NEURASTHENIA May be you haven't got it. But are you sure about it? Do you know its symptoms when you see them? There is hardly a man or a woman who has passed the years of early youth but is nervous in a more or less pronounced way. Now it is only a step from the irritability of today to the frazzled nerves of tomorrow, and the time to combat neurasthenia is now, before bad nerves get a big start-and still better, before they put in their appearance at all. For Neurasthenia Can Be Cured It is wholly a matter of using natural, common sense methods in a wise and persistent way. And the sooner the work is begun the more complete will be the relief. For everybody with high-strung nerves Dr. J. H. Kellogg has written for the July number of GOOD HEALTH MAGAZINE an article on The Symptoms and Treatment of Neurasthenia It is not written in technical language that no one but a doctor would understand, but in every day terms that no one can fail of following. From it you will know whether you have neurasthenia or not, or whether you are going to have it, and you will know, too, how to get down to grips with the disease and fight it with means that cannot fail of success. PUBLISHING CO. ORDER OF YOUR NEWSDEALER, OR SEND TEN CENTS BATTLE CREEK, MICH. GOOD HEALTH PUBLISHING CO. AGAZINE for one year, beginning with the July numbe Enclose herewith $1.00 for which please send me GOOD HEALTH Causes and Cure," without further cost to me. nd one copy of Dr. Kellogg's Book on Constipation: Ist Name Address SPECIAL OFFER :-To every person using the coupon attach- When you write to advertisers, please mention The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette THE BELGIUM PHYSICIANS. WHEN the dreadful earthquake and holocausts occurred in San Francisco now some ten years ago, from all hands relief was sent to the afflicted city. Thus were helped almost all classes of our fellow-citizens in San Francisco, except the physicians; who toiled day and night, giving freely and without price of their mind and heart and strength, to alleviate sufferings and to heal the sick; losing, many of them, all their fortunes, and receiving practically nothing with which to restore themselves and their families to health and to living conditions -to say nothing of the comforts to which they had been accustomed. That is the way always with this, the most self-abnegating of callings. And such is surely now the case in Belgium, where all the people from their great King down to the humblest are feeling the stress of the cruelest war conditions in our history. If the Belgian physicians are to receive adequate aid, surely it had best come from their brethren this side the water. And to this end American Medicine has been instrumental in forming a committee for the collection of a Fund for Belgian Physicians; and we hope that our colleagues will be able to send contributions to the committee, in the care of American Medicine, 18 East 41st Street, New York City. All monies sent will be duly acknowledged. Or if it is preferred to send contributions to THE GAZETTE, these we will gladly acknowledge and forward to the committee. No matter how small the amount, if no more than twenty-five cents, should be sent as early as possible. Make checks payable to the Belgian Medical Committee, with name and address of donor. "Brother physicians, brother editors, good friends, and every one whose heart beats in sympathy for Belgium's sorrow-laden but noble, uncomplaining and hard working doctors, help us to save them from hunger, cold and destitution!" EXIT THE BATH TUB. A FEW months since, we presented cogent arguments against any sort of bathing. Our informant affirmed that man is an "air animal" and needs no water on his air-seasoned hide to enhance his beauty or his health. He denounced the bath-tub as not only superfluous but a nuisance in the house. Out of New Jersey comes a new prophet who proclaims the ukase that we may bathe, in fact it were better that we should bathe, but not in the tub. His revelation comes to us by way of The News, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Listen! THE BATHTUB MUST GO. You never can put your finger on anything in this changing old world. New ideas continually come in, replacing the old. No sooner does the world get settled on something as eminently right, wise and proper than somebody comes along and knocks all the props from under our comfortable beliefs. Take, for example, the bathtub. Of course, in early childhood we all regarded the tub as an instrument of torture; but have, with matured years, come to look upon it as a symbol of civilization, as the chosen path to that virtue which is next to Godliness. But not so. It is in reality a relic of barbarism, and use of it a sure sign of insanity. For this we have the word of Dr. Henry Allers, of Harrison, N. J. Speaking before the board of health of that community on Thursday night, Dr. Allers said: "When you bathe in a bathtub you simply rub off the dirt into the water; then you revel joyously in the contaminated fluid, and think you're clean. The habit is unspeakable. The bathtub should be eliminated as a relic of barbarism. The only way to get really clean is the Turkish bath or the shower. If neither of these methods be at your disposal, then by all means get yourself dry cleaned; anything but the bathtub." We all hate to see the bathtub go; it is an old friend; but even in our bereavement let us look upon the bright side-with the bathtub eliminated there will be no more government suits against the bathtub trust. More frenzied physiology, of the which we have had plenty already, thank you. It reminds us of the famous man "in our town" who scratched out both his eyes and immediately proceeded to scratch them in again. If Dr. A. will "rub off" in a tub of water and then "revel joyously" until he rubs it on again, we wouldn't mind taking a trip down to New Jersey to see him do it. Until we see some such demonstration of his theory we will continue with our occasional tubbing in the good old way, and recommend it to others-especially to the "great unwashed." By the by, what's the matter with a good rinsing in the tub after the major part of the bath is finished, as our mothers taught us to do? Turkish baths are rather dear for many good and clean people, and we would hate to see the populace all waiting until they can get their landlord to establish showers in their apartments. Think of the poor fishes who have to wash in the same water all their lives! A SUCCESSFUL INFANT FOOD MUST BE NEITHER TOO WEAK FOR PERFECT NUTRITION, NOR TOO HEAVY FOR COMPLETE DIGESTION. is a safe, satisfying and wholesome food, which in the most stubborn case is easily and completely assimilated. When you write to advertisers, please mention The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette A DOCTOR'S VIEWPOINT BY John Bessner Huber, A. M., M. D. Dr. John B. Huber, the author of this book, is the Editor of The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, a Fellow of the American Medical Association, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of various societies, a popular lecturer and a writer who has discussed vital subjects in a genial, interesting, easily comprehended and convincing way, in such journals as Harper's, Collier's, The Review of Reviews, The New York Evening Post, Lippincott's, Outdoor Life and Recreation, Country Life in America, Knowledge, Scientific American, etc., etc. note: The spirit of the present work is indicated in the prefatory "A short preface; since nobody ever reads a long one. Much of our interest in life lies in how we appreciate one another's ways of looking at it-the way of the counsellor, the sky-pilot, the painter, the farmer, the policeman on the fixed post, the steeplejack, the man on the street, the woman in the wrapper. If this book gets carried about in the coat pocket and secures place under the evening lamp and beside the armchair it will be because it has been written from a doctor's viewpoint of our human relations and of our civilization." Every page of the book will indeed be found to be English literature in the highest and best sense of the term. |