THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The fifty-fifth annual meeting of this, the largest and most influential association in the world, was opened at Dublin, Aug. 2nd. The retiring president, Dr. Withers Moore, of Brighton, made a brief speech, when Dr. John T. Banks, Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin, the President-elect, was conducted to the chair, and responded in an appropriate manner. The attendance was unusually large and the proceedings were characterized by their great interest, so that the meeting will long be remembered as one of the most useful and enjoyable that has ever been held. Among the addresses of especial interest and value may be mentioned those by Professor Gardner, of Glasgow, on medicine, Professor Hamilton, of Dublin, on surgery, and the historical retrospect by the President. Dr. Bastian's paper on aphasia was received with marked interest. The question of alcoholism, which is now attracting so much attention all over the civilized world, was we are glad to learn, freely discussed, and it is to be hoped that the results of such discussion by this body, the most competent of any in the world to undertake its consideration, may be followed by results which will be felt wherever the curse is known. Professor Kocher, of Berne, read a paper on "Cachexia Strumpivira and Myxedema," which was well received. Apostoli's plan of treatment of fibroid tumors of the uterus by electrolysis was explained to the edification of those interested in the obstetrical section, and Sir William Duncan, Dr. Stevenson and others bore witness to having proved its efficacy. Socially as well as scientifically the meeting was a great success. The committee of arrangement left nothing undone to make the visitors thoroughly enjoy their visit to the ancient and venerable city, which in itself is of great interest as having long been one of the chief seats of medical learning in Europe.

It may be interesting to our readers to know that the association numbers over 11000 members, that the total circulation of its Journal exceeds 13,000, and that financially its affairs are in a condition of the highest prosperity.

NEW REMEDY FOR NIGHT SWEATS.-Dr. Pope, in a letter to the Therapeutic Gazette, speaks highly of Potentilla canadensis vel Pot. sarmentosa, as a

remedy in night sweats. He says: "I have stopped night sweats with it when atropine failed to relieve." It is pleasant to take; when drawn, it has an agreeable odor, much like table-tea. The manner of using is to pour boiling water on a handful of the vine, leaves, and root. Let the patient drink ad libitum. The remedy is indigenous and may be gathered "about your own homes."

NEW YORK POLYCLINIC.-This admirable school of Clinical Medicine and Surgery for practitioners, was opened for its Sixth Annual Session, Sept. 19th. The class last year was 301 in numbers, probably the largest class of practitioners ever brought together in one year in any school. large lecture rooms have been added to the college building, and a laboratory for the study of Bacteriology has been thoroughly equipped.

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RIDEAU AND BATHURST MEDICAL ASSCIATION. At the last meeting of this Society, the following officers were elected :-President, Dr. Cranston ; Treasurer, Dr. Hill; Secretary, Dr. Small. 1st Vice, Dr. Powell; 2nd Vice, Dr. Lynch ; following papers were read and fully discussed :-Fracture of Neck of Scapula, Dr. Powell; Fibroid Disease, Dr. Groves; Complications of Typhoid, Anchylosis of Knee Joint, Dr. Grant; Hip-joint Dr. Chipman; Mineral Waters, Dr. Small. next meeting will be held at Ottawa, in January.

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COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.-Officers for 1887-89: Wm. H. Hingston, M.D., President; Dr. J. L. Leprohon and Hon. Dr. Ross, Vice-Presidents; Dr. Leonidas La Rue (Quebec), Registrar; Dr. E. P. Lachapelle, Montreal, Treasurer; Dr. F. W. Campbell, Montreal, and A. G. Belleau, Quebec, Secretaries.

HEMORRHOIDS. -Dr. Shuford writes to the Med. Register, giving the following as his method of treating hemorrhoids, with which method he has had much success :-The bowels should be well Anoint the reccleansed with a saline cathartic. tum, and with a proper speculum examine the tumors. Have ready the following preparation : R-Glycerole of borax or boric acid, 5 iv. Glycerole of salicylic acid, Carbolic acid (pure),

3 iv.

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Rub thoroughly together in a mortar and let

Stand until the mixture clears.

Inject from 3 to 5 drops of this fluid in small, and from 5 to 8 in large tumors, as near the centre as possible, as that is the least sensitive part. The remedy injected into the tumors will diffuse itself, producing atrophy, a shrinking up and peeling off, about the fourth or fifth day after the operation, which is repeated after the eighth or tenth day, the new membranes being allowed sufficient time to toughen. This treatment is not painful and calls for no anesthetic. The patient may go about at will without added inconvenience. When the operation is well performed, in connection with other treatment indicated, it is quite as safe and effectual as the knife, ligature, clamp, o. craseur. It is, moreover, attended by no pain or loss of time.

