think that possibly the mode of using the tansy, in poultice as hot as can be borne, has something to do with the success which has attended the treatment in the hands of Dr. Butt.-London Lancet.

CEREUS BONPLANDII IN NEURALGIA.-R. E. Kunze, M. D. (Therapeutic Gazette), considers this remedy especially applicable in all conditions in which the sympathetic nervous system is involved to any extent. Cases of neuralgia of the heart, facial neuralgia, etc., have yielded to this remedy in a most satisfactory way. Five drops every hour was the dose exhibited.

palpitation of the heart, of twenty-five years' standing, is reported cured by the same remedy in ten-drop doses four times a day.

PRESCRIPTION FOR DIPHTHERIA. A physician in Illinois writes: "I have used successfully the following for some years for diphtheria: B.-Sulphate soda, gr. x, dissolved in 3i warm water; then add ten grains salicylic acid. Dose, teaspoonful every fifteen to thirty minutes (or oftener) to a child of two years. At the same time use beef tea, wine, eggs, quinine, etc. I find this an effective anti-zymotic. In bad cases it must be used for some days."— Georgia Eclectic Medical Journal.

EARACHE, CHLOROFORM VAPOR.-Dr. Morgan states that he has often promptly relieved the distressing earache of children by filling the bowl of a common new clay pipe with cotton wool, upon which he dropped a few drops of chloroform, and, inserting the stem carefully into the external canal, and adjusting his lips over the bowl, blew through the pipe, forcing the chloroform vapor upon the membrana tympani.-National Medical Review.

ACUTE AND CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.-J. H. Egan, M. D. (in the Medical Brief), gives his experience with the new remedy, manaca. He reports several cases cured, and considers this agent as much a specific for rheumatism as quinine for malarial poisoning. The effect of the remedy was headache (which was at once relieved by coffee), followed by continued perspiration and an amelioration of the distressing symptoms.

RHUS AROMATICA.-A. M. Hayden, M. D., calls attention to this agent as an efficient remedy for that condition of the bladder which gives rise to incontinence of urine. He thinks it exerts a tonic influence upon the bladder, and particularly the sphincters. He cites an aggravated case cured in two weeks by ten-drop doses of the fluid extract three times a day.-The Chicago Medical Times.

BORACIC ACID IN SKIN DISEASES.-Neuman prescribes an aqueous solution in parasitic skin diseases, an alcoholic solution. in itching due to urticaria and pruritis, an ointment in all forms of eczema. It may also be dusted over a part in powder. The ointment is of the strength of ten parts in fifty; the solution, of ten to twenty parts in three hundred.-Der Practische Arzt.

APOMORPHIA IN ASTHMA.-One tenth of a grain of apomorphia introduced hypodermically, will relieve the orthopnoea of asthma in a surprisingly short time. Our readers should add this to their list of "remedies."-North Carolina Medical Journal.

PETROLEUM IN CHEST DISEASES.-Capsules, containing twentyfive centigrams of pure petroleum, administered in simple and chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc., are highly recommended by the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

THE MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

The regular quarterly meeting of this board was held at their rooms, in the State capital, at Lansing, on Tuesday, July 13, 1880, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m. The following members were present: Dr. R. C. Kedzie, president, of Lansing; Rev. Dr. D. C. Jacokes, of Pontiac; Dr. Henry F. Lyster, of Detroit; Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek; and Dr. Henry B. Baker, secretary.

Dr. Lyster called the attention of the board to syphilis—a disease to which but little attention was paid by the sanitarians, but which causes much sickness and many deaths in this State. He was requested to prepare a paper on the subject, and present it at the next meeting of the board.

The resignation of Dr. H. O. Hitchcock, of Kalamazoo, as a member of the board, and the appointment of Prof. E. H. Strong, of Grand Rapids, by the Governor, were announced, and the following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That in the retirement of Dr. Hitchcock from membership in this board, the board loses one of its most efficient and distinguished members.

Resolved, That the individual members of the board regret the personal separation thereby entailed, and extend to the retiring member their best wishes for his continued prosperity.

A letter from Dr. Hitchcock commended very highly his successor, Prof. Strong, as also did other members.

BOARD OF HEALTH IN DETROIT.

