ness, anorexia, or aversion to the drops, and in these cases it may be well to discontinue the drug, and, after a short time, to begin again with smaller doses. Signs of irritation of the kidneys, which are so frequently caused by other diuretics, have never followed the administration of Hydragogin, although the drug has been used very extensively, and numerous hospital reports, and some of the most prominent clinicians of this country testify to its efficacy even in cases where all other diuretics failed.

Hydragogin is also a most reliable cardiac tonic, and in 10 to 12-drop doses, three or four times a day, will often cause the disappearance of attacks of cardiac asthma for days or weeks, and, in favorable cases, even for months.

Dose: 7 to 10 to 15 drops every three or four hours, in a tumberful of some indifferent thermal water, or in sugar water; children in proportion.

SCOTT'S EMULSION is a scientific pharmaceutical preparation, the medicinal ingredients of which are pure cod liver oil, with hypophosphites of lime and soda and glycerine. In this preparation the oil has been artificially digested by mechanical processes, thus preparing it for immediate absorption into the circulating fluid, and supplying what deficient digestive ferments fail to supply. The utility of this expedient in the dietetic management of many morbid states has received the approval of high authority.

ANASARCIN is beneficial not only in dropsies, but in Exophthalmic Goiter.

It restores the natural balance between the arterial and venous systems, stimulates the heart, equalizes the circulation, promotes absorption of effused serum without increasing the debility of the patient or interfering with nutrition by producing loss of appetite.

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As a remedy for all dropsical conditions it has no equal.

"Abdominal ascites is relieved promptly, and even in those extreme cases where the dropsy had already crowded the heart, the results were magical. LYMAN M. BECKES, M. D.

Vincennes, Ind."

"I am most sanguine in assuring the medical fraternity of the efficiency of Anasarcin as a heart tonic, and prompt, safe, and sure agent for the immediate removal of any dropsical effusion, and by natural channels. L. V. HARBAUGH. M. D.

Old Town, Md."

Anasarcin combines the active principles of Oxydendron Arboreum, Sambucus Canadensis, and Urginea Scilla. An unequalled remedy in dropsies of Cardiac, Renal or Hepatic origin.

PANOPEPTON is the perfect food in typhoid fever.

It presents complete nourishment in a perfectly soluble and freely assimilable form. It is ready for use, acceptable to the patient, immer diate in its reviving and restoring effects.

It imparts not only stimulus but strength, the strength of perfect nutrition.

There is a record of many cases of typhoid fever in which Panopepton was the only food given throughout the entire course of the fever and well into convalescence, and in the memoranda it is noted that the patients were well sustained; lost little flesh; passed the crisis easily; convalesced quickly and without complications.

WAYNE'S DIURETIC ELIXER is the best and safest in the treatment of Urinary Calculus, Gout, Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Cystitis, Hæmaturia, Albuminuria, and vesical irritations generally.

Dr. Chas. Kelly Gardner, of West Virginia, in a recent letter, writes : "I anticipate as positive results when administering it as I do from Opium for pain or Quinine for intermittents."

It has been in constant use by the best physicians for twenty-two years. Try it, doctor. Allow no substitution.

MESSRS. Wм. R. WARNER & Co. have been honored by the highest award, the Grand Prize, for pharmaceutical preparations at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.

AN EXPERIENCE WITH PEPTENZYME. I have recently had occasion to prescribe Peptenzyme in a case of vomiting of pregnancy in a woman, age 35, a primipara. She suffered intensely from nausea immediately after eating, having been unable to retain scarcely any food for nearly three weeks. Various digestive compositions were employed without the least benefit, some even seeming to aggravate the trouble. I put her on Peptenzyme, two tablets after each meal. I never saw a drug act so promptly nor so uniformly as has Peptenzyme. I do not believe there is another agent of its class on the market that approaches it in therapeutic value. I have also used the remedy in gastric and atonic dyspepsia with absolutely positive results. It does not wear out like many of the so-called digestive compounds, especially some of the stuff on the market that is sold to physicians at 25 cents per ounce, and which is composed principally of sugar of milk and other cheap agents to add bulk, with just sufficient pepsin to give them the characteristic smell. My advice to the profession is to use Peptenzyme whenever and wherever such an agent is indicated. In the vomiting of pregnancy it is sometimes

best to give one tablet one-half hour before eating, and one immediately afterwards. In indigestion, where there is malnutrition and consequently tissue waste without repair, Peptenzyme will act in a most agreeable and satisfactory manner. When given to the habitual drinker after a "booze," it will assist in correcting the gastric trouble and enfeebled nerve condition that almost robs him of a conscious individuality.— Abstract from the Medical Council.

DR. OTTO SIMON, First Assistant in Professor Czerny's Surgical Clinic at Heidelberg, calls renewed attention to the severe intoxication which even minute quantities of cocaine may produce in predisposed individuals. In a neurasthenic, aged 24, death set in two minutes after injection into the urethra of 134 drams of a 1 per cent. cocain solution. Since then Simon uses exclusively Beta-Eucain. It has entirely the same effect as cocain when administered in 0.6 to 0.9 per cent. saline solution at the body temperature; and in 1188 anesthesias a little headache and nausea was only encountered once, when the bladder was filled with 2 2-3 ozs. of a 4 per cent. solution, which vanished immediately when the bladder was washed out.

