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Miscellaneous Notes.

Cactina Pellets and Seng were recently the subject of a suit in the United States Circuit Court (Northern District of Illinois). The Sultan Drug Co. obtained a perpetual injunction against Geo. P. Engelhard & Co., of Chicago, restraining them from publishing what purports to be working formulas for the above two well-known and valuable preparations. The alleged formulæ were not only incorrect, but calculated to injure the reputation and sale of the preparations. We desire to congratulate the Sultan Drug Co. upon their well-merited success in this suit, and hope that the verdict will deter others from attempting to publish in books or otherwise information both misleading and incorrect.

Listerine in Cholera Infantum.-Physicians coincide in their views regarding the treatment of the summer diarrhoea of infants and children to a degree that enables it to be thus briefly summarized: Diet, emptying the alimentary tract, antisepsis. For the antiseptic treatment, listerine alone, or listerine, aqua cinnamon and glycerine, or listerine, bismuth and mistura creta, will meet many requirements of the practitioner during the summer months.

The following well-tested formulæ are submitted:

M. Sig. Teaspoonful every two or three hours.

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M. Sig. Teaspoonful every one, two or three hours."

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M. Sig. Teaspoonful as often as necessary, but not more frequently than every three or four hours. This for children, about ten or twelve months old.

The Present Prevalence of LaGrippe.-"The following suggestions will be of value at this season: The pains of acute influenza are something indescribable, especially when associated with high temperature. To relieve these with some preparation of opium is only to increase the cerebral congestion and aggravate the extreme prostration. Sharp, darting pains are no more severe than are the dull, heavy and persistent pains in the muscles and bones which so often obtain in this disease. Clinical reports verify the value of antikamnia in controlling the neuralgic and muscular pains. as well as the fever. In fact, antikamnia may now be called the sine qua non in the treatment of this disease and its troublesome sequelæ.

It seems hardly necessary to indicate the conditions, when the use of two such well-known drugs as antikamnia and quinine' will be serviceable, nor the advisability of always exhibiting antikamnia and codeine' in the treatment of the accompanying neurosis of the larynx, the irritable cough and bronchial affections. Relapses appear to be very common, and when they occur the manifestations are of a more severe nature than in the initial attack. Here the complications of a

rheumatic type are commonly met, and antikamnia and salol' will be found beneficial. Antikamnia may be obtained pure, also in combination with the above drugs in tablet form.

"Tablets mark the most approved form of medication, especially as they insure accuracy of dosage and protection against substitution. To secure celerity of effect, always instruct that tablets be crushed before taking.”—Medical Reprints.

Vick's Floral Guide, 1897.-For nearly half a century this catalogue of flower and vegetable seeds, plants, bulbs, roses, grains, potatoes, etc., has come as regularly as spring time. Here it is again to remind us that it's time to think about our gardens. This issue contains half a dozen full-page half-tone illustrations of roses, asters, gold flowers, carnations and tomatoes.

It seems full of the necessary information for either amateur or professional. Send 15 cents to James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y., for a packet of either Vick's Branching Aster, New Japan Morning Glory or extra choice Pansy and a copy of Vick's Floral Guide. If you state where you saw this notice you will receive a package of flower seeds free.

Papine, Bromidia and Iodia.-P. N. de Duboeay, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Tallulah Falls, Rabun county, Ga., Sept. 22d, 1896, writes: "I have used Papine, Bromida and Iodia extensively in my practice, and expect to continue doing so, as these preparations undoubtedly are of great value. I have found your Iodia specially useful in cases of menstrual disorder generally, and as an alterative. Papine must of necessity come greatly into vogue with the general practitioner, relieving pain as it does without unpleasant after effects. It was of great value to me in treating the pain in a female suffering with (incurable)

cancer."

Celerina.-Jno. C. Levis, M.D., West Bridgewater, Pa., says: “I have used Celerina in my own case for insomnia. Among all the hypnotic preparations and nerve tonics, it stands justly pre-eminent. Several persons are now using it and report that no preparation has given such permanent and prompt relief. In a general practice of more than half a century, this is perhaps the first public testimony I have offered. Celerina is the very best nerve tonic now offered to the profession, and can not be too highly recommended. To those wanting a nerve stimulant it will be just the remedy."

