Antifebrine.

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:

Will you or the readers of THE WORLD have the kindness to give me your experience with antifebrin in cases of pneumonia ? My two last cases of pneumonia were given antifebrine with very satisfactory results. I think it puts quinine in the shade for that disease. Brothers let us hear from you. L. G. WALKER, M. D. Pounds, Wis.

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:

Will you or some confrères suggest treatment for the following case? Mrs. X., aged 70 years, nervous temperament, mother of eight children, suffers almost daily for one to six hours, with an internal sensation of heat, but my thermometer will not register anything above normal. She is poorly nourished, weak and has a peculiar transparent skin well covered with tortuous blue veins.

She has headache whenever the atmosphere is moist as before a storm.

She has been partially deaf for over thirty years, the trouble following typhoid fever. She complains of a blowing sensation in the head and has frequent attacks of hoarseness.

I hope from this meagre history you will be able to advise me as to treatment. Muscoda, Wis.

D. B. COLLINS.

What Was the Diagnosis? Editor MEDICAL WORLD:

Sometime ago I was called at night to see a middle aged man who had been suffering with chills and fever, one of the most distressing symptoms of which was an intense cephalalgia.

His medical attendant, an old practitioner, 70 years old, had been administering, for the relief of this condition, quinine and one-fourth gr. doses of morphine. I arrived at the house. about 9 P. M; he took one-fourth gr. morphine for the relief of the headache. From this time stupor set in, becoming more and more profound, until it culminated in the following conditions: deep coma, stertorous breathing, con tinued subsultus tendinum, six to ten respirations per minute, pulse about normal, skin covered with a clammy sweat. No marked contraction of pupil, no paralysis, retention, but no suppression of urine.

Don't think I took temperature, but consid ered it about normal. Diagnosed opium poisoning and treated accordingly, for eight or ten hours, with no improvement of symptoms. Next day patient became affected with a de cided jaundice, which commenced with the lower extremeties, and proceeded upwards, having a well defined line of demarcation. Sub

sequently both respiration and pulsation became more frequent, but the coma increased, and the patient died about forty-eight hours after beginning of the initial stupor.

Sometime after this I was called to see a son of this man whose symptoms resembled very much those of his father; but in his case the

malarial features were so distinct that I did not hesitate as to the treatment, and my patient recovered.

In the light of subsequent events, on investigation, I am thoroughly convinced that patient No. I was affected with a pernicious intermittent of the comatose type, and that his life could have been saved by the heroic exhibition of quinine. I was then a mere tyro in the profession, and my regrets in this matter are ame. liorated by the fact that the old practitioner could throw no light on the case. I have written the above hoping that it may be of benefit to some of my medical brethren, and that it may be the means of prolonging the life of some poor mortal. Crichton, Va. C. W. ASTROP, M. D.

Is Emphysema of the Cellular Tissue Pathognomonic of Traumatic Gangrene?

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:

On October 11, 1888, a freight conductor on the B. & O. R. R., aged 57 years, and of excellent constitution, had his left leg crushed by a car wheel just above the ankle, making amputation necessary. There were no other injuries perceptible at the primary examination; but y during the time that elapsed in preparing to operate, which was about forty minutes, a slight thickening of the integument was obobserved on the inner aspect of the leg, extending as high as the tubercle of the tibia, which to the tactile sense gave the impression that the connective tissue was filled with minute air bubbles imparting an emphysematous crepitation (if the term is allowable) upon pressure. The amputation was done at the commencement of the calf under antiseptic precautions, and the case progressed fairly well, with the usual moderate acceleration of pulse and temperature. As the patient complained of a sense of weigh

and slight pain in the stump, the primary dressings were removed in thirty hours after the operation with a view to conducing to his comfort, when the parts overlying the emphysematous tissues were in a state of commencing gangrene, which in a marvelously short time. invaded the entire limb, causing death just seventy-two hours after the injury, the primary cause being undoubtedly an embolus high up in the femoral artery.

