were ordered, which only caused nausea, with no soporific hu & similar prescription, in which "Battle's Bromidia" shor produced the desired result.-Weekly Med. Review. THE TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY.-Dr. E. D. Fisher, of end the treatment of epilepsy upon the bromides exrates as a rule the mixed bromides, giving four parts of Framide to two parts each of the sodium and ammonium cardiac weakness is present he gives digitalis or hammonia. When anemia is present he never finds His experience convinces him that the use of bromeven for years, does not cause mental disturbance, but controlling of the disease leads to the improvement of the This accords with English experience as recorded by Dr. Conrett.-Amer. Jour. of Nerv. and Mental Dis. SSFUL TREATMENT OF SCIATICA. Dr. John T. Metcalfe ollowing prescription, which he has used with marked success tinct. aconit. rad., l'inct. colchici sem., Tinct. belladon.; equal parts. M. -Six drops every six hours until relieved. 1 uses tablet-triturates, each of which contains three drops of the >wing mixture as the most convenient form in which to prescribe its dients: Tinct. aconit rad., Tinct. colchi sem., Tinct. belladonæ, Tinct. acteæ racemosæ; equal parts by volume. One of these tablets is given every four, six or eight hours, as may De needed. Marked beneficial effects have followed its use in three days; and in geuralgia of the axillary and brachial nerves it has proved of great value. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour. A LONDON physician, who for six months tested Dr. Jaeger's plan of wearing nothing but wool, day or night, says the result has been a complete immunity from colds and a marked increase in capacity for work. Instead of alternate feelings of heat and cold, there has been a uniform and most agreeable glow of warmth.-Australian Journal of Pharmacy. PNEUMONIA, TREATMENT OF IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.-Immediately upon admission every patient under the charge of Prof. Loomis undergoes an examination for the determination of the following points: I. The extent and location of pulmonary consolidation and amount of complicating pleurisy. 2. The temperature and condition of the heart as indicated by its rhythm, force, and amount of muscular element in the first sound. 3. The condition of the kidneys. When the patient is admitted during the initial shock, full doses of morphia are administered hypodermically, and repeated with sufficient frequency to relieve pain, during the first three or four days, or until the consolidation is complete. Every patient is placed in bed, clothed in an oil-silk, flannel-lined jacket, which is made to come close up around the neck and to extend well down onto the trunk, and is put upon a diet of milk, chicken-soup, and beef-tea, the selection of food being somewhat affected by the limits of hospital dietary. This much is routine. When consolidation is confined to a lower lobe, the cough, expectoration, and pain moderate, the temperature below 104° F., while the pulse is regular with a strong first sound of the heart, and the urine is normal, nothing further is done beyond keeping the bowels freely open by some mild cathartic, as pulv., glyc. co. The general treatment is then purely expectant. The temperature and pulse, however, are taken every four hours and the urine examined daily. When the temperature reaches 104° F., or more, fifteen to twenty grains of quinine are given at a single dose. If at the end of six hours no reduction of temperature is produced, twenty grains are given in divided doses within an hour. As the drug used is "hospital quinine," these doses are possibly slightly larger than would be required in general practice. When they fail to reduce temperature equal parts of quinine and antipyrin are employed, but always in combination with some form of cardiac stimulant, as alcohol or caffeine. If the temperature is not affected by the second dose its use is not continued. Indications for stimulants are found principally in the cardiac condition. Patients with consolidation at the apex, however, and alcoholic subjects are put upon stimulants from the first. The cardiac stimulants used are alcohol, caffeine, digitalis, and ammonia, the first two being given with about equal frequency and for prolonged effect, while the others are used more for emergencies in the later stages. An irregular, uneven, intermittent pulse, or weak or absent first sound are indications for stimulants to be given as needed. It is seldom found necessary to employ measures directed especially to the cough. When this is distressing, with little expectoration in the earlier stages, opium is employed to mitigate its severity but not to check it entirely; later, in the stage of resolution, opium is avoided and carbonate of ammonia given in connection with infusion of serpentaria or wild cherry. Pain is controlled early by opium and large hot poultices, later by poultices alone, if possible. The earliest indications of renal complications are met by the ethers, infusion of digitalis, and nitroglycerine. Sleeplessness is relieved by bromide and chloral (alone in robust patients), and with the addition of cardiac stimulants in alcoholic subjects. Edema is treated by dry cups freely applied over the entire chest, atropia hypodermically, whiskey and digitalis internally, and the free inhalation of oxygen. -Med. News. A FORMULA by Germain See for the relief of the pain after taking food, in patients with cancer of the stomach, is as follows: S. Ten to thirty drops after meals.- Weekly Med. Review. MORPHEOMANIA may always be treated by abrupt withdrawal of the drug, except in conditions when such methods are contra-indicated by the vital forces of the patient, or concomitant pathological phenomena. The method should also be abandoned if reactionary collapse result.— Jour. of Inebriety. A PRESCRIPTION FOR ACUTE BRONCHITIS. Muirhead, (Edin. Med. Jour.) gives the following as serviceable in the preexudative period of acute bronchitis: Sig. One tablespoonful in a wineglassful of water every three hours. Académie de Medicine of France. Profession, since 1863. years. VIN MARIANI (ERYTHROXYLON COCA.) THE MOST EFFICACIOUS AND AGREEABLE OF TONICS AND STIMULANTS, AND WITHOUT ANY UNPLEASANT REACTION. FORMULA.-VIN MARIANI is the concentrated extractive of the fresh leaf of ERYTHROXYLON COCA and an excellent special quality of Bordeaux Wine, each wine-glassful containing the medicinal properties of thirty grains of the fresh selected leaves. DOSE.-Usual dose is one wine-glassful about half an hour before or immediately after each meal; for children, half the quantity. OR twenty-five years "VIN MARIANI COCA" has been introduced exclusively to the Medical Profession, and has invariably given them uniformly good results in their practice. As a strengthener of the nervous system, with especial good effect on the respiratory and digestive organs, it is pronounced superior to any other adjuvant. Owing to the large demand for Vin Mariani, imitations and substitutions are being forced on patients where physicians do not especially specify "VIN MARIANI,” ← and we would respectfully call attention to this fact, as being the cause of failure to secure good effects in many cases where Coca is prescribed. TREATISE, 53 pages (translated from the French), will be sent gratuitously and post-paid to any Physician mentioning this Journal. Price for Vin Mariani is reduced; and where druggists do not keep it, we will supply it to patients by the case of twelve bottles for twelve dollars. tance in all cases must be sent with the order. To physicians, for their own use, a discount will be made. MARIANI & CO., Remit 127 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. PARIS: 41 Boulevard Haussmann. Correspondence from Physicians solicited. DOUNT RUMFORD HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE. As the "Acid Phosphate" of Prof. Horsford is more extensively used, one of its characteristic qualities, that of an adjuvant, becomes hetter known and appreciated. The experience of physicians of the various schools shows that it combines readily and very effectively with a great variety of other remedial agents. It is a superior substitute for the officinal Phos. Acid. Dil., as it acts more effectively, and does not produce the irritation sometimes noticed upon the exhibition of that remedy. Below we give a series of prescriptions in combination with Horsford's Acid Phosphate, and believe them worthy the careful consideration of medical practitioners. These prescriptions are the result of careful study, and they serve to show the wide usefulness of Prof. Horsford's excellent preparation. We do not prepare the Acid Phosphate in any of the above combinations. NO LOMONO :: Physicians who have not used Horsford's Acid Phosphate, and who wish to test it, will be furnished a sample on application, without expense, except express charges on application to RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, Providence, R. I. |