med .42 naphthaline, resection of the gangrenous portion is proced " without chloroform, and the external wound is carefully The first part of the operation can be undertaken by any suram, and the patient thereby brought into a condition in which he may saw transported within reach of more skilful aid.—London Medi

IPPING FLUIDS INTO THE EYE.--We had but recently the opportw of watching the dropping of a borax solution into the eyes of a of suffering from catarrhal conjunctivitis. The child cried vehemently, 1r the physician opened the lids with his fingers and thus dropped the #into the eye-a procedure, if not painful, at least very disagreeable. may, therefore, not be amiss to mention the following by far better

method.

The inner corner of the eye is first cleaned from all impurities, and then thoroughly dried. While the child is in the recumbent position, the eye is kept closed. One or two drops of the fluid, indicated in the case, When the child opens the lid, the are then dropped into the corner.

drops flow slowly into the eye. Should the child be asleep, or not at once open the eye, the operator needs but slightly to separate the eyelids, when the drops will immediately enter.-Phil. Reporter.

FOREIGN BODY IN THE EYE.-At the recent meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Dr. Knapp, of New York, stated that the opinion which he had formed from his own experience and from a study of the literature of the subject, was that it would be better at once to remove the eye into which a foreign body had entered, provided the body could not be seen. In this he thought that the greatest good to the greatest number would be given.

MEDICINE.

DR. EDWARD VANDERPOOL, of New York, recommends Fowler's Solution of Arsenic in neuralgia of the stomach, in six to ten drops doses three times per day. His experience with it appears to have been highly satisfactory in the cases reported.—Independent Practitioner.

SOLUTION OF GALLIC ACID.-Dr. Frederick Long (British Medical Journal) writes that ten grains of citrate of potassium will dissolve ten grains of gallic acid in an ounce of water. This is an important discovery, as heretofore no feasible means of dissolving the acid has been known.

ALUM IN INTERMITTENT FEVER.-(Wratsch)-Burnt alum has long been known as a febrifuge. Schidowski does a large country practice, being alone in a district of 70,000 inhabitants, and he had only three pounds of quinine at his disposal for a whole year. He resorted to alum with good results. Two doses of eight grs. each, one to three hours before the recurrence of the fever, effected the object. The powder is given dry and water is drunk copiously after it. He also saw enlargement of the spleen reduced by it.-St. Louis Med. Jour.

ELECTRICITY IN CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.-Prof. Seeligmuller claims to have met with remarkable success in the treatment of chronic articular rheumatism by electricity. He uses a metallic brush-electrode with stiff wires, which he connects with the negative pole, the positive pole being attached to a flat sponge electrode. The latter is damped and placed on the limb near the affected articulation, then the metallic brush is applied over different parts of the joints, being held in contact with the integument in each place for the space of from one to ten seconds. The application is very painful, but the Professor remarks that the patients soon grow used to it. After a sitting the skin is covered all over with little dots, looking as if the Baunscheid instrument had been employed. The

the author ioes not explain, but thinks it cannot be wang to the counter-irritation, for he has used other equally severe contants, without meeting with anything like the success obd by this method. One ment, who had been treated for eight for chronic ineumatism by sorts of methods, was able after the mat application of electricity to use his arm, which had been powerless for months; after the mind application all the movements were normal.. Another nan was unable to move either his wrist or his shoulder, owing o thematism, and alter five sittings was discharged as cured, and was ...le to resume is work is a stone-mason.—Deutsche Med. Woch.-Prac

MERCURY IN DYSENTERY.—Mr. Henry Colley March says that in the ordinary dysentery of adults with some fever, much griping, constant ittempts at stool, with renesmus, the evacuations consisting of bloody

End shredy mucus, without any proper fecal matter, the proper procedure s to give every tad hour half a minim of the liquor hydrargyri bichloridi 3. P). The frst dose will sometimes relieve the pain; in a few hours the tenesinas ceases, and on the second or third day healthy stools make Mr. March looks upon the remedy as the perfection of medication as a specific tonic.—Medical Times.

