Am.  Jour,  Pharm. ) 
Dec,  1881.  I 
Varieties. 
531 
Glycerin  in  Phthisis. — Prof.  Jaccoud,  of  the  Paris  Faculty,  ha« 
strongly  recommended  ("La  Thorapeutique  Contemporaire ")  the  use  of 
glycerin  as  an  excitant  and  agent  d'epargne,  during  the  non-febrile  period 
of  common  phthisis,  when  codliver  oil  is  no  longer  tolerated.  He  recom- 
mends the  following  mixture,  which  should  be  taken  in  the  course  of  the 
day,  either  with  or  between  meals  : 
R    Kum  or  cognac,  .  .  .  .10  grams 
01.  menth.  pip.,         .  .  .  Ri 
Glycerin,  ,  .  .  .    40  grams.  M. 
This  mixture  is  agreeable  to  the  taste  and  well  tolerated  by  the  stomach  ; 
even  after  several  months  it  induces  neither  satiety  nor  disgust.  The 
quantity  is  suflRcient  for  one  day,  but  in  cases  which  present  no  sign  of 
abnormal  excitability  of  the  nervous  system  or  heart  the  dose  of  glycerin 
may  be  gradually  raised  to  50  or  00  grams  per  diem. — Med.  and  Surg.  Rep.^ 
Aug.  27,  1881. 
A  Plausible  Opekator  has  been  traveling  through  Iowa  and  the 
neighboring  States,  professing  to  have  a  specific  remedy  for  acute  and 
chronic  rheumatism,  the  receipt  for  which  he  sells  to  a  physician  for  fifty 
dollars,  agreeing  not  to  dispose  of  it  to  any  other  in  the  county — a  promise 
which,  of  course,  he  makes  no  effort  to  keej).  This  wonderful  specific  con- 
sists of  an  internal  and  external  remedy.  We  impart  them  to  the  public, 
as  supplied  us  by  one  of  his  victims,  adding  that  it  does  not  strike  us  as 
the  proper  thing  for  a  physician  to  obtain  information  in  this  way,  or  under 
any  such  conditions  of  secresy,  and,  therefore,  we  have  little  sympathy  for 
those  this  smooth-tongued  speculator  has  victimized. 
Internal  Remedy. 
Raw  linseed  oil,       .....  ^iii 
Oil  of  hemlock  (pure),    .  .  .  .  ,^11 
Oil  of  sassafrass,       .....  ^ii 
Oil  of  peppermint,         ....  ^ii 
Oil  of  vfintergreen,  .....  gii 
Oil  of  lemon,  ....  ^i 
Put  into  eight-ounce  bottle  and  fill  up  with  head-light  oil,  175  test. 
Shake  well  before  using.  Dose,  from  five  to  twenty  drops,  from  three  to 
five  times  a  day,  until,  in  acute  cases,  there  is  a  change  of  urine,  when  give 
only  once  a  day,  at  bedtime,  until  cured. 
For  chronic  cases  give  from  ten  to  forty  drops,  four  times  a  day,  after 
meals  and  bedtime  for  one  month,  and  then  night  and  morning  until 
cured. 
For  a  bad  case  of  sciatica^  or  neuralgia^  give  from  one  to  Jive  drops  of  the 
liniment  mixed  ivith  internal  remedy^  twice  a  day,  until  pain  ceases,  and 
then  continue  with  internal  medicine  only. 
Liniment  for  Sivellings,  Aches  and  Pains, 
Raw  linseed  oil,      .....  ^ii 
Oil  of  hemlock,  ....  ^ii 
Oil  of  horse-radish,  .....  ^ii 
Oil  of  celery,     .....  3ii 
