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Afghanistan, and even in North Africa. There is but little of it in commerce, and probably none is to be obtained in this country. -Ohio Medical Recorder.

MISSING FROM OUR EXCHANGE LIST.

We have been a reader, for over thirty years, of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal-a paying subscriber, until we became a publisher and editor of our own journals, after which, through exchange courtesies. Now, for a part of the present year, it has disappeared from our exchange list. We can only say that the separation of "old friends" is unpleasant, and always to be regretted.

Our disappointment does not end here. For another of the best journals on our list, and one ever rich with the very cream of the profession, The Virginian (Richmond) Journal, does not make its appearance. We hope it is not discontinued; we regret its loss.

Also that old favorite journal, the Pacific Medical and Surgical, comes no more. How is this, my old friend?

TO CURE FITS OF SNEEZING.-Mr. Messenger Bradley (British Medical Journal) recommends that in the incessant sneezing, which so frequently accompanies a severe cold, the nostrils be plugged with cotton.

JAMAICA DOGWOOD has been used by Dr. Helm, formerly physi cian to Mercy Hospital, Chicago, in many cases, in which opium was not tolerated. He finds its anodyne properties rather less powerful than those of opium, while its hypnotic action is more decided.-Therapeutic Gazette.

The St. Louis Clinical Record is one of our most sprightly exchanges, but seems to have sold itself out to Hammond and his man Spitzka-or Spitzka and his man Hammond, for it is impossible to state at this distance which is the head and which the tail of this remarkable combination. The latest manifestations of the sale alluded to is found in the June number of the Record, in

which the Spitzka end of the combination makes an attack on Dr. Beard, of New York, in an article, which, while nominally a review of his book on Nervous Exhaustion, is so devoid of fairness and candor, and so filled with bitterness and personalities, that we cannot conceive of any independent journal that would consent to publish it. We do not propose to defend Dr. Beard; he may be a quack and a plagiarist—a man of weak logic and imperfect observation, and all that, for all we know; but considering the professional notoriety of Drs. H. and S., and their more than questionable reputation at home, it is in very poor taste for them to be saying anything about it. "The pot should not call the kettle black."-Ohio Medical Recorder.

DUTY OF DRUGGISTS.

We understand the law prohibits druggists from performing the duty of pharmacists without a license, under a severe penalty; if this is not the case it certainly should be. We have met with serious consequences of incapacity in this way. Can any one inform us, whether Mr. Majorietta, Third Avenue, near Fourteenth Street, is a licensed apothecary? While law is regulating the medical profession, it certainly should not fail to inquire into this subject. Several deaths have occurred during this year by being poisoned by "mistakes" caused by the druggists.

HOW ICE IS MADE IN GEORGIA.

We have visited the establishment of the Georgia Ice Company, where the manufacture of ice was certainly as interesting as anything we have seen. On the ground floor is a boiler, 50 feet long and 4 feet in diameter, containing 150 feet of 34 inch pipe. The boiler is kept filled with aqua ammonia, which is separated by the steam heat into ammonia gas and water. The gas, leaving the water in the boiler, forces its way through a 6 inch pipe outside the building to the roof, four stories up, where it passes into 15,000 feet of coiled pipes, in which it is converted into liquid by cold water thrown over it in fountain jets. This liquid passes into 15,000 feet of inch pipe, arranged in vertical sections 30 feet

high and 3 feet apart, and its sudden liberation into these pipes turns the liquid pure ammonia into vapor, and the sudden expansion makes the pipes intensely cold. Now, above these hundreds of vertical pipes are innumerable little fountain jets throwing spray all over the pipes, the spray freezing gradually, forming an immense icicle of pure ice around each pipe. The gas next goes into 10,000 feet of absorbing pipe, and being cooled by water running on the pipes, it is met by water forced into the pipes, and thus converted back into aqua ammonia, which goes into the big boiler, and is used over again-there is no waste, the same ammonia being used and reabsorbed any number of times. The water used for the spray is drawn from a well 75 feet deep on the premises, and the large blocks of ice (which are loosened from the pipes by a little hot steam, and chopped off by negroes who stand on a pulley staging with their feet wrapped up in thick swabs of cotton sacking for warmth) came out pure and clear, and entirely free from any odor or objectionable taste.

