the musk deer, being a secretion in the vicinity of the testicles.

The yelk of egg is in some of its chemical constituents akin to semen. Clinical experience has taught me these many years that the yelk of the hen's egg, rubbed up with glycerine is the best, most efficient and surest to be absorbed and sustaining nutriment we can administer to an exhausted fever patient.

Singular enough, physicians are slow to avail themselves of the good things readily at hand because of their homeliness and ease of reach, for others less known and farther off, simply on the score of novelty. Thus it is with human nature, its proneness to discard the simple and easily attained, for the less known newer ones. This thought does not apply to Brown-Sequard's discovery.

It is opportune then to call attention to a remedy of which much has been written by a few men, yet but trifling or incredulous thought given it by the mass of the profession, and which undoubtedly possesses very remarkable powers as a stimulant to the secreting organs of the kidneys in Bright's disease. I refer to the tincture obtained by digesting those pestiferous and disgusting insects known as cock roaches. In point of fact, the testicles of this insect are large compartively, but this may not be all to which this tincture owes much of its very often marvelous powers in reviving the fast ebbing energies of life in these patients, during periods of the disease when life is despaired of. The creatures are placed in alcohol as soon as captured so as to obtain the juice and chemical compounds of their body in the fresh state.

Clinical experiences with this tincture are not many yet the results challenge investigation. The use of it is extended into pernicious measles, a disease notoriously fatal and over which few, if any, medicaments have any influence for good. Its action is undoubtedly a stimulant to the nerves of vegetable life, on the ganglia of the heart and the vasomotor system.

Seeing that the human nature of today has lost the tough, wiry and elastic vigor of our ancestors of one hundred and fifty years ago, and the habits, customs and modes of living of the present generation of people, are enervated by

refinements of various kinds that rob the bodily energies of the stern stuff their ancestors possessed, at the same time their mental and nerve forces are being over-taxed in the terrible struggles of life, and in all the walks of enterprise and industries. The successful practice of medicine is now fairly launched on the broad, wide and deep ocean of nerve-supporting, nerve-energizing means. That the occult springs of life snap asunder even when we least expect it, demand the new and better treatment.

Brown-Sequard's discovery is destined to unfold a new era in medical science. He has opened but one of the ways, others less complex, more simple and easier obtained will gradually shed their beneficent rays on our age and thus enable us to disarm disease of many of its destroying shafts.

Will not some of the older brothers give us their experience in treating the morphine or opium habit? I have a very near and dear relative who commenced the use of morphine hypodermically in half-grain doses in April last. The party now uses fifteen grains hypodermically a day in two doses.

What will keep abscesses from forming and what will keep the place where needle enters from getting very sore?

Abscesses form on legs and arms, and all the upper surface of arms and both sides of legs are filled with scabs. Suppose this is kept up-the fifteen grains a day-how much will it likely shorten the life of a person thirty years old now? An answer will give relief to a suffering and distressed family.

A YOUNG PHYSICIAN.

South Alabama.

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Ergot in Abortions. Abortion is often the result of atony of the uterus, and ergot is the remedy. Ergot is a uterine tonic, and in toxic doses will produce abortion when there is a tendency to abort. The fl. ext. ergot in doses of two to five drops, every two or three hours, will give tone to the uterus and enable it to go on to full term. Fifteen years ago I successfully used ergot in preventing abortion. I believe I was the first to use it for that purpose. Some years after, a physician in Tennessee used it for the same purpose.

J. W. MULVEY, M. D.

Elizabethtown, Ind.

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Gonorrhea.-Dr. C. L. Mitchell, 1016 Cherry St., Philadelphia, will send his pamphlet "On the Treatment of Gonorrhea" to physicians, free, on application by letter. See ad. page 25.

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Thyroid Cysts.-The general principle of the treatment of these cases should be to make an opening into the cyst and drain it, and as for the possibly serious hemorrhage that may arise in doing this it must be arrested by pressure, by clamping and ligaturing the vessels, by the use of the actual cautery, or by perchloride of iron, according to the circumstances of the particular case.

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Bee Stings.-Milk is an excellent application for bee-stings. It relieves the pain, reduces the swelling, and brings about a state of comfort in two hours.

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Ponca.-Dr. R. M. Hutchins, who was located in the Indian Territory, states: "I believe Ponca has a more decided alterative action upon the uterus and uterine mucous membranes than any known remedy. Under its internal administration I have seen long standing ulcerations heal, foul discharges cease, a spongy inflamed and enlarged uterus reduced in size and become firm and healthy. In subinvolution it is invaluable, soon relieving such symptoms as headache, backache, sideache, bearing down feelings, bladder troubles, bloated abdomen, indigestion, constipation, and many other symptoms that are a consequence of this condition."

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Gonorrheal Ophthalmia.-Dr. Heyl has used cubebs successfully in the treatment of gonorrheal ophthalmia:

The cubebs are employed in the form of a salve, five to ten grains of the oleoresin being rubbed up with one drachm of lanoline. The application is made to the outer or skin surface of the lid, the absorption being aided by the lanoline. They may be made twice daily; of course, it will be understood that the ointment is allowed to remain on the lids for absorption.

Hysteria-Melancholia.-I have used Peacock's Bromides in hysteria, melancholia, and a number of other nervous troubles with perfect satisfaction. I can safely recommend it to the medical profession. M. R. SEAY, M. D.

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Salt in Milk.-Dr. A. Jacobi says that the addition of chloride of sodium prevents the solid coagulation of milk by either rennet or gastric juice. The cow's milk should never be given without table salt, and the latter ought to be added to women's milk when it behaves like cow's milk, in regard to solid curdling and its consequent indigestibility.

Bilious Headache.-I have used Bromidia (Battle) in several cases of severe bilious headache-amongst the rest in my own person-and have found a resource from the almost intolerable pain usually accompanying such attacks, until other remedies to act on bowels and liver, taken simultaneously, had time to work. J. OGILVY, M. D., Surgeon-General. Ulverston Grange, Bournemouth, Eng. Correct Diagnosis.-Don't confound involuntary micturition with incontinence of urine. The former generally indicates retention of urine, and it is well to examine the region of the bladder to find if it does not need relief by the catheter.

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Scarlet Fever Diphtheria. - Dr. Herr gives an account of an epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria that was treated with no other remedy than yeast, the scarlet fever running a mild course, and the membrane in diphtheria being cast off with remarkable quickness, while heart-failure and paralysis in no case made an appearance. A medium dose a dessertspoonful hourly, assisted with washing out the mouth and fauces with a wash consisting of one teaspoonful of yeast to five of water, at intervals of every two hours.

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