lady who had suffered from large sores on the calves of both legs, on the forearms, and other parts, resulting from the constant use of the potassic bromide during ten years. Thirty grains per diem is the utmost quantity now taken. For the past two years arsenic has been used in connection with the bromide, controlling the eruption to some extent, but not entirely preventing the recurrence of the eruption. At first Dr. Prowse used various astringents with more or less good results, but the salicylic acid lotion appears to act as an antidote, for in this and other cases of a less severe character in which he has prescribed it its good effects are immediately seen, and wounds of the size of the palm of the hand have been soundly healed in a few (less than seven) days.

REFLEX NERVOUS DISORDERS.-At a recent meeting of the British Odontological Society (Brit. Med. Jour., vol. ii., 1880, p. 18) Mr. Mummery read notes of some cases in which diseased teeth had caused reflex disorders of the nervous system. A young lady came to him in January, 1878, complaining of severe neuralgia of the left side of the face, which had begun soon after the stopping of an upper molar some months before: she had also become subject to marked external strabismus of the left eye. Mr. Mummery extracted the tooth, and in two or three days both pain and squint had gone. In November she presented herself again; the pain had returned as bad as ever; there was ptosis of the left eyelid, the pupil was widely dilated, and her hair was perfectly blanched to the extent of fully two inches over her left temple. Mr. Mummery found that the next tooth to that which he had extracted had become carious. He at once removed it, and in a very short time the pain had disappeared and the eye recovered its natural appearance; but the patient still retained the patch of hair on her left temple. Mr. Mummery related several other remarkable and interesting cases in some of these, retarded wisdomteeth had been the cause of reflex nervous disturbance; in others, exostoses had formed on the fangs, though the teeth appeared perfectly sound.

LOCAL ANESTHESIA WITH BROMIDE OF ETHYL.-M. Terrillon stated, before the Paris Surgical Society, that he had employed the bromide of ethyl about a dozen times in operations with the thermo-cautery. In a minute or two a white patch indicating cutaneous anæsthesia is produced, and, on the pulverization being continued, insensibility of the tissues is produced to the depth of two centimetres. The production of the white patch is not essential, as anæsthesia may exist when it is absent. The results have proved very satisfactory, but in two cases M. Terrillon did not succeed, owing, as he believes, to the pulverizators which he employed having too small a jet.

FATAL ULCERATION OF THE DUODENUM PRODUCED THROUGH SCALDING BY HOT WATER USED AS A HÆMOSTATIC.-Dr. J. R. Greenwood (Lancet, vol. ii., 1880, p. 298) reports the following case. Serious secondary hemorrhage having occurred in a case of amputation of the penis under his care, and the usual hæmostatics having failed, the bleeding surface was sponged with hot water, with the effect of causing complete cessation of the hemorrhage. A day later, however, the wounded surface began to slough, and sloughing extended to the parts of skin adjacent. Symptoms of peritonitis showed themselves, and the patient died a day or two later. At the post-mortem examination a deeply indented elongated ulcer, with a welldefined margin, about an inch long and half an inch broad, could be seen. It commenced half an inch from the pylorus, the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane being otherwise healthy. All the coats of the intestine were destroyed, so that the pancreas formed the base of the ulcer. There was a rent into the peritoneal cavity, with signs of peritonitis. Dr. Greenwood believes the case analogous to ulceration of the intestines observed after burns.-(? Ed.)

HEREDITARY TENDENCY TO FRAGILITAS OSSIUM. In a note to the British Medical Journal (vol. ii., 1880, p. 14), referring to a case of hereditary tendency to fragilitas ossium reported by Mr. Greenish in a former number of that journal, Mr. William Sedgwick mentions cases described by Pauli. Pauli's cases included four members of one generation; their father and grandfather had suffered from fractures. The brittleness of the bones had been observed to come on during the advance from childhood to puberty, and, unlike the brittleness resulting from spirit-drinking and from diseases in which the bony tissues are sometimes secondarily affected, the fractured bones in all of Dr. Pauli's cases, as in those described by Mr. Greenish, readily united.

