MONTANA.

Kellogg, Edwin S., Helena

Leonard, E. J., Butte City
Leighton, J. A., Boulder

Norcross, C. F., Butte City

Sarchet, G. B., Butte City

Thompson, C. S. W., Helena
Whitefoot, R. M., Bozeman

FIGHTING REGULARS.-Not always, but yet generally, the regular physician who most actively wars against irregulars will be found to also be at enmity with many in his own school. Fighting regulars individually and irregulars collectively.-Pacific Med. Record.

Well, the great fair is about over and we can now look for hotel men who will live up to their promises,, for theater men who will not rob the press and the public as well, for an honest railroad passenger agent, for an accommodating ice man, butcher, and grocer, for a carriage at a reasonable price, for a seat in the elevated or the street car.

With the reaction will come a need for business and things will soon resume their former well regulated character.

It was a grand affair and the presence of the millions of people upset many of our residents, but they will soon recover. However, one does not soon forget the many impositions he was subjected to, and in the future stays away from the avaricious hotel man, from the grasping theater man, takes a decent railroad like the Chicago & Northwestern or the Chicago & Alton, and changes his ice man, butcher and grocer.

By the way the American Institute meets in Denver next June and there are two ways of getting there comfortably, via: The Chicago & North-western and the Chicago & Alton. The latter will run a special train from Chicago and St. Louis, and the former one from Chicago, connecting at Omaha with one from St. Paul and Minneapolis. The matter is spoken of thus early in order that physicians may get their papers ready and arrange their work for a grand holiday at that time.

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M. W. Ross, M. D., of Scranton, Pa., says: able success in prescribing my favorite prescription.

Sig:-Take one every two or three hours for la grippe, muscular soreness, pains, etc., due to cold; also use Antikamnia and Salol in rheumatism with success.

In December, 1886, I was called to see P., a bright, manly little boy aged 5 years, and the only child of a widow.

I found him suffering from diphtheria, and in prescribing for him I ordered Platt's Chlorides to be placed in the room as a disinfectant. December 24 I discharged my little patient as cured, but early the next morning I was hurriedly called as he was much worse, and was informed that during the night the fire in the heater had gone out and that when they awoke the house was as cold as a barn; and also that the patient had a croupy cough and they were afraid of croup.

On my arrival I found the boy suffering from membranous croup as I then diagnosed the case, although I could not see any membrane.

The voice was lost; there was crowing inspiration and prolonged expiration; an incessant dry cough; great restlessness and high fever with profuse perspiration.

The difficulty in both inspiration and expiration confirmed me n the opinion that I had a case of croup with membrane, and from the weakened condition of the child my prognosis was not favorable. I so informed the friends and wished they would call some other physician in consultation. I promised to call again

in a few hours.

On my return I found no improvement as to the laryngeal trouble, though the fever was some lower.

The child was lying on a lounge near the fire. I soon discovered that all his symptoms seemed aggravated by his lying there was easier when lying in his mother's lap, and still more relieved when carried in his uncle's arms.

After I discovered this relief his friends kept him for the most part of the time in their arms. But why should this be so was

the question.

The next morning on my return I could plainly see that my patient was slowly sinking, and that some mysterious influence other than the disease was helping to carry him to that "bourn from whence no traveler returns."

I had spent most of the night in trying to solve this mystery and the day passed without its solution. The third morning, about three o'clock, those chlorides came into my mind, and remembering that chlorine gas was 24 times heavier than air, I immediately returned to my patient only to find him much weaker and the end not far distant.

I immediately lay down on that lounge and within a few minutes I could feel the irritating effects of the chlorine vapor in my throat and began to hack and cough, but on sitting up this irritation soon passed away. The chlorides were removed from the room and the appartment well ventilated. on my patient was remarkable. The cough and respirations were greatly relieved, but he died that afternoon.

The effect

My diagnosis and prognosis were confirmed during his sickness by one of Chicago's best physicians, although he could not see any membrane.

I had only graduated the previous spring and was fresh from college without experience, but from the experience acquired since then I am satisfied this was not a case of membranous croup but laryngitis, the result of the chill and the irritation. produced by the chlorides, and had they been removed on my first visit I might have saved my patient. In college I had been taught to use them, and after placing them in the room I gave them no further thought till forced to do so, although from the very first I noted the similarity between the case before me and a case of poisoning by this gas, yet I did not ascribe it to the disinfectant.

CASE NO. 2.

In January, 1892, I was called to see Mrs. C., a lady aged 71 years.

For many years she had been a sufferer from chronic bronchitis, very sensitive to cold air, and never thought of stepping

outside of her house during the fall, winter and spring months, but for the past two years she had been growing better under our mode of treatment.

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On this visit I found her suffering from laryngitis. Temperature 100, croupous cough and difficult breathing. prescribed and at the end of three days she was as well as usual. Just one week from that day I was called again and found the same laryngeal trouble and prescribed the same remedies with the same result.

One week later I was called for the third time on the same day of the week and at the same hour, and again I found my patient in the same condition.

Now there must be some cause for this laryngitis other than taking cold, and on inquiry I found that they kept chloride of lime in their bath room for a disinfectant, and that on Mondays my patient was in the habit of going there and remaining about one hour for the purpose of washing a few garments she did not care to send to the laundry.

I ordered the chloride of lime to be removed from the house and the room thoroughly ventilated, and although my patient did not discontinue her Monday's visits to the bath room, yet she had no more laryngitis.

Her case was made more susceptible to chlorine poisoning by her having chronic bronchitis and the first case by having diphtheria.

Now supposing case No. 2 had had diphtheria and I had ordered the chlorides as a disinfectant as I did in the first case, on my next visit I should have found a new case and pronounced it croupous diphtheria and probably lost my patient.

Since 1886 I have not used chlorides or any other disinfectant in diphtheria or scarlet fever other than pure air, and I have had no laryngeal trouble as a complication in those diseases. Although I have known many cases of laryngeal complication in those diseases in my neighborhood, and in nearly every one of the cases the chlorides have been used as a disinfectant.

I think I can safely say that two-thirds of laryngeal complications in diphtheria and scarlet fever are brought on by the use of this disinfectant. E. Z. BACON,

Chicago.