FILIX IN TAENIA. 
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injuring the skin more than is necessary to admit his 
cauterizing agents. These he calls arrows ; they are formed 
of chloride of zinc and flour, formed into a hard paste, and 
into the shape of vaccination points. When the tissues to be 
attacked are friable, these arrows may be at once thrust into 
the tumour; but sometimes, and if the skin is to be traversed, 
a way must be made for their admission, by a pointed bistouri. 
“ The caustic,” he says, “ instead of being applied externally, 
is carried at once into the interior of the tumour, and thus 
acts from within outwards, instead of, as by the old method, 
vice versa” — Medical Times . 
EXCRETION OE ARSENIC AND ANTIMONY IN THE URINE. 
Dr. Kletzinsky, as the result of his investigations upon 
the expulsion of metals in the secretions, comes to the 
following conclusions: 1. The presence of a small quantity 
of albumen in arsenical urine is indubitable, but it is pro- 
blematical in antimonial urine. The excretion of both metals 
may take place in the form of their alkaline salts. 2. The 
excretion takes place a short time after poisoning by arsenic, 
more quickly than in antimony poisoning, and continues un- 
interruptedly until death or recovery — the excretion of 
antimony continuing usually longer than that of arsenic. 
3. That in its forensic relation, the analysis of the urine in 
arsenic or antimony poisonings, providing the patient live 
for from twelve to twenty-four hours, is capable of furnishing 
a complete negative or positive conclusion. — Wien Wochen- 
schrift. 
EILIX (EERN) IN TAENIA. 
Dr. Bonorden protests against the heroic treatment so 
frequently employed for the treatment of taenia, and which, 
in some cases, may lay the foundation to serious chronic 
diseases of the intestinal canal. In his own practice he has 
found the continuous employment of moderate doses of the 
powder of the filix very successful, giving from half to one 
teaspoonful, morning and evening, for three or four weeks. 
The ailments which the worm gives rise to are relieved, and 
