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For many years the world has desired a bandage which is elastic, and at the same time cool and comfortable. This may truthfully be said of Umbilical Trusses and Abdominal Supporters. While many of such articles which have been introduced are efficient, they are so hot and uncomfortable that the remedy proves worse than the disease. We are pleased to know that this long-felt want has been supplied by the manufacturers of the Empire Elastic Bandage, Abdominal Supporters and Umbilical Trusses. Although these elastic goods are only six years old, they take front rank with goods in their line, and probably three-quarters of the supporters sold today are Empire." The combination of elasticity and porosity is a happy one, and is found very desirable in this warm weather. We congratulate the Empire Manufacturing Co. on their success.

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In Southampton, Eng., all the garbage is burned in a furnace which was erected at an expense of $18,000 and which consumes from twenty-five to fifty tons of garbage a day at a merely nominal cost.

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J. W. Snowden, M.D, A. E., San Jose, California, on April 12, 1895, writes: Your Bromidia acts like a charm. I believe it a safe, effectual and reliable hypnotic.

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The New York Board of Health has issued an order prohibiting butchers from hanging meat outside of their shops. The meat so hung becomes dusty and decidedly unwholesome.

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J. E. O'Connor, M. B. B. CH., Leicester, England, says: In a case of urethritis, accompanied by cervical cystitis and urethral synovitis, the administration of Saumetto was attended with most satisfactory results. The drug appears to relieve the pain, reduce the irritation and produce healing and cessation of the muco-purulent discharge more speedily and efficaciously than any other remedy yet offered to the profession. In the case alluded to a marked improvement in the condition of the affected portion of the urinary tract was speedily followed by the disappearance of the arthritic trouble. The patient had previously been treated with santal oil, salicylate of soda and acetate of potash.

The precautions that are now taken against infectious diseases have already saved many thousands of lives. According to Dr. Cornet of Berlin, in the years 1883 to 1893, there were 70,000 fewer deaths from consumption in Prussia than the average of previous years would have led him to expect.

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Dr. Brooks R. Hamilton writes: "I find Neurosine to be the most potent and effective remedy, of its kind, of any in use, with which I am familiar. It is complete, and is all, in fact, that you claim for it, and I don't know but more. I now prescribe it very often." ***

A Medical Practice Act, going into effect July 1, 1895, passed the Montana Legislature, and received the approval of the Governor on March 13. The act provides for the appointment, by the Governor, of a board of seven medical examiners, constituted of graduates of accredited colleges of medicine. Applicants graduating after July 1, 1898, must have attended four courses of lectures of six months each. The board has the privilege both to refuse to grant and to revoke certificates for unprofessional, dishonorable or immoral conduct.

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Pasteurine, as an antiseptic, deodorant, mouth wash and gargle, is par excellence. I have it in general use at the City Hospital. It is the most palatable antiseptic I know of. The tablets are splendid. Heine Marks, M.D., Superintendent City Hospital, St. Louis.

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From the statistics collected of 52,475 administrations of anesthetics in France, there were, of chloroform, 32,083; ether, 11,669; A. C. E. mixture, 3896; bromide of ethyl, 2986; Billroth's mixture, 750; nitrous oxide in dentistry, 91. That is, 63 per cent. of chloroform, 22 per cent. of ether, and 15 per cent. of all others combined.

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The new building of the medical department of Vanderbilt University, now being erected at Nashville, will be amply equipped for medical instruction. This school has deserved the patronage it has had in the past, and every indication points to an increased attendance in the future-this being a further testimonial of the good work being done by the faculty. See advertisement of this college on another page.

The preparations of Pepsin, made by Robinson-Pettet Co., are indorsed by many prominent physicians. We recommend a careful perusal of the advertisement of this well-known manufacturing house. See advertisement.

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Quinine pills and capsules are very insoluble, often being discharged undissolved. Febriline, or Tasteless Syrup of Quinine, has been found to be just as reliable in all cases as the bitter sulphate of quinine, and physicians will find it to their advantage to use it for adults, as well as children, in place of pills and capsules. It is as pleasant as lemon syrup and will be retained by the most delicate stomach, having also the advantage of not producing the unpleasant head symptoms of which so many patients complain after taking the quinine sulphate. Possessing these advantages, physicians will find it superior to quinine sulphate for all cases requiring quinine, particularly typhoid fever patients.

BOOK REVIEWS.

