=== Mouth Inspection in the Treatment of Patients. === Of what avail is it to bombard the stomach with drugs and to diet patients, when the real cause of the symptoms lies in a foul mouth, missing teeth, and filthy bridges and plates? Why prescribe sedative cough mixtures when a long uvula is the cause of an obstinate cough? Why fill a child with tonics when adenoids and enlarged tonsils are the cause of anemia? The tonsils are the cause of so much constitutional mischief that they should always be examined as a routine process. Especially important is this examination in all cases of articular rheumatism, chronic or even acute nephritis and all cases of sepsis. - Morris Manges in New York Med. Journ. === "Served Her Right." === When I hear a machine agent trying to win a customer by claiming all kinds od defects about his competitor's goods, it reminds me of a neighbour lady whose sister had just given birth to twins. She said: "Well, I wanted you to employ a homeoopathic doctor, and his is what you get for calling an allopath. Next time you listen to me." - American Thresherman. === Poetic License. === "Didn't the poet from whom you were reading refer in one of his lines to the germ of immortality?" inquired Mrs. B- of her husband. "Yes, but that strikes me as carrying the microbe theory too far." - St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journ.