242  Gleanings  from  the  Medical  Journals.  {Am-^ay,f898arm' 
and  chest.  A  2  per  cent,  cocaine  spray  is  of  great  service  in  over- 
coming the  laryngeal  spasm.  After  the  immediate  danger  is  past, 
the  following  mixture  should  be  given  until  the  catarrhal  symptoms 
have  disappeared  : 
R .    Syr.  scillse,  3  iss 
Tr.  opii  camphorat. ,  3  ii 
Tr.tolutan,  j  „  g. 
Glycerini,  ) 
Aq.  dest.,             q.s.  ad  ^iij 
M.  et  Sig.  :  One-half  teaspoonful  every  three  hours  of  the  day,  and  every 
four  hours  at  night. — Med.  News,  March  19,  1898. 
BOILED  ANTITOXIN. 
A  physician  wrote  to  a  manufacturer  of  antitoxin,  inquiring 
whether  the  syringe  or  the  antitoxin  was  to  be  boiled  before  using  ? 
It  need  hardly  be  said  that  boiling,  of  course,  destroys  the  albumi- 
nous material,  and  yet  the  manufacturer  writes  us  that  he  has  on 
hand  something  like  $13  worth  of  boiled  antitoxin  returned  by  phy- 
sicians who  gained  wisdom  by  expensive  experience. —  The  Phila. 
Med.  Jour.,  March  26,  1898. 
THE  COMMUNICATION  OF  VENEREAL  DISEASE  A  CRIMINAL  OFFENCE. 
A  measure  is  just  being  discussed  before  the  German  Reichstag, 
whose  purpose  is  the  prevention  of  the  spread  of  venereal  disease. 
Any  one  found  guilty  of  having  communicated  a  venereal  disease  to 
another  shall  be  punishable  by  fine  and  imprisonment.  Certain  cir- 
cumstances are  considered  to  mitigate  the  offence,  especially  in  the 
married,  and  when  the  disease  has  been  innocently  acquired.  It  is 
an  attempt  to  solve  a  difficult  social  question  from  another  point  of 
view  than  that  from  which  it  is  usually  approached. —  The  Phila. 
Med.  Jour.,  March  26,  1898. 
INTESTINAL  ANTISEPTIC  MIXTURE  IN  TYPHOID  FEVER. 
R.    Salol,  Ji 
Thymol,  gr.  xxxvi 
Bismuth,  subnit.,      gii-  iv 
Mucilag.  acacia,  ^ii 
Syr.  tolutan,  giv 
M. — vSig.  :  One  teaspoonful  three  times  daily. — Med.  News,  April  2,  1898. 
