Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Tubercular Bone * I give you credit for honesty in your 
I have had inflammatory rheumatism belief, that this wonderful plant discov- 
in my right arm, and injured my wrist ere ., m Mexico has the virtues that you 
when I had the rheumatism last October, ascribe to it. It couldn’t have possessed 
My wrist has not been in good health . °.®? virtues if it had been a native of a 
since the rheumatism left, and an X-ray civilized country where native things 
picture shows that one of the bones is hav ® last tbeir mystery, of course. I 
tubercular. Is there a cure for tubereu- C0ldd give you credit for greater intelli- 
lar bone? P. T. genee, however, if you appreciated the 
Syracuse, N. Y. *act .at, if this plant, long known in 
. , ... ,, , . medicine, had really been an effective 
Yes, tuberculosis in all of its forms is remedy for diabetes, the knowledge would 
curable; in fact, tuberculosis is so often have been common property many years 
recovered from that many people get well ago, and there would have been no occa- 
without ever knowing that they had it. sion for a one-time traveler in Mexico at- 
Tuberculosie of the bones is usually sec- tempting to put it on the market as a 
ondary to a like process somewhere else proprietary diabetes cure. m. b. d. 
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larger towns and pay the most exorbitant paid claim for compensation, having been 
tees if his teeth are to be cared for. To paid in full for every day of service, 
have the teeth of the children of the fam- Six persons, virtually the entire fam¬ 
ily properly and regularly cared for is out ily of Adam Pittman of Bradford (). 
of the question, except for the affluent or were killed late June 6 when their auto- 
m communities where it is made a pub- mobile stalled on the tracks and was de- 
lic charge. Even the simplest of me- molished by an eastbound Big Four pas- 
chanical work upon the teeth may not be senger train at Dawn, O. 
done by any but a graduate surgeon den- Fifteen men are known to be dead and 
tist, at surgical fees, and the time may a score or more were injured in an ex- 
come when standards of medical educa- plosion in the Loomis colliery of the Glen 
tion have reached a height to which the Alden Coal Company in Hanover Town- 
country-minded can no longer aspire, and ship, Pa., June 0. 
when “M. D.’’ will be found inscribed ' T ‘ _ _ " 
only upon the bronze door plate of the 
city street and moldering tombstones in 
the country churchyard. 
M. B. D. 
in the body, however, and treatment of it 
may be largely treatment of the primary 
trouble. There is no “cure” for a tuber¬ 
cular bone, in the sense that some medi- 
Where Are the Country Doctors? 
.. ^ wlilc 0u , r i? in need of a doctor. Could 
cine that will cure it may be given. Tu- aep ns in any way to get in touch 
berculosis cannot be cured in that way. Y 111 on e- I cannot see why someone 
The cure consists in adopting those meas- n , ,oca te here. Property 
ures that have been found necessary to t lg Y’ an / ^ en A, 1S .] ow . We 
enable the body to overcome the disease aiou t Jo miles from ] 
and in the case of tubercular bones, may “. trom Jamestown ; about 
involve some surgical treatment of the uon ‘ mbs. e. b. r. time 
diseased part. Your physician, perhaps Your need of a doctor is shared bv a prepar 
m eonsulation with a surgeon, will tell number of other communties in the State 
you what you must do in order to get some of which have even advertised for a 
well, and you should follow his directions resident physician and offered a bonus to 
carefully. M. b. d. any one who would settle there. There 
" ; . ~ has been a marked change in rural condi- 
Medical Advice Needed tions in this respect within the last 25 
I feel dizzy and tired, and I get con- 7 ears j a change due, in part, to a lessen- 
fused very easily. When I talk fast I 1T ! g the number of physicians graduat¬ 
ed each year, in part to a lessened need, 
the latter due to good roads, country tele¬ 
phones and the automobile. 
Nine persons are reported killed and a 
score of houses washed away in Mercer 
and McDowell counties, West Virginia, 
June 9, by a flood following a heavy rain- 
——- storm. 
Some Facts About Boils A decline in factory employment in 
On page 274 M. B. D. discusses boils ^ ew ^ or & State in May, with a similar 
from the point of view of local infection movemen t m April, has reduced employ- 
through the skin, as well as from certain n ? ent °Y, er . 7 per cent > Industrial Commis- 
kidney affections. He, however omitted sloner Shientag announced June 9. Man- 
the very common cause which will resist ufacturers who employed more than 500,- 
any and all medication, lancing, poultices .AyY P ersons ip April dismissed about 20,- 
etc., until the source of the trouble is re- 9V. by tae midf He of May. Commissioner 
moved. Shientag estimated that more than 100,- 
time I took all sorts of pills, potions and dune 70 wbea 5 ’°°0 men quit work, alleg- 
preparations. Finally a serum was used • . at their wages had been reduced, 
still more boils. Finally I went to a long- Previously a strike of 5,000 employes of 
coated, long-haired savant, who said I 
needed a serum made from the pus of a 
boil itself, “autogenous,” he called it. For 
this he charged $10 and an accommodat¬ 
ing doctor charged $1 a shot for 30 shots 
in the arm. 
