producing natural colored stools of a normal consistency, in place of the pale ash colored fæces, or the dry hard scybala, of the chronic dyspeptic.

"After a careful trial of some three years in a variety of cases affected with constipation resulting from congestion of the liver, and in cases in which there is an atonic condition of the coats of the bowels resulting in intestinal indigestion, I am frank to say that I know of two remedies that will give as prompt relief to these conditions as the ones under consideration.

"In the one class of cases the pancrobilin supplies the intestine with an artificial supply of bile and pancreatin, which digests the food that otherwise would not be digested, thus giving relief until the real difficulty with the liver can be overcome. In the other class of cases the cascara sagrada tones up the intestine, increases the secretions, which in turn facilitate digestion, and relieves the constipation."

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A Post-Graduate Medical College will shortly be established in Brooklyn.

NEW COLLEGE BUILDING.-Plans are out, furnished by S. S. Beman, architect, for a new four story building, for the Chicago Medical College. It is to cost one hundred thousand dollars.

OINTMENT FOR THE ITCH:

R-Creolini, gr. viiss.

Vaseline, iss.

A teaspoonful to be taken in water when necessary.-Provincial Med. Jour.

RESORCIN FOR NAUSEA.-Resorcin, in ten to twenty grain doses, is said to be almost a specific for the nausea which follows a spree. In vomiting of pregnancy it also has proven successful when all else failed. In fact, it may be used to quiet emesis from any source. -- Med. Mir.

MALTREATMENT IN A HOSPITAL.One of the male nurses in Bellevue Hospital has been sentenced to two years and eight months' hard labor at Sing Sing prison for maltreating a delirium tremens patient in the hospital. He was convicted of assault in the second degree.

The next meeting of the International Congress of Otology, which had been fixed to take place at Florence in September, 1892, has been postponed until 1893, when it will be held at Rome, a week before the assembly of the Eleventh International Medical Congress.

It has been announced in a Russian medical journal that Dr. Postnikoff of

Lawson Tait says: "Where syphilis kills its tens, gonorrhoea kills its thous ands; and it would take the sufferings of a hundred cases of syphilis to make up for the long, weary years of agony of one case of gonorrhoeal pyosalpinx.New York Medical Times.

preserving koumiss for an indefinite period by means of heating it in closed vessels. This will render it possible for patients to keep a stock of the substance, and to use it when required.

Dr. Ferguson, recommends in those cases where there is a strong tendency to hemorrhage ten or fifteen drops every

FOREIGN BODY IN THE MALE BLAD

DER.-Dr. George H. Monks, of Boston, mentions the removal by perineal section, of a piece of lead pencil over two inches long from the male bladder. The substance had been introduced by the patient with a view to overcoming a stricture of the urethra.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

PHYTOLACCA IN MASTITIS.-Dr. Lewis says that to abort abscesses of glandular, organs, he prefers small doses-five minims, or even less, every hour. The solid extract, with an equal quantity of lanoleum, may be applied locally. He lately aborted a mammary abscess which most men would have advised to be developed and opened.-Med. World.

RAILROAD TICKET ARRANGEMENTS

FOR

THE ANNUAL MEETING.-The Railroad Associations have agreed to sell tickets on the certificate plan, as last year, for one full fare going, one-third fare returning. All must obtain a certificate.on purchasing ticket to Washington, OR THEY

CAN NOT HAVE THE REDUCTION IN RE

TURNING.

Some curious statistics of longevity have just been published by the German government. It appears that in 1888 there were ninety-one persons in Prussia who were over a hundred years old, and between 1864 and 1888 upwards of seven thousand persons of over a hundred died, and of these one

hundred and fifty-five were more than one hundred nine.

Venice, that marriage with a spayed It is suggested by Dr. Keppler, of

woman is the ideal of malthusian marriage, as a happy married life without conception and without any danger to health can be obtained. Very different is the result of spaying in middle-aged women with fibromata, for it entirely destroys all traces of sexual instincts.New York Medical Times.

