M. Sig., 3j every quarter to half hour after meals.-Rev. med. de. la Suisse Romande. A NEW USE FOR NITRO GLYCERIN, Dr. Kloman (Journal de Med. de Lille,) was giving a solution of nitro-glycerin (1:100) to a man sixty-two years of age, a sufferer from cardiac asthma. The patient, being exposed to cold, became covered with chilblains. He took three drops of this solution and was almost instantaneously warmed and relieved. From this fact, and on account of other physiological properties of the drug, the writer concludes that it may prove of service in threatened gangrene, senile or other.-La Gazette Medicale Montreal. de THE ACTUAL CAUTERY IN EPILEPSY. -At the Hospital Medical Society's session of June 28, 1889, M. Féré presented two epileptics who had been treated by the application of the hotiron to the hairy scalp. In one, the number of attacks, which had been twenty-one in 1886, was reduced to seven in 1887, while during the present year not a single one has occurred. The second patient had suffered from sixtythree paroxysms in 1886, forty-five in 1887, and but five in 1888. In other cases the spasms had been ameliorated or modified in form.-Le Progrès Médical. WARM BATHS FOR INSOMNIA.—The quieting and hypnotic effects of baths of lukewarm water have been known for some time. Dr. Alldorfer, in Ľ Union Medicale, recommends a method which he says is more convenient and brings about the same results. Soft linen cloths wrung out of lukewarm water are wrapped around the abdomen. and covered with rubber. tissue or the like; over this is a flannel bandage, to retain the warmth and moisture. The doctor says that with this simple procedure he has attained really surprising results in his cases of insomnia.- Weekly Medical Review. MORRIS, decribes a case of unusual interest. The child aged two and a half years, walked stiffly, easing the right leg, and then returned to creeping. The right gluteal fold was effaced; the right buttock broad. When he tried to rise the back muscles contracted rightly. The diagnosis was incipient spondylitis and coxitis: but circumcision was advised to remove any possible reflex. The prepuce was long, firmly adherent to the glands: and retained a collection of hard smegma. The operation was performed, and while waiting for a cuirass to be made, the child got entirely well.—Med. Mirror. "RUSH" SECURES THE PRIZE.-Information has just reached us to the effect that Dr. Senn has been elected Senior Professor of Surgery in Rush Medical College, Chicago. We most cordially congratulate "Rush" in securing the professional service of this eminent sur geon. The antecedents of Dr. Senn, having been so brilliant and so well deserved, we confidently predict for him a future, that we dare not express in words. Professor Senn, with his family, will, soon as practicable, make Chicago his permanent residence. THE INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO ON DIGESTION.-Ydan-Pouchkine made a series of careful experiments on seven persons in good health, but who were not accustomed to tobacco. His results were as follows: Tobacco increases the quantity of the gastric juice, but diminishes its acidy. The amount of free hydrochloric acid is decreased, and consequently the digestive power of the gastric juice; its peptonizing power is also diminished. These effects last for a certain length of time. On the other hand, the movements of the stomach and its power of absorbing are increased. Tobacco has no effect on the acidity of the urine.-Boston Med. and Surg. Jour. large number of patients from three to six times daily, the result being that in more than half of the cases the albumen entirely disappeared from the urine, and oedema and other symptoms were also cured. GALACTORRHOEA.--Braun recommends in excessive secretion of milk the application of a compressing bandage to the breasts, low diet, interdiction of beer, derivation to the intestine by means of a saline purgative. In case these measures prove ineffective the following mixture may be given: R-Iodide of potassium, 2. PILOCARPINE FOR BRONCHITIS.-In the treatment of ordinary cases of bronchial catarrh, accompanied by cough, arrested secretions, derangement of the RESORCIN IN ECZEMA.-Dr. Unna strongly recommends in the treatment of seborrhoeal eczema an application of digestion, etc., pilocarpine in small doses In ecze linen cloths soaked in solution of resor- at short intervals, it is one of the most effective remedies that we have at the present time, and when in the form of tablet triturates can be given to children, adults, and all persons without regard to the condition of the stomach. than a two-grain tablet of the 2x every hour or two, and the preparation should be allowed to dissolve in the mouth. The dose for adults should not be more TREATMENT OF EPISTAXIS.- Mr. Jon--Medical Summary. athan Hutchinson has made a note in he Archives of Surgery of a treatment epistaxis which he avers has never iled of success in his hands, and he has ..ad many very rebellious cases. It consists in plunging the patient's feet and hands into water as hot as can be borne, ETHEREAL TINCTURE OF IRON IN CHRONIC NEPHRITIS.