evils, par excellence, I should think it might be at the bottom of much of the sleeplessness. At all events, pepsin can do no harm, except to an ulcerated stomach. Pepsin without acid. does no good. Since I mention pepsin, may I ask whether you ever tried dextrin as an adjuvant, or by itself?-Michigan Medical News. SELECTED. Remedies for Asthma. COLLATED BY L. H. WASHINGTON, M. D. Take strips of letter paper and dip them in a saturated solution of nitrate of potash, dry them, and during the paroxysm let the patient ignite one at a time and inhale the fumes. Tincture of lobelia, tincture of stramonium, tincture of calabar bean, cinnamon water, each, 1 oz; bromide of potassium, 1 ounce; mix. Dose, half teaspoonful every three hours. Brown mixture, 4 ounces; dilute hydrocyanic acid, 15 drops; Dover's powder, 20 grains; mix. Dose, tablespoonful every three or four hours. Tincture of hyoscyamus, laudanum, each 2 drachms; acetic acid, 2 drachms; mix. Dose, two teaspoonfuls to half a pint of boiling water, the vapor to be inhaled for some minutes every night from an inhaling bottle.-S. M. Bemis, M. D. Iodide of potassium, 1 drachm; tincture of bloodroot, ounce; brown mixture, 3 ounces; mix. Dose, tablespoonful three times a day. Tincture of lobelia, 2 drachms; syrups of squills and wild cherry, each, ounce; brown mixture, 3 ounces. Tablespoonful often enough to slightly nauseate whenever asthma is threatened. Tincture of assafoetida, 3 drachms; tinctures of lobelia and gelseminum, each, 1 drachm; mix. Dose, forty drops, repeated in two hours if needed, then thirty drops three times a day until a suspension of the remedy is indicated. Take two or three good-sized parsnips, cut them up in little Then grind or powder and use as a bits and dry in the sun. drink the same as coffee. Use as a common drink tea from chestnut leaves, which fall from the tree in autumn. Sweeten if desired, and continue. three months. Safe Saturate a handkerchief or small sponge with pure alcohol and breathe through it whenever asthma is threatened. and efficient.-H. L. True, M. D. Iodide of potassium, 1 drachm; wine of ipecac, 2 drachms; compound spirits of ether, 1 drachm; syrup, 1 ounce; water, 5 ounces. Tablespoonful every two hours during the paroxysm. Compound tincture of cinchona, ounce; compound tincture of gentian, 2 ounces; compound extract of stillingia, 1 ounce; iodide of potassium, 2 drachms; water, ounce. Dissolve the iodide of potassium in the water first and mix. Teaspoonful before each meal.-Dr. Broadwell. Five grains iodide of potassium in water at bedtime, not to be repeated unless the asthma returns. This is the best way to give iodide of potass.-J. P. Whittemore, M. D. Laudanum, sweet spirits of nitre, each 40 drops; water 2 ounces. Take at beginning of paroxysm.-H. G. Barrows. Sulphuric ether, paregoric, tincture of castor, each, 1 ounce. Dose, teaspoonful. Pulv. acacia, 3 grains; musk, 5 grains; opium, 1 grain. Make into two pills. Give one at the beginning of the paroxysm and the other in two hours, if needed. Pulv. silk weed (asclepias syriaca), ten grains, every four hours. Iodide. of potassium, 2 drachms; syrup of helianthus, 2 drachms; senega root, 2 drachms; spirits of juniper, 8 ounces. Tablespoonful three times a day. Iodide of potassium, ounce; water, 16 ounces. times a day. Acetate of morphia, drachm; fluid extract lobelia, 1 Dose, tablespoonful three or four grain; sulphuric ether, drachm; camphor water, 1 ounce. Take at a dose, and repeat if necessary.-Eclectic Medical Journal. EDITORIALS. ALUMNI MEETING. The graduates of Bennett Medical College will be pleased to know that a permanent organization of the Alumni has at last been effected. The meeting of June 15 was fairly successful in respect to the number present, and pre-eminently so in respect to the loyalty and enthusiasm manifested by those in attendance. The meeting was called to order Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, in the lower lecture-room of the college building. Upon taking the chair, Prof. E. F. Rush, M. D., stated the object of the meeting, and impressed upon the minds of those present the importance of the object, and the great benefits which would result, both to the College and the honored Alumni, from a thorough and permanent organization. Dr. W. K. Harrison, Secretary, read a report which gave a brief and succinct history of the steps taken toward effecting a permanent organization, which was received and adopted. Drs. W. K. Harrison, H. A. McMaster, F. A. Barber, Mrs. Dr. M. E. Reasner, and Mrs. Dr. Tongue were appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws, and Drs. Curtiss, Tascher, and Rohr, a Committee on Credentials. In order to give these committees time to report, a recess was taken. Upon