ophthalmites set in, on the eighth day trismus, and on the fourteenth death. In the left eye paralysis of the ocular motor nerve; except the sphincter, the eye was totally immovable. The ophthalmoscope showed swelling of the disc, enlargement of the veins and dullness of the retina. The infiltration of the optic nerve of the injured eye ceased this side of the optic foramen, as also that of the sheath from the pia mater. The intra-cranial part and the chiasma were not inflamed. The left eye showed only cellular infiltration of the optic nerve and its sheaths from the pia and arachnoid. The thickness of the choroid in the nasal half of the sympathetic eye was increased three-fold, and the infiltration considerable. There was therefore local choroiditsi with secondary retinitis, so that the transmission can only be explained as having taken place through the vascular centres. Morrea states very clearly his ideas of transmission through the optic nerve. A simple inflammation of the stump of an optic nerve of an enucleated eye is sufficient to transmit it along the nerve, no matter whether the irritation is due to the operation, an impregnation with septic substances, or to fresh products of the disease. Primary cyclitis may give rise to sympathetic neurosis in the other eye. Ciliary neuritis in the orbital branch of the fifth nerve may produce plastic cyclitis in the other eye. The kind of primary affection scarcely ever influences the form of sympathetic ophthalmia. As foreign bodies lodged in the eye are so frequently the cause of this dread disease, a study of the action of some of the more common proves interesting. The mere presence of a clean, chemically indifferent body within the eye causes no inflammation. Clean bodies of common metal (iron, copper, etc.,) which undergo oxidation within the eye, cause no suppurative inflammation, but atrophy of the vitreous, detachment of the retina. If suppurative inflammation occurs as the result of the entrance of foreign bodies into the eye, it is due to the entrance of germs of low organisms. Certain chemical substances, as arsenic, mercury, croton oil, incite suppurative inflammation, even if they enter the eye in a pure state. Suppurative inflammation may therefore arise from chemical irritation without the participation of microbia. The injection into the eye of boiled extracts of fungous acids incites inflammations

which soon again disappear. It is probable that this inflammatory effect of microbia rests upon their generation of certain chemical substances which acts as chemical irritants.

EDITORIAL NOTES.-SELECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS.

MEDICAL PROGRESS.

At the meeting of the American Medical Association, held at St. Paul, Minn., June 6, the following resolution by Dr. Chas. Denison was referred to the Judicial Council:

"In order to correct a misconception which largely exists in the public mind, and to some extent prevails among members of the medical profession, as to the liberty of action authorized by this Association in the treatment of disease, we deem it proper to make a declaration of principles broadly applicable to the healing art as sanctioned and practised under our code, to wit:

"Rational medicine, being based upon experience and pathological researches, demands absolute freedom in the selection and administration of articles of the Materia Medica; and there is nothing in the code of ethics of the American Medical Association prohibiting the use by its members of any known and honororable means of combating disease. Furthermore, as contributing to the alleviation of human suffering, we hail with pleasure and gratitude every discovery in etiological and therapeutical science by whomsoever made. We therefore reject as untrue and obnoxious the term allopathists, as applied to the members of this Association by dogmatists and extremists without its fold.

"First, because it tends to convey the erroneous impression that we are restricted in the choice of remedies, and the method of using them by other than the limits of rational science.

"Second, because for any association of men claiming to practise the profession of medicine, to adopt a name based upon limited and conjectural theories of therapeutics, for the purpose of designating a particular school of medicine, we have always held and still regard as unscientific in principle and dangerous in practice."

TUBERCULAR PARASITE.

KOCH'S DISCOVERY-BERLIN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Dr. Koch has made some very positive assertions in reference to the etiology of tuberculosis. The novel and interesting experiments related by him deserve attention, whether his conclusions are correct or not.

By staining sections of tuberculous tissue with coloring matter, he has found bacillus in all true tubercles; it is minute, rodshaped, smaller than the red blood corpuscle, and resembles the bacillus lepræ. A number of experiments are detailed, and the cultivation of the bacilli has been repeated several times. Dr. Koch believes that tuberculosis is a contagious disease, and that the sputa and exhalations of the phthisical are dangerous.

