after very careful examination, we told him if he desired us to treat his case, and would allow time, which might take from six to eighteen months, we would undertake it; and that as he was a young man, 28 years of age, if he lived the usual allotted time a sound foot was quite a consideration, even if it took two years to repair it properly. He consented, and placed himself under our special care and treatment, agreed to leave all other kinds of extra treatment such as has been named or in kindness might be suggested (for it is always through kindness that all this volunteer treatment is suggested, but a very mistaken kindness, we beg leave to say), and follow my suggestions, and take just such medicine and treatment as I might suggest, even to allowing his foot amputated, if I thought it best after treating him awhile. Treatment. I gave him internally wine, iron and salicylic acid and rich food, or blood-making food, with also pepsin as the case seemed to demand. The leg to the knee was wonderfully swollen. I mixed as much salt in hog's lard as I could to make it spread on rags; applied these rags from his hip to his ankle about once in four to six hours, and made several deep incisions in various parts of the foot, so as not to divide blood-vessels or disturb nerves, tendons, etc. Applied muriate tinct. iron and tinct. hydrastis, with a little carbolic acid, all full strength, night and morning; syringed out those openings with tinct. lobelia and water, elm water, etc.; poulticed with ground flaxseed, often repeated; and by this kind of general management he got so he could rest at night, and, in a few weeks, he could visit my office, some ten miles from his house, in a carriage. We continued the treatment, and took out quite a number of fragments of bones, having occasionally to make free incisions to get them. The treatment was kept up something like ten months. He is now well, rejoicing in a good, sound foot on each leg; when, if wise counsel had been carried out, he would have been, if he had survived the operation, minus a foot, and Drs. A, B and C would have been praised for their wonderful surgical skill, while I have no public notice, save this article, of the cure of Mr. Galbraith's foot, outside of his neighborhood. Yet should I have failed in the case, as my medical allopathics desired, I should have had notoriety enough. One of the party told a friend of mine, "Dr. Hole, by the results of that case, did the cause of operative surgery an injury, as it will be more difficult to get the consent of the patients hereafter in such cases, and life may be sacrificed by delay; and it would have been better for the man to have perished under the circumstances." I could give other almost similar cases. True eclectics have the manhood and independence, as well as correct information, to allow them to practice true surgery; which means not cutting off, but assisting the natural resources, so as to restore not only broken, crushed and lacerated flesh, but bones as well. Yours truly, JAMES M. HOLE, Salem, O. WHAT IS IT? PALATINE, ILL., July 10, 1879. MR. EDITOR: Owing to a busy time in my practice I have been unable to send this article sooner. It is no humbug or big yarn to get up an excitement. What I am to narrate is well authenticated, and is not written for the purpose of bringing my name before the profession further than to get light and information in regard to certain curious facts. Statement from Patient: About ten years ago, patient felt a bad pain in the right side of her head near the region of the temple; this was followed by profuse discharges from the ear and also from the nose. About two years after, two polypi were removed. After this operation, no perceptible change up to three years ago, when there commenced a sort of a buzzing in the right temporal region. One day whilst using the nasal douche, several flies were washed out of the nasal cavity. This was repeated several times during the last three years. June 23, 1879, about daylight, the patient attempted to blow the nose, and with some difficulty secured the specimen I send you. At the present writing, the patient claims to be no better, and still hears the bad sound. I have a specimen of the flies which came from the nasal sinus some two months prior to the escape of the worm. for examination. It is a singular fact that the fly will make its appearance in midwinter whilst the patient is in the act of sneezing, and fly about the room. This statement I am able to vouch for upon my honor as a medical man. I have been acquainted seven years with the lady, Mrs. Mary Downing, aged 48 years, mother of six children, and resident of Cook County, Ill., for thirty-one years. To all appearances, she is enjoying very good health. Please give this your attention for the benefit of those who are treating this loathsome disease— catarrh. I will send the same in this letter PALATINE, Ill. Very respectfully, DR. A. N. SHEFFNER. [The specimen referred to is a worm about two inches long, of the order Myriapoda. The fly resembles a mosquito, or more nearly a large gnat. It is certainly remarkable that living flies should be expelled from the head in this way. Will some of our readers venture an explanation ?