of salt and water of varying strength, and usually with disastrous results.

The Seiler's tablets, made by different manufacturers, also vary in strength and composition, and our experience has taught us that several of these on the market can not be used without causing great smarting, and even pain.

The fluid used in cleansing the nasal cavities in both atrophic and hypertrophic rhinitis, should be of about the specific gravity of the serum of the blood, and this is acquired in the solution advised by Dr. Pynchon, which is as follows:

R Sodae Bicarb, 2 ounces.

Sodae Boborat, 2 ounces.
Listerine (Lambert's), 8 ounces.
Glycerine, 11⁄2 pints.

One ounce of this formula added to a pint of water, yields a bland and pleasant alkaline solution with a specific gravity of 1.015.

The addition of the Listerine takes the place of the carbolic acid in the original formula, and is a decided advantage, as it imparts a pleasant taste, and is quite as efficacious as the acid.

The common use of Listerine and water should be superseded by the addition of the alkaline solution given, and in the preparation thus made, we have all the advantages of any cleansing agent, and it can be furnished at a price commensurate with all pockets.Atlantic Medical Weekly.

INFRAORBITAL NEURALGIA.

In the Deutch Medicinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, August 13, 1896, Dr. G. Greif. of Serkoweitz, gives the following interesting account of a case of infraorbital neuralgia of twelve years standing, in which Apolysin was exhibited with remarkable effect:

"Nerve stretching had been done in the case, and also simple neurectomy, but entirely without result. I was on the point of dividing the nerve close to the ganglion, and the preparation for the operation had already been made, when I decided, as a last resort, to try Apolysin. The patient was a man thirty-nine years old, a sawyer by occupation, with a right dorso-convex kypho-scoliosis, with no hereditary taint,

and who had never had any infectious disease. He had suffered since 1883 from neuralgia of the second branch of the fifth nerve on the left side. Its cause, in the patient's opinion, was taking cold; and no other etiological factor could be found. The left premolar and molar teeth of the left upper jaw had all been removed, though they were healthy; being looked upon, as is so often the case, as the cause of the pain. The other teeth were in capital condition.

On June 7th, 1895, on the afternoon of which day he came to me, I began the treatment in the following manner: At 4, 5 and 7 o'clock he received 1 gram (15 grains) of Apolysin, making three grams (45 grains) in all, from June 8th to the 21st, inclusive, he took 1 gram (15 grains) six times daily at three hourly intervals, being 84.0 grams (2 4-5 ounces) of the drug; from June 22nd to 28th, inclusive, 1 gram (15 grains) four times a day at three hourly intervals, being 28.0 grams (1 ounce); from June 29th to August 10th, 1 gram (15 grains) twice daily, making 86.0 (almost three ounces); in all 201.0 grams (6 2-3 ounces) of Apolysin.

On the fourth day after beginning the treatment the patient could notice that the improvement was very marked. Aftensity of the pain, and by June 22nd the improvement was very marked. After June 29th the attacks became much less frequent; they gradually diminished in number until in August there were only a few of them. By August 11 there was absolute cessation of the pain, which has continued up to the present time.

The treatment demonstrated to me the following facts:

1. Apolysin is well borne, even in large doses and for long periods of time.

2. Patients take it willingly.

3. The intestinal tract is not irritated by the continuous ingestion of large amounts of the drug.

4. The urine remains normal during its exhibition.

5. It causes no other disturbances.

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By Almon H. Cooke, M. D., Instructor in medicine in the medical department of Niagara University, Buffalo, N. Y.

A lady came into my office in a greatly disturbed state of mind, telling me that she had suffered from an attack of pleurisy since March 1st, and now she had been told that "it had turned into an abscess on the lung, and that she must go to the hospital (to her a place of torment) and have a tube put through her ribs." to say nothing of being "laid up" for six or eight weeks.

She was very thin, having lost ten pounds or more, and complained of severe pain at the base of her right lung, when she took more than a shallow inspiration. She also said that there was a sensation of fluid running in her chest when she brought it to a horizontal position. Her temperature was 100.5 degrees F., and, to use her own expression. she felt "altogether miserable."

On examination there were evidences of adhesions at the base of the right lung, also indications of a small amount of fluid which I suspected would be pus. However, the exploring needle proved it to be of a serious nature, slightly cloudy, due to the presence of a few pus cells. The following treatment was outlined, and. I am happy to say, was faithfully executed: Protonuclein tablets, three grains (Reed and Carnrick), half an hour before meals and at bedtime, subsequently increased to five tablets per diem. Also ten minims of fluid extract of cascara at bedtime, to regulate the bowels. which were in a torpid condition. Besides this. the surface over the painful area was painted with iodine every second or third evening, as the condition of the skin permitted

Her diet consisted of not less than half a pound of lean beef or chops at two meals each day, with vegetables in limited quantities, to which was added half a pint of cream each day, to be consumed in a manner most agreeable to the patient.

The result of this treatment was, that the patient gained flesh at the rate of a

ance.

pound a week and strength in accordThe temperature became normal at the end of the second week, and deep inspiration gave no pain early in the third week. No trace of fluid could be found by the tenth day, while after eight weeks of treatment the patient declared that she never felt better in her life.

This case seems to me to be one which demonstrates the beneficial properties of Protonuclein, especially when combined with a nourishing diet. There can be no doubt that this case would have terminated in empyema, and that very shortly, had active treatment been delayed; and I believe many cases of pleurisy with an effusion which is not absorbed so rapidly as it ought to be, would be speedily cured by a treatment substantially the same as the one employed in this case.-New York Medical Journal.

THE DOCTOR'S WIFE.
American Medical Journalist.

The night was dark and bitter cold,
The wind across the prairie swept,
While I in comforts warm enrolled
Snored softly on and soundly slept.
When suddenly my door-bell rang:
Infernal sound, it pierced my ears,
As on the creaking floor I sprang,
My heart athrob with direst fears
Lest one had come to call me out
Into the cruel, biting blast.

I for my garments cast about,
Wishing this night-call were the last.

But oh, the best thought of my life!
It calms me now as oft before:
I'll send my thoughtful, faithful wife
To meet the stranger at the door.
She goes, and oh, the sweetest lies
That ever mortal tongue has told,
As in her artless way she tries

To say that I'm out in the cold.
"He won't be home till break of day
And then he'll go, poor, tired man.
I'm awful sorry he's away;
He'll come as promptly as he can."

I go to bed, but not to sleep;
I ponder long on doctors' wives,
The only ones who ever think

Of our rest-broken, weary lives.
I somehow think God don't record
Those little white lies often told
To give a way-worn doctor sleep,
To save him from the winter's cold.
And if He does, I'm sure his pen
Writes very near, in letters bright,
A tender thought of her who thinks
Of doctors toiling in the night.

W. J. BELL.