professions or avocations engaged in by any class of persons, especially in this county, none are so meagerly remunerated, according to the importance of the service or the amount of labor performed, as members of the medical profession; and the remedy, while not probable, was possible, by which it might be improved 100 per cent. was simply in our becoming more thoroughly organized and interested in our own pecuniary interests. It was recommended that after doing the practice of an individual for a reasonable length of time, and receiving no compensation therefor, he be reported to every other physician in the locality in which such individual lives as a dead-beat, and the physicians should refuse to do his practice until satisfactory settlement had been made with the physician formerly doing his practice; and in case of his removal from one locality to another, all the physicians of that locality should be notified of his standing in the community in which he had formerly lived. This to apply, however, only to those who might, by proper industry and economy, be able to pay their bills, and in no case to true cases of charity. In a word, nothing was recommended that was not in strict conformity to that grandest of all precepts laid down by the grandest of all Masters, who said, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them."

G. W. MORRIS, M.D., Secretary.

ADAMSVILLE, TENN., April, 1892.

Selections.

ARISTOL FOR BED-SORES.-Dr. J. W. Brooke (Medical Bulletin) reports the most gratifying effect obtained by him from the use of aristol for bed-sores in a woman aged 62 years, who was confined to bed by a fracture of the femur. The condition had existed for some time, and, in spite of every precaution, sloughs began to form on both buttocks. An ointment of forty grains of aristol to an ounce of cosmoline, spread on old linen, was applied, with the result that within forty-eight hours all pain disappeared, and within a week all inflammation was allayed. Medical Fortnightly.

TREATMENT OF SHOCK.-Chauvel recommends the following treatment of shock, according to La Médicine Hypodermique for January, 1892: For the purpose of re-establishing the circulation, the patient is put in an absolutely horizontal position and massaged. He is also given alcoholic frictions and subcutaneous injections of ether. For the purpose of maintaining the bodily temperature, the air of the room is well heated, and the patient is surrounded by hot bottles, or placed in a bath of the temperature of 105° or 110°.

Internally, Chauvel administers alcoholic stimulants, such as rum or brandy, in the dose of from one to two ounces. He does not employ sinapisms or other inconvenient measures. When reaction has been obtained, the stimulants are combined with opium for the production of sleep. Chauvel mentions the intravenous injection of ammonia, as has been used by Penfold and Tibbis. In cases where shock is prolonged, strychnine, digitalis, and belladonna are to be employed, and electricity may be of great service.-Therapeutic Gazette.

PROPRIETORY MEDICINES IN PRESCRIPTIONS.-B. (Maryland). This journal has always insisted that the pharmacist must dispense whatever is prescribed. If a prescription calls for a copyrighted compound which is not kept in stock, the pharmacist has but one choice-return the prescription unless the customer, on a full explanation of all the facts, should consent to the substitution of a similar preparation.-Western Druggist.

(Very correct.-Ed. S. P.)

THE tincture of iodine mixed with glycerine is claimed by Dr. Hammond to prove more effective as a local application than the plain tincture. This is due to the retardation of the dissipation of the iodine, or, more likely, to the skin remaining soft, and hence in a better condition for absorbing the drug.-Lancet-Clinic.

SANDER'S & SONS' Eucalypti Extract (Eucalyptol).—Apply to Dr. Sander, Dillon, Iowa, for gratis-supplied samples of Eucalyptol and reports on cures effected at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald. Meyer Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., Dallas, Texas, and New York, sole agents.

CHRONIC GASTRIC CATARRH is treated by Forlanini (La Sem. Med.) by first irrigating the stomach with a 2 per cent. sodium bicarbonate solution, then introducing a pint of a 1:10,000 silver nitrate solution, withdrawing a portion of the latter, inflating the stomach with air (to expose the coating to the action of the silver salt), replacing this silver solution, after a short while, by a fresh amount, withdrawing this also, and finally washing out the stomach with water containing sodium chloride.-Western Druggist.

PROF. N. S. DAVIS says all the indications for treatment in croup, in the mild or superficial form of the disease, can be fulfilled by the administration of:

B. Syr. ipecac...........

M. Sig.

Half teaspoonful every three or four hours.-Ind.

Med. Journal.

DISH-RAG GOURD.-Dr. Beall (Texas Courier of Medicine) regards the Lufa dish-cloth or inside of the vegetable dish-rag gourd as an excellent means of cleaning any surface upon which the knife is to be used. It is cheap, will not irritate the skin, will bear any kind of antiseptic solutions or soaps, and will rapidly remove dirt and infectious material.-International Journal of Surgery. (And then it is so cheap it can be thrown into the fire when used.-Ed. S. P.)