The secretary presented a communication from F. G. Russell, city attorney of Detroit, suggesting that the State board address a letter to the mayor and aldermen of that city, recommending the organization of a board of health, and the appointment of a health officer.

Dr. Lyster said there was no way of getting reliable statistics relative to sickness and mortality in Detroit. The record of interments is the only source of information, and is not reliable, as the reports to the city clerk are voluntary, and there are many interments (especially of Israelites) outside the city. The old board of health was not efficient, because unwieldy, but the "sanitary squad" of the police force does some efficient work in enforcing the ordinances relative to garbage, etc. The city police, however, oppose the appointment of a health officer, fearing it will interfere with the work of their "sanitary squad." It was suggested that perhaps the people of Detroit did not wish the real facts relative to sickness and death disclosed. Drs. Lyster and Baker were appointed to prepare a plan for a board of health in that city, and endeavor to secure its adoption.

SICKNESS AND PAUPERISM.

A communication was presented from Hon. H. W. Lord, sec retary of the State board of corrections and charities, relative to pauperism as a result of sickness. After some discussion relative to the amount of pauperism caused by sickness, and the extent of the field over which a study into the subject should reach, a committee was appointed to investigate the subject, to be known as "the committee on the relations of preventable sickness to taxation, with Dr. J. H. Kellogg as chairman.

SANITARY SCIENCE EXAMINATIONS.

The remainder of the forenoon session was principally occupied with routine work and the perfection of details for examining and marking the standing of candidates in the examinations in sanitary science inaugurated the following day, and which requires: “The replies on each set of topics shall be marked on a scale of 10, and an average standing of 70 per cent. on all topics shall be necessary in order to pass the applicant." One who successfully passes the examination receives a certificate that he is considered qualified to act as health officer of any township, city or village in Michigan.

A paper on "Unsanitary conditions in our public schools," by G. E. Corbin, M. D., of St. John's, was read. The paper consisted of details of overcrowding, bad ventilation, and the sickness resulting therefrom, which came under his personal observation. The paper will be published in the report for 1880.

Two valuable papers, by A. W. Nicholson, M. D., of Otisville, were presented. One was on "Ozone," and contains details of numerous experiments; and one on "Periodic fevers," containing detailed records of cases and coincident meteorological conditions. The papers were accepted with thanks, and ordered printed in the annual report for 1880.

SANITARY CONVENTIONS.

The secretary reported that he had edited and prepared for publication the proceedings, etc., of the sanitary conventions held at

Detroit and Grand Rapids during the past winter, and the copy was in the hands of the printer.

ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD.

Dr. Kedzie said he had received a request from gentlemen in Chicago to enter upon an investigation of adulterations of food, and had replied that the board had no funds. He stated that the adulteration of sugar with glucose was increasing rapidly, and was being done more skilfully. That adulteration with pure glucose did not endanger health, but the sugar was not as sweet. The manufactured glucose, however, was unhealthful to take into the stomach, because of poisonous substances which are always associated with it. Dr. Lyster said a prominent candy dealer had informed him that all candies, excepting rock candies, were composed in part of glucose. Dr. Kedzie said nearly all syrups were made from glucose.

The board performed a large amount of routine work-such as auditing of bills—and adjourned until October 12, 1880.

BOOK NOTICES.

VOLUME XII. OF TRANSACTIONS OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. Price, bound uniformly with previous numbers: single copy, $1.50; two copies, $2.75; three or more copies, $1.25 each.

The book has other points of merit; it is arranged as a book of essays, having over seventy of them. Society proceedings are confined to the end of the work. The jurisdiction of societies, time of meetings, list of members, and addresses are included.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN DISPENSATORY. By John King, M. D., and John U. Lloyd. Cincinnatti: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co. 1880.

This supplement contains the remedies omitted in the previous edition of the American Dispensatory, and these new agents whose value were too uncertain to speak definitely heretofore. The work has been carefully edited, and will prove most valuable to the profession. A number of original drawings accompany the text. In part one, among the new remedies fully described, we find chrysophanic acid, salicylic acid, fromic acid, bichloride of ethylene, ailanthus glandulosa, alstonia, nitrate amyl, araroba, berberis cindurango, cato bark, curare, duboisia, eucalyptus, gentiana quin