In chemical composition, Cosmoline [Unguentum Petrolei] is an oleaginous hydrocarbon, corresponding to the heavy petroleum oils, and containing a large amount of the paraffines and clefines of the formulæ C16H34 and C16H32. It contains but a small percentage of the paraffines and olefines, corresponding to the formulæ C7 H16 and C7H14, respectively, and the offensive and irritating properties of the crude oil have been carefully removed. In the process of purification, no acids, alkalies, or other chemicals are employed, and no injurious additions of any kind are made to the natural product. The result is a semi-solid, translucent substance, with a faint odor, Cosmoline [Unguentum Petrolei] melts at about 1000 Fah. (380 Cent.); and boils at about 6250 Fah. (3290 Cent.); its specific gravity is about 0.875 at 600 Fah. As it contains no oxydizable or organic matter capable of change by putrefaction or fermentation, and is absolutely without affinity for moisture, it offers to the profession an admirableunguent, which can never decompose, ferment, or beeome rancid in any climate or temperature. 291 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, February 26th, 1878. As I have examined the preparations of Cosmoline as manufactured by E. F. Houghton & Co., Philadelphia, and believe them well adapted to the purposes for which they are designed. lubricants, and as the bases of simple or medicated ointments, they have a decided advantageover the fixed oils and fatty substances in ordinary use, in that they do not become rancid, and do not acquire irritating qualities from atmospheric exposure. ALFRED C. POST, M. D., L. L. D., Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of New York, Visiting Surgeon to Presbyterian Hospital, etc. 218 SOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, July 7th 1880. MESSRS. E. F. HOUGHTON & CO.: Gentlemen-The petroleum product prepared by you and supplied to physicians under the name of Cosmoline [Unguentum Petrolei], was first brought to my notice while I was a Resident Physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital, and it at once commended itself to me as a bland emolient, as an elegant substitute for Carbon oil in burns and scalds, as a protective in excoriations and certain diseases of the skin, and as an excipient in the place of lard for applications to the eye and ear. For the last five years I have used the plain Cosmoline, both in hospital and privatepractice, in Gynecological and Obstetrical cases, with perfect satisfaction, and consider it much superior to Olive Oil, which is so generally used. Carbolated Cosmoline is a useful combination, but the rose-scented Cosmoline is beyond all question, a work of art, which cannot be too highly commended. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, yours, MESSRS. E. F. HOUGHTON & CO.: FRANK WOODBURY, M. D., I have for a number of years made extensive use of Cosmoline [Unguentum Petrolei] and consider it a most valuable article for surgical porposes. Either as a dressing by itself, or as a vehicle for the application of medicaments, it is greatly superior to lard or other fatty matters, especially by reason of its non-liability to change by time or temperature. MESSRS. E. F. HOUGHTON & CO.: Yours truly, JOHN H. PACKARD, M. D. 1031 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. I have used extensively Cosmoline [Unguentum Petrolei] both in Dispensary and private practice, with very great satisfaction. As a vehicle for making ointments it is invaluable, and far superior to lard, for the reason that it will not become rancid or undergo chemical change like the latter, when exposed to the atmosphere. I cannot too highly commend it as an application in various skin diseases. Yours truly, JOHN V. SHOEMAKER, A. M., M. D., Physician to the Pennsylvania Free Dispensary for Skin Diseases. 208 WEST 34TH ST., NEW YORK. MESSRS. E. F. HOUGHTON & Co.: Gents:-I fully appreciate the value of your Cosmoline, or Unguentum Petrolei, and pre scribe it frequently ln ointments. Fluid Cosmoline I have used constantly for several years, as a lubricant of urethral sounds. It is the cleanest oil I know of for this purpose. Yours truly, PREPARED BY GEO. HENRY FOX. E. F. HOUGHTON & CO., 211 S. Front Street, Philadelphia. In corresponding with advertisers please mention The Journal. MALTINE. MALTINE is a concentrated extract of malted Barley, Wheat and Oats. In its preparation the tempe ture does not exceed 150 deg. Fahr., thereby retaining all the nutritive and digestive agents unimpan Extracts of Malt are made from Barley alone, by the German process, which directs that the mash be heat to 212 deg. Fahr., thereby coagulating the Albuminoids and almost wholly destroying the starch diges principle, Diastase. LIST OF MALTINE PREPARATIONS. MALTINE (Plain). MALTINE with Hops. MALTINE with Alteratives. MALTINE with Beef and Iron. MALTINE with Cod Liver Oil. MALTINE with Cod Liver Oil and Pancreatine. MALTINE with Peptones. MALTINE with Pepsin and Pancreatine. MALTINE with Phosphates Iron and Quinia. MALTINE WINE with Pepsin and Pancreatine MALTO-VIBURNIN. MEDICAL ENDORSEMENTS. We