DEPARTMENT OF DIETETICS. Chicago, Ill. .Cleveland, O. .Grand Rapids, Mich. Frances Rutherford, M. D.. Edith A. H. Fyffe M. D.. Susanna Boyle, M. D., C. M... ..Chicago, Ill. Address all Business Communications to MARGARET L. HACKEDORN, Business Manager. Volume VIJanuary to December-1897. TOLEDO, OHIO: The Recorder Publishing Company, PUBLISHERS. Suitable Preparation of Iron in Ane- mia, Difficulty in Securing, by Lil- lian J. Towslee, M. D., Cleve., O.. 297 Where Creosote Succeeds, by E. M. Glandular Fever, Report of case, by Mental and Physical Culture, by S Medico Legal Points in the Maybrick Medical Reforms, by Elizabeth Mentally Deficient Epileptic Child, Some observations on the Training, by Elizabeth D. Holt, M. D......... 216 Melancholia, Treatment of with Opi- Moscow Meeting, General Resume, 364 13 by Lillian Towslee, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio. 66 I wish to report a case of membranous croup occurring in my practice recently. I was called to see Arthur N, age six years. A strong, robust boy of healthy parentage. The only illness the child has had was catarrhal pneumonia sequela of measles in May, '95. Child was very sick, but recovery was good. When I saw the boy first on Monday, October 26, '96, he was sitting up in bed. His mother said he had a sore throat." On examination I found enlarged glands and white patches on tonsils and pharynx. Temperature, 99.4°, but he did not appear sick. I was suspicious of diphtheria, so I isolated my little patient, prescribed a laxative, bichloride and an antiseptic spray. I called the next morning and found child slightly improved, no rise in temperature, but patches on throat still present. After making two more calls within the next five days, as patches were gone and temperature normal, I told the mother to keep child in bed a few days. I was hastily summoned on the evening of the twelfth day after the child was first seen. On arrival I found the boy suffering from membraneous croup; he was already cyanotic, face anxious and drawn, pulse feeble and ir |