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Sanmetto patient, although very weak from loss of blood, improved rapidly, and is now up and about her work. In sixty years' practice, with an attendance upon more than three thousand child-births, I have used no medicine that seemed to hit the case better than Sanmetto in this instance. I am now in my eighty-seventh year, and have practiced since 1832.S. G. MATSON, M.D., Viola, Iowa.

DR. CHAUNCY STEWART, of Allegheny City, Pa., has used Iodia very extensively in his practice and regards it as the "ideal alterative-the sine qua non in the treatment of syphilis, scrofula, and all diseases arising from syphilitic contamination or a strumous diathesis. Iodia has this advantage over mercurial treatment in syphilis: when the patient does get well, he is well. He is not tortured with mercurial rheumatism nor made to blush through the syphilitic blossoming of his face in after years. He is well. Unlike the long-continued use of other alteratives, Iodia does not reduce and debilitate the constitution, but invigorates and restores the vital powers and enables the patient at all times to continue in the discharge of his vocation."

THE enterprising firm of Frederick Stearns & Co., of Detroit, has established a $600 fellowship of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacology, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

ALCOHOLIC NAUSEA.

If the stomach of your patient is nauseated by the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, administer one or two teaspoonfuls of Seng every hour or two until his stomach is O. K.

PALATABLE MEDICATION.

In these days when elegant and palatable medication is deemed a sine qua non, it seems passing strange that gelatin capsules, which offer so much in this line, are so generally ignored. To be sure when first invented the price was practically prohibitive, but now this has become so greatly reduced that they are within the reach of all. No physician should be without them in his pocket or buggy case, and he should educate his clientele to keep a box conveniently at hand. We have in our use some of the very finest capsules we have seen, made by Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich.

Dr. William Richard Goodfellow, M. R. C. S., Roche, Cornwall, England, L. S. A, (London Hospital, Surgeon Roche and St. Anstell United Mines), says: “Í have used in practice the preparation known Succus Alterans, and have much pleasure in bearing testimony to its great value. For diseases having their origin in a syphilitic source, I believe Succus Alterans to be the one reliable specific, for I may add that invariable success has been met with by me when prescribing the remedy in question, even after the failure of other alteratives. I shall continue to rely on the Succus Alterans in all cases I have indicated herein." -Medical Reprints, London.

I prescribed Tongaline for a young man, 22 years of age, who had been suffering from rheumatism for nine months. He seemed to be a complete wreck and and it required three people to lift him from his carriage. After he had taken Tongaline for four days he was able to help himself considerably, in three weeks he was quite well and has had no recurrence of the trouble, but been able to work constantly on his

farm during harvest.-J. G. A. DAVIES, M.D., Canaserago, N. Y.

NEW USE FOR ANTIKAMNIA.-The field for Antikamnia appears to grow wider and wider the more the subject is investigated. Dr. D. H. Howell, the editor of the Southern Medical Record, says he has been a great sufferer with his eyes for the last two or three months, at times suffering the most intense pain. After having tried a number of remedies without effect, he thought of Antikamnia. This is the result as he I states it: "I was relieved in less than two hours. now carry Antikamnia in my pocket all the time."

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M. Sig.-Teaspoonful immediately after each meal. THE following bit of "newspaper science" was clipped from a leading newspaper in a large city. The learning displayed is rather stunning:

"After all, our grandmothers knew a thing or two. The only trouble was the crude way in which their remedies were administered. Then one had onions fried in sugar and mixed with honey for hoarseness; now one takes a delicate lozenge. Then a big, nauseous dose of castor oil followed by hot sassafras tea was considered best; now rhinitis is given in tiny pellets alternated with antipyrine. Rhinitis, by the way, is one of the many new treatments for a cold, but it can not be easily obtained. It is a private formula, containing camphor, quinine, belladonna and strychnine. It is administered in pellets at short intervals and its effects are wonderful.

"Every one should own a small atomizer for the nostrils. It is effective when filled with a six per cent. solution of cocaine sprayed to clear the air passages of the nose.

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The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge; the only knowledge
that has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. The rest
hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.—FROUDE.

The Medical World. "The Medical Summary," gives as his spe

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"No person need die of grip; not only that, but no one need ever be sick enough from grip to go to bed or quit his usual occupation," says Dr. Keely. "Asafetida, in doses of sixteen grains, administered four times a day, will completely break up the worst case of grip at any stage of its development. Not only will asafetida cure the grip in its primary form, but it will break up many of the complications arising from it. It is as absolute a specific for grip as quinine is for ague. A particularly valuable quality of this specific is its cheapness simplicity and harmlessness. No matter how many grains you may take in a day it will not hurt you."

Dr. William Hay, of Antwerp, N. Y., in

cific for this disease bicarbonate of potassium, in doses every four hours of thirty grains for the robust adult, reduced proportionately for the young, and for the aged or feeble.

We have found very satisfactory results from the use of camphor, and also of the various preparations of ammonia, for the same purpose.

Dr. Carl Seiler, of this city, uses benzoate of sodium, ten grain doses every two or four hours, as the remedy.

