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ister the drug in ten grain doses in saturated solution three times daily, but I soon found that the drug could not be tolerated. I disliked to give up the iodide, and accordingly thought of giving the drug in Gray's Tonic. I was indeed most agreeably surprised not only by its being tolerated, but by seeing well marked improvement in the patient, which continued over a period of about three months. Later, however, the disease returned with even greater persistency, and carried off the patient. Since using this preparation, however, as a vehicle for the administration of potassium iodide in this case I have been induced to prescribe the remedy in every instance where I give the iodides, and have noted that I obtain much better results, and much better tolerance of the iodides than formerly. In the treatment of constitutional syphilis there is no better prescription that can be resorted to than giving iodide of potash in Gray's Tonic, for the reason that while the patient is coming under the influence of the specific salt he is obtaining the beneficial influence of one of the most reliable tonics known to medicine, and accordingly the palpable results follow as a natural consequence.

In diarrhoeal and dysenteric evacuations, five grain doses of subnitrate of bismuth given to a couple of teaspoonfuls of Gray's Tonic will secure results very far superior to the astringent class of remedies. Of course it often happens that the intestinal tract must be swept out thoroughly with a dose of Ol. Ricini or magnesium sulphate, but whenever this plan of therapy is followed with the bismuth and Gray's Tonic these troublesome conditions will be found to yield most promptly and efficiently.

Several months ago I was called to Foley, Lincoln County, Mo., to consult with a physician in the case of a gentleman who had just passed through what was said to have been typhoid fever. I found on my arrival at the house that the gentleman was a mere shadow of himself, and what was more had a slight cough free from expectoration. An examination showed the lower lobe of his left lung posteriorly in the third stage of pneumonia, the rale redux being well marked. I learned that his temperature fluctuated each day some two degrees, and that the gentleman did not regain his strength in the proportion desired by his physician.. Five grain doses of iodide of sodium was ordered in Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound and the external surface of his chest corresponding

to the affected lung was painted with tincture of iodine. A liberal diet was also ordered for the patient, and under this plan of treatment a letter received from the attending physi cian advised me that the patient's recovery was quick, and most gratifying both to the Doctor as well as the family.

In the treatment of tonsillitis I am especially partial to the efficacy of sodium benzoate, and my favorite formula in the use of this excellent therapeutic agent consists of fifteen grain doses given in Gray's Tonic and the liquor ammonium acetaIn the vast majority of cases, especially of an acute nature, the tongue is invariably covered with a coating more or less conspicuous, and as a result anorexia is a pretty constant.

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So common indeed is this condition that the usual question put by his patient to the Doctor is: "What can I The reason this question is so often asked is due to the fact that the patient has no desire to eat anything, and believ ing this an abnormal occurrence desires to acquaint the physi cian with the facts. Gray's Tonic when used in our prescriptions then meets most admirably this requirement, as under its tonic and reconstructive properties the patient's tongue will clean, and co-incidently the desire for food will return.

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all acute diseases I rely to a very great extent upon

warding off an attack of pneumonia by the strictest attention to keeping the mouth clean, and the tongue in the best possible condition. I have learned from experience that Gray's Tonic affords the best recourse for the prevention of these undesirable complications, and accordingly I use the remedy pretty freely in all diseases. Sometimes I add five drop doses of dilute muriatic acid to each dose, especially where the digestive system is much impaired, but wherever the Tonic is employed I invariably obtain the most satisfactory results. What I have stated in this article applies to cases in general, for what is true of one case is likewise applicable to many of like conditions wherein I have resorted to the remedy and obtained the identical results. Sometimes, 'tis true, the remedy

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used alone, at others it was used in addition to other sta

ple compounds, but in any case the results obtained have been the deciding power in assigning virtues to Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound. These results have been pronounced and stamp the product as a very superior and beneficial thera

peutical agent.

Becords, Becollections and Beminiscences.

WHAT SPOKE?

BY REV. JAS. H. MCNEILLY, A. M., L.L. D.,

Late Chaplain, C. S. A., of Nashville, Tenn.

The thirty-ninth anniversary of the battle of Nashville brings up in mind vividly some of the experiences of those memorable days. One of my experiences, on the second day of the battle, was so remarkable as a physchological mystery that I am tempted to write of it for the Practitioner. I have repeated the story often to friends, but I have hesitated to put it in print lest its strangeness should cause a doubt as to its truthfulness.

