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Varieties. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
June,  i83o. 
The  insufflation  was  made  every  three  hours  in  severe  cases;  in  the  mild  forms 
two  or  three  times  daily.  The  author  also  recommends  this  remedy  in  gastric  or 
intestinal  catarrh,  particularly  of  infants,  and  states  that  at  times  the  results  are  sur- 
prising in  these  latter  cases.  He  firmly  believes  in  the  statement  of  Klebs,  that  it  is 
to  be  recommended  in  all  diseases  which  originate  by  infection. — Boston  Med.  and 
Surg.  Journ.^  from  Berlin.  Klin.  Wochens. 
Iodized  Phenol. — Battey's  formula  for  iodized  phenol,  iodine  cryst.  ^ss,  acid 
carbolic  5i,  is  highly  recommended  by  Dr.  J.  H.  Bellamy  in  other  than  uterine  affec- 
tions. He  has  found  it  very  useful  in  certain  skin  diseases,  particularly  those 
attended  with  itching.  In  the  eczema  marginatum  it  works  very  promptly.  It  is 
to  be  diluted  generally  with  equal  parts  of  glycerin,  and  applied  twice  a  day. — N~ 
Carolina  Med.  Jour..,  from  Toledo  Med.  and  Surg.  Jour.,  March,  1880. 
Cedron  as  a  Substitute  for  Quinia. — Admiral  Lapellin  draws  attention  to  a  . 
bean  which  is  used  by  the  inhabitants  of  Central  America  in  the  treatment  oi  the 
cold  fever,  and  which  is  said  to  be  a  good  subatitute  for  quinia.  Dr.  Coignard,  who 
obtained  the  remedy  in  Puerto  Arenas,  Costa  Rica,  obtained  favorable  results  with 
it,  and  Drs.  St.  Pere  and  Quesnel  found  it  even  more  powerful  than  sulphate  of 
quinia.  The  bean  is  cut  into  bits  as  large  as  a  pea,  several  of  which  are  given  \n 
the  interval  between  the  paroxysms.  This  almond  or  bean  is  obtained  from  the 
Simaruba  ferruginea. — Med.  Chir.  Rundschau,  Nov.,  1879,  from  'The  Med.  Record^ 
from  Nash'ville  Journ.  of  Med.  and  Surg.,  April,  1880. 
Iodoform  Paste. — The  "  Medical  Gazette  "  advises  the  following  combination 
for  the  purpose  of  disguising  the  odor  of  the  drug:  R  lodoformi  ^i,  MuciL  cxxm 
glycerina  gtt.  xx,  Ol.  menth.  pip.  (seu  neroli,  seu  caryoph.)  gtt.  i.  M. —  Proceedings 
of  the  Med.  Soc.  of  the  County  of  Kings,  Ne^  York,  April. 
Tartrate  of  Morphia. — The  new  preparation  of  neutral  tartrate  of  morphia  is  a 
useful  adjunct  to  our  therapeutics.  Being  very  soluble  it  passes  quickly  out  of  the 
sytsem,  and  gives  less  of  the  unpleasant  after  effects  than  either  the  muriate  or  ace- 
tate. Its  great  solubility  makes  it  particularly  advantageous  for  subcutaneous  injec- 
tion. It  gives  little  smarting  or  irritation  when  thus  administered,  and  the  solutio' 
never  clogs  the  finest  needles. — The  Med.  Press  and  Circular,  London,  March  loth, 
1880. 
Improved  Caustic  Sticks. — Dr.  Sawostizki  called  the  attention  of  the  Moscow 
Surgical  Society  to  an  improvement  in  the  preparation  of  sticks  of  nitrate  of  silver. 
It  consists  in  melting  together  five  parts  of  nitrate  of  silver  with  one  part  of  nitrate 
of  lead,  forming  an  argentum  plumbo-nitricum.  Sticks  formed  of  this  are  preferable 