I have the history of another case of railroad injury, in which a large part of muscular struc ture of the thigh was involved, in which this same condition of emphysema was present which was early followed by traumatic gangrene and death. My object in reporting these cases is to elicit some expressions from those of your numerous readers who are experienced in surgical work, as to the significance of emphysema as a symptom of traumatic gangrene.

Martinsburg, W. Va. S. N. MYERS, M. D.

Syphilic Ulcers.

Editor MEDICAL WORLD:

I gather much varied and useful information from reading THE WORLD'S pages. Everybody must that reads it. In 1884 I published in the St. Louis Medical Review a paper on the benefit arising from the use of the post-nasal syringe in diphtheria and other throat diseases needing topical applications, cleansing and astringent in effect. I now reiterate and more than ever would emphasize the good effects produced in using this convenient little sy ring, and could name lives it surely has helped to save.

Alum, zinc sulphate, carbolic acid, tincture of iodine (solutions), are the usual medicaments, except in infants with a catarrhal sore throat or tonsillitis, where the borate of sodium solution may answer. Use often and give calomel or other antiphigistics and stimulants as needed.

The lancet, treatment by bleeding, has got to be raised again. It has been too long laid away as the "fruit of many bone orchards" might testify. Try it on the first case of acute pneumonitis.

Ammonia chloride is a great remedy in liver, lung and many intestinal and gastric disorders. Let us hear from those that have used it their success or failure.

Should like to hear the editor's treatment for lower extremity ulcers of syphilitic origin. The patient cannot take iodide of potassium. It produces iodism in a 5 gr. dose. Is it not the ruling fashion now-a days to discard old and welltried remedies for those of newer invention, the true merits of which are yet to be proven? Portland, Ct. J. L. GARDNER, M. D.

M. S.-Inject two to three drops in the gum or between the gum and tooth, three to five minutes before operating.

BOOK NOTICES.

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The title of this work is sufficiently descriptive of its contents, and the well known conscientious work of its auther is sufficient guarantee of its value to the practicing physician.

Pictorial History of Ancient Pharmacy and Medicine. By Hermann Peters. Translated from the German and revised, with numerous additions by William Netter. Cloth, 184 pages and 83 illustrations. $2.00. G. P. Englehard & Co,, Chicago.

This is a fascinating historical sketch of early pharmacy and medicine, dealing largely with that portion of its history characterized by the rule of rank superstition. The mystical theories, potions, philters, symbols, love-draughts, incantations, spells and charms are reviewed in a scholarly manner. After reading

this work we are constrained to believe that there is much of superstition yet abounding in medical practice.

The Vest Pocket Anatomist. (Founded upon Gray.") By C. Henri Leonard, A.M., M.D., Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynecology in the Detroit College of Medicine. Fourteenth revised edition containing 193 illustrations, "Dissection Hints" and Visceral Anatomy. Cloth, 12mo., 304 pages; price $1.00. ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL JOURNAL Co., Publishers, Detroit, Mich.

The new fourteenth edition of this work has been increased in size by the addition of over 100 pages of text and one hundred engravings; the page of the book has also been somewhat enlarged to accommodate better the engravings. The Brain and its Membranes, the Eye, Ear and Throat, in fact the entire Viscera and the Generative Organs of both Sexes, forms the new subject matter in this edition. Besides being a very popular dissecting room companion, it has become also a very popular surgical case companion for the practitioner, since the illustrations show at a glance (being photoengraved from the English cuts of Gray) the positions of all the important blood-vessels, nerves, muscles and vicera.

Physician's Visiting List. P. Blakiston Sons & Co., Phila., price $1.00.

This list contains many useful tables, besides blank pages for recording, in signs only, visits to 25 patients per week.

Medieal Bulletin Visiting List. For 70 patients, $1.25; for 105 patients, $1.50. F. A. Davis, publisher, Phila.

This book contains many useful tables, besides blank pages for recording, in signs only, medical services, which may be continued for one month without rewriting the name,

The Case of Emperor Frederick III. Full Reports by the German Physicians and by Sir Morell Mackenzie. 276 pages, paper cover, 75 cents; cloth, $1.25. Edward S. Werner, 48 University Place, New York.

