Crepitations (false crepitus). No crepitus. Angular deformity. Tenderness and pain. Interference with function of joint. Dental The causes of dental neuralgia writes S. Neuralgia. H. Creighton, (quoted in New York Medical Journal) are nearly always local and are either obvious or obscure. Obvious causes are pulpitis, putrescent teeth, pyorrhea, recession of gums, malposition of teeth and substances under the gums. Obscure causes are dying of pulp, pulpstones or nodules, exostosis, pericementitis, periosteal thickening, deposition of secondary dentine in pulp chamber, unerupted or impacted teeth, diseased antrum, catarrhal conditions, albuminuria and anemia. The first point in treatment is, of course, to remove the cause. When this fails to give complete relief we may use internal, local and constitutional treatment. author thinks the best internal remedy is a mixture of the fluid extracts of cannabis indica and gelsemium, 5 to 10 drops every two hours. Locally one may try chloral-camphor and aconite; a combination of oleate of morphine, lanolin and vaselin; menthol, thymol and chloral, of each the same; equal parts of camphor water and alcohol; or dry heat. If the attack is acute, a vegetable diet, saline cathartics, salicylates and iodides with colchicum are useful. When there is a tendency to chronicity, build up with iron, arsenic, strychnine, cod-liver oil and malt. The EDITORIAL ITEMS. Pleurisy Pills.-W. H. Draper recommends a diuretic pill containing a grain each of powdered squill and digitalis and blue mass. Angina Pectoris. As an etiologic measure, Anstie prescribes 5 minims of liquor arsenicalis in an ounce of water three times a day. Delirium in Children.-Fothergill prescribes 10 grains of potassium bromide and 5 grains of chloral hydrate in dill water, every six hours, for a child of 6 years. Diuretic in Cardiac Dropsy.-Bartholow recommends a tablespoonful, two or three times daily, of a mixture of 1 part vinegar of squill and 7 parts infusion of digitalis. The Grave of Hippocrates.-The sepulchre of the "Father of Medicine" is said to have been recently discovered in the course of some excavations at Larissa, Thessaly. Rosacea. Munro (Medical Fortnightly) recommends suprarenal extract in 5 grain doses, from three to six daily. The extract is employed topically at the same time. Enuresis. Palmer recommends a solution of 1⁄2 grain of atropine sulphate to the ounce of distilled water. One drop for each year of age may be given at 4 and 7 p.m. Laxative at Climacteric.--Tilt recommends a scruple or two in milk at bedtime of a powder containing 5 grains of ipecac and I dram sodium bicarbonate to the ounce of sulphur. Hematinic for Children.-"Eisenzucker," or saccharated ferric oxide, one or two 3-grain tablets after meals, is mentioned by Palmer as a palatable and effective form of iron. Canker Sores. The best local application to these is the crystalline copper sulphate, repeated the next day if necessary. Attention should be paid also to the stomach and the teeth. To Remove Plaster of Paris Bandages.-According to the Medical Times, these are easily removed by moistening the splint its whole. length in an area about one-half inch wide with peroxide of hydrogen. When thoroughly soaked the bandages are easily cut with a pair of scissors. Editorial Items continued on Page 49. BOOKS. The Acute Contagious Diseases of Childhood.-By Marcus P. Hatfield, A. M., M. D., Professor Emeritus of Diseases of Children, Northwestern University Medical School; Professor of Diseases of Children, Chicago Clinical School; Attending Physician, Wesley Hospital. Pages, 142. Price, $1.00 net. G. P. 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