320 Who Expires First?-The Russian Courts have reversed the assumption of the American tribunals that when a husband and wife are drowned in the same disaster the wife dies first. Russian physicians agree unanimously that the man would be the first to die, because the women is more agile and keeps herself longer above water. Walter W. S. Corry, M. D., L. R. C. S., I. & C., Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, Yorkshire, England, writes: "I have used Iodia and am satisfied that it is a very powerful alterative, and a great improvement on the old combination of iodide of potassium and sarsparilla, the latter drug itself being most doubtful in its effects, while the preparation is valuable also as a diuretic, a thing of no small consideration in most of the diseases in which it is indicated." Acme Vaseline Atomizer.-The treatment of inflammations of the nose and throat with vaseline, benzoinol or albolene as a menstrum, is universally established, and is general regarded as the best method in these complaints thus far. This Atomizer is also efficient means for making local mercurial applications to throat and nasal cavity in syphilitic treatment. We have several monographs by competent authority, explanatory of the above methods of treatment, which we shall be happy to send to any address on application. HOLEKAMP, GRADY & MOORE INSTRUMENT CO., 915 Olive, St. Louis. The Perfect Chair.-We have just received one of the new improved Lewis chairs, and wish to express our appreciation of the beauties and comfort of this most marvelous piece of office furniture. In appearance it is a handsome easy chair, fit to grace any office or parlor, in which the occupant may rock or remain stationary, at will. But presto, change, and it becomes a full length operating table, or conforms to any of the positions desired by the operator. The price of this chair is most reasonable and terms easy. Address The P. C. Lewis Mfg. Co., Box 99, Catskill, N. Y., for handsome illustrated catalogue. One Hundred Points of Perfection.-It is only a few years since the Pabst Brewing Company's malt extract was first placed on the market. It was introduced as the "Best" Tonic, and through its excellence soon became a general favorite. At the great Columbian Exposition at Chicago, the Pabst Malt Extract was examined by the government chemist and the board of judges, and the result was the highest flattery that could be bestowed. Of all the host of malt productions they examined, coming both from this country and from Europe, the "Best" Tonic was selected as the only one thought worthy of the highest rank. It w marked with the 100 points of perfection. Such a distinction has never been conferred in the history of expositions. It recognized the Pabst Malt Extract as the head of scientific malt foods and in advance of the highest previous attainments in the production of malt extracts. was Malarial Conditions.-For all malarial conditions quinine is the best romedy we have. But associated with this condition there is always more or less pain, which often renders the life of the individual uncomfortable, if not positively miserable. Antikamnia will remove all these unpleasant symptoms and place the system in the best condition for the quinine to do its work. There are a number of ailments, not closely defined, which are due to the presence of the malaria in the poison. All such conditions are greatly benefited by the use of antikamnia and quinine. In headache (hemicrania), in the neuralgias occuring in anæmic patients who have malarial cachexia, and in a large number of affections more or less dependent upon this cachectic condition, the regular administration of this combination will produce the happy results. In cases of marlarial fever it should be given as a prophylactic and cure. "Antikamnia and Quinine" are put up in tablet form, each tablet containing two and one-half grains of antikamnia and two and one-half grains of quinine, and is the most satisfactory mode of exhibition. 321 Various forms of neurasthenia are frequently cured by the use of Celerina, after the usual treatment with nux vomica, damiana, phosphorus, quinia, arsenic, iron, etc., have failed. Phytoline.--The bottle of Phytoline I received from you a short time ago reduced a gentleman's weight from 228 to 215 pounds, also has in his case overcome muscular pain of a rheumatic character. J. F. SYNDER, M. D., Jacobus, Pa. Knew Japanese.-A Japanese medical student at the University of Edinburgh recently claimed the privilege of being examined in his native language, which by the rules is allowed to all foreign students who are not French or German. The faculty was not put out, but found one of its own members who could examine him.-Liverpool Mercury. Antidote for Cyanide Poisoning.—Cobalt nitrate is found by Dr. John Antal, a chemist of Hungary, to be an antidote to prussic acid and cyanide poisoning. First he tried the cobalt on animals, and then, presumably at different times, on forty living persons who had been accidentally poisoned by prussic acid, and in all cases the results are reported to have been satisfactory. Extract From Clnical Report." I am able to obtain the therapeutic effect of a larger proportion of the dose of arsenic (without stomach disturbance) as contained in arsenauro than I can secure from other preparations containing arsenic. The arsenic is evidently modified by the gold and bromin present, rendering it more soluble and less liable to change during the digestive process. Seemingly strange, but such is my experience." W. H. H. MILLER, M. D., Williamsport, Pa. Enuresis Nocturna.-Dr. F. Clark of Boston, Mass., writing says: "I have used Sanmetto with good results in bladder, kidney and urinary troubles. I had a man come to me from Philadelphia, Penn., who had been troubled from an infant up to the age of twenty-four years with nocturnal incontinence of urine-wetting the bed almost every night. I used three bottles of Sanmetto on him, and found it made a thorough cure. He can go to bed at eight o'clock and sleep until eight the next morning without urinating. I recommend with all honesty, to the suffering and to the profession the great cure-Sanmetto." The Value of Iodine.