Treatment of Serpent Poisoning.

In the season that is now at hand it is well to remember the most effective treatment for snake-poisoning.

Permanganate of potassium, in solution, applied to the wound and injected into the tissues around it, is the first remedy.

The tincture of iodine or a solution of any of the iodides, applied in the same manner, may be resorted to as an antidote.

Strychnine or nux vomica, given freely, to keep the heart and respiration stimulated until elimination is complete, is the very best systemic remedy. Next to this in value will be found the various heart and nerve stimulants-ammonia, digitalis, etc. Do not use alcohol, excepting locally.

With the proper use of permanganate of potassium and strychnine very few patients need be lost from snake-bite unless found practically moribund when treatment is begun. Of course the ordinary mechanical methods of treatment should be employedexhausting the poison from the wound, tying the limb (if so situated) above the wound, etc.

Some years ago a physician gave uni

formly good results from the free use of pure olive oil, locally and internally-the patient drinking large quantities of the oil.

Treatment of Cholera Infantum.

From the light of the observation, research and experience of past years, the treatment of this dreaded disease may be briefly summed up as follows:

In the early stage clear out the intestinal tract with a suitable antiseptic laxative. For this purpose salines, rhubarb, minute doses of calomel and other agents are used.

The lower bowel should be frequently washed out with an appropriate antiseptic solution.

Intestinal antiseptics must be given freely from the first moment of treatment. The best agents of this class are sulpho-carbolate of zinc in one-sixth grain doses and arsenite of copper in one-five-thousandth to one-thousandth grain doses. The medication should be given every ten minutes until relief is secured, then less frequently, as needed.

The specific treatment, when any great degree of prostration has been reached, is that advocated so well by Dr. J. A. Larrabee, of Louisville, Ky.-the hypodermic injection of morphine and atropine, the dose being proportionate to the age of the child. This method is fully set forth in this journal for June and August, 1892.

All drinks, which should be given very freely, should be given ice cold or hot, so as to allay gastric irritability. They should be well acidulated with lactic acid. If that is not available, lemon juice may be used. as a substitute.

The New Proposed Cure for Con-
sumption and Cancer.

Just as we are closing our pages there comes the news from Germany that a New York physician, Dr. Louis Waldstein, now pursuing his investigations in Berlin, has elaborated a very effective method of treating tuberculosis and cancer. The method consists in the hypodermic injection of minute doses of pilocarpine. The theory is that, by stimulating the lymphatic system, it encourages the activity of the white blood corpuscles, which are thus enabled to overcome the disease process. The discovery is announced to be more important, even, than those of Koch or Pasteur.

The mode of action of this treatment would seem to sustain the theory of Dr. Frank S. Parsons, as set forth in his book, reviewed by us on page 156, April World.

The Opium and Bromide Treat-
ment of Epilepsy.

The treatment of epilepsy, aside from a removal of its active cause, is generally very unsatisfactory. Most cases re-ist the bromides, after the first favorable impression. The treatment with which Flechsig has had very favorable results, is as follows:

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Opium is administered, beginning with one grain after each meal and gradually increasing until ten or twelve grains daily are taken, accompanied with free catharsis and active physical exercise to overcome the unpleasant effects of the drug. This treatment is continued for about six weeks. opium is then abruptly discontinued and large doses of bromides are given. In this stage of the treatment the attacks are gotten under control. When this result is attained the doses of the bromides are gradually reduced until they are finally discontinued. Most excellent results have been

The question of diet is an important one, and should be the constant thought of the physician in each particular case. It is too long to be adequately treated in this brief obtained, but the treatment has not been

resume.

For hemorrhage from the lungs Dr. Spranger, of Laurel, Cal., in "The Medical Summary," recommends the inhalation of the fumes of boiling vinegar.

sufficiently long under observation for a definite opinion.

The doses here mentioned are for adults. Of course they should be modified according to the age and other circumstances of the

case.

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Articles accepted must be contributed to this journal only. The editors are not responsible for views expressed by contributors.

Copy must be received on or before the twelfth of the month for publication in the next month. Unused manuscript cannot be returned.

Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want dowright facts at present more than anything else.-RUSKIN.

READ. REFLECT. COMPARE. RECORD.

Dr. Matchette's "Whiskey Cure."

Editor Medical World:-For the past score and more of years I have been treating the "whisky habit" by a reliable and original method of my own, and being able to number cases of perfect cure of the habit by the hundreds, scattered over all parts of the Union, and having had but a remarkable fraction of about 2 per cent. of failures, and those only among patients who refused to submit to the full treatment, I am now ready to make known to the profession at large, my methods of treatment, for the benefit of humanity. This I do at the earnest solicitation of hundreds of physicians, who have for long years. watched my methods of treatment and the results, physical as well as moral, on the subjects leaving my institution in Bourbon, Ind., and my other branches.

Let me say, that an "institute" for treating a large number of these cases together has its advantages as well as disadvantages.