The germ theory of disease has received another impulse, and experimentalists with the microscope are almost prepared to declare that nearly all forms of disease may yet be traced to parasites.

BOROGLYCERIDE.

Prof. Barff of London has invented a compound to which he has given the above name. As is indicated, it is a combination of pure Glycerine, 92 parts, and Boracic Acid, 62 parts, heated to about 300° F., the ingredients being used in the proportion of their atomic weights. The reaction is as follows:

Boroglyceride acts as a powerful antiseptic; it has been used in the preservation of the most delicate food products, both raw and cooked, and is destined to be of great value in pharmacy, and in medical and surgical practice. The antiseptic value of Boracic Acid has long been known, and in extended use. We shall look with interest to the experiments which are being made in the new combination of Prof. Barff.

WHOOPING COUGH.

INHALATION OF BENZOLE.

As a substitute for the inhalation of gases derived from the purifying rooms of gas works, a physician has caused his patients to inhale the vapor of Benzole diffused through the room by an atomizing apparatus; the result was deemed very favorable, the spasm entirely arrested, and the whoop very much relieved.London Lancet.

IODOFORM IN GYNECOLOGICAL PRACTICE.

Prof. Bundl of Vienna uses Iodoform in all varieties of chronic pelvis peritonitis, and with the most satisfactory results. It is used in emulsion with glycerine (1 to 10), and is introduced into the vagina in small quantity on a cotton tampon, where it is allowed to remain 12 to 24 hours.

In Carl Braun's Klinik Iodoform was used experimentally in acute post-partum parametrites with enormous effusion; the abdomen was painted with the glycerine emulsion, and the effect was excellent, the effusion being rapidly absorbed. He ascribes the effect partly to the inhalation of the iodine vapor.-Physician and Surgeon.

TETANUS CURED BY ESERINE.

Dr. Layton has treated a case of Traumatic Tetanus in a boy 11 years of age; the foot was injured by a splinter. Cannabis Indica, Chloral and Bromide of Potassium were used without any beneficial result. He then tried Eserine in doses of 1.64 gr. every hour. There was a complete recovery. Dr. Layton says there was no symptoms of poisoning, no contraction of the pupils, and an increase in the secretions.-New Orleans Medical Journal.

TYING THE VERTEBRAL ARTERIES FOR
EPILEPSY.

A number of apparently hopeless cases of epilepsy have been successfully treated by Dr. Alexander of Liverpool, by tying the vertebral arteries. One artery was first tied, and this proved to be curative in three cases. But though the fits were ameliorated

in the other two, they did not cease. But after tying the other vertebral the cure was complete. He has ten more patients under the same treatment with promising results. In three of these both arteries were tied at once without injury. If this method should prove efficacious after other trials, it will be a great blessing to humanity.-London Med. Times and Gazette.

ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM AND SALICYLIC ACID.-While experience has proven that salicylic acid does not diminish the dangers of acute articular rheumatism-the percentage of heart complications, if we can rely upon statistics published, being rather higher since the use of this medicine than under the former alkaline treatment-the remedy is as near a specific in this disease as we will perhaps ever possess. But it should be given in large doses, and frequently enough. If correctly given, it will invariably reduce the temperature, lessen the severity of the inflammation and swelling, lessen the excruciating pain and totally remove it in the majority of cases, and, lastly, decidedly shorten the duration of the disease. Where it fails, or where the results mentioned are not gained, the physician is often at fault. He hesitates to push the treatment because he is afraid and dreads the collapse about which so much has been written. The following sign will, according to a long and careful experience, guide the practitioner in the administration of the drug: Salicylic acid or its combinations can be given to an adult suffering from acute articular rheumatism, in doses of 20 grains every two hours, without any danger, as long as the pulse does not beat below 84 in a minute. Whenever the pulse falls below 84, the dose has to be decreased to 10 grains, or, still better, the frequency of the original dose is diminished, say every four hours, or three times daily, instead of every two hours. Should the symptoms again become worse and the pulse increase in frequency, the physician can, without any risk, give the drug the same as at first, and continue it again, till either there is no more necessity for such large doses and their frequent repetition, or the pulse begins again to drop below 84; amelioration of the symptoms and decrease in the pulse rate, going hand in hand. It is always better to give the salicylic acid in combination. Of