The symptoms which arise from this condition are very similar to those of malaria, but as the causes are not alike in the least, the treatment should be entirely different, a fact which is often overlooked.

The tongaline preparations, by arousing the absorptive powers of the various glands which have been clogged and by their stimulating action upon the liver, the bowels, the kidneys, and the pores, cause these organs to perform their proper functions, thus restoring at once the equilibrium of the system.

Where there are indications of any excess of uric acid, tongaline and lithia tablets (tongaline 5 grs., lithium salicylate I gr.) will be found much more effective and satisfactory than lithia alone, or lithia waters, which contain but a very small, indefinite, and variable quantity of lithia salt.

If there are any evidences of malaria, tongaline and quinine tablets (tongaline 31⁄2 grs., quinia sulph. 21⁄2 grs.) will promptly and thoroughly correct the trouble and overcome any tendency to periodicity.

In tongaline all the salicylic acid is made from the purest natural oil of wintergreen, the only kind that should be administered internally, as the synthetic product weakens the heart and depresses the entire system.

AN EDITORIAL CHANGE.-The following letter of March 17, 1905, we give in full, wishing Dr. Mac. all possible success:

"EDITOR SOUTHERN PRACTITIONER,

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Nashville, Tenn.

"MY DEAR DOCTOR: I have severed my connection as manager and managing editor of the International Journal of Surgery with which I have been associated for the past fourteen years.

"This move was made for the purpose of enabling me to publish an independent practical surgical journal under absolute professional control, and along such lines as will best serve the interests of the general practitioner.

"I have purchased all rights in the American Journal of Surgery and Gynecology, and with the April number this journal, thoroughly modernized and largely increased in circulation, will be issued from New York as the American Journal of Surgery.

"In this undertaking I will have the contributory co-operation and support of such well-known surgeons and teachers as Robt. T. Morris, Prof. of Surgery, N. Y. Post-Graduate School; Howard Lilienthal, Visiting Surgeon, Mt. Sinai Hospital, N. Y.; J. P. Tuttle, Prof. Rectal Diseases, N. Y. Polyclinic; Jas. T. McKernan, Prof. Nose and Throat, N. Y. Post-Graduate School; Sam'l G. Gant, Prof. Rectal Diseases, N. Y. Post-Graduate School; Augustin H. Goelet, Prof. Gynecology,

N. Y. Clinical School of Medicine; C. Wendell Phillips, Prof. Diseases of the Ear, N. Y. Post-Graduate School; Ferdinand C. Valentine, New York, who, with others, will assist me in making a practical surgical journal which in point of interest and usefulness will represent all that years of experience backed by ample capital can produce.

"I should be much obligated if you would kindly make mention of the above fact in your valuable journal, and if in any way I can reciprocate I will gladly do so.

"Will you please place the American Journal of Surgery, 92 William St. N. Y., on your exchange list, and also send an extra copy to our editor, Dr. Walter M. Brickner, 30 West 92nd St., N. Y.? If I can accommodate you in like manner, it will be a pleasure to do so. "Very truly yours,

J. MACDONALD, M. D."

CONSTIPATION.- John Lawson Cameron, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., writes as follows:

"The lack of peristalsis which results in torpor of the bowels is no doubt entirely caused by the retention of the feces. The toxic principles of these retained feces paralyze the nervous mechanism to which peristalsis is due.

"Glyco-Thymoline given freely seems to prevent this condition and to excite peristalsis.

"In such cases I prescribe frequently a dessertspoonful four times a day, and this with manipulative processes is all that can be desired. "A man came to me for treatment complaining of headache, vertigo, and distension of the abdomen, and a hard stool and distress and straining once in two or three days. I gave directions regulating the diet, and directed Glyco-Thymoline to be taken in teaspoonful doses four times daily in plenty of water. It acted as a mild laxative, producing a normal passage every day, and all the symptoms subsided. Now he is using one teaspoonful a day to prevent any return of the condition."

NO MORE POULTICING IN THE U. S. Army.— In a recent notification by the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army, it is asserted that all the good results from poultices can be obtained in a more cleanly way by the use of wet hot compresses. Hence the order to the army surgeons to drop linseed and linseed meal from army medical requisitions.- Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly.

We highly approve of this order as far as discarding poultices made of putrescible and bacteria-breeding materials is concerned, for that is what has been done by all up-to-date physicians in private practice, but we can hardly recommend the substitute offered. We supposed that

every one in this enlightened age was using Antiphlogistine in all such cases, because of its advantages over everything else in permanency, efficiency, and cleanliness. Compare Antiphlogistine, renewed but once a day, with hot compresses renewed every twenty minutes, and we cannot imagine any one using compresses when Antiphlogistine is available.

NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC.-Eighteenth Annual Session opens November 7, 1904, and closes May 20, 1905. Physicians will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon modern progress in all branches of medicine and surgery. The specialties are fully taught, including laboratory and cadaveric work.

For further information, address New Orleans Polyclinic, Post-office Box 797, New Orleans, La.

FOR SALE- Nice residence in convenient, elegant part of the city of Austin, Tex., for $2,500 cash; good practice, and office in business part of city thrown in; wish to retire from practice; great bargain. Address Dr. Q. C. Smith, 617 Colorado St., Austin, Texas.

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INTERNATIONAL CLINICS.- A quarterly of illustrated clinical lectures and especially prepared original articles on treatment, medicine, surgery, neurology, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, orthopedics, pathology, dermatology,, ophthalmology, otology, rhinology, laryngology, hygiene, and other topics of interest to students and practitioners, by leading members of the medical profession throughout the world. Vol. IV. Fourteenth Series. Edited by A. O. J. Kelly, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A., with the collaboration of William Osler, M. D., Baltimore; John H. Musser, M. D., Philadelphia; James Stewart, M. D., Montreal; John B. Murphy, M. D., Chicago; A. McPhedran, M. D., Toronto; Thomas M. Rotch, M. D., Boston; John G. Clark, M. D., Philadelphia; J. W. Ballantyne, M. D., Edinburg; John J. Walsh, M. D., New York; John Harold, M. D., London; Edmund Landolt, M. D., Paris; Richard Kretz, M. D., Vienna; with regular correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Liepsic, and Brussels. Octavo, 314 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, price $2.00. J. B. Lippincott Co., Publishers. Philadelphia, 1905. "The International Clinics" contains something of interest to every physician, being the most practical, economical, and best

illustrated work of its kind ever offered the profession. The editorial staff includes medical authorities of the widest reputation, with duties that are actual and not honorary, and is one of the strongest associated with any medico-literary enterprise.

The cream of practical medicine and the most recent opinions thereon, as illustrated by the bedside teachings of the best clinicians of both continents, is shown through the medium of concise lectures by the ablest teachers of the leading medical colleges. A post-graduate course is thus furnished at the smallest cost and the minimum expenditure of time, practically bringing the clinics to your desk instead of your traveling to the clinics. Practical articles, short and crisp, upon subjects with which the physician has to deal in his every-day work, treating the common diseases, and embracing the latest views as to diagnosis and treatment, are given in large number. The illustrating is done by trained medical artists, whose regular services have been engaged, and who are under the immediate control and direction of the editor-in-chief. The most experienced authors and teachers throughout the world are regular contributors, and they are men actively engaged in professional work, many of whom enjoy an international reputation.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, Vol. I, March, 1905. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, 298 pages, 10 engravings and a full-page plate. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $9.00; in paper binding, $6.00, carriage paid to any address. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

This volume treats of a variety of subjects - Surgery of the Head and Neck, the Thorax, Acute Infectious Diseases, and Diseases of certain of the Organs of Special Sense - on the plan which has from its inception been the characteristic feature of the series. What these features are it is perhaps hardly necessary to specify in detail, after so long a period of satisfactory trial. They are essentially the product and the evolution of the conditions which govern the progress of modern medicine itself.

Each subject is followed closely from year to year by some specialist who is chosen not only for his practical eminence, but also for his skill in literary exposition, a talent which is as rare as it is essential to the success of the undertaking. Not only the contents, but the make-up of these volumes, in print, paper, and binding, fit them to be a permanent part of every library.

Saunders' Question CompenDS: ESSENTIAls of the PraCTICE OF MEDICINE. Prepared especially for students of medicine. By WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, M. D., formerly Instructor in Medicine and Lecturer in Hygiene, Cornell University; Tutor in Therapeutics, Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons), New York. 461 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1905. Double number. Cloth, $1.75 net.

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In this new volume in Saunders' Question-Compend Series the student is provided with a book of the utmost practical value. Throughout the work special stress has been laid on the more common aspects of the various diseases, emphasizing the contrasting points in similar conditions, so as to render differential diagnosis as easy as possible. Symptomatology and treatment have likewise been adequately, although concisely, considered. In fact, this little work is the best we have seen, and for students preparing for examination it will be a most welcome and trusty aid. It contains a vast amount of practical, essential information in the least possible space.

THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ANNUAL, 1905. A Resume of the Year's Medical Literature, by Thirty-Six Department Editors, with Added Articles by Noted Specialists. 23rd year of publication. Substantially bound in cloth and fully illustrated by plates in color and black and white. 8vo, about 600 pages, post or express paid, $3.00 net. E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers, 241-243 West 23rd Street, New York.

This issue bears evidence of continued progress in editorial equipment and other improvements, notably the increased size of page from a 12mo to an octavo. This will make the book more convenient to handle, and afford better opportunity for the display of illustrations, and all within the compass of a single handy volume.