DIOVIBURNIA

Uterine Tonic, Antispasmodic and Anodyne.

A RELIABLE REMEDY FOR THE RELIEF OF

Dysmenorrhoea, Amenorrhoea, Menorrhagia, Leucorrhoea, Subin volution; checks Threatened Abortion and Vomiting in Pregnancy.

Directing its action to the entire uterine system as a general tonic and antispasmodic.

Prepared exclusively for prescribing. The formula will commend itself to every physician.

FORMULA.-Every ounce contains 3-4 drachm of the fluid extracts: Viburnum Prunifo lium, Viburnum Opulus, Dioscorea Villoss, Aletris Farinosa, Helonias Diocia, Mitchella Repens, Caulophyllum Thalistroids, Scutellaria, Lateriflora.

On application we will mail to practitioners, our Treatise on Uterine Diseases, wherein

DI-O-VI-BUR-NIA is indicated, including commendations of many eminent physicians.

BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTION!

The Hygiene of the Lying-in Room.

ALTHOUGH it is well-known that women in

the puerperal state are peculiarly sensitive to the influence of inperfect sanitation, it is remarkable that comparatively little attention is paid to the hygiene of the lying-in chamber in private dwellings.

We do not believe the careful practitioner ignores the importance of disinfectants in this connection, yet it is true their use is frequently considered of secondary value, when the greatest skill will be vain, so long as the surroundings of the patient are lowering the vitality or poisoning the blood.

Because of the unpleasant odor it is easily understood why objection should be made to the use about the room of chloride of lime or carbolic acid, or any pungent compound, but when thorough disinfection and complete deodorization may be attained by the use of ordorless yet harmless chemicals, it seems it should be a pleasing duty of the physician to adopt their

use.

For this purpose especially let us again call your attention to Platt's Chlorides, at once a reliable disinfectant, a prompt deodorant and a powerful antiseptic, entirely free from odor or color, clean, stainless and economical.

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To neutralize the gases and odors of the room, moisten a towel or sheet with a mixture of one part Platt's Chlorides to ten of water. Shake or snap this about and then suspend it to the gas bracket, or any convenient hook, that it may act as a permanent absorbent. Re-moisten when dry.

For the vessel of the room, use one part Chlorides to four of water, to neutralize the discharges, etc.

For Sprinkling about the room, use a tenper-cent. solution and scatter with a whisk broom. It leaves no stain.

As a vaginal injection one part to fifty, or, if fetor still presists, one to thirty parts of water, as judgment and experience may dictate.

The following practical words from a known New York City physician are to the point:

In all confinements with the best of care, there is necessarily a good deal of offensive air under the bead covers which is not due to offensive lochia, but to perfectly normal discharges and perspiration, both of which are so profuse during the lying-in period. This effluvia is as

cian and attendants. For all these conditions let me urge the profession to make free use of "Platt's Chlorides." For injections at first, use one part to thirty of water The strength can be easily modified to suit the circumstances. For simply purifying the room or bed I saturate towels with undiluted Chlorides and hang about the room or spread between the sheets and resaturate when evaporation is complete. It is very effectual.

A. M. PIERSONS, M. D., 24 East 127th Street.

IT T being always interesting to know the early history of a cause that is dear to us, and to know something of those who have borne a part in the advancement of that cause, I propose, in this paper, to give, in response to a request of the JOURNAL, whose object I approve, some items of information within my knowledge concerning the introduction and progress of Homœopathy in Georgia, with some reminiscences of the pioneers.

SAVANNAH.

The first to enter the "old school" wilderness of Georgia was my honored preceptor, Dr. James Banks Gilbert. In 1812 he arrived in Savannah and entered a wedge which soon made a wide rift in the Allopathic sides of that communitymaking his start, as is usual with members of our school, by curing forlorn old cases that had defied the skill and had been the despair of the best of the physicians of the old regime. He was well equipped for missionary work in this line, having been graduated from the University Medical College of New York,

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after having had the advantage of the preceptorship of the late Dr. John F. Gray, a convert to Homoeopathy under Dr. Gram, who was the first to practice the new system in America-himself having learned it directly from Hahne

mann.

Being blessed with a fine personal appearance and other natural endowments and being thoroughly devoted to his work, Dr. Gilbert made rapid progress in establishing a fine practice among the most cultured and desirable people of the city, and in endearing himself to those who were the objects of his care. This is no place in which to dwell upon his merits as a physician and as a man, and I must refrain from referring, as my impulse inclines me, to him who was "my sage, philosopher and friend." He died in 1853, aged 33 years, after a comparatively brief but unusually brilliant career as a physician, admired and beloved by a large circle of friends, to his devotion. to whom, by reason of overwork, he was a victim.

The next to adopt the new faith in Savannah was Dr. Jas Montford Schley, who was a practitioner of the old school. Having had his attention arrested by some remarkable cures by Dr. Gilbert he began a course of inquiries that resulted, as is usual in such cases (which accounts for so many conversions from old medicine), in his adoption of the new

method. He went to New York to witness the operation of the new treatment, and remained some time with Dr. Gray, becoming daily more fortified in his conviction. Returning to Savannah he now gave himself up entirely to the new practice (having for a time, from a want of knowledge, combined both systems) and was soon on the highway to an extensive practice and to renown as a physician. It is, however, often the misfortune of those who make unusually rapid strides in the establishment of a medical practice to be overwhelmed with demands upon their strength and their feelings, and to suffer impairment of health, and he (as Dr. Gilbert had done before him, at an earlier period of life) broke down in health, and eventually died in the spring of 1876.

A brother of the above mentioned, Dr. Freeman Schley, commenced the practice of medicine with him in 1853, but was overtaken by the yellow fever which was violently epidemic in 1854 and having gone to his relatives in Augusta with the fever upon him, died at that place from that fearful disease. The writer saw him depart with a prepossession that he should never look upon his face again. He was a young man of fine promise and fell a victim with seven others of the profession in Savannah, who died of the same epidemic during that frightful season. Two medical students who were at work in trying to combat the pestilence also fell victims during the season-mak ing a mortality in the profession greater than has ever occurred during any epidemic of which the writer has known or heard. The superior success of Homœopathic treatment was very thoroughly demonstrated during this epidemic, greatly

to the advancement of the cause.

Before the death of Dr. Gilbert he had taken into partnership Dr. William Hardy Banks, who was established in Macon, but who was induced to go to Savannah. He succeeded to the large practice of Dr. Gilbert, and was a popular and successful practitioner.

The writer, having commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Gilbert in 1850 continued under Dr. Banks, and having received his diploma in 1854 from the Medical Department of the University of New York, formed a partnership with Dr. Banks which continued for years, when it expired by limitation-the friendship formed, however, continuing with uninterrupted cordiality while Dr. Banks lived. During the early part of the civil war he was a captain of cavalry, but his health being lost he retired to a farm in Florida After the war, much reduced in health, he removed to Marietta where he died in about 1871.

Dr. Jos. H. Boggs, a graduate of old school medicine but a convert of Dr. Gilbert, practiced in Savannah several years, commencing in 1850; but, being of a melancholic turn of mind and not succeeding well-which circumstances were complicated with a love affair, he deliberately committed suicide, in 1852, by tak-' ing hydrocyanic acid.

At different times a number of our school practiced for short periods in 1 Savannah, among whom was a brother of the writer, Dr. John Orme, who studied under Dr. Edward Bayard in New York and took his degree from the Medical Department of the University of New York. He located in Savannah in 1846; ! but, his health being poor at the time, he did but a moderate practice until he died