-EDITOR.] POCKET THERAPEUTICS AND DOSE-BOOK; With Classification and Explanation of Action of Medicines; Minimum and Maximum Doses in Troy Weights, with their equivalents in the Metric Weights; Index and Definition of Diseases, with Appropriate Remedies; Genitive Endings of all Medicines given in Italics; Index of Common and Pharmaceutical names; Classification of Symptoms; Poisons and their Antidotes; Useful hints to the prescriber. By MORSE STEWART, JR., B. A., M. D. Second edition. Revised and enlarged. Detroit, Mich. : George D. Stewart, 1879. The first edition of this little work, which was issued some time during last year, was well received, although it bore evidence of hasty preparation and careless proof-reading. The edition now before us shows a great improvement, and is the most perfect work of the kind that has come to our notice. The book has been enlarged to more than twice its original size by the addition of valuable matter, such as "Formulas and Doses of Hypodermic Medication," "Doses for Inhalation,' "Table of Solubility," "Incompatibles and Antagonists,” etc. To the student and "rusty" practitioner, it will prove a most timely and useful companion. MANUAL OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OPERATIVE SURGERY. BY STEPHEN SMITH, A. M., M. D., Surgeon to Bellevue and St. Vincent Hospitals, New York. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1879. Several new works upon surgery have been brought to our notice within the past few months. Most of them have been works of great merit, and will form valuable additions to any medical library. But after a careful examination of Dr. Stephen Smith's work, we are convinced that for practical every-day use it is unsurpassed. One of the most conspicuous features of the book, is its explicitness in regard to details. The little points in regard tɔ surgical operations, too often left unnoticed, are very carefully explained. On this account, the work will be a favorite with medical students and young surgeons. The author has striven to embody, in this treatise, the teachings of recognized authorities upon every subject, and has also drawn from his own varied practice and many years of experience. The result is most satisfactory. Ample illustrations form an important feature of the work. DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES AND PERITONEUM. By JOHN SYER BRISTOWE, M. D., J. R. WARDELL, M. D., J. W. BIGBIE, M. D., S. O. HABERSHON, M. D., T. B. CURLING, F. R. S., and W. H. RANSOM, M. D. New York: William Wood & Co., 1879. This volume is one of the series of Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors, and comes very seasonably, at a time when the diseases of which it treats are very prevalent. It is composed of nineteen monographs by the six authors named, all well written and illustrated by reports of cases. AMERICAN NERVOUSNESS; Its Philosophy and Treatment. By GEORGE M. BEARD, M. D., New York, (An address delivered before the Baltimore Medical and Chirurgical Society, Feb. 12, 1879.) Reprint from Virginia Medical Monthly, July, 1879. Richmond: J. W. Fergusson & Son, Printers, 1879. A most valuable little pamphlet, and one that should be read by every member of the profession in this country. If we have room, it will appear in the next issue of our journal. THE Chicago Medical Times. WILSON H. DAVIS, M. D., Editor and Publisher. VOL. XI. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1879. No. 6. Some one has, in effect, said that cases of ovariotomy were now becoming so frequent as to be hardly worth reporting. The following case, however, presents some features of rarity which will be noted by the reader, and at least the rare merit among reported cases of being unsuccessful in saving life. July 29, I was called to see Mrs. B., aged forty-five, in consultation with Dr. Tyrrell, of Elgin. She had for some months suffered from some gastric disturbances, and more or less from pain in the region of the left ovary. Two months previous to my visit, she suspected herself growing larger, but attributed it to the accumulation of fat. Not, however, until July 4 had she become alarmed, at which time Dr. Tyrrell examined her, and pronounced the enlargement due to the formation of an ovarian cyst. From this time on she increased rapidly in size, and at the time of my first visit was troubled with considerable dyspnoea, prostration, no particular pain, and the pulse ranged from 100 to 115 per minute. The abdominal enlargement was quite uniform, largest upon the left side-measurement showing the distance from the left anterior superior specious process to the umbilicus to be fifteen inches, while the same |