HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-7-29, Page 3HAD CHOLERA
INFANTOPIL.
Doctor Said He was In a Very
Dangerous Condition;
Mothers cannot watch their (thildren
too closely for signs ofcholera infantum,
as this disease carries off thousands of
infants during the hot summer months.
Mrs. Geo. W. Garland Prosser ]3roolc,
N.B., writes: "Last summer my boy
roe, then a year old, was taken sick with.
cholera infantutn. He was so bad the
wastffe matter from the bowels looked
as if 3t had come from a broken boil. I
sent word to the doctor who was at a
neighbor's, about a mile distant, and he
said my boy was in a very dangerous
condition. He sent me some tablets
which made the child vomit, and when
he learned that they caused vomiting
he sent me more tablets to stop it In
the meantime I had been giving Dr.
Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry,
which I continued using, and when the
bottle was all used my baby was cured.
I though it only fair to let you know
about it.",
Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw-
berry has been on the market for the past
70 years, and is known from one end of
Canada to the other as a positive' cure
foi, all bowel complaints.
When you ask for "Dr. Fowler's" be
sure you get what you ask for as there
are'inany rank imitations on the market.
The genuine is manufactured by The
T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
• Pricy., 35 cents.
FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE
IRE DOING.
Progress of the Great West Told
In a Few Pointed
• Paragraphs.
Cowichan Lake prospectors claim
to have found a rich vein of copper.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt is expect-
ed to visit Vancouver at an early
date.
Nanaimo will ' hereafter have a
'market of farm produce twice a
week.
New Westminster has oiled all its
principal streets to, solve the dust
problem.
The band of the British warship
Kent was a feature at the Red Cross
show at Saanich, B.C:
The Vancouver customs returns
for June showed a decrease of $165,-
829,
165;829, compared with June, 1914.
Five hundred interned Germans
are eeatiected to work on the roads
from al camp at Edgewood, B.C.
Shortage of horses is reported
around Cranbrook,.B.C., and the war
still drains the country of them.
»"r Observation cars on the British
Columbia Electric Railway make
twilight tours on selected routes.
Building permits in Vancouver
fell from 894 in the first six months
of 1914 to 392 in the same period of
1915.
Japanese fishermen for Fraser
River salmon outnumber whites two
to one; 1,315 licenses were issued
this year.
Many Austrians and Germans hold-
ing homesteads in the province have
never been naturalized, it is being
discovered.
A vagrant sent down fdr a month
at Victoria police court gave his
name as John George Ernest Hilary
Martin Leach.
Out of 1975 applicants to go to
Britain to work in munition plants,
Vancouver had 952 accepted by G.
N. Barnes, M.P.
Fraser River fishermen ate seek-
ing a scheme to utilize the surplus
fish now thrown overboard. Farm
fertilization is spoken of.
Soren Hermonson, shoemaker at
Nelson, filled his pockets with
stones, jumped into the lake and
was found drowned in an upright
position.
British Columbia has sent a trade
commissioner to South' America and
the West Indies to work up trade;
Vancouver and Victoria Boards of
Trade pay expenses.
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With Gooseberries.
Gooseberry Creams. -1 quart goose-
berries, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, third
cream, wafer biscuits. Method—Stew
the gooseberries until tender and ruby
through a sieve. Add the sugar an
the cream whipped lightly. Stir a
carefully together and pile the mix
ture in custard glasses with wafer
stuck in each. •
Gooseberry Dumplings. -t4 lb. self
raising flour, 2 tablespoonfuls bee
suet, water to mix, 1, pint goose
berries, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. Metl
od--Prepare the suet crust carefull
and line some small cups with thi
rolled thinly. Fill these with goose
berries and sweeten with sugar. Cov
er each with a round; of suet pasty
and tie down with greased pape
Steam these for an hour and sere
turned out on a hot dish. •
Crumbed Gooseberry Pudding.
1 quart gooseberries, X4 pound suga
2 eggs, 1 ounce butter, brown bread
crumbs. Method—Stew the goes
berries until tender, adding jus
enough water• to prevent them burn
ing, and rub them through a siev
Add the sugar and half the -butte
melted, and likewise the eggs we
beaten. Butter a mold thickly an
freely. Sprinkle with brown bread
crumbs. Half -fill the mold with th
gooseberry mixture, and then add
layer of crumbs. Continue this un
til the mold is full. Cover withbut
tered paper and bake in a moderat
oven for about 40 minutes. Turn ou
carefully and serve.
