^°'nov.^8^83*'"°'  }        Ferchloride  of  Iron  in  Diphtheria.  565 
sense  of  the  beautiful,  which  recognizes  in  an  honest  man  the  noblest 
work  of  God,  to  be  able  to  impose  upon  a  community,  through  the 
medium  of  printer's  ink,  a  trashy  preparation  just  long  enough,  to 
acquire  a  competency  by  its  sale,  and  then  permit  it  to  sink  into  that 
insignificance  from  which  its  intrinsic  merit  alone  would  never  have 
lifted  it,  as  has  frequently  been  the  case  of  late  years  in  this  field  of 
"uselessness ;  but  it  is  time  that  this  species  of  shrewdness  was  called  by 
its  proper  name,  its  workshops  and  places  of  business  hidden  from  the 
light  of  day,  and  its  products  branded  by  public  authority  "  coun- 
terfeit." 
Of  what  avail  are  teachers  of  science,  and  schools  of  learning,  and 
the  lives  devoted  to  the  study  and  application  of  materia  medica,  and 
the  bringing  to  light  of  the  hidden  resources  of  nature,  for  the  allevi- 
ation and  cure  of  human  maladies,  when  such  cabalistic  signs  as  St.  X, 
1860,  can  be  made  to  invest  rum  with  wonderful  healing  properties, 
or  a  bearded  man  in  a  pine  forest,  kneeling  beside  an  open  book  and 
alembic,  effect  the  wonderful  transformation  of  turpentine  into  an 
elixir  of  life  ?  Or  of  what  avail  are  those  who  have  passed  through 
the  curriculum  of  the  one,  or  traversed  the  highways  or  by-paths  of 
the  other,  if  their  object,  inclination  and  effort  is  to  aid  or  assist  in 
this  empirical  crusade  in  the  interest  of  ignorance  and  deceit,  and 
aofainst  the  best  interests  of  mankind  ? 
"to 
Let  pharmacists  and  physicians,  at  least,  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder 
in  this  matter,  resisting  it  in  all  its  forms,  whether  made  direct  as 
patent  medicines,  or  by  the  more  insidious  approach  as  propietary  spe- 
■cialties,  through  the  medium  of  regular  channels.  Not  upon  the  narrow 
platform  of  self  or  mutual  interest,  but  upon  the  broader  one  of  duty, 
of  philanthropy,  of  right,  fully  assured  that  their  better  counsels  will 
harmonize  Avith  the  better  sense  of  the  community  in  an  effort  to  extir- 
pate rather  than  sustain  this  nefarious  traffic. 
PercUloride  of  Iron  in  Diphtheria.— Dr.  Andresse,  of  Teltow 
("Deutsche  Med.  Wochensch."),  recommends  perchloride  of  iron  in  diph- 
theria, a  gargle  of  five  or  six  drops  of  the  liquor  to  a  small  cupful  of  warm 
water  to  be  used  several  times  a  day  by  sick  and  healthy  alike,  and  the 
affected  throat  to  be  thoroughly  brushed  with  the  liquor,  diluted  with  two 
or  thr©e  times  its  amount  of  water.  The  throat  should  also  be  sprayed  with 
the  same  dilution  as  is  used  for  gargling.  Internally,  he  prescribes  a  solu- 
tion of  quinine  (one  part  in  120),  of  which  a  teaspoonful  should  be  taken 
«very  hour  undiluted,  in  order  to  obtain  the  beneficial  effect  of  its  local 
action. — The  London  Medical  Record  ;  Ginci.  Lancet  and  Clinic^  July  21, 
1883. 
