preference is for the former drug. He was disposed to regard their great value as proceeding not so much from their power to reduce temperature as from their general effect, especially upon the nervous system. He regards them as valuable adjuvants in the treatment of disease, largely from their hypnotic and tranquillizing effect upon the nervous system, to which allusion had already been mand. He has observed that in many instances where, in abrupt febrile affections, relief has not been secured from antifebrin and antipyrin this failure is frequently due to the presence of the condition we call rheumatic, and there salicylic acid gives the relief that we fail to get with the antipyretics.

DR. JOHN GUITERAS, of Charleston, had some experience with these drugs in the treatment of the continued fevers of warm climates, but here the results have been rather negative and have showed the advantage of stopping their use after they have been continued for a certain length of time. He had been called in consultation where the drug had been continued for ten or fifteen days, each time that it was given producing a certain reduction of the temperature, but having no permanent benefit, and the patients have begun to improve so soon as the drug was stopped. It has seemed that when given continuously in this way these antipyretics have an effect on the vasomotor system. The pulse is weak and dicrotic and he considers it advisable to give digitalis. The effect of cold-water baths in these continued fevers of the South seems more beneficial. If continued for two or three days they often favorably modify the course of the disease.

DR. PEABODY, of New York, said with reference to the point suggested by Dr. Whittaker, that there was no question in his mind that a considerable proportion of cases of typhoid fever can be aborted by antiseptic treatment of the intestinal ulcers with naphthaline or resorcine. For the past two years he has treated all cases coming under observation during the first ten days of the disease with a calomel purge (ten grains), followed by naphthaline in such doses that at least seventy or eighty grains are taken during the twenty-four hours. Under this treatment he had without doubt succeeded in aborting many cases in which the symptoms were quite pronounced. He has not succeeded in cases coming under observation at the end of the second week.

DR. H. C. WOOD, with regard to the dissipation of heat by sweating, stated that in the dog, on which the experiments were made, there are but few sweat glands; there are a few in the paws and about the mouth, so that there could be no heat dissipation from this cause. Sweating in

man does undoubtedly cause a uissipation of heat. With reference to the possible influence of antipyrin on fever, through some action on the bacteria causing the fever, he said that in the experiments to which he had referred no microbes were concerned in the production of the fever, which was induced by the pyogenic principle of pepsin.

DR. JAMES TYSON, of Philadelphia, reported a recent case of rheumatism in which the temperature suddenly went up to 105°, with alarming brain symptoms. Antifebrin in five grain doses failed to produce any effect. The patient was then put into a cold bath, and the temperature of the water gradually reduced to 72°. The discomfort experienced by the patient then prompted his removal from the bath. The thermometer in the rectum showed a reduction of only one-half of a degree, but within the course of half an hour the temperature fell three degrees. He scarcely thought that this was a natural defervescence, but must attribute it to the effect of the bath. The fall in temperature was followed by a disappearance of all the symptoms and the recovery of the patient. While he had never seen any serious results from the use of thallin and antipyrin, yet there have been symptoms which caused much alarm to the attendants. He had not seen such symptoms follow the use of antifebrin. - Med. News.

CHRONIC TEA-POISONING (THEISM).—A very excellent and valuable study of this subject has recently appeared in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal by Dr. William N. Bullard, of Boston. His conclusions

may be briefly summarized as follows:

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Its action is more prodounced on the young, and on those subject to anemia, or in a depressed physical condition, although persons otherwise healthy not infrequently show toxic symptoms.

Among the class of people under consideration, who, as a rule, use medium grades of Oolong tea and Souchong (English breakfast tea), the average amount needed to cause toxic symptoms is a little less than five cups per diem.

4. Chronic tea-poisoning is a frequent affection, and that its most common symptoms are loss of appetite, dyspepsia, palpitation, headache, vomiting and nausea, combined with nervousness and various forms of functional nervous affections, hysterical or neuralgic. These symptoms are frequently accompanied by constipation and pain in the left side or cardiac region.

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ALL is not lovely in Philadelphia. The reports of the International Congress that appeared in the Philadelphia Press were not pleasing to the editor of the Medical Register, of that city, who thus vented his rage in his issue of September 24:

"The utter disregard of truth, the malignity with which every trifling circumstance was seized upon and misrepresented, kept the Quaker City delegation continually apologizing for their secular press.

The reports were evidently written by a man who had considered beforehand the methods of "writing down" the Congress; and, having mastered the art of calumny, brought to his task a nature congenial to the work, and a pen sharpened with the venom of disappointment. This man was I. Minis Hays, nominal editor of The Medical News. And let it be said here, that he showed infinitely more ability as a slanderer than he ever did as an editor. If he be wise, he will continue to devote his talents to the field in which he is so eminently calculated to excel."

