By request, the Executive Secretary of the "National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis" sent me much literature, from which the following facts are obtained:

"The Association is the American representative of the International Association, with headquarters in Berlin."

There you have it, friends of liberty, standing out in bold relief. Could any possible good to America come out of poor old despotic, autocratic, atheistic Berlin? So it seems that the A. M. A. is dominated by the American tentacle of this foreign monster. Now let us hear what it proposes to do, and is already doing:

"Forming Societies in every state, city and town of the country."

"Procuring the passage of laws extending the scope of sanitary regulations and the authority or health officers."

These are samples of a long list, and enough to show that this foreign parasite is in our midst, and who is responsible for the pernicious activity so much complained of.

The contestant on the other side is a growing body of American people of rare intelligence and patriotism, who propose to defend what liberty we have left at whatever cost.

"The chief task of the Society is a broad educational campaign."

Yet their literature and conduct abound in absurdities and contradictions. The very idea of an utterly intolerant despotism coming into our tolerant America, and posing on the stage as an angel of mercy, is surely a gigantic absurdity that all can see. Mercy and love of humanity are not found in close fellowship with compulsion and intolerance.

This spirit of intolerance is the most striking feature in every stage performance of the above named societies. Every doctor is branded sectarian that is not wearing the Berlin label. Their tearful pretense is to save people from Tuberculosis in order to get laws passed to install them in monopolistic power. Like the Oil and Steel Trusts, they reach out in all directions, invading our schools and churches. This Berlin brand has been "working for six years to check the spread of tuberculosis in America." They found good soil in the A. M. A. to grow what they wanted to plant. They dominate all societies, great and small, in America, of the allopathic school.

They have grown a lot of Congressmen and a Senator in Oklahoma, and a dictator at the White House, as that edict "in the Panama Canal Zone" clearly indicates.

Recent attacks on candidates for the Board of Education in Los Angeles, show the kind of "enlightenment" these societies

are engaged in. The people have already learned to vote for those the machine doctors try to down.

These "Societies in every State, City and Town" are evidently meant for political incubators, to hatch legislators, congressmen and a Quixotic senator, now and then, like the one from Oklahoma. The tuberculosis scare mania serves to keep the incubator hot, and many innocent workers watching and waiting to see the results.

As "we now have five congressmen, and reason to believe soon we will have twenty-five," the incubators must contain a good supply of congressional eggs. They put none in till "pledged to obey orders." All other matter brought to the stage in this stamping-out farce are mere tricks to scare as many as possible and hold public attention, such as "preventing the spread of tuberculosis," sleeping out of doors, and many other things that may be good in some degree.

The object of this brief paper is to give a clear statement of the origin and aims of this foreign spirit that has so serum crazed our A. M. A. and all its branches, that in this "stamping out business, the doctor is more dangerous than the disease; and a despotism is being stamped into our nation.

ACHILLEA.

J. A. Munk, M. D., Los Angeles, California.

On my return trip from the national meeting in Boston a year ago, I came by the Northern route and stopped a day in Seattle on Puget Sound. Here I met some of our Eclectic physicians-Dr. Frank Brooks, Dr. N. M. Cook and Dr. I. V. Cole, in a brief friendly conference.

In speaking of the superiority of Eclectic medicine, Dr. Cole mentioned the great value of achillea, or yarrow, as a diaphoretic in fevers. I remembered what he said and after returning home was able in a measure to verify his statement. I failed, however, to remember that he had written up the subject, and that it was printed in Ellingwood's Therapeutist for May, 1909, until reminded of the fact by him in a reply to a letter of inquiry.

The agent is indicated in any case of fever regardless of its cause, when the temperature rises above one hundred degrees, with skin dry and secretion arrested. In the absence of fever it has practically very little, if any, effect. His method of administering the medicine is to add one drachm of the specific medicine to a pint of warm water and letting the patient drink it all at a single dose. Snugly tucked in bed the patient soon begins to perspire freely, until the sweat pours in a stream from every

pore. Soon as the perspiration is fully established improvement begins to take place. Pain and restlessness are relieved and the temperature rapidly falls to normal and stays there. It produces complete relaxation of the system and increases the action of every eliminating function and especially of the skin. It causes no depression like jaborandi, but is always a dependable diaphoretic and a safe and certain method for breaking up a fever. One dose is usually sufficient to accomplish that object, but occasionally it is necessary to repeat the dose.

In closing his report, he says: "I have taken all sizes of doses of achillea up to a teasponnful in hot and cold water when my temperature was normal, and outside of a slight diuretic action. have never had the slightest effect from it. Have taken and given it with 100 degrees of temperature or over and never failed to get profuse diaphoresis without a corresponding depression as one would naturally expect. My marked results have been in adult acute febrile conditions and seldom have I had to administer more than one dose or make more than one visit; which goes to show that, from a business standpoint, I have lost considerable money by three years' use of the most certain drug in the Materia Medica."

CORN OIL.

By J. A. Burnett, M. D., Marble City, Okla.

