of education before the army of med- ical students will seek them. In the meantime the quacks CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 19 thrive and flourish and many a good man who wishes to practice medicine, but is prevented from getting a legitimate education, falls into the hands of quack colleges and comes out to prey on the community or to follow some fads that lower the standard of medicine. And its assumptious trust principles carried to an extreme is drifting on to rocks that will certainly wreck it, and its managers ought to see the impending storm ahead and recognize that the great body of the profession cannot be driven or organized under cast iron rules to follow absolute lines of science. Colleges, like every other institution, will go up and down on their merits, and whether they are endowed or not, they will live if supported by clear-brained, intelligent men.

Char- lotte Medical Journal. SOCIETY CALENDAR. National Eclectic Medical Association meets in Louisville, Ky., June, 1912. Stephens, St. Louis, President; W. D., Indianapolis, Ind., Secretary.

Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California meets in San Francisco, May 28, 29, 30, 1912. D., San Francisco, Cal., President; H. D., Redlands, Cal., Secretary. Southern California Eclectic Medical Association meets in Los Angeles in May, 1912. D., Los Angeles, President; Dr. Lawrence, Los Angeles, Secretary.

Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society meets at 8 p. On the first Tuesday of each month. D., Los Angeles, Cal., President; P. D., 818 Secur- ity Bldg., Los Angeles, Secretary. LOS ANGELES COUNTY ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. The regular meeting of the Los Angeles County Eclectic Med- ical Society was held on December 5th at the usual hour at the College. There was an unusually large attendance despite the fact that it was election day.

Munk read an interesting article entitled 'Santonine,' which was freely discussed, as well as the general subject of vermifuges. This being the time for the annual election of officers the following were duly elected to serve during 1912: President — B. Vice-President — 0. 20 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Secretary and Treasurer — P. The essayist for the next meeting, January 2, 1912, will prob- ably be Dr. WELBOURN, See'y J.

BARBPvICK, Pres. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCI- ETY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: January 1st seems to be quite an appropriate time for a few remarks concerning our own State Society and the cause of Eclecticism in the states along the Pacific Coast. As it is the time of year when it is customary for every one to turn over a new leaf, as it were, and make a number of good resolutions, it certainly cannot be out of place to ask each one of our members to include in his or her list at least two resolutions for 'the good of the cause' of Eclecticism. First, to resolve that he or she will make an honest endeavor to be present at our next ANNUAL MEETING to be held in San Francisco May 28, 29 and 30, 1912, and either have a paper or be prepared to take part in the discussions.

Second, to resolve that each one will try and secure at least one new member for our State and National Society. Regarding the second resolution there is quite a field for you to work in, as I am sorry to say that I have a list of 100 or more Eclectics, who are located in our State and doing a good busi- ness, but who belong to neither Society. This list does not in- clude the name of any one who is old or retired, but consists practically of recent graduates of our best Eclectic Colleges of 10 to 15 years' practice. They do not seem inclined to answer any letters that are sent them, and what they need is the proper sort of encouragement.

We w r ant to show them that we have a real live, up-to-date State Society, that we are publishing the CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL —a mighty good journal for the money. Also that the California Eclectic Medical College is firmly established in Los Angeles with a teaching faculty second to none and with a larger enrollment of students this year than any year since its removal from San Francisco. Now, it is not that your officers are trying to shirk their duty in securing new members, but in this work of reorganization, a letter from you to some one who probably attended college at the same time you did, will help us materially in increasing our membership list. So don't hesitate to write to any friend you know and help along in this line of the work. We have been able within the past year to double our mem- bership in the State Society. Likewise the number of Califor- CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 21 nia Eclectics who are in good standing in the National has been increased 75 per cent.

We are working for, and expect to secure the meeting of The National Eclectic Medical Association for San Francisco during the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. We urge your co-operation in this work.

Every Eclectic owes a certain obli- gation to the cause of Eclecticism in general and the best way of paying tli.it obligation is by lending his moral and financial support to both his State and National Society by immediately placing himself in good standing as a member in both. The annual dues of both societies combined are only $4.00. Your officers have selected the Hotel St. Francis, Union Square, as the official headquarters for our next meeting. The Hotel Management has made us very reasonable rates for all members in attendance. Also has tendered us free of charge, the exclusive use of one of the finest convention halls on the coast, located on the second floor of the hotel; also committee rooms, etc.

We have extended a cordial invitation to 100 or more of our neighboring Eclectics in Washington, Oregon and Nevada to be present and take part in our meeting, and judging from all correspondence, we may reasonably expect quite a number of visitors. Our section officers have been faithfully at work, and promise us a rattling good program, which we hope to print in full in the May Journal, if not before. So you see we can report progress all along the line and the cause of Eclecticism in California never looked brighter than now — the beginning of 1912. All we ask is that each Eclectic individually and collect- ively, shall each do his or her part, pull together and boost. FORD SCUDDER, M. D., Secretary. Redlands, Jan.

COLLEGE NOTES. On the evening of November 11th, 1911, the Westlake Hos- pital held a social dance in the college hall, in honor of the grad- uating class of nurses.

The students and faculty of the C. Were invited, and many of them responded. The hall was beautifully decorated with crepe paper, and a splendid orches- tra furnished music for the dancers.

There was a large attend- ance and everyone had a very pleasant time. Come on girls!

Hurry up and graduate, so that we can have some more swell entertainments. The Junior class is working out a system for clinical work, and is endeavoring to arrange that department of the work 22 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL so that the most can be obtained from it, with the least confu- sion possible.

Heretofore the class has been so small that they could handle all phases of the work together, and each student get the full benefit. But as the numbers increase, a system is needed so that each may get his share in the different depart- ments of clinical work. At present the working plan is to have the class divided into three crews. One crew has charge of the clinic rooms, registering of patients, and filling of prescriptions, etc.

The second crew has charge of the clinical laboratory work and make all necessary analyses, while the third crew holds itself ready to visit out-patients. The crews change places every two weeks so that each individual completes the circuit every six weeks. The patients are assigned by the pro- fessors to the students in turn, and they remain under that student's observation until dismissed. The attendance at the clinic is increasing very repidly, and some exceedingly interest- ing cases have presented themselves thus far this yaar. Thte majority of them seem to be of a higher intelligence than the average medical college clinic, and can be treated with some degree of satisfaction and understanding. From time to time we hope to be able to report some of the most interesting ones for the Journal. The Juniors and Seniors are attending surgical clinics at the County Hospital and are seeing some very interesting work done there.

Cox has been on the sick list at the Westlake Hos- pital, but is improving at this writing. Barbrick has also had a little round of the patient's side of life for a change.

The boys certainly miss his familiar voice in the lecture room, for he keeps them busy when he is there. Osteology quiz.

— Give me a description of the ethmoid bone. Student (rattled) — I can't get it straight just now, doctor; but I know it in my head all right. At the State Board Examination. Question (1) — How would you examine a specimen for tu- berculosis bacilli? Answer — Send it to an expert bacteriologist. Question — 'What stain would you use?

Answer — I would let the expert choose it. In Myology Class — Prof. — Describe the intercostal muscles fully. Student — Well, they arise from one rib and go to another rib. One muscle goes in one direction and the other in another. CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 23 NEWS ITEMS.

Farrar, Berkeley, sends his Christmas greetings and good cheer; also his renewal for the new year. Wittke lias moved from Douglas, Wyoming, to 809 14th street, Denver, Colorado.

Charles Clark, San Francisco, Eclectic member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, made a call at the College at the time of his recent visit to the city. Born sends his dollar for renewal and says he has changed his address from Valley Ford, Wash., to 2301 Broad- way, Spokane, Wash. Mason, Lodi, Eclectic member of the State Board, was in the city during the first of December attending the regu- lar meeting of the Board.

The Doctor visited the College. We desire to call the attention of our readers to the announce- ment of 'Professional and Business Opportunity' on page V of the front advertising sectioin, as this notice is worthy of in- vestigation. Childs of Santa Maria, Cal., recently paid a flying visit to the city and took a look in on the College. The Doctor has a hospital at his place. There is a call for an Eclectic physician to locate in Forest Hill. Burleigh, 401 Pantages Bldg., this city, for particulars. I., '90, recently removed from Minne- apolis, Minn., is permanently settled at No.

1009 West 21st street, Los Angeles. Eastman sends his New Year's greetings and re- newal for the New Year. Eastman has moved from Santa Barbara to Alturas, hoping to benefit the health of Mrs. Already she shows some improvement and the Doctor being the only Eclectic in the community is becoming very busy. Charles Clark of San Francisco and W.

Mason of Lodi, Eclectic members of the California Board of Medical Ex- aminers, were present at the last meeting of the Board in Los Angeles, Dee. They were very busy, of course, but had to eat and took luncheon on Monday with Drs. Munk and Barbrick at the Delmonico.

Scheurer of Long Beach, Cal., has donated to the California Eclectic Medical College a full set of all the bones of the human body, including the head, mounted in two hand- some wooden cases. This gracious act is highly appreciated by both the faculty and students of the institution, and the hearty thanks of all concerned are hereby tendered to the Doctor for his generous gift. 24 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Dr. Bailey has returned from an extended Eastern trip. Wade, Santa Maria, writes that there are a number of good locations in his vicinity for Eclectics. Weather bee informs us that he has changed his address from Forest Hill to 255 Shafter avenue, Oakland. Clark, Arroyo Grande, sends his renewal for the coming year.

Tilden, Riverside, sends his subscription by a friend visiting in the city. Pord Scudder, Redlands, has visited the city a number of times during the past month.

In a letter from Dr. Bullington, Chico, Calif., he says: 'Dr. Devore of Canyonville, Oregon, an E. T., died on October 17th >of blood poison and the people are crying for an Eclectic to take his place. He had been there twenty-five years and I he business is well established. Soenneken has arrived from Nyack, N. Y., to spend the winter and called in person for his Journal.

McDonald, Puyallup, Wash., sends his subscrip- tion and sends his regards to various old-time friends. Munk spent the Christmas holidays visiting various hot springs in Arizona.

Florence Cheney, Turlock, sends her renewal for 1912, but according to our books it is 1913. The Doctor reports business flourishing in her vicinity and this condition of affairs must account for her forehandedness. MUNK HERE FOR A SHORT VISIT. Eager to visit what is almost the only section of Arizona with which he is not familiar, Dr. Munk arrived in Phoe- nix this morning from his home in Los Angeles.