reassembling, the Committee on Constitution reported that document, which was then taken up seriatim and adopted. Article II., setting forth the object of the organization, declares that "the object of the Association shall be to advance the interests and elevate the standing of Bennett Medical College, and its Alumni, to assemble at stated intervals for mutual counsel and social intercourse, and to secure, by organized effort, all the rights and privileges that belong to us in common with other schools of medicine." The Committee on Credentials reported that fifty members of the Alumni were present and ready to sign the constitution. After they had done so, the President stated that the Alumni and friends would participate in an excursion on the lake Wednesday evening, and in connection with the members of the National Eclectic Association, would sit down to a banquet on Thursday evening, which had been tendered by the eclectic physicians of Chicago. The meeting took á recess until 1:30 P. M. The Alumni re-assembled at 2 o'clock, Dr. Rush in the chair. After the transaction of unimportant business, Prof. W. H. Davis, of Chicago, delivered the address of welcome. In behalf of Chicago and her eighty-four eclectic physicians, and in behalf of the faculty of Bennett Medical College, he welcomed the Alumni back to their own old home. In closing, he urged those present to go forward in the good work, and, if necessary, be baptized afresh in the cause for which they had dedicated their lives-the cause of humanity. The Committee on Nominations presented the names of the following officers: President-Dr. H. S. McMaster, Michigan. Vice Presidents-Drs. J. A. McKlveen, Iowa; H. B. Laflin, Wisconsin; C. S. Stoddard, Minnesota ; B. F. Dillon, Indiana; Mrs. H. K. Whitford, Illinois. Secretary and Treasurer-Dr. W. K. Harrison, Chicago. Executive Committee-Drs. W. K. Harrison, Mrs. M. E. Reasner, E. F. Rush. The report was accepted and the candidates elected by acclamation. Upon taking the chair, Dr. McMaster made an appropriate address. Prof. Milton Jay was then introduced, and in a brief speech related the story of the trials and tribulations of Bennett College from its beginning up to the time when it reached an enduring basis. Now both the hospital and the College building are practically out of debt. Those structures have cost the Faculty $65,000. The Faculty, he said, had not only paid out of its pocket a large sum of money, but, also, the entire amount received from graduates, in order to perpetuate the principles in which they so earnestly believed. Referring to the graduates who had gone out into the world, he said that over 400 graduates had passed through and out of the halls of Bennett College, strong in their intention to maintain the reputation of their alma mater, to benefit mankind, and to carve themselves names high on the scroll of fame. .Dr. Green, President, and Dr. Wilder, Secretary of the National Eclectic Association, were introduced, and made brief speeches, in which they congratulated the Alumni of Bennett College upon their organization, and the interest manifested, and predicted for it great prosperity. The meeting then adjourned to meet at the club-room of the Palmer House, at 8 P. M. At 8 o'clock, in the club-room of the Palmer House, the Alumni re-assembled, Dr. McMaster in the chair. After considering and adopting amendments to the constitution, the meeting listened to remarks from members of the various classes, among them Dr. C. W. Davis, of Iowa; Dr. McMaster, of Michigan; Dr. C. S. Stoddard, of Minnesota; Dr. C. J. Cook, of Rhode Island; Dr. Harrison, Secretary of the Class of 1877; Dr. E. Peters, of Illinois; Dr. J. W. Stone, of Illinois; Drs. E. F. Rush, H. Davis, C. C. Edson, Mrs. Reasner, Mrs. M. E. Hyde, and others. Many letters were received by the Secretary, expressing the regrets of absent graduates and their hearty co-operation in the movement to form a permanent organization. The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the Executive Committee. OUR TEETH. The editor of this journal is not much addicted to scolding, in fact, he has long been of the opinion that the art should only be practiced by that highly privileged individual known to society as the mother-in-law, whose natural qualifications for scolding are undisputed. But some country practitioners should either be scolded or soundly thrashed for their treatment of their patrons' teeth. Almost daily, for the past ten years, I have been consulted by patients from the country for in. numerable chronic ills, many in the last stages of chronic stomach, liver, lung, heart or kidney affections, whose histories are always interesting to any one who studies the real and primary cause of disease. A slight glance at the "denta |