and less harmful yet no less potent means of antagonizing contagion and putrefaction are finding favor,

The compound known as Listerine has, for nearly two years, served me better than any other remedy of its class, and, in the treatment of phthisis, has almost supplanted in my practice all other antiseptics. In treatment of diseases of the upper air passages it is pleasant and does not irritate; in the fermentative dyspepsia so often accompanying phthisis it is safe and efficient.

It is the most powerful non-toxic antiseptic I have yet found —Lancet and Clinic.

How to Hang-In a recent paper on this subject, Dr. G. M. Hammond produces evidence that the common practice of jerking the body by the neck with a view to dislocation is wrong, useless and barbarous. In hanging death takes place either by asphyxia or apoplexy, or by both. If the cord be loose or too high up on the neck, a little air may still reach the lungs, and life be prolonged till the slower death by apoplexy takes place. The object should be to produce immediate asphyxia, with a noose adjusted so as to close the windpipe at once. Usually there are both apoplexy and asphyxia. Dr. Hammond had himself partly strangled in a chair. A towel was passed round his neck and the ends twisted together by a medical friend, while another friend stood in front to watch the face and make necessary tests. As the twisting proceeded Dr. Hammond first noticed a sensation of warmth and tingling, which began with the feet and spread over the body; vision partly disappeared, but there was no appearance of colored lights. The head felt as if would burst, and there was a roaring in the ears; consciousness continued, and Dr. Hammond could tell his friend whether he suffered pain from the knife thrusts being made into his hand. In one minute and twenty seconds from the commencement sensibility was abolished. In another experiment, sensibility ceased in fifty-five seconds. A knifethrust, sufficient to draw blood, caused no sensation whatever. Dr. Hammond considers that the proper way to hang is to stand the criminal on the ground and adjust the noose carefully round the neck below the larynx; then raise him by pulling on the rope, which should pass over a pulley above, and he should be allowed to hang for thirty minutes. If he be let fall through a trap, or lifted suddenly from the ground, the noose is almost certain to be displaced, and death to be less sudden than it should be. The rope should be soft and flexible, so as to fit closely to the neck; probably one of cotton or flax would be preferable to the usual hempen cord. In hanging by the method indicated, sensibility would cease almost immediately after suspension, and much physical and mental suffering would be obviated. In the case of persons weighing under

150 lbs., it would be well to attach a weight to the feet to insure sufficient traction of the cord. Dr. Hammond notices the mistaken idea that dislocation of the neck causes instant death; in some cases even recovery has taken place. Even where death does occur, it is no more instantaneous than when asphyxia is accomplished, and there is no greater freedom from convulsions. Any convulsions observed in the other case may be regarded as no more evidence of pain than are the movements of a decapitated chicken.-The Medical Gazette.

QUESTIONS ASKED IN ANATOMY BY PROF. W. R. WHITE-
HEAD FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER.

Candidates are required to answer seventy per cent. of the questions given to pass this examination, viz:

I.

2

3.

4

5.

6.

Name the foramina at the base of the skull.

Also name what passes through them.

Name the sinuses of the dura mater.

Describe the fornix, and mention where its anterior and posterior crura terminate.

Name the convolutions that form the borders of the fissure of Siluins, and what is contained in this fissure, and its relations to the fissure of Rolando.

Describe what is meant by the internal capsule, and how, and in what part of the brain, should a section be made to show it plainly.

Name the branches of the sub-clavian artery.

7.

8.

Name the valves of the heart.

9.

What are the relations of the ascending portion of the arch of

the aorta.

10. What muscles are attached to the greater tuberosity, lesser tuberosity, and bicipital ridges of the humerus.

II. Describe the greater trochanter of the femur, and name the muscles attached to this trochanter.

12. Name the bounderies and contents of Scarper's triangle.

13. Describe the mesentery.

14. Name the relations of the pancreas.

15. How is the liver held in place.

16. How is the brachial plexus of nerves formed, and what are its branches.

17. Name the muscles and arteries of the male perineum.

18. Describe the ligaments of the uterus.

19. Name the parts cut through in a circular amputation at the mid

dle of the leg.

20. Name the ligaments of the ankle joint, describing the external

lateral ligament.

