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In prescribing Quinine in pill form we would recommend the use of the Bisulphate of Quinine, it being a more soluble salt than the sulphate. When given in the form of a "Compressed Powder" the Bisulphate will act as promptly as a solution of Quinine. We will be pleased to furnish the Profession with samples and also a book containing a full list, with their quantitative composition, medicinal properties and doses. Application for them should be made to the DAVIS & LAWRENCE COMPANY (Limited), MONTREAL, GENERAL AGENTS IN CANADA. TRUSSES The World's Recognition of Merit. ONLY "AWARD OF MERIT" FOR TRUSSES Fig.1. Fine Steel Springs, neatly covered with highly-polished Hard 2847 Chestnut St. ESTABLISHMENTS London, Eng Philade., U.S.A.. Physicians not having Gross' Rivised, or The "Rural New Yorker" is the most popular Weekly Agricultural Journal published in the United States. It is handsomely illustrated, full of good reading matter and is thoroughly practical Price two dollars a year. The attention of Physicians is respectfully called to the Perforated Zinc Respirator, of Dr. Burney Yno, of London, (described in the British Medical Journal, July 1st, 1882,) modified by us for Dr. J. Solis Cohen, of Philadelphia, the modification consisting of an external cage to contain the sponge, thereby rendering its retention more secure, and obviating dripping of the medicament. Dr. Cohen has been using these Respirators in his hospital, dispensary and private practice for nearly two years, and finds them fully as efficacious as the more expensive and cumbersome forms, while they are more cleanly, less embarrassing to the respiration and permit thorough admixture with atmospheric air. Any volatile matter which it is desired to administer by continuous inhalation, whether for antiseptic or for remedial purposes, can be used in it. The medieament is to be dropped upon the moistened sponge in the cage; the Respirator is then to be placed over the nose and mouth, and secured in position by the elastic cords, which are to be fastened round the ears and under the chin. Some of the substances which may be used are as follows:-Creasote, Carbolic Acid, Eucalyptol, Tr. Thymol, Oil of Turpentine, Terebene, Compound Tincture of Benzoin, Ethereal Tr. Camphor, Iodide of Ethyl, Chloroform, Spirit of Chloroform, Alcoholic Solution Menthol. Many others will suggest themselves to the Practitioner. Five or more drops are employed at a time, aud renewed as required. In the opinion of Dr. Yeo, a mixture of equal parts of Spirit of Chloroform and the active remedy, renders the administration more efficacious in some instances. Chloroform is especially indicated in cases of ineffective irritating cough. Sent post-paid on receipt of price, 25 cents. MANUFACTURED BY JOHN WYETH & BRO., 1412 & 1414 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. DAVIS & LAWRENCE CO. (Limited), MONTREAL, General Agents for Canada. FELLOWS' HYPO-PHOS-PHITES. (SYR HYPOPHOS: COMP: FELLows) : Notices of Medical Journals. From the Laneet Analytical Records. "Fellows' Syrup contains the hypophosphates of iron, quinine, strychnia, manganese, lime and potash,-the strychnis amounting in a dose of one drachm to one sixty-fourth of a grain. The preparation, therefore, includes a number of powerful nervine tonics. The reaction of the preparation is practically neutral-an advantage in many cases where the acid solutions of quinine and iron are objectionable or inadmisible. The compound is skilfully prepared, and the difficulties of keeping the remedies which it contains in solution, and in a form in which they are not liable to change, have been very successfully overcome." The Medical Press and Circular says: "We recognize in Fellows' Hypophosphites our old friend Easton's Syrup with the addition of lime, manganese and potassa."