MEDICINE AND DRUGS 



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MEDINA 



standing what it is for and whether the doctor 

 would take it himself if he had the same dis- 

 ease. Do not expect medicine to cure disease, 

 except in rare instances. Do not forget that 

 most medicines are either useless or poisonous 

 if taken for more than a few days. Persistent 

 drugging is usually bad. R.C.C. 



Important Connected Articles. The reader 

 will receive much more information of value in 

 connection with this subject by reference to the 

 following articles in these volumes : 

 Education, subtitle Life Extension 



Hygiene of Education Mental Handicaps 

 Health Habits 



Related Subjects. Titles of articles in these 

 volumes relating to medicine and drugs are as 

 follows : 



Keeley, Leslie 

 Koch, Robert 

 Lister, Sir Joseph 

 Mayo, Charles H. and 



William J. 



Mesmer, Friedrich A. 

 Morton, William James 



Acetanilid 



Aconite 



Allopathy 



Anesthetic 



Antidote 



Antipyrene 



Antiseptic 



Antitoxin 



Arnica 



Asafetida 



Astringent 



Belladonna 



Bitters 



Boneset 



Calomel 



Cascara 



Catechu 



Caustic 



Chamomile 



Chiropractic Healing 



Chloral 



Chloroform 



Cinchona 



Cocaine 



Cubebs 



Disease 



Disinfectants 



Dogbane 



Elixir 



Emulsion 



Epsom Salts 



Ergot 



Ether 



Formaldehyde 



Fumigation 



Gargle 



Germ 



Hartshorn 



Homeopathy 



Hydrotherapy 



Hygiene 



Hypodermic Injection 



Hyssop 



Inoculation 



Iodine 



Ipecac 



Jalap 



Laudanum 



Lunar Caustic 



Materia Medica 



Morphine 



Nux Vomica 



Orthopedics 



Osteopathy 



Pancreatin 



Pathology 



Pepsin 



Pharmacopoeia 



Pharmacy 



Phenacetine 



Quinine 



Salol 



Salts 



Salts, Smelling 



Sarsaparilla 



Sassafras 



Scammony 



Sedative 



Seidlitz Powders 



Serum Therapy 



Skin Grafting 



Snake Root 



Sorrel 



Spikenard 



Stramonium 



Strychnine 



Styptic 



Tartar Emetic 



Therapeutics 



Tonic 



Toxicology 



Toxins 



Vaccination 



Veterinary Medicine 



Virus 



Witch Hazel 



PHYSICIANS 



Eustachio, Bartolommeo Hahnemann, Samuel 

 Galen, Claudius Christian 



Gall, Franz Joseph Harvey, William 



Galvani, Luigl Hippocrates 



Gorgas, William Jenner, Edward 



Crawford Kane, Elisha Kent 



Morton, William T. G. 

 Nordau, Max Simon 

 Paracelsus 

 Rush, Benjamin 

 Simpson, James Young 

 Virchow, Rudolf 

 Whitman, Marcus 



MED'ICINE HAT, a city in Alberta, in the 

 southeastern part of the province, about twenty- 

 eight miles west of the Saskatchewan boundary. 

 It is popularly known as the "Gas City," from 

 the abundance of natural gas in the vicinity, 

 and Kipling once styled it "the town that was 

 born lucky." It is on the main line of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, 180 miles southeast of 

 Calgary, 258 miles west of Moose Jaw, and 657 

 miles west of Winnipeg. The Canadian North- 

 ern Railway is building a branch line from 

 Medicine Hat to Hanna, a division point on 

 its Saskatoon-Calgary branch. Like most of the 

 cities of Western Canada, Medicine Hat has 

 had a remarkable growth, its population in- 

 creasing from 1,570 in 1901 to 5,608 in 1911; in 

 1916 it was 9,269. 



Medicine Hat lies in a rich farming region, 

 and is an important flour-milling center, the 

 combined capacity of its mills being 8,000 bar- 

 rels a day. Linseed oil, clay and cement prod- 

 ucts, pumps, farm implements and other ma- 

 chinery are among the chief products of the 

 city's industrial establishments. In spite of its 

 numerous mills and factories, Medicine Hat is 

 absolutely free from smoke, and presents a neat, 

 clean appearance. This condition is due to the 

 use of natural gas, which gives off no smoke, 

 for heating, lighting and manufacturing pur- 

 poses. The Medicine Hat district is said to be 

 the greatest natural-gas field in the world. The 

 city itself owns about twenty wells, and also 

 the electric light and water systems, the latter 

 installed at a cost of more than $1,000,000. Con- 

 spicuous among the public buildings are the fine 

 post office, the armory, a large Roman Catholic 

 convent and the general hospital. Medicine 

 Hat is often referred to by Americans and by 

 Canadians from the East as an exceedingly cold 

 place in winter, but the fact of the matter, as 

 shown by the reports of the Dominion Meteoro- 

 logical Service, is that its average winter tem- 

 perature is considerably higher than that of 

 many other Canadian towns in the same lati- 

 tude. 



MEDICINE MAN. See INDIANS, AMERICAN. 



MEDINA, made'nah, a city in Arabia, one 

 of the holy cities of Islam, held in extreme ven- 

 eration by the Mohammedans, since it contains 

 the tomb of the Great Prophet, Mohammed. 



