Montreal or Carleton Junction Tickets issued on these certificates will be good only for going trip between 5th and 13th August inclusive, by which latter date the journey to Banff must be completed.

Intending delegates should apply to Dr. James Bell, Sec., Montreal, stating whether accompanied or not, so that the above form may be filled in. At present it would appear that the meeting will be largely attended by members of the profession from all points in Ontario.

TREATMENT OF HEADACHES. Dr. E. Lloyd Jones (London Practitioner) has written an able paper on the diagnosis and treatment of headaches, accompanied by diminished or increased bloodpressure, and he sums up the treatment as follows: First, with regard to low-pressure headache. In acute cases, e. g., the toxic headaches from alcohol and tobacco, exercise and food are patent remedies. Relief is obtained from cardiac stimulants such as the following:

R Spts. ammoniæ aromat.
Spts. chloroformi.
Aquam ad.

3ss. m. xx. zi.

Antipyrin in small doses (gr. iii.) is also useful. In more chronic (recurrent) cases prolonged treatment by drugs is often necessary. In anæmic persons, iron is generally useful as an adjunct, but it is well often to give tr. digitalis with it in doses of mi. to iii. which will not slow the pulse.

If the patient is pallid, but the ears and lips are red, iron is of little service. In these cases, the tr. of digitalis mi. to iii. is very efficacious, the bowels being kept open if necessary. These are the patients who have an excessive number of red cells, with an increased specific gravity of the blood; they are very prone to low-pressure headaches, and they are much relieved by rest and change.

In high-pressure headaches, the bowels must be kept open, but not purged. The nitrite of amyl, carefully administered in a very dilute state, is very useful. Nitro-glycerine is even more useful, as the dose can be more easily regulated, in recurrent as well as in acute cases. In anæmic girls, besides improving their blood condition, nitro glycerine should be given in doses of one six-hundredth of a minim twice a day, and more than six doses should not be ordered. In recurrent high

pressure headaches alkalies are most beneficial. When these occur in anæmic young women, iron should be given with them. Iron alone would increase the headache.

NESTLE'S MILK FOOD.-Among the various devices resorted to by the owners of proprietary articles to bring their goods into notice, we do not remember seeing anything more dignified or effective than the silent eloquence of the group of medals (see page 29) awarded to Henri Nestle, by the juries of the world in recognition of the superiority of Nestle's Milk Food as a diet for infants.

Thomas Leeming & Co. have won for themselves and the goods they handle the confidence of the medical profession and the chemists in Canada, by not attempting to run down competitors, but simply placing their goods before the profession, asking them to test their merits, and to continue to use or disuse, according to the result of the test.

It goes without saying, such a course as this can only be successfully adopted where the goods possess undoubted merit and are practically independent of the aid of printers' ink, which is the case with Nestle's Milk Food.

B. NAPHTHOL IN ENTERIC FEVER.-J. M. Clarke, M.B. (London Pract.), says that B. Naphthol given with antifebrin, to control the temperature, has a beneficial effect on typhoid fever. Forty grains given in twenty-four hours are sufficient to keep the intestinal contents aseptic, and thus hinder or prevent the development and multiplication of the various micro-organisms, and, therefore of the toxic products to which they give rise. He prefers it to any other drug for this purpose, owing to its solubility and its antiseptic properties. In some cases, it produces gastric disturbances, when it must be withheld for a time at least. concludes: 1. That B. Naphthol is a safe and tolerably efficient agent to produce intestinal antisepsis. 2. That the duration of the disease is shortened, and the intensity of the symptoms directly arising from profound disturbance in the alimentary canal is lessened. 3. That complete convalescence is more speedily and satisfactorily attained; and that there is less risk of propagating the disease.

He

GLYCERINE INJECTIONS IN THE DIARRHOEA AND PROLAPSE OF CHILDREN.-Dr. George Rice (London Practitioner) reports seven cases in which persistent diarrhoea accompanied by great wasting, yielded to the injection into the rectum of two drachms of glycerine. In no case did he find it necessary to use more than three injections. Where prolapse was present it soon ceased to recur, as the little patient gained strength. Dr. Rice has also found, that where looseness of the bowels supervened in the course of other affections, such as pneumonia, the same happy results attended the injection of two drachms of glycerine. The injections cause neither pain nor discomfort. How glycerine proves so beneficial both in diarrhoea and constipation, Dr. Rice does not pretend to say, though he thinks it possible these troubles might spring from a common cause.

