ever when a milder agency will secure
the result. Exceedingly pernicious is the habit of dosing
children with this drug."--DR. CHARLES H. SHEPARD, Brooklyn, N.
Y.

"A late surgeon of the gold coast of Africa wrote the following
to the London _Lancet_ of Jan. 2, 1890: 'Some of the worst cases
of this disease, the grippe, remind me of an epidemic I saw
among the natives of the swamps of the Niger. * * * * *
Irrespective of disinfectants and inhalations there is a simple,
effective and ready remedy, the juice of oranges in large
quantities, not of two or three, but of dozens. The first
unpleasant symptoms disappear, and the acid citrate of potash of
the juice, by a simple chemic action decreases the amount of
fibrine in the blood to an extent which prevents the development
of pneumonia.'"

The Syracuse (N. Y.) _Post-Standard_ contained the following during the
epidemic of 1899:--

"Dr. George D. Whedon declared to a _Post-Standard_ reporter
yesterday that there is practically no subsiding of the grippe
in this city. Dr. Whedon said that the weather conditions have
little, if anything, to do with the disease, and that it is
impossible to define the conditions which produce it. It is some
morbific agency, the influence of which, Dr. Whedon said, is
exerted upon the pneumogastric nerve.

"_Dr. Whedon was emphatic in denouncing treatment by means of
alcoholic stimulants, and coal tar derivatives._ In discussing
the subject at some length he said:--

'I find that infants and young children are practically exempt
from the disease, and the liability increases with age. In my
own experience, which has since 1889 amounted to an aggregate of
3,000 cases, alcoholic stimulants have appeared to be usually of
little or no value; their usual stimulating effect does not seem
to be realized in this condition. Unless malarial complications
exist quinine appears of no benefit, and then should not be used
in larger than two grain doses. Large doses depress the weakened
heart, and in all cases increase the terrible confusion and
headache constantly present in severe cases.

'From the views I entertain of its pathology, and from the
terrible fatality which has attended the extensive use of the
coal tar derivatives in treatment of _la grippe_, I argue that
the manner in which they have b