=Medicines.= A supply of simple drugs is kept in the medicine closet. This includes a few of the standard tonics, such as iron, quinine and strychnia, nux vomica, gentian and alkali, and so forth; there are also cough syrups, and heroin, codeine, cascara, etc. The tonics are usually bought in large quantities, in gallon jugs, and in her leisure moments the nurse pours them into four- or six-ounce bottles. If these bottles are filled by the druggist, the expense is somewhat greater. This medicine is given free of charge, although now and then a patient may wish to make a small payment of ten cents or so. In themselves, these drugs cannot be said to constitute treatment, yet it has been found advisable to dispense them. Patients are so accustomed to being dosed, that they have no faith in an institution which does not prescribe for them. It is above all things necessary to make these dispensaries popular, so that patients will freely seek them, and recommend them to their friends. Only through wide publicity and extensive patronage can they become effective factors in the fight against tuberculosis. [Illustration: Examining Room in Municipal Dispensary, showing the room divided into cubicles, by means of gas-piping] =Hours.= The hours at which a dispensary is open will depend somewhat upon its location, also upon whether or not the physician’s services are volunteered; in the latter case, it will depend upon the time he is able to give to it. If it is open in the morning, the workingman cannot attend without losing a whole day from his work, nor are these hours convenient for schoolchildren, or for the busy housewife who does most of her work before noon. If the dispensary is open in the afternoon, all three classes of patients may be accommodated; the workingman will lose half, not an entire day, while women and children can attend with no inconvenience at all. Afternoon hours, say from two till five, not only permit patients to be examined by daylight instead of artificial light, but the doctor will be further aided in his diagnosis by the presence or absence of that characteristic symptom, an afternoon temperature. Night clinics are necessary in certain localities, when they may be patronized by men and women, employed during the day, who would otherwise be unable to come to them.[6] Footnote 6: Night clinics are in existence in New York, Hartford, Boston, Chicago, and other cities, and are well attended.