no doubt whatever that natural respiration is completely re-established. 13. A small dose of morphia may be injected subcutaneously before, chloroform inhalation, as it helps to keep the patient in a state of anæsthesia in prolonged operations. There is nothing to show that atropine does any good in connection with the administration of chloroform, and it may do a very great deal of harm. "14. Alcohol may be given with advantage. before operations under chloroform, provided it does not cause excitement, and merely has the effect of giving a patient confidence and steadying the circulation. "The commission has no doubt whatever that, if the above rules be followed, chloroform may be given in any case requiring an operation, with perfect ease and absolute safety, so as to do good without the risk of evil." EDWARD LAWRIE (President), A Diaphoretic Powder. TAKE: Pure crystalized nitrate potass, one ounce; pulverized ipecac, one dram; sulph. morphia, gr. x.; thoroughly triturate the ipecac and morphia, then pulverize the nitrate potass fine, then triturate well. Let it stand in the mortar for several hours in a dry place, then rub again, then keep in a well corked bottle. Dose: From 3 to 5 grains, to be given every one, two or three hours in all febrile or inflammatory diseases, till you get a good perspiration; regulate the dose and time according to the violence of the fever, and in such dose as not to nauseate; and let the patient have all the water the stomach will bear. In all bilious or malarial conditions use lemonade, not too sweet.-—Dr. BendeR, in Chicago Med. Times. PASSIFLORA INCARNATA is said to exert a charming influence on the senses. Five drops of the mother tincture, half an hour before bed-' time, gives quiet sleep all night, with most en-, chanting dreams. The patient awakes with aj clear mind, feeling refreshed and buoyant, and the sleep is the same for several succeeding nights without a repetition of the dose. Its indications are nervousness, insomnia, neuralgia, convulsions, tetanus and erysipelas. For these golden opinions we are indebted to the Homeopathic Recorder. Aloe for Hydrophobia. THE American aloe, Agave Americana, is said to possess the property of curing hydrophobia. Dr. Patron, of Peru, in La Cronica Medica, as quoted by The Lancet, is the authority. Aristol. THIS Substance is the result of a direct chem-, ical union between iodine and thymol. In! other words it is a mildly iodized phenol. Ity is an active antiseptic and will replace iodoform, iodol or sozo-iodol. It is insoluble in water and glycerine, slightly soluble in alcohol, easily so in ether. It easily alters its character if heated. It is non-toxic because of its insolubility, and is therefore preferable to iodoform. It is not an irritant. It is of value in all old ulcers, specific and nonspecific. It is comparatively odorless and has this advantage also over iodoform. It will doubtless supersede iodoform as a general antiseptic.-Chicago Med. Times. ALEXANDRIA is the only town in Egypt which posessesses a wholesome water supply. Abrus Precatoria. AT a recent meeting of the Society of Naturalists of Dorpat, Professor Kobert (Weiner Medizinische Blatter,) presented an account of a new poison of an albuminous nature, which he had extracted from the seeds of the Abrus Precatoria, a plant already known for hundreds of years. These seeds occur in the form of red bodies, about the size of a pea, with a black spot on them, and are spoken of in the Indies as "chicken eyes," while in Germany they are described as "paternostererbsen,' from whence the attribute "precatoria" originates. As a remedy, the abrus precatoria seeds have been for a long time employed as irritants and antihemorrhage remedies; in India they are frequently employed for poisoning, while in Brazil they are used in the treatment of ophthalmia. In India the seeds are rubbed up in their fresh condition, and then rolled up into a fine roll, whose sharp point stuck into the skin is sufficient to kill any man or animal, and leaves no more mark than the sting of an insect. It is stated that entire English colonies have been murdered in India in this manner. Professor Kobert has examined the albuminous constituent, and has found that it is one hundred times more poisonous than strychnine, and is similar in its action to the poison which may be extracted from castor-oil seeds. Like all other albuminous poisons, it loses its activity when boiled, and consequently the abrus precatoria seed may be even used as food. Dr. Kobert has found that death is caused, when this poison is introduced into the blood, through the coagulation of the blood corpuscles. -Ther. Gazette. Phenacetine in Whooping-Cough. THE editor of the N. Y. Medical Times relates undoubted success in the treatment of pertussis with from one to two-grain doses of phenacetine every three hours. The disease seems to be brought completely under control within a few days. He also finds equal success with it in doses of five grains every three hours, gradually lengthening the interval, in coughs of acute laryngitis, pharangitis and bronchitis in adults. Arnica in Laryngeal Fatigue. MANY persons suffer from weak, husky voices, especially singers and speakers. In the Medical Bulletin Dr. Barton recommends three drops, thrice daily, of tincture of arnica root (not leaves) in water. The tincture of the leaves induces an erysipelatous rash. Cupric Arsenite. SOME months