Mental Suggestion in Everyday Life

a preparation presented for the relief of suffering humanity?at Rs. 2 per tin?by a philanthropic chemist, a preparation which the said explorer and big-game hunter guarantees to be an immediate cure for any human surgical ailment. Overleaf is a photograph of a famous cinema star, with shining regular teeth exposed to our admiring gaze in a broad expansive smile. Beneath this picture, the handsome hero of the ' movies' informs us that he uses Dento regularly?to which fact he ascribes the snowy whiteness of his dentures. In the sporting section of the paper we read that, if we will only be careful to use none but Rocket's famous tennis balls, we shall be able to play tennis better than Suzanne Lenglen, or that if we wield only Wickets' unrivalled bat, we shall ensure our being selected to play for the Presidency against the M. C. C. Now let us turn to a number of the British Medical Journal, or Lancet, just arrived by the English mail. On the very second page we read that the world-renowned chemists, Haggenheimer, whose immense laboratories are situated on the banks of the romantic, castellated Rhine, have recently isolated a new substance possessing a specific inhibitive effect upon the functions of the autonomic nervous system. It is said to have been proved clinically to be the only effective inhibitor of the vagus, and is indicated for the treatment of disturbance of intestinal