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some frequented place, either listening to, or telling, stories of ques- 

 tionable purity for hours together, and yet they have no time to 

 spend with the microscope. 



" Haven't the money to spare" is another cry we frequently 

 hear. Watch and see if you do not misappropriate money enough 

 annually for follies — for that which is not bread — for that which 

 profitcth not. To "be plain, we mean for drinks which becloud, 

 blights, enfeebles and ruins, also the accursed weed that contamin- 

 ates, disgusts and enslaves. Open your eyes. Take a pencil and 

 make your own mathematical calculation, and see if you have not 

 willingly spent more time and money for that which is worse than 

 useless than the majority of first-class microscopists have in making 

 themselves such. 



We do not desire to enter the vwrale of the question, nor the 

 finance, and further than to tear off the flimsy gauze, so that all may 

 see for themselves whether it be a reality or a mere phantom. A 

 word to the wise is sufficient. Cease to do evil; learn to do well. 

 Save your money; economize your time; become a microscopist; 

 strike boldly for the front of your profession. 



To become a diagnostician you must become a microscopist. 

 We will give two simple, but practical cases from Bennett's Clinical 

 Lectures, jx 76: 



A child was sujiposed to be affected with worms, because it 

 passed in abundance yellowish shreds, which, to the naked eye, 

 closely resembled ascarides. All kinds of vermifuge remedies had 

 been tried in vain. On examining the shreds with a microscope, I 

 found them to consist of undigested spiral vessels of plants; and 

 they ceased to appear when the vegetable broth used as food was 

 abandoned. 



An individual was suppo.sed to be laboring uiulcr (.lysentery, 

 from the frecjuent passage of the yellow pulpy masses in the stools. 

 accompanied with tormina and other symptoiws. On examining 

 these masses with the microscope, 1 found them to consist of undi- 

 gested potato skins. On inquiry it was a.scertained that this person 

 had eaten the skins with the potatoes. On causing these to be re- 

 moved before dinner, the alarming appearance ceased, and the 

 other svinptoms also disappeared. — Western Medieal Repot ter. 



