The secular press gives account of the death of a sixteen-months' old baby at Canon City the 24th of last month, caused by eating several pills containing strychnine. Just whether the formula printed on the bottle would have prevented the mishap or not is a question; one thing is sure, however; if these patent nostrums are used in the house, keep them hid. Speaking of the Physicians' Casualty Association of Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. E. C. Tennant of Denver has the following to say: "Herewith receipt for check covering claim for accidental injury. While I have been closely associated with the adjustment of claims for the past eleven years, the promptness with which my claim was settled seems almost incredible, as my final proofs were mailed you only three days before check was received." Dr. Emory Lamphier, after nearly twenty-five years' work in the editorial field, is about to retire from the editorial management of American Surgery and Gynecology, and will, hereafter, devote his entire time to the practice of surgery and gynecology at his present location in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Lamphier's journal has been sold to Dr. J. MacDonald, Jr., late of the International Journal of Surgery and the address will be changed to 92 Williams street, New York City. Dr. Lamphier was a fearless and forceful writer and has made his publication one of unusual interest and value to the medical profession of the country. Mr. Frederic D. Anderson, son of the business manager of The Critique, representing the High School Congress against the Morey and Franklin societies of the Manual High School, carried off the honors of the oratorical contest in the tenth struggle for the Stevens prize, held in the First Baptist Church, this city, Wednesday, February 22, 1905, the committee of award for this event being Hon. Moses Hallett, judge of the United States Court; Hon. W. H. Gabbert, Chief Justice of the State of Colorado, and Mrs. Edwin B. Hendrie, chief officer of the Daughters of the Revolution. There were eight other contestants, and the rivalry between the different societies was rather more than spirited, so that, in coming out the victor, Mr. Fred not only won the merited approval of his fellows, but placed himself upon a high plane for excellence as a student and orator. A prominent physician of Chicago writing us recently has this to say of Dr. Kent's lectures on Materia Medica appearing in the Critique: "It gives me great pleasure to see that you are giving Dr. James Tyler Kent's articles the place to which they rightfully belong. I have studied with the masters of the different schools and have been a teacher myself; I can, of truth, say that he is the greatest master on these lines that the profession has produced." We have no doubt but what the gentleman who attached his signature to the above quotation would be pleased to see it appear in print; but as we do not possess his permission to thus use it we withhold the same. From the number of letters this publication is receiving continually concerning Dr. Kent's articles running in these pages we have concluded to issue 10,000 copies of his communication in this issue which will be sent to prominent Homeopathic physicians all over the country, and we most cordially invite all such receiving the same to become subscribers to the only publication in the United States containing a regular monthly letter from this master of Materia Medica. Besides the Materia Medica recently issued by Boericke & Tafel, bearing Dr. Kent's name, there is his Repertory, which is a standard work of unusual merit, and his little work on Homeopathic Philosophy should be read by all physicians who profess to be up-to-date Homeopaths. In his preface to this volume the author modestly disclaims any attempt to produce a complete working Materia Medica, or even a complete digest of the various remedies considered; but, if there can be found, in any work extant, better synopses of the individual polycrests of our Materia Medica, we have not yet seen them. Not all of our remedies appear, of course, but about two hundred of those that have been proven are considered. Some receive more attention than others, according to their importance and the completeness of their recorded provings. The personality of the author crops out everywhere. Indeed, we doubt if any one else could have written this book. His masterly powers of analysis have enabled the author to present the individuality of each remedy in a clear and striking manner. The medical student who shall read and study this book, at the beginning of his medical course, will receive just the sort of stimulus that will enable him to pursue the further study of drugs and drug action with enthusiasm and with success. The practitioner who finds time to peruse these lectures will not think them too elementary, and will gain much information that cannot fail to be of considerable assistance to him in his every-day routine of prescribing. This book is not above criticism; no book could be so perfect as to please everybody; but, there is here manifested such a sincere desire on the part of its author to help along the cause of Homeopathy, and there is so much to commend, that we feel just like saying that any Homeopathic prescriber who misses the pleasure of reading Dr. Kent's lectures upon Materia Medica will miss a great deal. The pages of this work are as pleasing to the eye as our friends, the publishers, could make them. We hope they will forgive us for saying that it's a pity such books cannot be published at such a price that our medical students could better afford to purchase them.The Hahnemannian Monthly. THE USE OF GLYCOZONE IN A FEW GYNECOLOGICAL CASES. By C. H. Powell, A. M., M. D., St. Louis, Mo.