CHLORIDE OF CALCIUM IN PHTHISIS.— Dr. J. Hunt writes to the British Medical Journal (vol. ii., 1880, p. 15) confirming Dr. Sawyer's views as to the results of the chloride of calcium treatment in phthisis. In six cases under Dr. Hunt's care five improved considerably, all presenting an increase in weight, improvement in appetite, and diminution or loss of night-sweats. The remaining case, one of laryngeal phthisis, continued to get worse. In ordinary cases he gives ten grains dissolved in water three times daily,conjoined, as symptoms indicate, with ergot, morphia, belladonna, etc., always at the same time giving cod-liver oil. It is best to keep the salt in solution, because of its great tendency to deliquescence.

TREATMENT OF PHTHISICAL COUGH.-Correspondents in the British Medical Journal recommend the following: 1. Tincture of

gelseminum in fifteen to twenty-five minim doses thrice daily, with dilute phosphoric acid. If there be much expectoration, benzoic acid. 2. Hydrobromic acid in doses of twenty minims. It may be given with addition of spirit of chloroform; inhalation of vapor of iodine. 3. Fifteen minims of hydrobromic acid and ten minims of spirit of chloroform in a dessertspoonful of water four or five times a day, with a pill containing a quarter of a grain of codeia, three times a day. 4. R Tinct. pruni Virginianæ, 31; glycerin., 3ss; "nepenthe," mv; aquæ, q. s. To be taken every three or four hours in troublesome cough, a double dose being given at bedtime.

A THOUSAND OVARIOTOMIES.-On June 11, Mr. Spencer Wells performed ovariotomy for the one-thousandth time. Out of his first 500 cases, 127 died, a mortality of 25.4 per cent. Of the next 300 cases, 77 died, giving a mortality of 25.6 per cent. Of the next 100 cases, 17 per cent. died; and of the last 100 cases, 11 per cent. died. Mr. Wells began to use antiseptic precautions shortly before the beginning of the last 100 cases. The grand total of all the operations gives 768 recoveries and 230 deaths. According to certain calculations made on the basis of life-insurance expectancy, 22,272 years of human life have been added to society by the direct agency of Mr. Spencer Wells.-New York Medical Record.

EXTIRPATION OF KIDNEY.-At the Charing Cross Hospital, in London, Mr. Barwell lately extirpated the left kidney of a girl of sixteen, the removal being effected through an opening in the loin. Long-standing and severe suppuration had greatly reduced the patient's strength. The organ was large (six ounces and three-quarters), tuberculous, and suppurating. Since the operation the patient has been doing so well that hopes of her recovery are entertained.-British Medical Journal.

MISCELLANY.

DEATH FROM Insoluble Pills.—At a postmortem examination held in North Carolina, on the body of a lady who died from inflammation and suppuration in the abdominal cavity induced by no known cause, it was discovered that death had resulted from the impaction of five or six hardened pills in the appendix vermiformis. As these pills had not been administered during her last illness, it was not known how long they had been there, or whether all entered at the same time.

TO DRY BOTTLES QUICKLY WITHOUT HEAT. -F. Lenggenhager (Utica, New York) recommends the following plan. First clean the bottles properly, rinse them with rain-water, and let this drain off for a short time; then

FREE BATHING.-It is said that upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand persons have availed themselves of the free swimmingbaths provided by the city at the beginning of the summer.

FROM reports in the daily papers the death of Miss Neilson, the distinguished actress, was caused by the rupture of a varicose Fallopian vein and consequent fatal internal hemorrhage.

OFFICIAL LIST

OF CHANGES OF STATIONS AND Duties of OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT U.S. ARMY FROM SEPTEMBER 5 TO SEPTEMBER 18, 1880.

MOORE, JOHN, MAJOR AND SURGEON.-Assigned to temporary duty as member of the Medical Examining Board in New York City. S. O. 194, A. G. O., September 11, 1880.

