Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ADVERTISEMENTS
The Success of Listerine is based upon Merit
The manufacturers of Listerine are proud of Listerine—because
it has proved one of the most successful formulae of modern
phcirmacy.
This measure of success has been largely due to the happy
thought of securing a two-fold antiseptic effect in the one preparation,
i. e., the antiseptic effect of the ozoniferous oils and ethers,
and that of the mild, non-irritating boric acid radical of Listerine.
Pharmacal elegance, strict uniformity in constituents and
methods of manufacture, together with a certain superiority in the
production of the most important volatile components, enable
Listerine to easily excel all that legion of preparations said to be
"something like Listerine."
"The Inhibitory Acrion of Listerine," a 208-page book, descriptive of the
antiseptic, and indicating its utility in medical, surgical and dental
practice, may be had upon application to the manufacturers,
Lambert Pharmacal Company, Saint Louis, Missouri,
but the best advertisement of Listerine is
course of treatment during that time. Kelly"
and others advise a period of four years,
during the last twelve or eighteen months
of which there must he no manifestation of
the disease. The (|uestion is one of grave
concern, because, important as syphilis is
from the jjersonal aspect, it is still more so
from tlif hereditary point of view. A man
^iio trifles with syphilis, and does not persevere
with the treatment 7)rescribed, incurs
a responsibility that only a lunatic would
Care to bear, and for which he should be
[segregated as a menace to the well being of
the race.
As regards gonorrhea the question is also
lot easily answered, on account of the
lifiBculty (if definitely declaring that the dislase
has been finally eradicated. Xo hard
ind fast period of time can be approximate-
y fixed u])on, but if the medical man is
atisfied, after naked eye and microscopic
xamination, that the disease appears to be
ured, and allows a further probationary
eriod of, say, six or twelve months, durig
which quarterly examinations are made
rith negative results, the author thinks he
r she may safely marry. lixperts alone
an tell us when and how examinations
lould be made. One would imagine they
lould be made under conditions that are
kely to bring a latent disease into activity,
ich as, in woman, just after the menstrual
eriod, and in man after he has had, by
>ecial advice, a glass or two of whisky.
mSTERIlt
—
We are also told that the smears should be
taken not only from the os uteri, but from
the glands of Skene and Bartholin in woman,
and from the glands of the urethra in
man.
Tlie Role of Human Contagion in Infantile
Tuberculosis.
J. Comby finds that tuberculosis is a disease
that generally begins with aerial infection,
from infected members of the infant's
family. Prophylaxis should deal with removal
of all tuberculous members of the
family from the surroundings of infants,
rather than with the sterilization of milk
and the destruction of slightly infected
cows. Milk, unless full of bacilli, will be
digested and do no harm. But the grandparents
who have chronic bronchitis and
asthma, really tuberculous, will infect the
child from their sputum. Children are born
neither with tuberculosis nor with a predis-
])osition to it. Remove the children of tuberculous
parents at an early age from their
home and bring them up in healthy surroundings
and they will grow up healthy.
Leave them with their parents and they
will contract the disease. Pallor, emaciation,
and narrow chest are symptoms of
latent tuberchlosis, not predispositiun to it.
The measures taken against bovine tuberculosis,
and to prevent the use of tubercu.
lous milk, during the last twenty years have
not diminished tuberculosis among infants.
—Archives di Medecine des Eufauts.