-478  Phmmaceutical  Colleges  mid  Associations.  { ^'"sept^'^issr™" 
Sugar  of  Milk  as  a  Laxative. — A  writer  in  the  "Deutsche  Med. 
Wochenschrift "  recommends  sugar  of  milk  as  an  efficient  and  agreeable 
laxative.    He  gives  from  quarter  to  half  an  ounce  in  half  a  pint  of  warm 
water,  or  of  milk  and  water,  fasting,  in  the  morning. — Med.  and  Surg. 
July  30. 
Action  of  Conine. — Dr.  Bouchefontaine  recently  reported  ("Bulletin 
g^nerale  de  Tlierapeutique  ")  before  the  Academic  des  Sciences  some  expe- 
riments which  proved,  he  claimed,  that  conine  first  acted  on  the  nerve 
centres  themselves  before  affecting  the  nervous  connective  substance 
between  tlie  nerves  and  muscles.  In  the  dog  and  the  batrachians  the  alka- 
loid ends  by  completely  decreasing  the  nervous  motor  excitability  if  given 
in  sufficient  quantity,  but  is  then  fatal  to  both  classes  of  animals.  These 
results  fully  accord  with  clinical  experience,  for  it  has  frequently  hap- 
pened that  cases  of  acute  mania  and  progressive  paresis  in  which  delusions 
existed  based  on  the  motor  disturbance,  have  had  both  removed  by  the  use 
of  sufficient  doses  of  either  the  alkaloid  or  the  fluid  extract  of  the  drug 
which  has  calmed  the  motor  excitement,  thus  removing  the  delusions  and 
preventing  the  establishment  of  a  vicious  circle  which  would  soon  exhaust 
the  patient.— CAic.  Med.  Beview,  1881,  p.  132. 
SuaciESTioNS  IN  Toothache. — At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Odontological 
Society,  of  Great  Britain,  Mr.  Stocken  read  a  paper  on  "The  Value  of 
Certain  Remedies  in  the  Constitutional  Treatment  of  Inflammatory  Con- 
ditions of  the  Vascular  Tooth-Structure,  and  of  Neuralgia  arising  there- 
from." The  remedies  to  which  Mr.  Stocken  specially  directed  attention 
were  chloride  of  ammonium,  sulphide  of  calcium  and  gelsemium.  He  had 
selected  them  because  their  action  was  not  so  generally  known  as  that  of 
manj^  other  agents.  He  gave  a  full  description  of  the  therapeutic  effects 
of  these  drugs,  indicating  the  class  of  cases  in  which  each  would  be  likely 
to  be  most  serviceable.  His  conclusion  was  that,  in  simple  neuralgia  of  the 
fifth  pair,  gelsemium,  either  with  or  without  aconite,  would  efiect  a  cure  or, 
at  least  afford  considerable  relief.  If  the  pain  was  due  to  congestion  or 
inflammation  of  the  pulp  or  periosteum,  he  would  prescribe  also  chloride 
of  ammonium.  While  in  chronic  periostitis  with  suppuration,  suli^hide  of 
calcium  gave  results  which  were  in  the  highest  degree  satisfactory,  cutting 
short  the  attacks  in  the  most  remarkable  nianner.  He  was  of  opinion  that 
dental  suro-eons  do  not  generally  give  sufficient  attention  to  the  constitu- 
tional treatment  of  the  cases  under  their  care.— J/ec?.  and  Surg.  Bep., 
June  4.  
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
Albany  College  of  Pharmacy.  —  The  Board  of  Governors  of  the 
Union  University,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  have  organized  a  department  of 
pharmacy  under  the  above  title.  The  lectures  will  be  held  in  the  Albany 
Medical  CoUeege  building,  and  the  course  of  instruction  will  be  divided 
into  a  junior  and  senior  class.  The  faculty  consists  of  Jacob  S.  Mosher, 
M.D.  Professor  of  Botany  and  Materia  medica ;  Willis  G.  Tucker,  M.D., 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  and  Gustavus  Michaelis,  Professor  of  Pharmacy. 