CRONKHITE, H. M., CAPTAIN AND ASSISTANT-SURGEON. Having reported in person at these Headquarters, is assigned to temporary duty at Fort Sidney, Nebraska. S. O. 83, Department of the Platte, September 7, 1880. AINSWORTH, F. C., CAPTAIN AND Assistant-Surgeon.— Granted leave of absence for six months. S. O. 196, A. G. O., September 14, 1880.

MOSELEY, E. B., CAPTAIN AND ASSISTANT-SURGEON.-The

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leave of absence granted him from Headquarters, Department of the Platte, August 17, 1880, is extended two PRICE, C. E., CAPTAIN AND ASSISTANT-SURGEON.—To remonths. S. O. 187, A. G. O., September 1880. port in person to the Commanding General, Department of the East, for assignment to duty. S. O. 196, c. s., A. G. O.

REED, W., CAPTAIN AND ASSISTANT-SURGEON.-To proceed without delay to Creedmoor, Long Island, for temporary duty with the United States troops at that point. S. O. 156, Department of the East, September 6, 1880. CARTER, W. F., FIRST-LIEUTENANT AND ASSISTANT-SURGEON. His assignment to duty at Post of San Diego, Texas (par. 2, S. O. 161, c. s.), revoked. S. O. 176, c. s., Department of Texas.

By par. 2, S. O. 190, A. G. O., September 7, 1880, the following changes are made, to take effect October 1, 1880:

The following named officers are relieved from duty in the Department of the East, and will report in person to the Commanding Generals of the departments set opposite their respective names for assignment to duty:

ASST.-SURGEON D. G. CALDWELL, Dept. of the Platte. J. H. PATZKI,

" B. F. POPE,

W. J. WILSON,

" "

South. Dakota.

ASSISTANT-SURgeon Frank MEACHAM is relieved from duty in the Department of Texas, will proceed to Boston, Mass., and, upon arrival, report by letter to the SurgeonGeneral.

ASSISTANT-SURGEON R. H. WHITE will report in person to the Commanding General, Department of West Point, for assignment to duty at the United States Military Academy, relieving Assistant-Surgeon Henry Lippincott, who, when relieved, will proceed to New York City, and, upon arrival, report by letter to the Surgeon-General. ASSISTANT-SURGEONS M. K. TAYLOR and J. H. T. KING are relieved from duty in Department of Texas, will proceed to New York City, and, upon arrival, report by letter to the Surgeon-General.

ASSISTANT-SURGEON W. MATTHEWS will report in person to the Commanding General, Department of the Missouri, for assignment to duty.

ASSISTANT-SURGEON T. A. CUNINGHAM is relieved from duty in Department of Dakota, will proceed to New York City, and, upon arrival, report by letter to the Surgeon-General.

INDEX.

Blackwood, W. R. D., 32, 55, 295, 618.
Bladder, carcinoma of, 173.

syphilitic ulceration of, 452.

Blood, desiccated, 286.

Blood-cells, counting of, 376.
Bloodless operations, 480.

Blood-vessels, difference in action of
remedy when put in afferent and
efferent, 523.

Bones, sarcomata of, 358, 500.
Bone-syphilis, 3.

Bonwill, W. G. A., 519.

Borocitrate of magnesíum, 286.
Brachial neuralgia, 453.

Bradley, S. M., death of, 564.

Brain, post-mortem examination of, 365.
Brain-syphilis, 37, 77.
Brandy, 378.

Breast, adenoma of, 217.

cancer of, 359, 489, 611.
Breasts, bloodless operations on, 650.
Bright's disease, complications of, 213.
Brinton, J. H., 595.

Bristowe, Practice of Medicine, review
of, 176.

British Medical Association, 627.

Bromide of ethyl, 188, 200, 245, 370,

430, 659.

death from, 521.

Bromide of potassium, 376.
Bromide rash, 658.
Bromidrosis, 538.

Bronchitis, oil of eucalyptus in, 155.
Bruen, Edward T., 2, 30, 137, 395.
Buboes, treatment of, 9.

