By Lewis Pinkerton Crutcher, M.D., Kansas City, Mo.      In the history of medicine one idea after another has occupied the center of the stage for a little while, doing some good, some damage, and then it has taken its place...

      It is not often you hear from me and if you did it would not materially increase your happiness. The Recorder comes regularly and is read oftener than twice. I am still holding n to pure and simple...

By C.M. Bogaer, M.D.      This is the Glauber Salt of our forefathers and in their day was used as a saline laxative much in the same way that Epsom Salt is today; even miraculous powers were ascribed to it...