It is quite 
possible tor one physician now to do the 
work that required several but a few 
years ago. 
Formerly, in my own locality, every 
hamlet of 200 or 300 people Ipi 
one physician, not infrequently 
often a physician could be f( 
the open road, miles from even nnntr .,. 
m a well-settled community. Todav these i / .. 
physicians are gone, and without sue- looket at me a moment and said: 
cannot say the words I want to ; some¬ 
times I cannot say them plain, and I do 
not sleep very well. I have a pain in the 
back of my neck, and memory is not good. 
I do not like to consult a doctor yet, so I 
trust that you can help me in some way. 
I also see little specks in front of me 
when I am walking. What does that in¬ 
dicate? I eee them with my right eye 
more than the left one. b. W. 
New York. 
A moment’s reflection will show you 
that no one at a distance, without know¬ 
ing anything of your age or general phys¬ 
ical condition, could give you advice as to 
medical treatment that would he worth 
the paper that it was written upon. I _ _ _ 
judge from your letter that you are past more and more rare, 
middle age and are afflicted with some of While on the face of it this may seem 
the ills that come to us all in time. If a calamity, it is not wholly so. With the 
this is the case, there is only one sensible decrease in numbers there has been an 
thing to do; that is to ask some compe- increase in efficiency, and a chan-e too 
tent physician to give you a thorough in the character of the work done by the 
physical examination and find out where family physician. Country people are no 
your weak spots are located, then to ad- longer content to trust themselves wholly 
vise you how best to live to avoid putting to their accustomed medical advisers • 
undue strain upon organs that cannot they have become hospital minded and de- 
stand the strain that they once could. inand hospital care. Formerly, “Doctor” 
It is quite likely that you do not need meant physician and surgeon ; now it 
medicine of any kind, but do need advice ' ■’ *■ ~ 
as to living. The floating specks before 
your eyes do not necessarily indicate any¬ 
thing seriously wrong, neither does the 
poor memory, the pain in the back of the 
neck or the confusion. All these taken 
, - --of 
the same company went into effect be 
cause of a similar protest. The 10,000 
miners struck without the sanction of the 
district union. 
^ Lieut. John N. Wilson, pilot of tho 
_ -7th Area Squadron, stationed at Self- 
And still boils and more boils. Finally , r } dg ® Field, Ml. Clemens, Mich., was 
I decided to get married. I had not had . dled Jane 10 when the plane lie was test- 
a boil for months. I had “doctored mg preparatory to flying to Cleveland to 
faithfully.” Just as the day arrived, it Participate in maneuvers for the enter- 
found me with a fine large beet-red boil tainment 0 f the Republican National 
on—the end of my nose. My wife did Convention went into a tail spin and 
not mind it, much, for she had a broken Ponged from a distance of 10,000 ft. 
arm, from cranking a car. But. boils! I Second Lieut. Harold D. Hall and Cor- 
cessors. Villages of from 1,000 popula¬ 
tion up usually have two or three physi¬ 
cians, and the cities continue to support a 
surplus, but the country doctor who lives 
and works in the country is becoming 
“I do 
not believe I can help you. You need to 
go to a dentist.” 
The dentist X-rayed two perfectly good- 
looking front teeth, got my consent to 
extract them painlessly with novocain. 
Result, I eat what I want, and never 
WASHINGTON.—In the final jam of 
legislation as Congress adjourned June 7 
a large nuniber of measures failed of pas¬ 
sage. Chief among these was the De¬ 
ficiency Appropriation bill, carrying 
grants of $186,000,000, which included 
$132,000,000 for payment of the soldiers’ 
have had a boil since. The innocent- bonus and $16,000,000 to refund the 25 
frequently means little more tnan a sign¬ 
board to point the patient to the hospital 
or the “specialist” to which the patient 
may be entrusted. Surgery, except of 
the most minor character, is left entirely 
to the hospitals, and it is an emergency 
together, however, do indicate that you case indeed that cannot reach a 
need to be looked over by someone com¬ 
petent to size up your general physical 
condition and find if any one or more or¬ 
gans are failing to perform their usual 
functions properly. 