DENVER, COLO.-MORTUARY REPORT, FEBRUARY, 1883

A. LABRIE, M. D., Health Officer.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT FOK FERRUARY, 1883.

Total precipitation (rain) in inches, (melted snow)........

22

..per cent. 64 5

II O

O 45

Prevailing Direction of Wind.....

..S.

*To reduce Barometer to sea level, add 5,520 inches.
†Below Zero.

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Demonstrated Superiority of Lactopeptine as a Digestive Agent.

Certificate of Composition and Properties of Lactopeptine by Prof. Attfield, Ph. D., F. R. S., F. I. C., F. Č. S., Prof. of Practical Chem. to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

LONDON, May 30, 1882.

LACTOPEPTINE having been prescribed for some of my friends during the past five years-apparently with very satisfactory results-its formula, which is stated on the bottles, and its general characters, have become well known to me. But recently the manufacturer of this article has asked me to witness its preparation on a large scale, to take samples of its ingredients from large balks and examine them and also mix them myself, and to prepare "Lactopeptine" from ingredients made under my own direction, doing all this with the object of certifying that "Lactopeptine is what its makers profess it to be, and that its ingredients are in quality the best that can be obtained. This I have done, and I now report that the almost inodorous and tasteless pulverulent substance termed "Lactopeptine" is a mixture of three chief agents which enable ourselves and all animals to digest food. That is to say, "Lactopeptine" is a skillfully prepared combination of meat-converting, fat-converting, and starch-converting materials, acidified with those smali proportions of acids that are always present in the healthy stomach; all being desseminated in an appropriate vehicle, namely, powdered sugar of milk. The acids used at the factory-lactic and hydrochloric-are the best to be met with and are perfctly combined to form a permanent preparation; the milk sugar is absolutely pure; the powder known as "diastase" or starch-digesting (bread-, potato-, and pastry-digesting) material, as well as the pancreatin,' or fat-digesting ingredients, are as good as any I can prepare; while the pepsin is much superior to that ordinarily used in medicine. Indeed, as regards this chief ingredient, pepsin, I have only met with one European or American specimen equal to that made and used by the manufacturer of "Lactopeptine." A perfectly parallel series of experiments showed that any given weight of acidified pepsine, alone, at first acts somewhat more rapidly than "Lactopepane" containing the same weight of the same pepsine. Sooner or later, however, the action of the Lactopeptine" overtakes and outstrips that of pepsine alone, due, no doubt, to the meat-digesting as well as the fat-digesting power of the pancreatin contained in the "Lactopeptine." My conclusion is that "Lactopeptine" is a most valuable digesting agent, and superior to pepsine alone. JOHN ATTFIELD.

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Lactopeptine is sold entirely by Physician's Prescriptions, and its almost universal adoption by physicians is the strongest guarantee we can give that its therapeutic value has been most thoroughly established. The undersigned having tested "Lactopeptine," recommend it to the profession:

Jas. Aikin Meigs, M. D., Phila., Pa., Prof. of
the Institutes of Med. and Med. Juris, Jeff.
Med. College; Phy. to Penn. Hospital.
W. W. Dawson, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio, Prof.
Prin. and Prac. Surg., Med. Col. of Ohio;
Surg. to Good Samaritan Hospital.

Prof. John Attfield, Ph. D., F. R. S., F. I. C.,
F. C. S., London, Eng., Prof. of Prac. Chem.
to the Phar. Soc. of Great Britain.

Alfred. F. A. King, M. D., Washington, D. C.,
Prof. of Obstetrics, University of Vt.

D. W. Yandell, M. D., Prof. of the Sci. and Art.
of Surg, and Clinical Surg., University of Lou-
isville, Ky.

L. P. Yandell, M. D., Prof. of Clin. Med., Dis-
cases of Children, and Dermetology, University
of Louisville, Ky.

Robt. Battery, M. D., Rome, Ga., Emeritus
Prof. of Obstetrics, Atlanta Med. Col., Ex-Pres.
Med. Association of Ga.

Claude H. Mastin, M. D., LL. D., Mobile, Ala.

Prof. H. C. Bartlett, Ph. D., F. C. S., London,
England.

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