use such an expression), and not after its component parts have become dissolved, leaving only the charcoal stain. My method, and I have had several such cases, is to employ electrolysis as for the removal of a volvus vascularis, first obtunding the pain by the anodal application of solution muriate of cocaine. The capacity of the current varies from 3 to 7 milliamperes, according to the condition of the particular spot to be operated upon, and the sensitiveness of the patient's skin. Having within the past year and a half treated upwards of two hundred and fifty cases of hypertrichosis, volvus pigimentosis and vascularis by electrolysis, I would be glad to learn of the success met with by others who may have performed this operation, suggesting that they give the ampere capacity of the current used, percentage of hairs which returned, and average number of hairs extracted in an hour. Lightning Cure for a Felon. Editor MEDICAL WORLD: I notice in your July number, Vol. VI, an article entitled "How to Cure a Felon." Please permit me to give your readers the best cure that my experience has taught me. By electricity, used as follows, a felon is destroyed with lightning speed. Use a good galvanic battery with ordinary power, then fill two glass dishes or cups with water, p'ace the finger affected with the felon in one cup in which you have placed the positive end of the electric wire; then place the next sound finger in the second glass cup in which you have inserted the negative pole; continue passing the current for twenty or thirty minutes, and if required repeat this once in four or six hours. The pus that is exosmoded through the periosteum will appear as a small pimple at the skin in a few days, and may require to be pricked with a needle. D. D. MARTIN, M. D. Carthage, D. T. Quiz Column. Questions are solicited for this Column. 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F. DAVIS, M. D., through it. Company Surgeon, M. C. Ry., Jimulco, Mexico. Gonorrhea. Ipecac for Hiccough Editor MEDICAL WORLD: Cannot some one give us a satisfactory treatment for gonorrhea? There is no disease more troublesome to the general practitioner. It takes, according to all the methods I am acquainted with, all the way from one to eighteen months to cure it. The copaiba treatment is not of much avail, nor is the alkaline. Injection, especially of white vitriol, gives the best results. Copaiba cannot be given long without disordering the stomach and producing nausea, so as to make its abandonment compulsory. There is a class of cases, of which I have had a great many in the last 2 or 3 years, where there is scarcely any discharge, but great scaldThese cases have given me ing in urinating. no small amount of trouble, and the only way I have been able to finally cure them was by continuous injections of alum, sulphate of zinc, etc. One case continued over a year, but finally yielded. Now I consider this disease well worth discussion. Let us have it. Would state that the best remedy I have tried for hiccough is syrup of ipecac, from a Assistance Wanted. Editor MEDICal World : Can any of my brother M.D.s suggest anything for the following case? D. S., aged 77, has always enjoyed good health until 18 months ago when, from sudden fright, the heart's action failed, pulse dropped to 30, and has ranged from 15 to 30 since that time; now seldom rises above 20; complains of bad feeling in his head, with fits of syncope lasting only for a second. I have tried all kinds of heart tonics, with galvanism and Faradism, with very little satisfaction. I have never seen anything in medical literature like it. A Dr. Graham of New York reported a case of a patient that had had one beat less a year for several years until it was down to 20 beats per minute. I consider THE MEDICAL WORLD the best medical journal in existence. A. A. D. Ontario. For Diagnosis and Treatment. Editor MEDICal World : I am very desirous to place before my brother practitioners in medicine, through your columns, a rare case that may prove interesting in its diagnosis and treatment. cannot distend the lungs. Heart fluttering, hands moist, cold perspiration over face and neck. She does not seem to be favorably affected in any way by heat or cold, dryness or moisture in the air. General condition: pale, anemic, emaciated, menses now irregular, but only of late, bowels sluggish, clay colored discharges, urine normal, apparently reminds me of the account of Cheyon Stokes respiration. Treatment on general principles afforded no relief. I hope that some brother medico can suggest something that will relieve this dreadful condition. A. STUART, M. D. Melrose, Nova Scotia. Treatment Wanted. Mrs. S., age 46 years, has been a sufferer for Winamac, Ind. What can be done when a pin has been owal Is Locomotor Ataxy Ourable ? Agnes Ross, aged 24; symptom of present disease, a lung trouble first noticed when 11 or Is, came on gradually at first, once in a while. Last 5 years paroxysms gradually became more frequent, and now they seem to be almost continuous. Six months ago, only a few "bad breaths" every few minutes followed by remissions. Two months ago, paroxysmal attacks were occurrent from 9 or 1o A. M. till near mid-lowed? Suggestions requested. night, then a period of ease-but sometimes these attacks lasted all night as well, for two weeks she did not get one entire night's rest. Present condition, somewhat easier in some re spects they last from ro A. M. till 7 P. M. without any abatement in their violence, unless for moment. She rests much better at night. Patient greatly emaciated, of an excitable or nervous temperment; sallow; during attacks countenance perceptibly darkens in color; much suffering apparent; pulse generally during paroxysms, weak, yet tense or thready; breathing is then labored sonorous, sort of a groan; difficulty in expanding the chest fully; lower third of lung not apparently expansible, The ineffective effort is in inspiration; patient I have a case of locomotor ataxy, four years' duration, patient aged twenty years. Is there SPERO MELIORA. any hope of a cure? Killburn, New Brunswick, Can. 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