A NOVEL REASON FOR STATE AID.— A bill has recently been introduced in the Massachusetts House of Representatives appropriating $300 to a man who was at work on the State camp-ground when struck by lightning. It seems that the State considers itself responsi

ble for the accident.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

In cases of endometritis, Dr. J. C. Da Costa, after curetting the uterus very thoroughly, makes an application of the following:

Townsend employed bismuth, sodium salicylate, lactic acid,and resorcin in summer complaint; the result being expressed in the following words: "I am inclined to be rather skeptical as to the value of these antiseptics in the treatment of summer diarrhoea." Lavage of the large intestine with tepid water gave better results, ten out of thirteen cases showing marked improvement.-Arch. of Ped.

The Illinois State Board of Health has decided that hereafter it will recognize no foreign diploma that does not confer upon its holder the right to practice medicine in the country where it was granted. The holder of an Austrian, a German, Russian, or Swiss diploma, wishing to practice in Illinois, must hereafter pass an examination before

the Board, unless he has a pass certificate from a government examining commission. The holder of a Canadian diploma, unless a licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and Quebec, must pass an examination to be licensed in Illinois.-Ex.

A bill to regulate the practice of medicine in California has been introduced before the legislative assembly at present in session. The bill provides for the establishment of a State Board of Medical Examiners consisting of seven members, appointed by the Governor, one from each of the well-established medical schools, and the others at large. Ex.

URINE OF OPIUM EATERS.-A statement has gone the round of the medical press, to some extent, that tincture of the chloride of iron added to the urine of an opium habitué will give a blue tint, which is evidence of the presence of morphia. Dr. Mattison, of Brooklyn, whose experience makes authoritative what he says on the subject, says that this statement is not true.-Medical and Surgical Reporter.

FOR LOCAL ANESTHESIA.—At the Philadelphia Hospital, local anesthesia for minor operations is obtained by combining ten parts of chloroform, fifteen of ether, and one part of menthol, and using a mixture in a hand atomizer. After one minute's application of the spray, such a degree of anesthesia is produced that incisions can be made for the removal of growths, opening a felon or an abscess, without causing pain.

sular ligament will have assumed such a strained position, that as soon as the patient makes an attempt to move his joint, the very act will elicit pain.

CONCEALED ACCIDENTAL HEмorrage. Dr Henry Coe, of New York, reported a case of concealed accidental hemorrhage during labor, in which the patient. died about an hour after the delivery of a dead child. He is preparing a paper on this subject, and asks the profession to favor him with reports of cases of serious hemorrhage from premature detachment of the placenta, especially such as occur during labor.-Amer. Journal of Obstetrics.

Surgeon Parke, who accompanied Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, brings back with him an additional proof of the value of vaccination. Before the expedition started, the majority of the men were vaccinated by the doctor. In the wilds of Africa an epidemic of small-pox broke out, and only four of the vaccinated men were attacked by the disease, and none died; while the camp followers who had not been vaccinated, took the disease in its most virulent form, and died in great numbers.

AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGE ASSOCIATION.-The next meeting of the American Medical College Association will convene at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C., at 8 o'clock P. M., May 4, 1891. The indications point to a very interesting session and a representation from a large majority of the Colleges of the United States. The special committee on permanent organization is at work, and will be ready to report at this meeting.

MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHINA. Dr. Kerr, a medical missionary, at Canton, has, in the past thirty-six years, treated over 520,000 patients, and has prepared twenty-seven medical and surgical books. He has trained one hundred medical assisstants, chiefly Chinese. China now possesses one hun

A VISIBLE HEART.-There is at the present time in St. Mary's Hospital, a child about a fortnight old, in whom the sternum and costal cartilages are imperfectly developed. The heart is seen most distinctly through the thin cutaneous wall of the chest. The shape and size of the auricles and ventricles, with the filling of the auricles with blood, are quite as visible for all practical purposes as if the organ were completely exposed

to view. Med. Press.

ACETATE OF AMMONIA IN THE TREATMENT OF SCARLATINA.—Acetate of ammonia has been successfully employed by French physicians in cases of scarlatina. Very large doses are tolerated, one grm. for every year of the patient's age being usually administered. Vital gave two and one half grammes per day in one case, six grammes in another, and nine grammes in a third. In each, the fever subsided in three or four days, and was speedily followed by desquamation. N. Y. Medical Times.