-"A preparation well deserving of the notice of practitioners." The British Journal says: "A physician who has employed Fellows' Hypophosphites with benefit, confidently recommends it as an excellent tonic in the debility of Phthisis and Strumous conditions generally." For the effects produced by Fellows' Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, so far as applies to Disease of the Lungs, the Inventor is permitted to refer to the Medical gentlemen of St. John, N.B., whose signatures are attached hereto : WILLIAM BAYARD, M.D. GEORGE KEATOR, M.D, T. W. CARRIFT, M.D. Z. S. EABLE, M.D., Ex-Mayor of St. John, N.B., writes: "I have no hesitation in stating that Fellows' Syrup of Hypophosphites ranks foremost amongst the remedies used in the treatment of Incipient Phthisis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the Chest." EDWIN CLAY, M.D., of Halifax, N.S. "I know of no better medicine for persons suffering from exhaustion of the powers of the brain, and nervous system, from long-continued study, or for the cough following Typhoid Fever, &c., &e." CHANDLER CRANE, M.D.,ɛof Halifax, N.S. "I have used it freely in my practice, both in diseases of the Chest, as Consumption and Bronchitis, &c., and in infantile diseases of the prima via, or Stomach and Bowels, with eminent success.' S. JACOB, M.D., Lunenburg, N.S. "I had occasion to use your Syrup in a case of Aphonia which would not yield to regular treatment; it proved to be all you claim for it, having acted with expedition and entire satisfaction." EDWARD SIMPSON, M.D., Hudson, N.Y. "I have used the Syrup of Hypophosphites, made by Mr. FELLOWS, in cases of Consumption, and other Lung and Throa diseases, with the most gratifying results.' COMPRESSED SOLUBLE HYPODERMIC TABLETS. MANUFACTURED BY JOHN WYETH & BRO. 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In 1854 Erasmus Wilson called sycosis a form of "acne" and in 1871 he describes it as including several varieties and degrees of disease. Squire, in Reynold's System, confines the term to that "disease of the hairy parts of the face caused by the presence in the root sheath of microsporon mentagrophytes." Liveing speaks of sycosis as a noncontagious disease of the hairy face which is (Read before the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society.) (Read before the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society.) There are few medical terms which have under-neither eczema nor acne nor a syphilide. He also gone such little change in definition as sycosis. In the therapeutical classification of skin diseases adopted by Celsus it was included among those local diseases amenable to treatment by medicine, and was defined to be a tuberculated eruption on the hairy parts of the face. For Celsus, good Roman though he was, adopted the Greek name of the affection, which Erasmus Wilson refers to group "Objective" division or sub-group" Figure" in an attempted classification of the terms employed by Hippocrates and probably by Esculapius. And, broadly speaking, any disease affecting the hair and hair-follicles of the face is now also called sycosis. It is true that a well-educated practitioner would not stop at satisfying himself that he had a case of capillary folliculitis-he would enquire further as to the cause and nature of the inflamma. tory change; and it is also true that in late years the various pathological processes that manifest themselves in the different parts of the hair and its follicle are well defined, but the very difference in the nomenclature adopted by different dermatologists do not seem to have altered the general mean takes a liberty with the term, and defines S. parasitica as the result of the ravages in the hair of the face of the tricophyton tonsurans. Pifford does the same; while George Henry Fox thinks that, though sycosis is a term which is loosely applied to nearly every affection of the bearded portion of the face, its use ought to be restricted to that inflammatory condition of the hair follicles and adjacent cellular tissue which is characterized by pustules perforated by hairs which in time become so loosened that they can be extracted by the gentlest traction of the epilatory forceps. Bateman and Bristowe follow the definition of Erasmus Wilson, while, in his Practice of Medicine, Roberts, speaking of sycosis as an inflammation of the hair follicles and sebaceous glands, says the condition may be brought about by various causes. Without further multiplying authorities I think I have shown that I am justified, in the absence of agreement among authorities, in defining sycosis to be any disease of the hairy face affecting the root sheaths or follicles, which gives rise to induration and swelling of the interfollicular tissues. In this category, excluding the syphilides and lupus, are included at least three, and possibly four, distinct |