Buck, Albert H., Hygiene, review of,

Cactus grandiflora, 26.
Calomel, 286, 522.

action of sugar, etc., on, 452.
and iodide of potassium, 405.
Cancer, Chian turpentine in, 513, 527.
inoculability of, 614.

Cannabis Indica, 384.
Cantharides, 428.

Carbolic acid poisoning, 249, 325, 404.
Cardiac hernia, 658.

Carter, R. B., Eyesight, review of, 383.
Cases, reporting of, 215.

Castanea vesca in whooping-cough, 132.
Casts, renal, 289.

Cerebellum, absence of, 437.
Cerebral thermometry, 362.

vessels, syphilis of, 352.
Cerna, David, 209, 493.

Cervix uteri, amputation of, 655.
laceration of, 133.

Chamælerin, 565.

Chian turpentine, 513, 527.
Chloral, 311, 514.

eruptions caused by, 93.
poisoning by, 425.
Cholelithiasis, 264.

Chorea following amputation, 53.

prehemiplegic, 168.
Chromidrosis, 93..
Chrysophanic acid, 192.
Cinchonidia, 493-

Clarke, Lockhart, death of, 312.

Cleemann, R. A., 61.

Clergymen, gratuitous treatment of, 94.
Clinical thermometers, 605.

Coal-gas poisoning, 478.

Coburn, G. H., 211.

Coffee, 168, 362.

Coition, laceration during, 350.

Cold, catching, 526.

Collins, James, 541.

Colon, chronic catarrh of, 42.

Color-blindness, 278, 377.

Compressed air in pleurisy, 38.

Consumption, local treatment in, 71.

Consultations, 528.

Cornea, cyst of, 491, 548.

Cornil and Ranvier, Pathological His-

tology, review of, 382.

Coronary arteries, pathology of, 18.
Coroners in Boston, 13.

Corpse, preservation of, 539.

Corrosive sublimate in diarrhoea, 207.
Coryza, 287, 311.

caseous, 145.

Coster's paste, 333.
Coto-bark, 129.

Cotton-wool, 630.

Cranium, fractures of, 277.

injuries of, 605.

Cutter, J., 655.

Cutter, J. C., 299.

Cutter, George R., Dictionary of Ger-
man Terms, review of, 200.

Cyanosis febrilis enterica, 166.
Cystitis, 64.

Da Costa, J. M., 469.

Dentaphone, 590.

Diabetes, salicylic acid in, 537.

Diabetometer, 623.

Diagnosis, 295.

Diarrhoea, 207.

Digestion, gastric and duodenal, 226.
Digestive ferments, 148.

Digitalin and atropin, combined action
of, 623.

Diphtheria, 474:

Diphtheritic palsy, death from, 617.
Disinfectants, 127.

Disinfection by steam, 61.

Diuretics, 453.

Dix, T. L., The Healthy Infant, review
of, 224.

Doctors, country, in England, 11, 194.
Dowse, T. S., Brain-Syphilis, review

of, 241.

Neuralgia, review of, 534.
Duboisia, 321.

action of, 127.

Duchenne's disease, 419.

Duhring, Louis A., 34, 181.

Atlas of Skin Diseases, review of,

224.

Edinburgh Infirmary, 119, 287.
Electric light in surgery, 264.
Embolism in rheumatism, 536.
Emetia, 514.

Emmett, T. A., Gynecology, review
of, 360.

Empyema, 81, 100, 157.
Endoscope, 225.

England, medical profession in, 251,
253, 278.

Epilepsy, 300, 441, 514.

Epistaxis, 535.

Epithelioma, 172.

radical cure of, 643.

Erectile tumor, 192.

Ergot in pleuro-pneumonia, 203.

Ergotin suppositories, 621.

Ergotism, 453-

Erysipelatous pneumonia, 406.
Erythema nodosa, 378.

Extravasation, resorption of, 192.

Extremities, gangrene of, 406.

Facial eczema, 658.

Fehling's solution, 576.

Femur, dislocation of, 518.

length of condyles of, 537.

Fenwick, Practice of Medicine, review
of, 310.

Fibula, fracture of, 452.

