Entered at the Tost Office, Wilmington, N. C., as Second-Class Mail-Matter. Jefferson as a Vaccinator. By Henry A. Martin, M. D., Roston, Mass. With nine Fac- simile letters by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States..... Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis. By Geo, Henry Fox, A. M., M. D....41 A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis, Designed as a Manual for Practitioners and Students. By Ambrose L. Ranney, A. M. M. D. Yellow Fever: Its Ship Origin and Prevention. By Robert B. S. Hargis, M. D. Public Health Reports and Papers. Volume 5. Meeting of the American Public Health Ophthalmie aud Otic Memoranda, By D. B. St. John Roos, M. D., and E. T. Ely, M. D.49 Cutaneous and Venereal Memoranda. By II, G. Piffard, M. D., and G. W. Fox, M. D....49 The Fijian Remedy for Neuralgia. This remedy has been used for several centuries by the aborigines of the Fi Islands, though introduced to the notice of the profession in Engiand only about year ago. The success attending i's use in the hands of Drs. Sidney Ringer and Wm. Mu rell, of London, England, induced us to dispatch an agent to the Fiji Islands for th collection of a quantity of this valuable drug. Hieretofore the secret of its sour has been jealously guarded by the Fiji chiefs, the knowledge of its composition b ing handed down as an heirloom from one generation to another. Through M Ryder, a resident from Fiji, a specimen of the remedy was first brought to Englan with the statement that he received it from a European who had married a chief daughter and had learned the secret from his father in-law. Tonga, as prepared by the Fijans is a compound of several plants, and occurs the form of small loose bundles, the remedy being enveloped in a wrapper o t inner bark of the cocoanut tree. The natives administer it in the form of an infusion, but it has been found th alcohol much more thoroughly extracts its active principles. Drs. Ringer and Murrell base their report of the use of the drug on a sufficie number of cases and C. Bader, ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital says; "T results obtained by Drs. Ringer and Murrell fully coincide with mine. I have not of cures of brain and kidney disease in which Tonga alone succeeded in removi pain. All cases of neuralgia (supra and infra-orbital branches of the fifth nerve with swelling of the temporal veins during the attack were benefited." Reports from Sidney, Australia, show that Tonga has also been successfully er ployed as a remedy for neuralgia by the profession of that country. THE FLUID EXTRACT CAN BE OBTAINED FROM PARKE, DAVIS & CO, DETROIT, MANFACTURING CHEMISTS AND PHARMACISTS. LIPPIA MEXICANA. A NEW EXPECTORANT. This new Mexican remedy is introduced to the medical profession of this count on the authority of Dr. A. H. Saxton, Baltimore, Md., who has communicated t results of his experience in its use in an article in the January, 1881, number of t THERAPEUTIC GAZETTE. The demulcent and expectorant properties claimed for the drug by Dr. Saxton, a such as must commend it to the careful attention of the profession, and especial so during the season of catarrhal affections of the espiratory passages. A reme which combines demulcent with expectorant properties, and at the same time do seem to show the drug to be possessed of an alterative influence in the respirato mucous membrane which must enhance its value in those chronic affections so oft rebellious to treatment. We prepare a tincture of Lippia Mexicana and will be pleased to furnish a repri of Dr. Saxton's article, on application. PARKE, DAVIS & CO., Manufacturing Chemists & Pharmacists, Detroit, Mi Eastern Depot. NEW YORK BRANCH ..60 Cedar Sti Wm. M. Wilson & Co., 206 & 208 Market Canby, Gilpin & Co., Corner Light and Lombard 2 |