year for thirty dollars an inch, payable--" "Sir," interrupted the doctor, with a scowl, "I never advertise. It is contrary to medical ethics. Good day, gentlemen."—Exchange.

DANGERS OF WATER GAS.-A committee of the Medical Society of the County of Albany, New York, have recently presented to that body a report on hygiene, of which the concluding paragraph reads as follows:

It must be admitted that water gas, with its thirty per cent, more or less, of carbonic oxide, is a more dangerous substance than coal gas with its five to seven per cent of carbonic oxide, and that the only question that can be raised is, "How much practical importance is to be attached to this poisonous character?"

Prof. Henry Morton says that the burning of water gas produces fifty per cent more carbonic acid gas than is produced by the burning of coal gas; hence the air becomes sooner vitiated with water gas.

Upward of fifty deaths were reported in New York, from water gas, from October, 1878, to January, 1883; six in Toronto; eight in Brooklyn.

About one half of the gas used in New York is water gas, Brooklyn uses it largely, and many other cities. Albany is soon to be supplied with it.

Massachusetts has a law prohibiting the sale of gas containing above ten per cent of carbonic oxide; New Jersey makes the limit two per cent.

Brooklyn coal gas contains 7.9 per cent of carbonic oxide; its water gas 28.25 per cent. Medical News.

PUERPERAL ECLAMPSIA.-When, in the lyingin chamber, the awful complication of eclamp sia comes upon you, as it occasionally will with the suddenness of an earthquake, be cool. Encourage the attendants. Enforce quiet. Restrain your patient sufficiently to keep her from bodily injury. Place a cork between her teeth. Remembering that the whole surface of the body is in a condition of hyperesthesia, make as few vaginal examinations as possible. Use the catheter only if there is distension of the bladder. At no time yield to the common sug

gestion to apply blisters to the nucha or cataplasms to the calves. Evacuate the bowels by stimulating enemata. If there has been constipation, purge by calomel or croton oil. Apply cold water to the head, and remove hair if necessary. Mustard baths to the feet. Do not dash cold water into the face. It may be done in hysteria; in syncope it is undoubtedly beneficial, but in eclampsia Barnes says "he has seen it provoke a fit, and knows it to be decidedly injurious." Give enemata of chloral and a bromide. Bleed only in decided plethora to relieve cerebral hyperemia. Etherize, but not completely, except during a paroxysm. Keep your hands off your patient except when necessary to perform some service, and then, if possible, do what is to be done under cover of anesthesia. The spasm over, prepare to empty the uterus. Puncture the membranes and leave the rest to nature. If nature refuses to respond, slowly dilate the os. Do not forget that the fingers in cone-shape are the best dilators, and chloral their best assistant. Dilatation ef fected, deliver with the forceps for the head, or, in breech cases, by the feet. The uterus emptied, all unfavorable symptoms will vanish. If not, continue the chloral, the bromides, etc., as needed.-Massachusetts Medical Journal.

WHEN IS A MAN DRUNK?-T. L. Wright, M. D., Bellefontaine, O., in the Virginia Medical Monthly for December, asks the question, and answers it thus: When, under the influence of alcoholic liquor, and by reason of it, the mind is moved from its normal state, and its operations are performed in an incoherent manner, and it is also incapable of righting it self by its own efforts, the man is drunk.

The first element in the condition, “drunk," is the untoward impression of alcohol upon the nervous system; and the second element is the impressible sway of that impression.

The actual magnitude or degree of the mental disturbance is not an essential point in deciding upon the fact; but the combined cer tainty and tenacity of the alcoholic impression is a determining element in the discussion. Yet the extent of the mental lawlessness is the measure in deciding the question, whether the confusion or delinquency of mind is indicative

of the condition "drunk," or drunk," or "drunker," or "drunkest."

Let it be borne in mind that there is no such thing as "half drunk," or "two thirds drunk," or the like; and these terms are not to be found in any dictionary.

Another definition of the condition called drunk," which involves the one given above, and besides, implies the reason for it, may be stated as follows: When consciousness becomes modified, in any manner whatever, by the influence of alcohol upon the sensibilities, and when that modification can not be rectified by the exercise of innate nervous force, the man is drunk.

The scope of this is seen when we consider that consciousness is the mental attribute by which we know that we perceive, we think, we exist. Through consciousness, therefore, we recognize our personal identity, and are aware of relationship with the intrinsic world. obvious, that to have these conditions and relations in their true force and meaning, consciousness must be complete.

This mental attribute, however, may become disturbed from various causes, of which the poisonous influence of alcohol is a prominent one.

A collorary of the above is this: It can not be denied that a mind, whose relations with matter or with other minds are aborted, or misled, or antagonized by an incomplete and deteriorated consciousness, should not be held to equal legal responsibility with minds not thus oppressed and entangled.

Do n't give the patient a full glass of water to drink from, unless he is allowed all he desires. If he can drain the glass he will be satisfied; so regulate the quantity before handing it to him.

Don't neglect during the day to attend to necessaries for the night, that the rest of the patient and family may not be disturbed.

Don't ask a convalescent if he would like this or that to eat or drink, but prepare the delicacies and present them in a tempting way.

Don't throw coal upon the fire; place it in brown paper bags and lay them upon the fire, thus avoiding the noise, which is shocking to the sick and sensitive.

Don't jar the bed by leaning or sitting upon it. This is unpleasant to one ill and nervous. Don't let stale flowers remain in a sick chamber.