Munk knows more of the history and folk-lore of Arizona than any other man living. He has spent the best part of his life collect- ing books, pamphlets and other publications bearing upon Arizona and is the author of a book, 'Arizona Sketches,' one of the most delightful volumes ever written in description of the wonders and scenic marvels of the new state. When he had collected about 4000 titles, Dr. Munk compiled an Arizona Bibliography. He thought that his work was prac- tically complete and turned his Arizona library over to the Southwestern Museum, at Dos Angeles. Since then he has collected over 1500 new titles, bringing the total up to nearly 6000. The library, he says, is much consulted by visitors to the museum.

At the present time Dr. Munk is engaged in collecting de- CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 26 tailed data concerning the hot and mineral springs of Arizona. He has never visited Castle Hot Springs or the district there- about and intends to spend several days there on his present trip.

Before that, however, he will make a trip to Prescott with Miss Sharlot M. Hall, territorial historian. Munk is much pleased with the growth he sees on every hand in Phoenix. Before he got on the train at Los Angeles yesterday he did not know that the Hotel Adams was com- pleted and was much surprised to learn that that was the case. When he was here last March the foundations were being laid.

The Adams, he says, would be a credit to any city. — Arizona Democrat. WORDS OF APPRECIATION. The following letter, relating to the treatment of opium and other addictions, will interest many. It is addressed to our old friend, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, and reads: 'Gentlemen: — Illness, dating from the very day of my for- mer letter, must be my plea for my silence and my seeming in- difference to your courtesy, and your exceptional kindness in sending me your little, Vest-Pocket-Box.

' I want you to feel that I sincerely appreciate your goodness in this little matter. I am in charge of The Woolley Sanatorium, Atlanta, Ga., an institution conducted exclusively for the cure of opium and other drug addictions, and am using Antikamnia Tablets ex- tensively after withdrawing morphia, and I am free to say that I do, in reality, regard your product as 'A Succedaneum for Morphia. ' 'Our Institution is probably the largest of its kind in the South, and if my views should prove of value to you at any time, command me.' ANTI-DIPHTHERIC SERUM AND GLOBULINS. In their current announcements to the medical profession it is noted that Parke, Davis & Co.

Give equal prominence to their anti-diphtheric serum, which they have produced unchanged for many years, and the newer 'globulins,' which they have been marketing for a number of seasons. The globulins, as is perhaps known to most practitioners, is anti-diphtheric serum with the non-essential portions eliminat- 26 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL ed. Compared with the normal serum '.

Provides a correspond- ing number of antitoxic units in lessar bulk, permitting in con- sequence a smaller dose, which probably accounts for its appar- ent growth in favor among physicians. Both the natural and concentrated products, of course, bear the company's guaranty of purity and efficacy. They are evolved in the blood of healthy, vigorous horses and are pre- pared under the supervision of expert bacteriologists and vet- erinarians. The tests, bacteriological and physiological, to which they are subjected during the process A manufacture, ai'3 thorough and elaborate. The California Eclectic Medical Journal Vol.

FEBRUARY, 1912 No. 2 V Original Contributions *P HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENTS. De Monco, Los Angeles. Read before the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society.

In presenting this paper I shall be compelled to draw freely from several authors upon the subject and I shall call your attention to what Dr. Strong has to say in regard to Elec- trons and vibrations: 'All our conceptions of the external world are derived through the impressions waved by the nerves corresponding to our five senses. These impressions are the results of vibratory forces which impinge upon the nerve ends. Difference in sen- sation results from the varying rates of the vibration from the character of the medium through which the vibrant waves travel. Ample — sound is the result of mechanically ex- cited waves transmitted through the air or some solid or liquid substance; at about 40.000 vibrations per second, sound waves become inaudible as our auditory keyboard has a limited num- ber of notes. 'We explain all natural phenomena by means of two fundamental conceptions called matter and force.

Matter we define as that which occupies space or takes up room — energy or force is that which produces a change in the form, nature or position of matter. We assume that all forms of matter are molecules. A molecule is the smallest portion of matter that can exist alone.

Under ordinary conditions these molecules or infinitismal particles of matter do not touch each other, but are separated by relatively great space. This is due to the fact that molecules possess the inherent property of mutual repul- sion. Each molecule tends to drive all other molecules as far away from itself as possible.

The mutual repulsion of molecules is, however, more or less neutralized by the attraction which each molecule possesses for other molecules in its vicin- ity. These particles of matter are never at rest, but are con- stantly swinging through definite orbits.

It is the inherent 28 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL tendency to orbital motion which causes the molecules to apparently push each other apart.' 'Energy may be divided into mechanical or molar force which produces changes in masses of matter — a molecular force which acts on the molecules of a mass.

'Heat is a form of molecular force which, when applied to a body, causes its molecules to swing through gradually in- creasing orbits, increasing the distance between each molecule and its immediate neighbors. This causes the mass of matter to enlarge and consequently we say that a body expands when heated — iron or steel for example. 'When molecules are rela- tively close together, their mutual attraction is very strong and the mass of matter would appear to us as being very hard and firm, such a mass is called a solid body. Suppose a solid body were to be heated, the distance between the molecules would increase and their mutual attraction would gradually diminish after a time, and a point is reached where this mutual attraction and repulsion just balances each other, and as a result, we have a form of matter in which the particles are so loosely held together that the slightest force is sufficient to break them apart. 'Matter in this condition is called a liquid.

How To Program A Tad M10 Radioshack there. Application of heat to liquid causes still further increase in the distance be- tween these molecules, with a corresponding decrease in mutual attraction. At a certain point the mutual attraction is less than the repulsion and we have then a form of matter called a gas in which the particles tend to diverge indefinitely, conse- quently the volume of gas is limited only by the size of the vessel in which it is contained. The above mentioned property of gases is of very great importance, as it has made possible the discovery of the minute entities of which not only mole- cules, but their component atoms are constructed.

These par- ticles may be regarded as units of force as well as units of mat- ter. From the latter standpoint they are called corpuscles, from the former Electrons.

The Electron is. Therefore, the structural unit of all phenomena; it is a minute charge of nega- tive electricity, self-centered and integral. There is no good reason for supposing that an absolute solid material body underlies and supports this negative charge. In a free state, electrons repel each other, yet they are capable of forming alli- ances, uniting into groups consisting of 800 200.000. Each elec- tron of which swings or vibrates through a definite orbit, so that a minute Solar System is formed. The Electron represent- ing the planets and being held in equilibrium by the attraction of a hypothetical Central Sun. These wonderful minute systems constitute the atoms of the various chemical elements — the CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 29 number of Electrons in a given group determining its physical and chemical properties and its anatomic weight.

Thus the hydrogen atom consists of about 800 electrons and has an anatomic Aveight of.1. Uranium has over 200,000 and an anat- omic weight of 239; between these extremes lie the odd groups of electrons which constitute the chemical elements.

In each atom, the mutually repellant electrons are held in a state of harmonious orbital motion by a centralizing atmosphere of pos- itive electricity in which they are apparently suspended at equilibrium. In the Solar System the planets are simply held together by the sphere of solar attraction — imagine this sphere of attraction to still exist after the removal of the sun and we have a crude idea of the nature of the positive electricity which holds the Electrons together in the atoms.' So much for the Electronical theory, and according to Strong. I have given you this theory in order that you may gain some hypothesis of the relations of molecules and atoms which go to make up the human body and the how and why of the Electronical action thereon. De Arsonval currents are of low potential and high fre- quency, of large voltage and are obtained from solenoids and to demonstrate this current in a proper and efficient manner, you should use an Auto-Condensation table and either a static or coil of sufficient power to produce with a hot wire meter from 800 to 2000 M. Without such an apparatus, your efforts will be futile, and without that wire meter, you cannot know what you are doing. AVith such an apparatus, the physiological action is excited mainly upon the cellular function and the chemical processes of the body, increasing tissue composition forming osmoses, stimulating metabolism and elimination.

The De Arsonval current, sometimes known as the Thermoe-Penetra- tion, finds its proper field of usefulness in the treatment of chronic and constitutional diseases where derangements of nu- trition and cell growth are dominant, such as Diabetes, Gout, Obesity, Rheumatism, etc. They are of much use in diseases involving wasting of tissue, such as Tuberculosis, Muscular Atrophy, etc. The De Arsonval current, from such an appara- tus as I have described, is one of the most certain means of reducing high blood pressure. What drug or drugs can you call to mind at this moment that by its use you can, within a period of twenty minutes, safely and certainly reduce from four to twelve M.

From a blood current? De Arsonval will do this; by its use you can reduce the blood pressure, as I say, from four to twelve M. M's today, but the pressure will rise and to- morrow you will find it up, but not quite so high. You reduce 30 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL it again. This time you will reduce it more; it will rise again, but not so high.

You keep on reducing it, and in a short time you will have it normal, and by judicious application you may maintain it there. You will thus relieve the high key, the feel- ing of tension, the nervousness, the insomnia, the pressure upon the kidneys and a general feeling of well-being will ensue. Not in every case, however, can this be successfully accomplished. There are a few cases in which you cannot do it, that is you cannot get it to normal, but it will do more for that patient than all the drugs in the Materia Medica that you may have your choice of. They advance the idea that in certain forms of heart diseases or in arterial sclerosis, that you should not remove the pressure to any extent, yet I have seen such cases treated with the De Arsonval and great relief resulted, when the diagnostician was so alarmed about the treatments about to be attempted, that he washed his hands of the case for all time, yet no fatality occurred, and when I saw the patient he was in very much better condition than he had been for years previous. So much for the De Arsonval. Next we will consider the Oudin Current — so called be- cause Oudin was the first to use it.

He is a pupil of De Arson- val. This current is taken from a solenoid also, but is produced by a longer and finer wire, hence the frequency is increased, also the voltage. This current is one usually found upon resonators in every physician's office, but I am sorry to say that the manufacturers are not as careful in its construction as they might be and its efficiency is therefore to be questioned. The efficiency of electrical apparatus is very necessary, or in fact as much necessary as perfect drugs.

If you use a dead or inert drug, you are deceived and your patient disappointed and your reputation impaired. This applies with fourfold force to electrical apparatus.

The Oudin Current is of great efficiency in the treatment of skin diseases, especially of a dry or scaly nature, such as Eczema, Psorisis, Dandruff, etc. By the use of the Oudin Current applied with a high tube, conjoined with X- Ray, it becomes practically a specific in tubercular gland. In tumors of the bladder, by the use of the cystoscope and proper fulgurating instruments, they can be destroyed in from one to three treatments, if they are not too large. In furunculosis of the urethra it is a means of certainty which the G. Doctor has long sought.