append, by permission, a few names of the many prominent Members of the Med cal Profession who are prescribing our Maltine Preparations: J. K. BAUDUY, M. D., St. Louis, Mo., Physician to WM. PORTER, A. M., M. D., St. Louis, Mo. THOMAS H. ANDREWS, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., B. F. HAMMEL, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., Supt. F. R. PALMER, M. D., Louisville, Ky., Prof. of HUNTER MCGUIRE, M. D., Richmond, Va., Prof. of F. A. MARDEN, M. D., Milwaukee, Wis., Supt. and L. P. YANDELL, M. D., Louisville, Ky., Prof. of JOHN. A. LARRABEE, M. D., Louisville, Ky., Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS, M. D., L.L.D., New York, E. F. INGALLS, A. M., M. D., Chicago, Ill., Clinical A. A. MEUNIER, M. D., Montreal, Canada, Prof. H. F. BIGGAR, M. D., Prof. of Surgical and Med cal Diseases of Women, Homeopathic H pital College, Cleveland, Onio. DR. DOBELL, London, England, Consulting Phy sician to Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. DR. T. F. GRIMSDALE, Liverpool, England, Consu ing Physician, Ladies' Charity and LyingHospital. WM. ROBERTS. M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Mancheste W. C. PLAYFAIR, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, England ་ W. H. WALSHE, M. D., F.R.C.P., Brompton, Eng A. WYNN WILLIAMS, M.D., M.R.C.S., London, LENNOX BROWN, F.R.C.S., London, Eng., Senior J. A. GRANT, M. D., F.R.C.S., Ottawa, Canada. MALTINE is prescribed by the most eminent members of the Medical Profession in the United States, Great Britain, India, China and the English Colonies, and is largely used at the principal Hospitals in preference to any of the Extracts of Malt. We will forward gratuitously a 1-lb. bottle of any of the above preparations to Physicians, who will pay the express charges. Send for our 28 page Pamphlet on Maltine for further particulars. Address REED & CARNRICK, ABORATORY: Yonkers-on-the-Hudson. 182 Fulton St., New York. KIDDER & LAIRD. 15 FOR CONSUMPTION AND WASTING DISEASES. HYDROLEINE Has been proved of the highest value in CONSUMPTION and all WAST- FORMULA OF HYDROLEINE. 1-3 grains. 1-46 Boric Acid. The principles upon which this discovery are based have been described in a Treatise on "THE DIGESTION AND ASSIMILATION OF FATS IN THE HUMAN BODY," by H. C. BARTLETT, Ph. D., F. C. S., and the experiments which were made, together with cases illustrating the effect of Hydrated Oil in practice, are concisely stated in a Treatise on CONSUMPTION AND WASTING DISEASES," by G. OVEREND DREWRY, M. D. In these Treatises the Chemistry and Physiology of the Digestion of the Fats and Oils is made clear, not only by the description of a large number of experiments scientifically conducted, but by cases in which the deductions are most fully borne out by the results. COPIES OF THESE VAIUABIE WORKS WILL BE SENT FREE ON HYDRATED OIL, WATER AND OIL. HYDROLEINE is readily tolerated by the most delicate stomachs, even when the pure oil or the most carefully prepared Emulsions are rejected. The oil is so treated with pancreatin, soda, boric and hyocholic acids, that the process of digestion is partially effected before the organs of the patient are called upon to act upon it. Consequently it is readily assimilated. In will nourish and produce increase in weight in those cases where oils or fats, not so treated, are difficult or impossible to digest. In COMSUMPTION and other WASTING DISEASES, the most prominent symptom is emaciation, of which the first is the starvation of the fatty tissues of the body, including the brain and nerves. This tendency to emaciation and loss of weight is arrested by the regular use of HYDROLEINE, which may be discontinued when the usual average weight has been permanently regained. The permanence and perfection of the emulsion, and the extreme solubility of the HYDRATED OIL, solely prepared and sold by us under the name of HYDROLEINE, is shown by its retaining its cream-like condition as long as the purest Cod-Liver Oil, will retain its sweetness. Unlike the preparations mentioned, or simple Cod-Liver Oil, it produces no unpleasent eruction or sense of nausea, and should be taken in such very much smaller doses according to the directions, as will insure its complete assimilation; this, at the same time, renders its use. economical in the highest degree. To brain-workers of all classes, Hydrated Oil is invaluable, supplying as it does, the true brain food. Economical in use certain in result. Tonic-Digestive and Highly Nutritive. NEW PRINCIPLE FOR THE ASSIMILATIONTHE FAT. KIDDER & LAIRD, Agents for the United States, Price at retail, $1.00 per Bottle. Depot, 83 John Street, New York. CASWELL HAZARD CO MENSMAN'S PEPTONIZED BEEF TONIC. The great necessity for a fluid food that would possess all the elements necessary for the support of the system having long been felt by the Medical Profession, we call attention to this preparation, containing the entire nutritious properties of the muscular fiber, blood, bone and brain of a healthy bullock, dissolved by aid of heat and pepsin, and preserved by spirit; thus constituting a perfect nutritive, reconstruct It is not