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FOR reliable, scientific diphtheria antitoxin address Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. KINDLY see the full page advertisement, this issue, of Dr. A. G. Selman's Solanum treatment for epilepsy. Doubtless many have on hand a very obstinate case of this disease. Write to the Doctor, 680 East Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. Remedies in Rhyme. By J. W. Wells, M. D., Vanceburg, Ky., in Ec. Med. Jour. The following ingenious and instructive rhymes give, in an easy way, some of the guiding principles of the eclectic practitioners. If the pulse is small, frequent too, Fever heavy or light, Always give most carefully Specific aconite. For full and bounding pulse, What e'er the cause may be, Specific medicationists Give veratrum viride. When face is flushed and eyes are bright, Will pull the patient through. In dullness, and in hebetude, To sleep a disposition; Give belladonna in full faith, And hope a glad fruition. Fullness of the eyelids, In itching, also burning, Of the generative box, Tincture of the honey-bee, Pains rheumatic or false, lying, Though the sick ones vow they're dying. Fullness of face, fullness of veins, Fullness of abdomen, Fullness of tongue, podophyllin; Fullness of other things-then! Pulsatilla patients are nervous, despondent, Restless, sleepless, pulse easily compressed;, Eyes dull, dark lines below them: The cause of the marks are easily guessed. Pulse small, pulse sharp, pain in head, Especially right over the left eye; Burning pain, red spots on tongue,Rhus tox, can be learned if you try. Acids for a deep-red tongue; Broad, pallid one alkali; Bromine inhale in croup, Drops x to water dr. ij. Cutting pain in abdomen, The pulse stroke is feeble A touch keeps currents above: Sounds of the heart heard faintlyThree calls for foreign fox glove. Elongated, pointed tongue. Reddened tip and edges, Gastric pain and tenderness, For this we have our wedges. Amygdalis persica Is surely no delusion; The tincture give them in water, Or in a cold infusion. Imtense tormina and tenesmus. Discharge of mucous, pink, Nitrate of the very stuff That in our pockets clink. Indolent chancres and buboes, Contracted tongue, in cases all, When we see the urine, And the smell is strong, Acidum benzoicum Will help the case along. Delirium tremens, feeble pulse, (Continued on next leaf.) The knowledge that a man can use is the only real knowledge; the only knowledge Pay no money to agents for this journal unless publisher's receipt is given. PHILADELPHIA, PA. JULY 1895. ing the season now at hand, make close observations in your locality. Have the families under your charge drink no water that has not been boiled, or perhaps even boiled first, then filtered, and have them be careful to eat no raw fruit, berries nor vegetables without first removing any outside contamination by paring or washing. It is our opinion that many communities now subject to malarial disorders can, by these precautions, enjoy comparative immunity. Let us have your report at the close of the season. The Savages Are, Unconsciously, Bacteriologists. M. Dantec has demonstrated that the arrow poison used by the natives of the New Hebrides contains neither serpent venom nor vegetable extract. It contains two deadly disease germs-the vibrion No. 7. septique, which causes that form of blood poisoning known as malignant edema, destroying life in from twelve to fifteen hours if still active, and the bacillus of tetanus, which, if the former poison prove inert, will finish up the unlucky victim in a much longer time. The poison is obtained from the earth in certain marshy places. The horse cannot be the origin of the tetanus germ, as that animal is unknown in that entire group of islands. Malaria Generally a Water-Borne Disease. There have been many theories promulgated as to the origin and mode of dissemination of the malaria, germ. The name itself perpetuates one theory, most universally believed in its transmission through the air. This we believe to be a scientifically demonstrated truth. Hence per sons should avoid undue exposure to a malarious atmosphere, especially during the period from sunset to an hour after sunrise. However, we do not believe that this is the only or even the principal mode of the dissemination of this poison. It has been conclusively proven that persons may live in otherwise very healthful locations and, drinking contaminated water, suffer from malarial fever, while others living in the same locality, but drinking pure water, will be entirely free from the disease. Dur The Specific Treatment of Cancerous Growths. There is an apparent pause in the advance of the treatment of malignant growths by the toxines of erysipelas. Several observers have lately read papers and contributed articles demonstrating the entire failure of this mode of treatment in their hands. Its advocates are still hopeful, however, and we hope with them, for all well-wishers of humanity would be sorely disappointed if the early promises of this discovery should not be fulfilled. 