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R Strychnin. nitras
Acidi nitrici.

Tr. ferri chloridi.
Aquae..

M. Sig.-Take

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1 teaspoonful before
meals, in a wineglassful of water.
R Fluid ext. pruni Virg......oz. ss
Sig.-Take from 10 to 15 drops after
meals, in tablespoonful of water, and,
at the same time, 5 drops of liq. sodii
arsenitis.

In attacks of angina nitroglycerin is of great benefit; 1-100-grain tablet, three or four times a day, will quickly relieve the pain. In some cases the patient will require an active cholagogue purge. The following is an ideal one:

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M.-Divide into 120 powders.

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Sig. Give 1 powder once or twice during the twenty-four hours, either per mouth, rectum, or hypodermatically.

If at any time the patient should have severe dyspnea, give the fluid extract of quebracho, in doses of 15 to 30 drops, every three or four hours, in water.

In cases of sub-acute rheumatism the fol-
lowing will give quick relief:
R Fluid ext. cimicifuga,
Fluid ext. pilocarpi,
Fluid ext. manaca,

Fluid ext. piscidia......aa. dr. v
M. Sig.-Give 20 drops every three
hours, in a tablespoonful of water.

If the parts are painful the following will give quick relief:

R Ichthyol Aquae

oz. j

...oz. viij Mix and apply to the parts every four hours; cover with cotton.

In cases of senile heart, when we find the patient loaded down with fat, a lax abdomen, and distended intestines, the following will give good results:

R Rubidii iodidi.

.dr. ij

Fld. ext. adonis vernalis....dr. j
Fld. ext. rhamni pursh.,
Fld. ext. eubnymi atrop.,

Fld. ext. leptandra.....aa. dr. iss

Elix. simp. glycerini....ad. oz. ij

M. Sig.-Take 1⁄2 teaspoonful before meals and one hour after, in a wineglassful of water.

The whole body should be well rubbed with the following ointment: Take of equal parts of beef-marrow and leaf lard, recently prepared 8 ounces; ol. cinnamomi, ol. eucalypti, and creasoti, of each 1 drachm. Mix and use once a day, special attention being given to the abdomen for at least fifteen minutes each time.

If pneumonia supervene, the following can be given:

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R Salol

Phenazone

Oil of sandal wood.
Copaibi

.60 grains

.30 grains

45 drops .90 drops

M. Divide into 30 equal parts, in capsules.

Sig. One capsule every two hours.

Frequently, after the acute symptoms have subsided and local treatment is being carried out, we find cases that fail to yield to any topical measure. In such instances I have seen recovery follow in a short time after the use of a tonic alterative. For example:

R Syrup of hydriodic acid
Compound syrup of hypo-
phosphites
.aa f oz. ij

M. Sig.-A dessertspoonful in a wine-
glassful of water, before meals, thrice
daily.

Few

With this constitutional treatment systematic local treatment is conjoined. cases resist.

Dr. W. T. Ashworth, of Serrersville, N. Y., writes: "I have used Sander & Son's 'Eucalyptol' with the most gratifying results in chronic nasal catarrh, edema, etc. I use this formula:

R Eucalyptel (s. and s.)......dr. jss
Glycerine and aristol......aa. oz. 1
Sig.-Use as a spray twice a day.

HOW WE INTEND TO CHECK SUBSTITUTION OF DRUGS.

Owing to the fact that substitution of drugs is practiced to a great extent, we earnestly request our readers to assist us in reporting to us all cases in which they may have been the victims of this criminal offense, giving the name and address of impostors, also all particulars to substantiate their statement, such as sworn affidavit, etc.

We will expose in our columns the names of fraudulent dealers on receipt of satisfactory evidence.

All our readers will admit that a doctor who prescribes a certain remedy expects that his prescription shall be filled accordingly. A druggist has no right whatever to use his own judgment in the matter, otherwise he places the reputation of the physician as well as the life of his patient in jeopardy.

Feeling that all doctors, honest druggists, and manufacturers of legitimate preparations will be benefited by our action in this matter, we solicit their assistance.

The above notice must be considered as a warning to druggists who believe that they are at liberty to substitute drugs.

Reviews.

