home, and eat and drink your food as hot as possible. Trust no restaurant or saloon. Wash your hands and mouth thoroughly before eating. Wear gloves. Don't put your hands or anything else into your mouth uselessly. Use cigar holder if you smoke.

2. Drink no water that has not been boiled at least half an hour. Hot tea is a good, safe

drink.

3. Eat no raw fruit, meat or vegetables. Eat or drink nothing that has not been thoroughly and recently cooked or boiled.

4. Especially avoid all unripe or spoiled fruit, decayed, wilted or fermenting vegetables, Vegetables decomposing meats, fish or fowls.

must be absolutely fresh, or must be let alone. Touch no fruit or other food exposed on public street stands.

5. The safest foods are such as keep best; salted or dry meats, and the cereals; wheat, oats, rice, barley, rye, tapioca, sago, and their products.

6. Use no milk that has not been boiled for half an hour. Use no cream at all.

7. See that all dishes and drinking vessels are kept perfectly clean. Dip all dishes into boiling water just before using them. Do not use a public cup, or one that strangers may have handled. If you must drink outside of your house, carry your own cup.

8. Have your sleeping and living rooms well ventilated.

9. Report promptly to your doctor on the first appearance of diarrhea, dysentery, or any stomach or bowel complaint, however slight; and while waiting for the doctor proceed as if sure that it is a case of cholera. Don't wait, but send at once. If taken ill in the street seek the nearest drug store, dispensary, hospital or police station, and demand prompt medical attention. Don't permit vomit or diarrheal discharges to come in contact with food, drink, or clothing.

10. Avoid night air, excesses of every kind, over eating, alcoholic drinks in excess, especially malt liquors, all exposure calculated to cause catching cold, and mental disquiet. Make no change in the accustomed routine, except as above advised. Take no purgatives. Take no medicine except by advice of a physician. Don't eat or handle food or drink with unwashed hands, or receive it from the unwashed hands of others. Don't use the hands for any purpose when soiled with cholera discharges; Do not use thoroughly cleanse them at once.

a strange privy during cholera prevalence.

PRECAUTIONS WHEN A CASE OF CHOLERA HAS OCCURRED.

1. Place the patient in an upper room, as far as possible from the rest of the family. Remove

from it all articles not necessary, especially curtains, carpets, upholstered furniture, clothing. Have the room well ventilated.

2. Allow no one to enter the room but the doctor and nurse. Send every one else out of the house who can be spared.

3. Hang over the door a sheet wet with a solution of chloride of lime, two ounces to the gallon of water, and let the sheet dip into a vessel containing this solution, so that the sheet will be constantly wet.

4. The nurse must have a wrapper over her clothes, that is to be removed whenever she leaves the room.

5. A tub of water must be in the sick room containing a pound of chloride of lime to ten Every article of clothing gallons of water. coming off the patient, the nurse, or the bed, must be soaked over night in this before it is taken from the room. A smaller tub of the same solution must be provided, in which all dishes and other things used by the patient must be washed before they are taken from the room. The nurse must rinse her hands in this every time she touches the patient or his belongings.

6. Another vessel must have in it a solution of chloride of lime, 5 ounces to the gallon, or carbolic acid, 6 ounces crystallized acid to the gallon. Any clothing soiled by the patient's stools must be put to soak in this for four hours. Every stool and all vomited matter must be received into a chamber or bed-pan containing a pint of this strong solution, and allowed to stand for two hours before being emptied. When it is possible, the stools and soiled linen should be burnt.

A good way is to mix them with sawdust, when they can be easily burnt. 7. The best bed is a woven wire frame with simply a blanket or two over it, and no mat tress. If a cholera stool be passed into a mattress the latter becomes extremely dangerous, and should be burnt.

8. Sprinkle the floors, bed, and clothing several times daily with Sanitas disinfectant fluid. A bed of sawdust under the bed, saturated with this substance, or with Platt's chlorides, is of great value. These are preferred because they can be used in large quantities without any injury from the fumes.

9. After the patient has recovered or died, everything in the room should be burnt, and the room disinfected by competent experts.

Antiseptics and Disinfectants.

THE prevention of disease is the unselfish mission of the modern physician. Antiseptics and disinfectants to day occupy the first place in medical and surgical practice. Dilute solutions of acids have been strongly commended as preventive of cholera. The Liquid Acid

Phosphate is an efficient agent in securing the desired condition of acidity.

Copper Arsenite Tablet Triturates, 1-100 and 1-5000 grain, have been extensively and successfully used in dysentery and diarrheal disorders and are indicated in cholera, both for specific action in controlliug intestinal secretion and for relieving the profound anemia.

Eucalyptus and Thymol Antiseptic is adapted for use as an antiseptic internally, externally, hypodermically, as a douche, a spray, by atomization, and as an deodorant. Its applica-. tion in surgery is unlimited. It is an excellent

dressing for wounds. It combines the antiseptic virtues of benzoic acid, boric acid, oil of peppermint, oil eucalyptus, oil wintergreen, oil thyme and thymol.

Tablets of Yellow Oxide of Mercury, con. taining two hundredths of a grain of the oxide, are a valuable prophylactic against dysentery and enteric fever. They prevent fermentation and putrefaction, and render aseptic the alimentary tract.

Chloranodyne is a combination of anodynes, antispasmodics, and carminatives which has been widely employed in gastric and intestinal troubles. It acts very happily as an anodyne and as an astringent in cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, and colic.

Antiseptic Liquid arrests decomposition and destroys noxious gases that arise from organic matter in sewers and elsewhere, and may be used in cellars, barns, outhouses, and the sick-room.

