Malarial fever, according to Prof. Wilson, will be rarely met with, if at all, in those regions in which the temperature does not rise above 60° F.

Glycerine or any of the mineral fats, Prof. Wilson says, should not be employed by inunction in the skin in cases of scarlet fever, but fresh animal fats should be employed in making inunctions.

Prof. Hare says that a combination of bromide and caffeine will often cure a headache that neither the bromide nor the caffeine alone will relieve.

Prof. Parvin says that two hours should be allowed to elapse before active measures are instituted toward the forcible removal of a retained placenta.

Prof. Parvin thinks that the involution of the sexual organs after confinement takes place more rapidly and satisfactorily if the mother nurses the child.

Prof. Parvin does not favor the administration of ergot during the third stage of labor unless the patient be a habitual bleeder, if hemorrhage be present.

The hemorrhage occurring in cases of laceration of the cervix, Prof. Parvin has found, can generally be controlled by the injection of hot water into the vagina.

Inability to nurse, Prof. Parvin says, is often due to heredity; brought on by the fact that a number of successive preceding generations did not nurse their offspring.

Unless during the existence of an epidemic of smallpox, a child who is suffering from a cutaneous disease, or who is otherwise in poor health, should not be vaccinated.

Fibromatous tumors, Prof. Keen says, are neither painful nor tender to the touch; they are also slow in growth. They may, he says, by pressure on ajacent parts, produce pain.

The eruptions produced by the inoculation of vaccine lymph will manifest themselves, Prof. Wilson says, twenty four hours earlier, if the inoculation has been performed by human lymph, than if performed by the bovine.

Cannabis indica, according to Prof. Hare, will be found to be a very useful drug in stopping the cough of phthisis, and it possesses the advantage over opium in that it is not so depressant to the system in general.

Sarcoma, Prof. Keen seys, as a rule, is a disease of youth and not of old age. It makes its appearance generally during the period when

the tissues are growing. It generally appears between the age of twenty and thirty, more so than after forty.

Camphoric acid, according to Prof. Hare, is the best drug that can be used in controlling the night-sweats of phthisis It should be taken in doses of twenty to thirty grains, and two or three hours before the time that the sweats generally come on.

Anteflexion of the uterus, according to Prof. Montgomery, is of most frequent occurrence in women who have never borne children. It is also the displacement which is found of most frequent occurrence in the sterile woman.

The tumor which is scrofulous in character, Prof. Keen says, in the early stages will be found to be perfectly movable, but in the later stages it will be bound down tight and will be immovable, due to its having infiltrated into the surrounding tissues.

Prof. Wilson favors the treatment of scarlet fever by chloral. Such doses, he thinks, should be administered as to keep the patient under its hypnotic influence to such an extent as to require wakening at the time when food or medicine is to be administered.

The recurrence of malignant growth, excepting sarcoma, according to Prof. Keen, rarely appears before six months after the operation, and if such a recurrence does not take place within three years after the operation, the chances of its not recurring at all are the very best.

Prof. Parvin calls attention to the fact that in opening an abscess of the breast, the incision should always be made longitudinally and not transversely. For, he says, when the opening is made by a transverse incision more milk ducts will be destroyed than if the incision had been made longitudinally.

Dr. Davis say the danger of placenta previa to the mother arises from hemorrhage and shock followed by collapse, septic infections also often setting in. The danger to the child, on the other hand, exists, that asphyxia may take place, caused by the placenta being detached too rapidly, thereby the supply of the maternal blood being cut off too soon.

Prof. Hare says if the salicylates do not yield good results, in cases of rheumatism, in from four to six days, their use should be discontinued, and other drugs tried, as it will not be likely that any good results will follow their further use. Nor does he think that they should be administered in large doses three or four times a day. He has had the best results follow from the frequent administration of small doses.

Dr. Davis says cases of labor in persons actively insane often proceed without any manifestations of pain being given by the patient. The delivery of the child, he says, should be made under complete anesthesia of the patient. In these cases sedatives will often be required.

Prof. Hare has concluded, as a result of experience, that in cardiac diseases digitalis affords relief to patients below the age of twelve to a less extent than in similar forms of cardiac diseases in adults, and that in children dyspnea, nevous irritability and cyanosis are symptoms which often manifest themselves after the use of this drug.

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-The Practitioner.

Reviews.

SEXUAL WEAKNESS AND IMPOTENCE; by Edward Martin, M.D.; published by Geo. S. Davis, Detroit, Mich., Price, 25 cents.