A Practical Theory and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. By Frank S. Parsons, M. D., editor of The Times and Register. Second edition revised. Paper, price 25 cents. The Medical Publishing Company, 718 Betz Building, Philadelphia.

Dr. Parsons' theory has been received with marked favor in practical medical circles. Those who have much tuberculosis to treat must spend the small amount of time necessary to read this book to give their patients the benefit of his ideas of treatment.

Physical, Intellectual and Moral Advantages of Chastity. By M. L. Holbrook, M. D., editor of The Journal of Hygiene and Herald of Health. Cloth, 120 pages; price, $1.00. Published by M. L. Holbrook & Co., New York, N. Y. This is a good, pure, strong book upon a great and growing subject. Every boy and girl, every man and woman should read it. Every physician need: a good book on this subject to recommend to his patrons. He should by all means read this one and he will very likely select it for the purpose, as it compares with the best. Key Notes of Health and a Century of Life. By Dr. Charles W. Scott. Cloth, 201 pages; $2.50. Published by C. W. Scott, Jr., & Co., Boston, Mass.

We have examined this work with care and find it quite interesting, although written pri

marily for the laity. The Doctor's advice is plain, practical and right to the point. It will be of benefit generally to the members of the laity who read it.

A Banker's Dream. By Thomas W. Proctor. Price, 25 cents. Progressive Book Publishing Company, Vineland, N. J.

This book is written by a high-minded and earnest lover of humanity, and is a serious warning against the calamities that will soon overtake us if we continue in our present financial and governmental course. It is intensely interesting and fascinating and should be read by all American citizens as one of the books which help to throw a light upon our present situation and future prospects. "Pediatrics" is the title of a new semi-monthly journal devoted to diseases of children. Price, $2.00 per year. Van Publishing Company, 1432 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

A complete and immediate revolution of transportation methods involving a reduction of freight charges on grain from the West to New York of from 50 to 60 per cent. is what is predicted in the November Cosmopolitan. The plan proposes using light and inexpensive corrugated iron cylinders, hung on a slight rail supported on poles from a cross-arm-the whole system involving an expense of not more than $1500 a mile for construction. The rolling stock is equally simple and comparatively inexpensive. Continuous lines of cylinders, moving with no interval to speak of, would carry more grain in a day than a quadruple track railway. This would constitute a sort of grain-pipe line. The Cosmopolitan also points out the probable abolition of street cars before the coming horseless carriage, which can be operated by a boy on asphalt pavements at a total expense for labor, oil and interest of not more than one dollar a day.

Dr. Eugene P. Bernardy, 221 South Seventeenth street, Philadelphia, requests us to state that his supply of reprints of his article on Aneroticism is exhausted. The Doctor will give an article on the subject to the profession soon.

Wit and Wisdom.

THE CHEERFUL IDIOT.

"Who knows what the death rate is here?" asked the statistical boarder.

"Why," gurgled the cheerful idiot, "anybody ought to know that there is one death apiece for every inhabitant."

The statistical boarder began some remarks on the subject of the cheerful idiot's grammar, but the mad rush for strawberries drowned his voice in the clamor.

Dr. Pillem-"Did you administer the opiate at 9 o'clock as I directed?"

Mrs. Gamp (with a sniff)-"That I did, sir; but it seemed a pity to have to wake the poor man out of the first sound sleep he's had in four days to give it to him!"-New York World.

The Heart Tonic Granules, made by the Philadelphia Granule Company, are not excelled in the world. Only $1.50 per thousand. Their Laxative Granules will absolutely cure constipation; price, 90 cents per thousand. Their Tonic

Granule is the best formula known for general debility, nervous debility or to hasten convalescence; $1.85 per thousand. Their Anti-Suppurative Granule is most excellent in suppurative conditions, boils, acne, abscesses, glandular inflammations, etc.; $1.85 per thousand. Philadelphia Granule Company, No. 10 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia.

As a reliable reconstructive and tonic use Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic.

For ready soluble hypodermic tablets send to Sharp & Dohme, Baltimore.

For sample of Pancreo-Bismuth with Pepsin, send to George C. Frye, Chemist, Portland, Me Dr. Julius Fehr's Compound Talcum Baby Powder is a soothing and agreeable application to the irritated skin.

