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proved satisfactory; the potatoes can be glven in the form of a 

 salad. Thick soups made f rom beans or flour have also proved use- 

 ful for supper. Rice with baked or stewed fruit may also be used. 

 Opportunity for tea drinking is given the Russians. Where skim- 

 milk is obtainable, it shall be supplied abundantly to the prisoners. 

 It was emphasized that the tastes of the prisoners should be con- 

 sidered as much as possible in the selection and preparation of the 

 dishes." Berlin letter: Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1915, Ixv, 



p. 544- 



Medical notes. "Medical-supply Exports doubled. The U. 



S. Bur. of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has estimated that 



during the year ended June 30, 191 5, the exports of medicines and 



surgical Instruments amounted to $35,744,000 as compared with 



$19,916,000 for the preceding year. 



War helps medical women in England. A statement 

 signed by Premier Asquith, Lord Curzon, and Hon. A. J. Balfour 

 calls the attention of the British public to the work in London of 

 the School of Med. for Women, which has now doubled its plant in 

 an endeavor to cope with the war-time increase of opportunities for 

 women physicians. The statement begins as follows: "The war 

 constitutes the turning point in the Position of medical women, for 

 whom there are new openings and new opportunities in many 

 directions." 



Medicinal plants in Germany. The Münch. med. Woch. 

 States that the German Minister of the Interior has appealed to the 

 apothecaries to stimulate the collection and drying of medicinal 

 plants and parts of plants in their districts. They can then prepare 

 them for med. use, each in his own laboratory or by exchanging 

 them with others. He explains that large amounts of the plant- 

 drugs used in making medicines have always hitherto been imported 

 from other countries for this purpose. The war has rendered it 

 very difficult to Import them now or has shut off the supply com- 

 pletely. A list of plants, useful for the purpose, is given, including 

 the flowers of arnica, chamomile, linden, eider and mallow, and the 

 leaves of digitalis, walnut, belladonna, colt's-foot, henbane, stramony, 

 buck-bean, and various herbs and berries. Children, it is urged, can 

 be taught to collect them, and also the elderly and the otherwise 