Field, George B. Wood, 33.
Fingers, supernumerary, 212.
Flint, Austin, 157.

Clinical Medicine, review of, 283.
Fluckiger and Hanbury, Pharmaco-
graphia, review of, 284.
Foot-binding in China, 216.

Ford, W. H., Yellow Fever, review of,

153

Formiate of sodium, 65, 353.

Foster, M., Physiology, review of, 176,
465.
Fothergill, J. Milner, Practitioner's
Hand-Book, review of, 610.

The Heart and its Diseases, review
of, 46.

Fox, Illustrations of Skin Diseases,
review of, 125, 511.
Fracture-bed, 352.

Fractures by muscular violence, 570.
compound, 629.

Fragilitas ossium, 659.

Frey, The Microscope, review of, 331.
Frozen sections of body, 179.
Fungus-poisoning, 263.

Heart, fatty degeneration of, 202.
innervation of, 39.

puerperal hypertrophy of, 325.
sounds at a distance, 38.
Heath, C., Surgical Diagnosis, review
of, 127:

Hebra, Professor, death of, 612.
Heinigke, Homœopathic Drugs, review
of, 491.

Hemorrhage, secondary, 657.
Hemorrhoids, 25, 49, 128, 631.
Henry, F. P., 81.

Hepatic abscess, 72.

cyst, 249.

Hernia, diaphragmatic, 39.

radical cure of, 466.

Heyl, Albert G., 318.

Hip-joint amputations, 202, 633.

Hoffmann, Analysis of Urine, review
of, 75.

Holmes, Gordon, Vocal Physiology,
review of, 125.

Homeopathy, 387, 388.
Hot baths in fever, 317.

water as a hæmostatic, 89, 97, 659.
House-plants, 400.

Humerus, luxations of, pathology of, 17.
resection of, 584.
sarcoma of, 173.
Hunter, C. T., 89.
Hydatids, 324.

intra-peritoneal rupture, 552.
Hydrocele, radical cure of, 623.
Hydrocephalus, syphilitic, 575.
Hydrophobia, 288, 541, 558.
Hymen, 145.
Hyoscyamia, 129.
Hyoscyamin, 657.
Hypophosphites, 438.
Hysterical erythema, 9.
vomiting, 586.

Idio-muscular contraction, 641.

Ileum, tubercular ulceration of, 41.
Immersion microtome, 197.
Incontinence of urine, 601.
Index Catalogue, 652.
Influenza, 337.

International Medical Congress, 634.
Intestines, congenital malposition of, 21.
infarctions of, 42.
Intra-capsular fracture, 6.
Intra-ocular tumor, 433.
Intra-uterine medication, 285, 439.

pessaries, 389, 409.

Intra-venous injections of ammonia, 27.
Intussusception, 385.

Iodoform, 9, 192.

Ipecacuanha as a hæmostatic, 39.
Iris, tuberculosis of, 38.

Iron, albuminate of, 118.

Isopelletierine, 526.

Jaborandi in Bright's disease, 56.

James, P., Laryngoscope, review of,

Nails, depressions on, 515.

Nancrede, C. B., 316.

Nasal chambers, malformation of, 119.
Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, 55, 203.
chondroma, 191.

polypi, extraction of, 93, 214.

National Board of Health, 146.
Nerve, repair of, 480.

stretching, 26, 277.

Neuralgia, hydro-therapeutics in, 507.
reflex, 659.

Neuritis, general, 377.

New York charities, 363.
Nicotine, 523.

Nigrita, 168.

Nipples, chaps of, 178.

Nitrate of silver, 515.

Nitrite of amyl, 49, 203, 525.
Nitro-glycerin, 465, 514.
Nocturnal terrors, 301.

North Woods, 624.

Noses, sunken, restoration of, 453.
Nostrils, chancre of, 299.
Nutmeg-poisoning, 228, 438.

Obstruction, intestinal, 72, 177.
Edema, ignipuncture in, 93.
Esophagismus, 601.

(Esophagus, anesthesia in operations
on, 507.
cancer of, 262.

