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where eclectic ideas and practice are established and are required by the people.

ECLECTIC KANSAS.

This enterprising young State has entered the list for the prize as the banner State of eclectics. Our revised list foots up nearly six hundred physicians in that State now practicing eclectic medicine. For so young a State, the list is quite creditable, and argues well for the general intelligence of her people, and the influence of her thousands of schoolhouses, the building of which were among the first good works of her citizens. Many enterprising young medical graduates can be accommodated with good locations in Kansas. Liberal in medicine, as well as in the education of her children, Kansas is bound to become healthy, wealthy and wise.

THE MEDICAL TIMES.

In a few cases subscribers have been rather tardy in sending in their dues, and we have been constrained to stop sending them the TIMES, but when this has been done a scolding letter has been the result. One doctor writes, "I am an old-school physician, but am not reckoned an 'old fool;' have taken the MEDICAL TIMES for ten years, and want it continued until I die." Much hard work is required to turn the crank of a medical journal properly. Your editor is one of the kind who likes to work, and has enlisted in the cause for the rest of his life; but remittances always serve as a tonic, which readers should administer once a year at least.

ALOPECIA.

Aged bachelor physicians may prevent baldness of their own heads and those of their patrons by using inunctions of Oleum Gallinae et Petrolei, āā; to be applied at night, with brisk friction of the scalp. These agents are quite extensively used in some parts of Mexico, where there are few baldheaded people to be found, even among men of 80 and 100 years. The writer has even looked through a Mexican

orchestra, numbering sixteen musicians, without finding a bare pate among them. Hen's oil and coal-oil must be given the

credit. .

CHRONIC CYSTITIS.

Cases where the specific gravity of the urine is much above normal, with deposits of urates and phosphates perpetuating, if not causing, great irritation about the neck of the bladder, may be much benefited by well diluting the urine so as to prevent the above-named solids from being precipitated against the inflamed membrane. At this season of the year, good, wholesome watermelons will be found excellent diluents or renal hydragogues, and if used at proper intervals may entirely correct a troublesome case of chronic cystitis.

SPECIMENS.

Letters and postals have often been received from doctors of the Northwest, who desired to forward specimens for the "Bennett College Museum." To all such we can now say that ample space has been added, and additional cases prepared for properly preserving "specimens." Several have recently been forwarded to this office, but should all be addressed to Prof. H. S. Tucker, Bennett College Museum, 513 State street, Chicago.

A CHICAGO BABY.

On the 8th of August last, your editor was called in consultation in a case of labor. We had to deliver the woman by the use of instruments, which we succeeded in doing in about an hour. The child was a male, perfectly formed, and weighed eighteen pounds net, and measured twenty-eight inches in length. The mother has made a quick recovery, and hopes to do better next time.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

will be found in almost every number of the TIMES, and readers would consult their own interests by scanning them over often. The TIMES will only receive advertisements from our very best houses, and aims to have a fair representation of

every kind of merchandise most needed by physicians in general practice. Examine the "ads."

CONCENTRATED EXTRACTS.

This new feature of this journal seems to meet the ideas and requirements of readers so well, that this month that department has been made larger than usual, and some original articles had to be left over until next issue.

CONJUNCTIVITIS.

Squibbs sulphite of soda, fifteen grs. to the 3 of rose-water, makes an excellent wash for catarrhal conjunctivitis. Apply three times a day, and keep the eye shaded.

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Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors continues to delight and surprise us. Since our last notice we have received A Treatise on Therapeutics, by Trousseau, in two volumes, translated from the French by D. F. Lincoln, M. D., and The Female Pelvic Organs, by Henry Savage, M. D. In comparison with the prices ordinarily charged for medical books, either of the above works is worth the price of the whole series-the work of Savage more than twice that sum.

It would be impossible to review the classic work of Trousseau within the limits allotted to us. It is a work which well repays careful study, and should have a place in every medical .library.

The work of Savage contains thirty-two plates and twentytwo wood engravings, with special illustrations of the operations on vesico-vaginal, fistula, ovariotomy and perineal operations. The surgery, surgical pathology and surgical anatomy of the female pelvic organs are thus fully illustrated. The plates are well executed, and accompanied by full explanatory notes and commentaries.

It is marvelous that William Wood & Co. should have been able to include such an expensive work in the series of 1880.

NASO PHARYNGEAL CATARRH. By MARTIN F. COOMES, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Ophthalmology and Otology in the Kentucky School of Medicine, etc. Louisville, Ky.: Bradley & Gilbert, Publishers. 1880. Works on limited and special departments of medicine and surgery are becoming more and more popular, and the demand for them is being rapidly supplied. Some time ago we had occasion to notice the work of Prosser James, M. D., on Sore Throat and its Treatment; a portion of the ground covered by that book is also covered by Dr. Coomes. The work is a creditable one, and is illustrated by records of thirty cases.

THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DIRECTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA FOR 1880 AND 1881. By CHARLES H. LOTHROP, M. D. Lyons, Iowa.

This is one of the most complete and convenient registers that has come to our notice, and adjoining States might pattern after it with profit. Nothing of interest has been omitted.

The following pamphlets have been received:

FORTY DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. A biography of HENRY S. TAnner, M. D., including a complete and accurate history of his wonderful fasts, with valuable deductions by ROBERT A. Gunn, M. D. New York: Albert Metz & Co., Publishers.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW; September, 1880. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

This number contains an interesting criticism upon "Recent Works on the Brain and Nerves," by Dr. George M. Beard.

A SKETCH OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY IN AMERICA; The Annual Address delivered before the Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Society, June 4, 1880, by MILBREY GREEN, M. D.

Dr. Green deserves the thanks of the medical profession for this interesting paper, which is evidently the result of careful and laborious research. It is the most complete history of American obstetrics and gynecology now extant.

ANNALS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Edited by CHARLES JEWETT, M. D. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 182 Fifth avenue, New York.

This is a valuable monthly, and we are glad to have it on our list of exchanges. The present number contains an exhaustive article upon "Deformity from Fractures at the Lower End of the Humerus, and How it may be Avoided," which will well repay the perusal of every surgeon.

THE

Chicago Medical Times.

WILSON H. DAVIS, M. D.,

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Mr. President and Members of the Eclectic Medical Society: I have selected for the subject of my paper this evening, wounds of the small intestine, together with a hasty review of the different methods of enteroraphy, and some suggestions of my own, regarding a modification of Jobert's method of treating such lesions by invagination, and without the use of the suture. It is the general practice in treating wounds of the small intestine uncomplicated by protrusion, to endeavor to avoid extravasation into the peritoneal cavity by arresting peristaltic action with opium, and enjoining absolute rest, in anticipation that nature may establish adhesions, nothwithstanding experience has proved that in a large majority of cases such expectations are never realized. In nine cases out of every ten, extravasation takes place and acute peritonitis follows, usually proving fatal within forty-eight hours. Should there be a re-action from the depression which immediately follows the wound, there will be tension and tenderness of the abdomen, followed by dreadful pain, vomiting, costiveness, hiccough, and the patient finally expires, suffering all the torments of the damned; or, perchance, after the intense pain

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