-Professor Principles of tal; Physician in Charge Oblate Sisters of Diseases of the Chest, Etc. It is surprising how physicians fall into habits regarding the use of certain agents in their practice, and how loth they are to resort to something new. No doubt this fact exemplifies the maxim: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." This saying, were it put into active practice, would interdict the use of any new drug or remedy, as from the very nature of things a leader must be acknowledged; and that leader would himself violate the above maxim. In the treatment of uterine and ovarian diseases the well known glycerole of tannin tampon, or the use of glycerine and Goulard's solution, or glycerine with other astringents, has been for years recognized and appreciated by gynecologists over the entire world. In the clinics solutions of these agents are ever at hand, and habitually are ensconced into the vaginal canal with very little regard as to the scientific results that will accrue. It has often occurred to the writer that many of the solutions used by gynecologists favored the development of bacilli, and no doubt contributed in no small degree to the lighting up of attacks of pelvic peritonitis so frequently encountered by gynecologists. Glycerine no doubt is without a peer in successfully treating a long range of diseases that afflict women, as the well known hygroscopic qualities of the remedy bring about a local blood-letting from the hyperæmic structures which, when followed by hot douching, is usually relied upon to reduce many inflammatory complications of the uterus and its adnexa. Not being satisfied, for the reasons above given, with the usual formulæ of glycerine in gynecology, a sample bottle of glycozone which came to my desk several months ago, though not referred to in the treatment of diseases of women, appealed to me. Accordingly, in view of the highly oxygenated properties of the remedy, which I believed would necessarily possess bactericidal properties, I was induced to try glycozone in my gynecological practice; the results were so pronounced, and the bene ficial influence of the remedy so decided and permanent, that I have for several months past persistently resorted to glycozone in preference to anything else in my local work. I will outline the following clinical cases as indicating its usefulness in the conditions stated: CASE I. Subinvolution Uteri Consequent to Miscarriage. Mrs. Ella McL., aged twenty-eight; suffered miscarriage at the end of the fourth month, following a fall from her carriage. The bleeding was severe until the placenta was entirely removed, when it ceased. Ergot was used regularly to check a tendency to recurrent and continuous hemorrhage which necessitated the employment of local treatment. Curettage was first employed, the uterus thoroughly washed out with carbolic solution, and then a cotton wool tampon of glycozone pure pushed up to the cervix uteri. The uterus at the time of the first application measured five and a half inches in depth, subinvolution of the organ being most marked. On the second day the tampon was removed, and the uterus found to have become reduced in size at least one inch, its depth measuring four and a half inches, very much to my surprise. In the next twenty-four hours following the glycozone tampon there was but little evidence of further reduction-the depth remaining about the same. Twenty-four hours later, however, the uterus showed a decline in depth of half an inch, and this beneficial influence of the glycozone continued unremittingly thereafter until at the end of eight days the uterus measured but two and a half inches and the cure of the patient was complete. CASE II. Erosion of the Cervix Resembling Epithelioma. This case occurred in a married woman, aged thirty-five, the mother of four children. The ulcer of the cervix had a most suspicious appearance, involving the left half of the neck and passing upwards on the cervix proper; it was in size about as large as a ten-cent piece. My first impression was a possible venereal sore, but the lady and her husband were both people entirely above reproach, and this theory could be very readily exploded. I accordingly suspected it might turn out to be an epithelioma. There was no glandular involvement in the inguinal regions or elsewhere, and I concluded to try glycozone on the tampon for a few days, more to determine whether the ulcer would respond to its use than anything else. I told the lady to return the following day, and my surprise and satisfaction were great to note the eroded surface reduced fully one-half its original size; encouraged by success with glycozone I reapplied the agent and had the lady return in two days; but slight evidence of the cervical denudation was remaining, and upon the lady's next visit to my office I discharged her, entirely cured of the formidable-appearing ulcer.-Abstract from New England Medical Monthly. IRON THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SMALLPOX. By Martin C. Woodruff, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. Reprinted from The American Therapist, June, 1904. As far back as 1893 my attention was first called to Pepto-Mangan (Gude). But it was not until the spring of 1895, when I was appointed Superintendent of Quarantine and Smallpox Hospital at St. Louis, that I had opportunity to test thoroughly its merits. Upon my entrance to the aforesaid institution I found 118 patients in various stages of variola. The sanitary conditions were not of the best, consequently septicemia, pyemia, boils and abscesses were of frequent occurrence; in fact, one ward of some twenty-five odd beds was used exclusively for this class of patients. In my endeavor to combat this condition of affairs, my mind of necessity reverted to the iron preparations. After using iron in its numerous forms, I found it entirely too astringent and acid to exhibit for any length of time. It was at this time that my previous experience with Pepto-Mangan (Gude) led me to make some experiments to ascertain for my own benefit the actual value of iron and manganese in these conditions. After several months' continuous examination (micro scoptical) I found that in all cases of varola the hemoglobin was diminished to less than forty-two per cent., and the red blood corpuscles were diminished to such extent that the actual average count in some eighty-five cases was less than 2,273,000. After four weeks' treatment (the general average time patients were confined to the institution) the hemeoglobin had increased fifty per cent and the red blood cells forty-six per cent. Believing that these cases were exactly suitable and amenable to treatment by Pepto-Mangan (Gude), provided it would do what was claimed for it, I decided to exhibit it exclusively and prove the results by actual demonstration in the increase of the hemeoglobin percentage and the increase of the number of red blood corpuscles. The similarity of these cases of necessity make the history of one the history of all. For this reason I will not burden my readers with a repetition of a number of cases. but will confine myself to a few exceptional cases. Case 1. Age 17; diagnosis Variola Confluens, followed by a general pyemia. Period of treatment, twenty-four weeks. First count 2,323,000; hemoglobin, forty-two per cent. Second examination, after eight weeks, red blood cells 3,722,000; hemoglobin, fifty-eight per cent. Third examination, sixteen weeks, red blood cells, 4,122,000; hemoglobin, sixty-seven per cent. Fourth examination, red blood cells, 4,899,000; hemoglobin seventy-nine per cent. Result, cured. Case 2. Age 25; diagnosis, Variola Semi-confluens, followed by puerperal septicæmia. Period of treatment, fifteen weeks. First count, |