account of the illness of his wife, has received a letter from Prof. A. Kojewnikoff, President of the Moscow Society of Neurology and Mental Sciences, notifying him of his election and enclosing the statutes and diploma of foreign membership of that society. By the statutes of that society, foreign members may be foreign physicians renowned by their scientific works in neurology and mental sciences.

A Bacillus that Stayed. In the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin for May, Dr. G. Brown Miller reports the presence of the bacillus typhosus in the gall bladder seven years after typhoid fever. The patient had two attacks of pain caused by gall stones in the spring of 1891. These were followed within a month by an attack of what was presumably enteric fever. The gall bladder became infected by the specific germ, resulting in a chronic inflammation, which continued until the time of operation seven years later.

Sodium Phosphate Solution. The official sodium monohydric phosphate is of only limited solubility, requiring about eight parts of water. Various formulae have been devised to make more condensed solutions and hence more convenient for administration. Joseph W. England, Ph. G., of the Philadelphia Hospital, has used for something over a year the following formula (Philadelphia Polyclinic, May 28th), which makes a clear trasnparent, faintly acid stable liquid, mixing unchanged with water in all proportions, and yielding on thorough evaporation about 30 grains to the fluid dram of anhydrous salts: Dried and powdered (not granular) sodium phosphate, 3 oz. (Troy) 96 grs.; phosphoric acid (U.S. P. '90) 542 grs.; sufficient water to make 8 fluid ounces. The rationale of the procedure is the reaction between the salt and the acid forming instead of the monacid the diacid salt, which is more soluble. If it is desired to render the solution alkaline, the addition to each fluid dram of about ten grains of sodium bicarbonate will accomplish the result and at the same time produce a grateful efferescence. The best effects from sodium phosphate are obtained by giving it well diluted, three times a day, an hour before eating.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Wм. OSLER, F.R.S.-Dr. Osler has been elected to membership in the Royal Society of England.

Vomiting of UrEMIA. Huchard recommends lavage as the most rational treatment for this symptom.

TETANUS IN CUBA.-This affection is endemic in Cuba. An army surgeon observed 258 cases there in two years.

NUMBER OF EPILEPTICS.-It is estimated that one person in every 500 in the United States is afflicted with epilepsy.

ENLIGHTENED RUSSIA.-The Russian minister of public instruction has issued a decree forbidding the use of the corset as inimical to public health.

MANLY EGYPT.-The country of the Pharaohs is the only one in the world where the male sex predominates in numbers--the excess being about 160,000.

PATRIOTISM. The Peacock Chemical Company, of St. Louis, announce that they will pay the stamp tax themselves without raising the price of their products.

RETENTION OF URINE AND HERNIA. In children suffering from hernia, say the International Journal of Surgery, a very common symptom of strangulation is retention of urine.

TO REMOVE ADHESIVE PLASTER.-The Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery gives a practical hint in this connection by advising to pour on a little ether to dissolve the glue.

CALCIUM CHLORide in HemophILIA.-The results from this drug are said to be very brilliant in the hemorrhagic diathesis. Two or three grains, four or five times daily is the usual dose.

AN ARGUMENT FOR VACCINATION.-According to the Medical Age, vaccination is not compulsory in France, and since 1870 more than 20,000 people have died from smallpox in Paris alone.

DR. PAGE DEAD.-Dr. R. C. M. Page, professor of general medicine in the New York Polyclinic, and author of a practical work on the practice of medicine, died on the 19th of June.

THE MEMPHIS LANCET.-This new journal first draws blood this monthJuly. It is edited by ten of the leading physicians of the South, and is a very readable and creditable publication.

EDITORIAL MEETING. The next meeting of the Editorial Association will be held in Columbus. Dr. J. E. Brown, editor of the Columbus Medical Journal, is chairman of the committee on arrangements.

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TROPICAL DISEASES.-The June number of the Monthly Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine consists largely of an exhaustive resume of tropical dysentry, tropical diarrhea and venomous bites and stings.

GASTRALGIA. Ewald, in the Medical Review of Reviews, recommends a powder every two hours, consisting of 4 grain codeine phosphate, 5 grains bismuth subnitrate and 3 grains of sugar of milk.