You say that you do not care to con¬ 
sult a physician yet, but who, other than 
a physician, can be expected to know 
what your condition is, and how could 
the best physician in the world find out 
without personal examination? If you 
had a fine watch That was out of order 
you would not say that you did not care 
a conveni¬ 
ently located one before any serious oper¬ 
ation must be performed. Even if asked 
to do «o, country physicians are becom¬ 
ing less and less inclined to accept the 
responsibility which accompanies the 
treatment of even minor surgical cases. 
per cent due to those who paid all their 
1923 income taxes in March. As the re¬ 
sult of the failure of this measure some 
Republicans expressed the view that a 
special session of Congress would be nec¬ 
essary to provide the first costs of the 
compensation measure. But Senator 
Smoot, chairman of the Finance Commit¬ 
tee; Representative Maden, chairman of 
the House Appropriations Committee, 
. The early death of Roose- a, id Representative Longworth, Repub- 
velt was caused by an infected tooth. If bean floor leader in the House, all took 
one has an unusual crop of boils, a com- the opposition position and declared there 
plete X-ray of the teeth should be made, would be no special session, 
and tonsils examined carefully. Of course Among the other proposed legislation 
the vital organs must be looked after, that failed in the last moments, some 
Then, too, if a boil “breaks” it must not after bills had passed one house or the 
looking teeth were deadly. Each had a 
pus pocket or running sore on the end. 
The foul sores were pumping a spoonful 
a day of pus into my system. No amount 
of white corpuscles could kill these pus 
cells off. I had spent hundreds of dol¬ 
lars and suffered enough to make Job 
look like a piker, but to no avail. 
Now, diseased tonsils will also cause 
boils; so will any pus pocket, or source 
of infection 
be allowed to run over the skin, or, as M. 
B. D. says, germs may run in by the side 
of a hair and make trouble. This ex¬ 
plains a lot of boils in one location. 
A carbunicle is nothing but a deep- 
seated boil on the neck usually. Small 
pimples on the face of young people are 
Their recompense is never large, is fre- , P ™i, 011 >' oung P*? pIe . are 
i , •__ „ i f, • , c usually small skin bods, caused by local 
CS £%& '" f i» the blood. An auto- 
damage to their reputations and pocket- 
books through malpractice suits is a bug¬ 
bear always before them. 
The medical graduate of today is bet¬ 
ter equipped than were his predecessors ; 
n. c. s. 
to put it into the hands of a skilled so well equipped, indeed, that he usually 
rebels at the idea of a country practice, 
with its hours of from midnight to mid¬ 
night, with patients so widely scattered 
that much of his time and strength is con- 
t, . , . 1 , . ^ ^ , sumed in merely reaching them, and with 
It might be that the most skillful watch its always moderate income and frequent 
repairer couldn’t_ make your watch as immoderate demands. He prefers town 
good as new again, but you would cer¬ 
tainly rather trust him than your black¬ 
smith or grocer. M. B. D. 
watchmaker yet, but would try the advice 
of friends who knew nothing about 
watches for a first time. If you valued 
the watch, you wouldn’t risk what you 
would consider a very foolish procedure. 
prefers _ 
practice, where opportunities are greater, 
even though competition is keener. In¬ 
stead of a “course of reading” with tlie 
A “Cure” for Diabetes 
family physician, followed by two dred cases developed during 36 hours, 
‘courses of lectures” of six months each Dr. It. H. Wilson mid the epidemic was 
m, some medical college, before being per- “dangerous.” He called upon the Amer- 
nutted to hang out his shingle, the gradu- ican Red Cross to aid the sufferers, 
ate of the last few years has been obliged Although perhaps mortally wounded by 
to spend at least two years in college, a young gunman who held him up in his 
In your Dec. 29, 1923, issue I see an 
inquiry for a remedy for diabetes. I am 
sending you a couple of circulars of a 
remedy, and we do just as they state. If , . ------ — -- .,-» ........ „„„ 1U llin 
we cannot do him any good after taking tour m ore in the medical department of restaurant at 296 Broadway, New York, 
remedy 20 days he can return balance of P mversi ty and usually one as resi- .Tune 7, Morris Richman staggered into 
package and we will return full purchase de ^ mt erne of some hospital, and his the street and gave an alarm that result- 
price. This is no patent medicine, but ? ears were nine months long, in- ed in the hold-up man being shot and 
just a plain herb that grows in Mexico, ste ?,, y, ^ x ; clubbed to death in a hand-to-hand com- 
All this has cut down the number of bat with a policeman. Both the police- 
country doctors, and will continue to cut man and bystanders escaped injury, al- 
i down. When those now of middle age though the hold-up man fired several bul- 
have passed away, it is difficult to see lets from an automatic pistol. From a 
where their successors are to come from, ship steward’s credentials issued bv the 
b t e d01 ? g b - v educing people with Certain it is that many good-sized com- Shipping Board and a San Francisco 
if iL y Y U 1 Vu- J°l m P aities having a resident physician taxicab driver’s license, the dead youth 
and has cured hundreds of people with 
sugar diabetes. A. 
