Colloidal Metals and Their Action Upon the Cupping, Various Uses of, W. P. Rushin- Diphtheria Antitoxin in Treatment of Ex- Dispense, Some Reasons Why I, G. B. Dor- Druggist, Manufacturing, What He Does for Drugs, Indigenous, of India, J. K. Sen-170, Echinacea, R. J. Smith-111, Oct., p. 553. Electrotherapeutics, M. K. Fisher-150, Oct. Electrotherapy, An Indispensable, in Ner- vous Dermal and Genito-urinary Dis- Gonococcus Vaccine in Gonorrhoeal Affec- Hydrotherapy in Treatment of the Insane, Hyperæmia, Artificial, and Its Therapeutic Hypnotics and Pain Relievers, Newer, Clini- Infancy, Its Periods and Diseases (L'en- fance, ses périodes, ses maladies), Mar- Iodine in Its Compounds and Mercury, Ther- Iron Remedies, Use and Misuse of, E. Smith Iron, Secondary Anæmia and Tuberculosis Iron Therapy with Blutan (Eisentherapie Joglidine (Ueber Joglidine), Aufrecht-58d, Lactic Ferments as Therapeutic Agents, F. Materia Medica and the Science of Thera- Mechanical Treatment in Diseases of Circu- Mercury, J. Burke-101, Oct., p. 132. Motalities, Static, A Few, and Their Thera- Natrum Phosphoricum, J. T. Pierson-58, Nitroglycerine in Asphyxia Neonatorum, E. Prescribing vs. Dispensing, E. C. Lafean- Prescriptions, Original, vs. "Original Bot- Remedy, When to Give and Stop the, H. A. Serum, Antimeningitis, Results of, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, F. J. Sladen-163a, Oct., p. 241. Serum, Flexner's, Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis with, C. B. Ker-62a, Oct., p. 306. Serum, Flexner's, Treatment of Epidemic Meningitis, with Special Reference to, S. M. White-82b, Oct. 1, p. 391. Serum, 400 Cases of Epidemic Meningitis Treated with, Flexner and Jobling-25, Oct., p. 747. Serum, Marmorek's Tuberculous (Das Tuberkuloseserum Marmorek), Kohler — 219, XIII, 2, p. 104. Serum, Meningococcus, Summary of Recent Cases of Meningitis Treated with, Knox and Sladen-25, Oct., p. 761. Serum of Eel's Blood, E. Formias 155, Serum Treatment and Prognosis of Cerebrospinal Fever, H. Koplik-123, Oct. 3, p. 557. Serum Treatment of Carcinoma, S. Strauss -79, Oct. 31, p. 1488. Serum Treatment of Cerebrospinal Fever, Abnormal Reactions to Horse Serum in, J. R. Currie-83b, Sept., p. 457. Serum Treatment of Cerebrospinal Fever in Glasgow Fever Hospital, May, 1906, to May, 1908, Currie and Macgregor-95, Oct. 10, p. 1073. Serum Treatment of Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, L. W. Ladd-79, Oct. 17, p. 1315. Serum Treatment of Epidemic Cerebospinal Meningitis Based on 40 Cases, C. H. Dunn-25, Oct., p. 756. Serum Treatment of Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, with 22 Cases, F. T. Fulton --28, Oct. 22, p. 537. Serum Treatment of Meningitis, F. J. Sladen -79, Oct. 17, p. 1318. Serum Treatment of Meningococcic Meningitis, F. S. Churchill-25, Oct., p. 754. Silver Nitrate, Intravenous Injections of, in Surgical Affections (Intravenöse Injektionen von Argentum nitricum bei chirurgischen Infektionen), Schatzky and Grjasnow-91c, Aug. 17, p. 881. Sodium Chloride in Therapeutics, C. Achard -142, Aug., p. 201. Spiroform in Rheumatism with Heart Complications (Spiroform in Rheumatismusfällen, etc.), Bast-154, Sept., p. 169. Strychnia, Hypodermic Use of, in Paralyzed Limbs, W. G. Steele-152, Oct., p. 546. Therapeutic Observations, O. Reagan-79, Oct. 31, p. 1490. Therapeutic Pessimism, J. N. Mendenhall195, Oct., p. 157. Therapeutics, A New Era in, J. M. Taylor— 168, Oct., p. 18. Therapeutics, Destructive and Constructive, A. E. Gibson-111, Oct., p. 563. Therapeutics, Practical, W. H. Foreman— 40 I, Oct., p. 397. Therapeutics, Rational, A Plea for, G. Ache- Therapy, Old, Passing of an, O. L. Peak- (Zur Verbesserung der Tuberkulinbehandlung), Jessen 143a, Aug. 25, p. 1776. Typhobacillose of Landouzy (Typhobacillose de Landouzy), Gougerot-174c, Aug. 22, p. 537. Urotropine, Effect of, Upon Neurasthenia, Langheld-196a, Oct., p. 115. Vaccine and Serum Treatment of Gonorrhoea in Female Children, Butler and Long-79, Oct. 17, p. 1301. Vaccine or Tuberculin Therapy in Tuberculosis, H. B. Weaver-41, Oct., p. 255. Vaccine Therapy, Cases of, W. M. Crofton-29, Sept. 26, p. 877. Vaccine Therapy in Medicine and Surgery, bell and Anderson-95, Sept. 26, p. 931. Vaccines, Stock, Therapeutic Application of, in Bacterial Affections, J. Matthews95, Sept. 26, p. 925. Work Cure, A. S. Thayer-79, Oct. 31, p. X-ray Treatment of Exophthalmic Goitre, X-ray, Use of, N. G. Blalock-127, Oct., p. X-rays, Case of