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. Hydrophobia. Editor Medical World: On the night of October 20, 1894, I was called to sce my niece, Minnie Murray, aged 11 years. I found her undoubtedly suffering with the dread disease, hydrophobia. On September 22d, about 3 p. m., she had been bitten by a dog on both legs and one arm, but as the dog was killed there was no way of arriving at a positive conclusion as to whether the dog was rabid. The parents took some precautions to prevent the child having the disease. The wounds were dressed by Dr. Winkler and myself. We used a strong solution. of permanganate of potassium. In a day or so they took her to a mad-stone, and then put her on elecampane, which they continued to give (at my suggestion) in 30 grain doses three times per day until she developed the disease. The mother had noticed that the child was growing very nervous, but saw no positive signs until October 19th. Just 27 days from the day she was bitten she complained that the places on her hand where she was bitten hurt-said the pain extended up to her shoulder. The wounds, though slight, and healed without any trouble, now looked inflamed. She ate but little that day and did not sleep well that night. The next day she complained of aching all over. Saturday morning she ate breakfast, some dinner, a little supper, but vomited her supper. Up in the day complained of pain from the light in her eyes. The photophobia lasted until Sunday afternoon. She kept her arm up to her eyes continually to shut out the light. She grew more restless and nervous until night, when they sent for me. As I live 15 miles away it took several hours to get me there. When I arrived I found her almost frantic with nervousness. Her temperature was, as near as I could get it, 101° F. I gave 1-4 gr. morphia sulph, with 1-160 gr. atropia. As soon as she became more quiet I gave 6 grains of calomel, as her bowels were constipated. She slept well the balance of the night. Bowels acted well the next morning. Her nervous symptoms returned also. She had an intense thirst all the time, but would put off drinking as long as possible, saying that it hurt so to swallow. When drinking her eyes would look like they were going to jump out, besides the muscles of swallowing would contract spasmodically. These laryngeal spasms would come on from hearing any one spit in a basin of water. About 3 o'clock she became worse. In endeavoring to swallow she would become scared and jump up, and the spasms of the larynx would continue after she would quit trying to swallow. She perspired profusely all the time after Sunday, 3 p. m., but complained of being cold, and would wrap herself up in blankets. She spat at frequent intervals a very sticky saliva. About dark Sunday night she began to complain of a cramping sensation in her hands and extending over her body, and would have those around her to rub her until the feeling would pass off. She talked incessantly from about 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon until 5 p. m. Monday, when she became unconscious. Monday morning I noticed that when she was looking at any one her eyes were not still long at a time; this grew worse until they were in a perfect dance. She was perfectly in her right mind all the while; her brain seemed just stimulated enough to make her talk rather more intelligently than usual. She died Monday evening at 7 o'clock, the fourth day after the first symptom. As to treatment: I gave calomel, lobelia, the bromides, chloral, steam bath, but soon saw that I could not check the disease, so I relied on hypodermics to quiet her, which was all that seemed to do any good. Every precaution was taken to keep her mind free from the dread or thought of her ever having the disease. In fact, she said she knew she would not have it, as she had been to the mad-stone. I will say here, that the stone failed to adhere for any length of time. She never suspected having hydrophobia; often asked me what was the matter with her. Two dogs known to have been bitten by the same dog went mad-one before Minnie and one a few days after. Two calves were bitten by one of these dogs and had the same disease. Other dogs were bitten, but were promptly killed. De Witt, Ark. John H. Walton, M.D., Accompanying this the Doctor sent a clipping from the county paper containing an eloquent plea for the destruction of all useless dogs, written by the mother of the victim, Mrs. J. H. Murray. The Doctor states also that he had our editorial on the subject from the September, 1894, number, published in the local paper. Either that editorial or an article giving the same information should be published in every country paper in the United States during this summer.-Ed.) Rattlesnake Bite-Recovery Without Treat ment. Editor Medical World: The following personal history of a rattlesnake bite seems a little different than the usual, and, if you see fit, you are welcome to publish it: I was bitten on the dorsal side of my right hand, a good, fair strike, at 11.30 o'clock, Sunday, in October, 1893. I immediately applied my lips to the wound and extracted what poison I could by suction. Five minutes later a circumscribed swelling, the size of a silver dollar, in appearance like a bee sting, was noticeable. A peculiar numbness and formication, like aconite and cocaine, had now developed in my mouth, with a tendency to contraction of the orbicular muscles, such as would follow the application of the electric current. At 2 o'clock the same day I retired to lunch. The swelling involved the entire hand at this time, and was rapidly extending up the forearm. Deglutition of liquids or solids caused an annoying lump to appear in my throat, simulating "globus hystericus," and the harder I tried to swallow the larger the lump seemed, disappear ing a minute or so upon resisting the temptation to swallow. The heart strength was never impaired for a moment, careful watch being kept over that. I had no fear or trepidation whatever, but still an illdefined sense of impending danger seemed present, necessitating a deep inspiration at times, a feeling akin to that which comes over a person when about to enter some contest of skill or strength. No stimulants of any kind were taken nor any effort whatever made to counteract the effect of the poison. So long as the pulse rate was normal I cared not for the local effect. I took, as usual, my afternoon nap that day, and when I awakened the swelling had extended above my