viously; ulceration of right vocal cord and inter-arytenoid space; larynx swollen and paretic; apex of right lung consolidated to third rib; fine rales to center of chest in front and mucous rales behind from spine of scapula to base of lung; prolonged expira tion in left apex; evening temperatuse, 101° to 102° F.; nightsweats. Treated generally with tonics, baths, etc., and the larynx locally with lactic acid, menthol, and creasote. He improved in weight, and his fever did not come on daily, but at irregular intervals; consolidation began in apex of left lung.

Early in April the injections of gold and iodine were begun and continued daily for six weeks. He slept better from the start, and the last month had no fever or night-sweats. He gained in weight. The rales had disappeared from right lung, and no further infiltration took place. The ulceration in the larynx healed entirely, but the voice, while stronger, was hoarse. He returned to his home, and I received a report of his continued improvement in August.

Case III.-Miss K. J., aged 30 years; native of Missouri; maternal aunt had consumption. The disease had lasted two years when she came in February, 1891, weighing ninety-seven pounds; average weight, one hundred and ten pounds; had weighed one hundred and twenty pounds; tuberculosis of lungs. On right side a cavity was forming below clavicle in the infiltrated portion. Mucous rales over the entire right lung, except in consolidated apex, which extended to fourth rib in front and to spine of scapula behind left side; roughened inspiration, and prolonged, audible expiration in apex; a few moist and sibilant rales in lower lobe behind; temperature, 103° to 104° F. every afternoon and night; profuse, weakening night-sweats; expectoration very free and quantity large; tubercular bacilli were found in great numbers in her sputum.

She was treated constitutionally in the usual manner until early in May, with but little change, when she was put on the Shurly-Gibbes treatment with inhalations of chlorine gas. This was continued for two months, in which time she received over forty injections and as many inhalations. Her fever gradually left her, and on examination, June 9, showed a small, dry cavity below clavicle, right side; no rales anywhere; expectoration reduced to a small quantity on arising in the morning, night-sweats

rarely occurring, and weight one hundred and one pounds. An attack of diarrhoea came on early in July, during which she lost several pounds. This was soon controlled, and she has steadily gained in strength.

Au examination, October 31, showed that the disease was quiescent; no fevers, no night-sweats, no cough, except early in the morning, which is probably due to pharyngeal mucous; weight, one hundred and six pounds; has taken no medicine for past three months. This was an advanced case. She did not improve until put on gold and iodine and chlorine inhalations, which looks as though the treatment had helped her. She is confident of it herself.

Case IV.-Mr. K. W., aged 28 years; native of New York; family history good; no fever and no night-sweats; expectoration small in quantity, but contained tubercle bacilli; hacking cough almost constant; voice hoarse; physical signs of a slight catarrh in both apices; vocal cords reddened, but not ulcerated; weight, one hundred and seventeen pounds; average weight, one hundred and twenty pounds; treatment began in April.

General tonic treatment for one month; no gain in weight or change in condition; larynx somewhat improved under topical applications.

Was then treated one month on the Shurly-Gibbes method without inhalations of chlorine gas. At the end of that time he weighed one hundred and twenty-six pounds, which was more than he had ever weighed; had good appetite and digestion. There were no rales in either apex, but prolonged expiration remained. In the very sparse expectoration no tubercle bacilli could be found. His voice was stronger, and larynx presented normal appearance.

In order not to make this paper too long, no more histories will be given, but a simple synopsis of results, from which no case is excluded that has had as many as fifteen injections.

Total number of cases, twenty-two.

Advanced cases, with no improvement in their condition, to which category Case I. belongs, six, or 27 per cent. of the whole number.

Advanced cases, with improvement (to which category Case II. belongs), eight, or 36 per cent. of the number treated.

Cases which have shown very great improvement (including advanced and incipient cases, to which category Cases III. and IV. belong), eight, or 36 per cent, of the total.

It is impossible to compare these results with those obtained without the injections, in those cases in which reliance was placed entirely upon climatic and tonic treatment, with attention to symptoms as they arose, for two reasons.

The first is, that many cases came here so far advanced that euthanasia is the one object of all treatment. They cannot oftentimes even reach their homes alive. Such cases would throw the balance at once to the side of the Shurly-Gibbes treatment, and evidently unjustly.

The second reason is, that, in parallel cases, the comparison could only be made with those who have refused the ShurlyGibbes remedies-patients who have not had the courage to undergo the treatment. The temperament of such cases is against them in their battle for health.

