more difficult to distinguish the class of cases. In simple diarrhoea, such as we frequently meet with in the summer months, I have not found it of much service alone, although it may be of use when given in combination with other remedies. It is chiefly in that class of cases which is more properly termed duodenal dyspepsia that it is of benefit. Diarrhoea after weaning is generally of this nature, and the cases are often chronic, or of some weeks' standing, the mother generally having exhausted her own and the nearest druggist's resources before applying for advice. It is also of service in some cases where the diarrhoea is due to some general cachexia."

He also uses it with adults in some cases of constipation, and in cases of duodenal dyspepsia. He likens its action in phthisis to that of hypophosphite of soda.

The dose for children is four to ten grains in the food, for adults twenty to forty drops in water, and taken after meals. Too small doses fail of their action.- Cincinnati Lancet and Observer.

BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM IN CASES OF MANIA.-Dr. Thompson, of Dalkeith, states that a patient of his who had suffered from puerperal mania, after her first confinement, recovered under opium; after her second confinement she became chronically insane, and recovered only when removed to an asylum for three months. When pregnant for the third time (second month) she became again insane, and recovered in a few days while taking scruple doses of bromide of potassium frequently, sleep being procured only after still fuller doses at bedtime. He adds that he has had lately a case of acute mania in a male where opium did good, but where the bromide seemed to be much more useful. Although the patient improved under the latter medicine, he ultimately succumbed to the disease. He had only in one other case seen such obstinate refusal of food-every effort to get food over being followed by great exhaustion. He recommends the bromide in mania, especially where opium was no longer advisable, or indeed admissible, i. e., where there was a weak circulation and clammy perspiration. He admitted that in this last condition, in certain other diseases, opium was a valuable stimulant, but here it was the reverse.

Dr. Keiller had used this drug largely as a calmative, and had found it of very great service in delirium tremens and other cases in which wakefulness was a predominant symptom.

Dr. Charles Bell thought that there was some misunderstanding as to what might be called a large dose of bromide of potassium-the

doses varying from five grains to an ounce. Dr. Begbie spoke of half. drachm doses, he believed.

Sir James Simpson said some patients of his would as soon think of giving up their breakfast as their bromide while laboring under fibroid tumors. He agreed that its action should be watched, for although fifteen yaars had elapsed since it was known, still there was room for inquiry.

Dr. Burn commended its use in fifteen grain doses three times a day. -Proceedings of Edinburgh Obstetrical Society.-American Journal of Insanity.

[Dr. W. E. Brickell and myself gave a patient suffering from delirium tremens, seven ounces of bromide of potassium in thirty hours, without any sensible effect that I could notice. J. D. B.-New Orleans Journal of Medicine.- Cincinnati Lancet and Observer.

INCOMPATIBILITY OF POT. 1ODID. AND POTASS CHLORAT.-This is an important point in practice, for in syphilis, to act at the same time upon the ulceration of the mouth and the general malady, chlora. potass. and pot. iodid. are frequently given. This practice is dangerous, as has been demonstrated by M. Vee; for the chlorate of potash, absorbed simultaneously, with the iodide of potassium, may part with its oxygen, and transform into the iodate, a poisonous agent. The recent experience of M. Melsens proves the possibility of this transformation.

This ought to suffice to prevent, were it only a precautionary measure, the simultaneous administration of the chlorate of potash and the iodide of potassium.-Gazette Medicale.— Cincinnati Lancet and Ob

server.

Pharmacy.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS.

Aconite. Monkshood.

The species recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia, as officinal, is the A. Napellus. The whole plant is possessed of medicinal properties. The leaves and root are generally used separately.

MEDICAL PROPERTIES.

A powerful narcotic. Used in rheumatism, neuralgia, epilepsy, paralysis, amaurosis, scrofula, syphilis, intermittent fever, dropsies, &c.

Valuable as an anti phlogistic remedy, and in cases of active cerebral congestion or inflammation.

Dose-Ten to twenty drops three times a day.

Fluid Extract

WINE OF ACONITE.

2 ounces.

14

66

Sherry Wine..

Dose-Ten to twenty drops.

COMPOUND WINE OF ACONITE.

Fluid Extract of Aconite...

Antimonial Wine.....

Dose-Fifteen to twenty drops, till the desired effect is produced.

Dose-One pill every two three or four hours, according to symptoms. Used in nervous irritability, nervous headache, restlessness and wakefulness.

Make six pills. Take one three times a day in chronic rheuma

tism. Each pill contains one grain of Aconite and two grains Dover's Powder.

Make a mixture: a tablespoonful to be taken when the pain is

Make a draught to be taken every fourth hour until the suffering is mitigated. (Its effects must be carefully watched )

Mix: from fifteen to twenty drops to be taken three times a day.

Mix: fifteen drops to be taken three times a day.

IN PAPULOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN.

Extracti Aconiti Alcoholici..

15 grains.

Mix with great care, and divide the mass into forty pills, of which one or two may be taken every morning and night.

Make a liniment, to be rubbed on the painful joint at bedtime.

Mix: make an embrocation. Let two fluid drams be rubbed over

HENRY H. CHILDS, M, D.

DIED-In Boston, March 22, HENRY HALSEY CHILDS, M. D., of Pittsfield, Mass., aged 84.

By the death of Dr. Childs, Pittsfield has lost a highly gifted, eminently useful and estimable citizen, a truly Christian physician and consistent man; the medical profession a prominent and respected member, one of its brightest ornaments. As a physician his character will long be cherished and revered. By observation, study, and experience, he improved his intellectual faculties and accumulated a vast amount of practical knowledge, which, together with his remarkable powers of diagnosis, correct judgment, profound skill and pathological discrimination, amply qualified him for almost any emergency, as well for the many exalted positions he filled in society, as in the profession of his choice. As a physician, few held to such an extent the implicit confidence and friendship of their medical brethren; his reputation for ability and skill was not circumscribed by his own county, but extended