Don't be unmindful of yourself if you are in the responsible position of nurse. To do faithful work you must have proper food and stated hours of rest.

Don't appear anxious, however great your anxiety.

Don't forget that kindness and tenderness are needful to successful nursing. Human nature longs to be soothed and comforted on all occasions when it is out of tune. — American Druggist.

THE NEW SURGEON-GENERAL OF THE ARMY. Lieutenant-Colonel John Moore, who was formerly Assistant Medical Purveyor, has been appointed Surgeon-General of the Army. Surgeon-General Moore is a native of Indiana, from which State he entered the medical corps of the army in 1853. His first active service was at Fort Meade, Florida, where he relieved Dr.

W. A. Hammond during the second Seminole

war.

He attained to the rank of major in 1862, and was breveted lieutenant-colonel in 1864 for gallant and meritorious service during the Atlanta campaign; and the following year, having served as a medical director, he was breveted colonel, for faithful and meritorious services during the war. For some time past he has been Assistant Medical Purveyor and Acting Medical Store-keeper at San Francisco. He was the fifth on the list of lieutenant-colonels of the medical corps in the line of promotion.

Medical and Surgical Reporter.

THE IMPROVED PNEUMATIC CABINET.-To

any of our readers who may think of purchasing a pneumatic cabinet, the following communication will prove interesting:

J. A. W. Pine, Esq., Cincinnati, O.

Dear Sir: After having examined the patents relating to the pneumatic cabinets to which you called our attention as those under which the New York Cabinet Company was doing business, we advise you that the cabinet manufactured by you, which you exhibited to us is not, in our opinion, liable under any of the above-named patents. Yours very truly,

PARKINSON & PARKINSON.

CINCINNATI, O., October 19, 1886.

A REQUEST.-The American Rhinological Association would be pleased to have authors send any monographs, papers, or books, treating of any disease pertaining to the nose, throat, or ears to the librarian, Dr. N. R. Gordon, Springfield, Ill. Due acknowledgment will be made by the association.

THE diuretic action of mercury salts is, Mr. F. S. Locke believes, due to its stimulating the liver and increasing the amount of urea thrown into the blood by that organ.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY has two surviving graduates both of the class of 1811, seventyfive years ago.

SPECIAL NOTICES.

I have used Peacock's Bromides in a number of cases with the best results, especially in epilepsy, one case in particular, C. S., a railroad man, hav

ing been compelled to quit work on account of the paroxysms coming on every day. After one week's treatment with Peacock's Bromides, the attacks were considerably lessened; now, after two months' treatment, he seems entirely cured, and has resumed work. Any case where there is a nerve sedative indicated, I can cheerfully recommend Peacock's Bromides.

W. H. WOLFORD, M. D.

2634 State Street, Chicago, Ills.

Army and Navy Medical Intelligence. OFFICIAL LIST of Changes in the Stations and Duties of Officers serving in the Medical Department, United States Army, from December 5, 1886, to December 11, 1886:

Maj. A. A. Woodhull, Surgeon, ordered for duty at post of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (S. O. 138,

Department Missouri, December 3, 1886.) Maj. B. F. Pope, Surgeon, relieved from duty in the office of the Surgeon-General of the Army, and will report in person to the President of the Army Medical Examining Board in New York City for duty as member and recorder of the board. (S.O. 285, A. G. O., December 9, 1886.) Capt. F. C. Ainsworth, Assistant Surgeon, will repair to this city and report in person to the Secretary of War, and, on completion of the duty which may be required of him, will return to his station (New York City.) (S. O. 280, A. G. O., December 3, 1886.) Capt. Fred. C. Ainsworth, Assistant Surgeon, relieved from duty as Recorder of the Army Medical Examining Board, New York City, and ordered to report in person to the Surgeon-General of the Army for duty in his office. (S. O. 282, A. G. O., December 6, 1886.) Capt. H. S. Turrill, Assistant Surgeon, ordered for duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Spokane, Washington Territory. (S. O. 209, Department Columbia, November 29, 1886.) Capt. Edward C. Carter, Assistant Surgeon, leave of absence extended six months. (S. Ö. 281, A. G. O., December 4, 1886.) First Lieut. Chas. C. Barrows, Assistant Surgeon, granted leave of absence for two months, to take effect when his services can be spared by his post commander. (S. O. 285, A. G. O., December 9, 1886.) First Lieut. George F. Wilson, Assistant Surgeon, granted leave of absence for one month, with permission to apply to headquarters Division of the Missouri for an extension of twenty days, to take effect about December 15, 1886. (S. O. 125, Department Dakota, December 1, 1886. Major John W. Williams, Surgeon, ordered for duty at Jackson Barracks, Louisiana. (S. O. 205 Division Atlantic, December 1, 1886.) Pope, Benjamin F., Major and Surgeon, so much of S. O. 285 A. G. O., December 9, 1886, as directs him to report in person to the President of the Army Medical Examining Board, New York City, for duty as member and recorder of the board, is revoked. (S. O. 287, A. G. O., December 11, 1886.) Captain Joseph K. Corson, Assistant Surgeon, leave of absence extended seven days. (S. O. 288, A. G. O., December 13, 1886.) First Lieutenant R. R. Ball, Assistant Surgeon, ordered for duty at Fort Riley, Kansas. (S. O. 144 Department of Missouri, December 13, 1886.)