An aggregation of patients for treatment aids a patient greatly by his being thrown among a vast number of cases afflicted as sorelv, if not far worse than himself; and when he sees the wonderful curative changes being wrought on his fellow "students" under treatment he is encouraged to do all that is within his power to take the "cure" "in all its beauties" of perfect renovation of mind, body and soul, with the best of his "class," and to be a perfect man so far as any power short of Deity can aid him, and usually he finds every student giving him every possible aid in his noble endeavors for his regeneration.

In a large class, the boys have always their mystic, aid, social, and literary recreation "clubs," where a new student, or, as they facetiously denominate him, a

"fresh fish," is always welcomed with often hilarious acclaims of pleasure to the "cure," and all vie to show the new arrival the most cordial manifestations of that kindness and brotherly consideration of which the old student ever has a great and overflowing heartfull for all entering the "cure."

Often the new patient comes to the "cure" "too full for utterance," except a grunt or a groan, and has to be carried within its portals, as he is too drunk for a step, or a word of protest, or greeting, until after he is given two or three "shots," and awakes to the realities of life at the "cure." One of the disadvantages of a large number in a "class," is that new men often come into the "Institute" with a "pocket pistol" well loaded with liquor, and generously insist on every man, woman and child connected with the "cure" "smiling" with him, as if at a public bar, and occasionally prevail on an older student "taking a nip" with him, that often makes the poor fellow sick, requiring a few shots extra to settle the dram he didn't care for.

The chief advantage of treating together a score or several hundreds is the mutual ssupport that is found among this class, that does much towards hastening a perfect cure for each and all in the "Institute" taking

treatment.

One taking treatment alone is apt not to enter so wholly heart and soul, and the treatment then often appears to be a great "bore," if not an actual punishment for the erstwhile fellow of the great social heart, who, when full, loves all mankind and calls. all fellows a brother-bibulous. When taking treatment alone often he feels deserted by all friends and fellows and forced to do penance alone for past follies of drink.

Together, the crowd "take their medicine," with a joke and a smile, different from a solitary patient, with none to enjoy. life with him or a brother-student to loudly laugh at his ludicrous griefs or sympathize with his periods of "raising Jonah," when first getting under the full treatments.

All in all, a case can be more successfully treated with others and the time of treatment shortened nearly one-half, by treating a large number together in a "class," as all with large experience unite in declaring.

That my treatment has not been mercenary alone is proven by having within a short period treated about four score and ten "without money and without price," and in many cases boarding the patients free, and by the fee I have adopted, of from

$15 to $25, according to case, condition and length of time required for a cure, and amount of medicine required in the treatment, some cases yielding perfectly to onehalf or even one-fourth the amount of treatment that others require. The cost of the entire treatment is only about one-third to one-fourth to the patient, as compared with other treatments.

The "beer habit" generally is more stubborn and resists treatment for cure more than any other.

First, on entry, the patient is to have a thorough hot bath. If necessary, a cathartic of the good old "comp. cathartic pill, imp.," and a hypodermic injection of the following prescription:

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This is to be kept up until the patient is discharged cured, in about 3 weeks, or, of course, as found necessary in each case. During the first few hours, say from 12 to 72 hours, the patient is furnished with a very generous quantity of liquors, of the very best brands, until he declines, himself, to use it, which is often within the first day. Sometimes the patient comes, boasting that he will "buck the tiger" and never give up the liquor, and such cases sometimes are the first to discard all spirits.

Again, others will say little or nothing about drinks, but may be seen sitting beside a pump or hydrant, with a flask in one hand and a cup of water in the other, trying to force his stomach to hold a drink, after a score or an hundred times vomiting it up, when forced down with a gulp of water on top of it, to try to hold it down in the stomach. Such usually yield sullenly to the inevitable, and cry "a pig knows when he has had enough, so do I," and are on the same speedy road to cure.

Many patients feel that as soon as liquor, by taste or smell, vomits them, that they are cured, and want to be honorably discharged as cured, but they should be kept on treatment until the experienced physician feels that they are perfectly cured beyond all possible peradventure, as the patient's judgment in these cases should not be relied on. Of course, vast differences in patients will require the physician to exercise the most profound judgment in the treatment and to vary this treatment according to the necessities of each individual case, for in these cases each "is a law unto himself," and the doctor must be prepared for the most thorough and profound understanding of the especial case under treatment, and exhibit his treatment accordingly, or he will have, for long, long months, many cases to mourn as failuresnot of the line of treatment here indicated, but of his own lack of judgment in pushing or withholding the treatment, to suit the indications present. With careful study of each and every case treated, no matter how stubborn, success awaits the conscientious physician.

In these lines nothing has been said of the different cases having a variation of this treatment, but every physician's experience will suggest the variations that the different cases will require as to age, condition, constitution, and he will give each case that medication as he finds indicated and his ability to bear the treatment detailed, either heavier or lighter, as demanded.

These cases are to be most generously nourished and often with the chemical assistants, such as Horlick's or Nestle's Foods, or Reed & Carnick's peptonoids.

Cheerful associations as much as possible and all encouragements of a "gold cure" club are of the greatest benefit in perfecting a certain and speedy cure.

A. C. MATCHETTE, M.D., Bourbon, Ind., and Chicago, Ill.

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