It was administered cutaneously, the doses being from 1.30th to th of a grain of the extract; one case of traumatic tetanus and two of trismus were thus relieved.-Ex.

AMBLYOPIA.-The Practitioner reports a case of amblyopia permanently cured by hypodermic injection of strychnia; the dose used at first was 1.12th of a grain, gradually increased to 4th of a grain.—Ex.

PRESERVETION OF DEAD BODIES.-An injection of three parts of glycerine and one of carbolic acid has been found to be the very best preservative and deodorizer tried.-Ex.

A VALUABLE SUGGESTION.-That druggists, in selling a poison, should use a label giving the antidotes for the poison.

VENTILATE SEWERS AND NEVER TRAP THEM.-The latest and one of the best hygienic laws adopted in England. The reasons and advantages are evident.

HEAT OF THE MOON.--Several beautiful instrumental investigations have demonstrated that there is a palpable heat in the lunar ray.

LOUIS NAPOLEON.-It is asserted, on what appears to be good authority, that the Emperor is suffering from "fungus of the bladder," and there is every reason for believing that his disease will be fatal.

COLOTOMY.-Dr. T. O. Edwards, of Lancaster, Ohio, has recently performed colotomy for "the relief of cancer of the rectum, with stricture."

Contagion of consumption in the lower animals has been conclusively established. The poison may be introduced by injection, or by inoculation, or by being mixed with the food.-[Ex.

DEATHS FROM CHLOROFORM.-The New York Medical Journal reports several deaths from chloroform. The editor says "it is inexcusable to use chloroform when deaths from it are on record by the hundred, and the hundreds are swelling so rapidly that if they were all reported they would soon reach thousands."

NOVEL OPERATION.-Prof. J. F. Miner, the accomplished editor of that most excellent work, the Buffalo Medical Journal, and a most skillful surgeon, has performed the

operation of ovariotomy without clamp, ligature, or cautery. He enucleated the vessels and twisted their extremities. The advantages of this operation are great, and the method proposed is worthy of extensive trial.

A WELCOME WORK-The sixth edition of Dr. Tanner's Practice of Medicine, has just been published.

HYDRATE OF CHLORAL-Acts well as a hypnotic on the weak, but is contraindicated because it produces prostration; it acts badly as a hypnotic on the vigorous, producing restlessness, disturbed sleep, and extreme reduction of temperature. It is not anaesthetic. In one stage of its action it produces hyperæsthesia. Prostration is induced by its use. It is expensive, costing 50 cents per dose. Its notoriety will be short-lived.

THE OREGON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER.-This is the title of a new journal published at Salem, Oregon. It is edited by E. R. Fiske, M.D., Professer of Theory and Practice of Medicine in Willamette University, and is published by the Faculty of this University. The Reporter is a neat octavo of thirty-four pages, and is published monthly at $4.00 a year. The first number is creditable to all concerned. Wishing the projectors all possible success, the work is with pleasure placed upon the exchange list. Surgeon Greenleaf, so well and favorably known in this city and wherever he is known, is one of the collaborators of this new journal.

The difficulty in obtaining subjects for anatomical purposes is yearly increasing in London, and it is feared that the stringent law on this subject will cause many students to leave for the continental schools. On the first of October, when the city was filled with students, only eight bodies could be obtained; these were divided between the eleven medical colleges.

EDITORIAL.

"Nullius Addictus Jurare in Verba Magistri."—HOR.

AMERICAN PHYSICIANS.-Another year is about giving up its record of facts to history, and it is impossible to avoid an indulgence of those many thoughts which the

season and its surroundings suggest. All men will nat urally recur, in their reflections, to the subjects which their avocations, past or present, unavoidably suggest, and it is but the force of a common law which impels the physician to think of his profession, and of the many who are numbered among its representatives. In the indulgence of such reflections, it is but natural that among kindred subjects, he should think of the physicians of his own land, and observe in what respect they differ from their brethren elsewhere.

The peculiarities of physicians are, of course, individual as well as national in character, and while biography alone is competent to reveal the individual organizations of those who interest us, it is evident that the literature of the country must reflect those general peculiarities which, in their aggregate manifestations, give character in part to nations.

No one doubts but that the peculiarity of the German physician is a patient, accurate and elaborate study of every subject that may attract his attention; it matters not whether such study be remunerative or not; whether it be practical in its objects and results or not; whether it be simply empirical in its relations, or whether it be (as is most congenial) severely transcendental, fidelity and severity of investigation are universally and uniformly apparent.

No one doubts but that the peculiarity of the French physicians is an overweening vanity in regard to all that may be French in origin, development and results. An overwhelming pride in their own literature, their own operations, ideas and suggestions, with a notorious ignorance of much, if not all, that is better in the practice, writings and suggestions of other nations. A readiness to sacrifice consideration, caution, constitution and often counsel for hazardous display and temporary notoriety.

To be brilliant is better, with them, than to be safe; to be notoriously novel much more attractive than to be notori ously successful. To operate by the watch brings far more celebrity than to operate with judgment, and to amputate a thigh with the écraseur brings comment, perhaps commeudation, but certainly not censure or condemnation. That the French physicians are brilliant, accomplished, progressive and enterprising all admit, but that they are egotistical, vain-glorious, idolatrous worshippers of all that is French, and incredulous of the greatness of others, none will deny.

Who does not know what is prominent and peculiar in the physicians of England? What John Bull is in his commercial marine, in his army and navy, in his warehouses and in his daily life, he is in physic: honest; brave; laborious; sturdy in action and fair in operation; conservative; clear in thought and language; direct in speech; knowing much, but not as much as he believes he knows; merry and skeptical over the enterprise or progressiveness of others, with immense power of developing and improving all that he erroneously derided and disbelieved; cautious; conscientious; deliberate; wise; wonderful in judgment and appreciation. Such is the modern English physician and surgeon.

Add to this picture, ingenuousness, humor, recklessness personal, professional and pecuniary, and there is a fair representation of the modern medical man of Ireland.

Substitute reserve for ingenuousness, deliberate firmness for impulsiveness, speculation and theory for humor, with method for recklessness, and there is a true picture of the average of representative of the modern medical school of Scotland.

Here are pictures of the medical men of the chief medical schools. What is to be said of American physicians?

This can only be said, with any probability of correctness, by those who have been personally familiar with the American physician, as seen in varied sections of his country; or by those who, from constant opportunities of observing American Medical Journals as published throughout this country, can judge of the American physician, as he is represented and as he represents himself, in the pages of American medical literature. Having enjoyed personal relations of an intimate character, with large numbers of medical men in the Northern, Middle, Southern, Western and Southwestern States, and having, for years, also enjoyed the valued opportunity of observ ing the character of the American physician, as manifested in medical journals published in all sections of this country, the writer feels that there is no presumption and some correctness in the testimony now given on this subject.

Those familiar with the American physician can not but admit, that he is almost invariably self-confident; ready; fcrtile in resources; ambitious of distinction; independent in thought and action; practical in study and fully as practical in the adaptation of his studies; universally appreciative of merit and an intuitive judge of it; just and generous in conduct; candid and conscientious in counsel; decisive but judicious in practice; original in conception, bold and prompt in execution; overestimating the medical literature and resources of other nations, and underestimating those of his own country; personally and professionally courteous and just in his relations with the medical and general public.

It may be said that this is idle eulogy; it is not; there is a dark side to this pleasant picture. The American physician is too often superficial in his acquirements; too often ready to blend, injuriously, secular labor with those of a strictly professional character; too often seen to