on
of dismissing from practice valuable medicines and of substituting
others less certain in their effects and more questionable in their
nature. As years and fashion revolve, so have these neglected
remedies, each in its turn, risen again into favor and notice,
whilst old receipts, like old almanacs, are abandoned until the
period may arrive that will once more adjust them to the spirit and
fashion of the times." (J. A. Paris, _Pharmacologia_, p. 31, New
York, 1825.)

"A story told of Voltaire," says Dr. Arthur Leared, "well
illustrates both the evil effects of constipation and the advantage
of using the enema. The great philosopher was one day so miserable
and dejected that he told a friend he had resolved to hang himself.
His friend called the next morning to ascertain whether the resolve
had been or was intended to be carried out. But Voltaire only
replied, with a smile, 'I have been well washed out this morning.'"
(Op. cit., p. 200.)

For those suffering from chronic intestinal uncleanliness or
constipation, an occasional intestinal wash-out, or bath, is quite as
satisfactory as an "occasional" external bath or the "occasional" use
of a cathartic medicine. If there is a necessity for cleansing and
purifying the bowels at all, why not do it properly and systematically
until the condition that made the artificial cleansing necessary is
removed? Who would tolerate the cleaning of dining-room, kitchen, dairy
and other utensils in domestic use only when they became so foul that
they could not be endured any longer without great annoyance? Away with
the "occasional" cleansing habit for either external or internal bodily
cleanliness! There are persistent causes for internal uncleanliness,
for the tardy action of the bowels, which require regular periods for
cleansing until cure is effected.

It is estimated that food taken into the stomach will reach the colon
in five hours. For nineteen hours the sewage waste of the body is
gradually becoming a fetid pool before an outlet is furnished it by the
one-movement-a-day people; and O ye gods of health! how many of us
there are that haven't even one movement a day! For a few hours the
absorbent cells of the colon will try to extract as much of the
nutritious residue as the system calls for, but along with it a lot of
poisonous filth will be absorbed. The call of the system for
nourishment should be fully answere