THE SENSIBLE Treatment of La Grippe and ITS SEQUELA. The following suggestions for the treatment of La Grippe will not be amiss at this time when there seems to be a prevalence of it and its allied complaints. The patient is usually seen when the fever is present, as the chill, which occasionally ushers in the disease, has generally passed away. First of all the bowels should be opened freely by some saline draught. For the severe headache, pain, and general soreness give one Antikamnia Tablet, or if the pain is very severe, two tablets should be given. Repeat every two or three hours as required. Often a single dose is followed with almost complete relief. If after the fever has subsided, the pain, muscular soreness, and nervousness continue, the most desirable medicines to relieve these and to meet the indications for a tonic, are Antikamnia and Quinine Tablets, each containing two and one half grains antikamnia and two and one half grains quinine. One tablet three or four times a day will usually answer every purpose until health is restored. Dr. C. A. Bryce, editor of The Southern Clinic has found much benefit to result from Antikamnia and Codeine Tablets, administered for the relief of all neuroses of the larynx, bronchial as well as the deep-seated coughs, which are so often among the most prominent symptoms. In fact, for the troublesome coughs which so frequently follow or hang on after an attack of influenza, and as a winter remedy in the troublesome conditions of the respiratory tract, there is no better relief than one or two Antikamnia and Codeine Tablets slowly dissolved upon the tongue, swallowing the saliva. NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC - Post-Graduate Department of Tulane Medical College.-The twentieth annual session opens November 5, 1906, and closes May 18, 1907. This school is intended for practitioners only. All instruction aims to be clinical and practical, and to this end, use will be made of the vast facilities offered at the great Charity Hospital, at the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, and at the Special Clinics to be held at the Polyclinic. Physicians in the interior, who, by reason of their isolation, have been deprived of all hospital facilities, will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon the status of the science of medicine and surgery of the day. Those desirous of perfecting themselves in any special department or of becoming familiar with the use of any of the allied branches, such as Electricity or Microscopy, will be afforded every facility. For information address NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC, P. O. Box 797, New Orleans, La. AFTER OPERATIONS.-After an operation, be it simple or severe, it is always good practice to reinforce a patient's vitality. Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound is eminently useful for this purpose. THE THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES OF SENG have been favorably commented on by many practitioners, especially as to its availability in atonic dyspepsia. Dr. J. W. McNabb claims that it is not so good in fermentative dyspepsia, but contends that in all cases dependent on want of tone or lack of peptic secretions it is a valuable remedy. He states that in convalescence from fever, enteric disorders and a general run down condition, the action of Seng is most perfect. THE NEUTRALITY and General PURITY of the salts entering the composition of Peacock's Bromides have been attested to by eminent chemists. This assurance of its purity and uniformity is of great moment to the general practitioner when he desires to employ a continuous bromide treatment. It is a palatable preparation, and as each fluid drachm contains fifteen grains of the combined bromides, the dose is easily adjusted. IN PRESCRIBING the products of manufacturing pharmacists, we should be guided to a great extent by the business standing of the manufacturers. No other house in the South or West has a better reputation for strict integrity than the Robinson-Pettet Company, Louisville, Ky. We do not hesitate to recommend the preparations advertised by them on advertising page 17, this issue. THE SOUTHERN SURGICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its nineteenth annual meeting at the Hotel Belvidere, Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Dec. 11, 12, and 13, 1906. Dr. Geo. H. Noble, Atlanta, Ga., President; Dr. W. D. Haggard, Nashville, Tenn., Secretary; and Dr. Howard Kelley, of Baltimore, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. The preliminary program indicates a most pleasant, agreeable, and profitable meeting. CLOSE OF OUR TWENTY-EIGHTH VOLUME. WELL, here we are at the close of our labors with our twenty-eighth volume, and although it seems but yesterday since we commenced our journalistic career, we can look back on the past with feelings of sincere gratification that we have been permitted year after year to retain the friendship and esteem of our readers for so long a period. We have from the first issue of this journal earnestly endeavored to make each number and each successive volume better than its predecessor. Just how well we have succeeded is markedly manifested by the continued success that has been accorded. This success is mainly if not altogether due to the kindness and encouragement of the friends we have made, and the ability of our contributors; the appreciation of which we have endeavored to mani fest by spending more time and money each year in bringing out our publication. The year now closing, like its predecessors since 1879, has been more satisfactory in every point of view than any that have gone before. The two indices of success in any periodical are its subscription list and its advertising patrons; both of which have reached the highest mark yet in the year now closing. The year has been an unusually satisfactory one in the South. Notwithstanding we have had in some localities an excess of rainfall, some severe wind-storms, aye, even destructive and devastating tornadoes, yet the crops of all kinds have been unusually large in their yield; and there is more