THE DOCTOR "THROWN IN."-A well known Paris newspaper announces that it has engaged a physician for $480 per annum to give gratuitous advice to all purchasers of its illustrated weekly supplement.

CHILLS AND FEVER. Whenever, says Welch, the temperature rises as high as 104° and the paroxysm lasts no longer than six hours, one is justified in the suspicion that the fever is not malarial in origin.

ANOTHER WART CURE.-The Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery says that they can be removed painlessly and without scarring by the daily application of supersaturated solution of potassium dichromate.

URIC ACID AND PREGNANCY.-Lithemic women often feel better than usual while in the pregnant state, a fact which is attributed to the more perfect systemic oxidation that takes place during this period.

PHILADELPHIA'S PUBLIC BATH-HOUSE. Since the opening of this institution last April, says the Polyclinic, there has been an average of ninety bathers per day. Such undertakings are a mark of genuine civilization.

CAUTERIZATION OF INFECTED WOUNDS.-This rather common practice is, according to the International Journal of Surgery, a harmful absurdity. The wound should simply be well laid open and covered with a wet dressing.

WHAT THEY SAY OF US.-Without exception, so far as noted, the medical editors of America are a unit in according to the Denver meeting of the American Medical Association a place second to none of its predecessors.

WHERE ARE THE AUNTY" VIVISECTIONISTS?—The daily press informs us that in London a consignment was recently received of a half million birds and parts of birds-quartered and ready to be hung on the ladies fall hats and bonnets.

ANOTHER NEW ELEMENT.-Professor Ramsey, the discoverer of helium, has isolated another gaseous element from liquid air, which he has named krypton. It is present in the atmosphere in the proportion of about one part to 10,000.

SACRILEGIOUS MICROBES.-The British Medical Journal states that Prof. Vincenzi recently traced four cases of diphtheria in Sassari-one of which was fatal to the presence of Klebs-Loeffler bacilli in the "holy water" of a church in that place.

THE SWEETER SEX.-Figuratively speaking it has long been admitted in civilized countries that girls and women as a class have more of the saccharine quality than has the sterner sex. It remained, however, for Professor Schenck to discover that the generation of human females is merely a coincidence of maternal glycosuria.

A COLLEGE COALITION.-The Atlanta medical colleges have united to form the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. The union of these two schools was quite unexpected, as they were apparently extremely hostile to each other.

BLUE PILL FOR THE "BLUES."-Dr. Waugh believes that the "blues" are due to constipation and a sluggish liver, best corrected by a fruit and vegetable diet, cold morning baths, out-of-door exercise and cholagogres, such as aloes, podophyllin or blue pill.

SETTING OF PLASTER OF PARIS.-In place of the commonly employed sodium chloride, the Indiana Medical Journal recommends sulphate of potassium as being more efficient, It may be used in any strength-the stronger, of course, the quicker its action.

A SURGICAL HINT ON CLEANING THE HANDS.-The International Journal of Surgery advises to add strong ammonia to the water for washing-about half a teaspoonful to an ordinary basin being the right proportion. This will aid greatly in removing grease and blood.

BRAIN SYMPTOMS AND EYE-STRAIN.-Drowsiness is of quite common occurrence from this cause and may be the only symptom. Vertigo is still more frequent, is often accompanied by slight nausea, and is apt not unlikely to be regarded by the patient as a precursor of apoplexy.

TO DRINK OR NOT TO DRINK AT MEALS?-Ewald concludes that small amounts of fluids are beneficial, except for patients suffering from dilatation of the stomach. Ice cold drinks, however irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach, predisposing to acute and chronic inflammatory conditions.

CALLOSITIES. For callous skin areas, Cantrell generally employs an ointment containing one dram of salicylic acid in an ounce of cold cream. This is applied continuously for forty-eight hours, after which the part is curetted, and the application renewed night and morning for several days.

DEATH OF MR. BLAKISTON.-After a long, successful and honorable career as a publisher, Mr. Presley Blakiston, of Philadelphia, died on May 21st at the unusual age of 85. The well known publishing house of P. Blakiston, Son & Co., which he founded, will hereafter have the name P. Blakiston's Son & Co.

