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As  a  dressing  for  fetid  leg  ulcers,  the  solution  of  the  sulpho- 
carbolates  possesses  one  advantage  over  the  carbolic  acid  ;  the 
acid  in  oil  or  paste  is  at  first  generally  too  stimulating,  but  soon 
volatilizes,  leaving  the  oil  or  paste  inert.  The  sulphocarbolates 
being  less  volatile,  but  at  the  same  time  possessing  the  antiseptic 
qualities,  a  more  uniform  application  is  obtained. 
This  salt  was  used  in  several  cases  of  severe  tonsillar  ulcera- 
tion, which  all  rapidly  recovered  without  the  occurrence  of 
suppuration. 
It  was  also  employed  in  several  severe  cases  of  scarlet  fever, 
every  case  of  which  recovered  in  a  less  period  of  time  than  under 
any  treatment  which  had  previously  been  employed  in  similar 
cases.* 
[The  author  also  treats  of  tlie  salts  of  potassa,  zinc,  lime,  baryta, 
magnesia  and  ammonia,  but  our  limited  space  precludes  the  publication 
of  the  whole  paper,  especially  as  the  salts  have  been  noticed  in  the  last 
number.    Editor  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.] 
TRICHINA  SPIRALIS. 
By  Edmund  Booking. 
A  case  of  Trichina  spiralis  occurring  here  is  interesting  as 
eliciting  some  new  points  in  connection  with  this  not  well  under- 
stood parasite. 
A  German,  named  Burdatt,  some  two  weeks  since  was  taken 
at  night  with  an  obstinate  diarrhoea,  which  continued  and  was  ac- 
companied by  muscular  languor  and  other  symptoms  of  trichino- 
sis. His  wife  was  also  affected  the  same  way.  Inquiry  now 
elicited  the  fact  that  on  the  evening  of  the  night  of  the  attack 
the  family  had  partaken  of  some  raw  ham  for  supper.  The  at- 
tending physician,  Dr.  H.  J.  Wiesil,  suspecting  trichinosis,  im- 
mediately brought  some  of  the  meat  to  me  for  microscopic  ex- 
amination. Apparently  the  ham  presented  no  objectionable 
features,  being  rather  a  piece  that  would  be  selected  for  sweet- 
ness and  nice  appearance  than  rejected.  But  under  the  micro- 
scope it  became  almost  a  literal  mass  of  parasites — myriads  and 
myriads  of  the  trichina  free  from  their  cysts,  as  well  as  incysted, 
*Yide  London  Practitioner,  July,  1869. 
