THE CANADA LANCET. When In Practice it becomes necessary or wise to forbid the use of coffee, the logical table drink for the patient to use is POSTUM This beverage has a pleasing coffee-like flavor, but contains no coffee, no caffein, nor any other deleterious ingredient. Made of wheat and a small per cent of wholesome Postum comes in two form. Postum Cereal water. Samples of Instant Postum, Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties, for personal or clinical examination, will be sent on request to any physician who has not received them. Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Limited, Windsor, Ont. 581 TORONTO DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA. The following comparison between 1918 and 1919 figures shows how steady has been the decrease in deaths registered from New Year's onward. In the three months prior to New Year's there had been 1,343 deaths registered from influenza and 663 from pneumonia: SPASMODIC SUMMER COMPLAINT. At this season when intestinal troubles are so prevalent, accompanied by the usual manifestation, Abdominal Cramps, etc., nothing seems to relieve this distressing condition so promptly as Hayden's Viburnum Compound, a true and safe anti-spasmodic. Dose: Mix two teaspoonfuls in seven of BOILING water, slightly sweetened, and drink as hot as possible. Repeat every half hour until relief is obtained. Be sure the genuine H. V. C. only is administered. MODERN MARTIAL THERAPY. Amid the veritable swarm of new medicinal agents of all varieties that have been introduced to the therapist during the last twenty years, and in spite of the great advances in general medicine during the same period, there has not as yet been proposed any remedy which can successfully compete with iron in the treatment of anemic and generally devitalized conditions. This metallic element, in one form or another, is still the sheet anchor in such cases, and when intelligently administered in proper form and dosage can be depended upon to bring about marked improvement, provided serious incurable organic disease is not the operative cause of the existing blood impoverishment. The form in which to administer iron is, however, very important. The old, irritant, astringent martial medication has had its day, and properly so. Probably the most generally occeptable of all iron products is Pepto-Mangan (Gude), an organic combination of iron and manganese with assimilable peptones. This preparation is palatable, readily tolerable, promptly absorbable, non-irritant and still distinctly potent as a blood builder and general tonic and reconstructive. A SOOTHING INFLUENCE. Life in Canada grows more strenuous day after day, and possibly that is the reason why men are seeking the solace of tobacco to such an extent. Used in the form of chewing tobacco it undoubtedly has a soothing influence. In the olden days it was chewed from a roll, and English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries contains various references to its benefits. Samuel Pepys records in his diary that by chewing tobacco during the great plague he found relief from his worries. The famous diarist tells of walking along the streets of London on the 7th of June, 1665, the sad sights he witnessed on that day, he says "put me into an ill conception of myself, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco to smell and chew, which took away the apprehension." Physicians who visited the sick in those days are said to have chewed tobacco very freely, and it was popularly reported that no tobacconist or their household were afflicted by the plague. SANMETTO IN SKIN DISEASES. IN INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE SKIN, especially where volumetric analysis shows defective urinary elimination, sanmetto will be found a useful remedy, owing to its direct action on the kidneys. THE CANADA LANCET. LISTERINE A Non-Poisonous, Unirritating Antiseptic Solution ¶ Agreeable and satisfactory alike to the Patient, the Physician and the Nurse. Listerine has a wide field of usefulness, and its unvarying quality assures like results under like conditions. ¶ The Listerine formula is compatible with so many drugs in materia medica that it well answers the requirements of a vehicle or basic ingredient of many prescriptions. Listerine possesses a two-fold antiseptic effect. On evaporation, a film, consisting of boric and benzoic acid, with baptisia tinctoria remains on the surface to which Listerine has been applied. ¶A small quantity of Listerine evaporated from a watch glass, or other suitable container, will disclose a residue of these beautiful crystals in abundance, as Listerine is a saturated solution of boric acid. May we send a bottle of Listerine to your address, Doctor, for your observation and use? LAMBERT PHARMACAL COMPANY 2101 LOCUST STREET SAINT LOUIS, MO., U. S. A. 66 Gerrard St. East. Toronto, Ontario. |