Gooseberry and Rice Pudding. —
r4 pound rice, 1 pint gooseberries, 1
pint sweet sauce. Method—Place th
rice on a scalded and floured cloth
add on top a pint of gooseberrie
Tie up the cloth securely, leavin
room for the rice to swell. Boil fo
an hour. Turn out and coat wit
sweet sauce.
Gooseberry Turnovers. — One -ha
pound short pastry, 1 pint goose
berries, sugar. Method—Prepar
some good short pastry and roll thi
out to the thickness of one -quarte
inch. Cut out rounds with a saucer
Place some gooseberries, topped an
tailed, on one half. Turn over th
other half and pinch up the edges to
gether. Bake on a buttered tin fo
half an hour. Sprinkle freely with
castor sugar. Serve hot.
Gooseberry. Trifle. — One -quarte
pound Savoy biscuits, 1 pound loa
sugar, % pint water, 1 quart goose
berries, 1 pint custard, white of egg
Method—Cut up the biscuits into
slices and place in a glass dish. Boi
the sugar in the half-pint of water
for 10 minutes to make a syrup. Top
and tail the gooseberries and stew
these in the syrup until soft, but un
broken. Place these on the top of the
biscuits. Prepare a custard and
pour this over the berries, and lastly
pile up a beaten white of egg and
serve cold.
Gooseberry Jam.—Seven pounds
green gooseberries, 8 pounds sugar
Method—Top and tail the gooseber-
ries and place them in a preserving
pan. Add the sugar and slowly bring
to boiling point and boil for 40 min-
utes. If the jam jellies quickly when
a sample is placed on a saucer, it is
quite ready and must be bottled at
once.
To Bottle Gooseberries.—Gather to-
gether some bottles with wide necks.
See that they are perfectly clean and
dry.' Fill them with gooseberries and
place in the oven until thoroughly hot
through without breaking the skins.
Remove from the oven, add two
tablespoonfuls sugar to each bottle,
and fill up with boiling water. Seal
with paraffin and store.
Gooseberries in Batter. - Four
tablespoonfuls flour, 2 eggs, pinch
salt, ei pint milk, 3i pint goose-
berries, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 10
ounces dripping or butter. Method—
Prepare the batter by mixing the
flour and salt with a little milk and
the eggs, beaten to a froth. Beat
this thoroughly until smooth and the
surface free of bubbles. • Stir in
gently the remainder of the milk.
Heat the fat until smoking hot in a
baking -tin and pour in the batter and
gooseberries. Bake in a hot oven for
half to three-quarters of an hour. Cut
into sections and sprinkle freely with
pulverized sugar.
Gooseberry Souffle. — One pint
tewed gooseberries, 1/a, pound sugar,
0 ounces butter, 1% ounce flour, 2
ablespoonfuls corn flour, 3 eggs, 1
eacupful milk. Method—Prepare a
eacupful milk. Method -=Prepare a
auce with the flour, corn flour, milk
nd butter. Stir in the gooseberry
ulp and the yolks of eggs, also the
agar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth
nd fold these carefully into the mix-
ure. Prepare a souffle mold by ty-
g a greased paper round the top.
lace the mixture in the tin and steam
✓ an hour. Turn out very carefully
nd serve at once.
Gooseberry' Jelly. •-3+ Seven pounds
green gooseberries, 2 quarts water, 1
pound •sugar to each , pint liquid.
Method—Crush the gooseberries with
the rolling pin or potato masher.
Place these in a pan with -the waster,
and cook until soft and: tender. Strain
the mixture very carefully,' without
squeezing, through ,it,,cparse, cloth, Add
a pound of sugar to each pint of liquid,
and boil. for half -an hour to three-
quarters.
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night. I was so awfully sick sometimes
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weak. X used three and a' half boxes
of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills,
and I am a cured woman to -day, and as
strong as any one could he, and am doing
my own housework, even my own wash-
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"X doctored for over two years, but
got no help until I used your pills."
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are
500 per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all
dealers or mailed direct on receipt of
price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited,.
Toronto, Ont,
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cious drink, especially combined with
grape juice and lemon,
Lemon juice with a little sugar.
added, is better than vinegar for
making up vegetable salads.
If bicarbonate of soda is spread
around where ants congregate, it will
kill them and drive them away.
Boiled cauliflower ' arranged with
layers ofgrated cheese between and
baked is a delicious luncheon dish.
Brown sugar used in place of gran-
ulated sugar in sweetening brown
Betty will make it taste mueh richer.