a mere stimulant, like the now fashionable extracts of beef, but contains blood-making, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties, pre-eminently calculated to support the system under the exhausting and wasting process of fevers and other acute diseases, and to rebuild and recruit the tissues and forces, whether lost in the destructive march of such affections, or induced by overwork, geueral debility, or the more tedious forms of chronic disease. It is friendly and helpful to the most delicate stomach, and where there is a fair remnant to build on, will reconstruct the most shattered and enfeebled constitution. It is entirely free from any drugs. Dispensed in 16 oz. aud 12 oz. bottles. "DR. MENSMAN'S BEEF TONIC Is a complete representative of lean and fat beef, bone, blood and muscle. It consists of all the properties which combine in the development of the animal body, which are liquefied by an artificial process, simulating natural digestion, and retaining all of their alimentary values. It contains in their perfection all the natural elements of the meat in their natural quantitative relations, without their extrane ous or indigestible properties, and therefore requiring the least possible effort on the part of the stomach for its conversion into chyle, and its immediate absorption by the system. ness. "This tonic is free from any drugs or chemicals, and is a great invigorator or recuperant. I have used this preparation in several cases of sickness of a character which enables me to give the most favorable opinion of its great value, in extreme sickSome of the cases referred to are hemorrhage of the bowels, typhoid fever, bil ious fever, inflammation of the bowels, where the greatest possible prostration was present, and in which I found this meat tonic to accomplish results I could not ob tain with any other preparation. It is a gentle stimulant, and allays the peculiar irritation of the stomach, which destroys the appetite in all forms of disease, when the tone of the stomach is destroyed." "We published the above article in the November No. of 1877, and will say that we have prescribed the tonic daily to date with the very best results."-ED. MED. ECLECTIC. THE BEST TONICS OF THE PHARMACOPŒIA: Iron, Phosphorus and Calisaya. We call the attention of the Profession to our preparation of the above estimable Tonics, as combined in our elegant and palatable Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya Bark, a combination of the Pyrophosphate of Iron and Calisaya never before attained, in which the nauseous inkiness of the Iron and astringency of the Cailsaya are overcome, without any injury to their active tonic principles, and blended into a beautiful amber colored Cordial, delicious to the taste and acceptable to the most delicate stomach. This preparation is made directly from the ROYAL CALISAYA BARK, not from ITS ALKALOIDS OR THEIR SALTSbeing unlike other preparations called "Elixir of Calisaya and Iron," which are simply an Elixir of Quinine and Iron. Our Elixir can be depended upon as being a true Elixir of Calisaya Bark with Iron. Each teaspoonful contains seven and a half grains Royal Calisaya Bark and two grains Pyrophosphate of Iron. PURE COD LIVER OIL. Manufactured on the Sea-Shore from Fresh and Selected Livers. The universal demand for Cod Liver Oil that can be depended upon as strictly pure and scientifically prepared, having been long felt by the Medical Profession, we were induced to undertake its manufacture at the Fishing Stations where the fish are brought to land every few hours, and the Livers consequently are in great perfection. This Oil is manufactured by us on the sea-shore, with the greatest care, from fresh, healthy Livers, of the Cod only, without the aid of any chemicals, by the simplest possible process and lowest temperature by which the Oil can be separated from the cells of the Livers. It is nearly devoid of color, odor, and flavor-having a bland fish-like, and to most persons, not unpleasant taste. It is so sweet and pure that it can be retained by the stomach when other kinds fail, and patients soon become fond of it. The secret of making good Cod Liver Oil lies in the proper application of the proper degree of heat; too much or too little will seriously injure the quality. Great attention to cleanliness is absolutely necessary to produce sweet Cod Liver Oil. The rancid Oil found in the market is the make of manufacturers who are careless about these matters Prof. Parker, of New York, says "I have tried almost every other manufacturer's Oil, and give yours the decided preference. Prof. Hays, State Assayer of Massachusetts, after a full analysis of it, says: "It is the best for foreign or domestic use." After years of experimenting, the Medical Profession of Europe and America, who have studied the effects of different Cod Liver Oils, have unanimously decided the light straw-colored Cod Liver Oil to be far superior to any of the brown Oils. SURCICAL INSTRUMENT DEPARTMENT. Under the direction and personal supervision of W. D. FORD, Instrument Maker to St. Luke's Mt. 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