of the University of Pennsylvania. 27 



prominently before the attention of the profession. 

 In an article on " Croup," l Dr. Barker states that 

 after an experience of twenty years he considers 

 turpeth mineral the best emetic for use in this dis- 

 ease, and goes so far as to recommend that it be 

 kept on hand in all families with children of a 

 croupy tendency, administered at the earliest symp- 

 toms of an attack, and before sending for a phy- 

 sician. 



Abroad, also, the drug seems to have been re- 

 ceived with favor. Drs. Desmartis and de Titray, 2 

 who consider the membrane in croup as due to the 

 result of blood-poisoning of a fermentative charac- 

 ter, advocate the merits of the remedy as twofold, 

 viz., as exerting a specific agency upon the ferment, 

 and also as removing the deposits by emesis. They 

 record its use in a number of cases of different ages 

 with good results. 



Again, Dr. Smith, 3 in his work on " Diseases of 

 Children,' 7 speaks of this drug in connection with 

 croup, and mentions it as probably the 'best emetic 

 in ordinary cases of this disease. 



1 American Journal of Obstetrics, May, 1870. 



2 Nouveau Traiternent du Croup, etc., Paris, 1860, p. 28. 



3 Fifth edition, p. 548. 



