ONE might as well take whisky for chronic alcoholism as to take arsenic for nervousness. Arsenic in any form is as sure to produce nervousness as an overdose of whisky is sure to produce drunkenness. Arsenic will not cure nervousness. It will produce nervousness. No one was ever cured of nervousness by arsenic. Thousands have been made nervous by arsenic. Thousands more will be made nervous by arsenic. Yet the doctors go right on prescribing arsenic for nervousness. There are various preparations of arsenic known by a great many different names. Arsenic is death to the nervous system. Arsenic produces bloodless nerve centers, causes the nerves to tingle, tremble, and quiver. Arsenic will make hysterical babies of the strongest athletes. It will convert a wholesome, healthy woman into a petulant, puling, faded invalid. If the doctors were obliged to take arsenic themselves long enough to discover by personal experience the disastrous condition it is sure to produce, they probably would then quit administering it to their patients. But it is an adage that doctors never take their own medicines. They conclude what any medicine will do by what the books tell them, or what some pompous professor has declared. Then they commence giving and continue to give, in spite of the fact that their patients grow steadily worse. Arsenic, like bromide of potash, is given almost indiscriminately, by the average drug doctor, for nervousness. Neither of these drugs ever cured or ever helped a case of nervousness. Both of them will produce nervousness of the worst form, without fail. It is just such drugs as these that are responsible for that condition of body and mind known as Americanitis. We are a nation of nervous men and women. Our nervousness is generally attributed by the doctors to our climate and our habits of business and pleasure. This is not true. We have an excellent climate, and our business methods and pleasures are of the best character—better than in any other country. It is the miserable drugs that we have been deluded into taking that is responsible for our nervousness. Of all the nerve-destroying drugs that were ever invented by the medical profession, arsenic, bromide of potash, and strychnia lead the list. No nervous person ought ever to take a single dose of such medicines.—Medical Talk, for March.