by the differential leucocyte count, than by the hæmocytometer, and it can be done on dried films, away from the bedside. Malarial infection makes a strong impress upon the leucocyte relation, no matter what other disease it is associated with. It is not safe to rule out typhoid fever when the malarial variation is found, but, as it calls for antimalarial medication, the therapeutic test may decide before a Widal would appear. In a gradually developing fever, the absence of marked increase in large lymphocytes or polynuclears during the first week justifies a preliminary diagnosis of typhoid fever.- William Krauss (Transaslions of the American Medical Association, Medical Record, June 25, 1904).

SCIATICA, KERNIG'S SIGN IN.

Plessi (Gazzetta degli Ospedali e delle Cliniche, April 3, 1904) reports two cases of sciatica in which Kernig's sign (which was originally described in meningitis), occurred with great distinctness. Kernig's sign, as is well known, is the contraction or flexure of the knee and hip joint, which occurs when the patients assume the sitting posture. The patient is unable to extend the lower limbs completely when sitting, and the contraction of the flexor muscle amounts to 135 degrees in slight forms, and 90 degrees in marked cases. In 1898, Netter, of Paris, declared this sign to be pathognomonic of meningitis, and asserted that it occurred in 90 per cent of all the cases of this disease. This sign has been since then found in typhoid fever, by Cipollina and Maragliano, and this without any meningeal complications. Salomni found it in a case of rigidity of the spine, and Sailer in a case of extensive hæmorrhage of the right hemisphere. In 1902 Magri for the first time found it in a case of sciatica, the patient afterward dying of typhoid fever, without a trace of meningitis. Since then a few cases of sciatica have been reported in which Kernig's sign occurred. In the present cases the author found the sign in its characteristic form, and observed that it disappeared gradually with the symptoms. He considers Kernig's as a muscular reflex induced by the irritation of the nerve filaments. -New York Medical Journal and Philadelphia Medical Journal, July 9, 1904.

THE SQUIRRElizing oF MAN.

These be the days of brain, brawn and breakfast foods. The future of this degenerate race seems to rest entirely with Battle Creek, Mich. Right nobly is that little town coming to the rescue,"

and at present the outlook for the preservation of mankind is fairly bright. If the American citizen of to-morrow will only give up meat, mendacity and murder, and go to nibbling nuts, all may yet be well. This nutty idea, if we may call it such, is really no joke, for Uncle Sam has been doing a little experimenting along this line, and the results look significant. According to the Scientific American, the Department of Agriculture has been testing a diet composed almost wholly of nuts and fruit, and experimenters have thrived on it. Nuts are rich in protein. The trifling little peanut, for example, furnishes protein at a lower rate per pound than meat, eggs, or milk. When Uncle Sam speaks the world listens, and evidently we are on the threshold of a nutty age. The beef trust, et id omne genus, has no more terrors for us, for the trust-ridden citizen of the future can shin up a tree and live with the squirrels.-Dale, in Med. Visitor.

MEDICAL THEORY IN INDIA-SIMPLE RULES BY WHICH
PRACTITIONER WAS GUIDED.

While in the city last week, Dr. Bertha Caldwell of India told some anecdotes of the doctors of that country. One day she was riding in the cars with a Mohammedan doctor. She asked him what kind he was an allopathist, a homeopathist, or an osteopath. He answered: "I don't know."

Dr. Caldwell asked him how he practiced and what kind of medicine he gave. Opening a box he carried, he exhibited seven bottles containing liquids of all colors of the rainbow.

"You see," said the Mohammedan doctor, "fever makes the patient red, and then I give him red medicine. A cold makes him blue, and then I give him blue medicine. If he is bilious he is yellow, and then I give him yellow medicine." And thus he went on to the end. She remarked: "You must be a homeopathist."

"Imagine my amusement," said Dr. Caldwell, "when, on walking down the street the next day, I saw this sign in front of the doctor's door:

WORTH TRYING.

Try popcorn for nausea.

Try cranberries for malaria.

Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.

Try clam broth for a weak stomach.

Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.

Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.

Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.

Try breathing the fumes of turpentine to relieve the whoopingcough.

Try taking your cod-liver oil in tomato sauce if you want to make it palatable.

Try a hot, dry flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain, and renew it frequently.

Try a cloth wrung out from cold water, put about the neck at night, for sore throat.

Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.-Medical Times.

TYPHOID FEVER, COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUELÆ.