When early breakfasts are requir-
ed, prepare them as much as possible
overnight to save time in the morn-
ing.
Always save the corners of linen
after cutting out large centrepieces;
they can be used for the centres of
tiny doilies.
Use the outside leaves of the let-
tuce head for sandwiches. It will
add a great deal to the sandwich and
save the lettuce.
Brass polished with oil and rotten -
stone will have a deep rich yellow
tone. The whiter, more brilliant tone
is caused by acid polishes.
Practical keeping places should be
arranged in a child's room so that
it can learn order by putting things
in their places at the end of the day.
Before broiling Liam, it should be
soaked one hour in lukewar mwater.
Then drain, wipe and broil three
minutes. The slices should be thin.
Cranberries can be kept fresh in-
definitely if put in a jar and filled
up with cold water. Place a lid on
lightly and change the water every
day or two.
If, after a pumpkin has been cut,
you do not use it all, pour melted
paraffin over the cut surface; it will
keep the pulp of the left -over portion
sweet and solid.
Fruit jars should be sweet and
clean before they are put away. Put
a pinch of soda in the jar when you
give it its final rinsing. This will
destroy all old flavor.
A delicious pudding is made as
bread pudding would be, only with
crackers instead. This should have
a thin sauce flavored with vinegar
(or lemon) nutmeg.
Rice, either used separately as a
vegetable, or combined with other
ingredients in entrees and desserts,
makes a• very acceptable addition to
the everyday menu, particularly in
these times, as it iseinexpensive.
Photographs that have not been
protected by glass and have become
fly -specked, can be cleaned by dipping
a piece of absorbent cotton in pure
alcohol and wiping the photograph off.
The cotton should just be dampened.
SETTLERS START FOREST FIRES
Close Season Necessary to Protect
Forests During Dangerous Period.
During the last few days in May
and the first week or ten days in
June, the weather conditions in both
Ontario and Quebec were very dry,
resulting in the -spread of many fires,
some of which assumed large propor-
tions, and did considerable damage.
Information secured by both the Con-
servation and the Railway Commis-
sion indicates that, while the damage
done by railway fires was small, much
property has been destroyed through
the spread of fires started by settlers
for the clearing of land. In Ontario,
there is practically no restriction
upon settlers brush -burning ` opera-
tions, and the result has been that,
during every dry season, fires start-
ed by settlers for this purpose have
spread beyond control, causing great
loss of property, and, in some cases,
loss of life. In Quebec, the law en-
deavors to regulate the setting out of
fires, by establishing a closed season,
during which no such fires ehal1 be
set, unless a permit is issued by an
officer of. the Forest Protection
Branch. However, great difficulty
has been met in securing satisfactory
observance of this law, and nearly
every year great damage is caused on
this account. The modern tendency
in forest fire protection is very dis-
tinctly toward the establishment of
a closed season, during which no fires
fol clearing operations are allowed
to be set out, unless upon permit by
an authorized officer. Coupled with
this must be an adequate and compet-
ent staff to make the law effective.
The past difficulties in eastern Can-
ada have been largely due to either
the lack of such a law, or of its ade-
quate enforcement.
As a rule, the railways are now do-
ing thoroughly commendable work in
fire protection, and in many cases
have expended considerable sums in
controlling fires unquestionably due
to outside sources. The next big step
in forest fire protection throughout
eastern Canada should be in the direc-
tion of securing better control of set-
tlers' slash -burning operations der-
ing dangerous seasons.
4'
Mauritius has, on an average, only
one thunder -storm every eighty years.
Hansom cabs were so called after
Joseph Hansom, who invented them.
Secretary birds are so called be-
cause or the quill -like plumes about
their ears.
During the . present century, the
Useful Hints; • ,in !s Prize at
,K g Bisley has been won
Raked apple juice" snakes a deli- three times by Canadians.
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Simple Patterns for Tub Frocks.
Everywhere this Summer one sees
linens and linens, an evidence not
only of their popularity, but also of
their practicability. Linen, in spite
of the fact that numerous other kinds
of goods have come into favor, will
perhaps lead because of its unques-
tioned coolness and freshness of ap-
pearance due to the ease and frequen-
cy with which it can be laundered.