QUININE pills and capsules are very insoluble, being discharged undissolved.

Febriline, or Tasteless Syrup of Quinine, has been found to be just as reliable in all cases as the bitter sulphate of quinine, and physicians will find it to their interest to use it for adults as well as children in place of pills and capsules. It is as pleasant as lemon syrup, and will be retained by the most delicate stomach, having also the advantage of not producing the unpleasant head symptoms of which so many patients complain after taking the quinine sulphate. Possessing these advantages, physicians will find it superior to the quinine sulphate for all cases requiring quinine, particularly typhoid fever.

AMENORRHOEA OF SCHOOL GIRLS.-Dr. T. A. Reamy, (Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic), in discussing the amenorrhoea in anæmia, common to school girls, says: (1) She must leave school, and must not even study at home. (2) She must spend several hours each day in the open air, either walking or riding. In winter she must, of course, be warmly clad, but must wear no sheepskins or other chest-protecting pads. Standing in the open air, she must be induced to breathe deeply with the mouth closed; this should be done for at least fifteen or twenty minutes, and be repeated at least twice a day. Nothing that can be done will more rapidly improve the character of her blood. (3) She must sponge her extremities and body each morning on arising from bed. The water must be of the temperature of the room, and she must practice freely with an ordinary towel. (4) She must drink plenty of milk and eat plenty of beefsteak. (5) She must take small doses of iron, combined with some bitter tonic, three times a day. Improvement may be somewhat slow, but if this course is faithfully carried out, a perfect cure will result, and her education may then be finished. If this course or its equivalent be not followed, the cases will go from bad to worse, and finally die from pulmonary tuberculosis.

WAYNE'S DIURETIC ELIXIR.-We had the pleasure recently of a call from Mr. William Gilmore, the handsome, polite, and exceedingly entertaining representative of that standard and reliable preparation so valuable in genito- urinary affectionsWayne's Diuretic Elixir. For acute and chronic catarrh of the bladder, brick dust and chalky deposits in the urine, calculi, acute and chronic Bright's disease, or any irritation of the genitourinary passages, it is unequalled. See the statements of such men as Glenn, of Nashville; Keely and Pendergast, of Cincinnati, and other reliable observers, who have used it.

TO DEODORIZE IODOFORM. The following combination is allowed by the Addendum of the Netherland Pharmacopeia to deodorize iodoform: Carbolic acid, one part; oil of peppermint, two parts; iodoform, one hundred and ninety-seven parts.-New York Medical Journal.

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MALTED MILK Co., RACINE, WIS.: In January I was attacked with influenza and pneumonia. During the convalescence I was very weak. I bought a six-pound jar of your Malted Milk, and took two tablespoonsful of the same every five hours. In a short time I regained my strength, and was able to take up my practice again. At bed-time I take two heaping tablespoonsful of the Malted Milk in a cup of hot coffee, and then I can sleep all night. When I make a trip into the country (I am a country doctor), I always take a cup of coffee and Malted Milk, and also when I return. By doing this I gained 23 pounds in four weeks, and I also feel well. I do not say that the Malted Milk is altogether responsible for this, but it certainly aided me wonderfully. By taking Malted Milk in hot coffee I have a nutritious drink, as pleasant as a cup of chocolate, as delicious as a cup of cocoa, and as stimulating as a cup of eggnogg. With many thanks, I remain, yours truly, DR. E. J. KEMPF.

JASPER, IND., February 27, 1892.

TO CHECK MILK SECRETION IN MASTITIS.-An ounce of camphor dissolved in three ounces of turpentine has been used in Columbia Hospital for Women to check secretion of milk in mastitis. It relieves pain, diminishes induration, and reduces inflammation. Care should be taken that the part should not be so tightly covered that the application shall produce irritation of the surface. Medical and Surgical Reporter.

THE prospectus of the May issue of the Cosmopolitan is accompanied by a letter of the American News Company, stating that the news-stand sales of the Cosmopolitan have increased nearly 1,000 per cent. during the past three years-the second half of the Cosmopolitan's existence.

SANDER & SONS' Eucalypti Extract (Eucalyptol).—Apply to Dr. Sander, Dillon, Iowa, fer gratis-supplied samples of Eucalyptol and reports on cures effected at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald. Meyer Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis and and Kansas City, Mo., Dallas, Texas, and New York, sole agents.