from other remedies. He extends a cordial invitation to those members of the medical profession who have the inclination and opportunity to investigate this method and on application will cheerfully send them a reprint on the subject, with full information and blanks for the report of cases. All those interested should address Thomas J. Mays, M.D., 1829 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Medical Preventive Treatment of Recurrent Hepatic Colics.

The following treatment, based upon careful and extensive trial, is highly recommended by A. Chauffard in International Clinics: Milk diet at first, in small doses, with a gradual return to a mixed diet containing but little meat; the continued administration of 1 to 2 grams daily of sodium salicylate with an equal amount of benzoate of sodium; two capsules of Haarlem oil per week; alkaline baths and dry friction. This treatment should be followed faithfully for at least a year, at first for twenty days each month, then fifteen and then ten days. The writer holds that, aside from the infected and bilioseptic forms and the cases of chronic jaundice, a patient with this disorder should not be operated on without having been first subjected to a vigorous medical treatment, and operations ought to be the exception.

Medicated Baths.-The proper proportions of various ingredients to each bath-tubful of thirty gallons of water, according to Jackson, are as follows: Bran, 2 to 6 pounds; potato-starch, I pound; gelatin, 1 to 3 pounds; linseed, 1 pound; marshmallow, 4 pounds; size, 2 to 4 pounds; sodium bicarbonate, 2 to 10 ounces; potassium carbonate, 2 to 6 ounces; borax, 3 ounces; nitric or muriatic acid, 1 ounce. A mercurial bath should have added to it 3 drams of mercuric chloride aud i dram of hydrochloric acid in a pint of water. Startin's compound sulphur bath contains 2 ounces of sulphur and 1 ounce sodium hyposulphite previously mixed with

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EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Tincture of Green Soap.-This consists of equal parts of alcohol and sapo viridis.

Glycerin Jelly.--This is made with 1 part of gelatin, 9 parts glycerin and 10 parts water.

The Larynx in Locomotor Ataxia.-It is said that paralysis of one or both vocal cords is occasionally one of the first signs of this disease.

For Bronchitis. Leech (Journal Medicine and Science) considers antimony in 1-20 grain dose of most service in moist bronchitis with dyspnea.

Ointment for Sunburn.-Thompson (New York Medical Journal) recommends a combination of a dram of bismuth subnitrate to the ounce of petrolatum.

Hay Fever. Waugh states that atropine, 1-500 grain every half hour till the secretion is checked, is the best palliative and has no danger back of it like cocaine.

Syphilitic Angina.-Gottheil places great reliance upon the sharp border of the dark crimson inflammatory area, noted when the angina spreads to the uvula and soft palate.

Gouty Migraine.-Combemale and Ingelrans (quoted in New York Medical Journal) recommend 10 grains of lithium salicylate in a tablespoonful of water at the principal meals.

Diabetic Flours.-Emil Schlicting (International Clinics) states that, owing to the difficulty of their manufacture, the so-called. gluten flours generally contain from 10 to 80% of starch.

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The International Sunshine Society. This association, says American Medicine, has for its object the rendering of aid to the shut-in and sick. It has nearly 100 members in Baltimore.

Referred Knee Pain. The pain in the knee from hip disease is familiar to all. According to Freiberg (Cleveland Medical Journal), pronated and flatfoot is also a frequent cause of pains in the knee. Jellies and Jams. Such preserves, as bought in the stores, says Schlicting, are often nothing but glucose and starch paste colored and flavored with essential oils, without the slightest trace of fruit.

Editorial Items continued on Page 153.

BOOKS.

The Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Acute and Chronic.-By William F. Waugh, A. M., M.D., Professor of Practice and Clinical. Medicine, Illinois Medical College. Pages, 221. Price $1.00 G. P. Engelhard & Company, Chicago. 1901.

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The author of this compact brochure is a practitioner of thirty years' experience, a well known medical teacher and a medical writer of national note. He discusses the various topics from a thoroughly practical standpoint and with marked originality. He favors the alkaloidal methods of treatment. The book contains quite a number of helpful tables of differential diagnosis.

The Ready Reference Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.-By George Thomas Jackson, M.D., Chief of Clinic and Instructor in Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Consulting Dermatologist to the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Twelvemo; 642 pages; with 80 Illustrations and 3 Plates. Fourth Edition. Thoroughly Revised. Price, $2.50. Lea Brothers & Co., New York and Philadelphia. 1901.