Take, for instance, a tumor located on or just back of cokscomb and the Oudin Current becomes a safer and saner proposition than the knife in the hands of the most skilled surgeon. In neuritis, if chronic, showers of high frequency sparks along the course of the nerve, giving special attention to tender spots will prove effective. The sparks should be one- CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 31 quarter to three-quarters of an inch in length and the duration sufficient to produce slight hyperemia or redness. Take your old friend — a common bunyon — what can you do for it?

What will you do with it? Apply bunyon plasters? In your next case use the high frequency, and I want to say here, in your use of the high frequency current, or in the use of any other electrical current: for instance, if you should fail to get the results anti- cipated by yourself and your patient, don't blame the patient; don't blame the electrical currents, but blame yourself and the efficiency of your apparatus and especially your technique. In the use of the high frequency currents, be they De Arsonval, Tesla or Oudin, you should know how to use them, when to use them. You should know the difference between high, low and medium tubes. You should know when to use the medium tube and the specific indications for the medium tube. Also the high tube and its specific indications.

You should know, and do know, no doubt, that the X-Ray belongs to the high frequency family, and you know there is a decided difference in the effects therapeutically of the high, low and medium X- Ray tube. It applies with still greater force when you com- mence to treat with the high frequency tube — if you have used the wrong X-Ray tube, your photo plate will reveal to you your error. When you use the strong tube in high frequency, there is no photo plate to reveal your errors. In acute inflamma- tion we use a low tube and the color is purplish or red.

In sub- acute conditions we use a high tube and the color is a bluish white or almost white when properly excited. In this order you will apply these tubes for three minutes, five minutes or ten minutes; depends upon the condition you are treating and the efficiency of your apparatus and your experience in the treatment of such conditions will be your guide and their suc- cessful termination. I don't believe at the present time the medical profession has any drug, serum, vaccine, antitoxin or any other substance that you can squirt into the human system by any means whatsoever that will so profoundly effect general metabolism, producing endosmos and exosmosis, change of the fluid relations of the body, as will the De Arsonval current. What can you say of the restoration of white hair, practically brought back to a normal color in a lady who was being treated for another condition. Is this not an evidence of profound impressions on metabolism?

What better example could you cite, if asked to cite one? Now the question arises, if you can lower blood pressure by use of the high frequency currents, can you increase blood pressure by use of the high frequency currents? In other words, will it blow hot and cold in the same breath? But the technique must be decided- 32 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL ly different.

To increase blood pressure, you use a medium or high tube and shower the nerve centers by sparks an inch long and you will get an increase in blood pressure, but so far I have been unable to increase blood pressure as satisfactorily as I can reduce it. In some forms of neuresthenics, we have a de- creased blood pressure, and we always wish to restore the nor- mal pressure, and we can do this about as effectively and per- manently by the use of the Static Morton current conjoined by the use of the sparks. In that form of neurasthenia whereby high pressure is present, of course auto condensation is proper and very effective.

In Diabetes, my experience has taught me that there is nothing that I know of in the Materia Medica that I can use that will produce such beneficial effects as auto con- densation. The change in the patient is attested by the rapid decrease of sugar in the test tube, the disappearance of that everlasting thirst which goes with and is always present in Dia- betes, encouraging the patient and you to greater efforts. Goiter, by means of the Morton wave and the high frequency tubes, is relieved and cured in almost every case. Obesity, — give a diet, through elimination of all starches and sugar, and see the fat melt away from one-half to a pound a day. I tell you, gentlemen, it beats Phytolacca berries all to smytherines; but then I suppose some of you and your patients would stoutly refuse to do without your sugar and your starches, etc., even could you be assured of losing some of your fat. Rheumatioid Arthitis — what will you do with it?

Suppos- ing a lady an embonipont, in other words, fair, fat and forty or more. The menopause over for a year or two or more. She presents herself at your office and informs you that she is a great sufferer from rheumatism, and to prove it she presents a set of digits on which she informs you that she has not placed a glove or been free from pain for six months or a year. The little finger is beginning to warp, at the wrist there is an en- largement or increased dimensions. She tells you that she wishes you would do something for her, if only to relieve the pain so that she might be free in order to sleep. She could stand the deformity — what will you do for her? Prescribe an embrocation, a liniment, or will you give her some macrotys, some colchicine, or will you rub a salve consisting of menthol, oil of sweet birch thereon, and when she comes again inform her in your blandest manner that such cases are unusual and incurable and let it go at that, or will you teach her the use of morphine, codine and other narcotic drugs?

If you had in your office the proper apparatus, you would cure such cases in a month or six weeks. You would be able to stop the pain in one or two treatments.

True you would not get proper mobil- CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 33 ity of the joints, but you would certainly be astonished at the results accomplished. Especially chronic — a condition you know every general practitioner longs to treat; he likes to see them come into the office.

The word sciatica is music to his ears. If he is a sur- geon or has surgical proclivities, his therapeutical nihilistic tendencies will at once arise and he will soon begin to talk stretching the nerve. The general practitioner of certain schools will try the coal tar derivatives, the counter irritation along the course of the nerve. Results: morphine, codine and others of the opium group. The Osteopath will look closely for lesions; he will search for dislocations along the spinal column and by means of pressure he will succeed in relieving some cases of Neuritis or Sciatica; but I am calling attention to the old chronic, when atrophy occurs in the muscles of the calf of the leg or hip — what will you do with it? Perhaps you answer by saying, 'AVhat will you do with it.

With your boasted electrical efficiencies?' I may fail; I have failed; but I gave my patient greater relief than had previously been done by any other method or means. Of course I am now speaking of the extreme cases. The past ten cases of acute Sciatica — not due to gon- orrhoeal engorgements of the prostatic gland — I have cured in less than ten days. Using the static spark, conjoined with high frequency tubes. Like Tennyson's Brook, I might go on and on.

But I think I have devoted sufficient time tonight upon high frequency. I wish to say I hat aside from the electronical theory these observations have been made by meself in my private practice, covering a period of years. I have demonstrated them, time and time and again and expect to go on demonstrating and proving. Gentlemen, there must be something to Electro Thera- peutics, because the Electro Therapeutists are the most enthu- siastic practitioners in the world.

When you read their books, their articles in the journals in which such extravagant claims are made, I don't blame you for doubting, especially if you have not had actual experience and without this experience you cannot combine or understand the true application and use of electricity in any of its forms. The technique is heartbreak- ing; it is like music or art, it is your master for a time at least; but perseverance, close observation, persistency, good appara- tus, study of Electro Physics— all of these are essential if you will succeed with the high frequency currents, and other modi- fications when indicated. 34 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL JOSEPH RHODES BUCHANAN, M. By Richard E. The article by Dr.

Laws, in the December number of The California Eclectic Medical Journal reminds me of what I know of that great teacher of Ocultism, especially so in psy- chometry and sareognomy. Buchanan was a very talented and highly educated physician, and a fellow student with the late Prof. Gross of the University of Pennsylvania of Phila- delphia.

I first became acquainted with Dr. Buchanan in 1868, just after my graduation in the spring class of the Eclectic Medical College of New York. During the years of 1868 and 1869 I was elected a trustee of that college, and also filled the position of treasurer and censor for the final examination of the graduating class.

The late Prof. Newton, Dean of the college, invited Dr. Buchanan to joint us and fill the position of Psy- chology, which he finally did, after seeing me, and what pros- pects there were of getting his pay. Newton had the fac- ulty of promising much, and forgetting his liability to square up accounts. Buchanan was engaged to give ten lectures at the stipulated price of one hundred dollars, the amount I took his receipt for before he gave any lecture during the curriculum following in the winter of 1868 and 1869. Buchanan found a number of very sensitive individuals among the members of the students as well as those of the E.

Society of the County of New York, which held its meetings in one of the college lec- ture rooms. He called on me one day to prepare some bits of tissue paper, which were placed in a strong tincture of Gelsemium Sempervirons made by myself from the green root of that vine, and which I secured from Virginia in early spring. The bits of paper, one by two inches in size, were placed in small envel- opes and given to each one of the students and members of the County Society, who had been invited to be present, and be- come provers of the patho-genetic effect of Gelsemium.

None of the provers knew what drug it was, which by absorption of the hand in which an envelope was held, they were to subject themselves to. I was present to watch the effect and took mental notes. After ten minutes and in some cases of twenty the symptoms of drug proving of Gelsemium manifested themselves in a marked degree, especially in the case of Mrs. Hayden, a member of the County E. Society, and a Mrs.

Cooley of the student class. Cooley soon fell asleep. Hayden com- CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 35 plained of drowsiness and double vision. Mortimore, younger than the other provers, was also affected to some de- gree, but much less so than the ladies mentioned. Morti- more was professor of anatomy, and had been a student of Dr.

Newton's office. None of the other provers reported any marked symptoms of the drug effect.

Hayden, wife of Dr. Hayden, of Viburnum Compound notoriety of Sharon Springs, Mass., and Mrs. Cooley of New York, were strong- minded women, separated from their husbands, and in support of their families, whereas their respective husbands lived out- side of the marital circle.

But both these ladies were highly sensitive and of the mediumistic type of organization. This may in a measure explain why some homeopathists report great success with centesimal potencies of drugs. On the other hand here I must refer to the curative effect of Gelse- mium, given in most heroic does as given by the late Dr.

Newton in the case of Miss Claude Mortimore, suffering from some kind of a fever. Other remedies and small doses of Gelsemium have been used without benefit. New- ton gave Miss Mortimore, a lady of the sanguine lymphatic temperament, a full teaspoonful of the saturated tincture of Gelsemium at one dose, and it cured her. The brother, Dr.

Mortimore, who formerly was a student with a homeopathic physician before affiliating with the Eclectic cause, objected strenuously to such an heroic dose, yet Dr. Newton insisted and broke up the fever therewith.

My in- formation came from another brother, Dr. Morti- more, all neighbors of mine. A VISIT TO DOCTOR KUNZE. D., Los Angeles, Cal. On my recent visit to Phoenix, Arizona, I paid my friend, Dr. Kunze, a visit, as I always do every chance I get. I first learned to know about him when he lived in New York City, some time in the seventies, by reading his interest- ing articles on Cactus Grandiflora and Ceres Bonpladi, which appeared in our journals about that time.

