animal heat by impairing the capacity of the hemoglobin and
corpuscular elements of the blood to receive and distribute free
oxygen, and thereby reduce temperature by diminishing heat
production, nerve sensibility and tissue metabolism. Therefore,
while each dose temporarily reduces the fever, it retards the
most important physiological processes on which the living
system depends for resisting the effects of toxic agents;
namely, oxidation and elimination. This not only encourages the
retention of toxic agents and natural excretory materials by
which specific fevers are protracted, but it greatly increases
the number of cases of pneumonia that complicate the epidemic
influenza, or la grippe, as it has occurred since 1888-89.

"The bad work that people make in dosing themselves with patent
medicines, without a physician's prescription is not
unfrequently punctuated with a sudden death from overdosing with
antipyrin, sulphonal, or some other coal-tar preparation."

Dr. C. H. Shepard, Brooklyn, N. Y., says:--

"Quinine is a most fatal drug. Of course, it is the orthodox
treatment for malarial conditions, but quinine never did nor
never can cure malaria or any other disease. The action brought
about by its use is simply to benumb the nervous activity and
interfere with the natural action of the system to throw off the
poison, which is expressed by the chill. Because of this
interference with the manifestation or symptom of the disease,
many imagine that the disease is being cured, but there never
was a greater mistake. A drug disease is added to the original
disease. This is shown by the invariable depression that follows
the administration of the drug, and the length of time required
to recuperate, which imperils restoration, and sometimes hastens
the final results. This is ordinarily met by the use of what are
called stimulants, that is, more drugs, and the last state is
worst than the first; the poor patient is thus made the victim
of a triple wrong, which only a most vigorous constitution can
pass through and live, and even then he is crippled and made
more liable to whatever disease may come along ever afterward.

"Disease is not entity to be killed by a shot from a
professional gun, but a condition, an effort of outraged nature
to free itself from an incumbrance, and sho