. Texas medical journal . y among the women were seven citydwellers to one from the country, showing, in Dr. Salmons opinion,the influence of the back room and ladies entrance of the citysaloons. Considering the men separately, forty-two per cent of those fromthe citv suffered either from general paralysis or alcoholic insanity. Dr. Archibald Reid of England says there is no doubt thatsyphilis and alcohol are directly responsible for more cases of men-tal derangement than any other two causes. Referring also toDr. Sabnons work. Dr. Reid thinks the latter is absolutely correctwhen he says that
. Texas medical journal . y among the women were seven citydwellers to one from the country, showing, in Dr. Salmons opinion,the influence of the back room and ladies entrance of the citysaloons. Considering the men separately, forty-two per cent of those fromthe citv suffered either from general paralysis or alcoholic insanity. Dr. Archibald Reid of England says there is no doubt thatsyphilis and alcohol are directly responsible for more cases of men-tal derangement than any other two causes. Referring also toDr. Sabnons work. Dr. Reid thinks the latter is absolutely correctwhen he says that the lesson of these statistics is full of hope, forit shows that a large proportion of all cases of insanitv come fromcauses within our own control and are, therefore, prexentable.—Scienti/ic Temperance Federaiion. As part of a hernioplasty it is always worth while to reduce bysutures the hiatus in the transversalis fascia whenever this can beconvenientlv none.—American Journal of Surgery. 0 OUR INDIANA Dr. G. Henri Bogart, Terre Haute, Indiana,Physician, Author, Poet and Humanitarian, Apostle of Socio-SexualReform, Hygiene and Eugenics. Dr. G. Henri Bogart was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, of Holland Dutchand Scotch ancestry, and graduated from high school at 12 years ofage. He studied nipdicine both as an eclectic and an allopath, and holdshimself absolutely independent. He has been for many years a studentof eugenics and sociology, and as such has been one of the earliest andmost radical of the promoters of the sterilization of the unfit doc-trine. Dr. Bogart asserts that whenever he sees a degenerate, and then con-siders the multitude who never will be born through the operation ofthis law, that he would not exchange his world influence in this line forall the wealth and benefactions of (arnegie. His entrance into the field of general eugenic writing for professionaljournals was accidental. K lady patient abcRit four years ago urged himas a duty to present s
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