The Care of the Baby. A Manual for Mothers and Nurses. Containing Practical Directions for the Management of Infancy and Childhood in Health and Disease. By J. P. Griffith, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and School for Graduates in Medicine; Member of the American Pædiatric Society, etc. pp. 392. Price, $1.50, subject to usual trade discount. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1895. In eleven chapters, this author furnishes a lucid and reliable guide for mothers who wish to learn how to care properly for their children, in both health and sickness. Among the subjects considered are: the hygiene of pregnancy; the characteristics of a healthy baby, and its mental and physical development; bathing, dressing and feeding children; hours for sleeping; physical and mental exercise and training; a resumé of the more common diseases of infancy and childhood; what to do in various accidents, including drowning and poisoning. The book will be found useful, not only by mothers and nurses, but by medical students and physicians, especially those whose opportunities for the study of infancy and its diseases have been limited.

The Deformities of the Human Foot, with their Treatment. By W. J.
Walsham, M.D.; C.M., Aberd.; F.R.C.S., Eng.; Senior Assistant - Surgeon,
Surgeon-in-Charge of the Orthopaedic Department, and Lecturer in Anat-
omy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, etc., etc.; and William Kent Hughes,
M.B., Lond.; M.B., Melb.; M.R.C.S., Eng.; L.R.C.P., Lond.; Orthopedic
Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital; Assistant - Surgeon Children's Hospital,
Melbourne; Surgical Tutor Trinity College, Melbourne, etc., etc.
Muslin; Octavo. New York: William Wood & Co., 1895.

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In sixteen well-written chapters, this book of five hundred and fifty pages gives a succinct account of orthopaedic surgery as applied to the human foot. For his task, the author was eminently fitted by his thirteen years' experience as surgeon to the Orthopaedic Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in which more than seven hundred patients with these deformities are treated annually. The subject is dealt with from the standpoint of the general surgeon, rather than that of the specialist, thus giving the book a wider range of usefulness than is commonly the case with works on special branches. The illustrations, of which there are over three hundred, are nearly all original, and were made from casts or preparations of typical, or especially interesting, cases.

Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association. Vol. VII. Seventh Session. Held at Charleston, S. C., Nov. 13, 14 and 15, 1894. Published by the Association 1895. Octavo; pp. 336. The papers contributed to this volume number about thirty. Many are of a high order of excellence, and show that this comparatively young society is one of the most vigorous promoters of the interest of medicine among the larger organizations in this country. Of the papers by no means the least interesting are Dr. Miles' memorial address on Dr. Warren Stone, the noted surgeon, and Dr. Souchon's "Reminiscences of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Paris," each of whom gives much interesting information regarding the subject of his sketch. A very valuable paper is that of Dr. Bedford Brown of Alexandria, Va., on "Observations on Reaction of Chloroform on the Functions of the Human Brain and Spinal Cord, as Witnessed in Extensive Injuries of the Cranium and Brain," a synopsis of which we may give our readers in a later issue. Prof. Crofford of this city advocates "Subcutaneous Injections of Saline Liquids in Acute Hemorrhages," in a paper which appeared in the MONTHLY Some months ago.

PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

Wills' Eye Hospital Reports. Vol. I, No. 1. Published by the Editorial Committee of Wills' Eye Hospital. Price, $1.25

This issue

per annum. Philadelphia, Pa., January, 1895. gives a brief history of the hospital from the time of its organization, a number of interesting clinical reports, and the annual report for 1894.

Abstract of Sanitary Reports. Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., May 21 and June 14, 1895.

General Catalogue of Works Pertaining to the Sciences—Medicine, Natural History, Agriculture, Physics, Chemistry. One hundred and twelve double-column pages, containing more than five thousand titles, preceded by an alphabetically-arranged table of subjects. May be obtained free by all readers of the MONTHLY by addressing MM. J. B. Balliere et Fils, 19 rue Hautefeuille, Paris, France.

Circular No. 4, Sanitary Climatology. Information relative to the Investigation of the Influence of Climate on Health. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C., March 23, 1895.

Bulletin No. 12, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Wide tires -Laws of certain States regarding their use. Compiled by Roy Stone, Special Agent. Government Printing Office,

Washington, D. C.

Bulletin No. 16, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Notes on the employment of convicts in connection with road-building. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Animal Vaccination. Harold Sorby, New York.

To any one sending us the names of two new subscribers to the Memphis Medical Monthly, with the cash, $1.00 each, we will send free a copy of that excellent and timely book, ANTISEPSIS AND ANTISEPTICS, by Professor Charles Milton Buchanan, M.D., of the National University, Washington, D. C., 366 pages, illustrated, giving a complete history of antisepsis and antiseptics from the earliest times to the present, as well as their nature and use in medicine, surgery and obstetrics.

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