The Growth Of An Idea

It is less than a qnarter of a century sínce a young medical stndeiit startled his classmates and professors in the college, where he was pursuing his studies, by advancing the theory that, the derangenient of the nerves, -vhioh form their centers in the brain lead to the heart and other vital organs, and thence diverge to every part of the body, where a more potent factor in the prodnction of disease, and wlisre more frequently diseases, than the organs themselves; and that physioians were most frequently mistaken in that they considered the organ diseased when the real trouble was in the nerves controling the organ. This young student is now Dr. Franklin Miles, LL. B., widely known as the greatest specialist of the day in diseases of the nerves and heart. And his theories, that two soore of years ago were laughed at by the great body of expert students of physics, and contemptuously ignored by the profound eminent scientists, have become the object of sfcudy and investigation by leading medical anthorities the world over; while Dr. Miles' discovery of a remedy in the great Restorative Nervine bearing his name and used in his practice continually for twenty years or more, has been imitated, although never equaled, by compouuds and combinatious without number. We regret we have not room for quotatious on this very interesting topic, identical though they are in many oases word for word and line for line, with Dr. Miles' articles of twenty years ago. But to those requesting it, either of Dr. Miles' recent books, "New and Startling Facts, " or "A New Era Dawning in Medical Science," may be obtained f ree, by ' addressiug the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., and mentioning this paper.