308  Gleanings  from  the  Medical  Journals.  {^JSS^P^ 
A  STATE  MEDICAL  LAW  UPHELD. 
The  United  States  Supreme  Court  at  Washington  recently 
affirmed  the  constitutionality  of  the  act  of  the  New  York  Legisla- 
ture of  1895,  prohibiting  persons  who  have  been  convicted  of,  and 
punished  for,  a  crime  from  practising  medicine  in  the  State,  the 
opinion  being  delivered  by  Judge  Brewer. — Med.  News,  April  30, 
1898. 
FEEDING  OF  INFANTS. 
According  to  Pediatrics,  there  is  a  law  in  France  forbidding  the 
giving  of  solid  food  of  any  kind  to  infants  under  one  year  of  age 
without  the  written  consent  of  a  physician.  The  use  of  feeding- 
bottles  with  long  rubber  tubes  is  also  forbidden  by  law. 
FOR  GASTROINTESTINAL  CATARRH. 
In  cases  in  which  opiates  are  not  indicated,  Liebrich  recommends 
the  following  mixture  for  the  diarrhoea  : 
R    Tinct.  Calumbse.       T  — 
v  aa         3  ss 
Tinct.  Cascanllae,  J 
M. — Sig:  Twenty  drops.  4  or  5  times  daily. — Med.  News,  April  30,  189S. 
FOR  URTICARIA. 
R     Menthol.  gr.  xl 
Chloroform, 
Aetheris, 
Spts.  Camphorse, 
M. — Sig:  For  external  use  as  a  spray  or  lotion.  The  affected  part  should 
then  be  dusted  with  powdered  starch  or  oxide  of  zinc. — Med.  News,  April  30, 
1898. 
THE  AMERICAN  HOSPITAL  AT  TEHERAN. 
The  hospital  conducted  by  the  Presbyterian  missionaries  from  this 
country  to  Persia  has  received  a  gift  of  more  than  S  1,000  from  Per- 
sian officials  and  the  European  colony,  including  Russians  and  Turks. 
The  American  Minister,  Hon.  Arthur  Sherburne  Hardy,  organized 
an  entertainment  or  concert  with  the  help  of  the  Persian  Prime 
Minister  and  a  number  of  the  diplomatic  corps,  by  which  so  marked 
a  success  was  achieved  that  the  Shah  requested  a  repetition  of  it  at 
his  palace.  The  Shah  himself  attended  the  second  concert,  and  his 
distinguished  guests  were  entertained  at  its  close,  on  his  behalf,  and 
further  donations  to  the  hospital  were  received  by  several  Persian 
magnates. — Medical  News. 
