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routes of travel; balls for showing different THE MEDICAL FORTNIGHTLY

apparatus; amphitheaters for giving lantern exhibitions; a postoffice and telegraph office; registration room; money exchange; and a room where papers, cigars, cigarettes, etc., will be on sale.

The opening exercises will take place on the first day of the Congress in the hall of the Geographical Society in the Geographical Society building, where a colonial exposition will take place during the meeting of the Congress, under the auspices of the sections on colonial and naval medicine.

There will be a number of addresses or orations delivered each afternoon at the general meeting by distinguished representatives of different countries. Sir Patrick Manson will represent England; Prof. E. von Bergmann, Germany; Prof. Reclus, Paris; Prof. New

NICHOLAS SENN, M. D.

Who will deliver the Oration for the United States.

man, Austria; Prof. Prince Jean Tarschanoff, Russia; Prof. Azevedo Sodre, Brazil; Dr. Jose Esquerdo, Spain; Dr. P. Aasor, Norway. The names of those from other countries have not as yet been given out. Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago, has been invited to deliver the oration for the United States.

The amusements for the congressists will be a Portuguese bull fight, three large general fetes, and receptions and dinners de gala. All communications regarding the scientific part of the Congress should be addressed to Dr. Ramon Guiteras, secretary of the American National Committee. All questions regarding transportation to Lisbon and return should be addressed to Dr. Charles Wood Fassett, editor of the Medical Herald, St. Joseph, Mo., who has in charge the Ameri

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can party, which will sail April 7th. Those who join this party will have no worry concerning hotel reservations, or other details, as all will be provided for in advance by the well-known firm of Thos. Cook & Sons.

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QUEEN AMELIE, of Portugal, who is a Doctor of Medicine, will be honorary president of the Fifteenth International Medical Congress, which convenes in Lisbon on April 19th.

EXCURSION TO BOSTON.-Plans for a "Missouri Valley" excursion party to Boston are in progress, to attend the meeting of the American Medical Association in June. The trip will include a boat ride down the St. Lawrence river, and short stops at Niagara For information address the secretary, Dr. Falls, Montreal and other interesting points. Chas. Wood Fassett, St. Joseph, Mo.

AIR DE LUXE.-W. P. Northrup says that civilized man has learned how to eat and drink and how to wash, but he has not yet learned how to ventilate The author depicts the unhygienic conditions existing in most places of public assemblage owing to the lack of fresh air, and says that the need for reform in this regard is also great in pri. vate dwellings. The curse of modern living is overworking, overheating, and lack of ventilation, not to mention worry and hasty eating. The suggestion is made of utilizing the roofs of dwelling houses as sources of fresh air, by constructing roof gardens. - Medical Record.

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Look well to your prescriptions-a careless or dishonest pharmacist may ruin your reputation.

IMPORTANT TO PHYSICIANS

LITHIA SALT

(Wm. R. Warner & Co.)

For Alkaline Treatment of Rheumatism, Gouty Diathesis, Cystitis, Gravel, Kidney Troubles, Uricemia, etc.

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The "Princess Irene" of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co., upon which the American party to the last congress sailed. This boat is a sister to the steamship "Koenig Albert," which will carry the American party to the Congress in April.

WILL YOU JOIN THE

AMERICAN PARTY?

AND ENJOY A DELIGHTFUL TRIP TO ATTEND THE

INTERNATIONAL
MEDICAL CONGRESS

TO BE HELD IN

Lisbon, Portugal, April 19 to 26, 1906

ROUND TRIP, FIRST-CLASS all through, $300, including board and all expenses. Sails from New York on the "Koenig Albert " April 7. Return trip may be arranged to suit the pleasure of members, with extension of time, if desired. Full particulars and itinerary may be obtained by addressing

DR. CHAS. WOOD FASSETT, St. Joseph, Mo.

MEDICAL MEMORANDA.

It is very gratifying to me to testify of the merits of resinol soap. In conjunction I am also giving testimony of more than a dozen of my friends who have used it through my personal recommendation. For soothing and making the skin smooth after shaving it has no parallel, to say nothing of that indescribable feeling experienced in its effects after a bath -J. A. Wright, D. D. S., 2902 State street, Chicago, Ill.

