TO PRODUCE QUICK EMESIS.-Have your patient drink Oss of warm water, slightly alkaline, and inject hypodermically 1-10 gr. of apomorphia.

ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA.-In the croupy, catarrhal colds of children this remedy should never be forgotten. Use 3ss-3i in 3iv aqua, giving 3i doses every hour. If there is much chilliness add gtt. ii to gtt. v of capsicum tincture to the mixture.

UTERINE TONIC.-Caulophyllum is especially valuable in giving tone to the muscular tissues of the uterus and relieving those conditions which are of a spasmodic character. It can be combined to good advantage with viburnum prunifolium, helonias, macrotys, and pulsatilla, according as they may be indicated.

AN EFFICIENT ANTISEPTIC.-Eucalyptus globulus should never be forgotten when an antiseptic is needed. Those who have not used it along this line do not know what a reliable agent they have overlooked. It is not only an antiseptic but a disinfectant of the highest order. Use it in your malarial cases instead of quinine and you will be pleased.

IRIS VERSICOLOR.-Headaches of a bilious origin will be cured by this agent as well as certain nervous headaches. The iris headaches are of a reflex nature and proceed from an acid stomach or one that is irritated by acid secretions.

VARICOSE VEINS.-Mangifera indica (specific medicine) 3i-3ii, aqua živ, given in 3i doses four to six times a day, has been found to produce marked results in the removal of this troublesome condition. Try it and report.

CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.-Many cases have been reported showing the efficacy of phytolacca decandra in this disease, especially if any of the glands of the body are enlarged. It should be given in moderately large doses three or four times a day, and persisted in for some time.

PULSATILLA NUTTALLIANA.- One of the prominent symptoms of this drug is fear of impending danger, where such thoughts are needless. It will not disappoint you if you get a tincture made from the green root. Give it in minute doses well diluted-gtt. to every hour.

SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS.-As a cough remedy this agent will give good results when adapted to the proper cases. A hard, dry, hacking cough, with considerable pain in the upper part of the lungs, will be markedly relieved by the use of sanguinaria

canadensis. Add 3i to aqua ziv and give 3i doses every hour. If there is difficult breathing add 3ss tinc. of lobelia seed. Be sure that you get the tincture made from the seed.

RHEUMATISM WITH GOUTY TENDENCY.-Many cases of this difficulty have been successfully treated by adding 1 grain of Merck's colchicein dissolved in 3i alcohol and giving in 34 gtt. doses three or four times a day. Each dose should be largely diluted with water, at least two ounces. The dose must be reduced if it acts too freely upon the bowels. Kindly try and report your results.

PUERPERAL PERITONITIS is most successfully treated (if high fever is present) with veratrum viride and opium, both in appreciable doses.

MASTITIS. The treatment of mastitis, when the breasts are very hot, hard, and engorged, is most successful when veratrum viride and phytolacca are given alternately, and cloths wet in a lotion of phytolacca are applied.

SCANTY MENSES.-When this disorder is present in plethoric women, and is attended or not by congestion to the head or chest, veratrum in gtt. i doses of the tincture will prove curative.

PNEUMONIA. This is a disease in which veratrum is particularly indicated. It seems to have more controlling power in this than in any other disease, reducing the inflammation and favoring the expectoration in a very few hours. In pneumonia it is better to reduce the pulse as soon as possible. The inflammation being in a degree arrested, the lung is saved from the more severe consequences of the second stage.

CARDIAC TONIC.-Veratrum viride in small doses is as much a "cardiac tonic" as digitalis is in large.

CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY.-When cardiac hypertrophy with enlargement causes intense pressure of blood in the head, no better remedy can be found than veratrum viride, one or two drops of the tincture until the fever is lessened.

EUPHORBIA COROLLATA.-So profuse are the watery evacuations caused by this drug that it has been called a hydragogue cathartic, and used in dropsy to run off the serum through the bowels.

PAINFUL DIGESTION.-Bismuth subnitrate is of the greatest use in painful digestion, or a kind of gastralgia which comes on soon after eating. The pain is peculiar; it is a remittent pressure

as from a stone or some heavy substance in the stomach, some would call it a crampy pain, others a griping.

AFTERPAINS are frequently relieved by small doses of cimicifuga, especially in those cases which seem to be kept up by a neuralgic disposition or a mental and nervous irritability, and the patient is sleepless, restless, sensitive, and low-spirited.

CYPRIPEDIUM.-The sphere of remedial action possessed by this remedy is not wide. It acts upon the cerebrospinal system, upon the gray nerve-tissue, and is useful for the effects of over-mental exertion or reflex nervous excitement.-Journal of Therapeutics and Dietetics.

TREATMENT OF INFANTILE PNEUMONIA.

BY A. W. DAVIDSON, M. D.

In the treatment of this disease our first care should be to see that the patient is placed in as favorable surroundings as possible. There should be a sufficiency of light admitted to the room. The air in the room should be of moderate temperature, and ventilation should be ample.

All of the ordinary wearing apparel should be removed and the patient dressed in a comfortable gown. All unnecessary callers should be rigidly excluded, and perfect quiet should be maintained.

