Cotton Seed, [Gossypivm herbaceum) as an antiperiodic. — Dr. Frost, (in the 
Charleston Journal, May 1850,) recommends a strong decoction of cotton 
seed as a remedy for intermittent fever, and says that its use originated 
with a planter in Newberry District, in cases of that disease among his ne- 
groes. Dr. W. K. Davis, of Monticello, S. C, says, " I have never failed to 
cure a patient with a single dose of it, even where large doses of quinine 
have failed. Where the patient has been ill of third-day fever and ague 
for months, in such cases success has followe its use." 
The mode of using the remedy is thus described : — After having given a 
dose of calomel the day or night previous to the attack, followed by castor 
oil in time to produce a cathartic effect before administering the tea, you 
put a pint of cotton seed with a quart of water in a vessel, and boil it until 
half the wat^r has evaporated. Put the patient in bed an hour or two before 
the usual recurrence of the ague, and give him a gill of the waim tea to 
drink. 
[If this remedy should prove to be as valuable as the above paper sug- 
gests, cotton seed should be examined for their active principle. — Editor.] 
On the employment of Oxygen in accidents from chloroform. — M. Duroy, 
Pharmaceutist of Paris, has sent to the Academy a memoir, wherein, after 
having sought to demonstrate by experiments that pure oxygen can be re- 
spired without danger, and that for many hours together, and that that gas 
respired with chloroform vapor, attenuates its effects and opposes its in- 
fluence, he thinks that it will be good to always iespire pure oxygen after 
inhalations of chloroform, that by this means we can have all its benefits as 
an anesthetic agent without its inconveniences. The enervation, pain in the 
head, inflammatory reaction, and all the secondary symptoms of greater or 
less importance, and of long or brief duration, which always occur after the 
use of chloroform, disappear immediately after the operation when oxygen 
is associated. 
It follows also, from the facts collected by the author, that oxygen can be 
considered as an antidote to all cases of asphyxia from charcoal and other 
gases and deleterious vapors. — Journal de Pharmacie. July 1850. 
Improved specific gravity bottle. — Mr. John Abraham of Liverpool, Eng., has 
lately constructed, (Pharm. Jour. p. 125, Sept. 1850,) specific gravity bot- 
tle with a new arrangement of the stopper, the proposed advantage of which 