A NEBRASKA DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE.-The following certificate, of which we hold the original, was written by a Nebraska doctor, who is famous for his cheek and cunning, and enjoys a large practice in his place, being known for a hundred miles around The orthography is his own, also the new medical terms:

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THE American Med. Jour. is responsible for the following:- "At the American Institute of Homeopathy, held at Saratoga Springs June last, Dr. Jno. E. James, of Philadelphia, while discussing the therapeutics of hip-disease, said: 'Rhus. acts best on the right hip, and stram. has remarkable control over the disease in the left." Dr. J. C. Morgan, from the same city, also said: Stram. has proved exceedingly useful in very many cases of disease of the left hip.' These remarks remind us of a recent law we have seen for the determin. ation of the sexes, deduced after the compilation and careful examination of a vast quantity of statistics: If the mother, while pregnant, sees a bowlegged flea with a wart on its left knee, the child

will be a male. If the wart is on the right knee, a female. In case the flea is cross-eyed and lacks its eye-teeth, these indications are reversed.'' The same authority says that bitch's milk (lac caninum) is a new homeopathic remedy.

TREATMENT OF HEPATIC CONGESTION.-Jules Cyr gives (Rev. de Therap.) the following rules for treatment of the above:-1. Application over the liver of compresses of cold water, often renewed; two or 2. At evening, of three leeches about the anus. a grain of calomel should be taken, followed the next morning by five drachms of Glauber's salts. 3. As beverage, milk and Vichy water, or 75 grains of ammonium chloride in a quart of water. douche, while the patient is reclining, of water at a pleasant temperature, given over the hepatic region.

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NUTRITIVE ENEMA.-E aid gives (Deutsche Med. Zeit.), the following: Tale two or three eggs and beat them up smoothly with a tablespoonful of cold water; next heat a hal cup of a twenty per cent. solution of glucose with a pinch of starch, and add a wineglassful of red wine; then pour the solution of egg in slowly, taking care that the solution does not become warm enough to coagulate the albumen. Before injecting this enema, the lower bowel must be emptied by clysters.

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THERE has been a dearth of jubilee honors, so far as the medical profession is concerned. dissatisfaction is said to be the result, not on account of the honors conferred, but because many worthy members of the profession have been ignored. Three medical men only have been informed that the Queen has been pleased to confer the honor of knighthood upon them, viz., Dr. Garrod; Dr. Aitkin, Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School, Netley; and Mr. G. H. Macleod, Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, and Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty in Scotland.

ORDINANCE CONCERNING HOMEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS. The Union Médicale states (says the N. Y. Med. Jour.) that a recent ministerial decree at Vienna restricts the right to dispense homeopathic preparations to those homeopathic practitioners who really observe the methods of dilutions laid down by the homeopathic school. The object of

the ordinance is to put a stop to the abuse by which, under the guise of the homeopathic preparations, all sorts of remedies have been given to patients by certain physicians.

TREATMENT OF PILES BY DILATATION.-M. Ver. neuil (Gaz. des. Hóp.) says, that during a practice of fifteen years, he has not failed to cure piles of 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years duration by dilatation. The writer prefers the speculum as a means of dilatation rather than the digital method. Treat

ment need rarely exceed eight days in duration, four of which are to be passed by the patient in bed, and four in his room.

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PATELLAR REFLEX IN TYPHOID.-Dr. Hughlings Jackson says he has never known the knee jerk to be absent in enteric fever, while he has found it wanting in meningitis. This may prove a valuable diagnostic sign.

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR MALE NURSES.-Dr. D. O. Mills is about to have erected a building cost

ing $10,000, to be used as a training school for male nurses. It will be situated on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital.

"ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE."-It is said of Mrs.

Partington, that, while gazing admiringly on St. emotion as follows: "O! venereal pile; gigantic Paul's Cathedral, in London, she expressed her

stricture."

ANTIPYRIN IN LOCOMOTOR ATAXY.-It is said (Br. Med. Jour.) that some observers have found antipyrin of great value in the pains of locomotor

seborrhoea :

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gr. xl. gr. lxxx. 3 j.—M. A POINT IN THE TREATMENT OF CHOREA.-Dr. Flood (Chicago Med. Times) says he has very often found tenderness over the fifth cervical vertebra in choreic cases. He treats this locally by applying ether spray over the tender spot, and follows this by mild counter-irritation, this he follows by tonics and ergot.

SALOL IN SCIATICA. Dr. Aschenbach (Med. Rec.), has had a personal experience of the value of the above drug in sciatica. He took seven

grains in the evening and fifteen grains more at midnight, with the result that he slept soundly all night and awoke perfectly free from his malady.

MR. SAVORY, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and senior surgeon to St. Bart's, has declined the knighthood recently offered him by the Queen. It is said, he was of opinion there should have been a baronetcy attached

SWEATING FEET.-Mr. Richardson writes (Brit. Med. Jour.), that he has cured a case of the above disease by the application of soda. He says it may be used either as a fine powder or in concentrated solution, once daily.

Mix with pot. nit. pulv. zij and ol. eucalypti 3ss. Burn a teaspoonful in bedroom, and repeat if necessary. The writer says the patient should at the same time observe the ordinary rules, such as going to bed on an empty stomach, keeping the feet warm, etc., without which, few remedies will be of any use.

