lower angle of the fenestrum, at the same point where the joint is found in the instrument of Breus. The rods are curved downward and inward to meet in a hard rubber handle. The rods and handle to which they are attached resemble in general features those of the Tarnier instrument. The forceps of Breus appears to be the favorite in Vienna for application to the high lying head; but the instrument of Felsenreich has a better chance of introduction in general practice from the fact that it does not necessitate the carrying of a second forceps for ordinary use. Each of these instruments has its advocates and admirers in Vienna. It is claimed that both are are decided improvements on all previous models designed for high application, but it is generally conceded that the perfect forceps for use in all cases has not yet been invented.

ICE IN THE SICK ROOM.-A correspondent of the National Druggist thus writes:

The writer's son suffered with typhoid fever during the heated term of last summer, when the temperature of the room often rose to 90° or 95°, and the patient's temperature ran up to 105° F. and over.

A number of tubs were placed in the room and kept filled with ice,and the doors kept closed. The temperature of the room sank to 80° or less, an average of 12 or 15° below the temperature of the other rooms in the house, and the cooler atmosphere not only added to the comfort of the patient, but aided in keeping down the body-temperature, and materially contributed to a final recovery.

We would strongly urge the use of ice in the room as a measure of comfort and luxury for all who are confined to their beds during hot summer days.

NOT A DOCTOR.-Young Wife-"There is a gentleman in the parlor, dear, who wishes to see you."

He-" Do you know who it is ?"

Young Wife" You must forgive me, my dear, but that cough of yours has worried me so of late, and you take such poor care of your health, and-and O, if I were to loose you, my darling!" (Bursts into tears.)

He "There, there, dear. ish and unnecessary fears. I'm all right; you musn't be alarmed. But I'll see the physician, of course, just to satisfy you. Is it Dr. Pellett ?" Young Wife-"N-no, it is not a doctor; it's a-a-life insurance agent."

Your fondness for me has inspired fool

TREATMENT OF FLESH WOUNDS.

BY H. D. TAGGART, M. D., AKRON, 0.

It is so common to meet with wounds more or less extensive which, owing to misapplied principles or no principles, are not doing well, that I am prompted to give my views respecting the management of these injuries. Happily for the surgeon, our patients are, as a rule, slow to detect minor errors in the dressing of wounds; they will patiently nurse a fetid, sloughing member for days and weeks, never suspecting that it might have been otherwise.

A very few principles well understood and judiciously used will make our treatment of incised and lacerated wounds in every way satisfactory to our ourselves and our patients.

The sedative effect of watery lotions, independent of any medicament contained, should be kept in mind. The constantly wet bandage, with the paralyzing effects of carbolic acid superadded, is every day working great mischief.

The germ hunter must have some kind of germicide, so he will select an agent capable of working great havoc to these much abused creatures, forgetting the wound; it may be growing still larger, its edges melting away in a sea of pus. Is he not killing the bacterium? Let us keep our wounds decently clean, and use sedative, stimulant, antiseptic and detergent medicines only, in the order indicated by the conditions met with. This I call the rational plan; it must always succeed.

Most wounds met with in every-day practice, accidental and those made by the surgeon, require wet dressing for a greater or less period. This should possess several positive qualitles; it need not be strongly germicide, but it should be positively antiseptic. It will be antiseptic in a degree, if liberally used, it matters little what watery solution be employed, but when you add twelve and one-half per cent. of glycerine to your lotion, the dressings never become dry and leathery, penning up the discharges; now the lotion is becoming positively antiseptic, because it insures drainage.

But here is the one article which, of all others known to me, is necessary to make the lotion perfect, chloral hydrate. This is my prescription:

This lotion will be found to be of proper strength for fresh wounds; if made stronger, it will cause smarting, but will not act as a caustic.

Chloral solution is positively stimulant and antiseptic locally, and not sedative or anesthetic as many suppose. It is cheap, clean, and above all, reliable. No wound of external soft parts can give forth any fetor if the above combination be used.

From the first, the flesh will take on a beautiful pink color, and until the parts are healed the only odor encountered will be that of clean, raw flesh.

Much more might be said, but may be I have already presumed too far.

THE WONDERS OF AN EGG.-The Popular Science News says that Mr. Matthieu Williams, in one of his lectures says: "Every one who eats his matutinal egg, eats a sermon and a miracle. Inside of that smooth, symmetrical, beautiful shell lurks a question which has been the Troy town for all the philosophers and scientists since Adam. Armed with the engines of war-the microscope, the scales, the offensive weapons of chemistry and reason-they have probed and weighed and experimented; and still the question is unsolved, the citadel unsacked. Professor Bokorny can tell you that albumen is composed of so many molecules of carbon and nitrogen and hydrogen, and can persuade you of the difference between active and passive albumen, and can show by wonderfully delicate experiments what the aldehydes have to do in the separation of gold, from his complicated solutions; but he can't tell you why from one egg comes a 'little rid hin,' and from another a bantam. You leave your little silver spoon an hour in your egg-cup, and it is coated with a compound of sulphur. Why is that sulphur there? Wonderful, that evolution should provide for the bones of the future hen! There is phosphorus also in that little microcosm; and the oxygen of the air, passing through the shell, unites with it, and the acid dissolves the shell, thus making good strong bones for the chick, and at the same time thinning the prison-walls. Chemists know a good deal now about albumen ; and if they cannot tell us why life differentiates itself therein and thereby, they can tell you how not to spoil your breakfast,”

We have made arrangements with Messrs. Cornell & Pheneger Bros., druggists and dealers in surgical instruments, to send the JOURNAL for one year and any of the following instruments, at the price named:

Instrument Usual

Obstetrical bag, containing forceps, placenta forceps, perforator, blunt hook, vaginal speculum and uterine probe...

66

French style...

11.50

15.00

10.75 12.00

Aspirator, and stomach pump (a perfect instrument).

Post-mortem case...

The above prices include postage, where instruments can be sent by mail; otherwise they will be sent by express, at expense of recipient.

If any other instrument is desired, let us know and we will quote you price, with JOURNAL for one year.

All these instruments are warranted first-class, and in prime condition.

Thermometers are carefully packed, but will occasionally break
They are sent by mail, at the risk of the purchaser,

in transit.

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