A VILLAGE DOCTOR’S CLINIC Yak 
a pint of blood during one day. Whenever she moves 
the blood gushes from her until she is almost exsan- 
guinated. No fibroids having been demonstrated, we 
place her on mammary extract, suitably reenforced, 
with splendid control over the menorrhagia, and we 
now find in Mrs. P. a very grateful patient. 
Is SHE PREGNANT OR NOT? 
We must now return to the office. Here we find Mrs. 
H. G., a young woman of twenty-one, awaiting us. She 
complains of considerable pain in her neck, back and 
thighs, together with some nausea. The symptoms are 
generally better in the after part of the day. Mrs. G.’s 
neighbors have told her that she is pregnant; but she 
had her usual menstruation one week ago. She has not 
noticed any change in the breasts or the other usual 
signs of pregnancy. Being unable, from physical exam- 
ination, to definitely settle the question, we prescribe 
a preparation of desiccated placenta, with the assur- 
ance that if she is pregnant the unpleasant symptoms 
will vanish at once; while if she is not, the nausea will 
be aggravated. This bids fair to become, in my hands, 
a simple and reliable test for pregnancy (1). 
A DOPE FIEND 
Next enters the “dope fiend,” F. H., an emaciated, 
prematurely old patient of 58, who has used “the drug”’ 
for nearly a score of years. We have succeeded in re- 
ducing the daily allowance from four grains to 3/4 gr. 
and find considerable advantage in building up the de- 
pleted bodily powers by applying the principles of 
adrenal support, which deservedly are becoming better 
known and more popular. 
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE 
Here is Grandpa M., a man of 68. Arteriosclerosis 
has raised his systolic blood pressure to 248. By means 
of rest, dieting, Epsom salts and small doses of thyroid 