After the pipes have been stripped, about five weeks are required for a new lot of the requisite thickness to form. But of course the pipes are never all stripped at the same time, the ice being in all stages of formation. The factory has a capacity of 35 tons per day, but 20 tons keep pace with the demand, and it is not stored, but cut every day as it is delivered, and sells at from $10 to $12 per ton. As we picked our way among the gleaming and uneven pillars, with the water dripping and splashing down upon us, and the only light coming in through the smallest of windows at the top, it seemed as if we were in some underground ice cave. The whole building and its apparatus would cause strangers to wonder what in the world it was designed for.Atlanta (Ga.) Letter to the Hartford (Conn.) Times.

FINDING A REPORTER'S SKELETON.

BOSTON, October 30.-A young man, while gunning in the woods to-day, near Foxboro, Mass., discovered the skeleton of a man lying in a clump of scrub oak. The medical examiner was given notice, and in searching the clothes, still well preserved, on the skeleton, and which were of fine material and well made, found

among other things a reporter's note book, several pages of which were covered with phonographic characters, a medical book, published in St. John, New Brunswick, a pocket case of pens, a pearl handled penknife, and a bunch of keys with a check attached, stamped "J. V. B. Wilton." The body is supposed to be that of a man connected with the Montreal Herald, and has probably lain where found for two years. The man was probably thirty or forty years old, five feet ten inches in height, and the first right lower incisor tooth, which was missing, had been taken out some time before his death.

A DECISION.

The Court of Appeals confirms the constitutionality of the civil damage law of 1873, by which the owner of any real estate or premises, on which intoxicating liquors are sold, is made liable in actual and exemplary damages for any injury to person or property done by an intoxicated person who may have been supplied with liquor on such premises.

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

ANNUAL MEETING OF CENTRAL NEW YORK SOCIETY.

The Central New York Eclectic Medical Society met in annual session at the Court House in the City of Syracuse, June 9, 1880. The meeting was called to order by the president, Dr. H. A. Bolles, of Cortland.

Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Arnold, of Syracuse.

The response to roll call showed a large attendance of members. The minutes of the last annual and semi-annual meetings were read by the secretary, Dr. T. L. Harris, of Cazenovia, and approved by the society.

The annual report of the secretary and treasurer was read and adopted.

The following physicians were proposed for membership, and referred to the board of censors:

Harley L. Leonard, of Memphis; Douglas A. White, Fosterville; Alphonso H. Crosby, Port Byron; M. R. Smith, Solon; T. G. Packer, Bennett's Corners; and E. C. Barker, Cicero. They having passed examination, and being reported upon favorably, were balloted for and elected members of the society.

On motion of Dr. T. L. Harris, Dr. E. T. Chaney, of Liverpool, was elected an honorary member of the society. Dr. Chaney being present, tendered his thanks for the honor.

Dr. C. F. Lownsbury, of Navarino, read a paper on "Materia Medica," past and present.

Dr. Griffin, of South Butler, presented a case of paralysis of the lower extremities.

Dr. Hill, a case of fistula in ano.

Dr. C. F. Lownsbury, a case of spinal disease.

Dr. Gridley, a case of ovarian tumor, with treatment and favorable results.

Dr. Betts, one of ovarian tumor, which resulted fatally.

Several members of the society spoke favorably of the oil of golden rod as a stimulant.

The following persons were elected delegates to State society which meets in Albany, October, 1880:

Drs. T. L. Harris, H. L. Leonard, E. C. Barker, J. N. Betts, C. T. Greenleaf, W. W. Nims, F. D. Gridley and C. F. Lownsbury. Drs. H. L. Leonard and E. C. Barker were recommended for permanent membership in State society.

On motion, Drs. T. L. Harris and W. W. Nims were elected delegates to the meeting of the National society, to be held in Chicago on the 16th and 17th of June, 1880.

The report of the committee on nominations was then taken up, and the following officers balloted for and elected president, Dr. E. L. Baker; vice president, Dr. C. F. Lownsbury; secretary and treasurer, Dr. T. L. Harris.

Board of censors: W. W. Nims, J. N. Betts, H. A. Bowles, R. P. Crandall and S. Griffing.

The president-elect appointed the following committees for the

year:

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