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Any In the second place do not put atropine into the eyes of a patient over forty years of age, whose refraction is hypermetropic, unless you are sure that those conditions which favor glaucoma do not exist; a rheumatic or gouty diathesis; a lack of sensitiveness to the cornea; a shallow anterior chamber; a sluggish pupil; an increase of tension; a cupping of the optic nerve. or all of these are contraindications, and yet any or all may exist and a mydriatic may seem to be imperative. We meet with cases in which we use atropine with fear and trembling, but one is not justified in using a remedial agent which may cause blindness unless one knows what to do to counteract its influence, and is prepared at a moment's notice to do it. We can not this morning go into the treatment of glaucoma, but during the session you will without doubt have this subject laid before you. But I should like to impress on you that in dealing with the eyes you are dealing with organs whose loss can not be repaired. If you are a general surgeon, and through error in diagnosis you should deprive a human being of a limb, you can replace it with an artificial one which will be a fairly useful substitute; but if you deprive him of his eyes, you leave him crippled indeed. Artificial eyes can be made to look very beautiful, and for cosmetic effect they answer the purpose, but one can not see with them, and many of us, in fact nearly all, would not hesitate long in choosing between blindness and death. It should be a criminal offense for any person to attempt to treat an eye unless he is competent to examine it in its minutest detail, yea, even to prescribe a glass for presbyopia, unless he has first satisfied himself that the condition of the fundus is such as would warrant him in doing so. Many an unfortunate has had his or her life shortened by the false sense of security given him by the advice of some charlatan that all he needed was a pair of glasses, and if my talk to you this morning has aroused in even one of you an inkling of the importance of this subject I shall feel that I have not talked in vain. -N. Y. Medical Journal. Entered at the Post-Office at St. Louis and admitted for transmission through the mails at 2d class rates. The Treatment of Influenza or La Grippe. : It is quite refreshing these days to read of a clearly defined treatment for the grip. But in an article in the Lancet-Clinic, December 28th, 1895, Dr. James Hervey Bell, 251 East 32d Street, New York City, says he is convinced that too much medication is both unnecessary and injurious. He has few remedies; prescribes them with confidence; and "trusts the rest to nature." When called to a case of influenza, the patient is usually seen when the fever is present, as the chill, which occasionally ushers in the disease, has generally passed away. Dr. Bell says he then orders that the bowels be opened freely by some saline draught, as hunyadi water or effervescing citrate of magnesia. For the high fever, severe headache, pain, and general soreness, the following is ordered: R Antikamnia Tablets (5 gr. each), No. xxx. Sig. One tablet every two hours. If the pain is extremely severe, the dose is doubled until relief is obtained. Often this single dose of ten grains of antikamnia is followed with almost complete relief from the suffering. Antikamnia is preferred to the hypodermic use of morphia because it leaves no bad after-effects; and also because it has such marked power to control pain and reduce fever. The author says that un less the attack is a very severe one, the above treatment is sufficient. After the fever has subsided, the pain, muscular soreness and nervousness generally continue for some time. To relieve these and to meet the indication for a tonic, the following is prescribed: R Antikamnia & Quinine Tablets, No. xxx. Sig. One tablet three times a day. This tablet contains two and one-half grains of each of the drugs, and answers every purpose until health is restored. Occasionally the muscular soreness is the most prominent symptom. In such cases the following combination is preferred to antikamnia alone: Antikamnia & Salol Tablets, No. xxx. Sig. One tablet every two hours. This tablet contains two and one-half grains of each drug. Then again it occurs that the most prominent symptom is an irritative cough. A useful prescription for this is one-fourth of a grain sulphate codeine and four and threefourths grains antikamnia. Thus: R Antikamnia & Codeine Tablets, No. xxx. Sig. One tablet every four hours. Dr. Bell also says that in antik amnia alone we have a remedy sufficient for the treatment of nearly every case, but occasionally one of its combinations meets special conditions. He always instructs patients to crush tablets before taking. ΤΟ PHYSICIANS St. Joseph Private Hospital WITH SEPARATE LYING-IN CHAMBER. These institutions are strictly professional and are separate, so that I can receive all classes of patients (except contagious diseases.) THE BEST OF CARE WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL especially to women through their confinement. Can be assisted by the balance of the faculty of the Northwestern Medical College, or any of the regular profession, when necessary. Women expected to be confined will find this hospital much better than a boarding house. Special Days for Women and Children; Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. J. A. FRENCH, M. D., Nos. 402-408 S. Eighth St., ST. JOSEPH, MO. EDITOR: THOMAS OSMOND SummerS, M. A., M. D., F. S. Sc. London. VOL. IX. ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1896. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. No. 4. FACULTY CHARGE TO THE CLASS OF 1896. By THOMAS OSMOND SUMMERS, M. A., M. D., F. S., Sc. Lond. Gentlemen of the Graduating Class of 1896: THE occasion are assembled this evening is one of no ordinary interest. The "Commencement of a life career is only equalled in importance and significance by the beginning of individual life itself. And in recognition of this significance, to me on behalf of the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons is delivered by them the duty, the privilege and the honor of charging you with that commission which gives you authority to execute the office and work of the highest of all earthly missions, consecrated as it has been by the Great Physician Himself whose voice so often mingled tenderly with the ripples of Galilee, and whose sympathetic tears fell so fast among the shimmering shadows of Olivet. Up to this time, gentlemen, life to you has been a theory-a philosophy— a dream. Its solemn reality is now upon you. To-night the long roll color-line. You are assembled on the will soon be felt. Your arms are delivered to you to-night, and from this moment on "Upon life's battle-field, You may not lean on your spear nor rest on your shield, 'Till the armed archangel Sound o'er you the trump of earth's final Evangel." You enter upon your career under environments such as have never surrounded a medical neophyte before. The age upon which you enter the field of action is more in tense, its requirements more severe, its opportunities more varied, and its promise and potency of perfection more positive and more profound than those of any that have gone before. You are the "Heirs of all the ages Foremost in the files of Time." The discoveries of the last quarter of the 19th century have followed each other in rapid succes |