I lost track of him for many years, until I read Dr. Alexander Wilder 's article in the American Medical Journal, which told about Dr. Kunze and his work and stated that the Doctor had gone to Arizona and lived on a farm near Phoenix. Soon after getting this infor- mation I was in Arizona on one of my yearly visits, when I called on Dr. Kunze and made his personal acquaintance and 36 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL have seen him several times since then and correspond regu- larly. After the death of his wife, whom he loved dearly, he decided to go to far-off Arizona in search of solace and health. He was charmed by the climate and fascinated by the many natural attractions which the country afforded.

Lie quit the practice of medicine and engaged in farming; also devoting some time to horticulture, entimology and botany, which were favorite pursuits before he studied medicine. Here he found himself in the midst of his beloved Cactacae in such quantity and variety as he had never dreamed of. He combed the desert far and near in search of cacti and found some new varieties of this strange plant that had never been described, which have since been named in his honor. His work now consists mostly of propagating and growing rare varieties of cacti for the foreign market, and he supplies almost exclusively the parks and gardens of Europe. Locally his place is known as the Cactus Farm, and himself as the Cactus Man. Here he lives alone in his modest domicil, where I spent several delightful hours with him and shared his bachelor's luncheon. Subjects of mutual concern were discussed and I listened with intense interest as he spoke about his work.

Some time was spent in looking over some rare old books and manu- scripts as well as other more recent works. Then he drifted into reminiscences and told of some of his early experience, which undoubtedly makes him the youngest prover of drugs on record. When only seven years old he was stung on the tongue by a wasp that was hidden in a pear he was eating. Impelled by a natural impulse of instinct he tore loose a pice of fresh sod from the ground and applied the moist soil to his tongue, which relieved the pain in a short time. It is a fact that sod generates ammonia freely, which agent is a reliable antidote to the poison of insects and clearly proved its efficacy again in this case. The above circumstance was mentioned in connection with an observation that nature supplied remedies upon every hand if we only knew what they were and how to use them.

He related another incident of his early life when he was but twelve years of age. An older brother was taken sick with pneumonia and the doctor who treated him prescribed tarter emetic.

After taking a few doses the patient refused to take any more medicine, and in order to hide the deception, bribed young Richard to take the dose in his stead by promising to pay him a sum of money upon recovery. Under this arrangement the patient improved rapidly while the younger brother became CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 37 very sick from taking the medicine. However, both brothers duly recovered, when the money was paid over as promised. During his whole life Dr. Kunze has spent much time in- vestigating things, trying to find out for himself what there was to know. This habit has made his life a busy one, as it does that of every man who pursues the same course. He not only investigates, but is wise enough to record the results of his experiments and is a contributor to various scientific jour- nals in several different languages.

As the reader doubtless remembers, he has contributed valuable articles on Materia Medica to the pages of this journal during the past two years and has promised more. He mentioned a discovery that he made recently of a new plant that is highly medicinal. It is a native of Mexico, but its range extends as far north as the Salt River Mountains south of Phoenix, where he found it. He identified it as the Bursera Microphylla, but its common name is not given. It is a woody shrub that is pleasantly aromatic in all its parts and has a berry that tastes like allspice. He found that it had a magic effect in vesicular and prostatic irritation in men and quickly and permanently relieved that annoying trouble. It was used by masticating the leaves and young twigs and swallowing the juice and by infusion.

Kunze has a manuscript of a book which was copy- righted in 1880, on 'Materia Medica, Past, Present and Fu- ture.' It treats of botanic medicine and is a complete history of the subject gathered from every known country and people, to which are added his own experiments and observations with drugs. Many of the subjects are handsomely illustrated by hand drawings in colors, and altogether the work is an inter- esting and unique production. He desires to publish it, but is unable to do so at the present time.

If it is not published dur- ing the author's life time, it is promised to the Munk Library of Arizoniana in the Southwest Museum. Kunze is young at seventy-four years of age, is a striking figure and has a strong personality. Although he has not practiced medicine for many years, he has not lost his interest or faith in medicine nor loyalty to Eclecticism. May he live many years more to enjoy life in the land of Heart's Desire, and reap the full reward of all his labors. 'STAMPING OUT TUBERCULOSIS' (Continued). D., Los Angeles, Cal. The previous paper gives the origin and aims of this 'Stamping out' society, as stated in its own documents.

38 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Remember, it is an 'International Society,' with head- quarters in ' ' Berlin. ' ' Its 'American representative lias headquarters in New- York City,' and is six years old.

It has formed 'over 430 local societies to combat the dis- ease.' It procured 'the passing of laws dealing with this disease in 45 States. One of these local societies is here in Los Angeles, and is showing pernicious activity in our public schools. It seems that our public schools are being used as a stamping ground for every foul bird.

It is high time for the American people to arise and free our public schools from all parasites. One has no more right than another, and if not cleared off, oth- ers will intrude. Buddhism, Mormons and such like, all claiming to be in the interest of humanity, have as much right to engraft themselves on our schools as any others.

Who can show that they would be any worse? However, we can clearly see the tyrannical nature of this Germanized branch of that stamping out society. Holding out offers of good will to imaginary throngs of tuberculosis poor people, they have gained entrance to our schools to create sentiment in their favor, and stamp false notions into the mind of the young. As this doctors' trust is engaged in the lawmaking business, we conclude that it is responsible for the 'Health and develop- ment' bill, enacted in Sacramento in 1909, which is attributed to the 'People of California,' who had no desire for it. And have never sanctioned it. It is a meddlesome law, and can work no good in our pub- lic schools that cannot be as well done in the ordinary way by teachers, parents and their medical advisers.

Here is the law: AN ACT ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT SUPERVISION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA.' Approved April 15. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1.

An act entitled 'An act to provide for health and development supervision in the public schools of Califor- nia,' approved April 15, 1909. Boards of school trustees and city boards of education are hereby authorized to establish health and devel- opment supervision in the public schools of this state, and to employ an examining staff and other employees necessary to carry on said work and to fix the compensation for the same. CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 39 Whenever practicable the examining staff for health and de- velopment supervision in the public schools of the state shall consist of both educators and physicians. The purposes of health and development super- vision in the public schools of the state are hereby defined as follows: 1. To secure the correction of developmental and acquired defects of both pupils and teachers which interfere with health, growth and efficiency, by complete physical examination. Said examinations shall occur annually or as often as may be deter- mined by the board of school trustees or city board of educa- tion. To adjust school activities to health and growth needs and to development processes and to attend to all matters per- taining to school hygiene.

To bring about a special study of mental retardation and deviation of pupils in the public schools. The requirements for certification of members of the examining staff for health and development supervision in the public schools of the state shall be as follows: For educators: A life diploma of California of the high school or grammar school grade and a health and development certificate which shall authorize the holder of such certificate to conduct the work authorized by this act, in those grades speci- fied by the life diploma held. For physicians: A California certificate to practice medi- cine and surgery and a health and development certificate. County or city and county boards of education are hereby authorized to grant health and development certifi- cates to holders of life diplomas of California of the high school or grammar school grade or to holders of California certificates to practice medicine and surgery who shall present with such life diplomas or with such certificates to practice medicine and surgery a recommendation from the state board of education certifying special fitness for the work specified in this act.

It is too indefinite in many places, to be trustworthy. In Section 1 it provides for an 'examining staff and other em- ployees' necessary to carry on said work and fix the compensa- tion, for same.

That leaves the door wide open for graft, and a lot of super- fluous mischief workers. In Section 2, 'Teachers and pupils are to undergo a com- plete physical examination annually, or oftener. Of course, every doctor knows what that means, but the victims do not till they are ordered to get on the table once. 40 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL The clause implies that this is compulsory, and is thus be- ing carried out, regardless of the will or presence of parents. Articles 2 and 3 are open to the wildest vagaries, where no two would probably think or act alike, and their efforts to be useful would often do harm and confuse teachers and parents, who should arise and demand a repeal of a bill made by the 'doctors' trust' for the benefit of its members. Of all the ruinous 'Trusts' in this land, this Tuberculosis Society is the worst. Like the beast that John saw (Revelations 13-11) with horns like a lamb and a voice like a dragon, it comes pretend- ing to be innocent as a lamb while gaining dragon-like political power.

Other trusts simply rob the people. But this one en- acts laws both to rob and enslave. Every step leads to political corruption. This health and development bill was meant only as an entering wedge to get a lot of doctors mixed up with the teachers, preparatory for a State Bureau, which was frantic- ally played on the legislative stage at Sacramento. Our schools are to be used as political machines to get state or county, or city work for members of this 'Machine.'

All such state laws are strictly for the benefit of one class of doctors. These doctors claim to be orthodox, and denounce all others as 'sectarians' who should be stamped out of busi- ness. Human nature being the same in all ages, we conclude that these 'sectarian heretics' would be dealt with as in for- mer times, as soon as power to do so could be obtained. Class hatred is growing between doctors and the people who understand the situation.

Health and development does not protect people from be- ing robbed of their liberty by fanatical Boards of Health, as we laarn in a magazine entitled 'Physical Culture,' October number, 1909. A young woman of perfect 'Health and devel- opment' was condemned as a 'typhoid germ breeder' and sent to 'North Brothers Island in East River, New York, her only companion a pet dog.' No crime, no legal process, but just the hyper constitutional power assumed by this health board of New York City, that took this woman's life, for that is what it amounts to. That incident should be reprinted in every magazine and paper in the United States, and the preach- ers should give tuberculosis a rest and tell the fate of Mary Mallon at least once a year from the pulpit.

Our laws are so indefinite that our Boards of Health are placed clear outside of the constitution and finding that they are not amenable to any law for any outrage in the name of CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 41 'the public health,' they grow arrogant and do things that would be highly criminal for any other class..Mary.Ma lion could have been burned as a witch, just as well as by those microbe maniacs, for 'the public health.' No law to prevent them. All laws should be repealed that place any set of men above the law. It should be clearly stated what they are to do, and when that cannot be done, no mandatory or coersive power shoud be given. A State Bureau of 'Health and Development' could soon devise ways and means of getting rid of all opponents by blacklisting them, and sending a staff who would find some dangerous malady that demanded banishment.