Dr.

ANEMONE PULSATILLA IN GONORRHOEAL ORCHITIS. Dr. Martel has employed anemone pulsatilla for some years in gonorrhoeal orchitis with success. In 1885 and 1886 he reported a series of cases which he had cured with this agent, in doses of thirty drops of the tincture in twenty-four hours. The drug has the advantage of mitigating the pains and enabling the patient to walk. Bazy has taken up the experiments lately in the Hospital Midi, Paris, and communicates to the Semaine Médicale, an account of forty-eight cases so treated. In thirty-five cases recovery was complete, in ten there was marked improvement, in two recovery is uncertain, and in one case the drug had no effect. Bazy employs the drug (Wiener Med. Presse), in the following formula:

gtt xxx. f iv. M.

R-Tinct. pulsatillæ
Syrupi
Sig.-Dessertspoonful every two hours.

The remedy is willingly taken and well borne by the patients. Treatment must be continued until complete recovery occurs. The average time required for cure is eleven days.

ELECTRICITY IN RHEUMATISM AND ASCITES-Dr Walton, of Harvard University, (Boston Med. and Surg. Jour.) reports cases of chronic rheumatism that have been benefitted by faradism and galvanism, and M. Muret, after treating cases of chronic ascites by the application of the interrupted current to the abdominal walls, speaks in measured

MENTHOL IN PURITIS LABII.-Dr. A. Duke, of

Dublin, has been successful (Brit. Med. Jour.) in treating pruritis of the vulva by rubbing the surface over three or four times with the crystals of menthol. It produces some burning sensation at first, which is followed by a sense of coolness and relief which lasts for days in come cases.

TRINITY MEDICAL COLLEGE.-The teaching staff of this institution has been augmented by the ap. pointment of the following gentlemen :—Dr. D. J. Gibb Wishart, assistant to Dr. Ryerson; Dr. E. A. Spilsbury, instructor in Rhinology a nd Laryngology; Dr. T. M. Hardie, the uses of the various appliances for diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Drs. G. Gordon, J. A. Watson, F. Winnett and Eden Walker, assistants in practical anatomy.

CAPILLARY PULSATION.-S. Lazarses-Barlow, of Cambridge, in a paper in the London Pract., discusses the diagnostic value of capillary pulsation in heart disease. It is best observed on the mucous surface of the lip and beneath the nails. It is nearly always present in disease of the aortic semilunar valves, especially in regurgitant, and when present indicates that disease. This is inportant in doubtful cases, as by it we can tell whether to give digitalis or not.

LEAD POISONING.-It is sometimes very difficult to arrive at the source of the lead introduced into the system, even when its characteristic effects are well marked. We notice in an exchange that two cases which had defied detection for some time, were found to have been caused in one, by the attendant biting off of tin foil, covering the stalks in boquets at a florists, said tin foil containing about 8% of lead; in the other by drinking beer from bottles which had been cleaned with shot.

ONTARIO MEDICAL COUNCIL EXAMINATIONS.We beg to call attention to the notice in our advertising columns, in reference to the examinations to be held at Toronto and Kingston in September next.

BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM IN OVARIAN ACNE.Dr. A. Jamieson (London Pract.) draws attention to the coincidence between acne and ovarian irritation, and its attendant menorrhagia. He treats such cases with bromide of potassium, which relieves the ovarian trouble and cures the acne.

LEONARD, of Detroit, says The Times and Reg., started the idea of publishing the names of the frauds who obtain credit from medical journals for advertising and then decline to pay their bills, with an impudent, "What are you going to do about it?" The law is a tedious, troublesome, and But expensive remedy, and these men know it. there is another method which they dread, and that is publicity. Drs. Leonard and Daniel have rendered medical journalism and honest advertisers a service by exposing these persons.

