A Suggestion,. PAGE. 9 Diphtheria, A Much Bitten Anti-Vivisectionist,. 334 Dry Dressing for Wounds, Ascites, Treatment Wanted, Are We Understood? 12 Delpinium Compound, . . 46 Death in the Spoon, 57 60 Eucalyptus as a Dressing in Sur- gical Cases,. 17 329 79 94 End of Volume Four,. 30 Examinations of Urine, 20 202 Elaterium, 24 203 230 Extensive Burns, Involving the Cavity 40 238 247 289 Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent, . 92 93 290 Eucalyptus Globulus, Book Notices, 53, 76, 77, 103, 104, 118, 119, 147, 171, 185, 217, 296. Business, 129 161 163 Conservative Surgery, Cocaine, Celerina, Caries and Necrosis, Crystal Pepsin, 23, 25, 55, 74, 78 Fighting Bacilli with Bacilli, 68 141, 159, 214 184, 197 249 31, 115 Fortunes of 1000 Medical Students,. 300 73, Cancer: Is It a Local or Constitution- al Disease?. Concentrated Foods, . Cholera, Medical Treatment in, Causation of Disease, Cholera, Some Suggestions, How I Got Left, . Hydrastis and its Preparations; also 12 31, 80, 115 . 32, 45 Caulocorea, 214, 234, 249, 268 Hoboken Poisoning Case, Civilized vs. Savage Operators Hotels, Country, Corrosive Sublimate, Disinfection by,. 254 Hemianopsia of Central Origin, Cholera, Review of the Epidemic, . 261 Compound Tonic Tincture, 272, 307 Important Letter to the Medical 181 188 134 305 196 lustrated Lectures, . 217 . 231 233 264 Circumcision, Evils of, . Cholera, 2731 Profession,. 278 Infantile Diarrhoea. 47 71 Cocaine in Sea Sickness, Coca Leaf Cheroots, . Indigestion, Inoculation for Yellow Fever, Inflammation of the Kidneys, PAGE .308 Reporting the N. Y. Co. Medical So- Journal, A Word for Its Principles, 13" Reckless Eclecticism," Journal as an Advertising Medium. . Listerine, Lactopeptine, 74 Stone in the Bladder and Kidneys, . 56, 79, 104, 172, 318 Specific Medicines, Leper, Exhibiting a, Lunatics, A Farm for, Lloyd Bros, Medicines, Whose are Reliable, . Methylene, Mind Cures and Mind Diseases. Microscope, What it Shows in Grant's 70 Soluble Elastic Capsules, PAGE. 272 Complications of,. 156 . 263 . 310 24 188 Soft Catheter, 312 203 Stigmata Maidis in Diseases of the 14 Syphilis, 31, 54, 78, 318 31 27 SOCIETY PRoceedings, 75, 94, 95, 96, 78 Stricture of Urethia and Urinary Fis- Massachusetts Death Statistics for 1884, 283 Spiritus Frumenti, Medical Legislation, Medical Education, 306 Scrotal Calculi,. Medicines which Stimulate the Liver, 327 Sanitary Legislation, Night Sweats of Phthisis, . Nelson, Dr. C. E., . 49, 138, 150, 253, 293 Obituary, 28, 77, 78, 170, 199, 216, Opinions of Learned Medical Men on the Subject of Their own System of Otorrhea,. Origin of Life, Ozone as a Remedial Agent, 158 Ode to a Woman's Skull, 219 Tongue and Gums,. The "Eastern," Urethral Strictures, . 69 Peptonized Cod Liver Oil and Milk, 30 Uterine Cervical Affections, A New Pruritus of Pregnancy, Pneumonia, Pneumonia-Alcohol-Lobelia, . 116 Vinegar in the Treatment of 81 Bowel Complaints, 79 Ventilation of Churches, 85 Vitality of Disease Germs, 178 Vaccination, The Exact Value of, 12 263 15 232 258 276 316 297 50 329 Why Contagious Diseases Attack but Pasteur's Experiments, Query, Questionable Rubber Goods, A Raid on,. 204 Vaccine Virus, EDITOR EASTERN MEDICAL JOURNAL.-Observing your candor and liberality in giving freedom to writers on both sides of the question on Medical Practice and Legislation, I desire the courtesy, to present my crude opinions in regard to this vexed and vexing question. I have read with some interest and care the two articles in your November No., entitled, "The Regulation of Medical Practice," by "Justice" of Boston, Mass., and the other on "Medical Legislation." It seems to me that this crying evil about medical legislation is in a nutshell, and all that is wanted to adjust the difficulty between the schools, is, to establish a sharp, and well-defined distinction between the orthodox regular medical healer, and the mere educated irregular pretender. To reach this-would settle the dispute, and satisfy the ancient school. If the public could be but "protected," and clearly understand the real physician from the artificial, paradise would be "regained." I think that I have hit upon the plan, But, before scattering my inkrops, I venture to say, that if I have found the golden mean, and shall terminate this fratricidal and un-American strife, surely I ought to be dubbed "Kt. of Malta," or some other island o the sea, or at least regarded as a good "Samaritan." Well, I will outline my plan. And it is, for all graduates of legally chartered regular Allopathic Schools, to embellish their names with a full array of classical and medical honors,-both before and behind their names, prefix and postfix, thus :-" Dr. W. DELACY FITZNOODLE, A. M., (Oxon.); M. D., (Dublin); L L. D., (Cantab.); etc., Allopathic or Regular." Never mind the tautology. Mr. Editor,-it must be so, for