His
argument was that the introduction of such a substance as alcohol,
itself being a product of germ action, into a system already suffering
from the toxic influence of a ptomaine, could not be otherwise than
pernicious.

CHOLERA MORBUS:--Dr. Kellogg says: "The stomach should be washed
by means of the stomach-tube when possible. A large hot enema
should be given after each evacuation of the bowels. The
addition of tannin, one drachm to a quart of water, is
serviceable. When the vomited matter no longer shows signs of
food, efforts should be made to stop the vomiting. Give the
patient bits of ice the size of a bean to swallow every few
minutes. At the same time apply hot fomentations over the
stomach and bowels. If the patient suffer much from cramp, put
him into a warm bath. The first food taken should be
farinaceous. Oatmeal gruel, well boiled and strained, is
useful."

CHOLERA INFANTUM:--"Iced water may be given in very small
quantities every few minutes. Give the stomach entire rest for
at least twenty-four hours. There will be no suffering for want
of food as long as the stomach is in such a condition. Withhold
milk until nature has had time to rid the alimentary canal of
the poison-producing germs. White of egg dissolved in water is
an excellent preparation in these cases. Egg enemata may also be
advantageously used.

"Warm baths, the hot blanket pack when the surface is cold, and
the hot enema are all useful. Keep the child wrapped warmly.

"Great care should be taken in returning to the milk diet. The
milk should be thoroughly sterilized by boiling for half an
hour, and should be mixed with some barley water so as to avoid
the formation of large curds in the stomach. Cream, diluted with
water, may be used instead of milk."

CONSUMPTION.

Dr. Koch, the celebrated German microscopist, pronounces consumption
contagious, because during its progress a very minute bacterium is
developed which may be transmitted from one person to another.

It is said that a person with healthy lungs might daily breathe millions
of tubercle bacilli without any danger, and that the best preventive of
this disease is to live much in the open air, or if this is impossible
to spend ten or fifteen minutes a day in deep breathing exercises in the
open air. "Fresh-air and disease-germs are antagonistic."

Alcohol, chiefly in the