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Through the generosity of President Kemp and bis Smyrna agents, 

 Messrs. Alfred A. Keun & Co., an interesting opium exhibit has been re- 

 ceived for deposit in the Economic Museum of the N. Y. Botanical Gar- 

 den, duplicates being available for use in the Museum of the College of 

 Pharmacy. It consists of pressed leaves and flowers of the poppy plant, 

 capsules, dried and in formaldehyde solution, showing the incisions made 

 for the exudation of the opium, white and blue poppy seeds, the cutter 

 used for making the incisions and the scraper used for removing the 

 opium. There is also a series of large photographs showing the stages of 

 production and ending with the examiner's room and the different per- 

 sons, private and official, connected with the opium exportation. Mr. 

 Kemp is having the exhibit for the college framed, after which it will be 

 hung upon the wall of the pharmacognosy room. 



Rbstracts. 



Acute Chloral Dementia Simulating Paretic Dementia — H. W. 

 Coe, M.D. (Medicine 4, page 655, August, 1898) A lady aged 56, 

 married, of good family and without hereditary taint who had been 

 ill during the past few years, had transitory delusions of a grandiose form 

 some months previous to the time of coming under the observation of a 

 most excellent family physician. Ataxia was marked espeeialty in the 

 lower limbs. General tremor was present and the tongue could scarcely 

 be protruded, so marked was the trembling of that organ. There was 

 pupilary inequality and the speech was tremulous. Insomnia was marked, 

 and for this and the shifting pains in the back and limbs, a well-known 

 proprietary article, the chief ingredient of which is chloral had been em- 

 ployed in moderate quantities for about a year and a-half. Recently the 

 amount had been increased, yet the total taken did not exceed an average 

 twenty grains of chloral daily. A few days before the patient came under 

 the author's care she had become somewhat violent at times, and delu- 

 sions of persecution had made her demonstrative and hard to manage. 

 The symptoms seemed to point to paretic dementia or some hopeless 

 chronic dementia. All hypnotics were then discontinued and in a few 

 days her delusions began to wane and her general nervous state to im- 

 prove. Tremors lessened, speech sharpened and the pupils reacted 

 equally. In two weeks sleep became fairly good, but not normal. In six 

 weeks she was able to manage her estate. | 



A sea captain, 57 and married, had suffered from mental alienation for 

 some months, finally resulting in delusions of mixed character. Later on 

 he became demonstrative and noisy. The symptoms were much like 

 those of the first case, except that the general mental breakdown was 



