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A NEW HEKTOGRAPH.-The latest issue of the Papier Zeitung gives the following instructions for making a cheap and handy hektograph Soak 5 parts of best white glue in a mixture of five parts pure water and 3 parts ammonia, until the glue is thoroughly softened. Warm it until the glue is dissolved, and add 3 parts of granulated sugar and 8 parts of glycerine, stirring well and letting it come to the boiling point. While hot, paint it upon clean, white blotting paper, with a broad copying brush, until the blotting paper is thoroughly soaked and a thin coating remains on the surface. Allow it to dry for two or three days and it is then ready for use. The writing or drawing to be copied is done with ordinary hektograph or aniline ink upon writing paper. Before transferring to the blotting paper, wet the latter with a sponge or copying brush and clean water and allow it to stand one or two minutes. Place the written side down and stroke out any air bubbles and submit the whole to a gentle pressure for a few moments, remove the written paper, and a number of impressions can then be taken in the ordinary way. When the impressions begin to grow weak, wet the surface of the hektograph again. This hektograph

does not require washing off, but simply laying away for 24 to 36 hours, when the surface will be ready for a new impression.

THE CASE OF THE CROWN PRINCE. -No case since the assassination of President Garfield has aroused such an interest in the medical world as that of the Crown Prince of Germany. Mackenzie has been knighted for his services, and both he and Virchow have been given large fees-extraordinary in fact. Now the intelligence is cabled that his royal nibs is recovering and probably probably will have will have no further trouble with his laryngeal "cancerous" growth, and "thereby hangs a tale," or at least a good joke on Mackenzie and Virchow. It appears that Dr. Howell, the assistant of Sir Morell, saying nothing to his superiors about his actions, quietly placed "Unser Fritz upon a course of mercury and presto! the "cancer" began to disappear. The inference is not that mercurial preparations will cure "cancerous" growths in the larynx but that mercury is just as much of a specific for syphilis in the blue blood of royalty as it is in the rest of poor, suffering humanity. Verily, we are all human-even crown princes are.

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QUININE AT TWENTY-FIVE CENTS AN OUNCE.-Keasby and Mattison, the noted manufacturing chemists of New York, in a recent letter to the Medical Herald, say that after a reasonable profit to the manufacturer, to the jobber and to the wholesaler, Twenty-five Cent Quinine" will be a matter of ordinary supply in the future, if speculation can be controlled. That quinine can be made at five cents an ounce and cinchonidia at two and a half cents will be a surprise to physicians who, no longer ago than ten years, paid as high as six dollars. an ounce. Yet Keasby & Mattison say: "It has long been a matter of curiosity to know what it costs to make an ounce of Sulphate of Quinine, and while we do not propose to give it away" in this, we gently hint that Cinchonidia Sulphate is much more soluble, hence more expensive to produce than Quinine Sulphate, and is selling at 2 cents per ounce, and makers are glad to get orders for it at this price. As a matter of fact, in these days of improved process and active competition in economic laboratory methods, the firm, manufacturing outside of the United States, that cannot produce Quinine for less than the half of ten cents per ounce, had better get out of the business."

INTOXICATION FROM CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.-Prof. Virchow, at a meeting of the Berlin Medical Society, presented a series of pathological specimens from three subjects intoxicated by corrosive sublimate. In two cases, both obstet. rical, corrosive sublimate was resorted to in the form of vaginal injections (1-1000), three litres only having been used in the first case. The third case is relative to a syphlitic subject treated by subcutaneous injections of corrosive sublimate. In all the cases the lesions

occupied the lower portion of the large intestine and resembled very closely those pathognomonic of dysentery. Senator, of Berlin, recalled two cases in which investigation produced similar results concerning the seat and appearance of lesions. The elimination of mercury constitutes the principal if not the only factor in the pathogeny of these lesions. D. T.

A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.-Besides attention to the general health and encouraging moral stamina in cases of drunkenness, there is also an important feature, as regards cure, in overcoming the insatiable longing for stimulants; indeed, this is often the most important, yet most difficult thing to accomplish. The Medical World says that " a half ounce of ground quassia should be steeped in one pint of vinegar, and of this a teaspoonful may be taken in a little water every time the liquor thirst is felt;" it satisfies the cravings and produces a sensation of stimulation and strength. Good, rich scup, made very strong with cayenne pepper, should be freely administered and will greatly aid in overcoming the craving. Morphine, or opium in any form, should be scrupulously avoided.

CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH-There is no chronic affection which is more of a bugbear to the general practitioneer than chronic nasal catarrh. In addition to the usual internal medication, Prof. J. Solis Cohen, of Philadelphia, advises :

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TREATMENT OF PEDICULUS PUBIS. -In the January number of the New England Medical Monthly, Dr. Robt. T. Morris, of New York, gives a very agreeable method of treating crab lice. The patient being stripped, a gossamer water proof is tucked snugly about the patient's hips and a cloth introduced beneath it freshly saturated with a considerable quantity of chloroform-say a half ounce or more. Ten minutes later the patient is made to stand upon a sheet and a whisk brush used to knock the dead lice off. This thoroughly This thoroughly rids the patient of the troublesome creatures, but the procedure will perhaps have to be repeated in the course of ten days or two weeks as soon as the nits have had time to hatch, but in most cases the embryo in the eggs are killed by the first application of the chloroform: This is the most satisfactory manner of destroying these parasites yet suggested, and might be sucfully employed in the treatment of

head lice as well.

