Cod Liver Oil is not to be regarded as a food. Its use as a medicine covers several centuries but its magic virtues are recent discoveries. For a few years it was a specific for rickets, both preventing and curing the disease. Now it must have the aid of better food and sunlight, or at least lamp light. There is not really much attention given to sunlight.

Mr. Harter's statement that the giving of "from six to ten drops of cod-liver oil every other day, increasing the proportion as the child becomes older, until at the age of twelve the child is taking" a half tea-spoonful three times a week "sounds a little like witchcraft," is good. He adds, "ft seems only a step from oil from fish livers to the extract of frogs' tongues and newts' gizzards."

I have never used cod-liver oil, but it has fallen to my lot to care for children to whom it had been given for longer or shorter periods without benefit. I have seen troubles that I am convinced resulted from its use. I advise all parents not to give it to their children.

When the Hawaiian Islands were first discovered, these people, among the finest in the world, had no milk, no cod liver oil and no grains. Their diet had lacked these things for centuries, perhaps since about 1 A. D., when the first people are supposed to have arrived on the Islands. Their splendid bodies and great vigor proved these "indispensibles" not to be indispensible.