method of boils and carbuncles, but I shall come to a conclusion, and I shall do it with a short summary: 1. Alcohol, used discriminately, at the right place and at the right time, is beneficial. 2. Alcohol, used habitually and quite particularly in large quantities, is noxious. 3. Alcoholic beverages are the more dangerous the worse they are, the more adulterated they are, consequently only the purest beer, the purest wine, the purest whisky is that which we shall use, if we use it at all. I think it would not be correct for me to recommend the product of this or that concern, either as to beer, or to wine, or to whisky, because for my own person I have so many good friends and relatives, brothers and cousins in the alcohol tradeI will out of many only recall one concern, possibly the largest in Kentucky-Bernheim Brothers in Louisville- but I shall only recommend good, pure, genuine alcoholic beverages. Finally I shall quote an American authority in regard to the use of alcohol. Hobart A. Hare* of the Jefferson College in Philadelphia concludes a review about good and evil of alcohol thus: "The general practitioner who now and again stands aghast when a leader in medical thought asserts that well-tried remedies are useless, can always comfort himself with the thoughts that these persons are enthusiasts, and that the safe course to pursue in practice is to give the remedies so decried in wellselected cases, carefully, intelligently and rationally. The history of the world has proved that alcohol has powers for good and evil, but distinctly indicates that in the hands of the trained physician it is a remedy for good. Alcohol will continue to be regarded as a useful drug, even though one or two are vehement in its denunciation." *Annual of the Universal Medical Science, 1896. Vol. VA. 10, Davis, Philadelphia. Hydriatic Treatment of Summer Diarrheas.--Flushing the colon, with a quart or two of water at from 80 to 100° (according to height of fever and strength of child) from one to three times a day, is recommended by Alfred Stengel (North Carolina Medical Journal, April 20) as very advantageous in reducing fever and removing the cause of disease. This measure should be combined with tepid external baths and restriction and regulation of diet. NOTES. "Scrofulous" Adenitis of Children.-Verneuil (quoted in Gaillard's Medical Journal) prescribe one or two tablespoonfuls daily of a mixture containing in each ounce 4 grains of potassium iodide and 4 drops of tincture of iodine in syrups of gentian and cinchona. Care of the Bowels after Rectal Operations. Skene recommends a light diet of soups and broths, and no movement of the bowels for four or five days. To procure the movement he advises a dose of compound licorice powder at night and a dram of sodium phosphate the next morning, followed in two hours by an enema of linseed tea. Acute Diffuse Gonococcus Peritonitis.-Harvey W. Cushing reports in the May Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital two cases of this character as proved microscopically and bacteriologically. The peritoneal infection appeared to take place during menstruation. The physical vaginal examination before operation was negative, and gonorrhea had been denied by both patients. Acute Nephritis in an Infant.-A fatal case occuring in a child six months old, determined acute nephritis by urinary examinations and post mortem findings, is reported by G. A. Himmelsbach in the Buffalo Medical Journal for June. It was of special interest as having been caused probably by the continued use for four months of saccharin to sweeten the infant's drinking water. 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