mucous membranes. In nasal, faucial, uretheal and vaginal catarrh, and in otorrhoea and conjunctivitis, there can be no doubt of its good effects. It may be applied freely in the undiluted state without fear or injury, if no good be accomplished by it. It has proved to be a very efficient injection in gonorrhoea, more especially after the more acute symptoms have subsided. For this purpose, it may be diluted with glycerine or mucilage, or both, to the required extent. Formerly, when I used to see these cases in considerable numbers, I found it a capital application in cervicitis. I had, also, excellent results in such cases, and in gonorroœa, from "hydrastine" suspended in suspended in mucilage.

To express a final judgment as to its therapeutical value, my conviction is that hydrastis is a useful remedy, and well deserves a trial in the various conditions in which it recommended above.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE ODOR OF IODOFORM.

The disagreeable odor of this chemical, which prevents it being used in many cases where desirable is best counter-acted by oleate of zinc, the iodoform and zinc being triturated in equal proportions.

INGROWING TOE-NAILS.

These should be treated with carbolic acid, painting the inflamed

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should not come in contact with it. An excellent way to give it is in capsules, or inclosed in tissue paper to be swallowed with food or water.

TINCTURE OF CHLORIDE OF IRON is best disguised with simple syrup.

TWO LADIES were conversing about the late war. One said: "It is too bad that Jeff Davis is disfranchised."

"Disfranchised," the other remarked, "I did not know it; how long has he been disfranchised?" "Why, ever since the war."

room of the college building on Tuesday, March 31, Morning session at 10 o'clock sharp. Evening session promptly at 8 o'clock. An interesting programme will be executed, especially the grand supper, which will be served at the close of the evening session.

We hope that no alumnus will deny himself the pleasure and profit of

this social event.

M. G. HART, M. D. Ex. Com. F. A. BARBER, M. D. H. W. VANDERHOOF, M. D. D. A. CASHMAN, M. D.,

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THE TREATMENT OF UTERINE DISPLACEMENT, including Prolapsus Anteversion, Retroversion, Anteflexion, and Retroflection. By W. Eggert, M. D. Second edition. Illustrated. 12mo., cloth. Pages 136. Duncan Brothers, Chicago, Illinois, publishers. Price, $1.

This brochure is an essay read before the Western Academy of Homœopathy, revised and containing a complete repertory of all symptoms more or less directly affiliated to displacement of any kind. The object of the author is to prove that displacements, other than those produced by traumatic causes, can be cured by internal remedies of high potencies, of which he is a champion. The remedies advocated, as glycerine, hydrastis, calendula, arnica, aletros farinosa, caulophyllum, and others, are justly esteemed in the treatment of uterine diseases; but whether their remedial properties are best obtained from high or low potencies, is a subject upon which there may be an honest difference of opinion. are opposed to the former. belief in pessaries for the cure of these diseases is fast gaining ground among the profession. Dr. J. M. Duncan, and others, who have had vast experience in their use, have laid them aside as not only useless but hurtful. The book is useful, well worth perusal, and evidently written by one who has had the advantage of extensive clinical experience. The me

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A therapeutical application of massage to a long list of troublesome chronic diseases is here described in a very clear, concise manner. In scientific hands, this method of treatment is shown to be, either by itself or as an aid, a very effective remedy in a long list of reported clinical cases. We notice one thing in which we cannot quite concur with the views of the author. He ascribes all the good effects noted as the result of changes induced by the simple mechanical motions of massage alone, ignoring the probability that there is a greater or less amount of vital force transmitted from the masseur to the patient, but whether this is taken into consideration or not, may make no difference to the patient, if the result is the same, and on the whole we can confidently recommend this work to all physicians, and especially to those who have not thoroughly studied this important branch of therapeutics.