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physician,  or  have  applied  at  some  other  institution  where  no  up- 
pleasant  questions  were  asked.  The  Faculty  has  also  appointed  a 
committee  to  consider  the  Abuse  of  Medical  Charities,  and  to  join 
with  committees  appointed  for  a  similar  purpose  by  medical  societies, 
other  hospital  and  charity  organizations,  in  devising  means  to  remedy 
the  more  important  abuses."  All  honor  to  the  Philadelphia  Poly- 
clinic !  Let  the  rest  go  and  do  likewise,  or  fall  under  the  ban  of 
professional  disrespect.— Phila.  Med.  Jour.,  March  19,  1898. 
The  above  will  receive  the  hearty  commendation  of  every  mem- 
ber of  the  pharmaceutical  profession. 
FOR  CHRONIC  DIARRHCEA. 
R.    Cupri  sulphat.,         1^  . 
Morphinise  sulphat,  / 
Quininise  sulphat.,  gr.  xxiv 
M.  fit.  pil.  No.  xii.— Sig.  :  One  pill  three  times  daily.—  Med.  News,  March 
12,  1898. 
INSANITY  ON  THE  INCREASE  IN  PHILADELPHIA. 
The  condition  of  the  Insane  Department  of  the  Philadelphia  Hos- 
pital, recently  reported  by  the  grand  jury,  is  interesting  in  many 
ways.  According  to  the  report,  the  admissions  to  this  department 
have  increased  85  per  cent,  within  the  last  ten  years,  while  the  pro- 
portion of  the  poor  has  decreased  proportionally  to  the  population 
and  in  point  of  actual  numbers.  So  crowded  has  this  department 
become  that  1,400  patients  are  accommodated  in  buildings  intended 
for  less  than  900.  In  both  the  male  and  female  departments,  addi- 
tional quarters  are  being  constructed,  which  will  only  permit  of 
accommodations  for  100  or  150  more.  Beds  have  had  to  be  placed 
in  the  aisles  and  passage-ways,  in  order  to  give  sleeping  facilities. 
To  properly  care  for  all  the  insane,  the  Board  of  Charities  and  Cor- 
rections have  asked  that  the  districts  of  Germantown,  Frankford 
and  Roxborough  be  consolidated  with  Philadelphia. — Jour.  Amer. 
Med.  Assoc.,  March  26,  I 
FOR  SPASMODIC  CROUP. 
Stimson  advises  the  following  treatment,  which,  in  his  hands,  has 
proved  successful  even  in  very  severe  cases.  The  child  is  first  given 
an  emetic  in  warm  water  in  teaspoonful  doses.  It  is  then  put  in  a 
hot  bath,  and,  after  this,  flannels  wrung  out  of  hot  mustard  water 
(four  teaspoonfuls  of  mustard  to  the  quart)  are  applied  to  the  neck 
