Part 6
To a man with surgical ability, one-half interest in my private practice and well-equipped hospital, located in a live up-to-date county-seat town in Minnesota; population 2,500; two railroads; good schools and roads; good fees. This is an excellent opportunity to get into a place with a good future. Price, $5,000 for one-half interest in hospital building, equipment, office fixtures, and practice; $2,500 cash. Don’t write unless you mean business and have the cash. Address 202 care of this office.
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Doctor: If you want practical post-graduate work during the fine season in the delightful city, write for particulars. Twenty-eighth annual session opens September 28, 1914, and closes June 5, 1915. New Orleans Polyclinic, P. O. Drawer 261, Post-graduate Medical Dept., Tulane University of Louisiana.
The Battle Creek Method in Diabetes
Diabetes, though not always curable, is controllable. Practically all diabetics can be made sugar-free and the acidosis disappears with the sugar. By a special regimen the reappearance of the sugar and the acidosis may be prevented.
The Battle Creek method is based upon experience gained in the treatment of many hundreds of cases supplemented by the observations and discoveries of Von Noorden, Falta, Guelpa, Benedict, Allen, and numerous other investigators. The essential features of the method are--
1. A thorough preliminary examination and repeated examinations comprising (a) complete quantitative examination of the urine daily, (b) differential study of the blood, (c) chemical, microscopic and bacteriological examination of the feces and study of the pancreatic function, (d) X-ray examination of the stomach and intestine with special reference to stasis.
2. Study of the patient’s metabolism by the respiration apparatus to determine his respiratory quotient, CO2 tension and basal ratio.
3. Establishment, by the aid of metabolism studies of each case, of a regimen adapted to the individual by determining the proper proportion of protein, fats and carbohydrates to keep the urine free from sugar. The kind of protein, fat and carbohydrate is considered important, as well as the amount.
4. The patient’s metabolism is regulated by baths, voluntary and automatic exercise, photo- and thermotherapy and other physiologic means.
5. The results of the regimen and treatment are accurately controlled by a “Metabolism Graphic” which shows the daily variations in the amount of urine, amount of sugar, acidosis, coefficient of sugar utilization, coefficient of carbohydrate utilization, nitrogen balance, glucose nitrogen ratio, weight balance and energy balance. These factors are all worked out by expert chemists and dietitians and with this data before him, and a great variety of special foods of known energy value suited to diabetics at ready command, and the assistance of a strong corps of specially trained dietitians, the physician is able easily to arrange a dietary adapted to each case and to note each patient’s progress with the most careful scrutiny.
Under this comprehensive management the sugar usually disappears from the urine in two or three days, and does not return so long as the prescribed regimen is followed.
A few weeks’ treatment usually suffices to train the patient to a suitable dietary which he may safely follow under the guidance of his home physician.
We will be glad to send full information concerning the Battle Creek Method in Diabetes to any physician who will mail to us the attached coupon.
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The Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.
Box 350 The SANITARIUM, Battle Creek, Michigan
Please send to the undersigned full information concerning the Battle Creek method of treating diabetes.
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PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT
QUAKER OATS
Doctors all over the country are advising the use of oat foods for the old as well as the very young child. It is for young folks developing, for grown-ups, who are hard workers, and for the old folks who wish to keep young. You can safely use Quaker Oats. It costs no extra price, and when you use it you are certainly getting the very best in oat foods. Physicians should read their page announcement in this paper.
ELECTRO-THERAPY
The Scheidel-Western X-Ray Coil Co. announce on another page that they have the latest appliance in electro-therapeutics, namely, the Columbia Treatment Transformer No. 9.
The apparatus is illustrated and described on another page, and more fully in the Company’s new catalog.
As the Company is the largest manufacturer of x-ray apparatus in the world, their catalog should be in the hands of every man using this line of treatment.