It goes without saying that they
make up best in simple styles, and it
hardly need be added that the simpler
garments are not' only easier to fash-
ion, but nine times out of ten, look
better. A well -cut pattern of few
pieces should be used, such as Ladies'
Home Journal Pattern No. 8961,
shown above. The sleeves the waist
and the upper part of the skirt are
cut in one piece, while the lower part
of the skirt consists of a circular
flounce, giving the new full effect at
the hem. The pattern cuts in sizes
32 to 44 inches bust measure, requir-
ing in size, 36 five yards of 42 inch
material. The young girl's wash
dress is most practical when it de-
pends upon its own tucking for trim-
ming, as does the misses' dress cut
by Ladies' Home Journal Pattern No.
8963. This has a drop shoulder
blouse with the front eased into a
slash underneath the collar, full
length sleeves, turn -back cuffs, a deep
shaped girdle and a one-piece straight
gathered skirt with three graduated
tucks lengthened by a one-piece gath-
ered flounce with a tuck and a deep
hem. The pattern cuts in sizes 14, 16,
18 and 20 years, size 18 requiring ten
yards of 27 inch material with one-
half yard 36 inch contrasting goods.
Patterns, 15 cents each, can be pur-
chased at your local Ladies' Home
Journal Pattern dealer or from the
Home Pattern Company, 183-A George
Street, Toronto, Ontario.
CALVE'S SINGING CHEERED
SOLDIERS.
Prima Donna Delighted Many of
the Wounded Frenchmen.
Kings, Queens and Presidents have
listened delightedly to the golden
notes of the world's most famous
"Carmen," that wonderful daughter
of France, Mme. Calve, but they are
not among the audiences she loves to
sing to to -day. Her heart is with the
French and English soldiers, "her chit=
dren," as she calls them, who live in
the hospitals.
"I wanted," she said to the inter-
viewer, just before she departed for
America, where she is due to fulfill a
long-standing contract, "to serve as
a trained nurse in the Red Cross Hos-
pitals of France, but I was told that I
could doa greater work by soothing
suffering men with the songs they
love. To my suffering countrymen
in the larger hospitals and cathedrals
I sang the old French songs. Selec-
tions from the operas and other songs
which I ventured to sing they liked,
but they invariably asked me to sing
the old songs of France.
"One soldier paid me one of the
most delightful compliments of my
life.
"`Ah, madame,' he said, "it is as
refreshing as a drink of pure water,
your singing, when one is perishing
with thirst' "
Perhaps Mme. Calve's most curious
experience was that of singing to a
number of German soldiers. One of
the soldiers in a certain hospital ask-
ed if she would mind ..a eertain door
being open while she sang.
"Not at all," replied the famous
singer; "why do you ask?"
"Oh," replied the soldier, "that
door leads to another hall where there
are a number of wounded Germans.
The; are sad and suffering as badly
as wr, are, and I am sure they would
love to hear you."
"I thought to myself," said Mme.
Calve, as she related the incident, "'I
cannot be less Christian than this
man,' so I went to the door and sang
to the German prisoners. It happen-
ed very often afterwards that I sang
to the. Germans in hospitals"
Mme. Calve, as she bade her
friends adieu, proudly displayed a Red
Cross badge set in brilliants with
which she has been decorated by the
Red Cross Society,
"I nursed at the front for nearly
three weeks," she told the interview-
er, "but it was too terrible."
Higher Death Rate.
Dealing with the high death rate
among the wounded, nearly 24 per
cent., as against 22 per cent. in the
Crimean War, and this in spite of the
appalling sanitary conditions which
then prevailed, the Lancet says that
conditions generally are utterly dif-
ferent to -day. Trench fighting re-
sults in a much larger number of in-
juries due to shells and shrapnel.
Wounds from rifle bullet's are com-
paratively rare, and when they do oc-
cur the body is so sheltered by
trenches that it is generally the head
which is hit, and the probability of
fatal results is consequently much
greater.
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Britain Has Billions.
An eminent London banker states
that Great Britain can raise five bil-
lion ,.: t a year for war purposes
and continue this for several years.
The British banks have now on de-
posit more than six billion dollars,
the high record in the two hundred
years of British banking history. De-
posits have tripled since 1880.
CONSTIPATION=
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There Is Nothing To Equal
Milburn's Laxa - Liver Pills
For . This Purpose.
Mrs. A. Cumming, Manchester, Ont.,
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it my duty to let you known that your
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nee. I only used three vials, and I can
faithfully say that they have saved me
from a large doctor bill."
XvMilburn's Laxa-Liver Pills regulate
the flow of bile to act properly on the
bowels, and thus keep them regular.
Irregular bowels are the main cause of
constipation.