Eucain-Adrenalin is especially useful in the extirpation of subcutaneous or deep-seated tumors, lipomata, mammary adenomata and strumous lymphatic glands, for excision of tumors, cancers, and angiomata, and for minor operations around the head and face. For the extirpation of tubercular glands, and for Winkelmann's hydrocele operation, it may be used alone, or with Adrenalin. In chronic tubercular osteitis, ganglion, for the removal of foreign bodies, for tendon suture, and in operating ingrown toenails, Eucain should be used alone; and he also employed it for cystoscopies and litholapaxies.

For infiltration anesthesia he advises a warm 0.5 per cent. to I per cent. Eucain solution with 0.6 per cent. to 0.9 per cent. sodium chloride and I: 20,000 to 1: 30,000 Adrenalin. Adrenalin strengthens the Eucain anesthesia, and has no undesirable effect in these dilutions.

Where applicable, Oberst's method, with 1 per cent. Beta-Eucain, is preferable to simple Eucain infiltration, and even to Eucain-Adrenalin.— Abstracted from the Munchener Med. Wochenschrift, Vol. 51, No. 29, July 19, 1904.

NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC:-Eighteenth Annual Session opens November 7, 1904, and closes May 20, 1905. Physicians will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon modern progress in al! branches of medicine and surgery. The specialties are fully taught, including laboratory and cadaveric work.

For further information address, New Orleans Polyclinic, Post-office box 797, New Orleans, La.

Beviews and Book Notices.

MEDICAL RECORD VISITING LIST FOR 1905. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York.

This " Visiting List" has always given the most complete satisfaction to all who have tried it.

A complete revision of the reading matter in the front part of the "List "has been made this year. The table of average doses has been carefully revised and brought up to date, all the newer drugs of importance being included. A novelty introduced last year for the first time into a "Visiting List" is the Obstetrical Chart. This will be found useful for making quick estimates of the probable duration of pregnancy. In all respects the high standard of manufacture, as to paper, printing, and binding, that has always destinguished the "Medical Record Visiting List" has been fully maintained..

MEDICAL NEWS VISITING LIST FOR 1905. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, Publishers. Price, $1.50; with thumb-letter index, 25 cents extra. This excellent annual publication comes to us with none of its former valuable details omitted. It contains thirty-two pages of data likely to be needed by every practitioner, and blanks for recording all details of practice, both clinical and financial. It is issued in four styles: weekly, dated for thirty patients; monthly, undated, for one hundred and twenty patients per month; perpetual, for thirty patients weekly and sixty patients undated, and without the preliminary data for those requiring specially large record books. The paper, binding, printing, etc. are of the best quality.

PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST (Lindsay and Blakiston's) for 1905. Fiftythird year of its publication. Seven different styles, ranging in price from $1 to $2.25. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers. Sold by all book-sellers and druggists.

With this edition "The Physician's Visiting List" enters upon the fifty-fourth successive year of its publication. This is a record which tells its own story. The old veteran is on hand. In addition to the other valuable features for which it is noted, we

wish to call attention to the pages on incompatibility, chemic, pharmaceutic, and therapeutic, and the page on the immediate treatment of poisoning. "The Physician's Visiting List" is a pocket record book and ever handy reference guide for the medical practitioner. Neat, compact, well-arranged, and durable, it has justly earned so many friends throughout the medical word that commendation is unnecessary.

CRANIO-MUSCULAR ORIGINS OF THE BRAIN AND MIND. By Philip H. Erbes, author of Co-Origin of Organic and Inorganic Life," 12 mo, cloth, pp. 240, illustrated; price, $1.20, postage, 10 cents. The Promethean Publisher, 622 N. Rockwell Street, Chicago, Ill., 1904.

The author does not claim this to be an exhaustive treatment of the evoluional origins of brain and mind, however the principles set forth in it are worthy of careful consideration. The chapters on emotion, consciousness, intellect, and that calling attention to the orderly reduplication of the spinal cord in the cerebral hemispheres, because of the original matter presented should claim special attention.

VISITING AND POCKET REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1905. The following is a comprehensive contents: Table of Signs and How to Keep Visiting Accounts, Obstetrical Memoranda, Clinical Emergencies, Poisons and Antidotes, Dose Table, Blank Leaves for Weekly Visiting List, Memorandum, Nurses Addresses, Clinical, Obstetrical, Birth, Death and Vaccination Records, Bills Rendered, Cash Received, Articles Loaned, Money Loaned, Miscellaneous, Calendar 1905, 126 pages, lapel binding, red edges. This very complete Call Book will be furnished by the Dios Chemical Co., of St. Louis, Mo., on receipt of 10 cents for postage.

BLOOD PRESSURE, as Affecting the Heart, Brain, Kidneys, and General Circulation, by Louis Faugeres Bishop, A. M., M. D., Physician to the Lincoln Hospital, New York, etc., etc. 12mo, cloth, pp. 112. Price, $1.00. E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers, 241-243 W. 23rd St., New York, 1904.

This is a most excellent little treatise on a very important subject, ably handled, and if its teachings are carefuly studied and observed will not only rescue some of our young patients from early death, but will be the means of prolonging the lives and comfort of thousands of men advanced in years.