THE OBSOLETE POULTICE.-International Journal of Surgery says: “Discard the old and dirty poultice, a remnant of somber ages. Absorbent cotton or gauze, soaked in hot water and covered with protective, is clean, will remain warm just as long, is more easily prepared, and more pleasant to the patient."

ETIOLOGY OF CHLOROSIS.-Charles E. Simon concludes, after extensive investigation, that this disease is a simple anemia due to insufficient consumption of animal proteids, and that the most satisfactory results can be obtained without medication from a diet consisting mainly of animal proteids, bonemarrow and dark beer.

CHLOROFORM DECOMPOSITION.-The Therapeutic Gazette calls attention to the rarely recognized fact that chloroform vapor is decomposed into chlorine and hydrochloric acid by the presence of the common gas flame, and may thus give rise to untoward irritating effects upon the respiratory organs of the administrator and surgeon.

SYSTEMIC TREATMENT OF TOOTHACHE.-Dr. Fred Coley asserts that 15 grains of sodium salicylate with the same number of minims of tincture of belladonna will often procure refreshing sleep instead of a night of agony. The salicylate is particularly useful in toothache due to eatching cold, and may be given every four hours if, as is seldom the case, the first dose fails to relieve.

COLOR OF NEGRO BABIES.-Pediatrics quotes an eminent French physician as saying: "The negro baby comes into the world a tender pink color; the second day it is lilac; ten days afterward it is the color of tanned leather, and at fifteen days it is chocolate." These deductions were made among the blacks of Central Africa and do not apply to the half-and-half concoctions so common in this country.

MANUAL DILATATION OF THE UTERUS.-Grandin affirms that the hand as a dilator is the best obstetrical instrument at our disposal-better than Barnes' bags or any of the French instruments. In 98 per cent. of all cases, he says, the woman being within six weeks of the full term, and under surgical anesthetia, any man can dilate the cervix with his hand sufficiently to enter the uterus and extract the child.

ANOTHER "CURE" FOR TAPEWORM.-The Medical Summary recommends one drop of croton oil dissolved in 15 minims (30 drops) of chloroform, and one onnce of glycerine given at night on an empty stomach. This is followed in the morning by a sufficient quantity of castor oil to purge well, and the tapeworm -head and all-will come out with the purgative.

EARLY SYMPTOMS OF OSTEOMALACIA. Rissman (quoted in the New York Medical Journal) describes three symptoms which are present before the softening of the bones is perceptible. The first is pressure sensibility of the bones, especially the lumbar vertebrae. The second is a vacillating gait or "goosewalk," due to paresis of various pelvic and femoral muscles. The third includes special subjective pains, either osteoalgetic or neuralgic.

COLUMBUS MEETING.-Dr. Starling Loving has been made chairman of the committee on arrangements for the next meeting of the Americal Medical Association, which will be held in Columbus, and Dr. E. W. Woodruff, assistant secretary. We understand that the Columbus profession have already started the good work and that the Columbus meeting is likely to eclipse all other meetings of the American Medical Association.

AMERICAN MEDICAL TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION. This society will hold its annual meeting in Prohibition Park, New York City, July 5th and 6th. The following officers were recently elected in Denver: President, N. S. Davis, Chicago; Vice-Presidents, J. B. Whitney, Jonesville, F. E. Yoakum, Shreveport, and J. Taft, Cincinnati; Secretary, T. B. Crothers, Hartford; Corresponding Secretary, J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek; Treasurer, G. W. Webster, Chicago.

TREATMENT OF HAY FEVER.-On the ground of lithemic etiology, Gleason (Atlantic Medical Weekly, July) advocates the internal use of concentrated nitromuriatic acid, 3 to 5 drops, well diluted, after meals. He also advises the careful application to specially sensitive areas of a 5 to 10 per cent. solution of chromic acid and the daily washing of the nasal cavities with Dobell's solution, followed by the application of Lugol's solution in glycerine and a spray of albolene.