RED NOSE.-Unna's treatment for this troublesome condition, if caused by acne rosacea, is, one-half grain of ichthyol four times daily (in pill or capsule), and the nightly application of the following paste:

B. Zinc ointment,

Starch, Sulpur,

3x.

zijss. 3j.

M. Sig., the enlarged venous trunks. should be punctured, and washed in all cases, with ichthyol soap and warm water.-Med. World.

EPILEPSY FROM INJURY TO THE HEAD

CURED BY TREPHINING.-This was the case of a man, aged about forty years, who received an injury to his head in November, 1884, by which he was stunned. In June, 1888, nearly four years after the injury, he began to have fits, which quickly became frequent and severe. Medical treatment having done no good, and the site of the injury being tender to the touch, it was decided to operate, and accordingly in July of the same year, Mr. Miller trephined, removing at the operation three circles of bone. The patient had been having between forty and fifty fits daily before operation, but immediately after they gradually diminished in number and severity, and disappeared altogether six weeks after the operation. He was sent home in September, 1888, and from then till now has had only one fit, which was said to have been brought on by grief on the occasion of the death of one of his children.—Med. Press.

CREOLINE IN THE TREATMENT OF FOLLICULAR PHARYNGITIS. Experiments made in the service of Leyden, at Berlin, with solutions of creoline, 1 per 100, employed as gargarisms in the above cases, have given altogether remarkable results. In the course of twenty-four hours disappearance of fever, of pain and of local swelling. Each gargarism of creoline should be followed by gargarisms of luke-warm water.-La Médicine Moderne.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal publishes an interview with a Mr. S. W. Behrman, of that town, who claims that he has never experienced the sensation of feeling hungry, thirsty or sleepy. He eats very sparingly, only once a day; once went seven months without sleeping altogether one hour; and for forty years has not taken a glass of water. Though complaining of constant ill health he does not look like an invalid, is strongly built, and weighs about 160 pounds.

CUBEBIC ACID IN GONORRHEA.-M. Bernatzic, in the Journal de Medicine, states that the anti-gonorrheal action of cubebs is due entirely to cubebic acid, the cubebene (ethereal oil) and so-called cubebin being without therapeutic effect. He therefore recommends that the acid be used instead of cubebs or the oil, and claims to have had most excellent results by following this practice. Cubebic acid is a white waxy material, which can be given in doses of 12 to 15 grains five or six times daily.-Nat. Druggist. SALT IN MILK FOR CHILDREN.-Dr. A. Jacobi says that the addition of sodium chloride prevents the solid coagulation of milk by either rennet or gastric juice. The cow's milk ought never to be given without table salt, and the latter ought to be added to a woman's milk when it behaves like cow's milk in regard to solid curdling and consequent indigestibility. Habitual constipation of children is influenced beneficially, since not only

is the food made more digestible, but the alimentary secretions, both serous and glandular, are made more effective by its presence.-Arch. of Ped.

THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its seventeenth annual session at St. Louis, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 14, 15 and 16, 1891. A large attendance, a valuable programme and a good time. are expected. The members of the medical profession are respectfully invited to attend.

C. H. Hughes, M. D., PRESIDENT.

500 N. Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis.
E. S. McKee, M. D., SECRETARY,
57 West Seventh Street, Cincinnati.

I. N. Love, M. D., CHAIR. COM. OF
ARRANG.

301 N. Grand Avenue. St Louis. How To EXTINGUISH FIRE.-Take twenty pounds of common salt and ten pounds of sal ammoniac (muriate of ammonia, to be had of any druggist), and dissolve in seven gallons of water. When dissolved, it can be bottled, and kept in each room in the house, to be used in an emergency. In case of a fire occurring, one or two bottles should be immediately thrown with force into the burning place so as to break them, and the fire will certainly be extinguished. This is an exceedingly simple process and certainly worth New a trial. York Medical Times.

REMOVAL OF MOLES.-Moles on the

face are now being successfully treated by the use of sodium ethylate. The mole is painted with the sodium ethylate, a fine glass rod being used. When the mole has a varnished look, the ethylate is gently rubbed in with the glass rod to make it penetrate more deeply. The mole turns nearly black, and a hard crust forms over it, which is nearly three weeks in becoming detached. When it comes off, the mole is much lighter than before, and this treatment can be continued until the mark is scarcely noticeable.— Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour.