A bill to regulate the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, has been introduced into the Senate by Senator Harris.

The American Medical Review has made its appearance, the initial number having just been received. It is in magazine shape, double column. and the first number contains sixtyfour pages. The Review promises well and we have no doubt will keep its promise. Under the section devoted to "medical progress" it provides an interesting epitome of the medical literature of the preceding month. It has sections devoted to medical society reports, book reviews, professional opinion, personals and a very valuable "index medicus" of original articles appearing in Amerimedical journals. It is cheap at $1.00 a year.

MILITARY WAR TRAINS.--The Canadian Pacific Railway, after many months of labor, has constructed at

enormous cost two special military or war trains, comprising fourteen cars for men, two cars for cooking, two Pullman cars for officers, two cars for arms and stores, and two dining cars. The officers' cars are luxuriously fitted out, and contain state rooms, lavatory, smoking room, etc. Each train is composed of eleven cars and engine, and gives ample sleeping accommodations for 306 men and 15 officers, although over 100 more men could find room. The men's cars are well finished and furnished with modern improvements. The kitchen car has all the utensils of a largesized hotel, and requires six cooks and two helpers. This one car can turn out over one thousand five hundred meals a day. During a trip from Halifax to Vancouver on the war train, 5,500 meals for officers and men were prepared. The Canadian Pacific Railway expect to cover the distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific in five and a half days.--British Medical Journal.

A PICK ME UP.-Dr. John Van Renselaer Hoff, Major and Surgeon, United States Army, says: "I believe that malt extracts meet a therapeutic indication, and that Maltine is an admirable form of this remedy, as well as an excellent vehicle for several generally used medicines. have long used Maltine with Cascara Sagrada with signal benefit in chronic constipation. Recently I have been trying Maltine with Coca Wine quite extensively, and have found it admir

able as a 'pick me up' in debilitated cases."—From the Northwestern Lancet, November 1, 1895.

D. T. Hudgens, M.D., Elizabeth, Ark., says: I have used S. H. Kennedy's Extract of Pinus Canadensis in leucorrhea with very good results. I have had under my treatment Mrs. S., age 33 years, for leucorrhea, with anteversion of the uterus. I used the White Extract per vagina as a local treatment for the leucorrhea,

and the treatment was attended with success. I am satisfied that Pinus Canadensis should occupy a prominent position in our materia medica.

LACTOPHENIN.-Landowsky (Sem. Med., Feb. 7th, Med. Record) has tried the effect in several cases, of lactophenin, a substance very closely allied chemically to phenacetin. This drug has antineuralgic properties analogous to antipyrin, and has, besides, a genuine hypnotic effect. The amount given daily was from sixty centigrammes to three grammes divided into several doses. The only disagreeable by-effects caused by the drug seemed to be diaphoresis and slight giddiness in a few of the patients.

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