ANTISEPTIC THERAPEUTICS. 
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much benefitted by its inhalation, and all expressed a sense of 
relief to the general malaise and to the specific symptoms, 
cough, bronchial irritation and expectoration, the last men¬ 
tioned being soon changed in character and in quantity.” 
Ethyl iodid should be freely inhaled, not only for its sup¬ 
posed specific effect upon the pneumococcus, but also for the 
relief it affords the pulmonary symptoms. Compressed air and 
creosote is recommended by Professor See in apical and foetid 
bronchitis, the inhalations to be made daily or more frequently. 
The results obtained would appear to be surprising, a marked 
amelioration being observable in most casts. Professor W. E. 
Williams says that intra-tracheal medication has much to rec¬ 
ommend it when rapid effects are desired, especially in those 
pulmonary diseases where antiseptics are indicated. At the 
time of writing his article on the subject, he had not met with 
noteworthy success in treating suppurative bronchitis by intra¬ 
tracheal injections of antiseptics, and he was unable to find any 
record of attempts to administer per trachea for therapeutic 
purposes, large volumes of liquids either as mechanical deter¬ 
gents or as topical or general antiseptics. 
By referring to his article in the Veterinary Review, Vol. 
XXI, No. 9, you will find a very interesting account of two 
cases of traumatic bronchitis treated antiseptieally through the 
trachea. 
Dr. Jules Daurial gives his observation of lavage of the 
whole intestinal tract in eleven infants who were suffering from 
obstinate foetid diarrhoea, which checked the disease in all in¬ 
stances. The fluid used was weak solutions of lactic acid and 
creolin. One case of typhoid fever was treated in the same 
way with good results. Dr. W. W. Johnson, of Washington, 
advocates the local antiseptic treatment of acute dysentery from 
the fact that the affection itself was local, being confined to the 
colon and the rectum. 
The ratio 7 iale of the method was shown in the fact that we 
had a local inflammatory process with rapid infiltration of tis¬ 
sue ; a tendency to ulceration and necrosis and extensive de- 
