arresting the dry cough which is occasionally consequent on disordered menstruation in nervous females.

Tonics and Stimulants.-The following combination of a chaly beate with a stimulant and a sedative has, for many years in our hands, proved a most valuable tonic, particularly when administered during convalescence from disease, and in all debilitated and anæmic cases.

R. Extracti conii, 3 ij.; sesqui-oxydi ferri, 3 iij.; tinet. calumbæ, iss.: sir. toluta. ss.; ol. gaultheriæ, gtt. x.; aquæ fontanæ, ij. Fiat mistura; cujas sumat coch. parv. mane ac nocte.

Or the following may be substituted:

B. Sesqui-oxydi ferri, extracti taraxaci, aa. ss.; vini Xeris, 3 vj.; tinct. gaultheriæ, ss.; aquæ font., 3 iv. M. capiat coch. magn. bis in die.

The following is a very excellent tonic, and may be exhibited whenever any of the ferruginous preparations are indicated.

R. Ferri citratis, 3 ij.; sir. citri, vel aurantiæ, aquæ menth. pip., aa. 3 ij.: aquæ puræ, iv. M. exhibe cochlearium purum ter quaterve in die.

In young anæmic females, with indications of a chlorotic condition of the system; and also in children of strumous habits, the phosphate of iron, exhibited in combination with the sulphate of quinine, is a therapeutic agent of great value.

R. Ferri phosphatis, 3j.; quiniæ disulphatis, gr. xij. M. Fiant pulv. xij., quarum capiat unum bis terve in die.

A physician of great experience, and celebrated for his successful treatment of diseases of females, has employed for many years, and with much advantage, the subjoined combination of an alterative and a tonic in the management of certain forms of uterine diseases.

R. Sirup. ferri iodidi, 3j.; tinct. actææ racemosæ, 3 v.; tinct. rad. aconiti, 3 iij. Fiat mist. cujus cap. gtt. xx. ter in die.

We have seen engorgement of the os tinca and non-malignant induration of this organ disappear rapidly under the persevering internal administration of the above tonic; while at the same time, the following ointment was applied once a week, by means of friction with the finger, to the indurated os.

R. Extracti hyoscyami, extracti conii, extracti belladonnæ, aa. p. e. To each ounce of which mixture add one drachm of iodide of potassa -mix thoroughly, and apply as above.

R. Ferri sulphatis, 3 ij.; potassæ iodidi, 3 iss.; tinct. calumbæ, sirup zinziberis, aa. 3 ij. Fiat mist. capiat coch. parv. ter in die.

This mixture may be exhibited with advantage whenever we desire

to promote the absorption of glandular enlargements, and in all cases where a tonic and an alterative are indicated.

Not unfrequently the general practitioner will encounter cases of obstinate intermittent; and of uncontrollable neuralgic affections, which will resist, altogether, the effects of the ordinary antispasmodics, when singly administered. In such instances, we have often succeeded perfectly, by the combination and exhibition of a vegetable and mineral tonic-as the following:

R. Liquor potassæ arsenitis, f. 3 iss.; tinct. cinchonæ, iij.; sir. aurantiæ, j. M. Hujus mist., sumat cochl. min. bis terve in die.

During the last two years, intermittent fevers have occurred more frequently, in some parts of this city, and in the vicinity of the city, than for many previous years. In some of these cases, where the disease has proved obstinate, not yielding to large doses of quinine, long continued, we have found it to be promptly arrested by the administration of a teaspoonful of the following mixture, twice or three times a day-the last dose being administered a short time before the period of the anticipated paroxysm.

B. Quiniæ sulp. 3j.; liquor potassæ arsinitis, f. 3 ij.; acidi sulph. aromat., f. 3j: tinct. cinch. co., sir. zingiberis, aa. 3 ij.

When the preparations of arsenic are employed, it is safest to give the medicine after a meal. When thus exhibited, larger, or more effectual doses may be given with more safety than when taken fasting. Should, however, gastric irritation arise, under its use, or swelling or stiffness of the eyelids occur, the medicine should be immediately discontinued.

