474 
Varieties. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm- 
t      Sept.,  1881. 
the  planting  of  hundreds  of  acres  of  trees  on  its  lands.  A  Boston  capital 
ist  has  engaged  a  company  of  raisers  of  forest  seedlings  in  Illinois  to  break 
and  plow  a  large  area  in  Kansas,  and  plant  no  less  than  2,720  trees  to  the 
acre,  and  cultivate  these  until  they  shade  the  ground.  At  the  end  of  that 
time — say  ten  years — the  plantations  will  be  delivered  over  to  the  owner. 
No  trees  less  than  six  feet  high  are  to  be  counted.  The  Fort  Scott  Railroad 
has  adopted  this  plan,  one  advantage  of  which  is  that  the  tree  enterprise 
will  be  attended  by  experienced  men,  wliose  interest  it  will  be  to  make  as 
much  of  a  success  of  it  as  j^ossible. — Manuf.  and  Builder^  June. 
Resorcin  in  Cholera  Infantum. — Totenhoffer  ("  Breslauer  serztliche 
Zeitschrift,"  No.  24)  claims  this  substance  does  not  act  like  carbolic  acid  as 
an  irritant,  or  lead  to  collapse.  He  finds  that  it  diminishes  vomiting  and 
diarrhoea  and  restores  the  function  of  the  stomach.  The  commencing  dose 
should  be  one  and  a  half  grain  in  some  slightly  bitter  menstruum.  Recov- 
ery under  its  use  usually  occurs  within  a  week.  The  mortality  of  cholera 
infantum  under  treatment  by  it  has  been  but  fifteen  per  cent. — Chicago 
3£ed.  Review^  April  5. 
Salicyeated  Camphor. — Drs.  Henrot  and  Luton  ("  L' Union  Medicale 
et  Scientiftque  du  Nord-Est")  give  the  results  of  the  employment  of  this 
substance.  Used  under  the  form  of  pomade,  against  phagadenic  ulcers, 
lupoid  and  syphilitic,  it  has  proved  of  great  value.  Henrot  is  of  opinion 
that  salicylated  cam])hor  is  likely  to  prove  of  service  in  certain  epithelio- 
mata,  particularly  of  the  cervix  uteri,  and  that  in  certain  non-malignant 
ulcers  of  that  organ  it  will  undoubtedly  be  of  the  greatest  value. — Chicago 
Med.  Review,  1881,  p.  134. 
Impotence  from  Salicylate  of  Sodium. — Dubrisay  reports  three  cases^ 
of  young,  vigorous  men,  in  whom  very  marked  impotence  of  temporary 
duration  was  produced  by  taking  forty-five  to  fifty-grain  doses  of  salicylate 
of  sodium  for  twenty  days  while  under  treatment  for  rheumatism. — L'  Abeille 
Med.  J  La  Presse  Med.  Beige  ;  Buffalo  Med.  and  Surg.  Jour.^  June. 
Salicy^late  of  Sodium  as  a  Remedy  in  Nervous  Headache. — 
Dr.  Q^hlschlager,  of  Danzig,  says,  in  "  Allgemeine  Medicinische  Central 
Zeitung,"  May  7,  1881,  that  he  has  found  this  remedy  of  great  value  in  the- 
treatment  of  nervous  headache,  especially  if  given  in  a  dose  of  one  gram 
(gr.  XV.)  in  the  beginning  of  an  attack.  It  usually  produces  drowsiness,, 
and  after  a  few  hours  the  patient  wakes  up  refreshed  and  free  from  pain.. 
It,  however,  often  fails  to  j^roduce'this  effect  in  cases  dependent.on  anaemia.. 
Med.  and  Surg.  7?ep.,  July  16,  p.  79. 
VViNTERGREEN  AS  AN  ANTISEPTIC. — From  the  fact  that  the  best  salicy- 
lic acid  is  obtained  from  wintergreen  oil,  it  is  scarcely  surprising  to  learn 
that  Gosselin  and  Bergeron  ("Archives  Generales,"  January,  1881)  have 
found  that  wintergreen  is  almost  as  antiseptic  as  carbolic  acid.  They  have 
used  tw^o  alcoholic  solutions  of  varying  strength  ;  the  stronger  is  composed 
of  five  parts  oil  of  wintergreen,  one  hundred  parts  alcohol  and  fifty  parts. 
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