-It has so often been my experience to be let out of a tight place, therapeutically speaking, by the use of the iodines, that I rather wonder at myself for not using them more rather than less, and cannot help thinking that if all practitioners of medicine have had an experience like mine, the compounds of iodine would head the list of drugs in frequency of use. Instead of using the iodide of potash as I used to do, I employ the calcium salts almost exclusively. My reasons for this are that the potash salts are poisonous if taken in considerable quantities. This has been shown to be the case, particularly in connection with the study of chronic nephritis. Morever, Prof. Germain See is authority for the statement in La Medicine Moderne, for March of last year, that preparations of are slow and uncertain in their absorption and elimination. On the other hand, he finds that the iodine and bromide of calcium are easily absorbed, are particularly useful for exerting upon the body the effects of iodine and bromine, and do not cause those gastric disturbances that so often interfere with the administration of potassium salts. Calcium salts enter so largely into the composition of bone and other tissues that they can always be regarded as having a direct nutritive value, and their innocuousness is not alone confined to the absence of irritating effects upon the digestive organs, as they cannot be regarded as poisons in any sense of the word. The dose of the calcium compounds is practically the same as that of the potash salts, and their extended trial is worthy of the attention of practitioners of medicine. I find the Elixir Iodo Bromide of Calcium Compound-Tilden's, in every way satisfactory and entirely worthy of confidence.- William Davis, M. D., of St. Paul, Minn., in The Journal of Materia Medica. 322 Surgical Chair.-Any doctor in need of a first class operating chair, can secure a bargain by addressing RETIRED, care MEDICAL HERALD, St. Joseph, Mo. True. Circulations, like metals, have their qualities and values, An ounce of gold is worth more than a pound of brass. A small ad. in a journal of highclass circulation is worth two pages in a "cheap" sheet.-Woman's Medical Journal "Pasteurine is a thoroughly efficient antiseptic. I have found it of great value as a dentifrice, a vaginal douche, a gargle, a remedy for fermentative dyspepsia, a local wash for the skin in scarlet fever, of value for surgical purposes, and in all infec diseases. It is indispensable for the sick room and laboratory." I. N. LOVE, M. D., 3642 Lindell Ave., St. Louis. In the after-treatment of a case where an "operation for the relief of an impermeable occlusion of the esophagus of five years standing" was performed, which operation was reported at length in the N. Y. Medical Journal of March 23rd, 1895, Dr. Augustus C. Bernays, A. M., M. D., Heidelberg, M. R. C. S. Eng., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery at the Marion-Sims College of Medicine, the operating surgeon, says: "The patient rallied fairly well after the operation, but she became greatly emaciated. Liquid food was given at short intervals and stimulants as indications demanded. In order to ally the extreme nervousness and irritability, antikamnia was given and it acted promptly and satisfactorily in every instance.' Of the further history of the case it may be stated that on the seventh day after operation, the patient took into her stomach through the natural channel the first food which had passed into it in five years; and that in two months convalescence was regarded as fully established. Inebriety, Delirium Tremens, Opium Habit, Etc. To overcome the appetite for strong drink we must employ a remedial agent which, while acting as a stimulant and tonic on the system, will cause no disgust for it or nausea when its use is continued for some time. In Celerina we have almost a certain cure. Celerina, while causing no nausea whatever through and by itself, will, in most cases, as extensive experience has proven, imbue the person using it with an actual disgust for, and an abhorrence of, all kinds of strong drink. In the varied conditions following the abuse of alcohol, opium and tobacco, to restore the patient and tone the nervous system, Celerina is of great value, and as a tonic to the nervous system in all those cases of nervous exhaustion, whether evolved in the cerebral or spinal centers. Celerina, in doses of a fluid drachm three times a day, destroys the craving for alcoholic liquors. Celerina is a remedy par excellence to tone the nervous system in the varied conditions following sexual excesses and the abuse of alcohol, opium and tobacco. In the Treatment of Nervous Diseases and General Debility, Mc Arthur's Syrup Hypophosphites demonstrates its restorative powers. Here it is not the stimulating action of the remedies usually classed as tonics that is needed. The organic powers of the system are already taxed to their utmost ability to carry on the physiological process of life. The Hypophosphites of lime and soda gives the much needed effect in these conditions--not that of a stimulant by irritation, but that of a true nutriment to the starving tissues. Its tonic effects are permanent as they are the effects of a richer blood supply, bringing healthy food and oxygen to the tissues. Thus the patient is gradually brought up to his normal condition. After an attack of the grippe the patient finds himself in a state of extreme weakness and prostration from which condition he is tediously brought to his former good health. Remedies which stimulate his exhausted nerves too vigorously do so at the expense of his general condition. Then comes the relapse. Syr. Hypophos. Comp. McArthur, conveys to the tissues the revivifying agent phosphorous in its most oxidizable and assimilable form. Thus the true vitality of the nerve ructure is restored by renewing the nutrition of the tissues themselves. st |