cover from the bite of a mad dog than one
bitten under the same conditions, who used that drug; while in
lock-jaw there was absolute failure to secure immunity if the
patient had taken alcohol. In India it used to be given in large
quantities for snake bite, but it was found that it had a direct
effect in interfering with the processes of repair, and so is
being abandoned."--DR. SIMS WOODHEAD, of the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons, London, Eng.

"Nothing could be more irrational and dangerous than the popular
notion concerning the antagonism of whisky and snake-bites, and
Willson reports that several of the fatalities in his series
were directly due to alcohol rather than to the
bite."--_Editorial, Journal of the American Medical Ass'n._

RHEUMATISM:--"Unquestionably, the most active cause of
rheumatism, as well as of migraine, sick-headache, Bright's
disease, neurasthenia and a number of other kindred diseases, is
the general use of flesh food, tea and coffee, and alcoholic
liquors. As regards remedies, there are no medicinal agents
which are of any permanent value in the treatment of chronic
rheumatism. The disease can be remedied only by regimen,--that
is, by diet and training. A simple dietary, consisting of
fruits, grains, and nuts, and particularly the free use of
fruits, must be placed in the first rank among the radical
curative measures. Water, if taken in abundance, is also a means
of washing out the accumulated poisons.

"An individual afflicted with rheumatism in any form should
live, so far as possible, an out-of-door life, taking daily a
sufficient amount of exercise to induce vigorous perspiration. A
cool morning sponge bath, followed by vigorous rubbing, and a
moist pack to the joints most seriously affected, at night, are
measures which are worthy of a faithful trial. Every person who
is suffering from this disease should give the matter immediate
attention, as it is a malady which is progressive, and is one of
the most potent causes of premature old age, and general
physical deterioration. American nervousness is probably more
often due to uric acid, or to the poisons which it represents,
than to any other one cause."--_Good Health._

"Alcohol favors the development of rheumatism. It does this by
preventing waste matter from leaving the syste