CLEANSING  OF  COD-LIVER  OIL  BOTTLES. 
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ence  favorable  to  draining,  which,  when  the  bottles  are  dirty,  will 
occur  with  the  eighth  or  tenth  bottle. 
It  is  a  good  plan,  when  many  bottles  are  thus  taken  back,  to 
clean  them  partially  with  a  little  benzine  before  putting  them 
away,  and  wiping  the  exterior  with  the  same,  which  renders  the 
subsequent  labor  very  easy.  These  remarks  apply  to  castor  oil 
and  other  oil  bottles  or  cans.  The  latter  often  become  very  im- 
pure, so  as  to  contaminate  fresh  oil  put  in  them  temporarily  for 
transportation,  and  it  would  be  well  for  druggists  who  habitually 
supply  cod-liver  oil  to  their  pharmaceutical  customers  in  cans, 
to  make  a  rule  systematically  to  drain  them,  and  occasionally  to 
cleanse  them  as  above,  observing  to  get  them  absolutely  dry  be- 
fore using.  Such  cans  should  always  be  kept  corked,  and  when 
the  corks  become  foul  they  should  be  rejected.  These  remarks 
may  be  considered  superfluous  by  many.  For  such  they  are  not 
intended ;  but  if  a  few  only  are  benefitted  by  the  hints,  they  will 
have  answered  a  useful  end. 
Philad.,  Sept.  26,  1868. 
GETTYSBURG  MINERAL  SPRING.  ' 
By  Dr.  John  Bell. 
Notwithstanding  its  great  mineral  wealth,  Pennsylvania  has 
but  few  mineral  springs.  Until  recently,  that  of  Bedford  was 
the  only  one  that  could  be  resorted  to  with  any  confidence  in  its 
water  possessing  actively  medicinal  properties.  Of  late,  however, 
it  finds  a  rival  in  the  Gettysburg  Mineral  Spring,  which,  after 
due  deductions  from  the  extreme  claims  advanced  in  favor  of  its 
wonder-working  powers,  seems  to  be  entitled  to  a  place  in  the 
materia  medica  as  a  remedy  in  gout,  chronic  rheumatism,  dys- 
pepsia and  renal  diseases,  especially  in  those  in  which  the  lithic 
acid  diathesis  prevails.  In  its  sensible  properties  of  taste  and 
absence  of  smell,  the  Gettysburg  has  nothing  to  distinguish  it 
from  common  water  ;  but  it  has  a  marked  peculiarity  in  not  un- 
dergoing any  change  by  removal  from  the  Spring  and  subsequent 
transportation  to  any  distance, — thus  allowing  of  its  use  by  in- 
valids in  all  places  and  seasons. 
An  analysis  of  the  Gettysburg  water  has  been  made  by  Dr. 