ago I saw in the Therapeutic Gazette an article from the pen of Dr. John Aulde, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the action of cupid arsenite, and being impressed with the value of the drug from the character of the article and also from its combination, I decided to try it in my practice; so I wrote to Dr. Aulde and asked him to send me some tablet triturates of arsenite of copper, which he very kindly did. My first case was that of a woman about fifty years old, who had had consumption for several years. Recently she had been suffering greatly with indigestion, diarrhea and night-sweats. I had tried to control the night-sweats by the use of oxide of zinc, quinine, mineral acids, etc. I had tried to overcome the indigestion by use of all remedies indicated for such cases. I had tried to cure the diarrhea by the use of every remedy I knew of, including opium and active astringents; the latter acting well so long as they were used, but as soon as they were stopped the diarrhea would again make its appearance. This was the nature of the first case upon which I used cupric arsenite. The results were as follows: At 6 P. M. I stopped all former treatment and wrote the following prescription: R Two tablets trit. cupric arsenite,. aa gr. 0 .... M. Sig. One teaspoonful every quarter hour. I directed that this should be kept up until I called the next day, unless the patient's bowels were not moved in six or eight hours, while in this case the medicine was to be stopped entirely. The next day at 8 A. M. I again called and much to my astonishment found that her bowels had moved only once. The attendants had retained the stool for my inspection, and I found it moderately good in character. She had also suffered but very little from nightsweats, a result I had not at all expected from the use of the drug. During the day I directed her to take the medicine every hour. At 8 I take her exact words: "Well, Doctor, I think P. M. I saw her again, and from my note book that water you gave me has struck my case at last." Her bowels had acted only once during the day. Her spirits were very good, her appetite pretty sharp and her digestion perfect, so far as I could tell. I directed her to continue the medicine every hour through the night when awake. Next morning at 9 o'clock I called again, and found her looking bright. When asked how she felt she said: "I feel splendid. I slept from 9 last night until 6 this morning, and consequently took very little medicine." I asked if her bowels had moved. She said, "No." I asked if she had been troubled with night-sweats, and she said, "Not one particle." I then directed her to take the medicine during the day for some time to come at intervals of an hour or two. In a few days' time my patient was put upon cod-liver oil, and tonics directed to the improvement of her general health and now she is able to attend her housework as well as ever. I am satisfied that but for the arsenite of copper this woman would have died. CASE II. This patient was a woman forty-five years old, who had had dysentery for two weeks or more. The case had been under the care of a friend of mine and at this time (when I saw her with him) the trouble had assumed an entero-colitic type, the stools being very frequent and very offensive. She had considerable pain after taking food, water or anything into her stomach. My colleague had tried everything, it seemed to me, except the cupric arsenite, and I advised him to try that. He said he knew nothing concerning it, and I told him I did not either; but we would try it if he said so. So we wrote the following: R Two tablets trit. cupric arsenite,. aa gr. M. Sig. One teaspoonful every quarter hour. : My friend remained to watch the effect. The next day I received the following note: "Dear Doctor I gave the medicine as you advised; the bowels never acted from the time you were here until this A. M., I stopped medicine at midnight. The discharge looked very natural, and the patient is very comfortable in every respect. What shall I do further." My reply was: "Dear Doctor: continue the medicine at intervals of an hour or two during the day," and in a few days I got the following note: "Dear Doctor: Our patient is well, and I am full of praise for cupric arsenite." CASE III. Was a young man, nineteen years old, who had acute dysentery. Without trying anything else I at once put him on cupric arsenite. He took it in the same manner as the previous patients. The discharges were speedily lessened in frequency and improved in character, but nausea set in to such an extent that I was forced to stop the medicine. I do not know why this was; for I have never seen it have the same effect again. It was undoubtedly the cupric salt that did this; for every time I began its use the same disagreeable symptoms would show themselves. It must, of course, have been due to an idiosyncrasy of the patient. CASE IV. Was a child eleven months old. The mother stated, upon my first visit, that the baby must have been suffering with pain from M. Ft. Pulv. No. iv. Sig.