The utility of Dr. Jackson's manual is shown by the increasing demand for the work. It is in fact a book that can be easily comprehended by the student and readily consulted by the busy general practitioner in search of practical points to apply in diagnosis and therapeusis. All the synonyms of the various skin diseases in the leading foreign languages appear to be given. The appendix contains many handy general and special formulas. The present edition has been subjected to a careful revision and thirteen new sections have been added. It is an admirable book for all medical men except those who make a specialty of dermatology.

Syphilis; Its Diagnosis and Treatment.-By William S. Gottheil, M. D., Professor of Dermatology and Syphilogy, New York School of Clinical Medicine; Dermatologist to the Lebanon and BethIsrael Hospitals, the West-Side German Dispensary, Etc. Profusely Illustrated. Pages, 216. Price $1.00 net. G. P. Engelhard & Company, Chicago.

1901.

This neat monograph meets the needs of the general practitioner to perfection. It is very clearly written and most practical in style. The text is fully illustrated with original photogravures.

International Clinics.-A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology, Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners. By Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A. M., M. D. With Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic and Vienna. Volume II. Eleventh Series. 1901. Price, $2; Half-Leather, $2.25. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.

1901.

The publishers and editors of the Clinics are to be congratulated on their very successful efforts to produce a most practical standard of contemporaneous medical science. The latest volume has never been surpassed in interest, variety and utility. The prevalent epidemic of smallpox is discussed by Schamberg. Sewall contributes a scholarly address on 66 Some Relations of Osmosis and Ionic Action in Clinical Medicine." Cajal furnishes many striking suggestions as to the mechanism of mental operations. A novel feature that will be appreciated is the section by Dorland on the pronunciation and definition of some of the newer medical words.

Practice of Medicine.-By Eminent Medical Specialists and Authorities. Edited by George Alexander Gibson, M. D., D.S. C., F.R.C. P., Ed.; Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. In Two Octavo Volumes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1901.

The list of contributors to this work includes thirty-six of the best known British specialists and physicians-such names as the Bruces, Brunton, Gowers, A. P. Luff, Manson, Frederick Taylor and G. S. Woodhead. A new feature in such works is an extensive preliminary section on the general pathology of disease. The division of labor among so many competent authorities has enabled them to cover the whole field of medicine in a very thorough and satisfactory manner and to bring the discussion of each subject quite up to date. The work is in short representative in the highest sense of modern British medicine. It is fully and handsomely illustrated. American physicians will acquire many new points of view by perusual of these volumes.

Supraorbital Pain.-Says the Northwestern Lancet: "A single dose of from 10 to 15 grains of salicylate of sodium will often cure acute supraorbital pain. It is safe to give in every case where blood poisoning is suspected."

SELECTIONS.

New Orleans Polyclinic.-Fifteenth annual session opens Nov. 4, 1901. Physicians will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon modern progress in all branches of medicine and surgery. The specialties are fully taught, including laboratory work. For further information, address Dr. Isadore Dyer, Secretary, New Orleans Polyclinic, P. O. Box 797, New Orleans, La.

Sanmetto in Enuresis. "I used Sanmetto in a case of a young miss, 13 years of age, who was becoming a regular wet the bed.' I had tried all the usual remedies, but failed to make a cure, so I tried Sanmetto and the result was a perfect cure, as she has not been troubled since the first treatment with Sanmetto, and I inquired to-day, and was informed that she had attended school, traveled two hundred and fifty miles, losing two nights sleep, but not once has the trouble returned; therefore, I call it a cure in every sense of the word, and another triumph for Sanmetto. I can say that in over forty-six years' practice I have never found a medicine that is as near a specific for the purposes intended as Sanmetto."Wm. H. Anderson, M. D., Soda Springs, Idaho.

Everybody Knows the Condition.-It's so extremely common and rebellious; some physicians call it general debility, malnutrition, or nervous exhaustion, or a host of other names. Whatever its name or its cause, there exist the very striking facts that the blood has been impoverished, the nervous system ravished, the vitality sapped out. It would seem extremely rash to make the statement that any one remedy is equally efficacious in all of these cases, particularly so when the usually employed tonics-iron, strychnine, cod liver oil, etc.-have utterly failed. Yet such is the statement of thousands of physicians whose names are everywhere the synonyms for eminence, integrity, ability; physicians who represent all that is best in ethical, scientific medicine. It is this class of physicians. who make the unqualified assertion that Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp. is uniformly effective in malnutrition, general debility, nervous prostration-whether the condition accompanies organic disease, acute infectious diseases or exists without ascribable cause. Gray's