Whilst our Governor and the Legislature of California are trying to free us from trust rule, they will surely not allow themselves to be deceived by the most dangerous one of all, who are getting laws passed to enable them to round up the people like cattle or sheep, and dictate what they must do, or be fined or imprisoned, or both. The microbe mania has come from Berlin, and infected the A. Or its leaders, till they are rampant for place and power and play the microbe game so realistic that they almost 'deceive the very elect.' Let them play, but let them win their bread in private practice according to their merits as other doctors are doing. The American people are not in favor just now of bowing down to this 'representative' of a foreign despotism, which has entered our schools, changed the laws in many of the states, and made political bargains with State Bishops, U.

Congressmen and Senators. Their excuse for all this political activity is that people are dying too fast, and tuberculosis is the chief cause and ought to be stamped out. Then, in order to do that they think it necessary for them to have complete control of all sanitary and medical matters of the nation, a complete monopoly. No system of medication needing the political power of the state and nation, to push it upon the people, is trustworthy. That fact, of itself, should be enough to restrain our Gov- ernors and legislators from turning the people over to this dragon-like political power that stamps out our liberty but fails on tuberculosis. The California Eclectic Medical Journal The Official Organ of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of Cali- fornia, the California Eclectic Medical College, the Southern California Eclectic Medical Association, the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society and the Los Angeles Eclectic Policlinic.

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Original Articles of Interest to the profession are solicited. All rejected manuscripts will be returned to writers. No anony- mous letters or discourteous communications will be printed. The editor is not responsible for the views of contributors. Begging has never been practiced as a fine art in this United States. In no sense can our people approach those of Europe, particularly Italy, or some of the Oriental countries. There are many reasons why this is so, but the one that espe- cially appeals to our national vanity is the explanation that we as a people are more independent, or better still, self-reliant.

We are taught that it is somewhat of a disgrace to ask help from any one. That an occasional one either has failed to reach this high estate or has fallen therefrom is undoubtedly true. The first condition is usually the fault of the person himself, but the last is usually the result of kind-hearted but mistaken peo- ple. Indiscriminate giving is wrong. It is doubly wrong, for it harms both the giver and the receiver.

The bestowing of char- ity may cover a multitude of sins and for this reason be a neces- sity as a sort of spring-time whitewash, but it should not be given to all who ask. For we all know that those who really need and deserve help seldom ask for it. You don't find them standing on the street with their hands out, but every doctor knows who they are and where they may be found. This is one of the reasons why doctors are poor and why they pass by the professional beggar on the other side of the road, as it were.

CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 43 For it is not pleasant to see such a person looking sleek and well fed, immediately after seeing the sick starvlings of the great unfed as well as unwashed. Professional beggars are eyesores as well as parasites. They serve no useful purpose and should be made to go to work or starve.

To be sure many of them claim to be crippled and doubtless some of them are; but who does not know a number of cripples who earn an honest living? During this season of the year this city is filled with vagabonds of all kinds, and not the best of these are the beg- gars. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE PROFESSION? Christian Johnson, Willmor, Minn. Only that we are evolving out of the past toward the future.

I, for one, do not see any real progress in the editor's scheme of a 'doctor limiting himself to take care of 500 per- sons, each of whom pays him a stated sum monthly.' I believe any such plan is impracticable.

This scheme of hiring doctors by salary is now being tried out in Germany, in the 'krankenkassen' companies, and it does not work satisfactorily, either to the physician or the public. The Leipsic League, in a circular issued last year, showed up the unsatisfactory condition into which it has brought, and is bringing, the medical profession in Germany. Physicians over there are crowded in the cities far worse than here, and starving, while quackery is flourishing everywhere. In many cities of Germany there are as many irregular practi- tioners as there are regulars. In the country districts the mothers are dying from puerperal sepsis for want of medical attendance.

In 1906 Prussia had a mortality from this preventable dis- ease of 3722- — twice the mortality per million inhabitants that we have in Minnesota! (Journal of the American Medical As- sociation, Dec. 2070.) The profession in Austria and France and in the other European countries is in the same fix — overcrowded in the cities, while the country districts are without adequate medical service. 'Well, what is the trouble, then? An impracticable medi- ical educational program!

Murphy called attention to this matter in his presidential address at Los Angeles (Journal of the American Medical Association, July 1, 1911). Murphy is the first man of prominence that has had courage enough to put his finger on the sore spot of the dry-rot in medicine. 44 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 'In order to meet the educational requirement for matric- ulation in the modern medical school, the young man is forced to keep his face in the folds of books from his infancy. He has had no opportunity to think; he has not been taught to think; he is a book-stuffed, machine-made, non-think automaton, albeit a fit and acceptable applicant according to present re- quirements, from which a medical school is supposed to make a thinking medical man.

What marvelous powers a medical school must possess! How is it possible? What changes should be instituted in the evolution of the medical embryo?' Of course, when we think about it, we all know that Dr. Murphy has hit the nail on the head. Our medical curriculums today in our best schools are training men to be professors, original investigators or special technicians in a hospital, but not to be general practitioners. These high-grade graduates know all about the abstract sciences, have the university meth- od and the hospital technic at their fingers' ends — but as for relieving Johnnie of his choke-cherry colic, they're helpless, or as for doing a major obstetrical operation at a farm house, without trained nurses and assistants — why, they know it 'can't be done.'

Murphy says the profession is not overcrowded. Of course, not, except in the mind of some ultra-scientific univer- sity professor.

He says what the patient needs is relief of his symptoms, and if physicians would attempt to provide this, every doctor in this great land would be overworked. Here, you therapeutic nihilists, put that in your pipes and smoke it! If our medical faculties would bend their energies to devise a proper medical curriculum, preliminary and medical, which would make practical physicians who could and would help ordinary people in times of disease and suffering, instead of as at present, trying to make 'scientists,' then the main troubles of the medical profession — professional and economic — would be solved. Space forbids my enlarging on this subject. Murphy has opened the path in the right direction, and now the rank and file must follow. (The Eclectic Review.) HINTS AND WINNOWINGS. In England an organization known as the 'Royal Commis- sion on Tuberculosis-' has devoted the last ten years to the consideration of the various phases of tuberculosis, paying spe- cial attention to the dangerous effects of the disease on cattle and the dairy business.

The results brought about by the in- vestigations of this commission, according to the comments of CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 15 the English lay press, have been no less expensive, nor more practical, than those derived from the labors of some of our own investigating committees. After this long interval of re- search and expenditure of a great sum of money, the people naturally expected that some new remedy or procedure, or some additional knowledge in regard to 'the white man's cat- tle plague,' would be brought forward by the commission, but nothing of the kind has occurred.

It has>however, succeeded in securing experimental confirmation of a doctrine persistently enunciated by the early Eclectics; namely, that of innate vital force and resistance, upon which depends whether we are to be healthy or unhealthy, and whether we are to have a long life or a short one. In further confirmation of this doctrine the com- mission in its third report says: 'We are led to the conclusion that in the case of the calves described, while the pathogenic energies of the bacilli injected were the same, the powers of resistance of the calves were dif- ferent.' After commenting upon these self-evident facts, the Lon- don Times remarks as follows: 'Thus far, then- the Royal Commissioners may be congrat- ulated on this single achievement. They have shown that it is not age, nor weight, nor condition of health, nor dose — except in a qualified sense — which determines whether a calf shall con- tract tuberculosis or not. It is the constitution of the animal itself. But having reached that important result why did they not see the next vital step in their investigation? The one step that could have rid us both of tuberculous milk and unloved officials!

Having found calves that were immune to large doses of the tubercle bacilli, it was vitally necessary to deter- mine experimentally whether that immunity was congenital and hereditarily transmissible to the descendants. For if it were — and of that there is little doubt — a race of cattle immune to the 'white man's cattle plague can be reared. The bovine disease will then become merely the memory of a name and but the shadow of a once-dreaded reality.

There will be no need then for overseers nor for the incubus of taxation which ever fol- lows in their train. Let us set to and produce herds of innately healthy cattle and not armies of officials. For along that line, both for cattle and for man, lies national worth and industrial progress. Along any other road, national decadence and eco- nomic decay await us.'

In Eclectic Review. 46 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL SOCIETY CALENDAR. National Eclectic Medical Association meets in Louisville, Ky., June, 1912. Stephens, St.

Louis, President; W. D., Indianapolis, Ind., Secretary. Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California meets in San Francisco, May 28, 29, 30, 1912. D., San Francisco, Cal., President; H. D., Redlands, Cal., Secretary. Southern California Eclectic Medical Association meets in Los Angeles in May, 1912.

D., Los Angeles, President; Dr. Lawrence, Los Angeles, Secretary.

Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society meets at 8 p. On the first Tuesday of each month. D., Los Angeles, Cal., President; P. D., 818 Secur- ity Bldg., Los Angeles, Secretary. LOS ANGELES COUNTY ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. The regular meeting of the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society was held on January 2nd at the usual hour and place. In the absence of the President, Dr.

Barbrick presided. The name of Dr.

Willard was presented and the doctor was elected to membership. De Monco read a paper on 'High Frequency Currents' which was discussed so thoroughly and consumed so much time that Dr. Beard's paper on 'Eclectic Medicine' was held over for the February meeting. The attendance was not as large as usual and the absent ones certainly missed a treat in not hearing Dr. De Monco 's paper.

The next meeting will be held on February 6th, at the College at 8 p. WELBOURN, See'y.

HUBBARD, Pres. ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1912. John Fearn, M. D., Oakland, Cal. It seems but the other day that the fellows of this Society met in the Stewart Hotel, San Francisco. And I think it may be safely said that our society never had a more harmonious and successful meeting. But how time flies!

We will soon be CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 47 in the last third of the present year. Our next meeting will be held in May at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, and our president is busy getting ready for the occasion.

It has pleased the powers that be to make me chairman of the sec- tion of Materia Medica and Therapeutics for that meeting, and 1 want at this time to enlist the help of all our friends to make of this section a great success. I cannot do this myself, but with the help of the fellows of our society we can do it. Eclectics the world over have made their success on the lines of the vegetable materia medica. In fact, were it not for the labors of Eclectics and Homeo- paths this branch of the healing art would soon be a lost art. Every one of our men in active practice is having experiences every day with our remedies to him interesting and profitable.

And if these experiences were carefully tabulated and read in our societies, they would make good reading and would add to our stock of therapeutic knowledge. We have a rich heritage of remedies; some of these we know well and they yield grand results in practice, and yet they will bear further study. 'We have many others. We know some of their good qualities, but there is yet so much to be learned about them, and we would be better doctors for knowing these things. Let us then begin to prepare for our annual gathering. Let us come together to give and take. Give to our brthren out of our store, points we have found valuable in our own practice.

