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Co., FELLOWS Contains the Essential Elements of the Animal Organization-Potash and Lime; The Oxidising Agents-Iron and Maganese; The Tonics-Quinine and Strychnine; And the Vitalizing Constituent-Phosphorus; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction. It Differs in its Effects from all Analogous Preparations; and it possesses the important properties of being pleasant to the taste, easily borne by the Stomach, and harmless under prolonged use. It has Gained a Wide Reputation, particularly in the treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Chronic Bronchitis, and other affections of the respiratory organs. It has also been employed with much success in various nervous and debilitating diseases. Its Curative Power is largely attributable to its stimulant, tonic, and nutritive properties, by means of which the energy of the system is recruited. Its Action is Prompt; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, and removes depression and melancholy; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections. From the fact, also, that it exerts a double tonic influence, and induces a healthy flow of the secretions, its use is indicated in a wide range of diseases. Medical Letters may be addressed to: Mr. FELLOWS, 48 Vesey Street, New York. Messrs. Lee and Shepard, Boston, have now in press a most interesting piece of fiction by Henry Wood, entitled "Victor Serenus," The scene is located in that very dramatic period of the world's history, the Pauline era, and through graphic character delineation deals with the through, customs and religious systems of that time. Its aim is to draw a true and well-proportioned picture of the actual conditions, avoiding an overdravn and debasing realism, so often employed for the sake of exaggerated contrasts. A MAGAZINE WHICH BUILDS HOUSES. The Readers of The Ladies' Home Journal are about as responsive a clientele as any magazine possesses. About six months ago the Philadelphia magazine started to publish a series of practical architectural plans showing how artistic houses could be built at moderate cost. It employed a special architect, and his work was certainly artistic. Besides the plans it agreed to furnish complete specifications of each house at a medium cost. Thousands of people liked the plans given and the series has been a great success for the magazine. This spring the building of over five hundred houses, varying in cost from $1,500 to $7,000 each will be started in different parts of the country by Journal readers, in addition to over one hundred other houses which have already been built. It has just come to our attention that an antitoxin containing 1,000 units to each cubic centimetre of serum is now prepared in considerable quantities by H. K. Mulford Co. This is the most concentrated serum that has even been offered the profession and marks a great triumph in therapeutics. This advance reflects great credit upon Mulford Company, who are leaders in the field of serum therapeutics. THE PHONENDOSCOPE. In our colums will be found advertised the genuine "Phonendoscope (Bazzi-Bianchi's) We say genuine because, like all other good things the Phonendoscope has been infringed on, and not only has it been imitated and these imitations sold under and in infringement of the trade-name "Phonendoscope", but deceiving and similar sounding names have been devised, so that unscrupulous dealers could sell these imitation instruments to the unsuspecting physician an thereby reap profits by this deception. No instrument in our recolletion has attracted so much attention and has such a large sale as the Phonendoscope, the sales of the genuine reaching nearly eight thousand and it will probably be never known the exact number of the worthless imitations foisted upon the profession, although the patentees are searching the country over for evidence that will prove the fraud, and several suits have already been started to clear away all these infringements. Some of these imitations are of the most crude and careless workmanship and it is no wonder that the physician, having been deceived by the worthless infringements, should consider the Phonendoscope of no value. But the genuine instrument is of inestimable value and a remarkable improvement over the various stethoscopes. The Phonendoscope may be obtained from all reputable instrument dealers, who are supplied by the sole agents of the Bazzi-Bianchi instrument, G. P. Pilling & Son, Philadelphia. We caution our readers against the "just as good" kind. The genuine is stamped "Bazzi-Bianchi" and "G. P, Pilling & Son, Sole Agents". INFERIOR WOMAN. Of course we men must insist that woman is our inferior. If we should for a moment admit that she is our equal, what would become of some of us? We know more about raising children, looking after the house, the care of servants, and the unnecessary