WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE

To the Editor:— A few years ago I appealed to you as the fountainhead of information to know whether or not to give all my patients lots of physics. You did not reply but published my letter and I promptly received many replies from all over the country. Again my head is in a whirl. I find I am living in the center of the therapeutic Sahara Desert of the world. All our patients are dehydrated, desiccated and destined to destruction. They are drying up. Water, water everywhere and every one short on water. It's a sad predicament. I find it a bit difficult to determine just how nearly my patients are about to blow away, but this difficulty does not seem to be shared by many others. A hospital patient who has not had an intravenous injection of fluid the first three hours after getting well settled down between