-BRYONIA. A pressing pain, as if a heavy weight laid on the pit of the stomach, with bloatedness immediately after a meal, and sometimes even before the meal is finished. Walking or going downstairs renders the pain unbearable, radiating even to the bladder and perineum, and relieved by sitting, and still more by lying down. Vomiting of the food sets in pretty soon after a meal, and may become bilious or even bloody. Sixth and twelfth dilutions.

-SURGERY OF THE ZULUS.-Surgery is the branch of the medical art that is most advanced among these people. Their treatment of wounds is especially remarkable, and several complicated cases, which Father Croonenberghs treated unsuccessfully by the usual methods, were made very short work of by native practitioners. Their system is based principally upon the earliest possible obturation of all wounds. They first extract the foreign body, bullet or spicule of bone, etc., in the rudest possible manner, using their fingers or a rough kind of forceps. They then close the wound carefully and cover it with a thick paste, composed of charcoal and mutton suet, taking care that no portion of the lacerated tissues remains exposed to the air. They treat fractures as we do, using pieces of bark, suitably cut, for splints. Travelers have observed no traces of amputations among them. Swellings of all kinds, the early stages of abscess, or anthrax, rheumatism, etc., are treated by means of the bulbs of the genus Allium (onion, wild garlic, etc). The bulb being steeped in water, heated almost to the boiling point, is applied while still hot.-South African Med. Journal.

-FAVORABLE INFLUENCE OF COUGHING ON THE REDUCTION of HERNIA. Dr. Vaudenabrele, in the Jour. de Med. de Paris, gives a surprising account of the effect of coughing on some cases of strangulated hernia, which have come under his observation.

The first was a merchant who had pulmonary emphysema for many years. One day his hernia became strangulated and Dr. Vaudenabrele was called in. Five minutes of taxis produced no effect. Suddenly, contrary to his directions, the patient coughed violently; while still holding the hernial tumor, he heard a gurgle and the hernia had decreased to half its volume. A repetition of the coughing was followed by reduction complete !

Wondering if there could have been a dilatation of the inguinal ring produced by the cough, the doctor determined to be on the lookout for anything that would throw light on the subject.

He was called, not long afterward, to see a woman, whose crural hernia was in a state of strangulation. A surgeon who had preceded him had tried taxis for more than a half-hour, but without avail. Dr. Vaudenabrele also tried it for two or three minutes; he then had the patient cough violently while controlling the hernia, and it was at once reduced. A third case was equally as amenable to this method, even after taxis had been employed both by himself and another surgeon. He therefore believes that he has found a method, simple, easy, applicable at all times and to all cases, superior to taxis and to any measure which has been described up to the present time.

The author's explanation is that, in the first place, the cough is capable of dilating the inguinal and crural rings. Gas inclosed and compressed in the strangulated intestine, at the moment of expansion of the ring, makes its escape into the abdominal part of the gut. The hernia then becoming a simple one, is also reducible.

OH-DON'T-OLOGY.

DON'T go to bed with cold or damp feet.

DON'T lean with your back against anything that is cold.

DON'T take warm drinks and then immediately go out into the cold. DON'T give calomel to open the bowels, and then opium to close the deluge.

DON'T let your patients wear earrings previously worn by consumptives.

DON'T hedge on a belief in homoeopathy even you are made more eligible thereby to a life situation as a Professor.

DON'T throw stones at the "private" schools, until you are sure of the unassailable vitreous condition of your University chair.

DON'T let yourself down in public estimation by doing menial services at the bedside when others are willing and able to do it.

DON'T attack a near "private" school, because its pseudo-editor representative injects a whole page ad. in the reading matter.

DON'T any longer deride the claim of pulsatilla to being a corverter of malpresentations into normal ones. Dr. C. W. Butler proves it. Don't forget that common decency, if nothing more, in auscultation of the female chest, demands the employment of a stethoscope.

DON'T alarm a child by staring it out of countenance; sit sufficiently near to watch it, and yet so far off as not to attract its attention.

DON'T nurture the belief so common that it is the province of the physician to predict the results, but only to estimate the tendencies of the disease.

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DON'T publish a medical book on the Book-Trust plan; it is subversive of medical ethics, in that it makes a secret" book of what should be open to all in the profession.

DON'T sing too loud about "specialists" occupying University positions. There are better paid and more eminent specialists outside the walls of the University than there are inside.

DON'T recommend for the study of medicine any one not showing an inborn aptitude for the profession. Remember the toil, irregularity of hours, disappointments, jealousies, and bad bills which beset the doctor's pathway.

DON'T wear your pantaloons buttoned tightly at the top and sustained by the hips. Wear suspenders. The constant pressure and unnatural heat to which the lower part of the back is subjected is one of the chief causes of the frequency of kidney diseases.

DON'T be a professor in a University if you have a living practice outside. Better a scramble for a "microscopic share of the net profits of " a faculty-owned private school with freedom of action, than the enormous fiduciary stipend of a University chair dependent upon a Board for opinions and living.

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