The amount of actual harm done with the best intention, by continually supplying the digestive organs with digestants, or ferments, instead of encouraging them to generate their own, is doubtless greater than we realize. It is not very often that one need order predigested food for a patient, although occasions may and do present themselves when this is advisable. But the indiscriminate use of pepsins and similar substances from the vegetable kingdom, in the management of many patients with weakened digestive powers, is scarcely to be justified. A much more useful remedy, because of its being a true stimulator to the digestive functions, gastric and intestinal, is Seng. This well known preparation contains the active principles of Panax (Ginseng), and is especially useful because it stimulates the physiologic activity of the digestive glands and thus “helps them to help themselves”—obviously the most desirable therapeutics in all functional cases. It should be remembered, therefore, that Seng is not a ferment to digest food which weakened organs can not care for in their natural manner. Instead, its action is to restore tone and vigor to the secretory structures so that they are able to evolve and supply their own ferments. Seng is a very agreeable remedy to take, and its benefits are manifested in surprisingly short order. In convalescence from fevers or diseases impairing the digestive functions it is unquestionably one of the most efficient remedies being used by medical men today.