The price of Milburn's Lata -Liver
Pills is 25e, per vial or 5 vials for 31,00,
at all dealers or limited direct on receipt
of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited,
,Toronto, Ont.
Certain common household insects,
Warfare UIl � . like the flour moth, have relatiOh to
man which is frequently overlooked.
A malady due to direct att+}rk is
known as tick paralysis, and is just
Insects have always been eonsi
ered in the light of disagreeable min-
ute pests, but few persons have look-
ed upon them as dangerous, Careful
housewives "encountering them in kit-
chen sinks or cupboards have hasten-
od to sprinkle some sort of death
dealing poison around rnerely because
they were annoying, and then, too,
dinner guests have a disconcerting
hebit of shrieking aloud when finding
one of the wee things crawling along
a lettuce leaf in the salad.
Basket picknickers have always tak-
en pains to brush the tiny creature
off their sandwiches; pedestrians have
promptly proceeded to trample on
them when meeting them along the
walks, principally because they had no
desire to go out of their way express-
ly to save the lives of the unneces-
sary little objects.
Now it is learned that these insects
which we have never taken very ser-
iously are responsible for many dis-
eases that afflict mankind. Common
examples aro malaria, yellow fever,
sleeping sickness of Africa, Rocky
mountain spotted fever of this coun-
try, typos fever, which occurs every-
where and which recently attracted
great attention on account of its rav-
ages in the armies engaged in the
European war, dengue fever, bubonis
plague and, in addition, a long list of
maladies of domestic and wild ani-
mals.
To most persons the insect -borne
diseases are of little importance, says
the Washington Star. The mention
of them merely recalls maladies like
sleeping sickness and kola azar,
kwhich are peculiar to tropical re-
gions or to remote corners of the
earth. It is not generally realized
that there is a considerable number
of important insect -carried diseases
that are of direct concern to people
of this country.
There are numerous groups of dis-
eases occurring in this country which
the action of the disease is accidental.
This group is represented by tuber-
culosis, typhoid fever, and possibly
pneumonia and other maladies.
coming to be known. The attach,.
ment of a tick causes progressive
paralysis ascending from the lower
extremities until .all parts of the body
are involved. The malady is unique,
hut is found tobe the first represen-
tetive of a special class of injuries
causes] by insects.
It is possible that several new
groups of diseases in whieh insects
are concerned wil). be found to exist.
In the investigation of beriberi and
similar diseases in recent years much
has been learned about the effects on.
the system of the presence of toxins
s of various kinds.
Insects are responsible for that
strange disease known as elephan-
tiasis,, in which the limbs are swollen
into gigantic proportions. The house
fly may be partially to blame for the
dissemination of the hookworm. . An
apparent connection is shown between
a germ carried by cockroaches and
cancer -like lesions in the internal or-
gans of mice. The work is not all
complete, but may be suggestive of a
possible
Bubonic Plague.
was also not mentioned. But this
illustrates one consideration of great
importance: That our increasing in-
tercourse with other parts of the
world furnish opportunities for the
introduction of diseases, in many
cases transmitted by insects, with
which heretofore we have not been
forced to contend. The quarantine
service is efficient, but there is always
a chance that certain diseases may
escape. In fact, this is shown very
clearly by the introduction • of bubonic
plague in two greatly removed locali-
ties.
An illustratino of the complicated
relations between insects and human
parasites can be mentioned at this
point. It is a rather common occur-
rence in tropical America > for fly lar-
vae to be found causing tumors un-
der the skin in various parts of the
human body. It hod been supposed
until recently that the eggs of the fly
were deposited on the skin of a hu-
man being by the parent insect, and
this seemed, to be sufficient natural
explanation. However, it has been
discovered that the process is by no
means so simple. The adult fly does
not deposit its eggs on the human
subject, but on the leaves of plants.
There they come in contact with cer-
tain mosquitoes which frequent such
places, and adhere to their legs.
When they attack human beings the
eggs have had time to hatch and the
minute lahvae make their way from
the insect's bady to the skin of the
subject and soon burrow beneath it.
Another Explanation
shows the intricacy of the organisms.
There is a fatal disease of dogs oc-
curing in South Africa and elsewhere,
known as malignant jaundice, which
is transmitted by a tick. The peculi-
arity of transmission in this case is
that the infection can be established
only by the adult tick of the genera-
tion following the one in which infec-
tion is acquired:
There are no definitely established
cases at present, but it is likely that
there will be found to be another class
of disease in whieh insects are of im-
portance, 'where the essentiol condi-
tion is accidental contact with food.