And then take from others points they have found helpful. This course will ensure for us a grand and profitable time. Begin at once and write papers on these subjects; send me the name of your intended paper, and the editor of our journal will publish the list in California Medical Journal. Begin the work now; the papers can be sent later, so as to be in time for the meeting. COLLEGE NOTES.

The annual election of officers for the student-body was held January 8th, 1912, and resulted in the election of the following officers for the term: President, H. Cox; Vice- President, F. Calloway; Secretary, C. Roath; Treasurer, John Sasso.

The student-body resolved to turn over a new leaf and make the meetings more interesting and profitable to the mem- bers by incorporating more than mere business transactions in the regular meetings. It is proposed hereafter to have two 48 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL papers upon interesting subjects read at each business meeting, one by an upper classman and one by a lower classman, so that all may derive some benefit from the discussions. It is also proposed to have willing doctors lecture on special subjects from time to time before the student-body. Now, boys, it is up to each one of you to make it your personal duty to attend every meeting, get all you can out of it for yourself, give the other fellow all the aid you can, boost your student-body, and shout for old C.

If you don't, you may see the day when you will look back and wish you had given the student- body and yourself one evening a month. Stammers spent his vacation at home with his parents, at Selma, Cal. He boasted of the good home cooking when he returned to us.

But the joke is the occupation he fol- lowed during vacation. Just ask Stam. Several of the Freshmen spent vacation tracing addresses and delivering packages for Uncle Sam, instead of tracing the digestion of foods, etc., and delivering the goods to the profes- sors in quizzes. We are very sorry that M. Crawford, who was one of our very brightest students, has had to give up the study of medicine.

Evans has been called back to his post of duty as Assistant Superintendent of the Fresno County Hospital, for a short time, and will be missed, because he is very regular in attendance; but we hope he will soon be with us. Dean Munk has quite a harvest of different plants and herbs at the College botanical garden, which he proposes to bring to the college and let the clinic crew have the experi- ence of tincturing. What some of the students wanted for a Christmas pres- ent, but did not get: — Stammers — A stenographer to take his notes.

Hill — Autobiographies of all the bacteria. Ervin — A full set of Bacteriological slides. Goff — An obstetrical clinic. Evans — A photograph of the arterial system.

Kurpiers — One dozen quiz compends. Sprehn — A graphophone to recite for him when he is ab- sent. De Angelis — A key to Pathology. Petskey— An anti-examination serum for the professors. Conway — An antidote for an overdose of dissection. Sasso — A self-dissecting cadaver. Calloway — A change of climate.

Roath — An art gallery for his histology drawing. CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 49 The others wanted so much that they did not get, that the articles could not he mentioned without becoming monotonous. Ray of this city was slightly injured recently when his automobile went down a seven-foot embankment. Perce, Long Beach, suffered a Codes fracture re- cent ly while cranking his automobile. Daniel, Honey Grove, Texas, sends his renewal to the Journal. Wakefield, Lake Benton, Minn., sends his sub- scription for 1912 by means of 'The Gleaner.' Nichols, Springfield, Mass., sends his renewal for 1912 and 1913, which is pleasing to us.

M inula Sinclair has changed her address from 2871 Octavia street, to 3018 Webster street, San Francisco. Baker, Lompoc, sends his renewal to the Journal for 1912 and writes that owing to ill health he finds it necessary to leave the coast and wishes a location in the interior. He desires to sell his property in Lompoc at the actual value of $1500 cash. He leaves a good location where he has been un- usually successful. Riddle, Rockdale, Texas, sends his renewal through the agency of Ellingwood's Therapeutist.

Williams, Downieville, a recent graduate of the C. C., sends his best wishes for the New Year with his renewal for 1912. Gibson, Los Angeles, has recovered from an injured knee caused by his automobile backing him against the wall of his garage. Ferguson, Santa Ana, was a recent visitor in the city on professional business. Gray, Whittier, has returned to his home im- proved in health after a three weeks' sojourn in the Westlake Hospital. Ilubbards' Surgery, which is just off the press, is going like hot cakes.

It contains all the little things that a doctor ought to know, which makes it especially valuable to the country practitioner, who has to depend on himself in emergen- cies. It also gives full Eclectic treatment in all surgical cases and is conservative in the means prescribed. It is just the volume to always have on hand to consult about everything that pertains to surgery and should be in every physician's library. 5(1 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL During the month of November the College Botanical Gar- den received a consignment by express of fifty odd varieties of wild plants gathered from the woods and fields of Indiana. They were donated by Dr. Welbourn of Union City, Ind., and are a valuable addition to the college experimental station flora.

The streets of Los Angeles are always crowded so that all progress is slow. There is no use to be in a hurry, as the pedes- trian can only move with the stream of humanity that goes by on the broad sidewalk. There is a policeman at every congested crossing to regulate traffic, yet, even so, there is danger of being knocked down, stepped on or run over.

Another rare and valuable book has been added to the college library, contributed by Dr. Lawrence of Los An- geles.

It is a copy in leather of 'Lectures on Mid-wifery,' by A. Curtis, first edition, published at Columbus, Ohio, in 1837. It was given to Dr. Lawrence by Mrs. Relict of Dr.

Iliggins, whose mother was a Botanic physician. Tracey of Harrison, Ohio, is spending the win- ter in Los Angeles. He came West via the northern route and visited all the large cities from Seattle to San Diego. He is of the decided opinion that Los Angeles is the greatest city on the Pacific Coast. Miller, of Abingdon.

111., recently moved to Los Angeles, and is located at 2218 Toberman street. Tafel and Dr. Bond of Phoenix, Arizona, are loyally holding up the banner of Eclecticism in the capital of our latest state. Tafel, who has been serving in the capacity of County Health officer for several years, has been reappointed for another term and is very popular. Some time ago it was mentioned in these items that a car- polite, or petrified fruit, of the Sigillaria tree had been found in the Black Forest of Arizona.

Since then and near the same spot an equally perfect specimen of a petrified flower from the same variety of tree was found, with calyx and folded petals intact. These specimens are the only ones of their kind in ex- istence so far as known, and may never be duplicated.

They belong to the Southwest Museum, where they are on exhibition and are the objects of much scientific interest. Kunze of Phoenix, Arizona, recently do- nated to science and the library of the California Eciectic Medi- cal College two rare volumes which are priceless. One is the 'New Guide to Health, or the Botanic Family Physician,' by Samuel Thomson, tenth edition, and published at Columbus, Ohio, in 1835. The other volume is a copy of the 'Organon der Specifischen Heilkunst, Von Dr. Guttlieb Ludwig Rau, Leipzig, CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 51 1838.' These books are exceedingly rare and now seldom picked up, even once in a lifetime. The Doctor decided to put them where they would be of the greatest service, and has the thanks of the beneficiary.

Weyl and wife of Decatur, 111., arrived in Los Angeles just in time to miss the zero weather that swept the East and will spend the remainder of the winter here. Ovid Laws has been suffering from a severe carbolic acid burn on his right hand. Huckabay has moved from Winchester, Texas, to Holland, Texas. D., Vincent, Ala., sends his New Year's greetings. Plimell, Hornbrook, Cal., sends a dollar, which advances his subscription to April, 1914.

We appreciate such forehandedness. We regret to learn that Dr. John Fearn, Sr., Oakland, is having a personal combat with an attack of neuritis. The American Hospital Association will meet in Detroit the last week in September. Mercer, San Francisco, sends a remittance to the Journal.

Sinclair, San Francisco, has sent her renewal for the present year. The Gleaner sends the renewals of Dr.

Hyde, Brook- ings. Dak., and Dr.

Hatfield, Olathe, Kansas/ RIDING HIGH IN THE PROFESSION'S FAVOR. A calming agent that is riding high in the profession's favor is PASADYNE, or as it was formerly known.

Daniel's Concentrated Tincture of Passiflora Incarnata. For a third of a century Daniel's Passiflora enjoyed the most extensive employment as a calmative, and it was only to defend themselves from piratical firms, making spurious Passi- flora preparations, that the distinctive name of PASADYNE was adopted. PASADYNE is just exactly what Daniel's Passiflora Incar- nata was for many years— the most effective and safest calming and soporific agent available. Particularly in the case of hys- terical women is PASADYNE valuable, for it is free from disa- greeable effects and no fear attaches that the formation of a habit will follow its use. It is unusually potent, and physicians employing it for the first time need have no hesitancy; they will be gratified with the results it will produce. A sample 52 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL bottle will be furnished if application be made to the Labora- tory of John B. Daniel, Atlanta, Ga.

PREVALENT DISEASES. Each change of season brings with it its diseases, seemingly peculiar to the time.

Summer with its intestinal disorders, sunburn, insect bites, ivy poisoning, etc. Kail presents for the attention of the physician its typhoid eases, and Winter and early Spring its regular quota of pneu- monic, bronchial, throat and other chest conditions. At this season, when pneumonia and bronchitis demand the call of the physician, literature presenting the experience of fellow practitioners, in the successful handling of these cases, would seem most apropos. The Bloodless Phlebotomist for January reflects the experi- ence of many physicians upon this timely subject. Charles Buck of Cincinnati presents his experience in handling cases of pneumonia, also releates some facts in the treatment of lumbago, which might also be considered as an affliction prominently manifesting itself at this season. 'Broncho-pneumonia,' with supportive as well as local treatment in all its details, is the subject of the paper of F. Kautz, also of Cincinnati.

Clinton Murray, of Houston, Texas, relates his ex- perience and treatment in a case of pneumonia in an eighteen months' old baby, and Dr. Klippinger, of Independence, Kansas, presents a 'Digerent Technique in Pneumonia,' which is decidedly original. In abstract his method is to apply the local dressing in a manner which gives the intercostal muscles a chance to functionate without restriction from bandages. This symposium is closed with a paper from Dr. Radue, of Union Hill, N.

J., upon 'Acute Pleurisy and a Successful Abortive Treatment.' Besides the papers referred to, upon the subject of Chest and Throat diseases, much additional information is given. The one in particular we would have you note is the 'Rational In- fluence of Hot Applications' by that well-known Therapeutist, Dr.

Finley Ellingwood, of Chicago, 111. A postal card addressed to the Bloodless Phlebotomist, No. 57 Laight Street, New York, will bring you a copy of the Janu- ary issue. The California Eclectic Medical Journal Vol.