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This is a neat volume of 102 pages; illustrated. The author talks plainly and clearly upon the subject involved, and which are source of so much annoyance and perplexity to the practitioner. The ordinary text books give very little satisfaction in this class of cases. This little book fills the lacking very acceptably. We recommend it very highly.

THE ALKALOIDAL CLINIC, W. C. Abbott, M.D., editor. Monthly, $1 per year. Published by the Editor, Ravenswood, Chicago, Ill.

We welcome this journal to our exchange table and to the sisterhood of medical journals. The object is to give definite information in regard to the progress of scientific knowledge in the treatment of disease by active principles. The talented editor is already well and favorably known to all our readers. His work in the initial number of Clinic, as in all his writings, is very good indeed. Dr. Abbott might appropriately be termed the American champion of dosimetric medication. His journal, being devoted to a distinct advance in medic I science, is well worth the subscription price. J. J. T.

"MATHEW'S MEDICAL QUARTERLY;" a journal devoted to diseases of the rectum, gastro-intestinal disease, and rectal and gastro-intestinal surgery. Edited by Joseph M. Mathews, M.D., Louisville, Ky., (P. O. Box 434); $2 per year; single copies 55 cents.

We have seldom or never been so favorably impressed by a new medical journal as by this one. The first number is a veratable mine of information upon the subjects embraced. Every physician comes in contact with this class of diseases, particularly diseases of the rectum. Dr. Mathews was the first regular member of the profession to make a specialty of diseases of the rectum. As usual, irregulars first reaped a rich harvest in this field, before the regular profession saw the importance of devoting special attention to it. We owe Dr. Mathews much as a pioneer in this direction, and also for this valuable publication. This first number is worth many times its price to the general practitioner. The doctor wishes the names of all reputable surgeons in the United States, who limit their practice to diseases of the rectum.

CHOLECYSTOTOMY-Report of six cases; by Hugo O. Pantzer, M.D., Indianapolis. They are very interesting cases. Many chronic liver troubles are amenable to treatment by operation upon the gall bladder. We predict that this operation will readily increase in popularity. We suppose that the author will send this reprint free to physicians who desire it. THE SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF INEBRIETY WITHOUT SECRECY IN THERAPEUTICS. By C. H. Hughes, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.

AN attractive feature of the February ARENA is a Symposium on "Rational Dress for Women," by a number of well-known American women. There are fifteen large photogravures accompanying the Symposium, illustrating the style of dress now worn by American women. This issue contains 164 pages, and is filled with able papers from thoughtful men and women. Address Copley Square, Boston.

Wit and Wisdom.

PLEASE see Dr. Waugh's card, this issue, in regard to his private hospital.

SEE pages xxiii and xxv, this issue. Is there any practitioner in this country who is not acquainted with the venerable Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter? Grasp the offer there made, and make it your companion for the remainder of this year. The combination provides that those who are already subscribers for THE WORLD this year may have the Reporter for the remainder of 1894 and THE WORLD for 1895 for $2.75. To new subscribers, Reporter and WORLD for the remainder of 1894 for $2.75.

METABOLISM.-This is a scientific treatise on the general subject of tissue changes, or the process of waste and repair, with therapeutic suggestions. Sent free by James I. Fellows, 48 Vesey St., New York, N. Y.

BROWN. Do you believe there's such a thing in married life as perfect love? A case where both are of the same mind? Fogg.-Oh, yes; there are the Googley's, for instance. She thinks there never was a man in the world like her husband, and so does he.

Temporary Tooth Filling.

A filling of pure beesewax is an excellent thing for temporarily filling an aching tooth that is decayed.

OAKFIELD, N. Y., March 15, 1893. Freligh's Tablets gave me most excellent results, and can recommend them as worth of trial by the medical profession. I am still prescribing Freligh's Tonic-original unbroken package-with marked benefit. A. P. JACKSON, M.D

Rheumatism.

I have not only been surprised but elated with the excellent results from Syrup of Hydriodic acid in inflammatory rheumatism. While I have been using the preparation for a long time, and with decided advantage its application in rheumatic conditions only I have treated a recently suggested itself to me. sufficient number of cases with the remedy, however, to be positive of its superior therapeutic properties in controlling these painful conditions. My usual prescription and directions are as follows:

R Syrup acid hydriodic (Hostelley's).........f oz. vj Sig. Ten to twenty-five minims every three or four hours. The dose may be increased after a week or ten days' treatment, and as symptoms subside the dose is to be gradually diminished. I frequently blister in conneetion with the above, and from this combined treatment have observed, in a number of cases, almost marvelous results. Several of the cases which have yielded promptly to the treatment were as severe rheumatic cases as I ever saw. F. M. BELTZ, M.D., 2036 N. Broad St., Phila. Medical Inspector Board of Health.