elbow, and there it stopped. The edema was enormous and cellular in character. It caused pain only upon movement, and then only in the extensor muscles. The local sensation in my mouth and throat disappeared that evening, and by the following Thursday the swelling had all gone from my arm and I had never missed a meal or lost an hour's rest. A cancrum oris developed in my mouth the next day following the accident, which accounted for the local symptoms, the poison having entered the circulation through the abraded mucous membrane. My reason for declining treatment was a desire to note the local and constitutional effect of the crotalus poison. The snake was the prairie rattler, which I had captured in Montana three weeks preW. M. Beck, M.D., Shell Lake, Wis. Hematuria Following a Concussion of the Kidney. Editor Medical World: On April 7, 1895, I was called to see a man, aged 45 years, who, 20 hours earlier, had fallen from a bicycle and received a blow upon the left lumbar region. There was a history of a sensation of fullness and great pain in the locality of the left kidney, and, although a considerable quantity of urine had been voided, yet no blood had appeared. However, 64 hours after the injury, there was a copious flow of very bloody urine, in which the blood was thoroughly infiltrated. There were no clots at any period. This lasted for ten days, when the urine gradually regained its normal condition. The only treatment in this case was rest in bed, dry heat, in the form of water-bags over the seat of injury, a liquid diet of milk and beef tea and the following medication, viz: A granule composed of morphia, 1-20 grain, and atropia, 1-500 grain, given in hot water every half hour at first and less frequently as the suffering subsided. When the hematuria made its appearance, four granules of ergotin, 1-6 grain each, were given every two hours. This latter was continued until all blood disappeared from the urine. A tendency to constipation was overcome by small doses of magnesia sulphate. After one month's rest and treatment the patient returned to his work a well man. O. W. Braymer, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., Camden, N. J. Editor Medical World: I feel that I must sit down and write "right away," as they say. Yesterday I was called to visit a child 2 years old, suffering from acute capillary bronchitis. I won't attempt to describe other sounds indicative of disease; sufficient to say that all were drowned in the mucous rattle up and down the bronchial tubes, at every inspiration and expiration. The case was in extremis; the pulse above all calculation; the breathing mostly abdominal and the body covered with a cold sweat. What could be more disheartening? The usual remedies administered were of no avail, and death was expected and would have been welcomed as a relief to the sufferings of the little child. At 7 p. m. I visited it again-no improvement. I recollected reading of a case reported in your journal of an exactly similar character-unfortunately I forget the name of the reporter (but many thanks to him, whoever he is)—which was cured by giving small doses of bichromate of potassium. One grain of the salt was well rubbed up with 9 grains of sugar of milk, was placed in a glass with 20 teaspoonfuls of boiling water. A teaspoonful was given every 10 minutes till the symptoms improved. I followed up this practice myself for 3 hours; vomiting of a red liquid took place; the bowels moved quite sharply, both of which excretions smelled very badly. About 10 p. m. the respirations became less frequent and the abdominal breathing less marked. The symptoms from this time gradually improved, sleep supervened and gradual warmth spread over the body. So most unexpectedly the dreadful capillary bronchitis (so fatal generally) was changed to an ordinary case of bronchitis and went on to recovery. What was the therapeutic effect of this salt on the disease in question? Like the salts of potassium generally, did it act by liquefying the obstinate and tenacious mucus that was threatening instant suffocation, or was there a microbe in the case, that found its master? However, the recovery was a surprise to all, myself included; but let my readers understand that, if they have a similar case, they must superintend themselves, as I did, if they expect similar results. HENRY B. EVANS, M.D., Picton, Ontario. (Bichromate of potassium can be very conveniently administered in the form of granules.-Ed.) A Little Brownie's Perilous Exploration. Editor Medical World: On Sunday, May 12, 1895, little Helen A—, aged 3 years, came running and choking to her mother, and, between fits of coughing and vomiting, informed her that she had swallowed her pin (a present from her grandfather). As she had been seen shortly before playing with it, and a search through every nook and corner failed to reveal it. the now thoroughly affrighted family accepted the child's statement. In a few minutes the bad news had spread over the neighborhood and sympathetic friends contributed profuse advice and assistance. The virtue of "castor oil," "salts and sinne" or "Garfield Tea" were urged as invariably successful, while "McCarthic's liver pills, the "Little Mine Exploder," the "Monster in Parvo," or the "Greased Lightning Excavator Parvule" all had their enthusiastic defenders to guide the little Brownie safely through its tortuous and dismal journey. One neighbor, whose cow had swallowed his wife's whole set of store teeth, in opposition to the rest and with some reflection, advocated to "stuff the child with mush." The father, however, was the first to rally from the excitement. Leaving orders that nothing should be done, he picked up his hat and arrived, breathless, at my office. In a few jerky sentences he stated what |