-One every two hours. The next morning I called, and found the condition about the same. The bowels were acting every half hour. I prescribed: Aquæ dest... R One tablet trit. cupric arsenite gr. ro I called again at 6 P. M., and found the bowels had acted only once. The character and consistency of the stool had been good, and the child was bright and playful. But my best hopes from the use of cupric arsenite are to be realized in the treatment of the diarrhea of typhoid fever. There is no question in my mind that in it we have a safe, reliable, and, as near as posssible, a never-failing remedy for this much-dreaded trouble. For a long time I have been suspicious of the use of opium in treating these symptoms, for I have frequently seen profuse perspiration, nausea, and partial suppression of urine resulting, I am sure, from the use of opium. Not only so, but somehow I begin to look out for dissolution when I have to use opium in great quantities for the relief of this trouble. The following will illustrate my method of treating the diarrhea of typhoid fever now; and I can truthfully say that I have no trouble at all. When my typhoid patients begin having tympanitis and tenderness of the bowels, I prescribe sulphocarbolate of zinc, in two-grain doses every three hours, to destroy local germs, and to prevent the transmission of the product of germ action into the general system. I believe that the intense nervousness and the general condition we call "typhoid" is caused, not by the inva sion of the germs themselves, but by the absorption of the products of germ action; so I use the zinc salt as soon as these symptoms appear. Sometimes sooner, if the general condition will admit of it. Then, when the peculiar characteristic stools first appear I begin the use of the cupric arsenite, usually in the following manner: R Two or four tab. trit. cupric arsenite, aa gr. yu M. Sig.—One teaspoonful every half This preparation is kept in the house until the patient is out of danger, with directions to use it in the same manner when the bowels begin acting too frequently. The use of the zinc is also kept up, and very little else is done in the way of medicine. I am sure that this method will please and surprise every one who will try it. In cases of chlorosis I have also observed decided benefit to follow the use of the remedy in small doses. I had never seen it recomended in these troubles; but I was led to try it, and in every case have seen good results better than from any other drug I have ever used. I will not particularize here, but simply say that, if the case is properly selected no fears need be entertained as to the ultimate results. Take the following case--a girl with deranged menstruation, pale and chlorotic in appearance; with pain in the bowels just prior to, and just after taking food; with alternating conditions of the bowels: first diarrhea, then constipation. One-half of a grain of cupric arsenite was given just after meals, and great benefit was obtained in a few days. Now I cannot see just how this remedy acts, except by the alterative properties which it undoubtedly possesses in a very decided degree. One thing I do know, viz., that it is a remedy well worthy our study and trial.L. G. BROUGHTON, M. D., in Med. and Surg. Reporter. CHARCOT'S DISEASE is essentially an osteoarthritis, the bony structures being the seat of the changes all through the affection. When When the synovial membranes and fibrous tissues about the joint are first affected, afterwards extending to the ligaments and bones, the disease is chronic rheumatic arthritis. In Charcot's disease the structures are hypertrophical; in arthritis they are atrophical. The former disease is almost painless, the latter is very painful. In the former, there is fever; in the latter, none. And in Charcot's disease, there is no patellar reflex; in arthritis, it is always present, either in both limbs or in the one opposite to the affected joint. THE roots of the first and second molar teeth quite frequently find their way through the floor of the "Antrum of Highmore," and set up much inflammation and suppuration. The roof of this cavity is supplied by the floor of the orbit; it is backed by the zygomatic surface of the upper jaw-bone, and bounded outwardly by its facial surface. Suppuration in the antrum is indicated by a purulent discharge from one of the nostrils, which comes and goes, and is increased in the horizontal position, as when lying in bed, while the mucous membrane of the nose itself is yet in a healthy condition; or it may be diagnosed by the extraction of an upper molar tooth, to give vent to pus. PICRIC ACID, a favorite test for albumen, and used for various purposes in the arts, is perfectly safe to handle, and may be burned without, danger, though it is apt to detonate when confined; but, in combining with potassium, magnesium, sodium, barium, lead and strontium, it becomes liable to violently explode on percussion or friction, liberating immense volumes of gas. Picrate of potassium is nearly twice as explosive as gunpowder. IN GROWING toe-nail may be relieved at once, and cured in a few weeks, by applying, twice daily, a solution of one ounce of fresh tannic acid in six drachms of water, dissolved by gentle heat. Pain is quickly subdued, and the nail soon attains its normal length and breadth. A little lint may be introduced under the ingrowing edge, if necessary. INCOMPATIBILITY OF ANTIPYRINE AND CHLORAL.