their appearance,

Pas USB OF LARGE DOSES OF IPECACUANHA IN SIMPLE and SloughDySN PKRY. — Some years back, in capacity as Government Medical Occt to the Immigration Department, Natal, with a daily average of, say, over twenty patients suffering from dysentery alone, I had every opportumly of testing the efficacy of its treatment by the above-mentioned drs, and I have no hesitation in fully indorsing Dr. Ewart's advocacy

mil doses say from forty to sixty grains-of powdered ipecacuanha; bat I would call attention to one most important precaution, of which I we no mention in Dr. Ewart's interesting paper, that is the denial of all shunds for from two to three hours previous and subsequent to the exhibition of the drug, which in almost all cases totally counteracts any tendency to emesis or even nausea, but is a complete bar to (as far as my experience goes the comparatively abortive treatment of repeated small

Buicily, my rule of treatment was: Denial of all fluids for, say,

two hours; then insert an opium suppository; twenty minutes afterward apply a large linseed poultice sprinkled with mustard to the epigastric region, followed in ten minutes by forty grains or upward of powdered ipecacuanha, inclosed in wafer paper (failing wafer paper, cigarette paper suffices) with not more than a dessert-spoonful of milk or thick rice-water to assist deglutition; the recumbent position, quietude, and denial of all fluids for at least two hours subsequently to be strictly enforced. Used in this manner, I can safely assert that ipecacuanha proved in hundreds of cases no less a specific in dysentery than quinine in the equally prevalent disease of malarial fever; but I may add, apropos of the latter drug, that I found the coup-sur-coup treatment-say one to three grains every three hours-gives far better results than the heroic doses of from twenty to thirty grains in vogue in the island of Mauritius. —Lancet.

WATER IN THE DIETARY OF YOUNG CHILDREN.-In a communication to the New York Medical Journal, Dr. Remsen, of the Nursery and Child's Hospital, calls attention to the general ignorance which prevails as to the necessity of furnishing infants with a sufficient quantity of water, especially in hot weather, and whether they are brought up at the breast, or artificially. For want of this, the fluid portion of any food introduced into the stomach is quickly taken up, leaving the solids too thick to be easily digested. They ferment and produce indigestion and colic, together with diarrhea. As a consequence of the thickened state

of the blood thus produced, excretion of sweat is arrested, and a state of collapse and hyperpyrexia is developed. In warm, dry weather, babies will drink cool water every hour or oftener, if it is, as it should be, offered them. The earliest sign of the water in the system being below its normal standard is a slightly depressed condition of the anterior fontanelle. This may be present in children apparently in perfect health, yet in whom a slight increase of temperature or the deprivation of the breast for a few hours, may give rise to sudden hyperpyrexia. Attention is, however, usually first aroused by the fretfulness of the child, a moderate rise of temperature and pulse, a hot, dry skin, and a constant desire to suck. If a free supply of water be given, and nursing restricted in frequency, these symptoms will often disappear completely and quickly, but if not, collapse will soon come on. The temperature ranges from 105° to 106° F., or higher; the pulse is small and thready, numbering from 180 to 200; the skin of the body is painfully hot, while the extremities are cold; the features are pinched and sunken, with the eyes half-closed

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ne Fontanelle is depressed, the hands are sarried and irregular, and consciousness a this state will swallow water with greedigasure. The treatment adopted at the Nursery

5. Neer wrapung (leen in a wet sheet, applying cold to the head, beg my achuch water as can be swallowed. The results have beeu Hem Bussierery, The Checoming quiet, and even going to sleep, while "The attention given to this ptoms subside.

the tredicilig san; as rophy ac measure has been followed by a diminished rate a morally, and a hed reduction in the number of gastric and intesma ampiains. It more care was taken to give children a proper among of water, and restricting their hours of sucking or feeding, the

4ty due to hot weather would decrease, and less would be heard gok je troddies of teething."—Medical Times.

A VALUABLE MERCURIAL POWDER.-Dr. W. Bird, in the Med. and Reparar describes a very valuable preparation of mercury, from se of which he has never known a case of salivation to follow. It repared by rubbing one part of mercury and nine of sugar of milk by walk in a mortar, until the globules disappear and the color of the powg; assumes a decided blue tinge. A most thorough trituration is neces

Di. Bird has found that a combination of five parts of the mercurak powder to one of ipecac by weight, is a most valuable combination in tever with intestinal irritation, or in dysentery, and is specially valuable low forms of fever, with a dry, red tongue, or dry, furred tongue of a brown or yellow color. It is given in doses of from two to ten grains.—

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