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mmmmmmmss35Bwm.KUiJii4it37JT3 of cases reported renders the sta tistics in favor of the present meth od of treatment. Today the records show a mortal ity rate of 15 perx:ent for diphtheria. It would not be right to say that ttie mortality rate has not been reduced, but neither is it true that the-only factor in reducing it a 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 had more to do than antitoxin. As a further proof that figures have been 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 from 3,000 to 16,000 units in each case. Another significant fact .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 taiicrht him. falls of its own wpfhf- & and proves nothing but the limita tions or whoever utters it. As for Bess H.'s statement that C. F. 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 theside of one of the most damnable features of the healing arV Physicians have always taken thejnselves 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 on. C. F. Hunt is right. Nature 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 no conception of the fact that he is about the rich est jirifile in the world. So in admin istrating his affairs they ignorantly act as if he was a bankrupt without any property who must go out and rob somebody 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 uacle is to borrow from his rich nephews and nieces all the money they will consent to loan at zy2 per cent and promise to tax hi3 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 of them are paid fc-t)- gtimmmmmimmm