CONSTANT IRRIGATION IN SEPTIC PUERPERAL CASES.-In the Journal de Médecine Militaire, p. 360, 1896, GLIAKOFF describes a method of treatment of puerperal cases by constant irrigation with solution of carbolic acid and permanganate of potash. A one-per-cent. solution of carbolic acid was first employed, and followed by a weak solution (rose-colored) of permanganate of potash. The irrigating fluid was kept at 105°F., and allowed to flow for six hours. The results were excellent. Only one patient of the twenty-eight thus treated died, and she was not treated until three weeks after labor, and had pyemia. The analgesic effect of the irrigation was marked.--Med. News. Miscellaneous Items. Dr. John Sweany has removed from Berea to Leaksville, N. C. The daily papers report two successful cases of tracheotomy in Charlotte, in one week, for the removal of a grain of corn from the trachea. THE LICENSE TAX.- In the report of the Auditor of the State for the year ending November 1896, he says that there were received from doctors, lawyers and dentists $18,790. He adds "it ought to be some comfort to learn that, as the tax returns show, there are only 1879 doctors, lawyers and dentists in the State." As the doctors and dentists will just about make up this number, the probability is that the lawyers of the State made it a rule not to pay the tax. BARBAROUS WARFARE.-Telegraphic reports say that the Spanish forces attacked a hospital and after defeating the small force that was guarding it, shot down the doctor, who appeared wearing the Red Cross uniform and waving a white flag. Not being dead they dispatched him with machetes, and then murdered the hospital nurses and other attendants and patients in the same way, and then set fire to the building. It were better for civilization that a country which permits its armies to carry on such a war be swept out of existence. The time has come when the United States should not sit idly and have such tragedies enacted under her very eyes. THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.-An Egyptian Committee, appointed for the purpose are visiting the Red Sea ports to make arrangements for checking the advance of the bubonic plague in that direction. The plague is still raging in Bombay and other parts of India, and the death rate is very high. OFFICIAL LIST OF CHANGES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE. MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE-For the 15 days ended January 15, 1897: Bailhache, P. H., surgeon, detailed as chairman board for examination of officers for promotion and candidates for appointment as assistant surgeon, January 4, 1897. Stoner, G. W., surgeon, detailed as member board for examination of officers for promotion and candidates for appointment as assistant surgeon, January 4, 1897. Kalloch, P. C., passed assistant surgeon, detailed as recorder board for examination of officers for promotion and candidates for appointment as assistant surgeon, January 4, 1897. Cofer, L. E., assistant surgeon, relieved from waiting orders and directed to proceed to San Diego, Cal., and assume command of service, January 11, 1897. Gardner, C. H., assistant surgeon, to report at bureau February 3, 1897, for examination for promotion, January 6, 1897. Gardner, C. H., assistant surgeon, granted leave of absence for fifteen days on completion of examination for promotion, January 11, 1897. Blue, Rupert, assistant surgeon, to report at bureau February 3, 1897, for examination, January 5, 1897. Oakley, J. H., assistant surgeon, to report at bureau February 3, 1897, for examination for promotion, January 5, 1897. Sprague, E. K., assistant surgeon, to report at bureau February 3, 1897, for examination for promotion, January 5, 1897. Prochazka, Emil, assistant surgeon, to report at bureau Feb. ruary 3, 1897, for examination for promotion, January 5, 1897. THE NAVY.-For the week ending January 23, 1897. Assistant Surgeon H. LaMotte, detached from treatment at naval hospital, Philadelphia and ordered before retiring board, Washington, January 26, then home and placed on waiting orders. THE ARMY.-From January 7, 1897, to January 20, 1897. January 2, 1897, leave of absence for one month is granted Maj. Jas. C. Merrill Surgeon U. S. Army. January 7, 1897, Capt. Robert B. Benham, Assistant Surgeon U S. Army retired from active service by reason of disability. January 8, 1897, Capt. Eugene L. Swift, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, has been granted further extention of sick leave absence of two months. Leave of absence for two months, to take effect on or about January 18, 1897, is granted by the Secretary of War to Maj. Philip F. Harvey, Surgeon U. S. Army. Reading Motices. THE PRESENT PREVALENCE OF LAGRIPPE."The following suggestions will be of value at this season. The pains of acute influenza are something indescribable, especially when associated with high temperature. To relieve these with some preparation of opium is only to increase the cerebral congestion and aggravate the extreme prostration. Sharp, darting pains. are no more severe than are the dull, heavy and persistent pains in the muscles and bones which so often obtain in this disease. Clinical reports verify the value of antikamnia in controlling the neuralgic and muscular pains, as well as the fever. In fact, antikamnia may now be called the sine qua non in the treatment of this disease and its troublesome sequelæ. "It seems hardly necessary to indicate the conditions, when the use of two such well-known drugs as 'antikamnia and quinine' will be serviceable, nor the advisability of always exhibiting 'antikamnia and codeine' in the treatment of the accompanying neurosis of the larynx, the irritable cough and bronchial affections. Relapses appear to be very common, and when they occur the manifestations are of a more severe nature than in the initial attack. Here the complications of a rheumatic type are commonly met and antikamnia and salol' will be found beneficial. Antikamnia may be obtained pure, also in combination with the above drugs in tablet form. "Tablets mark the most approved form of medication, especially as they insure accuracy of dosage and protection against substitution. To secure celerity of effect, always instruct that tablets be crushed before taking."-Medical Reprints. THERN PINES, N, C., is the Best Health Resort inthe South. Write to J. T. 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