When pulmonary catarrh and inflammation is present in such cases, he prescribes the following: M. Et divide in pulv. No. xx. Sig.-Four or five daily. For the gastric pain and vomiting the following: R Sodii bicarb. Mag. calcinatæ. Bismuthi salicylatis, āā... ..gr. v 30 Misce et fiat chartula No. i. Sig.-One such powder every four or five hours. D. S. Maddox, M. D., United States Examining Surgeon, Coroner Marion Co., Ohio, says: (Med. Brief.) (Med. Brief.) *** For the control of pain opium is and always has been the sheet anchor. But opium, pure and simple, has many disadvantages which render its use in some cases positively harmful. Opium is one of the most complex substances in organic chemistry, containing, according to Brunton, eighteen alkaloids, and an organic acid. The ordinary alkaloids, of which morphia is the chief, have the same objections as the crude drug. They constipate the bowels, derange the stomach, and worst of all, induce a habit which utterly destroys the moral and physical nature of the individual. While looking about me for some agent which would produce satisfactory anodyne and hypnotic results without the deleterious and pernicious after-effects of opium and its ordinary derivatives, I came upon the preparation known as papine. After a somewhat extended trial of this remedy I am convinced that it is the ideal anodyne. Although derived from the Papaver Somniferum it is singularly free from the objections of the ordinary opiates. It does not constipate; it does not derange the stomach; it does not cause headache; it does not induce any drug habit; it is safe and may be given to children as well as adults. THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. ISSUED BY THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY JAMES U. BARNHILL, A. M., M. D., EDITOR AND MANAGER, Per annum, in advance, subscription price, including postage .........12 cents. Bound volumes.. $1 00 ... 1 50 Original articles, scientific and clinical memoranda, correspondence and news items are cordially solicited from the profession. All communications should be addressed to the EDITOR COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL, 248 East State Street. Remittances are most safely made by bank check or postal money order, drawn to the order of the Editor and Manager. DECEMBER, 1901. Editorial. CLOSE OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH VOLUME. This issue closes the twenty-fifth volume of THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. We take the opportunity of thanking our subscribers, contributors and the patrons of our advertising pages for the encouragement which they have given the JOURNAL during the past year. The generous manner in which the JOURNAL has been supported at home is evident from the fact that we have been enabled to publish during the year fifty-four original articles from members of the local profession. They were prepared with care; most of them were read and discussed before some local medical society. These contributions have especial value to us as representing the results of home experience, the experience of our confreres working under local conditions with which we are more or less familiar. Its very proximity gives to their work peculiar interest and value. By thus publishing the best thoughts, and ripest fruits of local experience, we believe the JOURNAL is accomplishing a good work. In point of practical and scientific value its original articles compare favorably with those published in any other local medical journal. As the Official Organ of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, we have published stenographic reports of the proceedings of that body throughout the year; these proceedings consisting chiefly of reports of cases, presentation of specimens, and discussion. The original articles, Academy proceedings, and editorials occupy in all 513 pages of the 730 pages of this volume, which is the largest one in the history of the JOURNAL. We have sought to make the JOURNAL worthily represent the local profession, and to encourage as far as possible home authorship. Our abstracts have been almost uniformly original, no advertising matter has been admitted to appear with regular reading matter, and only ethical advertisements have been admitted to the advertising pages. Those whose advertisements are found in the JOURNAL are reliable firms, who have valuable products of known formulæ to present to the profession. 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The cordial support which we have received in the past is no small part of the compensation for discharging the arduous duties of editor of a local medical journal, and we shall hope that we may receive the same or even greater encouragement in the coming year than in the past. We need your subscriptions, but we need your literary contributions more. Each friend of the JOURNAL may do something in this way by furnishing original articles, news notes, reports of cases, or brief notes on methods of treatment, and also if you will, by recommending the JOURNAL to your friends. You may help us in realizing the mission of the JOURNAL in promoting fraternal feeling and cooperation of professional activity in this community, by using its columns for your contributions. Your efforts are sure to encourage others to give their best thoughts and experiences to the profession, and thus to advance medical science. DECISION OF SUPREME COURT ON THE MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT AND OSTEOPATHY. The November issue of the JOURNAL mentioned the argument of the case of the State of Ohio vs. Henry Gravett, carried up by the prosecuting attorney from the Court of Common Pleas of Darke County. December 3, 1901, the case was passed on by the Supreme Court and a decision handed down a few days later. The following is a syllabus of the decision: I. "The system of rubbing and kneading the body commonly known as osteopathy is comprehended within the practice of medicine defined by Section 4403f of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of April 1, 1900. II. "One who has an established practice in the healing of diseases may be required to conform to such reasonable standard respecting qualifications therefor as the general assembly may prescribe, having in view the public health and welfare. III. "A legislative enactment which discriminates against osteopathists by requiring them to hold diplomas from a college which requires four years of study as a condition to their obtaining limited certificates which will not permit them to prescribe drugs or perform surgery, while not requiring such time of study from those contemplating the regular practice as a condition to their obtaining unlimited certificates for the practice of medicine and surgery, is as to such discrimination, void, and compliance therewith cannot be exacted of those who practice osteopathy." This decision is plain as to the proviso of the law set forth in the syllabus requiring osteopaths to take a course of four years duration in a college of osteopathy. It likewise plainly sets forth that the practice of osteopathy comprises the practice of medicine as defined in the law. Whether the decision leaves the osteopath high and dry where the law can no longer reach him, or whether he can under it be compelled to come before the board for an examination is something that might again require judicial opinion to settle. The State Medical Board is disappointed, but was not unprepared for the decision rendered. What the next steps are to be in the endeavor to require the osteopathist to conform to a legal standard of qualifications it is perhaps unwise at this time to publicly discuss. The profession needs only to continue the same vigilant organization of the past four years, that the interests of public health may be properly cared for. In the meantime it is with osteopathy as with many another ism, pathy or toy which the human mind has been interested in for awhile and then turned away from. It is less of a novelty than ten years ago; its claims have been more generally exploded, and sinking by its own weight it promises to sink low in the sea of obscurity. THE THERAPEUTICS OF RESORCIN. J. E. B. This agent enjoys a reputation and use beyond what would be expected from the rather scant space devoted to it in the average text on materia medica and therapeutics. The practitioner who took his diploma perhaps fifteen years ago, and who does not march with his times may tell you that he knows nothing about the drug. It is a diatomic phenol obtained by heating benzine with fuming sulphuric acid. Its small colorless prisms or plates, which turn reddish on exposure, and a faint odor resembling that of carbolic acid. In the therapeutics of seborrheal eczema it has achieved its greatest triumph perhaps, and is widely prescribed in this and similar cutaneous disorders. Its virtues are responsible for the widespread popularity of a proprietary "dandruff cure.” It has its uses in eczema, psoriasis, herpes (abortive treatment), acne rosacea, ringworm of the scalp, scarlatinal desquamation and tinea versicolor. It is a general rule that the weak solutions, 3 per cent. or weaker, harden the skin, while stronger ones macerate and destroy the superficial cells. This last named property has been made use of in a radical treatment by means of a paste of resorcin and zinc oxide in some cases of acne rosacea, and for the cure of freckles. In diseases of the mucous surfaces its action has been most beneficial, probably from its antiseptic and analgesic properties. In the digestive tract it is prescribed in gastritis, gastralgia, gastric ulcer and cancer, fermentative indigestion and in diarrhea of children. In the respiratory tract in from 1 to 2 per cent. solution it is much used and highly prized in the treatment of various catarrhal disorders. By some it is as much for the treat |