On the 15th day of December, 1864, when the battle opened, my regiment, Forty-sixth, Forty-ninth and Fifty-fifth Tennessee Infantry consolidated, was camped at Compton's Hill, on the Hillsboro road. The total number we could muster was thirty-five, for we had been almost exterminated at Franklin. The result of the day's fight left us with only six men. I always went with the assistant surgeons into action, as I was chaplain. On the 16th as I had no special place I started to the quarters of the surgeons on the Franklin road, and walked leisurely along the line of hills called the Overton Hills, I think. The Federals were cannonading our lines with field guns, and two or three times I had.narrow escapes. After a while I got a fine position to view the field, and directly Gen. Hood and staff came near, and for some time watched the progress of the battle. I was probably a hundred yards distant from them.

I stood just back of a little knoll, so that part of my person was protected, but I was so near the top that half of my body was exposed, and I could see over the hillock. Back of me was a steep ravine, in which were some ordnance wagons.

For a while the shells from the enemy's guns were quite frequent in passing near me. But soon the fire seemed to be concentrated on Gen. Hood and staff, and they had to move. During this time I suppose a hundred shells passed over and near me; but somehow I never felt that I should be struck.

Then suddenly I heard the peculiarly vicious hurtling of a shell, and at once there was on my mind an impression as vivid as if a voice had spoken, "Get out of the way, or you'll be killed." So strong and urgent was the impression that I sprang with all my might blindly away. The ground was wet and slippery, and I fell full length on the side of the knoll; at the same time the shell struck the top of the knoll, and I was covered with gravel and mud. I heard some of the wagoners shout: "The parson is killed," but I was on my feet in a moment. The moving away of Gen. Hood caused the shelling of that point to cease. I was so impressed with my close call that I determined to find out how close it had been. So I went and stood right in the tracks I had left when I jumped. The shell struck the top of the knoll and cut down a little sapling on the opposite side of the ravine, so that its course was plain. If I had not moved the shell would have struck me full in the breast.

Now the question-What made that impression on my mind? Why was I indifferent to maybe a hundred shells and so intensely concerned about that particular shell? Was it a mere coincidence? Was it the result of a mental state gradually becoming more acute in its sense of danger until it culminated in a real vision of the approaching shell? Was it an act of the subconscious mind, which saw the shell coming? I personally believe in the Bible and in the statement therein of angelic agencies as instruments of God's providence. And so I believe that some unseen angelic agency spoke to my spirit in that brief moment. How spirit may act on spirit I know not. But the fact I believe. At the battle of Shiloh a soldier, for the first time exposed to the terrible fire, and much frightened, uttered a prayer which I had frequent occasion to indorse: "Oh, Lord! Direct these bullets." He could direct me out of the way of the bullets as well as direct them.

DR. T.J. CROFFORD, of Memphis, Tenn., reports a case of extrauterine pregnancy in which the gestation sac was so thoroughly developed and so strong, that it was enucleated without the loss of any blood. The sac was completely intact all around the fetus. He supposed it to be a parovarian cyst, but after the sac was slit open out came the fetus.-N. Y. Medical Journal.

Obituary.

DR. JOSEPH P. CAIN.

Dr. Joseph Palmer Cain, of St. John's, Berkeley, S. C., died, in his 68th year, at the residence of his niece, Mrs. W. Huger Fitzsimons, Wednesday, Oct. 14th ult., after a short illness. He was a son of the Hon. William Cain, a Lieutenant Governor of the State under the old regime, and no South Carolinian in private life represented more thoroughly the ideals of the old South and was a finer "impersonation of high thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy."

Dr. Cain, after education at the best private schools, entered the South Carolina College, from which he was graduated in 1856, in the same class with Guido N. Lieber, afterward Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, and Charles Woodward Hutson, the literateur and educator, now of Texas. He received his professional education at the Medical College in this city. At the outbreak of the war Dr. Cain volunteered with his three brothers, he entering the Tenth Regiment as assistant surgeon. This post was not near enough to the battle line and he subsequently resigned it, serving with gallantry and efficiency as volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. A. M. Manigault through the bloody campaigns of the Army of Tennessee to the end of the war.

Returning to his ancestral acres in St. John's, Berkeley, he resumed the practice of medicine at Pinopolis, winning and holding the confidence and affection of all the people up to the day of his death.

Dr. Cain married Miss Mary, daughter of the late Hon. Charles Macbeth, who, with eleven children, survive him.

His remains were interred in Black Oak Cemetery, near Pinopolis, S. C.

DR. B. G. DYSART.

Dr. B. G. Dysart, an ex-surgeon of Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate Army, died of pneumonia at his home in Paris, Mo., Jan. 17th inst., aged 70 years. He was a close friend of United States Senator Francis M. Cockrell. Many stories are told of the personal bravery of Surgeon Dysart during the Civil War.

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