-FOR ECZEMA OF THE SCROTUM: R. Hydrarg. chlor. mit., Zinci oxidi, Lanolin, Vaseline, Ft. ungt. 3j grs. xl 3j SS M. SIG.-Wash the scrotum in hot borax water, and apply the ointment night and morning. APPLICATIONS FOR BURNS.-A German hospital surgeon recommends (Munch. Med. Woch.; in Med. and Surg. Reporter) the following: R. Linseed oil, 3iv 3iv gr. vj. Dissolve the thymol in the oil before adding the lime-water. -H. L. Hurxthal has received a prize by the Pharm. Record for the following formula for ANTISEPTIC DENTAL CREAM: Precipitated chalk, soap, Salicylate of soda, Water, I For MEMORIZING DOSES.-Dr. G. A. Wiggins give the following rules (Pharmaceutical Record): 1. The dose of all infusions is I to 2 ounces, except infusions of digitalis, which is 2 to 4 drachms. 2. All poisonous tinctures 5 to 20 minims, except tincture of aconite, which is 1 to 5. 3. All wines, from 2 to 3 fluid drachms, except wine of opium, which is 5 to 15 minims. 4. All poisonous solid extracts you can give 1⁄2 grain, except extract of calabar bean, which is to 4 grain. 5. All dilute acids, from 5 to 20 minims, except dilute hydrocyanic acid, which is 2 to 8 minims. 6. All aquæ, from 1 to 2 ounces, except aqua laurocerasis and aqua ammonia, which are IO to 30 minims. 7. All medicated syrups, you give i drachm. 8. All mixtures, from 1⁄2 to I fluid ounce. 9. All spirits, from 1⁄2 to 1 fluid drachm. 10. All essential oils, from 1 to 5 minims. LANCEREAUX (Bulletin Méd. in Medical News, April 1, 1893) maintains that the first indication in the treatment of a case of DELIRIUM TREMENS is to control the excitement, which is dependent upon the toxic action of the alcohol upon the nervous system and is responsible for the sleeplessness, and sometimes for a fatal issue. The patient is to be isolated and, preferably, placed in a dark room, so as to be removed from all sources of irritation. Of drugs, bromin is uncertain in action, and opium and morphine are efficient only in large doses; chloral hydrate, on the other hand, is certain and prompt in action. From sixty to ninety grains are at once given, together with a little morphine. If -“Russian cholera drops" (Therap. Ga- sleep do not set in in the course of ten min- · -Colombini (L'Union Méd., in Therapeutic Gazette, March 15), publishes forty-four cases of pruriginous dermatitis treated with menthol according to the method of Dubreuilth and Archambault. The cases may be divided into three classes :: 1. Those in which an inflammation of the skin, accompanied by an eruption, produces itching; as, for example, in eczema. 2. Those conditions of skin in which the itching is the chief symptom, without any other visible symptoms; or in other words, nervous pruritus. 3. And, finally, in those cases in which eruptions having appeared, and been scratched, the disease is produced by the friction which is applied. For these cases the following prescription is given : The results which he obtained have been excellent in the first class, variable in the second class, and very good in the third class. News and Miscellany. -A regular meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medical College was held on Tuesday evening, March 21, 1893, in the lower lecture room of the college building. Professor W. W. Keen presided as president of the Association, and in the absence of the Recording Secretary, Professor Orville Horwitz, Dr. Augustus Eschner was appointed Secretary, pro tem. Dr. John B. Chapin (J. M. C., 1893), Chairman of the Committee of the Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medical College for collecting subscriptions to the Samuel D. Gross Monument Fund, reported that thus far over $5600 had been collected, and with all other uncollected subscriptions the total would reach about $10,000, leaving a balance of $2000 to be yet subscribed. He offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medical College do all in its power to raise this remaining sum, and that at the next meeting of the American College of Surgeons steps be taken to have the site of the proposed monument changed from Washington to Philadelphia, where Professor Gross had lived and died, and by his diligent and successful work as a surgeon and teacher had made his name an honor to the medical profession. Dr. H. Augustus Wilson, Clinical Professor of Orthopedics at the Jefferson Medical College, proposed a nominating committee, who were unanimously elected, to nominate officers to be voted for at the next regular meeting of the Chapter. Dr. Edward P. Davis, Clinical Lecturer on Obstetrics, etc., then read a paper on "Puerperal Sepsis," in which he expressed the opinion that antisepsis should be practiced to the highest degree, and that there should be made as few vaginal ex A PIPERAZIN URIC ACID SOLVENT BOUT two years ago the Chemische Fabrik auf Actien, vormals E. Schering, of Berlin, after long experimenting in its laboratory by its staff of chemists, produced a new chemical product, which at first seemed to be identical with spermine. Through clinical trials this supposition was quickly found to be erroneous, but further experiments developed the interesting fact that the new product was a uric acid solvent. This notable scientific discovery was achieved independently by the Schering laboratory, and it deserves the full credit for enriching materia medica with so valuable a new therapeutic agent. 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LEHN & FINK, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE. The objects of this Association are the promotion of the prosperity of the Jefferson Medical College, offering of prizes, publishing of meritorious theses, endowment of scholarships for free medical education, at the College, of sons of Alumni whose means are limited, collection of anatomical and pathological specimens for the museum, maintenance and cultivation of good feeling among the Alumni, and, above all, the advancement of the interests of medical education and diffusion of sound medical knowledge. The members of the Association are the graduates and professors of the College. The annual contribution is one dollar. Any member who has paid his annual subscription for five years, or who pays the sum of five dollars, becomes a life member, receives a diploma of life membership, and is exempt from further dues. The latter is the preferable plan. E. L. VANSANT, M. D., Treasurer, |