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T., on account of the fact that York had fallen in love before graduation and had shaken the girl he was in love with, was ordered by the Courts to issue the diploma. The Chicago Clinic for January prints a short poem upon the occasion of the event. REMARKS ON GLYCO-THYMOLINE. BY W. R. D. BLACKWOOD, M. D., PHILADELPHIA, PA. For many years past this preparation has been one of my mainstays in diseases of the mucous membranes, and it has held its place despite the trials of many other agents warranted to supplant it by the advocates who decried Glyco-Thymoline when I spoke of its virtues. Space is now getting too valuable to waste with long detailed descriptions of separate cases, and anyhow I never did write in that manner-I think general remarks about agents is the better way, and we need this more than stories of symptoms and temperatures, with daily alterations. No class of maladies is more troublesome than disorders of the mucous membranes, and none more difficult to eradicate thoroughly, and we have been put to our wit's end many times for remedial agents in such cases. The local treatment of catarrhs is frequently disappointing and none more so than that prevalent one postnasal catarrh. Unless we can get an alterative condition established little good is done, and nothing has been of greater service to me than GlycoThymoline, locally and internally, in several hundreds of long-standing and severe cases of this intractable and common affliction. I have come to regard this preparation as a standard and almost routine remedy; I seldom care for a post-nasal trouble without prescribing it at the onset, and if I don't it is not long before it comes into use. It is just alkaline enough, just so as to the dialysis (the action locally with exactly the right amount of fluid excretion through the diseased membrane,) just enough astringent without drying the parts, and just the right thing in the direct line of reparative work; it sets up tissue building soon after the membrane gets somewhere near its right shape. Many things are employed in catarrh, but I firmly believe that if I was confined to one agent only, that would be Glyco-Thymoline. For years I used the so-called antiseptic tablets of boric acid and glycerin, etc., and with good results, but for a long time past this is thrown aside and the Glyco-Thymoline takes its place. I use it in about half strength with a Bermingham douche and from twice to four times daily. With this, in bad cases, I give it internally, adding to it, or giving separately, mercuric bichloride and if done separately the menstruum is compound syrup of stillingia. In presumed syphilitic persons I always do this. In gastritis, chronic enteritis, vaginitis, gonorrhoea, and in recurring attacks of what too many physicians deem appendicitis, I use this agent freely, and always with good results. As a local application to foul ulcers and especially to hemorrhoids I think this preparation is very good. In the nasty leg ulcers which now and then defy all remedies Glyco-Thymoline does wonders-it can't do harm any time, and I am almost persuaded to give it in all instances. In bronchitis and asthma it is fine; in spasmodic croup it fills the bill nicely; it does well in venereal disorders locally, and in balanitis it stops the trouble at once.-Medical Summary, December 1903. CONTENTS. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. Some Homeopathic Similes or Some of the Reasons for the Faith that is in Us-By L. C. McElwee, M. D., St. Louis.... PAGE. 49 Oscillatory Massage in Ear Treatment-By Prof. Jas. A. Campbell, M. D., St. Louis 58 Idiosyncrasy-By John H. McCaughan, M. 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