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Desesquelle, Ed., enters a vigorous protest against the employment 
of the insoluble compounds of mercury by injection, citing a number 
of accidents resulting therefrom. — Bull, de sc. pharmacol., Par., 
1906, v. 13, pp. 245-217, 451-453. 
Query states that the activity of a salt of mercury in the treatment 
of syphilis should be measured especially according to the quantity of 
mercury which it contains. He gives the following percentages as 
approximate : Calomel, 85 per cent ; oxycyanide, 83 per cent ; pomade. 
50 per cent; sublimate, 73 per cent. — Compt. rend. Soc. de biol., Par., 
1906, v. 60, pp. 177-179. 
Louise and Moutier, as a result of their experiments on a goat, 
think it possible to subject a pregnant syphilitic mother to mercurial 
treatment without danger to the foetus. After accouchement the 
treatment of the infant may be continued through the mother's milk. 
They hold that the mercury passes through the placenta to the foetus 
and that it also passes into the mother’s milk. — J. de pharm. et de 
chim., Par., 1906, v. 24, p. 575. 
Thistle, W. B., (Brit. M. J., Lonch, Oct. 29) advises calomel, fol- 
lowed by a purgative saline cla} 7 after day, in the treatment of typhoid 
to lessen additional infection and to abstract toxins from the body. — 
J. Am. M. Ass., 1906, v. 47, p. 1686. 
Graham, E. E., (Therap. Gaz., Detroit, July 15) begins the treat- 
ment of infantile diarrhoea due to toxaemia by administering calomel 
or castor oil. — Ibid., v. 47, p. 540. 
In a report of the meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical 
Society, Wilson is quoted as having advocated the use of calomel 
in cases of eclampsia, first on account of its diuretic effect; second, 
on acocunt of its hydragogue action which aids in elimination ; and 
third, on account of its corrective effect in the presence of intestinal 
fermentation. — Ibid., v. 46, p. 983. 
Watkins says that a general condemnation of mercury as a remedy 
for disease has long been characteristic of the eclectic school, yet 
calomel, properly used, is a good remedy and fills a position in our 
armamentarium which could not well be taken by any other agent. — 
Eclectic Med J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 595. 
Additional references on the use of mild mercurous chloride will be 
found in the Index Medicus and the J. Am. M. Ass. 
HYDRARGYRI IODIDUM FLAVUM. 
Francis, John M., thinks the process of manufacture will give an 
uncertain and costly product with all the blends of red, yellow, and 
green imaginable, which will finally be thrown away. Like calomel, 
samples of this salt while meeting all chemical identity and purity 
tests react differently under manipulation; some samples are more 