Antiseptic Tablets are convenient for the extemporaneous preparation of antiseptic solutions of definite strength of mercuric bichloride for disinfectant purposes and for antiseptic sprays.

Disinfectant Powder possesses in a high degree disinfectant, absorbent, and antiseptic properties. It is admirably adapted for the disinfection of excreta in cholera, yellow fever, and typhoid fever.

Sulphur Bricks are effectual in the fumiga. tion and disinfecting of rooms after infectious diseases.

Ethereal Antiseptic Soap (Johnson's) was devised by an experienced nurse in the surgical clinic of the Jefferson Medical College. Its marvelous cleansing powers make it a valuable adjunct to the armamentarium of the physician and surgeon. Mercuric Chloride can be dissolved in it in ordinary proportions.

Parke, Davis & Co. will be pleased to forward, on request, any information desired concerning these products.

A VERY full program is announced for the coming meeting of the American Electro. Therapeutic Association which is to be held in New York, at the Academy of Medicine, 17 West 43d Street, October 4th, 5th and 6th.

THE following list of patents granted during the past month for inventions which are of interest to our readers, is furnished by Geo. H. Chandlee, Patent Attorney, Atlantic Building, Washington, D. C., from whom copies of the same may be obtained.

Disinfectant, to B. Siefert; Inhaler, to T. Dunham; Artificial Teeth, to J. Moffitt; Pad for bed pan, to K. Shafer; Convertible atomizer and sprayer, to J. Magee; Bench-block for dentists, to Melotte & Clinton; Dental-tool sterilizer, to W. Flanders; Dental drill, to L. Maillard; Spectacle, to M. Davis; Dental burring-tool, to R. Staubrough.

Reviews.

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AN AMERICAN TEXT BOOK OF SURGERY. Edited by W. W. Keen, M. D., and J. William White, M, D., assisted by a competent corps of collaborators, each writing a special department. Cloth, 1209 pages, with a profusion of illustrations. Saunders, 913 Walnut St., Phila, Pa,

W. B.

The enormous strides of surgery within the past ten years have made necessary the preparation of a complete text book based entirely upon the new knowledge of surgical conditions. In this mammoth work the masters of this generation have given us the knowledge up to the present, as the masters of the past did for their times. In the vast development of this subject it is now recognized that it would be difficult for one man to write a complete treatise on surgery, unless it be largely theoretical. Hence we have in this work the different departments carefully prepared by skilled specialists in the respective departments, the whole being carefully directed and supervised by two practical general surgeons.

This is one of the books you must add to your library this year.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BANDAGING. By G. G. Davis, M. D., of Philadelphia. Cloth, most admirably illustrated, price, $3.00. Geo. S. Davis, Detroit, Mich.

Appropriately enough, this work is taken up next. Even the finest surgery must be supplemented with good bandaging to produce good results. We commend this work without hesitation to any one who is conscientious about doing thoroughly satisfactory surgical work.

A NEW PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE. By John M. Keating, M. D., and Henry Hamilton. 818 pages. Cloth, $5, Sheep, $6, net. W. B. Saunders, Publisher, 913 Walnut St., Phila. We have examined this dictionary with great care and are pleased with it. It gives the new terms that have grown out of the science of bacteriology, a development of recent years. The pronunciation of terms is clearly indicated, a feature not very prominent in most medical dictionaries.

THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL Register-DIRECTORY AND Intelligencer, of Pa, N. J. and Del. George Keil, Editor & Publisher, 306 and 308 Chestna: St., Phila., Pa.

This work gives full information in regard to bo professions for the three States named.

PLUTOCRACY AND PROTECTION. A political chart g

ing vivid pictures of the baneful eflects of a protective policy, accompanied by an explanatory key. We are informed that it is distributed gratuitously. Address, M. A. Ahrens, LL.B., 490 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

THE QUARTERLy Journal of Inebriety. Gives the latest advances in the development of this subject. $2 per year. T. D. Crothers, M. D., Hartford, Conn.

DR. NEVIN B. SHADE, of Washington, D. C., informs us that he has in preparation a treatise upo Tuberculosis, giving full directions regarding s method of mineral treatment. The price will be one dollar. He has been lead to take this up t the numerous inquiries he has received from phy sicians all over the country, in response to his articles published in this and other medical journals.

KING'S ECLECTIC OBSTETRICS.

Revised, re-writtet Wintermute, M. D.. Diseases of Wome

and enlarged by Robert C. Professor of Obstetrics and and children in the Eclectic Medical Institute. Cincinnati, O. Ninth edition, 8vo., Sheep, 75 pages, Price, $6.50, post-paid. Published by the Ohio Valley Co., 143 Race St., Cincinnati. This is a very good average work on the general subject of obstetrics, prepared, we presume, to afford students in Eclectic Medical Colleges a text book for college study. The only marked difference we notice in the book from others is to be found in the drugs commended in those few conditions requiring medi tion. We wish to say, however, in justice to the author, that a closer attention to minute details and minor symptoms is shown than in most text books on the subject. For example, it is the only work in our possession that takes any cognisance of the pain in the right side caused by pressure of the uterine fundus upon the liver in the fifth to the eighth month of preznancy. A practitioner cannot too closely study the practical part of obstetrics, and so, every obstetriciaă should have this book.

BOOK ON THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF, and Things that Concern His Reputation and Success. By D. W Cathell, M. D. New tenth edition (author's last revision). Thoroughly revised, enlarged, and rewritten. In one handsome royal octavo volume 348 pages. Bound in extra cloth. Price, postpaid, $2, net. Philadelphia: The F. A. Dav Co., Publishers, 1231 Filbert Street. This is the tenth edition of one of the greatest books ever presented to the medical profession. We hope