Not many physicians know anything about corn oil, and some have never heard of it. So it would not appear that an article on corn oil would be out of place. Recently I became interested in corn oil and wrote to several physicians that were professors of materia medica in medical schools about it and was surprised to learn that even some professors of materia medica in class "A" regular medical schools had never heard of corn oil and did not know anything about it. I must confess myself that I had never heard of corn oil, until recently never saw it mentioned in a work on materia medica or saw it listed in any price list of drugs. I never heard it mentioned during my four years' medical college course. The reason why corn oil has not received more attention and not more generally known I cannot say. It certainly looks like at least more would have heard of it. I do not know how long corn oil has been on the market. Dr. C. Bevill of Waldron, Ark., writes me that he has heard of it for eighteen or twenty years, but had never used it.

The only literature that I have ever seen on corn oil is an article, "Corn Oil in the Treatment of Tuberculosis," by John Ritter, M. D., Instructor in Medicine, Rush Medical College Journal of the American Medical Association, July 4, 1908. Dr.

Ritter begins this article by emphasizing the fact that in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis oils and fats take foremost rank. Dr. Thomas Bassett Keyes of Chicago would agree with him on this assertion as Dr. Keyes is the author of three books, all teaching that tuberculosis can be cured by hypoderime use of olive oil. Dr. Ritter speaks of cod liver oil and olive oil in the treatment of tuberculosis and says they are expensive and the price as a rule beyond the reach of most tubercular patients. Of course we must agree with him when it is given by mouth in doses from one to four ounces. The price of cod liver oil and olive oil was what caused Dr. Ritter to use corn oil, as it was much cheaper. He prescribed corn oil for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, in place of cod liver oil and olive oil, at the Central Free Dispensary of Chicago. He says:

"The low price of maize oil combined with all the good qualities of a palatable and wholesome oil makes it an ideal oil for patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis." He further states:

"I am convinced from many close observations that as a good tissue builder it is fully equal to cod liver oil or olive oil. The ingestion of corn oil is well tolerated. It does not cause nauseous eructations which usually follow the taking of cod liver oil and the prolonged and increasing dosage is always borne by the stomach."

After reading Dr. Ritter's article, I wrote him and asked him some questions, which are as follows, with his answer after each one:

1st.

What is the average and maximum dose of corn oil? Ans. From a teasponful to a tablespoonful.

2nd.

Ans.

How often do you repeat the dose?

With each meal.

3rd. Do you give the plain oil, if not, how do you give it, or can the plain oil be used with as good results as any, if desired? Ans. Plain or as an emulsion, if desired.

4th. Is corn oil as well tolerated by the stomach as olive oil? Ans. Yes.

5th. Is the therapeutic action of corn oil different from olive oil?

Ans. No.

6th. Could corn oil be used hypodermically?

Ans. I have never given it hypodermically, I do not advocate the giving of any fixed oil hypodermically.

7th. Has your opinion of corn oil changed any since your article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, July 4, 1908?

Ans. No.

I asked Dr. W. C. Abbott of Chicago a few questions and received the following reply: "Corn oil is stable. The dose is the same as that of olive oil or other bland vegetable oils, i. e., from one-half to four ounces. There is no appreciable difference in the therapeutic action of corn, cotton seed or olive oil." The Corn Product Refining Co. of 26 Broadway, New York, offered me corn oil for $7.05 per 100 pounds prepaid to Marble City, Okla. In regard to what Dr. Ritter said regarding the hypodermic use of corn oil and other oils, I wish to say there is a valuable article, "The Utilization of Fats and Oils Given Subcutaneously," by Lloyd H. Mills, M. D., May, 1911, Archives of Internal Medicine. This article was based on experiments made in the Laboratory of Physiology of Cornell University Medical School. Dr. Mills used olive oil, cotton seed oil, peanut oil, corn oil and other oils hypodermically in animals, and his conclusions are valuable. He considers the hypodermic use of oils of value in diseases. It would be a treat to any physician that is interested in oils and especially their hypodermic use, to read Dr. Mills' article.

Dr. T. B. Keyes uses olive oil in large doses hypodermically for the cure of consumption and various other diseases. He does not use ethyl chloride spray before the injections. Possibly corn oil could be used hypodermically in place of olive oil and be much cheaper.

QUESTIONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS Los Angeles, December 6, 7, 8, 9, 1911.

1.

PATHOLOGY.

Answer Eight Questions Only and Identify Four Slides.

Describe the difference between hypertrophy and hyperplasia,

and under what circumstances does each occur?

3. In what way do the histologic changes found in cloudy swelling of the heart differ from those foud in fatty degeneration of the heart? 4. What structural or organic changes are most likely to be responsible for constant and excessive irregularity in the heart's action extending over a prolonged period of time?

5. Descrbe the heart changes which frequently accompany croupous (Lobar) pneumonia.

6. Describe the condition present in hypostatic congestion of the lungs and under what circumstances is it most likely to occur.

7.

Locate and describe the pathologic changes which occur in acute bulbar paralysis and name the most common causes.

8. Describe the condition of the patient and the morbid anatomy likely to be found during the first few hours in a case of thrombus of the middle cerebral artery on the left side and the condition of the patient likely to be found in a favorable case at the end of several weeks.

9. What form of nephritis is most likely to accompany or follow