THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



541 



EDITORIAL 



It is the man. not the business that 

 succeeds. 



Prof. L. F. Phillips of Washington, D. C. 

 is to be present at the coming Michigan 

 convention, at Grand Rapids. 



The National will try and help another 

 year in the marketing of honey, if it 

 follows out the trend of the discussions at 

 the recent Albany meeting. 



Crane is coming to realization of the 

 fact that honey must be retailed out of 

 stores at a reasonable price, or not at 

 all, that is to any extent. What did I 

 write you? — S. A. Niver. 



L. B. Tyrrell, of Detroit, the most 

 efficient secretary that was ever elected 

 by the Michigan bee keepers' association, 

 was the unanimous choice of the bee 

 keepers at the Albany . meeting, and I 

 hope to see him elected. If he can make 

 things "hum" for the National as he has 

 for the Michigan association, it will be 

 one of the best things that ever happened 

 for the National. 



The Advantages of Hospital Treatment. 



During the past three years there has 

 been much of the time, especially sum- 

 mers, when my health has been below 

 par — when I have felt dull and listless, 

 and lacking in energy. Local physicians 

 pronounced the trouble a sluggishness of 

 the organs of elimination. Last June 

 there was a fever, followed by chronic 

 diarrhea, and 1 have done no physical 

 labor since— probably will do very little 

 this fall, as 1 am just home, weak and 

 emaciated, from a stay of six weeks in 

 the University Hospital, at Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan. 



Treatment at the hospital was a reve- 

 lation to me, especially as regards the 

 science and thoroughness of the examina- 

 tions. I never dreamed there were so 

 many ways of finding out exactly what 

 ailed a patient. The blood and waste 

 products of the body are examined with 

 a microscope and analyzed. The con- 

 tents of the stomach are pumped out and 

 examined in a similar manner. By the 

 way, one patient objected to the use of 

 the stomach pump— wanted to know if 

 they could not tell near enough without 

 pumping his stomach. The doctor's re- 

 ply was: "We don't guess at things here; 

 we find out definitely." The strength 

 with which the heart beats is measured 

 by means of a tightly inflated collar 

 around the arm, the beating of the 

 artery in the arm causing a column of 

 mercury to rise in a tube, according to 

 the strength of the beat. The beating of 

 the heart is also measured in an other 

 manner. Over the pulse in the wrist 

 a little lever is pressed down in such a 

 manner that every time the heart beats 

 it raises the lever and gives a swinging 

 movement to a little pendulum. Just be- 

 low the lower end of the pendulum, 

 drawn slowly along by clockwork, is a 

 strip of smoked paper. The swinging 

 point of the pendulum leaves on the 

 paper a wavy line that, in one sense, is a 

 perfect picture of the heart beat. The 

 harder the heart beats the farther 

 the pendulum swings, and the higher 

 the "teeth" of the wavy line. The 

 slower the heart beats, the farther apart 

 or longer, will be the waves. Then the 

 body from the neck to the hips is sub- 

 jected to the most merciless thumping 

 and punching, and almost every inch of 

 surface listened to with a stethscope. 

 Then the patient is questioned and cross- 

 examined until he might well think he 

 was on the witness stand. In each line 



