This was a matter that had for five years been discussed pro and con but now apparently the proper time had come, for the subject received little if any adverse criticism, the physicians present promising their hearty support and co-operation. A committee was at once appointed consisting of Drs. Hale, Sheldon, A. B. Kinne, Keeler, Candee, Sherwood, E. O. Kinne, Anthony and Flint to perfect plans looking to the speedy formation of a hospital incorporation, This has been accomplished and a charter obtained. Forty-five business men, of whose financial and executive ability there is no question are its incorporators. One week ago its first meeting was held and the following were elected officers for one year: A. C. Chase, Pres.; E. A. Powell and O. F. Soule, Vice-presidents; D. Henry Gowing, Secy., and Anthony Lamb, Treas

This organization is most commendable and cannot but increase the strength of the movement, for a corps of men better known or of higher social standing and business integrity could hardly be found in Syracuse. The hospital accommodations of Syracuse are notoriously poor, and inferior as they are the homoeopathic profession have practically no use of them.

Let the movement have the earnest support of the profession of Central New York and we will erect such an hospital as will be a credit to homoeopathy and of lasting benefit to posterity.

E. E. K.

SURGICAL AND THERAPEUTICAL POINTS.

Conducted by

JOHN B. GARRISON, M. D.

When chilly from exposure breathe very deeply and rapidly and the increase in bodily warmth will be surprising.

Scheeles green has been discovered as a pigment in coffee as much as 1-24 grain to 1⁄2 ounce.

Staphysagria internally may be confidently prescribed for the relief of pain in incised wounds.--(Dr. J. D. Mitchell, So. Jour. of Homœo.)

Convulsions following a blow to the head of a child are reported promptly cured by Hypericum C. M.-(Dr. A. S. Ironside in Hom. Phys.)

Yellow spots on the chest call for Arsenicum, claret colored spots for Sepia. A yellow saddle across the nose indicates Sepia, a red one Sulphur.

In treating lesions of the penis where only a suspicion of syphilis exists, do not apply specific treatment until the rash appears.—(Dr. F. M. Baird, Charlotte Medical Journal.)

Avoid scars in the removal of small growths upon the face or other parts of the body where they may be undesirable, by using the sun glass as a cauterizing agent using Cocaine to prevent pain.—(Dr. Shepard in Yale Med. Jour)

Hæmoptysis according to Dr. C. J. Wendt, N. Y., Med., Times, Feb., is successfully treated by the administration of Geranium maculatum in two to five drop doses repeated every two hours. Many cases have been treated by it in the Metropolitan Hospital with almost universal good

results.

Vomiting after the administration of Chloroform may frequently be prevented by replacing the inhaler by a linen cloth steeped in vinegar, it to remain over the face for some time. Chloroform is decomposed into formic acid and chlorine, the latter when set free irritates the larynx and trachea and is one of the chief causes of vomiting from Chloroform. The inhalation of vinegar causes the chlorine to be taken up by the acetic acid and rendered harmless.

Camphorated Salol says Dr. Bowen, in Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., is one of the best remedies for boils and carbuncles. It is prepared by moistening one part of camphor with a few drops of alcohol, and rubbing this in a porcelain mortar, with one-fourth part of salol until a transparent liquid is obtained. This is applied by compresses soaked in the liquid.

Antidote for Cocaine hypodermatically used is said to be Glonoine. There is always drowsiness during the day when the venous circulation is acted prominently upon.

Bicycle hearts.-The overtaxed hearts produced by the long continued violent exercise of bicycling, is best relieved by Arnica for the immediate, and Phosphorus for the remote effects.

Gastric catarrh when produced by eating ice cream too frequently in hot weather, is cured often by Pulsatilla.

Habitual miscarriage, says Dr. Malengrean in Medical Times and Hospital Gazette, is often due to local induration of the uterus or cicatricial contractions of the ligaments. These conditions, he says, can be

cured by rapid pelvic massage skillfully administered.

Adonis vernslis should be studied in cases of heart disease associated with oedema and much anasarca of the whole body, especially where the heart affection is due to a co-existing chronic Bright's disease.

Gelsemium is one of the best remedies that we have for a rigid os. It can also do a great deal of harm. The statement has been made by one practitioner that he uses gelsemium in nearly all cases. What is his next statement? He uses instruments in three out of five cases. What is the next statement? That he finds lacerations. These are all sequences and I want to protest against the too frequent use of gelsemium.-George Royal, M. D.

