n, the
hot-water treatment will be found promptly efficacious if
resorted to. Nature needs only a little assistance at the first
sign of trouble to rally quickly in the average healthy child,
and often hot water is all that is wanted."

ALCOHOL INJURIOUS TO THE INSANE:--Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, whose
valuable paper on "The Evolution of the Mind" appeared in the December
number of the _Journal of Hygiene_, in a recent report of the Asylum for
the Insane in London, Canada, makes the following statement concerning
the use of alcohol in the institution over which he presides:--

"As we have given up the use of alcohol, we have needed and used
less opium and chloral; and as we have discontinued the use of
alcohol, opium and chloral, we have needed and used less
seclusion and restraint. I have, during the year just closed,
carefully watched the effect of the alcohol given, and the
progress of cases where, in former years, it would have been
given, and I am morally certain that the alcohol used during the
past year did no good. With humiliation I am forced to admit
that in the recent past my noble profession has been to an
alarming extent, and is still too much so, guilty of producing
many drunkards in the land, directly or indirectly, by the
reckless and wholesale manner in which so many of its members
have prescribed alcoholic stimulants in their daily practice for
all the aches and pains, coughs and colds, inflammations and
consumptions, fevers and chills, at the hour of birth and at the
time of death, and all intermediate points of life, to induce
sleep and to promote wakefulness, and for all real or imaginary
ills."

TOBACCO AND THE EYESIGHT:--"Prof. Craddock says that tobacco has
a bad effect upon the sight, and a distinct disease of the eye
is attributed to its immoderate use. Many cases in which
complete loss of sight has occurred, and which were formerly
regarded as hopeless, are now known to be curable by making the
patient abstain from tobacco. These patients almost invariably
at first have color blindness, taking red to be brown or black,
and green to be light blue or orange. In nearly every case, the
pupils are much contracted, in some cases to such an extent that
the patient is unable to move about without assistance. One such
man admitted that he had usually smoked from twenty to