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the cold baths so generally recommended of late. He related two 

 cases which were fatal from pulmonary congestion which he believed 

 was caused in each case by the use of the baths. He did not believe 

 their effects as good as the statistics showed, for " if they were, their 

 good effects should be obvious whenever they were tried." He re- 

 garded alcohol as seldom necessary and should be used only for its 

 stimulating effects. He doubted if any remedy or remedies had any 

 direct effect in controlling hemorrhage. Great stress was placed on 

 a milk diet. 



Dr. Broadbent does not rely upon a milk diet, but varies it as 

 he thinks best. Opium enemata are used to control the diarrhoea, 

 and large doses of opium to check hemorrhage by controlling 

 peristalsis ; opium also was the chief remedy for tympanites. 



Dr. Collie had abandoned the bath treatment altogether as not 

 only useless but positively dangerous. "Good nursing," says he, 

 "will cure seventy-five out of every hundred cases, fifteen out of the 

 remainder will die and ten might or might not recover." 



NEURALGIA. 



SEVERAL cases have been reported within the past two months 

 where this painful affection has been relieved and evidently 

 cured by nitro-glycerine. One severe case of Sciatica is reported 

 as cured. This case was so severe that all remedies had failed and 

 the attending physician was about to stretch the nerve when nitro- 

 glycerine was suggested to him. The patient was given the fiftieth 

 of a grain four times daily, and the relief was almost immediate and 

 a permanent cure is confidently expected. 



In facial neuralgia it has given better results than could 

 possibly be hoped for. Small doses are given and in the majority 

 of cases reported relief was immediate and a cure certain. If there 

 be another side to this question it is to be regretted that the profes- 

 sion cannot know of it and thus the true value of the agent obtained. 

 " But who enjoys telling their failures." 



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SEPTIC POISONING FROM VACCINE VIRUS. 



R. KEVVLEY of Chicago reports some cases where severe 

 symptoms followed an ordinary vaccinnation. when bovine virus 