Extract from a "Treatise on Rheumatism. Neuralgia, etc.,"issued by the Mellier Drug Company, St. Louis: "The action of Tongaline is largely eliminative. Seeking out the source of the trouble, the poisonous products of retained excretion or perverted secretion, it combines with them and either neutralizes them directly or renders them soluble so that they are carried off by the emunctories.

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By its stimulating action, not only on the kidneys, but also on the skin, on the digestive organs, etc., it hastens the processes made possible by its presence. Thus, for instance, by combination with insoluble uric acid or its insoluble salts. it renders them soluble, and by stimulation of the kidneys, it hurries out of the system the soluble compound.

"By its action on the liver, it renders unnecessary the administration of mercury in any form, without, however, conflicting with it, or with its salts or otherc ombinations, when they are especially indicated, as in the diseases and conditions of syphilis. It also does away, in a great measure, with the necessity for the use of cathartics, especially the more violent ones, which in the opinion of some most eminent men nearly always do more harm than good."

THE ST. LOUIS

Medical and Surgical Journal.

Whole No. 675.

VOLUME LXXII. -MARCH, 1897.-No. 3.

Original Communications.

MR. BENJAMIN JESTY, THE FIRST VACCINATOR.
MOORES BALL, M.D., of Saint Louis.

By JAMES

Most members of the medical profession labor under the delusion that Edward Jenner was the first person to use vaccination to prevent small-pox, but such is not the case. The honor belongs to a humble farmer of Dorsetshire. In view of the fact that Jenner looked upon Jesty's claims as unreliable, it is a satisfaction to be able to say, that, thanks to the researches of Edgar M. Crookshank, we now know that Mr. Jesty was right in his claims.* Jesty, having inoculated his wife and two children with cow-pox in 1774, became anxious that his claims to the original discovery should be known; accordingly he laid the matter before the Rev. Mr. Bell, who, August 1st, 1803, drew up a paper on the subject. This was submitted to the Jennerian Society. The society invited Mr. Jesty to go up to London. This was in 1804. Owing to fear of an attack of gout, Mr. Jesty did not go. The next year the invitation was repeated

* History and Pathology of Vaccination, Philadelphia, 1889. Vol. I., pp. 110-124.

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and was accepted.

Mr. Jesty took with him his son Robert,

whom he had inoculated in 1774.

"They met with great attention from the members of the society, who were much amused with Jesty's manners and appearance. Before he left home, his family tried to induce him to attire himself somewhat more fashionably, but without effect. 'He did not see,' he said, why he should dress better in London than in the country; and accordingly wore his usual dress, which was peculiarly old-fashioned."

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The society drew up a statement, of which the following was a part:

That he was led to counteract the small

"Mr. Benjamin Jesty, farmer, of Downshay, in the Isle of Wight, having, agreeable to an invitation from the medical establishment of the original Vaccine Pock Institution, Broad Street, Golden Square, visited London in August, 1805, to communicate certain facts relating to the cow pox inoculation, we think it a matter of justice to himself and beneficial to the public, to attest that, among other facts, he has afforded decisive evidence of his having vaccinated his wife and two sons, Robert and Benjamin, in the year 1774, who were thereby rendered unsusceptible of the small pox, as appears from the exposure of all the parties to that disease frequently during the course of thirty-one years, and from the inoculation of the two sons for the small pox fifteen years ago. undertake this novel practice in 1774, to pox at that time prevalent where he then resided, from knowing the common opinion of the country ever since he was a boy, now about sixty years ago, that persons who had gone through the small pox naturally (i. e.) by taking it from the cows, were unsusceptible of the small pox; by himself being incapable of taking the small pox, by having gone through the cow pox many years before; from having personally known many individuals who, after the cow pox could not have the small pox excited; from believing that the cow pox was an affection free from danger; and from his opinion that by the cow pox inoculation he should avoid engrafting various diseases of the human constitution-such as the evil, madness, lues, and many bad humors, as he called them.”

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