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ipP5iBWWWWBC95C55a555S33E3C or cases reported renders the sta tistics in favor of tile present ineth od -of treatment. Today therecorJs show a mortal ity rate of J 5 per cent for diphtherja. It wouldnot be right to say that the mortality rate has not been reduced, 4h but neither is it true that the only factorinieducingita trifle was anti toxin. The fact is that doctors now do not try to force-feed such a pa- tient, nor do they isolate them in an unlighted, unventilated room. These factors, though simple, with the right addition of wet compresses, have t had more to do than antitoxin. As a further proof that figures have heen juggled to prove the case of antitoxin, many of the leading physicians, including Osier, now state that antitoxin to the amount of even 70,000 units should be used in many cases. Still the reputation of antitoxin, "was established upon the use of irom 3,000 to 15,000 units in each case. Another significant faqt is that the serum and vaccine-producing plants are owned, controlled and invested in by physicians. While this fact would not in any way de teriorate the value or virtue of any healing agent, still it might influ ence our health boards, who are all doctors, and our health inspectors in forcing the use of such .agents upon the public. 'There are very few facts indeed that Vivisection has established, and of those that it has established the need for repetition of the tortures should be abolished. The statement of "Physician", that he would like to operate upon C. F. Hunt, and forget for the moment what vivisection has P taught him, falls of its own weight and-proves nothing but the limita tions of whoever utters it As lor Bess H.'s statement that C. P. Hunt's head must be empty, it merely sounds like a woman who is anxious to say something smart and cutting, because she is prejudiced to the side of one of the most damnable features of the healing art Physicians have always, taken themselves as a matter of course and, seriously considered themselves as .guardians Of health, but, as a matter of fact, barring cases of accident, seldom can a doctor do as much as the patient himself. Prevention is the great healer or health preserver. No vivisection is necessary to teach proper eating, bathing, exercise, breathing, clothing and so Oh. C. P. Hunt is right. Mature cures and the doctor assumes the credit. Andrew A. Gour. UNCLE SAM'S LOST INCOME Readers of The Day Book of April 11 will have noticed that congress, which is the fiscal agent of Uncle Sam, is about to pass a bill providing for a bond issue of $5,000,000,000. Now our beloved Uncle Sam, though over 100 years old, is yet de nied his freedom and is under the guardianship of men Who don't know he is of age and have tfio conception of the act that he is about the rich est uncle in the world. So in admin istrating his affairs they ighorantly act as if he was a bankrupt without any property who must go out and rob sotnebody in order to pay his ex penses. Therefore, following the benighted example of the financiers of the past, they imagine the only way to finance our beloved uncle is to borrow from his rich nephews and nieces all the money they will -consent to loan at 3M: Per cent and promise to tax his poor relations now in existence, and also those who may be born into the family in future years, to pay this bonded debt These purblind financiers have a soothing way of justifying this sort of business by saying that posterity gets the benefit of our expenditure of this plunder and should pay at least a part of It. Leaving out the question of how much benefit posterity may get from the wars we are fighting, and the fact that" the expense e them are paid