-M. Blainville, a pharmacist of Paris, was called upon to put up a prescription containing sixty grains of antipyrine and seventy-five grains of chloral in half an ounce of water. An oily precipitate was immediately thrown down which resembled neither chloral nor antipyrine in taste, but recalled somewhat that of coriander seed. A mixture of antipyrine and quinine is also ANTIPYRINE is said to be effectual in restrain- incompatible, both substances being at once ing the pain in uterine cancer. precipitated from the solution. MANY cases of eczema, lepra, psoriasis, lichen, urticaria and herpes have their origin in a "lithemic" or gouty condition of the system, or in some functional derangement of the liver which often precedes it. In fact, all disorders connected with retention of excreta in the system, and their consequent circulation in the blood-current, may furnish the exciting causes. The moral of which consists in eliminating uric acid from the circulation by suitable alkalis, strict regimen, and an occasional dose of blue pill or grey powder. Med. Record. } A Definition of "Unprofessional Conduct." In a bill to regulate the practice of medicine, recently introduced in the Oregon Legislature, there is a clause providing for the revocation of licenses for "unprofessional conduct," which is defined in the bill as follows: First, the procuring, or aiding or abetting in procuring, a criminal abortion. Second, the employing of what are know as "cappers" or "steerers." Third, the obtaining of any fee on the assurance that a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured. Fourth, the wilfully betraying of a professional secret. Fifth, all advertising of medical business in which untruthful and improbable statements are made. Sixth, all advertising of any medicines or of any means whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated or the menses re-established if suppressed. Seventh, conviction of any offence. involving moral turpitude. Eighth, habitual intemperance.-Medical Record. Chloroforming the Sleeping. SOME two years ago I had occasion to remove a piece of catheter from the bladder of a young man, fifteen years of age. The accident happened in the morning, and I arrived at the place about midnight of the same day, to find the patient sleeping soundly and sweetly, having been asleep for fully two hours. The subject and his necessity seemed to warrant the propriety of an experiment, if such it may be called. Without awaking him, I began to administer chloroform in the usual way. Much to my surprise, sleep continued undisturbed by the anaesthetic, not the slightest movement of limb or muscle indicating consciousness. The breathing only was slightly affected, as the sleeping passed from natural to the artificial. The operation concluded and the chloroform suspended he was aroused with some effort by his friends. This subject had not suffered previous loss of sleep, and presented no evidence of previous exhaustion or ill-health.-L. S. KELLY, M. D., of Winona, Minn., in Medical Record. An Excellent Method of Administering FIRST giving a hypodermic of morphia 4 grain, and atropia 1-20th, we smeared the lips and nose well with vaseline, and placing a single thickness of a thin handkerchief over the nose allowed the chloroform to fall drop by drop immediately over the nose. It is surprising what a small amount it takes to fully anesthetize the patient. Sufficient air penetrates the meshes of the handkerchief, for safety. In the three operations in which we used chloroform (the one for stone, and the two amputations) we did not use over half an ounce for all.-E. G. COCHRAN, M. D., in Daniel's Texas Medical Journal. [We learned this method from a dentist. Try it and you will be pleased.-ED.] THE SECRET OF HEALTH.-Don't worry. Don't hurry. 66 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." "Simplify! simplify! simplify Don't overeat. Don't starve. "Let your moderation be known to all men." Court the fresh air day and night. "Oh, if you knew what was in the air!" Sleep and rest abundantly. Sleep is nature's benediction. Spend less nervous energy each day than you make. Be cheerful. "A light heart lives long." Think only healthful thoughts. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." "Seck peace and pursue it." “Work like a man, but don't be worked to death." Avoid passion and excitement. A moment's anger may be fatal. Associate with healthy people. Health is contagious as well as disease. Don't carry the world on your, shoulders, far less the universe. Trust the Eternal. "Lost Never despair. hope is a fatal disease." If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.-Ex. REPORTS of opium poisoning are coming in from the use of "Piso's consumption cure.' It will soon rival "Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup," in its death rate per month, two cases being reported for the month of February in Nebraska. These nostrums are very successful recruiting agents to the army of opium fiends.Kansas Medical Journal. A DELICATE TEST FOR SUGAR IN THE URINE. -Boil equal parts of urine with liquor potass, to which is added a pinch of sub-nitrate of bismuth. If sugar is present the powder turns brown or black.-PROF. DACOSTA, in Kansas Medical Journal. Tests for Water. For Carbonic Acid. Take equal parts of water and clear lime water. If combined or free carbonic acid is present a precipitate is seen, to which, if a few drops of muriatic acid be added, effervescence commences. For Magnesia.-Boil the water to a twentieth part of its weight, and then drop a few grains of neutral carbonate of ammonia into a glass of it, and a few drops of phosphate of soda. If magnesia is present it will fall to the bottom. For Iron. Boil a little nut gall and add to |