AN excellent and instructive book on "Winter Remedies" will be sent free if you write to H. K. Mulford Co., Phila.

DOCTOR.-There, Patrick, is something that will give you an appetite for your dinner. Pat-Faith, an' it's not that I want. The great nade is a dinner for me appetite.

THE man who waits for a golden harp with which to praise God would feel very much out of place in heaven.

FOR a steady thing, the light of a tallow candle is better than that of a sky-rocket.

CELERINA in combination with Aletris Cordial is used with marked success in cases of nervous debility arising from uterine derangements.

SEE advertising page xxxv in January WORLD, and send 25 cents to the New York and Chicago Chemical Co., 96 Maiden Lane, New York City, for their very liberal offer.

If you want to keep on thinking well of a man, don't go his security.

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I HAVE used Peacock's bromides in four cases of epilepsy, and it is only fair for me to state that I have had good results in each case. In three of these cases there were no attacks at all, while the medicine was used, although they had been frequent and severe in spite of the exhibition of the ordinary bromide salts. say while it was used because I have had difficulty in convincing some patients that they were not entirely cured after using one bottle, but where I have been able to have them continue the treatment for a reasonable time after the disappearance of the fits, there has been no return of them even after the medicine was stopped. CHAS. C. JOHNSON, M.D.

Columbia, S. C.

MELLIN'S Food is just the proper thing for your delicate invalids and infants.

POVERTY is no disgrace, when it is our neighbor who is poor.

WILD oats are said to be the only crop that grows by gaslight.

DIDDEREAU-Did you attend the lecture of Prof. Hardhead on "Grip, a Malady of the Imagination ?" Biddereau-He did not lecture. "Why not?" "Down with the grip."

SEND to W. H. Schieffelin & Co., New York, for rare drugs, the newest from the scientific laboratories. PUT your plethoric patients upon Phytoline. SEND to the Empire Truss Co., Lockport, N. Y., for trusses, elastic bandages and all woven goods. HAVE you yet tried Micajah's Uterine Wafers? SEND to I. Phillips, Atlanta, Ga., for surgical in

struments.

SYRUP of Figs is prominently recommended as a good family laxative.

LOOK for the newest valuable drug to come from the laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. PLEASE See the very liberal offer of Hall & Ruckel, this issue, in regard to their soap, Sozoderma.

A MAN named Snow, living in the suburbs, was made a father a few days ago, and he sent the announcement to the local paper: "A little Snow

drifted into my house last night."

THE Lambert Phermacal Company was led to suspect that substitution was largely practiced in Chicago in regard to their Listerine. A trusted representative was sent to purchase 15 to 25 cents worth of Listerine from each of 500 drug stores; 479 purchases were made, and each carefully tested. Just think of the following astonishing results: 251 were genuine Listerine; 204 contained no Listerine whatever; 24 were Listerine diluted with water or glycerine. Judgment (Continued on next leaf.)

As You Freely Receive, So Freely Give. One of the chief characteristics of the readers of this journal is that they fraternally exchange with one another the useful ideas they acquire from their experience and research. This is a practice which results in mutual advantage and also in great benefit to humanity represented by their patients. We have to record a notable exception in the person of one who recently wrote us that he had found a successful treatment of a certain disease, but that he would not give it to the profession nor to the public-he was not going to give away the results of his study.

In response to this we would ask the doctor where his medical knowledge came from. Is he not indebted to the profession at large for the accumulated knowledge of many generations of medical investigators who studied,

experimented, observed, recorded and published their observations for the benefit of others? If the doctor had been left solely to his own investigations for information could he, even in a long life time, have learned the anatomy of the human system, the details of physiological processes, the pathology of the various diseased conditions, the action of the many articles that have been tried as drugs and been either retained as valuable or rejected as worthless? Could he, unaided, ever have mastered a single disease or the virtues of a single drug? Men of eminent learning have devoted the concentrated effort of a life time to the accomplishment of one of these objects and at the last have been compelled to hand the work over to their successors to take up where they have left off. How, then, can this doctor say that he has learned his alleged method of curing a certain disease, when, even if valuable at all, it is only a slightly different application of information that has been discovered and furnished him by others? If by publishing to the profession his method of treatment, whatever it may be, he could discharge his obligation to his scientific confréres for the accumulated wisdom of ages and also for the ideas he receives from month to month from all parts of the world, he would get off cheaply, indeed. The fact is that the very best, by giving all that he learns by practice and research, cannot repay a tithe of what he has received. He can only do his best, and no one can do better. Truly, we are none of us our own makers or our own educators.