I trust, for the sake of your conscience, 
that you do not realize how much damage 
treatment. If you know anything about will go without, even as smaller com 
diabetes, and your circulars show that you munities are now doing. The air “fliv’- 
have informed yourself upon that subject, ver” may replace the Ford and draw the 
you know that the “proper diet” that you country still nearer to the town, or the 
recommend is, in itself, sufficient to con- efforts being made by the State to estab- 
trol a majority of cases, and that taking lish “health centers,” with political ap- 
some tea made from a tropical herb ($5 pointees in charge, in rural districts, may 
per package) is wholly unnecessary, even succeed. In any case, the old-fashioned 
if harmless. You should know also that family physician seems doomed. His ef- 
if diet alone cannot control the disease forts to raise the standard of medical 
no tropical tea can, and that a patient education may prove to have been too 
who relies upon such representations as successful and to have worked his own 
yours with regard to it, at the expense of undoing. The country dentiet is gone 
such rational treatment ae the use of “Standards” have been raised so high in 
insulin, is placing his life in jeopardy. that profession that one must visit the 
other or even reached the conference 
stage, were: 
The recommendation by Presidents 
Harding and Coolidge for American ad- 1 
hesion to the International World Court 
of Justice. 
Naval Increase bill, carrying an au¬ 
thorization of $111,000,000. 
The bill for the general reorganization 
genous serum will sometimes cure them, of the executive departments of the gov- 
“ “ ~ eminent. 
The $165,000,000 bill for aid of good 
Xoada 
The Bursum Pension bill, which passed 
both houses, but was vetoed by the Presi¬ 
dent. 
The Postal Pay Increase bill which 
passed both houses, but was vetoed. 
The bill to develop Muscle Shoals. 
The Reclamation Relief Bill. 
All farm relief measures. 
The Howell-Barkly Transportation act 
for abolition of the Railroad Labor 
Board. 
The Lausanne Treaty negotiated be¬ 
tween the United State« and Turkey. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Depart¬ 
ment of Floriculture and Ornamental 
Horticulture at Cornell University, Itha¬ 
ca, N. Y., has invited the Federation of 
Horticultural Societies and Floral Clubs 
to hold field days at the university on 
June 25 and 26. It is planned to have 
an inspection of the greenhouses and ex¬ 
perimental gardens of the department 
and a general tour of inspection of the 
campus and university buildings on the 
first day. In the evening there will be a 
reception to the delegates in one of the 
college buildings with a short program 
of addressee. The second day will be de¬ 
voted to automobile trips about the town 
and to Enfield Glen and Taughannoek 
rails, two of the State Park Reserva¬ 
tions, and to a boat trip. 
_A whojg^ig terminal market to cost 
DOMESTIC.—Wayne C. Hulbert of 
Bolivar, N. Y., was killed June 5 when 
a nitro-glycerine magazine exploded at 
Brandon’s Ferry, Pa. 
An outbreak of neurotic influenza in 
the Greek colony at the mill town of 
Yorkville, O., engaged attention of Ohio 
State health officials June 5. One hun- 
was identified as Alfonso Zazatella of 
1245 Leavenworth St., San Francisco. 
The empty pistol in his hand was of 
Spanish make and in a pocket was a $5,000,000 is to In, built on the present 
,!,ar. written ,n Snam.h site ofthr Whllabout Market in BrSokC 
Wallabout Market, which the city owns 
is at the head of Wallabout Basin on the 
hj a st River, and is one of tho best-known 
markets in the city. The committee in 
charge estimated the cost of constructing 
a modern terminal market, consisting of 
a produce station and cold storage plant. 
a .t $4,150,000, exclusive of the condemna¬ 
tion of leases and the relocation of rail¬ 
roads. 
diary written in Spanish. 
A suit to enjoin operation of the new 
Bonus Law was filed at Washington 
June 4 by Benjamin Patchings of New 
York, contending it would accomplish a 
wasteful and unlawful diversion of public 
money. Patchings asked the court to rule 
that the Adjusted Compensation Act is in 
fact a gift by Congress and not a provis¬ 
ion for payment of any debt. He argued 
that the World War veterans have no un- 