the sake of distinction, and to "protect the people" from the imposition quacks. Now, these ponderous and prolific titles, all earned and received in the most legitimate way, would at once distinguish the men of the regular School from the common horde of the base-born irregulars. Then, it would be right and just to give those eminent and learned men priority and preëminence. And, in every possible way :-by legitimate advertising, such as professional cards and circulars, through the mail or from house to house; in the columns of daily and weekly newspapers, medical journals, college lectures, reviews of books, (with all their titles); proprietary medicines, surgical instruments, etc., particularly the syringes and specula. An elegantly engraved door. plate-with as many of the titles as can be crowded into the space, and this affixed to the office-door. A colored lamp with such dazzling names would heighten the effect and strengthen the "DISTINCTION," for this is what we must insist upon. In contradistinction from the regular Allopathic physician.I would suggest that graduates from all other regular (irregular) liberal schools, such as the Homœopathic, Eclectic, or PhysioMedical, should be restricted to the use of the simple but significant suffix of M. D., and of course, have no prefix of "Dr.," but be styled thus: "JOHN THOMAS, M. D.," Eclectic. Now, for practitioners or quacks (without diplomas) of any or all the schools; they should be content, as all other common men are, with plain and unormentated names, thus.-" Fames Fones," Allopathist or Regular, (according to choice.); "Richard Smith," Homopathist; "Fohn Thomas," Eclectic; or K. Kooc," Physio-pathist. Being plain birds, of raven-black, they would not aspire to the peacock's gaudy tail. Now, Mr. Editor, does it not strike you that my plan fully carried out, would create the much-desired reparation between these rival schools; and by preeminence accorded to the "old school, the dear "people" could not then be imposed on by the irregular and illiterate of the aforesaid liberal and progressive schools. I hope that I have not wearied your readers, but if a little thing like this, should be the desideratum, it may prevent a great many sins being committed this coming winter, against the sacredness of man's personal rights, and the cause of truth. and JUSTICE. And it will protect our Country from a monstrosity in legal tyranny only paralleled by the Spanish Inquisition. And best of all, it would help to usher in a medical millenium, for "the wolf to dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; so that a little child might lead them." Excuse my crudeness, for I was brought up and educated a regular, "after the strictest sect," in the "old country,"-but being a prodigal from the ancient order, must now subscribe myself, ECLECTIC Verdant., A. M., M.D. [For Eastern Medical Journal.] Tongaline. EDITOR EASTERN MEDICAL JOURNAL.-My first use of Tongaline was in a case of severe Muscular Rheumatism which I was called to treat July 10, 1884. I treated the case for four or five days in the usual way, but the pain and swelling of the right arm was so intense that the patient fainted five times in twenty-four hours. I administered morphine, and the husband gave McMunns' Elixir of Opium, twenty drops at a dose, and in an hour afterwards gave ten more, which made a slight impression on the pain. I then concluded to try Tongaline and I wrote for three ounces, and ordered it to be given in teaspoonful doses every hour until pain subsided. The first dose gave considerable relief, and the second teaspoonful relieved her so much that she went to sleep and slept for more than four hours. I then ordered tongaline in teaspoonful doses three times a day, and in two weeks my patient went with her friends to a picnic. A maiden lady aged 52 years, some four or five years ago, was taken with Epilectic Convulsions. She came into my hands in March, 1884. For a while I treated her with Brom. Pot. and Brom. Ammonium mixtures with tolerable good results, she having a number of convulsions at intervals of about four weeks. An eruption breaking out upon her face, caused her to omit taking any more of the bromides. I told her I thought I could change her medicine by giving her as a substitute a nerve tonic, to which she consented. So in July I let her have some of the preparation of Tongaline and she commenced using it in teaspoonful doses twice a day, occasionally carrying it up to three teaspoonfuls a day. Her convulsions were gone for nine weeks, and her general health improved so much that she was perfectly delighted, and said she felt better aud more like herself than for a long while I do not think she has had any convulsions after those she had at nine weeks. If so, it will pay some of your readers who are so unfortunate as to have Epileptic |