Should it from any cause be desirable to administer these remedies in the form of a pill, we may employ the following formula: B. Acidi arseniosi, gr. ij.; quiniæ disulphatis, 3j.; conserv. rosa, 3 ss. Misce optime, et fiat massa, in pilulas xxx. dividenda; sumat unam bis quotidie.

We have had recently much experience in the use of the different preparations of manganese, and have become fully satisfied, that this mineral tonic, in its different combinations, will prove a most valuable addition to our pharmaceutic preparations.

The most important preparations of manganese for pharmaceutical purposes, are the phosphate, the malate, and the iodide of manganese. After the subjoined formula, we have administered, in tuberculosis, to a large number of patients, the phosphate of manganese, with the most favorable results.

B. Manganesi phosphatis, 3 ij.; tinct. cinchonæ, iij.; sir. sarsse, iv.; mucil. acacia, 3j.; ol. gaultheriæ, gtt. xx. Fiat mistura, cujus sumantur coch. duo vel tria minima bis terve in die.-Ep. of Braith. v. ii.

harmacy.

ANTHEMIS NOBILIS.

Chamomile.

This plant is a native of Europe, where it is largely cultivated for medicinal purposes. The flowers are the part used.

MEDICAL PROPERTIES.

Tonic. Used in enfeebled digestion, general debility and languid appetite. In large doses will act as an emetic.

Dose, one, three times a day in flatulent dyspepsia.

Make into 120 pills: from eight to ten to be taken daily.

Make into a mass, and divide into 30 pills: take three twice a

Mix, and divide into 20 pills: take one or two an hour before

dinner.

ditorial.

RICHMOND MEDICAL JOURNAL.

DR. E. S. GAILLARD, Editor and proprietor of The Richmond Medical Journal, Va., having resigned the Professorship of General Pathology, and Pathological Anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, and, having accepted a similar Professorship in the Kentucky school of Medicine, the Journal mentioned will, hereafter, be published at Louisville, Kentucky. The title of the Journal will be The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal. The following Gentlemen have become associate Editors of this work: Professors G. S. Bedford, New York; T. S. Bell, Louisville, Ky.; J. C. Cabell, University of Virginia; S. E. Chaillé, New Orleans; S. C. Chew, Baltimore, Md.; J. J. Chisolm, Charleston, S. C.; S. H. Dickson, Philadelphia; F. H. Hamilton, New York; J. M. Holloway, Louisville, Ky.; L. S. Joynes, Richmond, Va.; Z. Pitcher, Detroit, Michigan; Lewis A. Sayre, New York; Alfred Stillé, Philadelphia; T. Gaillard Thomas, New York; W. H. Van Buren, New York.

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DR. L. A. BABCOCK'S UTERINE SUPPORTER.

Dr. L. A. Babcock, of Freeport: Ill., has made an improvement in Uterine Supporter, which bids fair to supplant all other instruments invented for that purpose. It is easily adjusted, and comfortable to the patient. Physicians who have used the instrument for their patients, report most satisfactorily relative to its results.

FORDYCE FOSTER, of Sandy Hill,

Washington Co., N. Y., State Agent.

Correspondents will oblige by writing plainly their Names, Town, County and State. We are frequently unable to answer letters because these are omitted.

Formerly this plant was incorrectly described as Menispernum Palmatum; the Calumbo Plant.

NATURAL ORDER.-Menispermacea.

According to the artificial classification, calumbo belongs to Class Dioecia, and to Order Hexandria.

HABITAT.—Mozambique in Eastern Africa, as well as inland for fifteen or twenty miles, and the Isle of France. It has been cultivated in Madras.

BOTANIC CHARACTER.-Root, perennial, of several, fasciculated, fusiform, fleshy tubercles, which are brown externally, and deep yellow internally, and very bitter. Stems annual, herbaceous, ascending spirally, lower portion beset with long glanduliferous hairs. Staminiferous stems, simple, pistiliferous, branching.