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in  fluids  and  surfaces  containing  albuminoids.  Infected  wounds  should  be  irri- 
gated fi'oni  ten  to  twenty  minutes  daily  ;  a  single  thorough  cleansing  is  enough 
for  fresh  wounds,  after  which  a  dressing  of  tartaric  acid-sublimate  gauze  is 
applied. 
Tartaric-sublimate  gauze  does  not  interfere,  in  any  degree,  with  iodoform  and 
the  other  substances  commonly  used  in  sm'gery.  It  gives  in  the  laboratory  and 
in  practice  better  results  than  sublimate  alone.  It  does  not  irritate  wounded 
tissues.  Sublimate  dissolves  better  in  solution  of  tartaric  acid  than  in  water 
alone.  The  compound  solution  does  not  decompose  in  the  tissues  or  dressings, 
and  is  cheap. 
Solutionsjmay  be  made  after  the  following  formulas : 
Corrosive  sublimate   1  part. 
Tartaric  acid   5  parts . 
Water   1000  " 
for  irrigation. 
For  the  preparation  of  dressings : 
Corrosive  sublimate   5  parts. 
Tartaric  acid   20 
Distilled  water   1000  " 
may  be  used,  in  which  dressing  material  should  soak  two  hours,  after  which  it 
may  be  wnmg  out  and  dried. . 
Laplace's  investigations  consisted  of  experiments  in  Koch's  laboratory,  and  in 
von  Bergmann's  and  Fehleisen's  clinics.  He  had  previously  demonstrated  that 
the  efficiency  of  sublimate  and  carbolic  solutions  as  germicides  is  greatly  in- 
creased by  the  addition  of  hydrochloric  acid. — Deutsche  medicinische  Wochen. 
schrift,  Oct.  6, 1887 ;  Med.  News,  Nov.  5,  1887. 
Koumissed  peptones,  by  Dr.  Anderson.  The  author  describes  this  substance, 
which  he  has  prepared,  as  follows  : 
It  is  milk,  or  milk  and  other  foods  ;  first,  by  the  action  of  pepsin,  of  pancrea- 
tin,  or  of  both,  almost  completely  digested,  and  thereby  converted  into  i^eptone, 
or  still  further  split  up,  and  then  made  into  koumiss.  In  the  process  of  pepto- 
nizing about  twenty-five  per  cent,  of  water  is  driven  off,  and  none  is  previously 
added.  Koumiss  peptones  are,  therefore,  of  about  fifty  per  cent,  greater  food 
value  than  ordinary  koumiss.  They  are  more  fluid,  have  a  sediment  of  far 
greater  imj^alpability,  and  are  incomparably  more  digestible  and  easily  assimi- 
lable than  ordinary  koumiss,  or  even  than  Russian  fermented  mare's  milk. 
"While  the  author  of  this  paper  claims  to  be  independently  a  discoverer  of  ordi- 
nary koumiss,  he  is  the  acknowledged  inventor  and  institutor  of  this,  the  high- 
est expression  of  a  perfect  koumiss.  It  is  of  especial  use  in  the  most  irritable 
and  adynamic  typen  of  wasting  diseases ;  and  can  be,  and  has  been  taken  and 
retained,  when  all  other  foods,  ordinary  koumiss  not  excepted,  have  been 
rejected.  Valuable  lives  have  been  saved  which  would  have  been  lost  but  for 
its  administration. 
Hitherto  I  have  spoken  of  the  use  of  cane  sugar  in  the  making  of  koumiss,  etc. 
I  now  come  to  speak  of  the  substitution  of  honey.  For  years  past  seldom  has 
cane  sugar  been  used  by  me.  In  the  preparation  of  ordinary  foods,  grape  sugar, 
and  sometimes  sugar  of  milk,  has  replaced  cane  sugar  on  the  ground  of  the  disa- 
greeable eructative  and  fermentative  action  the  latter  exerts  when  administered. 
This  cannot  be  so  great  in  the  matter  of  koumiss  ;  yet  I  have  substituted  honey 
for  cane  sugar,  and  principallv  for  the  following  reasons  :  honey  is  more  whole- 