Cystogen-Lithia Tablets.-This effervescent tablet is of interest to physicians as it affords the means of employing the uric acid solvent and genito-urinary antiseptic properties of cystogen augumented by the alkaline and solvent action of the lithia salt. The value possessed by the salts of lithia as uric acid solvent, diuretic and ant-acid are available in this preparation. It is a most happy combination, displaying all of the desirable effects of both cystogen and lithia. The effervescence brings about a quick solution in water, producing a perfectly tasteless solution. Water that is too cold retards the effervescence. It may therefore be conveniently taken at meal time in a glass of water. In cases where this method of administration is contra-indicated, it may be taken between meals, always dissolved in considerable water. These tablets being effervescent need to be protected from atmospheric conditions, and for this reason are packed in glass tubes containing one dozen tablets in each. Three tubes are packed in a small cardboard box. A tube may be conveniently carried in the vest pocket, so that patients may be expected to take the medicine with regularity. Samples supplied to physicians on request to the Cystogen Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

Iodide of Iron is an extremely valuable medicament owing to the properties of its two constituents: iodine, which has a stimulating action on those blood elements whose role is to protect the system against micro-organisms and noxious bacilli, and iron, which is a reconstituent of recognized value. As the action of iodide of iron absolutely depends on its purity the efforts of all manufacturing chemists are directed to this purpose. The ordinary,commercial iodide of iron pills all contain impure iodide of iron; besides they are frequently dangerous on account of the insolubility of their coating. The genuine Blancard's pills contain 5 centigrammes of strictly unchangeable iodide of iron. The physician need only split open one of the pills, either with his finger nail or the blade of a knife, to see that the resulting section is of the greenish color which characterizes the unchanged proto-iodide of iron. The genuine Blancard's pills are made entirely by hand, they are covered with a protective coating which dissolves in the gastric and intestinal juices; as it slowly dissolves in the digestive tube assimilation is complete without causing irritation to

the mucous membrane with which it comes in contact. The greenish white color of Blancard's syrup of iodide of iron proves that it contains unchangeable iodide of iron (in the proportion of two grains to the tablespoonful), because the syrups in which chemical changes have taken place are always of a yellowish tint. Mr. Blancard's process received many years ago the endorsement of the Paris Academy of Medicine, and pills and syrup are still being manufacured in the same premises in Paris, by his grandsons Mess. Bertaut-Blancard Brothers, who yearly ship many thousands of bottles all over the civilized world, where they are daily prescribed by the medical profession.

Anedemin (opposed to edema) is a scientific combination of three of the more recently investigated members of the digitalis series; its components, the active principles of strophanthus hispidus, apycynum cannabinum, urginea scilla, with sambucus as adjuvant, are so chemically treated and disposed as to eliminate all toxic principles. Of great potency through the collaboration of its components, anedemin is claimed to be vastly superior to digitalis, elaterium and the remedies commonly prescribed for the removal of dropsical effusions and possesses none of their disagreeable properties. Anedemin has no cumulative action, is non-toxic, producing no gastro-intestinal disturbance. It does not produce vasomotor contraction like digitalis; on the contrary, it is a vasomotor dilator and increases the arterial output. It is claimed to be superior to the remedies commonly employed in the treatment of dropsies from the fact it acts less upon the medullary and peripheral nerves. Acting upon the circulation the collaborative effects are to accelerate the flow in the thoracic duct, rapidly returning the serum to the blood by the lymphatic channels, as well as by resorption into the blood, from whence it is removed by purgation and diuresis. It is a restorer and maintainant of perfect balance between the arterial and venous system. It increases both the nutrition and power of the cardiac muscle, increasing the arterial output, emptying more completely the chambers and diminishing regurgitation. It is far superior to digitalis as a stimulant of the renal function, removing large quantities of urine, eliminating the toxins, forestalling uremia. The transudation of the glomeruli is increased, renal congestion relieved and reparation of parenchyma and interstitial structures brought about. The action of anedemin upon the liver is such as to dilate both hepatic and portal vessels, improving both the nutrition of the hepatic cells and interlobular structures, and relieving ascitic ten sion. In brief it is claimed anedemin will prevent a renewal of the dropsical effusion and an increase of the lesion which exists in the majority of cases; and, in apparently hopeless incurables, if not curative, will often do much to prolong life and secure as much improvement of health as is compatible with existing structural lesions. Its formula has been built up by large and wide application and found to yield positive benefits and definite results when all other combinations have failed.

Digestion Depends Upon Absorption

If the digestive tract can not absorb what is digested then digestion stops.

Why should you plaster the mucosa with bismuth or shrivel and harden it with bitters when you want to aid digestion and absorption.

(Wrong stimulations is always followed by a reaction.)

Wash off the mucosa by drinking pure water the first thing in the morning and then use

PEPTENZYME

(Nucleo-enzymes R. & C.)

which stimulates absorption in nature's own manner at the same time aiding digestion. Think this over again, and then write for literature and samples, and prove for yourself that Peptenzyme differs radically from all other so-called digestives.

REED & CARNRICK,

Nos. 42-44-46 Germania Ave.,
JERSEY CITY, N. J.

Do not jeopardize your patient's life by patronizing a druggist who will substitute.

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