180 SULPHO-GABBOLATE OF SODA IN SC ABLET FEVEB. 



In the above recipe, in the place of olei gaultherise you may add same 

 amount of olei anisi, which is also of itself a powerful deodorizer, and may 

 be preferred by many. 



The basis of these solutions are salicylic acid, and any other combina- 

 tions of odors can be added if desired which would harmonize with the 

 salicylic acid. I give one for an example : 



Salicylic acid gr. xx. 



Farina cologne f ^ ij. 



Mix. 



You will find any one of the above recipes adapted for the use in sick- 

 chambers to neutralize the infected atmosphere attending fevers. In ty- 

 phoid fever it will neutralize the fecal evacuations, which are pre-eminently 

 contagious. In rooms that have been closed for months, without necessary 

 ventilation, it would destroy the microscopic fungous growths inevitably 

 present. The lotion should be diffused in the room with the aid of a spray 

 tube or atomizer. Its presumptive analogy to benzoic acid would suggest 

 its application as a cosmetic, the lotion to be added to the water used for 

 ablution. A dilution applied to erysipelas is productive of ease to patients. 

 Its balsamic properties promote the healing of cuts and sores, besides free- 

 ing them from morbid atmospheric influences. 



I hope I have shown the many advantages and powers of salicylic acid 

 over other disinfectants to the entire satisfaction of the readers. 



Although, owing to the comparatively high cost of salicylic acid, it 

 would possibly not be brought into general use, yet for minor purposes of 

 disinfection its introduction in such a form will doubtless be met with a fair 

 demand. 



The name of such a preparation might be appropriately called Lotio 

 Antiseptica Fragrans (Fragrant Antiseptic Lotion), which, in my opinion, 

 gives the properties of the lotion in its name, — Georg]^ Leis, in Druggists' 

 Circular, April, 1877. 



SULPHO-CARBOLATE OF SODA IN SCARLET FEVER, DIPH- 

 THERIA, ETC. 



Dr. G. D. Beebe, of Chicago, in a communication to the Tribune of that 

 city, maintains that scarlet fever, diplitheria, erysij)elas, and certain other 

 forms of epidemic or contagious diseases, owe their malignity to septic 

 germs or living organisms in the blood. He says that he came to this con- 

 clusion with regard to diphtheria more than ten years ago, and accordingly 

 the tried internal administration of carbolic acid to destroy the germs. The 

 results were satisfactory, many desperate cases recovering rapidly un- 

 der this treatment. He was subsequently led to regard erysipelas as of sep- 

 tic origin, and the certainty with which the disease is arrested by the inter- 

 nal use of an efficient antiseptic seems to him a complete demonstration of 

 this view. Fully eight years ago he predicted that scarlet fever would some; 



