ature, and for a more explicit information, if I could give it him. He had seen no literature except that which THE CHICAGO MEDICAL TIMES has furnished, but that had been enough to give him a splendid start. He had obtained and used Lloyd's echafolta.

In scarlet fever, measles and small pox where the eruption is tardy or has receded and all secretions are deficient, with a high temperature, perhaps a mild delirium, serpentaria in hot infusion every hour quickly corrects the entire condition by determining the eruption to the skin and restoring the secretions.

Jaborandi is an immediate stimulant to the sweat glands and to the salivary glands. In dry skin with high fever in full doses it is a prompt restorative of function reducing the temperature. Where there is a chronic dryness and inactivity of the skin it may be given in small doses persistently. In dry coughs it restores secretion.

Of remedies for nervousness and sleeplessness we have none better than gelsemium, but it must be used judiciously. A lady took five drops of specific gelsemium for irritation of the bladder associated with nervousness. It caused distressing dizziness, with severe palpitation and dyspnoea, but it relieved the conditions for which it was given the nervousness and vesicle irritation.

SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS.

Give small doses of ignatia amara for the globus hystericus.

The monobromate of camphor is suggested in acute nasal catarrh.

Pulsatilla is the remedy par excellence for headaches at the menstrual epoch.

In the treatment of chorea homœopathic doctors give agaracin 2x,, with good results.

Potassium bromide is advised in minute doses for those who are continually catching cold.

The powdered root of pytolacca dec. applied directly to the slough in a carbuncle will work wonders.

One drop of the tincture of origanum four times daily will be found most efficacious in nymphomania.

Salicin, five grains every three hours, is a most valuable remedy in acute rheumatism and in all muscular pains.

In palpitation, from whatever cause, small doses of cactus grand, frequently repeated, will seldom fail to give relief.

Weidman, in Paris, gives five drops of the tincture of aconite every two hours for tetanus; often combined with chloral and potassium bromide.

Fluid extract saw palmetto is a specific for enlarged and inflamed prostate. Occasional doses of potassium iodide will greatly facilitate the cure in old chronic cases.

The free application of carbolic acid to carbuncle will give prompt results. A 10 or 20 per cent. solu

tion may be freely injected into every sinus.

Strychnia is an excellent remedy for uterine hemorrhage from atonicity or inertia. It may be given in advance, if such a condition is anticipated.

Thuja occidentalis, one minim four times daily, will relieve nasal polypi, and with the same or hy drastis, applied externally, will often cure quickly.

Collinsonia is directly indicated in all enlargements of the veins and in many inflammations of the veins, and may be prescribed with perfect

confidence.

ITEMS.

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Three or four cases are recorded where autopsy revealed a large lung cavity in infants from six months to one year of age.

A symptom of diabetes, which often appears, even when only a small quantity of sugar is present, is cramps in the calves of the legs.

It is said that if one carries a pebble in the mouth when water cannot be readily obtained, thirst will be prevented for several hours.

A Chinese woman gave birth to a child with four perfect eyes. In order to rid herself of the monstrosity she drowned it in a pail of water.

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It is suggested that one kidney being diseased, disorder of the other is only a matter of time. The char

acter of the disease has but little to do with the fact.

The cannibals upon the islands of New Hebrides have taken to eating and are said to greatly prefer it to pork since the introduction of pigs,

human flesh.

Collodion, tincture of iodine, liquid ammonia, equal parts. To be applied widely over the parts with a camel's hair brush, for sciatica.Peoria Med. Monthly.

Peppermint tea will be found an excellent medicine in the gastric and intestinal disturbances of infants, especially those fed artificially. It is made by steeping in boiling water a small pinch of the leaves, of which the imported German ones, uncompressed, are best. This tea, sweetened to taste, may be given ad libitum. The tea may be given in a nursing bottle, either warm or cold, though most children prefer it warm.-Penn. Med. Jour.

In Greece where the peasantry live upon vegetable diet, and where a very large quantity of tomatoes are eaten, stone in the bladder is a very common occurrence.

If the infant could obtain cow's

milk as directly from the cow as its mother's milk is obtained from the mother, the milk would be but a trifle if any more difficult of assimilation.

Strophanthus has been prescribed in several cases of goitre, ten drops of the tincture three times daily, with a rapid reduction in the size of the enlargement, and in some

cases a cure.

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The success of the volume has doubtless been mainly due to its extremely practical nature and the fact that, while the art of surgery is most thoroughly and fully, though concisely treated by the authors with a view to the needs of the general practitioner, the publishers, by printing the work with a series of side headings that immediately catch the eye, have made quick reference especially easy. In this thoroughly revised, re-written and re-set edition, the

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This work on operative surgery for both students and practitioners is a work of more than ordinary value of its kind, and presents many features not found in the ordinary text book on surgery. One who has had experience in teaching operative surgery knows that the proper arrangement of subjects must be from an anatomical standpoint. The author has given a general consideration of surgery in Part I-anesthesia, division of tissue, hemorrhage, sutures, with special reference to the tissues involved. Part II is devoted to the surgery of the head and face; part III, neck and tongue; part VI, thorax; part V, abdomen and back; part VI, rectum; part VII, hernia, spermatic cord and tissues, etc.; part VIII, urinary system; part IX, upper extremity; part X, lower extremity.

The appearance of this work is good, and it is with considerable satisfaction that the student in surgery refers to the book and refreshes his knowledge in regard to the anatomical features and the surgical technique of any surgical operation. The work is illustrated with 227 woodcuts, many of which show original ideas in the execution of the common surgical ope

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