This compilation contains full reports of the contestants on both sides of the celebrated case, with illustrations of the condition of the larynx and growth at different stages of the malady. The general interest aroused in this case will create a large demand for this book.

Diseases of the Kidneys. Their modern treatment, By Dujardin-Beaumetz, M. D. Translated by E. P. Hurd, M. D., 169 pages.

Hysteria and Epilepsy, with observations on Epileptic Insomnia. By J. Leonard Corning, M. D.

These are two volumes in the Physician's Leisure Library series, 175 pages, published by Geo, S. Davis, Detroit, Michigan, at 25 cents per copy in paper covers, or $2.50 per year for the entire monthly series. The physician thus gets, at a small price, the latest medical information.

Pocket Medical Formulary Therapeutically Arranged in Alphabetical Order. By A. Hazard, M.D. Revised and enlarged by A. S. Gerhard, A.M., M.D., of the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. With useful appendices. Cloth, 334 pages, in convenient pocket form, with clasp. A. L. Hummel, M.D., publisher, 224 South 16th St., Phila., Pa.

Annals of Surgery. A Monthly Review of Surgical Science and Practice, $5 per year in advance. J. H. Chambers & Co., 914 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. An excellent journal which the scientific surgeon must have.

Messrs. Eli Lilly & Company, of Indianapolis, have issued a work entitled Hand-Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. The aim, as stated in the introduction, is to furnish the busy practitioner a reliable means of ready reference, at once concise, systematic and authoritive, to which he may refer with confidence in cases of doubt. Younger members of the profession and medical students will find this work full of suggestions. It will be sent free to any physician, druggist or medical student by addressing Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Ind., mentioning this Journal.

Warner's Physician's Formulary, Warner's Physician's Visiting Record, and Warner's Book of Prescription Blanks will all be sent free to any reader of this Journal who will mention our name in asking for them.

We welcome to our table "The Trained Nurse," a bright and useful monthly, at one dollar a year, published by the Lakeside Publishing Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

We call our readers' attention to the following pamphlets:

The Annual Address of the President of the American Gynecological Society. By Robert Battey, M.D., Rome, Ga.

Report on Hydrophobia. By C. W. Dulles, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

Why Electrolytic Treatment Does not Succeed in all Hands. By G. C. H. Meier, M.D., 215 East 53d St., New York.

Pulmonary Consumption Considered as a Neurosis. By Thos. J. Mays, M.D,, Philadelphia Polyclinic, Philadelphia, Pa.

Retrojection in Gonorrhea. By E. R. Palmer, M. D., 721 West Jefferson St., Louisville, Ky.

Report of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health. Cloth, 1056 pages, accompanied by five valuable statistical maps and charts of the State. Benjamin Lee, M. D., Secretary, 1532 Pine St., Phila., Pa.

This is an instructive and entertaining volume, which every physician in the State should possess.

A very fine exhibit was made at the American Institute by the Jerome Kidder Manufacturing Company, 820 Broadway, New York, makers of Dr. Kidder's electro-medical apparatus. The company may well take pride in their exceptionally fine line of instruments, medical batteries, etc. The company have received the highest awards from the Institute since 1872, and so far from falling off in their productions manifest a steady onward and upward tendency. They show a full line of galvanic batteries, galvano-caustic batteries, many styles of Faradic batteries for family and physicians' use, tip batteries, surgical instruments, cauteries and special appliances for an endless variety of medical and surgical operations.-Electrical World.

Dr. Esguive, Colonization physician to the ParisLyons-Mediterranean Railway, Bon-Medja, France, March 28, 1887, says:

"I tried Bromidia (Battle) on two cases of insomnia, which I had already treated for some time, with a mixture of equal parts of bromide of potassium and chloral. I noticed that hypnot results were produced with much smaller do es of Bromidia than of the mixture of bromide and chloral. In a large number of cases it is important not to push too far the quan tity of bromide of potassium. On this account I believe Bromidia is destined to be of real value, particularly in insomnia of cardiac origin, and I deem it vastly superior to the simple mixture of bromide of potassium and chloral."

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