In persistent insomnia general galvanization is worth trying, as Nothnagel has demonstrated that cutaneous electrical stimulation is followed by reflex contraction of the vessels of the pia mater.

Lesions of the vagina and perineum, within twenty-four hours of their occurrence, belong especially to that class of cases coming under the care of the physicians in general practice where a stitch in time saves nine hundred rather than the proverbial nine, if any ratio of importance is to be expressed, as a slight treatment at the right time will do so much to avoid a great deal of special treatment and many ills in later life.— Geo. R. Southwick, in N. E. Med. Gazette.

Mustard as an antiseptic.-This universally handy article is strongly recommended for surgical use, not only by its commonness, but also by its almost unequalled antiseptic properties, for disinfecting and deodorizing the hands before or after operations where septic conditions exist, or might be created.-Sanitary Era.

Babies that sleep all day and cry all night are frequently cured by a prescription of Lycopodium 30.

Soft corns can be cured it is said in the British Medical Journal by the application of a mixture made by dissolving one ounce of freshly made tanin in six drachms of water, with the aid of gentle heat. Immediate relief is experienced by applying the mixture to the corns once or twice a day.

Toothache, says a Southern writer, may be immediately relieved by introducing into the cavity of the decayed tooth, a pledget of cotton soaked in tincture of passiflora incarnata.

The Salts of Potash should never be used when there is fever. Weakness, coldness, soft pulse and general depression indicate them; excitement should always contraindicate them as being highly unscientific.

RECORD OF MEDICAL
MEDICAL PROGRESS.

PATHOLOGY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.-Huber reports (Virchow's Archiv. vol. CXL) the results of the autopsy of a case of multiple sclerosis. The post mortem findings support the view of Adamkiewiez that the disease is not due to interstitial inflammatory process but is a primary parenchymatous affection. Huber found in freshly diseased parts of the cord extensive disappearance of nerve fibres without any change in the neighboring interstitial tissue. Even the blood vessels showed only trifling alteration which could have no relation to the disease process.

NERVOUS FEVER OF PSYCHICAL ORIGIN.-Herzon reports (Revue medicale de la Suisse Romande, 6, 1895) the case of a young girl with nervous heredity and suffering from migraine, who without any recognizable cause had during several day a morning temperature varying from 100.7° F. to 101.8° F. At the same time there existed palpitation, headache and loss of appetite. The trouble followed upon some mental excitement. After vain efforts to influence the condition by drugs, Herzen was able by a single employment of suggestion in the waking state, to cause disappearance of the fever. Then followed relief of the other symptoms. He considers the case to have been one of undoubted nervous hyperthermia.

ALCOHOLISM IN CHILDREN.-Dr. Paul Moreau reports (Annales medicopsychologiques, 1895, p. 347) the existence of numerous cases of intoxication, dipsomania and alcoholism in children, that he has observed himself or collected from the literature.

The alcohol diseases of children develop under the influence of psychopathic heredity, especially through direct inheritance of the alcohol habit from the parents. In many regions the unweaned child receives a few drops of whiskey when it cries; children when restless during the

first dentition are quieted by unthinking mothers with wine. Many parents take with them their children on Sundays to the gardens, give them beer to drink and so accustom them to the poison. Moreau does not underrate the value of alcohol in many conditions of collapse in children but he earnestly warns physicians against prescribing any preparation containing spirits to children in whose parents there has been observed alcoholism.

Drunkenness in all its forms has been observed in children; dipsomania grows upon a heredited soil and has been most often seen in girls about the time of the first menstruation.

Delirium tremens has been seen in one case at the age of 5, and cirrhosis of the liver from abuse of alcohol at the age of 32. In alcoholized children epilepsy, hysteria, moral insanity, etc., have frequently developed. Concerning the prognosis, Moreau is doubtful, holding here the truth of the proverb, qui a bu, boira.

POISONING BY CHLORALOSE.--Herzen (Revue Medicale Suisse Romande, 6, 1875), reports the case of a man suffering from phthisis, who took 3 grains of chloralose. In an hour afterwards he was in a most serious condition, pale, covered with sweat, unconscious, pulse thready and not to be counted. Every 15 or 30 seconds there were epileptoid spasms of the extremities and the masseter muscles. After injection of ether the spasms ceased within two hours, and in four hours the man had recovered. Moreau thinks that as the patient had been in the habit of taking morphine and chloral, the fact that a moderate dose of chloralose produced such alarming symptoms, shows that greater caution ought to be exercised in its use.