CINCHONIDIN IN INTERMITTENT FEVER. From extended experiments on the action of cinchonidin in intermittent fever, Dr. Legenis has come (Archives Génér. de Méd.) to the following conclusions: (1) The salts of cinchonidin are as efficacious as those of quinine; (2) they may be employed in all cases in which the latter are generally used; (3) the sulphate of cinchonidin is well tolerated by the stomach in nervous persons or in those intolerant of quinine, and it does not produce either ringing in the ears, nervous agitation, or tremors; (4) they cost about half the price of quinine and its salts.

OINTMENT FOR SCABIES.

BERLIN is excited over the announcement that Professor Virchow has been rejected as candidate for the position of Post Rector of Berlin University. His political opinions are said to be the cause.

COCAINE IN CHOLERA INFANTUM. Dr. Herr (Therap. Gaz.) has employed the above remedy in cholera infantum, in doses of grain every two hours, with the happiest results.

SOME one has said that a tooth, immersed in a solution of tincture of iron and water, one in eight, has its whole enamel destroyed in an hour. May be so.

FOR STYES.—A three per cent. solution of boracic acid, applied several times a day to styes, is said not only to cure them, but also to prevent a return.

EPISTAXIS.--M. Verneuil says (Lancet) that cer ain forms of epistaxis are to be successfully treated by counter-irritation over the region of the

liver.

Books and Lamphlets.

A SYSTEM OF GYNECOLOGY. By American authors. Edited by Matthew D. Mann, A. M., M.D., Prof. of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, N. Y. Vol. I. Illustrated with 3 Colored Plates and 201 Engravings on Wood. 8vo. ; pp. 789. Leather. Philadelphia: Lea Bros. & Co. Toronto: Hart & Co.

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This first volume of the American System of Gynecology is an excellent work. Its appearance is equal to the best efforts of American publishers, and its contents are quite as good as its appear We need only mention the subjects treated of in this first volume, with the authors of the various articles, to convince our readers that the work is perhaps the best which has yet been produced on this subject. They are as follows:-" Historical Sketch of American Gynecology," by Edward W. Jenks, M.D.; "The Development of the Female Genitals," by Henry J. Garrigues, M.D.; "The Anatomy of the Female Pelvic Organs," by Henry C. Coe, M.D.; "Malformations of the Female Genitals," by Henry J. Garrigues, M.D.; "Gynecological Diagnosis," by Egbert H. Grandon, M.D.; "General Consideration of Gynecological Surgery," by E. C. Dudley, M.D.; "General Therapeutics," by Alexander J. C. Skene, M.D.; "Electricity in Gynecology," by Alphonso D. Rockwell, M.D.; "Menstruation and its Disorders," by W. Gill Wylie, M.D.; "Sterility," by A. Reeves Jackson, M.D.; "Diseases of the Vulva," by Matthew D. Mann, M.D.; "The Inflammatory Affections of the Uterus," by C. D. Palmer, M.D,; "Subinvolution of the Vagina and Uterus," by Thaddeus A. Reamy, M.D.; "Peri-Uterine Inflammation," by Richard B. Maury, M.D.; and "Pelvic Hematocele and Hematomata," by Ely Van de Warker, M.D. The above subjects are treated in a lucid, practical, and concise manner; treatment receiving a due share of prominence, a matter which will be appreciated by all practising physicians; for in some of our best works on medicine and surgery, this important part of the work is often neglected for the more scientific (?) aspects presented in diagnosis, pathology, etc.

Prof. of Pharmacy, Illinois College of Pharmacy, etc.; and Otto A. Wall, M.D., Ph. G., Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Missouri Medical College, etc. 2nd edition. 650 illustrations; pp. 1215. New York: W. Wood & Co. Toronto: Hart & Co.

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This work is designed as a ready reference book for pharmacists, physicians and students. botanical description of plants, the physiological action of remedies are omitted as not being of daily use to physicians and pharmacists, while the practical facts and suggestions are so arranged as to be found at a glance. The "parts by weight" of the new pharmacopoeia into definite quantities by weight and measure; the medicinal properties and uses of all the medicines of which it treats, are given concisely, with doses, etc. The information given regarding hypodermic injections, inhalations, baths, etc., will be found useful. The book as a whole shows careful work on the part of the authors and will, we are sure, be useful to the profession generally, and especially so to pharmacists.

INTENSE COLD.-George W. Jacoby, M.D., says that we possess two refrigerants, chloride of methyl and the fluid carbonic acid, which can be easily and practically utilized in the treatment of neuralgia.

THE TREATMENT OF NEURALGIA BY MEANS OF

Births, Marriages and Deaths.

of Dr. H. C. Wilson, member North West CounAt Edmonton, N.W.T., on August 4th, the wife cil, of a son.

On the 24th of August, Reginald Belt, Esq., M.D., to Emma, eldest daughter of George Hyland, Esq., both of Oshawa.

On the 14th of Sept., R. W. Garrett, M.D., of

Kingston, to Minnie Louisa, only daughter of the late Alexander S. Kirkpatrick, of Kingston.

On the 14th Sept., W. O. Taylor, M.D., Princeton, Ont., to Jessie, daughter of the late Mark Tooze.

In Manitoba, August 1st, Robert Thibodo, M.D. At Brunswick, Georgia, on the 22nd August, John Aldham Wilson, M. D., late of Kingston, Ont.