money in the South than at any time in its history. For some years past we have had a phenomenal economical growth in the South our cities and towns throbbing with new life, our fields teeming with abundant and profitable harvests, our mineral deposits adding their valuable treasures, and manufacturing establishments here and there, all giving an aspect to Southern development far in advance of anything in past years. With the development of our natural resources and the introduction of foreign capital added to our home profits and gains, has come an influx of new people to be added to our natural increase; and the hum of industry, the jar, jam, and jostle of business enterprises on every side, the rush and roar of loaded trains, the crowded sidewalks in any of our Southern cities, all go to more than demonstrate increased and greatly enlarged industries, and a prosperous condition far in advance of any previous times; which with the prospective opening of the great Panama canal, the re-alignment of the commercial routes of the world, and our natural and unsurpassed innate advantages, will draw additional attention to this magnificent portion of a great country, and will result in still larger investments, which will bring increased wealth, prosperity, and population to the South. Industrial success is indeed a present reality. So with a pleasant year now closing, and a bright out-look ahead, sincerely thanking our many friends and readers for their many kindnesses in the past, we wish them one and all a right merrie Christmas and a happy New Year." Beviews and Book Notices. PRACTICAL DERMATOLOGY. A Condensed Manual of Diseases of the Skin; Designed for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By BERNARD WOLFF, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons; Editor of the Atlanta Journal-Record of Medicine; Ex-President of the Atlanta (Ful Ex-Secretary of the Georgia State ton County) Society of Medicine; The purpose of this valuable work is to present in miniature the salient features of diseases of the skin. In its preparation the standard text-books as well as the smaller manuals have been freely consulted and the latest and most authoritative views as to the origin, course, and treatment of the diseases considered have been briefly and concisely stated. The book will prove of material service to both students and practitioners. It is handsomely printed, well bound, and most beautifully illustrated. The author has dedicated the work to that master in dermatology, P. G. Unna, of Hamburg, Germany. One hundred excellent formulæ add no little to the value of the work. RETINOSCOPY, OR SHADOW TEST. By JAS. THORINGTON, A. M., M. D., Author of Refraction and How to Refract; The Ophthalmoscope, and How to Use It; Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and School for Graduates; etc., etc. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged, with 54 illustrations, ten of which are colored; 8vo, cloth, pp. 67, price $1.00, net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 1906. The author has presented the principles of the "Shadow Test in the determination of refraction in the clearest possible manner, and his directions and instructions are admirably conceived and expressed. The student is told in a plain and practical manner just how to conduct the examination, and in the little brochure a remarkably simple and practical description of the " Shadow Test," is presented, which we can most heartily commend. BLAKISTON'S QUIZ-COMPENDS. A Compend of Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis, including their Surgery and Treatment, by CHAS. S. HIRSCH, M. D., Assistant in the Genito-Urinary Surgical Department, Jefferson Medical College. 12m0., pp. 351, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 1906. Although this is a "compend," the author has endeavored to make it something more than a compend, knowing that many practitioners will gladly welcome a compact work that treats of these diseases tersely, yet in a practical manner. We find this to be one of the most valuable of its series, and far more complete in its consideration of these particular diseases than one would expect in so compact a work. It is brought thoroughly up to the latest advances, and cystoscopy, ureteral catherization, cryoscopy, urinary segregation, X-ray methods, etc., are quite fully considered. SURGERY: ITS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. In five volumes.- By sixty-six eminent surgeons. Edited by W. W. KEEN, M. D., LL. D., Hon. F.R.C.S. (Eng. and Edin.), Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Vol. I., octavo of 983 pages, with 261 text-illustrations and 17 colored plates. Price, per volume, cloth, $7.00, net; half morocco, $8.00, net. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1906. This seems to be the "Age of Surgical Publications," and but few if any will command higher encomiums than this magnificent work. From the editor's preface to the first volume we quote: 66 When the W. B. Saunders Company urged me to undertake the editorship of so formidable a work as a surgery comprising five volumes and over 4,000 pages, I was very loth to do so. But though its organization has involved a great deal of labor, it has brought me into intimate and continual contact with nearly fourscore of the brightest, most ardent, and earnest surgical scholars and experts of Europe and America, and has proved a daily stimulus and pleasure. Their co-operation has been constant, hearty, and helpful, and I gladly recognize its value. It has been our aim to record the very latest well established knowledge so that the work should be thoroughly up to date,' yet with few, if any, passing surgical novelties." This initial volume of so splendid a series contains the following important articles, the authors of which are ample manifestation of their excellence: 1. Narrative of Surgery: A Historical Sketch, by Jas. Gregory Mumford, M. D. 2. Surgical Physiology, by Geo. W. Crile, M. D. 3. Examination of the Blood, by J. C. DaCosta, Jr., M. D. 4. Infection and Immunity, by L. Hektoen, M. D. 5. Inflammation, by J. George Adami, M. D. 6. |