While typhoid fever is a general infection in the course of which certain changes occur, their degree and chief point of localization are variable, and depend upon the previous condition and physical peculiarities of the patient, the brunt of the infection falling upon those organs which through pre-existing disease or hereditary tendencies are least resistant. Therefore to intelligently interpret the significance of each symptom as it arises and promptly meet each exigency an intimate acquaintance must be had with the previous history and hereditary weakness of the individual. While typhoid fever is always due to an infection with the typhoid bacillus, the condition produced by the growth of one organism favors the growth of others, such as the tubercle bacillus, the streptococcus, and the pneumococcus. -M. P. Hopkins (Northwestern Lancet, July 15, 1904).

LIVE IN THE PRESENT.

Much of the best energy of the world is wasted in living in the past or dreaming of the future. Some people seem to think any time but the present is a good time to live in. But the men who move the world must be a part of it. They must touch the life that now is, and feel the thrill of the movement of civilization.

Many people do not live in the present. It does not know them. They are buried in books; they live in archives, and in history, but the great throbbing pulse of the world they do not touch. They are not a part of the world; they are never attuned to it.

The young man who would win must plunge into the current of events. He must keep step with the march of progress. The current of the times must run through his veins, or there will be paralysis somewhere in his nature.-Success.

MEASLES AND SCARLET FEVER, TEMPERATURE CURVE OF. Clinical observation of measles and scarlet fever in hospital and private practice had led the author to the conclusion that the temperature curve in these two acute infectious diseases is as characteristic and distinctive for each of them as are the respective curves of typhoid, typhus, and small-pox. In measles the temperature rises in steps, irregularly, to about the sixth day, then falls by crisis on the seventh or eighth day. In scarlet fever the rise to the maximum temperature occurs on the first day. The temperature stays at the maximum until about the sixth day, when it falls by lysis, reaching normal between the tenth and thirteenth days.-H. W. Berg (Medical Record, July 2, 1904).

ABORTION PRODUCED ON ACCOUNT OF SERIOUS OCULAR LESION.

L. Delzoppo and T. Soli record the case of a woman who had already lost her right eye during her second pregnancy from disseminated choroiditis and detachment of the retina. In her fifth pregnancy the left eye was also attacked. The disease of the eye was characterized by numerous foci of choroiditis, exudation into the vitreous, etc. Proving rebellious to all local and general treatment and threatening to destroy the remaining vision, it was decided to produce an abortion. The case progressed favorably and in consequence the affection of the eye was remarkably ameliorated. - Recueil d'Ophthalmologie.

HEREDITY AND TUBERCULOSIS.

Maurice Packard and L. L. Roos have reviewed the literature of this subject thoroughly, and from the cases reported by different. authors and experimental researches they conclude that tuberculosis can be hereditarily transmitted both by way of the placenta and the spermatic fluid.

FIRST LESSONS IN THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF LEADING HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES. By H. R. Arndt, M. D. 271 pages. Cloth, $1.25, net. Postage, 5 cents. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1904.

Dr. Arndt presents this book to the freshman student. It is very concise, full of meat, and well arranged. Each remedy is taken up, first with respect to its general indications, as for instance, the first remedy-Muriatic Acid is indicated in low fevers with high temperature; vitiated state of the blood, and great weakness; in typhus and typhoid fever, and septic conditions generally, with hemorrhagic tendency." This covers the clinical application of the drug, then follows symptoms characteristic of the remedy.

This method of study is followed in each of the hundred or more drugs discussed. Following this is given a regional index of symptoms, which will be found very useful. We do not think, however, that it is a book for the freshman because we do not believe in parrot-like memorizing of the materia medica. It is a book which will be found very useful to the general practitioner as a handy desk-book placed where he can get his hand on it in a minute.

THE GAZETTE POCKET SPELLER AND DEFINER. English and Medical. Second Edition. New York: The Gazette Publishing Company, 35 West 42d Street. (50 cents.)

When you think of getting 20,000 words spelled correctly and defined within the covers of a book 5 5/8 inches long, 3 inches wide. and 1/4 inch thick, you are not to be criticised if you have a few doubts concerning the practicability of such a thing. The Gazette Speller and Definer, however, is a real thing and contains approximately that number of words and is exactly that size, so that when you buy one you can put it in your vest pocket and have it with you all the time. It is worth buying and will help you out of many a tight place when you are reading or writing.

ESSENTIALS OF DISEASES OF THE EYE. By A. B. Norton. M. D., Professor of Opthalmology in The New York Homeopathic Medical College; author of "Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics," etc. 349 pages. Cloth, $1.75, net. Postage, 10 cents. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1904.

The first thought which struck us upon seeing this book and looking into it was that it would be used more than the work by the