A SIMPLE WAY TO REDUCE A DISLOCATION OF THE HUMERUS.-Seat the patient and stand by his side; grasp his humerus with the palm of your right hand applied above the inner condyle; raise it to a right angle with his trunk; grip the patient's wrist between your arm and right side; place the upper margin of your left palm on the prominent acromoin; then make steady traction on his arm to disengage the head of the humerus, at the same time making counter pressure on the acromoin inwards and somewhat downwards; the head is then lifted into the glenoid cavity by using the patient's arm as a lever of the third kind, the fulcrum being at the wrist, firmly fixed to the side of the operator.-Condensed from British Medical Journal.

THE TREATMENT OF ACNE.-Lassar recommends the following paste for all forms of acne : Ꭱ B naphthol.............. 10 parts; Precipitated sulph.......... 50 parts; Vaseline or lanolin.........25 parts; Green soap....................25 parts.

This is to be spread upon the skin to the thickness of the back of a knife-blade, and left on for fifteen or twenty minutes, when it will cause a little burning. It is then to be wiped off with a soft cloth, and the skin powdered with talc. The skin soon becomes inflamed, then turns brown, and finally peels off. The desquamation can be hast ned by the application of Lassar's paste with two per cent. of salicylic acid. When the desquamation has ceased, the acne will be found to be greatly benefitted.—Therap. Monatshaft.

The N. Y. Med. Times says the permanganate of potash recommended by Dr. Bartholow in menstrual irregularities often disturbs the stomach to In these such an extent as to prevent its use. cases the biniodide of manganese in two grain pill three times a day during the entire month produces no disturbance of the stomach, and acts with even greater promptness. It is especially indicated in amenorrhoea and painful menstruation.

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2. Temporarily reduction of pulse rate fifteen to twenty beats, and temperature one-half a degree to one degree during the administration of the gas.

3. The amount of gas introduced into the bowel has varied from three quarts to a gallon at each injection. It has been introduced very slowly, from fifteen minutes to half an hour being demanded by the operation. The administration has been practised in most cases twice in the twenty-four hours. No injurious effects from the gas have as yet been observed.

4 Administration of the gas in different amounts and varying degrees of concentration is now being practised, and also investigations into the characteristics of the sputa.

5. In only one of the 'cases of phthisis the effects of the gas have been entirely negative.

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7. The ultimate value of treatment can certain, ly only be established by time. The probable mode of action would seem to be antiseptic, and by reducing suppuration the relief of the attending serious symptoms, the patient is permitted to gain by food, exercise, and general treatment. Thus far, the value of the gas seems to be that of a useful therapeutic measure, rather than a curative plan of treatment.

8. The method of preparing the gas for use in the hospital is as follows: The carbonic acid gas is passed through a solution of chloride of sodium and sulphite of sodium in twenty-two ounces of water. The proportion of the salts has been increased in some cases, and some trials of other combinations are being made..

HOW TO TAKE SANTONIN.

A writer in the Medical Record says: It has also been proved by experiment that santonin, when given in an oily solution, is not at all absorbed in the stomach, but the entire quantity passes into the intestine. It is evident that when the drug is given in powder it will be absorbed and taken up in the circulation before reaching the intestine, and consequently, in order to obtain its vermicidal effect, it must be adminis