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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 51, 25 August 1894, Page 4

Alcohol and Typhoid Fever. 1 O ! Dr N. S. Davis, of Chicago, the * Nestor of American physicians, writ- | ing to one of the leading medical journals of America, says :— " A leading article in the Medical News of December 24rb, 1887, in referring to * an outline oi the modes of treatment in typhoid fever pursued at 12 of the chief hospitals of this country,' says : — ' The use of alcohol ie recommended by all the writers, and we j have, as yet, wo substitute for it in the progressive asthenia of the dis- i ease.' Before knowing 1 h>w much \ value can be awarded to this apparently united testimony in {avor of alcohol in typhoid fever, it would be necessary to" know how many cases of the fev»r any one or all of the writers alluded to have actually treated without a'cohol, that they might hxve a fair basis of comparison of the results. We have tried the experiment of treating typhoid fever and all other general fevers without using alcoholic remedies, both in hospital and private practice for thirty years, and have found no difficulty in finding better remedies for counteracting the asthenia of this fever, and obtaining a higher rate of recoveries than has ever been obtained with its use. With iodine as general alterant and antisceptic to counteract the molecular degeneration in the tissues and the blood, and the choice of cardiac and vaso-motor tonics from the class of rpmedies represented l>y digitalis, coffee, tea, strychnia, strophanthus carbonate ammonia, camphor, etc, according to the special symptoms of each case, and vigilant attention to the local complications that are in many cases more dangerous to the patient than the general disease, with an equally vigilant attention to the proper administration of simple nourishment and pure air, we have no 1 place or need for the use of alcohol as a remedy in these cas»B. And of a considerable number of intelligent ; and active practitioners who havp tried the same experiment, though for a less number of years, I have not yet found one who was not fully satisfied with the result."

The Southland News propounds the f*llowine t — " James and John are brothers. They have a firsl cousin Emms, from their paternal aunt. John marries Emma offspring Jane. James has a son H"»> y who is th««, fir«t, *econd and third cousin to Jane. Her father and m 'ther and Henry's father ail come from 'he same ancestor. Jane and Henry are v- 1 of th.fi snme flpsh and blood twice o\er. They marry. Is it legal ? In the constellation of Hercules there is a small dull speck which looks like a star, but use a telescope of sufficient power and there is revealed to you one of the most wonderful effects in all the mighty dome of heaven. The faint star breaks open into a sphere like a cluster of suns, and they are perfectly symmetrical in arrangement. From centre to circumference an inconceivab y vast space is en closed, and the mighty suns that make that sphere number 15.0(10, and bave a diameter of 45,000.000.000 of miles. Let us suppose that th p distance of *>ach from the other is 9,000,000,000 of miles. Now by analogy, each and ever? one of these ntBTB or suns — and it is a fair inference— arp all of them the centres of separate syptems ot worlds like our own solar oy«tem.