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tained the characters of colostrum so long as a month after delivery. The 
milk of a female laboring under severe metro-peritonitis presented the 
characters of true milk, not of colostrum. That likewise from the left 
breast of a person whose right breast was in a state of suppuration present- 
ed all the characters of healthy milk, though pus- globules were mixed 
with the milk in the other breast. In two instances where the breasts be- 
came inflamed without suppurating, the milk continued to present all the 
characters of the healthy secretion and did not contain any of the granular 
bodies of the colostrum. 
Professor D'Outrepont had the opportunity of examining the milk of a 
woman who, after having suckled her third child for some months, began 
to menstruate regularly. During the flow of the menses the child became 
indisposed to suck and suffered from vomiting, but recovered its health 
immediately on their cessation. During menstruation the milk possessed 
all the characters of colostrum, while at other times its apperance was 
precisely that of healthy milk. The secretion from the breasts of a wo- 
man who had never been pregnant, presented all the peculiarities of colos- 
trum ; that contained in the breasts of another woman who never suckled 
her children, though the glands were always full except during pregnancy , 
differed in no respect from healthy milk. — British and Foreign Medical 
Review, from Neue Zeitschrift fur Gebertskunde. Bd. x. Heft i. 
On a sedative Lotion in headachs, Congestions, and Cerebral Fevers. 
By M. Raspail. — Professor Raspail, in a letter to the editor of VExperi- 
e.nce, gives the mode of preparing a lotion, the sedative effect of which, he 
says, is almost instantaneous. It is as follows : 
Liquor of ammonia (Qy. the strength?) 100 pts. 
Distilled water, 900 " 
Purified marine salt, 20 " 
Camphor, 2 " 
Essence of rose, or some other scent, in the necessary proportion. 
The whole dissolved cold. 
A piece of linen is to be steeped in this solution and applied over the 
part of the head that the patient points out as the seat of pain, taking care, 
if it is on the forehead, to apply a thick bandage over the eyebrows, to 
prevent any drops of the fluid passing into the eyes. 
M. Raspail says he has seen headachs intolerably violent, accompanied 
by photophobia, and retraction of the globes of the eye, disappear com- 
pletely, from a quarter to half an hour after the application of one wetted 
cloth. The linen is to be soaked as often as a new access of pain is 
threatened, and left on the head until it is necessary to soak it anew. In 
the numerous trials the author has made with this solution, first on him- 
