By-and-by the pelvic organs begin to show signs of disease. When one hears of the daily exploits of the abdominal surgeon, and learns that there is hardly one woman out of five who has not some form of pelvic disturbance, the conviction forces itself upon the mind that surely our women must be grossly violating some fundamental law of health. We have traced out the chain of physical causes which lead inevitably to a stasis in the abdominal and pelvic circulation. As a further result of this stasis there occurs a sagging of the abdominal and pelvic viscera, and as the latter are underneath, they catch the worst of it. Malpositions of the uterus are produced; the power of resistance of the pelvic tissues to invasion by pathogenic microbes is lowered; the tendency to plastic exudations is increased; the resolution of inflammatory processes is very much retarded; and thus the foundation for every variety of pelvic disease is laid. The last cause assigned for ill-health in American women is superstition—not religious, but pharmaceutical superstition. The sublime faith with which an American woman will continue to swallow nauseous drugs in the belief that they will restore her to health and keep her in health, is only equalled by her faith in cosmetics. Drugs are wonderful things in their place, but it is not possible by any combination of drugs to replace the natural processes of health. How are we to forestall this most serious of all our national evils, the physical degeneracy of American women? This matter is far too widespread and serious to be rectified by a little Anglomania, a little calisthenics, a little athletic craze. There are far too many women who lead lives that can only be characterized as parasitic; who have no independent existence, but merely cling to life like a polyp to a rock. They generate barely enough nervous energy to eat, drink, sleep, dress, take a great deal of medicine, complain constantly, and finally drop out of life without leaving the slightest vacuum. The only way to meet this great evil is to introduce physical culture into our schools and make it compulsory. Not until then will our women realize the standard of feminine health as laid down by Walt Whitman: They are not one jot less than I am, They are tanned in the face by shining suns and blowing winds, Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength, They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves, They are ultimate in their own right—they are calm, clear, well-possessed of themselves. Louisville, Ky. _POSSIBILITIES IN THE THERAPY OF NUX VOMICA._ (_Second Paper._) By E. MACFARLAN, M. D. Further clinical observations in the therapy of nux vomica have afforded me an accumulation of evidence of its efficacy in certain and hitherto untried affections of neurotic origin.