OPHTHALMOLOGY.

THE DANGERS OF THE NASAL DOUCHE.-Mink reports several cases of inflammation of the middle ear from use of the douche. He advises against the routine practice of making injections through the nose, and especially against the practice of snuffing up the injections.-Med. Weekblad, vom Nord en Zuid, Nederland.

OCULAR TROUBLES OF A BICYCLIST.-Dr. Duboys de Lavigerie reports, in the La Clinique Ophtalmologique, a case of diffuse disturbance of the cornea of both eyes, without superficial lesion which commenced to pass off that same evening, and by the following day the appearance of the cornea and the vision had returned to normal. The condition came on in a professional rider at about the eighteenth hour, of a twenty-four hour race, and as the weather was very cold, the cause of the trouble was attributed to the cold.

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A STUDY OF REFRACTION OF 1,700 EYES.-From a paper upon this topic by Dr. H. Bert Ellis, we make the following abstracts: 87% of all my eye cases required correction of ametropia. Dr. George M. Gould in a similar paper in 1891, said that 93% of his eye patients required correction of errors of refraction. In 66% of the patients under 40, a mydriatic was used. Of the 1,700 eyes whose refraction was measured, 1,434 were astigmatic, and of these 852 had hypermetropic astigmatism. In 72% of all the astigmatic eyes the error was less than o 75 D. 55% of all astigmatic eyes had their axes at 90°, while 25% had them at 180°, leaving only 20% with oblique axes. Headaches existed in about 60% of the cases, and about 40% of these were fronto-temporal headaches.” --Ophthalmic Record, November, 1895.

CONDUCTED BY

H. WORTHINGTON PAIGE, M.D.

ALL NEWS or other matter relating to this department should be addressed to The Rutland, 256 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.

DR. JNO. T. Greenleaf, of “Glenmary," Owego, N. Y., spent the first week of February in the metropolis.

DR. D. D. STEVENS, who has been dangerously ill with pneumonia is, at this writing, making a good recovery.

AN ERROR.-In our report of the Pædological Society, last issue, Dr. Deschere was made to say cocaine mur, instead of chininum mur.

DR. B. F. BAILY, of Lincoln, Neb., has been appointed Secretary of the Nebraska State Board of Health, in place of Dr. O. S. Wood, resigned. THE INTER-STATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY held its quarterly meeting in the Court House at Binghamton, N.Y., on Tuesday, Jan. 14. DR. HOMER I. OSTROM announces to the profession that his private surgical hospital, 127 West Forty-seventh Street, is open for the reception of all surgical cases.

DR. GEORGE PARKER HOLDEN has moved his office from 256 West 55th Street, to 114 West 44th Street. Hours, 3 to 4:30 P. M., and by appointment. Telephone, 1424-38th Street.

THE METROPOLITAN NURSES, graduates of the Metropolitan Hospital Training School, have established a headquarters and registry at 170 East Sixty-first Street, where a good nurse can be obtained at any time.

VISITORS.-Drs. Chas. A. Church, of Passaic, Walter Sands Mills, of Stamford and D. J. Roberts, of New Rochelle, were present at the last meeting of the New York County Society.

The Hahnemannian Institute is a neat and successful little college journal. It gets in some good articles too and lately has begun a series of cuts and sketches of prominent homœopathists.

DR. FRANK LE C. DowE has succeeded to the practice of the late Dr. Wm. S. Miner and will retain the office at 337 Alexander Avenue, where he will attend daily from 10 to 11 and 7 to 8.

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital will hold its annual dinner at Delmonico's on April 30th. Dr. Eugene H. Porter will act as toastmaster.

FACULTY CHANGES.-Dr. Malcolm Leal has been elected Professor of Laryngology in place of Dr. Clarence E. Beebe, resigned. Dr. Chas. McDowell will deliver lectures on Hygiene in place of Dr. Leal.

THE DISCUSSION ON "THE DISPENSARY QUESTION, "which took place when the paper was read at the County Society meeting, will be found briefly outlined in the report of the meeting in "Societies," this issue.

DR. M. S. LYON has removed from Absecon, N. J., to Haddenfield, N. J., where he has associated himself with Dr. B. H. Shivers. Their office is at 20 West Main Street with hours from 8 to 10, 1 to 3 and 7 to 8.

DR. J. A. LENFESTY, of Mt. Clemens, Mich., a member of the entertainment committee of the American Institute for its Detroit meeting, had the recent misfortune to lose his office and its contents by fire.