And now comes the managing editor of the Press, and says, among other things, that

"Dr. Hays was not the author of the dispatches in question, and he was not in any way responsible for them. They were sent from Washington by two regular correspondents of The Press, and I find, upon inquiry, that the identity of the writers was absolutely unknown to Dr. Hays, who, I may add, is at the present moment quite unknown to me, save by name.'

We have, as yet, seen no response to this from the Register,

THE friends of the Sinnett Bill, for the registration of physicians and the control of diploma factories, must put in good work now with the candidates for election to the Legislature.

The author of the bill is himself a candidate for re-election, and we

understand that the quacks and charlatans of the State are making a special fight against him, and are spending money freely to secure his defeat. In our opinion the issue is too important to be confined by mere party lines: a principle is at stake and political differences may well be forgotten. Let the Doctor be returned by a large majority.

IN our issue of March, 1885, there appeared a description of a new fracture-bed, devised by Dr. S. L. McCurdy, of Dennison, Ohio. This same bed, with four illustrations and one and one-half pages of text, is described in a work on treatment on fractures, by Dr. Schreiber, of Ausberg, just published by Dr. Beck, of Bern, due credit being given, of course, to the Buckeye inventor.

DR. R. HARVEY REED has been investigating the hygienic, or rather unhygienic, conditions of railroad coaches, especially the sleepers. His investigations, which were made with his usual painstaking thoroughness, extended to the water supply, closets, heating, ventilating, lighting, etc. His results and conclusions he incorporated in a paper which he present. ed to the Medical Congress.

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE at Pittsburg, began its second annual regular course on Tuesday, September 27th, with a class of nearly 100.

The introductory address was delivered by the secretary of the faculty, Prof. W. J. Asdale.

This college requires an entrance examination and provides a three years' graded course. Its success has been unexampled.

THE STENOCARPINE SENSATION; AN ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE UPON THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.—Our readers are doubtless familiar with the reports of Drs. J. H. Claiborne, Hermann Knapp and Edward Jackson, concerning the so-called new local anesthetic, Gleditschine or Stenocarpine, which were published in the New York Medical Record, July 30th, August 13th and October 1st; and Philadelphia Medical News, September. 3d; in which the Gleditschine was claimed to possess remarkable anesthetic and mydriatic properties.

It will, therefore, be of interest to them to learn that Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co. announce that an investigation at their laboratory of a solution purporting to be a 2 per cent. solution of Gleditschine, or Stenocarpine, which was supplied by Messrs. Lehn & Fink, of New York, has

developed the fact that this solution, with which the experiments thus far recorded have been made, contains 6 per cent. of Cocaine and a sulphate of a salt which further experiment is likely to prove to be Atropia.

F. A. Thompson, Ph.C, also reports, after careful experiment with the leaves of Gleditschia triacanthos, from which Gleditschine or Stenocarpine is claimed to have been derived, that they contain only an infinitesimal percentage of an amorphous alkaloid, devoid of anesthetic or mydriatic properties.

In the light of these facts it seems probable that the Stenocarpine sensation should be classed with the Hopeine fraud of malodorous memory, and that the physicians who have already published reports regarding Gleditschine or Stenocarpine have been the victims of a clever hoax.

FOR THE NOVEMBER FORUM.-President Barnard, of Columbia College, has a sharp article on the Knights of Labor, in which he charges them with "blockading industry" and "attempting to coerce society." ExGovernor John D. Long, of Massachusetts, writes on "The Use and Abuse of the Veto Power," referring especially to President Cleveland's vetoes. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, defends the Democrats of the South against the charge that they suppress the Negro vote by intimidation and fraud. The series of articles on "The Object of Life," that has for some months been running, is closed by a contribution from W. S. Lilly, one of the ablest philosophical writers of England. In an article on “Avoidable Dangers of the Ocean," Lieut. V. L. Cottman, Superintendent of the Maritime Exchange of New York, shows that most of the disasters to steamships are directly chargeable to the recklessness of their captains. Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke writes in refutation of the claim of the Socialists that the Mosaic law and the New Testament teachings favor their doctrines.

PROF. LOISETTE'S MEMORY DISCOVERY.-Prof. Loisette's new system of memory training, taught by correspondence at 237 Fifth Ave., New York, seems to supply a general want. He has had two classes at Yale of 200 each, 250 at Meriden, 300 at Norwich, 100 Columbia Law Students, 400 at Wellesey College, and 400 at University of Penn., &c. Such patronage and the endorsement of such men as Mark Twain, Dr. Buckley, Prof. Wm. R. Harper, of Yale, &c., place the claim of Prof. Loisette upon the highest ground.