FOR DIPHTHERTA. 115 
‘‘The fact wants to be kept before the public, that as production and com- 
merce and trade are now carried on, few cities can afford to allow a pestilence to 
invade them. And if it comes to a city, with the natural advantages of soil and 
climate we have, it is due either to official ignorance or public neglect. There 
is, perhaps, not a single kind of pestilence which has afflicted any civilized city 
of temperate climate during the Dark Ages or since, over which we have not 
now control, if the community act up to the light and knowledge we have; and 
on the other hand, as business is now carried on, no city can now be afflicted as 
many then were, and not be bankrupted and financially ruined.—Scientific 
American Sup. 
ROR] PPE WEE RUA: 
A physician in Illinois writes: Ihave used successfully the following for some 
years for diphtheria: B sulphite soda gr. x., dissolved in Zl. warm water. Then 
add ten gr. salicylic acid. Dose, teaspoonful every fifteen to thirty minutes (or 
oftener) to a child of two years. At the same time use beef tea, wine, eggs, 
quinine, etc. I find this an effective anti-zymotic. In bad cases it must be used 
for some days. 
CHLOROFORM Vapor IN EARACHE.—At a recent meeting of the Medical So- 
ciety in the District of Columbia, Dr. James E. Morgan stated, during a discussion 
on otitis, that he had often promptly relieved tke distressiag earache of children 
by filling the bowl of a common new clay pipe with cottonwool, upon which he 
dropped a few drops of chloroform, and inserting the stem carefully into the ex- 
ternal.canal, and adjusting his lips over the bowl, blew through the pipe, —forcing 
the chloroform vapor upon the tympanum. Dr. J. Ford Thompson has also ac- 
complished the same relief upon similar principles. 
CHOGChar FuiGAL NOTES. 
THE HOWGATE EXPEDITION. 
The vessel selected and furnished for this expedition is a Clyde built iron 
frame propeller, 200 tons burden, 140 feet in length, 21 feet 6 inches breadth. 
The engine has two 30-inch cylinders, each 24 inches stroke, jet condensers, and 
one boiler. The engine is estimated to be of about 20o-horse power. The 
‘works have been overhauled and put in complete order by Petitt & Dripps, ma_ 
chinists, Washington, D. C. 
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