MARCH, 1912 No. 3 ■>i» Original Contributions «j* ENDO-CERVICITIS— TREATED WITH ELECTRICITY. Eastman, Santa Barbara, California. Read before the California State Eclectic Medical Society.

Electricity in the hands of the physician is one of the most serviceable of all our forces. Many pathological conditions that are met with day by day can be conquered, and a normal condition secured by employ- ing some one of the many forms of electrical energy. I find in my practice that the combined faradic and gal- vanic machine is most useful; there seems to be more call for its use amongst the patients requiring electrical medication. The galvanic and faradic current is useful in such a great variety of maladies; its physical and chemical effect upon the human organism can be mastered by close study in a short time; and the operation of a machine is not confined to a city having an electric lighting plant, but on the contrary, a more uni- form and satisfactory current is obtained from cells, and they can be used either in the city or country. The current is always available for use, and its effects are sure and certain. When the diagnosis is correct, and the operator familiar with the properties of the electrical currents at his command, he can be positive of the change in the tissue, or organ he has to treat. While it is true that we are not always able to tell to what degree the current will affect the part treated, yet the operators learn by experience to judge very accurately as to how long and often the treatment should be given.

Aside from the satisfaction you will feel in getting re- sults in stubborn cases, that drug medication does not touch at all. Or else takes such a long time that the patient and physi- cian are both tired, the financial revenue is of much import. A very good galvanic and faradic outfit can be purchased for about fifty dollars, and when connected up with fifty sal ammoniac cells, will provide ample current strength for treat- ing nearly every case that comes under the general practition- er's care. 54 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL The cells need to be cleansed and a fresh solution made every six months; the cost amounting to from two to five dol- lars, depending upon whether you or an electrician does the work. In ordinary cases that come for treatment from ten to twenty minutes time is required and a fee of one or two dol- lars is charged. Often times the treatment of one patient will bring in sufficient money to pay for your electrical outfit. What better returns can be asked?

In my own experience I think more genuine satisfaction has come from treating leucorrhoeal difficulties by electricity than in any other class of diseases. The patients so treated seem to be better pleased too, and greatly improve in general health also. In closing this article I will cite one case of cervicitis that came under my care recently, and was entirely relieved by using galvanic electricity.

H., been married four years, age 22 years, never borne children. Pregnant two years ago, but miscarried.

Re- mained in bed for a few days only. Menstruation regular, and continues from five to seven days. Patient eats and sleeps nor- mally.

Been constipated for two years. Free evacuation ob- tained only by using laxatives. The leucorrhoea dates back to several years before mar- riage. During pregnancy the discharge stopped. Following the miscarriage the leucorrhoea was more profuse than ever. The attending physicians recommended local treatments. Treatment of applications to the cervix, and tampons em- ployed by the physician, and medicated vaginal douches by the patient, were persevered in for several weeks, but were of no avail.

Later on a currettement was performed, but the results were transitory and of short duration. My examination disclosed an enlarged and eroded cervix with a stream of thick, ropy, tenacious mucus streaming from the cervical canal. The internal os was tightly closed, so I deemed the discharge came from the cervical canal only. Blood examinations showed color of 80 per cent; red cells 2,096.000; and white cells 3.100. Treatment consisted of seven minute seances every other day.

The copper electrode was used, first dipping it in 5 per cent Hydrochloric acid, and then into metallic mercury; rub with a piece of cotton, attach to your positive cord and introduce the electrode into the cervical canal. The negative pole may be placed either on the abdomen or under the back. Be sure and have a large well-wetted pad, and see that it fits smoothly and snugly to the skin. CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 55 I depend upon the sensations in the uterus of the patient, for size dosage; this will range, however, from twelve to forty milliamperes.

Turn the current on slowly until the maximum dosage is obtained, and when the time comes to discontinue the treat- ment, turn off the current slowly, taking about three minutes to do so. In removing the electrode from the cervical canal rotate it from right to left, or vice versa until it is free from the mu- cous surfaces. The treatments were continued every other day for three months, except during the menstrual periods, when the patient left for her home in one of the northern cities. The mucous discharges were nearly stopped and from thick and glary to thin and watery. The blood cells had increased to normal and the patient gained fourteen pounds in weight. These cases are generally cured in from six weeks to four months.

All pathological conditions of the organs of gestation in the female should have the electrical medication before en- deavoring to correct the malady by surgical measures. Of course the reader must consider the above statement as general, as in some cases conditions are such that surgical interference is imperative. Those physicians who have not included in their thera- peutic facilities the several electrical machines are narrowing their sphere of usefulness to abnormal dimensions. The re- sults of electrical medication are fascinating and dependable. More reports at some future time. ECLECTIC MEDICINE.

Beard, Los Angeles, Calif. Read before the Los Angeles County Eclectic Medical Society. What does the general public know of the Eclectic System of Medicine? Briefly speaking — nothing. If this be true, is it not high time to inform the public upon a question of such vital importance to the suffering ones of our race? Nine-tenths of the people of California have never heard of an Eclectic Doctor. Indeed few really know the meaning of the word, and many associate it with the electric treatment.

I must confess that I don't like the name 'Eclectic,' al- though to those who understand the meaning of the word, it 56 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL expresses more fully the eclectic system of medication than any other we could suggest. However, it is the name of our School, and like the rose that would smell just as sweet by any other name, we must be satisfied with it now. See what the men of bones have done. Everybody knows of Osteopathy, a word without any true medical significance — a misnomer, for whoever heard of bones curing diseases!

We have allopathy, homeopathy and naturopathy — I would like to change the eclectic School to 'Cureopathy,' for the eclectic doctor really does more good for the sick than all the other systems combined, Christian Science included. As you are well aware, the meaning of the word 'Eclectic' includes all pathys; in other words the Eclectic System con- tains the best from all known methods of cure. Hence, the true Eclectic Physician must understand the principles and methods employed by the homeopath, allopath, osteopath, hy- dropath. And every other system of curing the sick, in order that he may be able to choose or select the indicated remedy. Now with the dawn of the New Year, by the light of the morning star, let us prepare to spread the 'Good tidings of Great Joy,' and carry into every home, if it is only a leaflet with the words: 'There are twelve thousand Eclectic physicians and surgeons in the United States and there are seven Eclectic colleges.' Or, indeed, some literature bearing upon the prin- ciples of the Eclectic School of Medicine, 'in order to give the general public' some idea of our methods of curing dis- ease. John Fearn once said: 'The fundamental principles of the Eclectic School of Medicine are: Cure your patient quicklv, cure him pleasantly, and last but not least, cure him safely.*' I believe these are the thoughts in the mind and heart of every true Eclectic physician; and I am sure the public would desire to know and employ such a physician if they only knew of him.

In this day and age you have to tell the people what you have for them. They are ready and willing to give you a trial, and if they prove you to be what you represent yourself they will stand by you. Now we have a good journal, one I am sure we can be justly proud of, and I am going to take the liberty of making a suggestion to its esteemed editor, even if I am rebuked for my impertinence. I would suggest that a part of the journal be set aside for articles which would be interesting to the CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 57 laity, and in this way get the sympathy and attention of the general public on the side of Eclectic medicine. Those families who employ an eclectic physician once, will not tolerate any other in their homes; this you well know. Some years ago a minister of the Christion Church of Denver was on a visit to Santa Cruz, my location at the time.

This Reverend gentleman inquired at every drug store in the city for an Eclectic physician, and was informed that Santa Cruz had no Eclectic doctor. However, he happened to stumble across a friend of mine who gave him my address.

I asked why he was so particular to find an Eclectic. He informed me that during a severe illness, he had seven or eight physicians of various Schools to treat him, some of whom were members of his church, but he continued to grow worse. When near death an Eclectic was called in, and in three weeks he was able to attend to his ministerial duties. Ever since that time he had employed an Eclectic physician for self and family He was a very intelligent man and understood the fundamen- tal principles of specific medication and knew a good deal about specific medicines and how to apply them. Now all we need today is an intelligent exposition of the principles of the Eclectic School of Medicine. The people are educated, are free minded, and are anxious to know more of themselves and of intelligent means of restoring the body to health when diseased.

Because of these facts, I think it would be a wise policy to devote part of our journal to, say: 'Hygiene of the Body,' with special articles setting forth Eclectic Medicine, sandwiched in between. In this manner our Journal may become a power in the land, and a harbinger of health to the many who need a little help from time to time. Our college, also, may be advertised; in this way the path is paved for our students when the time comes for them to start practice in some town or city. It may be asked: 'How are you going to introduce this journal to the people?' Simply through the doctors. Each physician would dis- tribute, say. 25 or 50 copies of the journal to the intelligent thinking people of his district.

In this way he is advertising himself and helping the people at the same time. Let every physician who subscribes to the Journal send his order for, say, 25 or 50 copies at ten cents per copy, would be $2.50. This $2.50 may bring him hundreds of dollars. This proposition is so self-evident that there is no need for further explanation.

Let the subscribers send in their orders and the cash, the editor will supply the needed articles. This is an age for united effort and the time has come 58 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL to be up and doing something for the cause of Eclectic Medi- cine which is the only hope for our suffering race.

It is our most sacred duty to humanity to use every effort in our power to save and hand down to posterity what we know of medicine. Remember the lion of the American Medical As- sociation is being chained at our college entrance to frighten students away from the path of truth. The thumb screws of the dark ages of intolerance are being prepared and the rack is ready for those who refuse to accept serum-therapathy; and state medicine stares us in the face. With these facts before us, it is self-evident to every think- ing Eclectic physician throughout the length and breadth of our free, independent land, that we must awake, and say, once for all, that the principles of our School are sacred as the throne of the Most High, and must and shall be sustained at all hazards. If this were a prophetic age instead of a scientific one, I would indulge in a little prophecy regarding the future of the healing art; but enough for the present.

Let every Eclectic in the country get to their guns — be sure to keep the powder dry — sharpen the sword of intellect and brush away the cob- webs from your consciences, that you may understand your duty and do it! Remember there is a great battle to be fought for medi- cal freedom in the near future and you and I shall have to face the enemy. So we must be ready, for we know not the day nor the hour we may be called to take our places on the firing line to do all in our power for the cause of suffering hu- manity. Forty-five per cent of our race is sick and crying for bread. The Eclectic School has the bread of life, so to speak. Why, then, do we hide our light under a bushel? Is it not time to let that light so shine, when it will help the weak and suffering ones of our common humanity?

