DON'T YOU KNOW-That every progressive physician is using prescription envelopes in dispensing in place of boxes? They are much neater and cheaper. Send for sample forms and prices. William Koehl, Jamestown, N. Y.

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recent practical book published on the sub ject; treating of every phase of Hypnotism, Mind Reading, Telepathy and Spiritism. For sale by the author, Rev. L. F. Schlathoelter, Moberly, Mo. Price, in fancy cloth, $1.00, postpaid.

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PHYSICIANS who have found the systems of their patients so clogged with poisonous matter as to defeat every medical prescription, should investigate the efficacy of Anidrosis Fuming and Bathing in dis solving all curdy effete matter for prompt secretion and excretion, without which health and magnetic power can never return. Sweat-box imitators of my apparatus, without these supplies, are finding them like a gun without ammunition. Correspondence solicited. Book mailed from Anidrosis Sanitarium. Skowhegan, Me.

Therapeutic Notes.

Parke, Davis & Co. have announced that they will protect and defend from legal proceedings all those who use their antitoxic serum.

Iodia is prepared by Battle & Co., St. Louis, and contains extracts from the green roots of stillingia, helonia, saxifraga and menispermum. Each fluid drachm also contains five grains of iodide potassium and three grains of phosphate of iron.

The Kansas Med. Index publishes the following formula for acute cystitis: Bromide of potash, 3 ss; fld. ext. gelsemin, mx; fld. ext. hyoscyam., 3ij: lithiated hydrangea (Lambert), q. s. ad. iv. M. Sig. A dessertspoonful every four hours. Milk and flaxseed tea as drinks.

In the treatment of endometritis Micajah's Medicated Uterine Wafers combine all the advantages of the medicated tampon with a number of special properties. They are much more readily applied than the tampon, so that part of the treatment can be intrusted to the patient, and their application is therefore to be preferred both on the score of cleanliness and convenience.

Dr. J. P. Hawkins, of Avondale, Ala., writes: "I have been using Sanmetto for the past three years in my practice. Have prescribed it in chronic cases of irritable bladder, urethral canal, irritable and enlarged prostate gland, sexual perversion, dropsy dropsy and cystitis. Have found it to be an excellent remedy and am more than pleased with Sanmetto.

Neurosine is presented in a most permanent and palatable form, and elegant and efficient combination of wellknown and long tried remedies concerning whose virtues in the diseases and conditions indicated there is absolute unanimity of expression among all observers and authors upon the subject. In hysteria, epilepsy and neurasthenia it is unexcelled.

results.

Dr. W. Irving Hyslop, 4408 Chestnut St., West Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I have used Celerina quite largely both in private and hospital practice, and with gratifying It is void of repugnant taste and is readily retained by the stomach. My experience with Celerina has been confined chiefly to its use in nervous diseases, particularly in loss of nerve power and opium habit, in which conditions it has served me well, and I shall continue its use."

The advertising pages in the SUMMARY are interesting and you should not fail to read them.

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Therapeutic Notes.

The Pharmaceutical Specialty Co., 145 N. Sixth St., Philadelphia. introduced Mentholyptine to the attention of the medical profession but a short time ago, but it already has a wonderful reputation. Send for sample; it will undoubtedly please.

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We have recently received a can of Pulvola. a new candidate for public favor in the shape of a dusting powder for infants, and, after carefully watching the use of all the contents of this can, we are inclined to believe, in the language of another, that every one who tries this powder will use it forever. Pulvola possesses the following characteristics: It is a very light powder, from eight to 10 times the covering power of starch or talcum, adheres closely to the skin, is impermeable to moisture and is absolutely impalpable. It is a soft, light powder, which, when applied, sticks closely and sheds water like oil. For a sample can, address Pulvola Chemical Co, 100 Williams St., New York.

Dr. G. W. Brown writes: "I have used Pineoline in many cases of skin diseases, and in every instance with immediate relief or permanent cure. I do not stop to classify the ailments. Whenever I found an eruption or irritation of any kind, I applied the Pineoline to the affected part and in every instance gained the desired results. I have long since determined I will not be without so valvable a preparation, for it is one the physician can always depend upon to give the desired resultsprompt relief.”

Eskay's Albuminized Food is particularly commended to the attention of the medical profession as being a food which produces more satisfactory results as a diet for both infants and invalids, in a larger proportion of cases than any food at present upon the market. This is very largely owing to its peculiar composition, which is a combination of both cereals and egg albumen. It has the additional advantage of being the chsapest food at present upon the market, the cost of feed

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ments of every well-ordered mind, and whatever such mind may suggest or do is the best and most effective in its way to accomplish the contemplated end.

Successful surgery is only the common sense application of accurate anatomical and mechanical knowledge to the treatment of injured or disorganized living organism. The former can only be acquired by patient study and observation, the latter may be largely a natural gift or an acquisition easily attained.

So much for philosophy; now to the points of practical interest.

All the books describe how to proceed, and if this would help the operator to proceed rightly nothing further could be desired.

For instance, they direct one to employ the taxis, which is accomplished by seizing the parts containing the protruded viscus with one hand, making gentle, uniform pressure, while the fingers of the other hand are placed at the inguinal ring to assist.

As a preparation for this the thighs are

approximated and flexed on abdomen, and legs on the thighs. This performance is to be repeated at intervals until the object is accomplished or efforts fail.

This is very good practice. Often the inexperienced operator will repeat this over and over, and finally become entirely disheartened by his failures.

Taxis is the best when it succeeds at the first or second trial.

After the taxis, or before, another device may be tried which experience has shown often succeeds, perhaps in a large majority of cases. It possesses the merit of being gentle and absolutely free from pain or danger. It consists in nothing more than the application of cloths wrung out of hot water and applied as warm as can be well tolerated.

These cloths should be large enough to retain the heated moisture and cover parts entirely and comfortably. Their application must be repeated frequently enough to maintain uniform warmth, which soothes and relaxes all the tissues involved. In many stubborn cases that have resisted every effort at taxis, at each removal of application the swelling will be found to have diminished, at last to entirely disappear.

Therefore, it is believed that this method, or device, commends itself for its simplicity and effectiveness. Other devices are the application of cold and the ether spray.

However, where pain is a prominent. symptom, opium or its alkaloid can be given with advantage; indeed, it is often indispensable, taking the place and affording the same result that would be attained by chloroform inhalation.

Nothing at all can be accomplished in many of these cases without the anodyne and relaxing influence of the medicine.

But position is all important, therefore the patient may be placed with hips

resting on the back of a chair, so that the legs hang over the rounds and the thighs approximated; this, after a dose of opium or not, to be followed by the described application of hot cloths.

MORPHINE IN CROUP.

Almost the first resort in cases of croup is the administration of emetics, either hive syrup or ipecac. We are inclined to believe that few physicians appreciate the value of morphine in ordinary croup, and that claiming for it a curative agent in most cases may appear paradoxical to many, but nevertheless true.

In nearly all cases a full dose of morphine or opium will relieve the spasm and cough and, producing sleep, the next morning our little sufferer will awake hardly conscious of his nocturnal attack, while emetics disorder the stomach more or less and frequently pave the way for a spell of sickness, such as pneumonia, etc., by the succeeding nausea, depression and excessive perspiration that is sure to follow.

A neighboring doctor who gave us this pointer, some that years ago, stated he had treated ordinary cases for a long time in this way satisfactorily, only occasionally finding a case that would not yield—as, for instance, in a case where the cough was so incessant and hoarse as to be alarming, where he used ice in addition, well packed around the larynx, giving relief in a short time.

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