For the Auto-Sterilizing Thermometer Case send to Alfred A. Smith & Co., Mertz Building, Eleventh and F streets, Washington, D. C.

A good nutrient beverage is Malto-Nutrine, made by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, St. Louis, Mo.

For Elastic Trusses, Suspensory Bandages, Abdominal and Uterine Supporters, Elastic Stockings, etc., send to G. W. Flavell & Bro., 1005 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia.

The ideal Nerve Tonic is Celerina. The best Uterine Tonic is Aletris Cordial. For samples (you paying express charges), send to Rio Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.

The new laxative and tonic is Melachol. Sample if you will pay express charges. Alta Pharmacal Company, St. Louis, Mo.

Many marvelous reports are coming in regarding Protonuclein. For samples send to Reed & Camrick, New York, N. Y.

We keep a bottle of Listerine on our toilet table to cleanse the mouth and throat and for its many useful purposes.

For the wonderful Pil. Sambul Comp., for nervous and hysterical women, address William R. Warner & Co., Philadelphia.

An undertaker will be no longer known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held at Louisville.-Western Medical Journal.

Mellin's Food is acknowledged as the standard for infant dietetic preparations.

For first-class operating chairs send to W. D. Allison Company, 85 East South street, Indianapolis, Ind.

Arsenauro is rapidly becoming recognized as a standard alterative.

By all means treat yourself to a winter suit from the importing tailoring house of E. O. Thompson, 1338 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.

For your insomnia patients prescribe Sulfonal (Bayer). Send to Schieffelin & Co., New York. Send to The Searle & Hereth Co., Chicago, for detailed literature on Tritica for kidney and bladder affections.

For Avena, the remedy for the morphine habit, send to B. Keith & Co., 75 William street, New York, N. Y.

Subscribe for the Alkaloidal Clinic. Address Abbott Alkaloidal Company, Station X, Chicago.

ALWAYS SO WITH THE FIRST.

"It's a boy," gleefully shouted Mr. Tadly, rushing violently into the bank. "Here!" he continued, slapping $10 down on the counter, "start him a bank book, will ye? I mean to add to it every year-call it my fresh heir fund." In your diphtheria cases you will want Antitoxine. Send to H. K. Mulford Company, Philadelphia.

Send to Imperial Hernia Cure Company, Jacksonville, Fla., for material to cure your hernia patients.

The "family laxative" is California Fig Syrup. The Pile Ointment put up by Fred W. Stewart, Oswego, N. Y., is a success.

For literature and a free sample (free of all charges), of a good pre-digested food, address Pre-Digested Food Company, 30 Read street, New York, N. Y.

Many of our readers last year accepted our offer headed "This will save you over two dollars." The arrangement was this: we offered to send a 24 vial case filled with the most practical dosimetric granules, the regular price for the case and granules, being $4.02, plus $1 00 for WORLD, equaling $5.02, all of which we supplied last year for $3 00!!! Yes, we will do so again this year. Send 8 cents registration fee if you wish safe delivery of case guaranteed.

Cure constipation in the rational way-with the glycerine suppositories made by W.E. Gibbs, 111 Liberty street, New York, N. Y. Samples free.

For the best disinfectant, send for a free bottle of Electrozone, to the George Carleton Brown Company, 72 Park Place, New York, N. Y.

Imperial Granum is a rational, pure and successful food for infants, children, nursing mothers, invalids, convalescents and aged persons. Sample free. John Carle & Sons, 153 Water street, New York, N. Y.

SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR.

A Scotch lady invited an elder in the Free Church to have supper with her, and a piece of remarkably tough veal was placed on the table. After some frantic endeavors to cut it, during which the elder's plate landed on his knees, the lady said: "Ye aye said there wis something to be thankfu' for in everything; I jalouse ye wud be at a loss to fin' something to be thankfu' for in that veal?" "Not at a'," he responded, cheerfully, stopping to breathe; "I wis just thinking hoo gratefu' we should be that we met with it when it was young."

For improved methods of treating rectal diseases, see the full page advertisement of Charles L. Mitchell, M. D., Manufacturing Chemist, 1016 Cherry street, Philadelphia.