Psoriasis, treatment, of 552.

Pudendum, inflammations of, 333.
Puerperal hypertrophy of heart, 325.
mania, 452.

septicæmia, 211, 237, 257.
Pulmonary embolism, 648.
Putzel, L., Functional Nervous Dis-
eases, review of, 630.
Pyæmia, idiopathic, 184, 198.
Pylorus, cancer of, 581.
Pyopneumothorax, 632.
Pyrogallic acid, 271, 377, 552.

Quassia poisoning, 658.
Quebracho, 323, 603.
Quinia, 493.

Quinine eruption, 166.
hæmaturia from, 39.
soluble, 27.

Ray, Dr. B. Lincoln, 179.
Rectal alimentation, 286.
Recto-vulvar fistula, 613.

Rectum, congenital malformations, 640.

prolapse of, 536.

Reed, Boardman, 207.

Reflex neuroses, 659.

Reichert, E. T., 109.

Relapsing fever, 467.
Renal inadequacy, 263.

Respiration, rapid, as an anesthetic,

Seborrhoea, 34.

Seguin, E. C., 441, 573, 598.
Seiler, Carl, 496, 541.

Shaffer, Newton M., Hysterical Ele-
ment in Orthopedic Surgery, review
of, 511.

Sharpey, Dr., death of, 416.

Shoulder-joint amputations, 227, 524.
Siegfried, C. A., 273.

Simes, J. H. C., 640.

Skeleton, malformation of, 78.

Skin, absorption by, 248.
fibro-sarcoma of, 325.

grafting, 281.

Skinner, W. T., 350.

Smith, H. H., 229.

Smith, Stephen, Surgery, review of, 24.
Sneezing, 439;

Soap, 481, 656.

Sparks, E. L., Riviera, review of, 224.
Sphincters, physiology of, 601.

Spinal cord, conduction in, 379.

curvature, 143, 610.

Spleen, absence of, 65.

hernia of, 277.

treatment of, 228, 362.
Tails in man, 551.

Tannate of quinine, 405.

Tartar emetic, suppositories of, in cere-
bral troubles, 39.

Taste, paralysis of, from ear-polypus,

352.

Taylor, A. S., death of, 564.
Tayuya, 192.

Tea, poisoning by, in a horse, 79.
tasting, 286.

Teeth, hearing through, 269.
Telangiectasis, 576.

Tendons, 524.

Testicle, transplantation of, 536.
Tetanus, 277, 376, 384.

Thigh, sarcoma of, 517.

Thomas, Charles H., 112, 269.

Thrush, 538.

Thyroid, excision of, 633.
Tibia, sarcoma of, 489.

Tobacco-smoke, alkaloids of, 623.
Tomlinson, H. A., 212.

Tonga, 587.

Tonsils, disease of, 311.

Tourniquet, 387.

Trigeminal neuralgia, 48.

Trophic nerves, 154.

Tubercle, pathology of, 469, 509.

Tubercular meningitis, 8, 462.

Tuberculosis, inoculation of, 405.
Turnbull, Laurence, 590.

Typhoid fever, 189, 439, 466.

fatty degeneration of heart in, 202.
muscular parasites in, 513.

Sir William Jenner on treatment
of, 193-

Tyson, James, 289, 313, 503.

Umbilicus, eczema of, 387.

Uræmia (experimental), 649.
Urticaria, 491.

Ustilago maidis, 416.
Uterine cancer, 623.

hemorrhage, 387.

inversion, 453.
tumors, 587.

Uterus, cancer of, 637.
Uvula, growth to, 490.

Vagina and uterus, double, 32.

pustules of, 48.
Vaginismus, 102.

Van Harlingen, Arthur, 3.
Variola, 9, 527.

Vaselin, 386.

Vegetable peptone, 656.

Vermiform appendix, 43, 44.

Viability, 587.

Volsella, 129.

Vulvo-vaginal gland, inflammation of,

647.

Walker, J. F., 211.

Wathen, William H., 637.

Watson, W. Spencer, Eyeball Tension,
review of, 25.