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ings  with  morphine,  of  which  drug  she  finally  took  sixteen  grains  a  day. 
Thirty  hours  after  having  taken  her  last  dose  she  was  found  in  a  condition 
of  great  anguish,  excitation,  and  inquietude.  During  the  night  chloral 
hydrate  and  iodide  of  potassium  were  given  to  allay  the  excitation  and 
produce  sleep.  The  next  day  she  was  very  weak  and  restless,  hardly  able 
to  speak,  and  tormented  with  vomiting  ;  the  pulse  was  150.  The  fluid 
extract  of  coca  was  administered  in  doses  of  a  tablespoonful.  The  first  dose 
had  but  little  eflfect.  The  second  was  followed  by  a  wonderful  change  ; 
the  pulse  fell  to  85,  the  countenance  assumed  color  and  animation,  and  the 
vomiting  ceased.  The  patient  began  to  speak,  and  was  in  excellent 
spirits.  She  slept  almost  half  of  the  following  night,  awoke  refreshed,  with 
a  pulse  of  75,  took  breakfast,  and  digested  it  well.  She  continued  to 
improve,  rode  in  a  carriage  for  quite  a  distance,  and  left  the  city  next  day, 
taking  with  her  an  eight-ounce  bottle  of  coca,  which  remedy  she  continued 
to  take  in  diminishing  doses.  When  she  ceased  taking  it  she  was  enjoying 
good  health,  without  the  use  of  morphine. — Med.  Record;  Louis.  ^  Med. 
iVew.s,Nov.  19,  1881. 
Quinine  for  Prevention  of  Sunstroke.— Though  somewhat  out  of 
season,  we  think  it  worth  while  to  enter  for  preservation  the  means  of  pre- 
vention of  sunstroke  recommended  by  an  English  surgeon.    He  says: 
For  seven  years  of  residence  in  Central  China,  uj^on  the  banks  of  the 
Yang-tze-kiang,  which  annually  overflows  its  banks,  I  found  nothing  so 
protective  against  sunstroke  as  ten  grains  of  sul2)hateof  quinine  suspended 
in  a  wineglassful  of  sherry,  and  taken  before  going  out  at  midday,  when 
required  to  brave  the  sun-heat,  which  is  oftener  above  than  below  Calcutta 
temperature.  I  have  tried  this  plan  in  so  many  cases  that  I  feel  certain 
that  quinine  is  as  prophylactic  against  sunstroke  as  against  malarial  fever. 
It  was  while  endeavoring  to  neutralize  the  miasma  w  hich  causes  the  latter 
that  I  noticed  how  completely  I  felt  braced  against  the  effects  of  the  sun- 
heat.  I  should  l)e  inclined  to  dissolve  the  quinine  in  hydrobromic  acid 
instead  of  the  sherry.— Jfed.  and  Surg.  Reporter^  Oct.  22,  1881. 
Pilocarpine  and  Muscarine.— Dr.  S.  Ringer  has  made  the  curious 
observation  that  the  antagonism  of  pilocarpine  and  extract  of  muscaria  on 
the  frog's  heart  varies  in  dift'erent  months.  In  the  summer  months  pilo- 
carpine always  strongly  antagonizes  extract  of  muscaria,  but  in  the  winter 
months  there  is  often  no  antagonism,  and  even  when  it  occurs,  it  is  gene- 
rally slight.  This  difference  is  due  to  temperature. — Med.  and  Surg.  Rep)., 
Nov.  19,  1881. 
The  Tea-Peant. — TJie  vegetation  on  the  southern  slopes  of  the  eastern 
Himalayas,  three  or  four  thousand  feet  above  the  sea,  though  by  no  means 
luxuriant,  is  said  to  be  very  agreeable  and  of  much  interest  to  the  botanist. 
Among  the  plants  native  to  these  slopes,  planted  in  the  course  of  nature 
during  the  preparation  of  the  earth  for  man,  and  left  wild  with  the  ele- 
phant and  the  leopard,  is  a  shrub  growing  from  twenty  to  tliirty  feet  high, 
and  well  worthy  to  be  selected  for  pleasant  foliage  and  fine  flowers.  The 
lanceolate  leaves  are  from  two  to  six  inches  long,  and  the  flowers  are  large 