I have frequently prescribed Dr. McArthur's Syrup of Hypophosphites, and have found it to be a therapeutic agent of great value in the treatment of many diseases.

O. G. Cilley, M. D., Surgeon-General, Mass. For indigestion of starchy foods use TakaDiastase, put up by Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich.

For batteries send to McIntosh Battery and Optical Company, 521 to 531 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill.

ANTIKAMNIA-QUININE-SALOL.

The well-known therapeutical properties of these drugs make this combination desirable in such intestinal affections as fermentative dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery, duodenal catarrh, cholera infantum and typhoid fever. The antikamnia controls the pain as effectually as morphine, and yet is never followed with any of those undesirable effects so characteristic of opium and its derivatives. Freedom from pain saves an immense amount of wear and tear to the system and places it in a much better position for recovery. The solol acts as an antiseptic and removes from the intestinal canal the first or continuing cause of the affections just mentioned. The quinine acts as a tonic, increasing the appetite, and thus contributing much to a speedy recovery. Hare says that quinine is not only a simple bitter, "but also seems to have a direct effect in increasing the number of the red blood corpuscles." A tablet composed of antikamnia two grains, quinine sulph. two grains, and salol one grain, allows of the easy administration of these drugs in proper proportionate doses.

Messrs. W. H. Hostelley & Co., Gentlemen-I have used the Syrup of Hydriodic Acid as freely as any physician outside the hospitals. I find many makes on the market-some excellent, others good for nothing. When properly made and stable it fills the bill, though much of it becomes dark brown, throwing out the iodine. When in this condition the patient takes simple syrup and free iodine.

I use the syrup freely in tertiary syphilis, in scrofulous conditions of the neck and of the osseous structure; in asthma; in whooping cough; in chronic bronchitis, and in the bronchorrhea of elderly people. I yesterday prescribed the syrup for whooping cough, in a child three years old, with the fluid extract castoria and elix. paregoric and will to-day send a prescription to West Virginia for the Syrup Hydriodic Acid (Hostelley & Co., Philadelphia), for a child with necrosis of the tibia.

A. A. Atkinson, M. D., Baltimore, Md. Late Professor Materia Medica and Diseases of the Skin, Baltimore Medical College.

We can supply the "Physician's Vade Mecum," a book of nearly five hundred pages, suitable for the pocket, and a perfect mine from which to dig pure facts at any and all times. It would require a page to give an adequate idea of the contents. Tables of all kinds; dosage, weights and measures. solubility of chemicals. eruptive fevers, incompatibles, pulse formulas, doses for inhalation, table of feigned diseases. ete.. etc., etc. Classification of skin diseases, emergencies and their management, diseases of the digestive system. miasmetic diseases. fevers care of new-born infants, diseases of childhood-we cannot attempt to give a fuller idea of the contents, excepting to say that the fourteenth chapter is a novelty in medical literature being a physician's interpreter in three languages This alone is worth much more than cost of book to many. Last chapter contains over one thousand prescriptions All this for one dollar! May he returned within ten days if not satisfactory. Address THE MEDICAL WORLD.

Versailles, O., November 10. Have used Freligh's Tablets with decided benefit. The Cough Tablets are splendid. Will use them when occasion demands.

Class of 1887. J. S. Niederkorn, M. D.

Pittsburgh, Pa., October 16, 1895. Mr. J.S. Tyree, Manufacturing Chemist, Washington, D. C.: My Dear Sir-There was a sample of your "Antiseptic Powder" left at my office some time ago for me to test its value in my practice, which I have done sufficiently to convince me that its effect on the mucous membrane is marvelous. Very truly yours,

W. J. Riggs, M. D. Thousands of physicians testify to the efficiency of Pill Vita by their regular prescriptions. See page opposite contents.