If cockroaches become definitely con-
nected with tuberculosis or similar
maladies, as seems likely to be the
case, they will present such a class as
will ultimately be found to be impor-
tant.
Even in hospitals where everything
is conducted in the most sanitary
fashion mankind is not free from dis-
ease -carrying insects. An example
of this is a fly. The house fly is the
most conspicuous example of an in-
sect which may be concerned in the
transmission of diseases in this man-
ner.
sn this country and in Europe a cer-
tain species of beetle is responsible
for infestation of swine. Occasional
human cases are also recorded.
The destruction of white grubs is
undertaken on account of the injury
they do to the crops, but it is a known
fact that they are of direct annoy-
ance to man.
In the Case of Tapeworm
some animal is necessary for the de-
velopment
e-velopmen : of a certain stage of the
parasite. Usually it is a pig or cow
which perforins this function. And
in the other case man is directly con-
cerned to at least a certain extent
since Blanchard summarized not Less
than 60 cases whieh have been reeord
ed in man up to 1907.
New Class of Disease
in which the insect is concerned.
Recently in the canal zone an in-
vestigation was made to determine
whether or not ants would carry the
bacillus ofs typhoid fever. The in-
vestigators stated:
"One can readily .see the danger of
our situation in ants acting as car-
riers of pathogenic micro-organisms,
for it is absolutely impossible to keep
them out of t he house, and they get
into food in spite of our efforts."
The buffalo gnat is responsible for
spotted fever in many cases.
Not only is man in danger because
of disease -bearing insects, but ani-
mals are also among the victims. The
list of animals in which insect -borne
diseases may occur is undoubtedly in
complete, but includes rodents, cattle,
horses, dogs and birds.
"The discovery of the causation of
diseases . by parasites opened a great
biological field," said Mr. Hunter,, in
referring to the connection between
inserts and disease.
"It became evident that the forces
cf diseases were parallel to many of
the biological processes with which
naturalists are familiar. ten t ig tr e
many complicated factors which are
concerned in this biology of disr,tse
are insects. The first knowledge cb-
tained on the subject was in the study
of an important disease of cattle in
this country known as splenetic fe-
ver, and this was as recent as 1891. It
developed from this study of the bur-
eau of animal industry in the cuurse
of experiments conducted near the
city of Washington that the organism
which caused the malady had a cycle
outside of the cattle.
"In other words, it was necessary
in the completion of t he life cycle of
the parasite for it to pass through a
certain species of tick, in which it
went through transformations neces-
sary to complete maturity. This dis-
covery laid the foundation for remark-
able progress in
The Study of Disease.
Since that time many other disease or-
ganisms have been found to be depen-
dent upon insects for their develop-
ment.
"The time has not arrived for the
classification of the conditions under
which insects may transmit diseases,
as our knowledge is being extended
almost daily and unsuspected condi-
tions or sets of conditions are coming
to light. .
"What is the conclusion from all
this consideration of insects and dis-
eases? We think that it is clear
that in the new or biological concep-
tion of infectious diseases insects play
an important role, and future addi-
tions to our knowledge will certainly
make this role more important than it
seems to be at the present time. The
very abundance of insects and their
remarkable interrelations with other
animals furnish the foundation.
"As Dr. Howard has stated, the
physician of the future will be a na•
turalist, because the control of in-
fectious diseases must rest upon a
full knowledge of natural phenomena
and in this work entomology must
be an important agency."
The monthly payments to soldiers'
dependents in St. John will soon total
$10,000 from the Patriotic Fund.
Was Constantly
Troubled With Boils.
HAD NINE ON HIS ARMS AT ONCE.
Burdock Blood Bitters
CURED HIM.
Boils are caused by bad blood, and
unless the blood is made pure you cannot
expect to get rid of them.
Ointments and salves will do you no
good. You must get at the seat of the
trouble by using a good internal blood
purifying medicine such as that grand
old remedy Burdock Blood Bitters,
Mr. Samuel 'Buckler, 'latamagouche,
N.S., writes: "Last summer I was
constantly troubled with boils, I had
nine on my arms at once. 1 thought it
was caused from bad blood so 1 got two
bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters, and
before the first bottle was done I began.
to feet a great deal better, end before
the second one was finished X did riot
have a boil, nor have I hacl one since.
I cannot reeomtnetid B.B,'f3. too highly."
Burdock Blood Bitters is manufactured
only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited,
Toroul,o, Ont;