of temperature, the very
thing to be avoided in cases of shock."--DR. J. H. KELLOGG.

"I am perfectly sure that a large dose of alcohol in shock puts
a nail in the coffin of the patient."--DR. H. C. WOOD of the
University of Pennsylvania.

SINKING SENSATIONS:--Many women have a feeling of weakness or "goneness"
at about eleven o'clock in the morning, and are led by it to the
injurious practice of eating between meals. It is often due to
indigestion, or to the use of beer or wine. A few sips of hot milk, of
fruit juice, or even of cold water will often relieve it, especially if
total abstinence is persevered in.

SUDDEN ILLNESS:--"Those taken suddenly ill are likely to fare
best if placed in a recumbent position, with head slightly
elevated, all tightness of garments about the neck or waist
relieved, and a little cold water given in case of ability to
swallow. A mustard plaster on the back of the neck, or over the
stomach, and hot water or hot bottles to the feet, are never out
of place, while vinegar, or smelling salts, or dilute ammonia to
the nostrils is reviving."--EZRA M. HUNT, M. D., late secretary
of New Jersey State Board of Health.

"Both the popular and professional beliefs in the efficacy of
alcoholic liquids for relieving exhaustion, faintness, shock,
etc. are equally fallacious. All these conditions are temporary,
and rapidly recovered from by simply the recumbent position, and
free access to fresh air. Ninety-nine out of every hundred of
such cases pass the crisis before the attendants have time to
apply any remedies, and when they do, the sprinkling of cold
water on the face, and the vapor of camphor or carbonate of
ammonia to the nostrils, are the most efficacious remedies, and
leave none of the secondary evil effects of brandy, whisky or
wine."--DR. N. S. DAVIS.

SUNSTROKE:--"There has lately been a correspondence in the
_Morning Post_ on the subject of 'Sunstroke and Alcohol.' We
quite agree with the statement that 'nothing predisposes people
to sunstroke so much as this pernicious habit of taking
stimulants (so-called) during the hot weather.' As far as this
country is concerned, nearly every case of sunstroke might be
more appropriately designated 'beerstroke.' One effect of
alcohol is to paralyze the heat-regulating mechanism; the blood
becomes overloaded with waste mate