Some time ago, having had my attention drawn to the claims made by the promoters of Pineoline, of its efficacy as a stimulant and antiseptic agent in the treatment of various skin diseases, I concluded to give it a trial in the wards of the St. Louis City Hospital. I was the more induced by the fact that its composition included an active derivative of the pine, which has long been known to possess healing qualities of no mean order. I was then suffering from seborrhea of a chronic nature, of the scalp, face and arms, and I somewhat reluctantly decided to try the preparation upon myself as an experiment to which I would not submit any of my patients. I had, however, but little faith in its efficacy, having previously almost exhausted the pharmacopoeia in the way of external and constitutional treatment, without securing any permanent relief. It was practically because I had nothing else left to try that I concluded to use the Pineoline. I applied it locall, three times a day, massaging the parts affected for from five to ten minutes with each application, and to my unqualified surprise and delight, in two weeks the eczema had entirely disappeared, nor has it since returned. During the time I was using the ointment, I merely supplemented the treatment with a simple laxative. Subsequently I used the Pineoline in from 20 to 30 cases of the various forms of eczema which came under my charge as superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital, and always with the same relatively admirable results.

Dr. Thomas Lothrop, Professor Gynecology, Niagara University, writes as follows:

Buffalo, N. Y., December 14, 1893. "Norwich Chemical Company: Gentlemen-I received the Unguentine which you forwarded to me, and have tried it in my practice. I am convinced that the prescription is a valuable one. In the sore nipples of nursing women I think it is the best remedy I have ever used. I recommend the remedy to others."

BROMIDIA.-The steadily increasing use of Bromidia by the profession in all parts of the world demonstrates its great value as a hypnotic. If human testimony is worth anything at all, then Bromidia must unquestionably be the best and safest of all sleep producers. Dr. Frederico Tommasi, of Maggranico, Italy, on July 24, 1893, writes: "Although as a rule I do not approve of specialties, still when I find

an ideal one, both as regards therapeutic combination and pharmaceutical preparation, easily administered, prompt and certain in action, 1 value it. Bromidia fulfills all these conditions. I have obtained especially gratifying results by its use in two cases-one, heart disease, the other, acute lumbago. In both cases it promptly relieved the pain, produced tranquil sleep, with no disagreeable after-effects."-Memphis

Medical Monthly, June, 1895.

There is nothing new under the sun, and the originators of antitoxin must be accused of plagiarism.

Pliny says that Mithridates, king of Pontus, made himself proof against poisons by gradually accustoming himself to all poisons. This he did by taking a mixture, the principal ingredient of which was the blood of the Pontic duck which was said to live on poisons. Therefore the blood of an immune animal was used to make another animal immune.-Atlantic Medical Weekly.

I can say that Peacock's Bromides will do all that is claimed for it, it is much more active and certain than the commercial salts.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

G. H. Chappell, M. D.

In response to numerous requests from physicians for Tongaline in some form more pleasing to the taste and more convenient of administration than the liquid, we now prepare Tongaline in tablets, each six-grain Tongaline Tablet containing:

Concentration of Fluid Tonga, 1 gr.; Sodium Salicylate, 5 grs.; Cimicifugin Salicylate, gr.; Pilocarpin Salicylate, 1-200 gr.; Colchicin Salicylate, 1-1000 gr.

All the salicylic acid is made in our Own laboratory from the pure oil of wintergreen.

We also make Tongaline and Lithia Tablets, Tongaline 5 grs., Lithium Salicylate, 1 gr.; and Tongaline and Quinine Tablets, Tongaline, 32 grs., Quinia Sulph., 21⁄2 grs.

Samples mailed free to physicians on application. Mellier Drug Company, St. Louis.

PERFECT CATHARTIC.

W. B. Duncan, M. D., Trimble, Tenn., says: "In regard to Elixir Purgans (Lilly) it is what its name indicates, a "perfect liquid cathartic." It has given me the greatest satisfaction, especially with children. Its points of superiority over anything I have ever used are three-fold, viz., pleasant to take, prompt action and no griping."

Since the introduction of "Sennine" to the profession I have been using it in appropriate cases with satisfactory results. In vaginitis and leucorrhea it is admirable and it has proved especially efficacious in pruritus. An especially obstinate case of the latter with a pregnant woman yielded after resorting to every method that had suggested itself to the writer. Improvement set in at once in this case with the use of "Sennine." At this writing the pruritus and irritations are entirely controlled. For ulcerations specific and non-specific it is equally applicable. In chancroidal sores it is, in my (Continued over next leaf.)

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