"To answer this question I decided to send out the following questionnaire to a few hundred enthusiastic dancers: 1. Did you ever become sexually excited while dancing the new dances? 2. Did you ever become sexually excited while watching the new dances? 3. Did you ever experience the same feelings while dancing or watching the old dances? I put these questions to my friends and patients, and requested them to collect this information for me from their intimate friends who could be relied upon to tell the truth. After a few months I had received answers from 342 persons, 119 women and 223 men. Of these, fourteen men and eight women answered 'yes' to the first question, sixteen men and nine women answered 'yes' to the second question, and eleven men and six women gave an affirmative answer to the third question. The sixteen men and nine women who gave an affirmative answer to the second question, included also those men and women who gave the same answers to the first and third questions. That is, only sixteen men and nine women showed manifest sexual excitement while dancing or watching the new dances, and of those twentyfive persons, nine men and six women recalled similar experiences with the old dances. the men and all the women are known to me personally, so that I can say that they are very hyperesthetic sexually. Three of these men show somatic sexual excitement while automobiling or riding a bicycle or on horseback, the others belong to those individuals who revel in smutty jokes and pornographic literature. Five of the women were between the ages of thirty-five and forty-three years, and for various reasons, were suddenly deprived of all normal sexual outlets. In other words, as far as could be discovered from the collected data, one cannot say that the new dances are more prone to produce sexual excitement than the old ones, and by sexual excitement we understand gross sexual manifestations. As far as the esthetic emotional feelings are concerned, there is no doubt that the new dances act more forcibly and stimulatinglynearly all my informants felt this.

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"It is interesting to note that the onlookers furnished the greatest percentage of those who experienced somatic sexual feelings. Even if we confine ourselves to normal persons we must admit that the sight of dacing is pleasurable. Thus Havelock Ellis states, 'not only is dancing an excitation, but the spectacle of dancing is itself exciting, and even among savages dances have a public which becomes almost as passionately excited as the dancers themselves.' This state of affairs is especially true concerning the

new dances, which by virtue of novelty and suggestiveness invariably produce some excitement in the spectators. And while the act of dancing produces a certain amount of detumescence in the dancer, the mere onlooker perforce remains in a state of appetence, which in hyperesthetic people may lead to somatic sexual feelings. This accounts for the fact that most of those who object to the new dancing have only witnessed it, but never danced themselves; the spectacle produces a certain amount of sexual feeling which is immediately repressed, and as a defense mechanism there results a strong outburst of indignation. This is naturally an unconscious process. It also explains such cases as that of my friend, S., who last year railed against the new dances because he thought them lewd and indecent, and bewailed the fact that some of his friends were dancing them. During his summer vacation le contracted the fever and himself became a great enthusiast. He assured me that in spite of all suggestion he never was conscious of the slightest sexual feeling while dancing. In fact, very few dancers are cognizant of anything but a sense of exhilaration and well being. With the exception of those mentioned, all the women informants assured me that despite all the suggestive remarks they had heard about the dances, they were never aware of any sexual feeling while dancing. It is but fair to mention that all my informants belong to the cultured class. There is no doubt that the closer contact in these dances offers an opportunity to those individuals who look for sex everywhere. Thus, some of my informants reported that occasionally they became cognizant of gross sexuality owing to some action of their partner. But this might happen and has undoubtedly happened even before the new dances came into vogue. In brief, the question whether the new dances act as gross sexual incitors can be emphatically answered in the negative. In spite of the suggestive remarks and allusions, it affects only those who are very abnormal sexually, or who deliberately seek gross sexual excitement in dancing.”

PHENALGIN—A DÉPENDABLE ANALGESIC. The general medical practitioners of the country are using Phenalgin more extensively than ever before. The reason for this is easily found in the exceptional efficiency of this well known remedy as a prompt and harmless reliever of pain. Unquestionably one of the noblest missions of the physician is to alleviate physical suffering, even though he cannot always eliminate it. A short time ago, recourse to opium and some of its derivatives was the only reliable means of satisfactory analgesia. One does not need to mention the fearful results that all too often followed the exhibition of this insidious drug. As appreciation of the effectiveness of Phenalgin has extended, the use of opium and its preparations for the relief of pain has materially diminished, and now the hypodermic syringe is

rarely employed except in extreme or emergency

cases.

Surely this is a triumph for modern therapeutics, and those responsible for Phenalgin take no little pride in the part they have played in helping to free humanity from the thraldom of opium. It is a significant fact that, in spite of the enormous use of Phenalgin during the past eighteen years, there is not a single authenticated case of serious ill effects from this remedy, when employed remedially. As a matter of fact, there are few remedies of established potency that are so notably free from deleterious action.

All in all, Phenalgin is one of the most valuable additions to the modern armamentarium. It is skillfully and carefully manufactured, and the physician can bank on its constant and unvarying uniformity. Its remedial value every practitioner can easily prove to his entire satisfaction, and it is no idle statement that the manufacturers of Phenalgin ask its therapeutic preferment on no other basis than its demonstrable uniformity, safety and pain-relieving power.

PLUTO WATER IN TREATMENT OF DYSPEPSIA.

Pluto Water has always proven satisfactory in the treatment of the various forms of dyspepsia, chronic intestinal stasis and obstinate gastro-intestinal disturbances, for they promptly respond to a therapeutic regimen which includes the daily use of this native mineral water. The evidence of a large number of physicians conclusively proves that it is well tolerated by the stomach, causes no griping or intestinal irritation, is uniformly dependable in action and gratifying in results. Samples, clinical data, analysis and literature interestingly descriptive of the hygienic methods employed in bottling Pluto, will be promptly forwarded on application to The French Lick Springs Hotel Co., French Lick, Indiana.

VASO-MOTOR DERANGEMENTS.

The part played by the vaso-motor system in countless diseases is at last thoroughly recognized. As a consequence, circulatory disorders are among the most common functional ailments that the modern physician is called upon to correct. Various heart tonics and stimulants are usually employed, but the effect of these is rarely more than temporary. To re-establish a circulatory equilibrium that offers real and substantial relief from the distressing symptoms that call most insistently for treatment requires a systematic building up of the whole body. Experience has shown that no remedy at the command of the profession is more serviceable in this direction than Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp.

For nearly 20 years this standard tonic has filled an important place in the armamentarium of the country's leading physicians. Its therapeutic efficiency in restoring systemic vitality and thus overcoming functional disorders of the vaso-motor or circulatory system is not the least of the qualities that account for its widespread

use.

The results, however, that can be accomplished in many cases of cardiac weakness have led many physicians to employ it almost as a routine remedy at the first sign of an embarrassed or flagging circulation.