BOREMETINE--A NEW EMETINE PREPARATION FOR PYORRHEA
Every doctor and dentist in the United States should know about this new preparation for the local treatment of pyorrhea alveolaris. Boremetine is a 1-2 per cent solution of emetine hydrochloride, together with boric acid, zinc sulphocarbolate, and aromatics.
The emetine is amebicidal, the boric acid bactericidal, and the zinc sulphocarbolate astringent. These three drugs meet the three essential factors necessary for the successful treatment of pyorrhea. Boremetine should be used in every case, either alone, or (in some severe cases) in association with the subcutaneous injection of Emetine Hydrochloride (Abbott).
A special free booklet on “Pyorrhea Alveolaris: How to treat it successfully with Emetine” will be sent on request. Send for it today. The Abbott Alkaloidal Company, Chicago.
OCONOMOWOC HEALTH RESORT
The State of Wisconsin has an enviable reputation for not a few things in which it excels all the other western or middle-western states. One of these is its sanatoriums, or health resorts. The climate, the beautiful scenery, the pure water, the proximity to the large cities of Milwaukee and Chicago, and the high-grade medical specialists made it possible to found such institutions in southern Wisconsin long before other parts of the middle west had the population or transportation facilities to make success in this line either probable or possible.
The Oconomowoc Health Resort is one of the best equipped and best managed of these institutions. It accepts only nervous and mild mental cases. It is under the management of Dr. Arthur W. Rogers as resident physician. Dr. Rogers has both the professional equipment and the personality that are necessary in the treatment and care of persons suffering from nervous and mental disorders.
BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM
Fifty years ago examination was largely a matter of pulse finding; now it is possible to weigh and measure the organic functions of the body with as much accuracy as is possible in the testing of an intricate mechanism. This becomes possible through a series of tests in many of which elaborate equipment is required. Perhaps no other institution has a more complete organization for diagnosis than the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
The physical inventory possible there is a very thorough and accurate stock taking of the vital functions. Many business and professional men visit the sanitarium each year in order to take full advantage of the diagnostic facilities.
An interesting booklet, “The Measure of a Man,” is offered free by the sanitarium to those who care to know more regarding the system of examination.
ARMOUR & COMPANY
Why Pituitary Liquid should be specified:
It is a pure preparation.
It is free from objectionable chemicals.
It is made from absolutely fresh raw glands. It does not require preservatives.
It is standardized physiologically.
It is sold in dated packages, permitting the physician to discard old goods.
Pituitary Liquid is required in such particular classes of cases that the practitioner can afford to use the best only.
The use of Pituitary Liquid obviates the necessity of forceps in a great many cases.
Pituitary Liquid is of great service in parturition uterine inertia--peristalic paralysis.
We shall be pleased to send you a sample of Pituitary Liquid with literature.
Note the name of the perfect pituitary preparation--_Pituitary Liquid (Armour)_.
THE DELICATE SCHOOL GIRL
Even the most robust and generally healthy children show the deleterious results of the modern system of educational “forcing” that prevails in most of our larger cities. The child that starts the school year in excellent physical condition, after the freedom and fresh air of the summer vacation, in many instances, becomes nervous, fidgety, and more or less anemic, as the term progresses, as the combined result of mental strain and physical confinement in overheated, poorly ventilated school-rooms. How much more likely is such a result in the case of the delicate, high-strung, sensitively organized, adolescent girl? It is certainly a great mistake to allow such a girl to continue under high mental pressure, at the expense of her physical health and well-being, and every available means should be resorted to to conserve the vitality and prevent a nervous breakdown. Regularity of meals, plenty of sleep, out-of-door exercise without fatigue, open windows at night and plenty of nutritious food, should all be supplied. Just as soon as an anemic pallor is noticeable, it is a good plan to order Pepto-Mangan (Gude) for a week or two, or as long as necessary to bring about an improvement in the blood state, and a restoration of color to the skin and visible mucous membranes. This efficient hematinic is especially serviceable in such cases, because it does not in the least interfere with the digestion nor induce a constipated habit.
Transcriber’s Notes:
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