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have to apply at a police office. If the patient requires public relief, the 
messenger is to be taken by a police officer to the mciison de secours , and if the 
medicine be not available there, then to one of the pharmacists on the list. If 
the patient is able to pay, the messenger is to be taken direct to the pharmacist,, 
who is to be entitled to charge, in addition to the ordinary price of the medicine,, 
another franc and a half, to compensate him for the trouble of getting up in 
the night. 
A case is reported in the Lancet in which death followed in two hours 
and a quarter after swallowing by a man of not more than half an ounce of 
bisulphide of carbon. Emetics were given about a quarter of an hour after the 
poison was taken, and the stomach pump was used, but without avail ; the man 
became unconscious, and, notwithstanding the administration of brandy, never 
rallied, the symptoms being those of narcotic poisoning. 
A case of poisoning by chloroform, in which recovery followed the use of 
the stomach pump and subcutaneous injection of atrophine sulphate, is reported 
in the Lancet of 3rd July. The patient stated that after swallowing two ounces 
of undiluted chloroform he walked a distance of two hundred yards to his home. 
According to the Pharmaceutical Record (New York), the forty-five million 
population of the United States have 80 regular medical colleges, with about 
10,000 medical students ; eight of these medical colleges have each from 300 to 
600 students, and seven have from 200 to 300. 
STIMULANT POMADE — DYE FOR THE HAIR. 
Through the courtesy of a Parisian subscriber we are enabled to publish for 
the first time the formula of a preparation, which unites within itself the 
properties of an efficient hair-dye and a hair restorer, which has lately been 
introduced in the practice of well-known specialists with great success. It should, 
when put up, be very carefully excluded from the action of the light by being 
kept in well-covered opaque or “ non-actinic ” jars and bottles. 
R Ext. walnuts (green) ... ... ... ... Jijss 
Pilocarpine ... ... ... ... ... 200 grs. 
Acid acetic (glac.) ... ... ... ... q.s. 
Acet. canthar. ... ... ... ... ... 3iij. 
Cetaceum ... ... ... ... ... ... dijss 
Petrogell ... ... ... ... ... ... §v. 
Melt the spermaceti with a gentle heat, add the petrogell, mix, and when 
nearly cold rub in a mortar with the walnut extract until the whole is perfectly 
smooth and homogeneous. Lastly, add to the preceding the pilocarpine previously 
dissolved in the necessary quantity of glacial acetic acid, and the cantharides 
preparation. Any suitable perfume may be added, if preferred. — British and 
Colonial Druggist. 
Apone. — A remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia, &c., recommended by Dr. Y. 
Poulet, is made by macerating for one month capsicum 200 in alcohol 1000 
and ammonia water 100, and adding to the expressed liquid chloral 10 and oil 
of thyme 10. For external use it may be diluted with oil. For internal use 
from five to twenty drops are taken with a little water, to be followed by a 
glassful of cold water or cold tea. — Bull . Gen. Therap ., 13th February, 1886. 
Dentition Syrup. — Dissolve cocaine hydrochlorate and borax, of each 1 
part, in syrup of marsh-mallow 20 parts, and syrup of poppy 10 parts. 
Use three or four times a day on the gums. — L' Union Medicate. 