Leprosy Apparently Cured SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. American 123, Oct. 31, p. 86, Neurological Association American Pædiatric Society-123, Oct. 24, p. American Public Health Association-123, Boston Dermatological Society, February— British Medical Association-29, Sept. 26, Medical Society of London-95, Oct. 17, p. New York Dermatological Society, May - New York Neurological Society-86, Oct., p. New York Otological Society, May 22, 1908 New York Surgical Society, May, 1908-23, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, May, 1908 Philadelphia Dermatological Society, May- Royal Society of Medicine-95, Oct. 17, p. Sixth International Congress on Tuberculo- MISCELLANY. A CONTINENT Without an Orphan, B. Holmes 15, Sept., p. 408. Animism in Antiquity and Present Status of Army Canteen, Facts About, A. N. McGee-- Bacteriology by Popular Vote, Ed.-126, Oct., Dante, Physician, A. G. Drury-45, Oct. 3, p. Doctor, The Old-time, E. B. Ketchersid - Duties as Medical Men, Plea for More Earn- Eskimo, The-A Dying Race, J. H. Romig- Fasting, The Truth About, J. H. Kellogg- First-aid Packs of Principal Armies of the Homeopathic Yellow Fever Commission of Homeopathy in Spanish America, G. B. Peck Hoffa, Albert, R. B. Osgood-10a, Aug., p. 7. Life Assurance, Hints Upon Medical Exami- Life Expectancy, Relation of Heredity and Life Insurance, Moral Hazard in, T. C. Bux- Life Insurance Work, Examiners' Golden Marathon Race, The; A Psychic Defeat, G. Medical Ethics, The Doctor and, W. Bailey- Standpoint in, J. Wright-150, Oct. 10, Medical Profession, The, J. S. Glass-185, Medical Progress in the Orient, I. Ludlow- Medicine Considered as a Business, P. C. Medicine, Frenzied, J. Hund-6, Oct., p. 421. Method of Sydenham Greater than Method Modern Practice, J. F. Chandler-207a, Sept., Moral Hazard, M. M. Baumgartner - 117, Moral Hazard, W. H. King-117, Sept., p. Motoring Notes, C. T. W. Hirsch-95, Oct. Muffet, Thomas, 1553-1604, J. Ruhräh— 34, Needs of Our Profession, C. N. Suttner- North, Dr. Elisha, One of Connecticut's Most Nurses, Introductory to Course of Lectures Physician and Layman, Correlation of, W. Physician, The Larger Responsibility of the, Pyorrhoea Alveolaris, J. Smith-193, Oct., p. Quack, the Advertising, The Newspaper and, sician from Physician's Standpoint, G. Touring the Land where Medical Science AN INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY REVIEW OF CURRENT MEDICAL LITERATURE Vol. XIV DECEMBER 25, 1908. No. 12 THE PROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. The Treatment of GENERAL MEDICINE. UNDER THE CHARGE OF HENRY H. PELTON, M.A., M.D., Wilcox (Monthly tical Medicine and Medical Bulletin, Sep- The diet must be regulated in quantity and quality of all elements which are necessary for food: (1) Inorganic elements which act mechanically. (2) Heat producers, such as starches, sugars, fats. (3) Proteids and tissue builders, such as beef, eggs and milk. (4) The nucleoalbumins for phosphorus, for hæmoglobin and lecithin. Wheat, beef, and milk do not contain a sufficient quantity of the nucleo-albumins for complete tissue builders. Hygienic conditions are suggestive, subject to much modification, as exercise in the open air, clothing, mental and physical rest, and avoidance of overtaxing digestion, especially at night. Of medicinal treatment it may be found that the diminution of sodium chloride ingestion in marked anasarca yields pronounced results, which are readily verified by weighing at regular intervals. Strontium lactate, from one-half to two drams daily, not in acute exacerbations, however, markedly diminishes albuminuria. Iron is generally useful. For arterial nephritis erythrol tetranitrate of the British Pharmacopoeial Conference, in from 1-10 to 2-grain doses, several times daily, is physiologically Coma may be treated by an intravenous saline transfusion after a preliminary venesection. Twenty minims of tincture of veratrum every 15 minutes to six doses, is often satisfactory. Dyspnoea of the nocturnal variety requires the vasodilators. Rarely hydrated chloral is permissible, but its use is to be deprecated. Renal decapsulation has been a sufficiently long time before the profession for a final judgment. It is clearly useless in arterial nephritis when this is a local manisfestation of a general pathological process. Guiteras' conclusions from 120 cases, operated on by 42 different surgeons, seem fair: "1. Finally, I may say that I |