Indications to Meet in the Treat ment of Influenza.- (Translated from Le Progres Medicale, by Rutherford Gradwohl, St. Louis). In benign cases, repose for two or three days; antipyrin, grs. vj, combined with quinine, ij grs., morning and evening for the cephalalgia; severe hygiene and perfect. cleanliness; aeration, several times. daily of the chamber, the temperature of which should be kept at about sixty-three degrees, Fahrenheit; repeated gargarism during the day with the following solution: a solution of two drachms of salol in one ounce of neutral glycerin. In cases of vomiting or gastric pains, oxygenated water, or better still, medicated chloroform water, in the dose of a teaspoonful every three hours after drinking a cup of milk, and if there is need, application of an ice bag to the region of the stomach, at the same time giving cold drinks. When there is a complication of diarrhoea with influenza, we have recourse to an antiseptic medication, either by the mouth or by injection, naphtol, salicylate of bismuth, magnesia, etc. As an aliment, the patient should have milk, combined with limewater and the yolks of three or four eggs daily. In order to calm the delirium which follows in the typhous form, calming and humid wrappings should be utilized, together with bromide of sodium, chloral and syrup of ether. The anorexia, so frequent during convalescence, is combatted by the bitters, tincture of quinquina, etc., and a substantial diet is recommended: Bordeaux wine with a ferruginous water, and at the end of the meal a tonic wine of quinquina and kola. Treatment for the Falling Out of the Hair.-(Extraits du Formulaire Translated Clinique de Vienne. by Rutherford Gradwohl.) B. Tincturæ cinchonæ rubræ..... 3j Tincturæ ignatii.. Aquæ cologne Oleum coco.. 11. xxx gr. xxx m. vijss aa, q. s. ad. Ziv M. Sig.-Make one or two applications daily. Electro-static Treatment of Eczema.-(Dr. H. Bordier. Lyon Medical Revue Internationale. Translated for THE CLINIQUE by Rutherford Gradwohl.) The author shows that, as first pointed out by Prof. Doumer, of Lille, the electric current, applied as the treatment of eczema, can produce very good results. In several patients, who all had the lesions of eczema,disseminated in different localities, the electric current was applied, upon each lesion separately, until they were all cured. It is more logical to attribute the relatively successful results obtained by the use of any form of the electrical current to the electric bath than to any other form of the application, therapeutically, of electricity. We know the influence which it exercises upon the intimate phenomena of nutrition; d'Arsonval has shown that the respiratory functious were exaggerated, and Truchet has also proved that the intra-cellular com bustion was augmented by means of the electrical current. In order to show the Franklinic efficacy of the treatment of eczema, Dr. Bordier reports the case of a patient affected with eczema for nine years. He began treatment September 14, 1895; every day a positive bath and a negative blast was directed upon one of three lesions located upon the patient's neck. The first amelioration noticable was a diminution in the pruriency of all the eczematous surfaces. On the 15th of October the treatment was modified; every day a negative bath and a positive current, always directed upon the same spot. The results then become more manifest, the amelioration increasing with each seance until the patient was completely cured. The author noted the most advanced amelioration from the time of the using of the negative bath. This certainly proves the general action of the bath, regulating, as it did, the impaired state of nutrition, and causing a disappearance of the desire to sleep directly after eating. Foetal Cyst, Intra-abdominal, in a Young Man.-(Levy. Acad. de Medecine, May, 1896. Translated from the French by Rutherford Gradwohl, for THE ST. LOUIS CLINIQUE.) Dr. Levy reports the case of a young man of nineteen years who had a very large tumor in his abdomen. After laporotomy had been made, a cystic cavity containing a foetus, with a circumference of forty four centimeters, of the feminine sex, with retacted and thickened skin, was discovered in the epiploön. The patient died from the effects of the operation. Until he was seventeen years of age, the young man was ignorant of any abnormality. abnormality. When at that age, he noticed a little mass in his abdomen which gradually increased in size until it became the size of an adult's head. It was then operated upon, and was probably a case of ectodermic encystment, remarkable from the double facts that it remained in a stationary period of development from early age until the man was seventeen years old, and that it attained such a remarkable size in the short period of two years. It was truly a very rare and also very interesting case. A Case of Abdominal Hysterectomy. (Societe de Medecine de Nancy. Translated for THE ST. LOUIS CLINIQUE by Rutherford Gradwohl.) Dr. Heydehreich presented before the society the uterus of a woman of forty-three years; it had been removed by him by abdominal hysterectomy. This piece was composed of two parts; first, an inferior portion, absolutely crammed with myomæ, and enclosing a foetus of four months; second, a superior portion, represented by an enormous excrescence, the pedicle of which was implanted upon the body of the uterus. An incision permitted us to determine that the excrescence was a solid neoplasm, AN IMPORTANT RELATION FROM A THERAPEUTIC STANDPOINT, By J. S. MOREMAN, M. D., Louisville, Ky., [From the Medical Progress, Louisville, Ky.] There is a relation which clinical experience has incidentally demonstrated, which has not yet generally received professional recognition. I refer to the effects produced by drugs which exert a cathartic and laxative action in relieving cerebral hyperemia and affections to this cause. Of course, in nearly all standard works on practical medicine, remedies known to be cathartic are recommended, but I have yet to find in my therapeutical researches anything like an orderly treatise on the capabilities of these agents, or the fitness of certain agents, in any class of disease of the nervous system. It is well established, however, that therapeutic agents which produce catharasis tend to dissipate cerebral hyperemia. This was long ago demonstrated by the older writ Again, an important relation is that which exists between the action of a purely harmless laxative on the alimentary tract and the digestive and assimilative functions. It is out of the range of ordinary clinical experience to witness derangement of the digestive function where there is regularity in the intestinal action. Of course there exist exceptions to this rule, but my own and the experience of the most careful clinicians go to show in the greastest number of cases, where we have indigestion we have constipation as a factor which has persisted for some time, and which has been. a source of trouble to the patient. The action of a well-selected laxative, one which, in its action, tends to produce free motions without leaving constipation or hemorrhoids or other bad effects in its train, will materially assist us in overcoming these cases of failure of the digestive function. Irritability, melancholy, bad complexion, a revolting breath and impaired appetite, headache, and I might add a great many other afflictions which are generally classed as minor disorders, owe their origin to the fact that secretions have not received attention; that is, the patient has not been given a proper or appropriate laxative. Any appropriate laxative should be one which will act painlessly and promptly on the bowels, and |