A. R. SMART, M.D. (Toledo Med. and Surg. Rep.), advocates ingi-puncture for internal hæmorrhoids. After forcibly dilating the sphincters, the base of each tumor is perforated one or more times by a wire of the size of a knitting needle, heated to a dull red. The patient is put to bed for from five to seven days after the operation, and on the second the bowels are opened with a gentle enema. In four or five weeks hardily a trace of the tumors will be found; no loss of tissue and subsequent contraction; only small indurations, which will subsequently disappear.

THE following is said to be (Med. Summary) an excellent cough syrup for children : R-Syrup. ipecac.,

Syrup. scillæ,

Syrup. acacia,

Syrup. pruni Virginia, àâ SIG. A teaspoonful as required.

fij. f3ss.

faj. M.

TOBACCO HEART.-It is said (People's Health Jour.), that ten out of twenty candidates for cadetship at West Point were recently rejected on acconnt of tobacco heart brought on by cigarette smoking.

WE regret that the want of space prevents our publishing the address of the President of Ontario Medical Council. It will appear in our next

issue.

late meeting of the Council.

He and Dr. Suther

land were the only candidates out of the whole number who succeeded in taking honors.

You may hive the stars in a nail keg, hang the ocean on a rail fence to dry, put the sky to sleep in a gourd, unbuckle the belly band of eternity and let the sun and moon out, but don't think you can escape the place that lies on the other side of Halifax if you don't pay for your paper.-Theological Quarterly.

Books and Lamphlets.

A. CLINICAL ATLAS OF VENEREAL AND SKIN DISEASES, by Robert W. Taylor, M.A., M.D., Surgeon to the Department of Skin Disease of the New York Hospital, etc. Price $3.00 per part. Sold only by subscription. Specimen plate will be sent post paid, on receipt of ten cents in stamps to the Canadian Subscription Co., 647 Craig Street, Montreal.

Parts V. and VI. of this very estimable work are this month to hand. In part V. is taken up the tineæ, prurigo-impetigo and diseases of this class. Part VI. is devoted to Urticaria, Pemphigus, Tinea; Trychophytineæ Barbæ, Tinea Circinata Lupus and Ecthyma. We can only speak as before of the very excellent character of these numbers. The plates are certainly excellent, and give a good idea of the character of the affections. The text is an exhaustive exposition of all that is known upon these various affections, and the subject of treatment receives a much greater degree of attention than in other works.

ELEMENTS OF HISTORY, by E. Klein, M.D., F.R. S., Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. 194 engravings. Philadelphia Lea Brothers & Co.

The name of Dr. Klein is now so thoroughly and favorably known in connection with histology that any work bearing his name requires no commendation. The previous editions of the elements of histology have always been regarded among

photographs have been introduced, illustrative of more recent observations. We recommend the work very highly; as a text or laboratory book it it cannot well be surpassed.

LECTURES ON THE ERRORS OF REFRACTION AND THEIR CORRECTION WITH GLASSES, by Francis Valk, M D., Lecturer on the Diseases of the Eye, New York Post-graduate Medical School, etc., etc. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, "The Knickerbocker Press." Toronto Williamson & Co., 5 King Street West. This work comprises eleven lectures on errors of vision, and is a simple and complete method of diagnosis especially suited to the general practitioner. To the physician who is beginning the study of the subject, it will prove a very valuable treatise. The methods of testing for, and prescribing glasses, are here much simplified, and can be readily understood by anyone at all familiar with the subject. We can commend the work as a concise and very practical treatise.

FAGGE'S PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Toronto: Virtue & Co.

We referred in a previous issue to this work as one of the best in existence on the subject. Of course the systems of medicine are more comprehensive, but as the production of one man's mind this effort stands, perhaps, unrivalled. The immense amount of erudition evidenced in its every chapter, its pleasing style, together with its sound scientific principles, make it a most valuable acquisition to every physician's library. It will be read not only with profit but with pleasure, the rough ways being made plain by the greatness of the genius of one of Britain's first physicians.

Births, Marriages and Deaths.

MEIKLE MACMARTIN At "Sunny Side," the Rev. D. Paterson, T. D. Meikle, M.D., Mount River Rouge, on Wednesday, June 5th, 1889, by Forest, son of the late Thomas Meikle, St. Andrews, Que., to Ellie, sixth daughter of the late Martin, MacMartin, River Rouge, Quebec.