If the temperature is high, tepid sponging under cover will tend to reduce it and bring rest. If the tongue is clean, slightly too red, and inclined to be contracted, the 1-10 gr. of the mild chloride of mercury may be administered every hour until ten doses. are given, followed by small doses of castor oil until the bowels are evacuated. If the tongue is pale, coating white, we should administer sodium phosphate, grs. ij; rhei pul., grs. ss; podophyllin, grs. 1-6; mix, and give every three hours to the child five years. of age, until the bowels are moved. The dose may be increased for older patients.

In addition, if the pulse is rapid, temperature high, and the patient pale and inclined to stupor, R. aconite, gtt. iij to v; belladonna, gtt. iij to v; asclepias, drs. ss to i; aqua, ozs. iv; mix, and give one teaspoonful of the mixture every hour. If the dyspnoea is considerable and a tendency to cyanosis, we would prescribe in addition: B. lobelia, gtt. v to x; arom. spts. ammonia, drs. i; aqua, syr. simp. aa q. s., ozs. iv; mix, and give teaspoonful every thirty min

utes. If we have a rapid, hard, vibratile pulse, with high temperature, evidences of great pain in lungs, we would prescribe: B. veratrum, gtt. iij to v; bryonia, gtt. ij to v; asclepias, drs. ss to i; aqua, ozs. iv; mix. Give one teaspoonful every hour.

In sthenic cases with active circulation, hot, dry skin, a light mush jacket will be very comforting, or the application of camphorated oil with cotton jacket may be used. Antiphlogistin not applied too heavily has afforded some relief. The compound emetic powder applied on the larded flannel cloth as a local application will be likely found the most generally satisfactory. It is true physicians are frequently called to treat this and other forms of ailment where the sanitary and other surroundings are decidedly unfavorable. While this, of course, is a serious handicap, and places the results of our efforts in doubt, we must call into requisition every aid.

Soap and water are usually cheap, and a door or window can be opened and air admitted to the room.-American Medical Journal.

CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS.*

BY J. H. ALEXANDER, M. D., BELMONT, WIS.

As cactus has recently been declared a drug of no value by the old school, we will consider briefly the testimony in its favor. It was introduced to the medical profession by Dr. Scheele, of Germany, and afterwards by Dr. Rubini, of Naples, as a remedy in diseases of the heart.

Cactus acts on the sympathetic nervous system and on the cardiac plexus. In large doses it irritates the cardiac ganglia and may even cause inflammation of the heart or heart failure. It is also a gastric irritant and affects the brain, causing hallucinations and delirium. In medicinal doses cactus is a sedative diminishing the frequency of the pulse, and is a valuable remedy in functional diseases of the heart. Its prolonged use strengthens the heart and improves the cerebral circulation. It is a remedy for palpitation, and pain in the region of the heart with dyspnea, and it corrects the disordered innervation in heart diseases. When there is mental depression associated with disordered heart action. in nervous patients, cactus affords relief.

* Read at the 1910 meeting of the Wisconsin State Eclectic Medical Society.

When fainting is associated with the excessive use of tobacco, and in painful affections associated with heart disorders, cactus is a valuable remedy. Where there is weakness of the heart associated with brain trouble, painful affections or dropsical conditions, cactus is indicated.

Disorders of a nervous character with precordial weight and difficult breathing in women at the menopause who are despondent, cactus in drop doses will relieve. Cactus improves the muscular structure of the heart, strengthens the nervous system and improves digestion. There is no doubt cactus has been greatly overrated as a remedy. It has been lauded as a remedy not only in diseases of the heart, but also in various other disorders and even in acute inflammation. The cases affected by cactus are no doubt due to its affinity for the heart and from its action on the cardiac ganglia, where we have hyperesthesia, irritability, neuralgia, inflammation. It seems to act on the circular fibers of the muscular tissues of the heart.

The diseases that are cured by cactus are always associated with some cardiac disturbance. The symptoms may be mental, cerebral, ocular, aural, nasal, pharyngeal, gastric, hepatic, urinary, ovarian, uterine or thoracic, but always associated with cardiac disturbance more or less profound.

In hemoptysis, when the pulmonary vessels are weakened by disease, the heart and pulse tumultuous, with bright fluid blood, cactus will afford relief. In pneumonia and bronchitis, benefit has been claimed from cactus, but the heart lesion has been present in these cases. A hard, rapid pulse, when there is a sensation as if the heart were constricted by an iron band, is a pretty sure indication for cactus. Cures of heart diseases have been reported where the above mentioned sense of constriction was present with palpitation day and night, and in menstrual disorders associated with functional disease of the heart.

Valvular disease may be palliated by cactus, and angina pectoris has been greatly relieved by it. Organic diseases of the heart, both acute and chronic, idiopathic and rheumatic with palpitation may be benefited by cactus.

The following cases have been greatly relieved by the remedy: (1) Acute carditis-face blue, oppressed breathing, dry cough, pricking pain in the head, can not lie on left side; pulse quick, throbbing, tense and hard.