expenditures of the family, than any woman could possibly know. Then we have more muscle, can digest a heartier meal, can manage a fiery horse better, and understand fully the tariff question. We must insist we are her superior; and yet, according to one of our exchanges, based upon the statement made by one of our famous French hypnotists, It is at least a third easier to place a man under the influence of hypnotism than it is to induce a woman to accept hypnotic suggestions. What, must we believe it? It can not be. To think that the traveling mesmerist can look us in the eye and make us quiver and fear easier than he can make a woman obey his commands, is something terrible. Any medical journal that will print any such fact as this should not be allowed the use of the United States mail. Journal of Practical Medicine, N. Y. The Woman's Medical Journal. VOL. VII. APRIL, 1898. NO. 4. OCULAR CONDITIONS IN THEIR RELATION TO CONSTITUTIONAL STATES.* Gertrude A. Walker. A. B., M. D., † Philadelphia. HE fact that you have invited me to address you on a subject such as this shows that as a Society you believe that ophthalmology should not be a sealed book to the general practitioner.. A considerable number of physicians in gen-. eral practice use the ophthalmoscope, relying upon it for suggestion or for proof regarding certain obscure affections of the body, but a far greater number know practically nothing of this valuable means of diagnosis. I am told that physicians abroad are much more familiar with ophthalmoscopy than are average American physicians. My own observation of general practitioners in Philadelphia justifies me in saying that not one in a hundred knows how to obtain a satisfactory view of the eyeground. If I can convince you, during this short talk, that the eyewonderfully delicate, sensitive and expressive organ that it is! can disclose many a medical secret and unfold many a beautiful and suggestive picture, I shall count this hour one of personal satisfaction. May I ask you to briefly review with me the gross anatomy of the eye? The organ is nearly globular in shape, as you know, restrained in the bony orbit by six muscles, which arise near the foramen opticum, and also by the optic nerve, which passes through the foramen and pierces the eyeball posteriorly a little to its nasal side. The globe rests upon a cushion of fat and connective tissue, and so is shielded from injury everywhere except at its anterior por *Read before the Students' Medical Association, and published by request. ↑ Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl vania. tion, where the lids take up the duty of protection. The optic nerve expands at once after its entrance into the eye and becomes the retina. Lying directly under the retina is the most vascular coat of the eye-the choroid-so-called from its resemblence to the chorion. Back of the choroid lies the sclera, a hard, fibrous, non-elastic envelope, which is thickest behind and gradually becomes thinner as it approaches the anterior portion of the eye, in which latter part it is reinforced by the insertions of the ocular muscles. Anteriorly, the cornea, which is a transparent, highly sensitive, non-vascular tissue, is placed like a watch crystal upon the globe, fitting at its edge into the hard sclera. If you will look at the profile view of your neighbor's eye you will see how closely the cornea resembles a watch crystal. At the point where the cornea and sclera coalesce is found a very important structure-the ciliary body, made up of the terminating parts of the choroid and retina. From this body springs the iris, which, like a perforated curtain, hangs but a few millimeters behind the cornea, guarding, as it were, the delicate structures behind it from outside violence and undue light. Directly behind the iris lies the lens, supported all around by its suspensory ligaments, which is attached to the ciliary body. The small, angular space between the periphery of the lens and the iris is called the posterior chamber, while the space between the iris and the anterior or aqueous chamber. The vitreous is enclosed in a very thin membrane of its own, and presents on its own anterior surface a depression called the fossa patellaris, in which rests the lens. Having thus briefly spoken of the structures of the eye, let us consider what is meant by an ophthalmoscopic picture or view of the eye-ground. A little practice overcomes the technical difficulties of throwing light into an eye through the pupil by means of a small, perforated mirror. Through the hole of the mirror the observer studies the several parts of the eye-ground. First is seen the optic nerve, magnified some fourteen times by the dioptric mechanism of the eye itself. The normal nerve-head (disk or papilla) appears nearly round. and about one-third of an inch in diameter. In reality it is but one and a half mm. in diameter, or about one thirty |