I most earnestly appeal to every Eclectic in the land to awake from his lethargy and remember the good old saying: 'To him that hath much knowledge, much shall be expected of him in that great day when men shall be called to give an account of their steward- ship.' Now I wish to made a few suggestions for you wise ones to think over, regarding the work of the year 1912, which I believe will be most helpful to Eclectics throughout the coun- try. I wish to mention the names of a few doctors who will contribute to the section of the journal on 'Hygiene of the Body': CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 59 Dr.

Munk — 'Our college and the great need for Eclectic Physicians and Surgeons.' Hubbard ' First Aid to Surgery.'

Barbriek — 'Hygiene of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.' Baird — 'Simple remedies for the home and their indicated use in emergency.' Welbourne — 'Hygiene of the Skin and Face.'

Willard — 'Specific Medicine and why the Eclectic System of Medication differs from all other Schools of Medi- cine. Harvey — 'Hygiene of Chlidhood. Fulmer— 'The Science of Food.' Beard — 'Hygiene of Motherhood.' The foregoing are a few of the subjects which may be treated in the journal, and which would prove of special in- terest to the laity, and would undoubtedly be of great benefit to the contributors — indeed it would be of incalculable ad- vantage in every way.

In fact the writers should pay the jour- nal for the privilege of having their names to the subject under consideration. One more thought, and I finish, promising never to in- flict you with a paper again: 1 would have a list of all the names and addresses of the Eclectic physicians in California published in the section of Hygiene, so that when a doctor sends a journal to anyone in his neighborhood, bis name will be there; in this way doctors will be repaid for their trouble and expense in getting the ex- tra copies every month. It may be objected that this would not be ethical, but I fail to see anything unethical about it.

I want 50 copies as soon as the Hygiene section is intro- duced. I cannot do better with $5.00. These copies I will distribute to my patients and friends.

It will be a very cheap advertisement. Everyone has friends and if there is anything in the journal it will be passed on from one to another, until hundreds will read the copy intended for one. In this way our college can be made supreme in the land, for we have the goods.

CASTLE HOT SPRINGS, ARIZONA. D., Los Angeles, Cal. Of all the agreeable surprises that I have had in my travels over Arizona during recent years, none has been more pleasant than my first visit to the Castle Hot Springs — to find so much 60 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL excellence and elegance in such an out of the way place. I had heard of the springs for years, but never before had an oppor- tunity to visit them. The place takes its name from the castellated appearance of the cliffs in Castle Creek Canyon through which the spring water flows.

It is located in central Arizona, almost midway between Prescott and Phoenix, in the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains and is one of nature's wild beauty spots. The entire region is crinkled into a succession of huge hills and hollows that make the landscape appear very picturesque. Road building in such a country is a difficult and expensive undertaking, but it has been successfully done here, as well as in some other places and this is, perhaps, one of the smoothest and best kept mountain roads in existence. It extends from the Hot Springs Junction, a station on the Santa Fe Railroad, to the Springs, a distance of twenty-five miles.

Conveyance is made between the two points daily, except Sundays, by automobile and the distance is easily covered in two hours. The trip is delightful, having much fine scenery and many curious desert plants all along the way. It is the natural home of the giant cactus which grows here to perfection and can be seen in an open forest of high trunks in every direction. The open spaces between these silent sentinels of the desert are filled with chaparral, composed of a variety of woody shrubs such as the mesquite, palo verde, manzanita, greasewood, cholla and oco- tillo. Together with much other less conspicuous vegetation that is all new and strange; and later in the season, flowers by the million of every shape and hue cover the landscape and show in great splashes of bright colors as far as the eye can see. At the head of a box canyon, the hot water of these won- derful springs gushes from fissures in a granite rock in a score of places, that unites and flows in a considerable stream down the rocky bed of a side canyon, which faces south, into a small valley where the hotel buildings stand. The springs disi- charge 400,000 gallons of water during every twenty-four hours, and has a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit, where it issues from the rock.

It is a mild mineral water that pos- sesses saline, alkaline and chalybeate properties with a trace of lithea. Just below the springs are two open air bathing pools of masonry and several well equipped bath houses fur- nish all kinds of baths. It is a pure palatable drinking water but is used for every purpose. That the water has decided remedial virtue is fully proven by the cures it has made and is especially useful in rheumatism, gout and kidney diseases. Long before the springs were made a health resort the water CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 61 was used for the sick by the Indians, miners and cattlemen.

The climate is exceptionally fine and is, also, an important factor in the cure of disease. It is a land of perpetual sun- shine and blue skies, dry, warm, soft air, little wind and no dust. The atmosphere is, indeed, very dry, evaporation active and the heat not oppressive. The climate is suited to asthma, emphysema, bronchial catarrh, hay fever and anemia.

The altitude is a good average of 2,000 feet above sea level and 500 feet higher than Phoenix. The elevation is sufficient to gently stimulate the circulation, which puts hemoglobin into the blood and gives sparkle to the eye and color to the cheek.

A fortune has been spent in improvements and the place is provided with every modern convenience. The rooms are clean and comfortable and have steam heat and private bath. There is an electric light and ice plant and a superior steam laundry. Amusement is furnished by a billiard room, tennis court and golf ground and made trails lead over the hills for walking and horse-back riding. The cuisine is diversified and daintily served and everything about the place runs as regu- larly as clockwork. Many different kinds of shade trees are grouped about the grounds and the orange tree and palm flourish.

The shrubbery attracts the birds and I saw at various times hopping among the branches the robin, cactus and canyon wrens, Gila woodpecker, bluejay, crimson flycatcher, Arizona hooded oriel, purple finch and song sparrow; but the English sparrow does not yet pollute the place. The Castle Hot Springs is open for business only during the fall, winter and spring months, from November to May. It caters to the wealthy tourist trade, but is not a dress affair and you are privileged to wear any kind of clothes you please. Neither is it overrun by a horde of cheap globe trotters and pleasure seekers, who travel only for show, to see and be seen. Persons who come once usually come again for a prolonged stay. It is a place for quiet seclusion and rest and is, indeed, more of a rest retreat than a pleasure resort.

The property in incorporated and belongs to a company, but Frank M. Murphy is its active and responsible head.

He is a well-known business man, the president of a railroad and owner of several paying mines in the vicinity of the springs; and has been engaged in developing Arizona for many years. Florence Stedman, who formerly had charge of the Holland House in New York City, is manager and has brought the hotel service to a high standard of efficiency. Persons who are in need of a vacation and are think- ing of taking an outing where they can enjoy the freedom of the open air and yet have some of the comforts of home, will 62 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL find this an ideal spot for their purpose. And who does not need an occasional change if for no other reason than just to break the monotony of sameness? I make this suggestion as a hint to those who can take it. I was informed that the management is now making ar- rangements for a summer season, to accommodate an increas- ing demand made by guests who desire to take the thermal treatment of hot air and water which nature here supplies so bountifully. Rheumatics, whose muscles and joints feel stiff and sore; anemics, who are thin blooded and cold; Neurotics, who suffer from pain and perverted innervation; and uremics, whose metabolism is imperfect and the kidneys over worked, are all fit subjects for this thermal treatment.

They need to be thawed, roasted or sweated out and have their natural equilibrium and normal temperature restored. The heat feels good and the patient seems to crave it — and finds here a wel- come asylum. SOME UNREASONABLE BUT TRUE CASES. D., Shuqualak, Miss.

'Shoot a negro in the heel if you want to kill him,' is a saying not without a semblance of facts as the following cases will show. A doctor with whom the writer was acquainted told of this case: The doctor was passing a negro's house when re- quested to call to see a negro boy some fifteen to eighteen years of age. He found the boy suffering from 'a rising' in the front of his head and one in the back about the middle of the occiput. There was no fluctuation, but as he had been called to lance 'a rising' he cut into the one on the forehead and found it occupied by a very hard substance. The skin was cut away and a heavy pair of forceps drew the offending body out which proved to be the spindle of an old-fashioned spinning wheel some six or seven inches long and over a half an inch in diameter at the large end.

The mother stated that the boy slept near the front door and a storm of wind, some four or five days before the call of the doctor, had blown the door open, which had been propped by placing the spinning wheel against it and with such force that the wheel and door both fell on the boy and that 'he had been suffering with the rising ever since.' The strange part is that the boy continued to work and recovered without any further trouble. A negro man requested the writer to go some six or seven miles to see his little son who had been shot in the top of his CALJFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL 63 head, the shooter using an old 32-ealiber pistol. I told him if his description of the case was correct that he should return with a burial outfit instead of a doctor, as no one could help a case that was shot on the top of his head. The man, after explaining and a good deal of reasoning, returned home but was back early next morning and stated that the boy was still living and that although he did not think anything could be done for his relief he would rather I would go to see him. I went and found the boy about three years of age. And as stated by his father, a bullet hole in the top of his head on about a line between his ears.

A six-inch probe passed to its full length and showed the course was to the pos- terior part of the atlas. After pressing on the back of his neck, I decided that the ball could be felt but seemed to be movable. However, on pressing the tumor to one side and using more force, I felt a hard round body which proved to be the bullet and which was extracted through a deep incision made under a local anesthesia. The brain matter followed the leaden missile and was also discharged through the wound in top of his head. The boy made an uneventful recovery.

Recently an old negro woman called to see if she had a cancer on one of her great toes, or if it was a bad case of in- growing toe nail. The toe resembled a turtle's foot, except the claws. It was nearly two inches broad and covered with large dry scales and pieces of the nail was sticking about as if they had been split off and inserted through her toe.

I gave her a box of zinc ointment to be applied through the day and in- structed her to apply a strong peach tree poultice at night for several days and then report again. Under this treatment all of the rough scales and pieces of nails were gathered up leaving the toe reduced very much and she had discovered something protruding from the end of the toe, which proved to be a pine splinter, fully two inches long and one-eighth of an inch thick. The old woman could give no account of its insertion and only knew that her 'toe had been ailing for about twelve months.' A BRIEF STUDY OF TWO MINERAL REMEDIES. D., Los Angeles, California In the years past it has been quite common among both the profession and the laity to think of Eclectics as 'Herb Doctors,' of Allopaths as 'Mineral Doctors,' and of Homeo- paths as 'Little pill Doctors.' This impression as regards Eclectics, has given place to a more correct understanding in recent years, though even yet 64 CALIFORNIA ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL the true principles of Eclecticism are not fully understood, either by the public at large, or by hundreds of physicians of the other so-called schools of medicine.