THE RESIGNATION OF PROF. W. H. WILKES. The following proceedings are published from the minutes of the Medical Department of the University of Kansas City: “Dr. W. H. Wilkes, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Children, in the Medical Department of the University of Kansas City, being compelled on account of the health of his family to return to Texas, tendered his resignation of the chair. In accepting the resignation of Dr. Wilkes the faculty wishes to express the regret that he has been obliged to change his location, thus occasioning the loss of an able teacher in the school and a confrére who posesses, in a marked degree, the highest type of a scholar and a gentleman."-At a meeting of the students of the University these

resolutions were adopted: Whereas, Dr W. H. Wilkes, our Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Children, in the University of Kansas City, Medical Department, has been compelled to resign his professorship to seek a milder climate on account of the illness of his family; and, Whereas, In his work and mingling with the students of the University he has endeared himself to all our hearts; therefore, Resolved: (1) That it is with profound regret we part with such a teacher and friend; (2) That we wish all he seeks in his southern home for himself and family may be attained.

DOES A MICROBE CAUSE SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA ?-The New Orlean's Medical and Surgical Journal, quoting the article of Dr. Dibble, of this city, relating a case of sympathetic iritis due to an illfitting artificial eye, says: The case is so important and the evidence it adduces so unimpeachable that we may well be pardoned for reproducing it without abridgement. Whatever the dyed-in-thegrain germ theorists may say, it proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that sympathetic iritis may be caused by irritation reflected from the nerves of one eye to those of the other. We would not be understood to deny that many cases of sympathetic ophthal mia" own a microbian origin; far from it, but all evidence goes to show that the symptoms grouped under this comprehensive title may be due to different causes in different cases. Every eye into which we can be reasonably sure a foreign body has penetrated, and every sightless and painful bulb should at cnce be enucleated is our rule;

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HOW TO CHECK EPISTAXIS. Bleeding from the nose is frequently alarming, from persistence and copiousness. Some cases will resist all the common methods of treatment, such as plugging the nares, injection of Monsel's solution (ferri persulphas), ice water, etc. When these tail to benefit, the expedient of Jonathan Hutchinson may be tried: immersion of the feet and legs up to the knees in water as hot as can be borne. But usually hæmorrhage from the nose proceeds from the septum nares which is supplied with blood from the superior coronary, branch of the facial which ramifies in the septum; this artery crosses the superior maxillary bone just below the alæ nasi. Remember this anatomical point, and compression may be made that will at once arrest all hæmorrhage in ninety nine cases out of one hundred.

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RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE.The wife of Dr. A. H. Cordier, of Windom, Kansas, died January 11, 1888, of pneumonitis. The profession of McPherson county, in a meeting at McPherson, Jany. 12, passed the following resolutions: Whereas It has pleased the Almighty God to call out of this world the soul of Mrs. Minnie Cordier, the wife of Dr. A. H. Cordier, an esteemed member of our profession, and, Whereas We recognize in her death the doctor has lost a kind and loving helpmate, the church, a true and consistent member, and the community a valued and sympathetic friend. Therefore, Resolved-That we extend to our brother, our most sincere sympathy in his sad bereavement, and cheerfully tender him all the comfort and consolation within our power, and we earnestly hope that in this great affliction he may be sustained by the God of infinite love and be com

High-heeled shoes should never be worn-especially by children.

Report your cases of failure-they are of more interest than those of success.

The New York Medical Record pleads for the teaching of medical ethics in our colleges.

It is claimed that lanoline when rubbed systematically upon the skin will remove wrinkles.

When a red-headed lady is cremated, nothing remains but a handful of ashes of roses.

Morrell Mackenzie received $13,000 for his two trips to Berlin to attend the Crown Prince.

Dr. Eva Harding is the physician to the new Soldiers' Orphan's Home at Atchison, Kansas.

Statistics from reliable sources show that leprosy is spreading rapidly in various parts of the world.

Goodell says he has never known pregnancy to occur after the existence of a true gonorrhoea in woman.

Dr. S. F. Starley, one of the prominent physicians of Texas, died December 18, at his home in Tyler, aged 64,

According to the latest reports, yellow fever and small-pox are still prevailing to an alarming extent in Havana, Cuba.

A negro boy in Georgia dislocated his jaw in cheering for anti-prohibition. [Printed especially for Kansas readers.] The Missouri Institute of Homœopathy will meet in the parlors of the Hotel Brunswick, this city, April 24, 25 and 26.

The St. Louis Medical Society is en

deavoring to raise sufficient funds to erect a building for its meetings and library.

The Georgia Medical Society is agitating the subject of removing the duty on foreign medical instruments. Quite right.

Dr. Avis Smith, a well-known female physician of this city, has been elected Medical Attendent to the Woman's Wayside Home.

Sir Spencer Wells places the economical value of the increased population due to sanitary work in the last fifty years at $15,000,000.000.

One-tenth grain doses, three times daily, of cyanide of zinc will relieve pain in the region of the heart, palpitation and want of rythm.

A Kansas man was boasting that he had an elevator in his house. "" 'So he has," chimed in his wife: " and he keeps it in the cupboard, in a bottle."

"Hutchinson teeth" as an indication of inherited syphilis applies only to the permanent incisors and not to the first set as is usually believed.

Kansas school teacher: "Where does our grain go to ?" Into the hopper." "What hopper? "Grasshopper," triumphantly shouted a doctor's boy.

Professor Stewart, of Philadelphia, regards two grains of oxalate of cerium. before meals, the best general prescription for vomiting of pregnancy.

The Medical Standard is "waking up" the profession in Chicago-especially some of the egotistical numb-skulls filling chairs in Chicago colleges.

Compressed tabloids of tincture of strophanthus are pleasant of administration and act far more satisfactorily than preparations of digitalis as a heart tonic and diuretic.

Dr. L. J. Jones, of Neosho Falls, Kans., s preparing to start at an early day for iEurope where he will remain the greater part of the year at the medical schools of the great cities.