-Dr. Wyss, of Geneva, speaks very highly of the ethereal tincture of iron, or Bestucheff's tincture, as it is usually called on the continent, in cases of chronic Bright's disFive or ten drops of this preparation in a glass of water were given to a ease. LOCALIZATION OF ARSENIC IN THE BONES.-Apropos of M. Brouardel's recent communication upon the subject of arsenical chronic poisoning, M. Marty, at a meeting of the Academy of Medicine, July 16, 1889, read a note of M. Balland, according to which Roussin had announced, in 1863, that arsenic is deposited in the bones, taking the place of phosphorus, and being eliminated very slowly. M. Brouardel stated that he was ignorant of these researches, as they are not mentioned in the book which M. Roussin had written in collaboration with Tardieu. Arsenic is not however, found in all, but principally in the spongy bones. SUBNITRATE OF BISMUTH IN ERYSIPELAS.-M. Mare Sée has been using for several years a permanent antiseptic of which subnitrate of bismuth is the essential element. During this time he has not seen the development of a single case of erysipelas when the dressing was used, although the surroundings of the patients were often such as to favor its appearance. In certain operations, where wounds are left which are evidently not in an aseptic condition, he abstains from the scrupulous use of antiseptic douching, and relies upon the bismuth, with which the wounds are filled, after which he applies a layer of hydrophile wadding. He has also had reason to believe that bismuth is a very useful application in cases of erysipelas already devoloped.-La Semaine Med. SIMPLE TREATMENT FOR NOCTURNAL ENURESIS.-An ingenious and simple method of treatment for a very troublesome disorder was suggested at the International Medical Congress by Dr. Van Trenton, of La Hayne. He stated that the nocturnal enuresis of children was due to insufficiency of the sphincter vesica, which allowed the urine to flow into the upper portion of the urethra, from which it was then expelled by reflex action of the detrusor urinæ. The fact that the child wetted the bed two hours or so after going to sleep, proved that it was not due to distension of the bladder. His treatment then consisted in preventing the urine from running into the urethra by raising the foot of the bed. He had cured fourteen children in this way, taking the additional precaution of having them empty the bladder just before retiring, and of giving them liquor at this time.-Med. Times. no QUININE IN SEA SICKNESS.-Richert has recommended large doses of sulphate of quinine as a specific in seasick ness. Recently one of his pupils (Marcel Boudovin) has written him a letter in which he notes the utter inefficacy of this treatment in his own case. It is to be noted, however, that Boudovin did not follow strictly the injunctions of the teacher to remain as quiet as possible in the recumbent position.-Exchange. SUPRAPUBIC LITHOTOMY with immediate suture on a patient 69 years old; primary union. Dr. Kehr, Halberstadt. Size of stone, an existing hydrocele, and a false passage, contra-indicated the low operation. Stone was too hard for lithotripsy. Patient was nervous, restless, could not lie in bed, had a severe emphyHence there was no difficulty in sema. choice of operation, viz.: suprapubic section, removal of stone, and immediate interrupted suture with sublimated silk; tampon of prevesical space. account of false passage, soft catheter could not be introduced into bladder, and a metallic one had to be used. On The tip of this irritated sutures, and on second day succeeded in getting in a soft one. Bladder was emptied every 2 to 3 hours, day and night, and washed out with warm boric acid solution. In spite of these unfavorable surroundings, patient was out in 12 days, and left clinic in three weeks.-Ber. Klin. Woch. MEDICAL NUMISMATICS.-Dr. Horatio R. Storer, of Newport, R. I., who has for several years been making researches in medical numismatics, will be glad for aid in this direction and will give due credit for all information of the kind. Dr. S. has thus far published the following papers upon the subject: "The Medals, Jetons and Tokens Illustrative of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women." -NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL MONTHLY, November, December, 1886. "The Medals, Jetons and Tokens Illustrative of Sanitation,"-[Water Supply, Bathing, Min. Springs, Drainage, Sewerage Ventilation, Diet, Famine, Epidemics, Mil. and Naval Hygiene, Climate, Registration, Life Insurance, Hospitals, etc.]— The Sanitarian, May, July, August, October, 1887; February, April, July, August, November, 1888; February, March, April, June, September, November, 1889; January, February, May, July, August, September, October, 1890, (concluded). "The Goethe Medals"-(the poet was educated as a physician).-Amer. Journal of Numismatics, October, 1887; January, 1888. "The Medals of Guislain"—(the Belgian alienist).