in their action to increase the circulation or else their effect is too transient. Glyco-Thymoline, frequently applied in a 50 per cent strength with a hand atomizer produces a rapid depletion of the congested area through its well defined exosmotic property, reestablishing normal passage of fluids through the issues, promptly relieving the dry condition of the membrane and giving an immediate and lasting anodyne effect. As a gargle a 25 per cent solution hot may be effectively used providing the process does not cause undue pain. The external application of cloths dipped in. hot water and Glyco-Thymoline in a 25 per cent solution greatly increases the venous circulation.

THE DISHONEST DRUGGIST.-Dishonesty of any sort is to be condemned, but there is no language strong enough, no penalty severe enough adequately to denounce and to punish that lowest form of dishonesty by which a man seeks to profit by endangering health and even life itself.

The dishonest maker or retailer of food products may do more or less serious injury to the health of those who buy his impure goods; but the dishonest dispenser of medicine may be directly responsible for the lives of the sick who have depended on him to give them the pure remedies prescribed by their physicians.

There is nothing much lower in the scale of mendacity than the druggist who knowingly sells impure drugs or dispenses inferior substances or substitutes for the ingredients set down in a physician's prescription. In this class also is the druggist who sends to the patient a prescribed remedy deficient in some of its ingredients. Yet what does the record of a recent investigation in this city show?

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Prescriptions were sent to 139 druggists, each one calling pure aristol. Of the dispensed articles twenty-three showed no trace of aristol, sixty-six had 80 per cent of impurity, ten had 20 per cent and nine had 10 per cent. Only thirty-one were found to be pure and as prescribed.

Only two conclusions may be drawn from these tests-out of 139 druggists who daily in dispensing take human life into their hands, 108 are either deliberately dishonest or so careless or incompetent that they are unfit to be intrusted with the dispensing of medicines. Of course, no one will question the unfit

ness of the dishonest ones.

In this investigation, the results of which have been placed in the hands of the State Board of Pharmacy, it was found that many druggists had bought a "cheap" aristol which chemical tests proved to be an inert substance known as "Fuller's earth." Other brands of the chemical contained a small percentage of aristol and a very large percentage of impurity. It is the business of the druggist to know whether or not he is buying pure drugs. If he does not know how to tell this or does not take pains to find out, then he should not be allowed to dispense.

The dishonest, the careless or the incompetent druggist is a menace to every one. No person can tell when he may be sick, when he may need a physician, when he may have to send a prescription to a druggist. The Board of Pharmacy owes it to the public to prosecute every dishonest druggist, every incompetent or careless dispenser, to let it be known that such men are unsafe, so that persons who have to buy medicines may give them a wide berth.-Chicago Evening Post.

Scrofulous Rhinitis.-This form of nasal catarrh is characterized by enlarged glands, anemia, a pinched face; and by excoriation of nasal orifices and crust formation. To effect a cure Kyle recommends outdoor exercise; plenty of fats, beef and other nitrogenous foods; lactate or peptomanganate of iron or the double sulphide of arsenic (to grain); and alkaline cleansing irrigation followed by an oil spray (one grain camphor, three grains menthol, two drops carbolic acid and one ounce of albolene).

Rectal Cancer.-Excision is indicated, says Kelsey, if the growth is in the lower four inches of the rectum-colotomy, when above this point. Keep passages soft but not fluid. Let patient rest in the recumbent posture. Opium or curetting or the cautery or division of the sphincter muscles may be resorted to if needed for pain. Milk is the best diet; cod-liver oil the best medicine. Surgical treatment includes gentle dilation with bougies or removal of part of growth with knife, cautery, finger, curette or electrolysis.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.-Continued.

Diet in Typhoid Fever.-W. Gilman Thompson (Medical Record, Dec. 10) is generally favorable to the milk diet, but he says that when tympanites or any other evidence of marked indigestion ensues, milk should be withheld entirely for two or three days, beef juice and egg albumen or broths being substituted. He also uses white of egg, orange juice and light farinaceous gruels. In ordinary cases he commences solid feeding on the day when the body temperature first reaches the normal. About ten per cent of all cases are followed by relapse, no matter what the treatment.

Pyloric Stenosis. For the benign form Pflaunder advices local anodyne applications, warm compresses. baths and systematic lavage; laparotomy if these measures do not give relief. In malignant stenosis operation is indicated as soon as the condition is recognized. Van Valzah and Nisbet give two meals a day of finely divided, soluble or fluid food.

Prolapsus Ani.-J. C. Da Costa instructs as follows: Avoid straining at stool. Bathe with cold water and replace. Prevent constipation with laxatives or enemata. If prolapse is caught firmly, place patient on knees and chest, wash mass with cold water, grease it with cosinoline, insert finger into rectum and apply taxis around finger, If this fails, cover finger with a handkerchief and try again as before, or invert patient. After reduction apply a compress, to be worn except when at stool. Before each act of defecation give an injecfion of cold water containing tannin or fluid hydrastis. Excise mucous membrane in bad cases.

Treatment of Rectal Strictures.-Kelsey directs to give a thorough course of mixed treatment for syphilis; also the ointment or oleate of mercury by the rectum. The diet should consist mostly of milk and soups, with toast, crackers and mush. Rochelle or Glauber's salts are useful as laxatives, or one may give enemas of warm water through a long tube reaching above the stricture. Bring about gradual dilation with bougies, leaving in for three or four hours each day or over night. Divulsion may be of service in linear stricture. Other measures are incision with a proctotomy knife (packing rectum tightly with picked lint) or with thermocautery; excision and colotomy.

Emulsified cod liver oil as contained in Scott's Emulsion appears in a form so closely resembling the product of natural digestion as it occurs within the body-that it may well be administered as an artificially digested fat food of the very highest type. In combination with the other ingredients involved-glycerine being an emollient of inestimable value-Scott's Emulsion offers to the physician a valuable, exquisite and rare accession to his prescription list.

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