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skin,  and  we  shall  soon  be  satisfied  of  the  justice  of  the  above 
remarks.  Glycerine  rubbed  on  the  abdomen  also  gives  it  to  the 
exhausted  tissues  in  another  manner.  All  I  ask  is  its  trial  in 
infantile  diarrhoeas  with  judgment. 
It  forms  an  excellent  adjunct  to  cod  oil,  in  proportion  of  equal 
quantities.  Quinia  dissolved  in  it  seems  to  act  more  rapidly, 
kindly,  and  with  greater  certainty,  often  entirely  overcoming 
idiosyncracies.  Thus  an  infant,  on  whom  quinia  exercised  a 
very  severe  effect,  could  take  it  dissolved  in  glycerine  with  per- 
fect safety.  It  adds  to  the  efficacy  of  iron.  Thus  a  boy  twelve 
years  old  had  made  a  bad  recovery  from  a  billious  remittent 
fever.  He  was  pale  and  feeble,  nervous  system  irritable  ;  anor- 
exia was  a  marked  symptom.  Iron,  cod  oil,  and  tonics  failed  on 
him.  He  was  then  put  upon  glycerine  f.  3j.  and  tr.  ferri.  chlor. 
gtt.  viij.  three  times  a  day.  His  recovery  was  rapid  and  per- 
manent. 
A  girl,  set  14,  was  treated  for  irritative  dyspepsia  for  nine 
months,  without  any  material  improvement,  when  glycerine  was 
ordered  in  teaspoonful  doses,  four  times  a  day,  with  excellent 
results,  and  a  final  cure.  Many  grown  people  are  greatly  bene- 
fited by  uniting  cod  oil  and  glycerine  in  equal  proportions,  and 
I  have  always  found  that  children  do  better,  while  taking 
cod  oil,  to  have  some  proportion  of  glycerine  added  to  it. 
Furthermore,  I  cannot  close  without  observing  that  old  and 
irritable  ulcers  are  most  excellently  treated  with  glycerine 
holding  acetate  of  morphia  in  solution.  That  burnt  surfaces  are 
relieved  of  pain  in  proportion  as  the  glycerine  penetrates  to  the 
sound  tissue  beneath.  When  stumps  suppurate,  and  thepus  bur- 
rows into  the  sound  tissue,  pure  glycerine  arrests  the  process, 
and  brings  on  a  healthier  condition  of  the  parts.  In  a  case  of 
psoas  abscess,  glycerine  diluted  with  its  bulk  of  water  was  in- 
jected into  it  twice  a  day,  and  was  gradually  made  stronger,  till 
a  cure  was  effected. 
Glycerine  is  well  worthy  of  our  attention,  I  prefer  Brown's 
glycerine. —  The  Med.  and  Surg.  Rep.,  Phila.,  Jan.,  12,  1867. 
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