--Medico-Legal Journal, December, 1887; "Les Médailles de la Princesse Charlotte d'Angleterre, Première Femme du Roi Leopold ler de Belgique" (died in childbirth).-Revue belge de numismatique, January, 1888. "The Medals of St. Charles Borromeo, Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan,"--(identified with the Plague of 1576).-Amer. Journal of Numismatics, July, October, 1888. "The Medals, Jetons and Tokens Illustrative of the Science of Medicine." -Ibid., January, April, July, October, 1889; January, April, July, October, 1890; January, 1891, (to be continued). "The Medals of Benjamin Rush, Obstetrician." Journal of the Am. Med. Ass'n. INOCULATION OF CARCINOMA.—(Dr. Wehr. Paper read before the Eighteenth German Congress of Surgeons, published in Langenbeck's Archive für Klinische Chirurgie, vol. 39, heft 1.) Dr. Wehr made a series of experiments upon twenty-six dogs by taking pieces of carcinoma of the vagina or penis and inoculating them subcutaneously through the shell of a trocar upon healthy animals. In most cases the nodules failed to grow, or if they grew at first they became atrophied later on; but in one animal, which was inoculated December 12, 1887, the tumors grew constantly until the animal died June 16, 1888. The autopsy showed the tissues surrounding the points of inoculation infiltrated with carcinomatous tissue, and the pelvis filled with nodules, some of which exceeding the size of a hen's egg. These tumors had occulated the urethra, causing a rupture of the bladder by over-dis have found it without an equal for relieving the pains of dysmenorrhoea and regulating uterine disorders. The Atmospheric Tractor is an excellent and cheap instrument. It will earn its cost in saving time at the first confinement. relief of pain which the patient complained no opiates were given, but as a substitute Antikamnia was administered in 10 grain doses, with excellent effect." Courier of Medicine. I find Cactina Pillets (Sultan) very efficient in relieving any irregularity of Itching of Anus and Genitals in the heart's action, especially if there is Women: 4 oz. R Linseed oil (raw), Dr. W. A. M. Culbert, Newburgh, N. Y., says: "Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic" is an excellent article for the purpose for which it is offered. I recall patients by whom it was taken with eagerness and great benefit after domestic beef teas and other preparations had become repulsive. In the array of foods that are so constantly brought to the notice of the physician, it is well to admonish him to adhere to those that have proved to be efficient, and have taken their place as standards. Imperial Granum is a food that has attained a high and standard reputation by merit of actual use for a long time.-Med. Summary. "Wagner's Infant Food" is used generally throughout the United States. Its merits are recognized by the medical profession and the public. The testimonials are not from remote distances, but from reliable parties near our own homes, and from medical practition ers standing high in reputation for their knowledge and honesty of purpose. I have used the preparations of Ale & Beef, "Peptonized," for myself, and am very well pleased with it. I have not. since receiving it, had any patient to whom it would have been applicable, but it is my intention to prescribe it at the first opportunity. Dr. F. E. Chatard. 114 Park ave., Baltimore. Md. "A Unique Case of Stab Wound of Thorax and Abdomen-Recovery" by A. V. L. Brokaw, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgery, Missouri Medical College; Junior Surgeon to St John's Hospital. "For the any debility present. One patient I am Grahamsville, S. C. John Muir, M. D, Member College Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario, Canada, Ex-Vice-President Ontario Medical Council, says: "I take pleasure in saying that I have found Papine (Battle) prompt, efficacious, and-better stillunobjectionable as to after effects. A patient, more than usually intolerant of other preparations of opium, has borne it well, and derived manifest benefit from its use." Pierrepont Manor, N. Y. At the St. Louis Small-Pox Hospital Listerine has been used largely, and with satisfaction. Local applications of equal parts of Listerine and glycerine have been found to be very cooling and comforting, and almost, entirely to prevent the excessive itching and irritation that distresses the patients. In some malignant cases where secondary abscesses had formed, the physician, after opening such abscesses placed the patients in a bath containing a pint of Listerine, which they found a valuable addition. In the treatment of dermatitis after vaccination, Listerine answers admirably. There can be no doubt whatever that the salts of lithia exert a powerful influence on the rheumatic and gouty habits, as well as in certain renal diseases in which an excess of uric acid is foud. The lithia is also most beneficial where an abdominal formation of sodium urate takes place. As pointed out in the journal (July, 1889), the natural lithia waters contain too small and variable quantity of the salt. Enno Sander, of St. Louis, has produced |