That the climatic conditions at Asheville are especially well suited to tubercular patients is very generally acknowledged, and I can report several cases that were there last year that have gone on since without relapse or any return of the symptoms of their disease.

The climatic, combined with the Shurly-Gibbes treatment, is the one I now urge in all cases, and I do so from the conviction that the latter is a decided aid to the former, and that a larger percentage of improved, and possibly cured, cases results from the combination than from climatic treatment with careful supervision alone.

No aid should be omitted that offers the least hope, and if cases are sent away from home early in the history of their disease, and with the best climatic surroundings are given the advantage of scientific care and direction, the prognosis is not as hopeless as it would have been considered only a decade ago.-Thera. Gazette.

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CUPID'S BATTLE WITH ADIPOSE.-Pharmacists are not infrequently importuned by customers to give advice in cases of superabundance of adipose tissue, and hence the following romantic episode may prove interesting to some of our readers. The story is told by Dr. Dio Lewis:

A very fat young woman came to my office and asked to see me privately. When we were alone, she said: "I have called to consult you about the strangest thing in the world. I will tell you all. I am 23 years old. When I was 19 I weighed one hundred and twenty-two pounds; now I weigh two hundred and nine; I am filling up with fat. I can hardly breathe. The best young man that ever lives loves me, and has been on the point of asking me to marry him; but, of course, he sees I am growing worse all the time, and he don't dare to venture. I can't blame him. He is the noblest man in the world, and could marry any one he chooses. I don't blame him for not wishing to unite himseif to such a great tub as I am. Why, Doctor, you don't know how fat I am. I am a sight to behold. And now I have come to see if any thing can be done. I know you have studied up all sorts of curious subjects, and I thought you might be able to tell me how to get rid of this dreadful curse."

She had been talking faster and faster, and with more and more feeling (after the manner of fat women, who are always emotional), until she broke down in hysterical sobs. I inquired about her habits-table and otherwise.

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She replied: "Oh, I starve myself; I don't eat enough to keep a bird alive, and yet I grow fatter and fatter all the time. wouldn't mind for myself, but it's just breaking his heart; if it wasn't for him, I could be reconciled."

Then I asked her if she would be willing to follow a prescription I might give her.

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Willing?" willing?" she cried. "I would be willing to go through fire, or to have my flesh cut off with red-hot knives. There is nothing I would not be willing to endure, if I could get rid of this horrible condition."

I prepared a prescription for her, and arranged that she should call upon me once a week, that I might supervise her progress, and have frequent opportunities to encourage her. The first prescription which I prepared for her was this: First: For breakfast,

eat a piece of beef or mutton as large as your hand, with a slice of white bread twice as large. For dinner, the same amount of meat, or, if preferred, fish or poultry, with the same amount of farinaceous or vegetable food in the form of bread or potato. For supper, nothing. Second: Drink only when greatly annoyed with thirst; then, a mouthful of strong lemonade without sugar. Third: Take three times a week some form of bath in which there shall be immense perspiration. The Turkish bath is best. You must work, either in walking or some other way, several hours a day.

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But, Doctor, I can't walk; my feet are sore.'

"I thought that might be the case; but if the soles of your shoes are four inches broad, and are thick and strong, walking will not hurt your feet. You must walk or work until you perspire freely, every day of the week. Of course you are in delicate health, with little endurance; but, as you have told me that you are willing to do any thing, you are to work hard at something six or seven hours every day.

'Fourth: You must rise very early in the morning and retire late at night. Much sleep fattens people. Fifth: The terrible corset you have on, which compresses the center of the body, making you look a great deal fatter than you really are, must be taken off, and you must have a corset which any dress-maker can fit to you a corset for the lower part of the abdomen, which will raise the great mass and support it.

"This is all the advice I have to give you at present. At first you will lose half a pound a day. In the first three months you will lose from twenty to thirty pounds. In six months, forty pounds. You will constantly improve in health, get over this excessive emotion, and be much stronger."

I happened to be out of the city and did not see her until her second visit, two weeks from our first meeting. It was plain . when she entered that already her system was being toned up; and when we were again in my private office, she said:

"I have lost six and a half pounds; not quite as much as you told me, but I am delighted, though nearly starved. I have done exactly as you prescribed, and shall continue to if it kills You must be careful not to make any mistakes, for I shall do just as you say. At first the thirst was dreadful; I thought

me.