He mentions among others a case in which 12 drops of chloroform poured on a hand-kerchief, placed under the nose of a patient, not only caused the termination of a violent fit of hysteria, but also cured the patient who had previously had 4 or 5 fits per month, and which had never before yielded to any treatment. Dr. Devergie, likewise tried chloroform in cutaneous diseases with great success: however, his conclusions are that this medicine, in diseases of the skin, is exactly similar to camphor; it is a sedative in itchings, and it has the advantage over camphor of acting on the nervous system in general by the atmosphere with which it surrounds the patient; it is even more sedative than camphor, but it has a less marked resolutive action on the skin. However it has scarcely appeared to be useful, except in papulous affections in which it is employed in the form of pommade in the proportion of 2 or 3 grammes to 30 grammes of lard. ON THE OXIDE OF SILVER AS AN AGENT FOR THE EXPULSION OF TAPE-WORM.* BY H. T. WHITTELL, ESQ. THE high price of Kousso as a vermifuge, and his success in two cases, have led Mr. Whittell to suggest the use of oxide of silver. He had occasion to prescribe as a remedy for menorrhagia, one grain of the oxide of silver three times daily, with an ounce of mixture containing six drachms of bitartrate of potassa in the half pint. The fourth dose was followed by the evacuation of a large quantity of tape worm, with which the lady had long been troubled; and she was better than she had been for months. In the second case, the medicine was prescribed expressly to destroy the worm, and with similarly beneficial results. COMPOUND PILLS OF VALERIANATE OF ZINC.t BY M. E. SEGUIN. First formula. PRESUMED POISONOUS EFFECTS OF GUANO.* BY J. WEARNE, ESQ., HELSTON, CORNWALL. PHILIP W , aged sixty, a robust and industrious husbandman, required Mr. Wearne's attendance on the 1st June; he found that from some cause he was suddenly attacked by a general tumefaction of the eyelids and lips, and with all the symptoms of the most acute quinsy, together with a total inability to articulate. The general aspect of the man seemed to indicate that some animal poison had gained admission into the circulation. The tumefaction, under nitric acid and myrrh gargle, leeches and enemata, gave way by the third day sufficiently to enable the patient to tell, that two days previous to his attack he had been sowing guano in drills in his field, and that the wind blowing hard ́at the time, and the guano being light and dry, he had great difficulty in accomplishing his work, the guano so affecting his breathing as nearly to suffocate him. On the fourth day symptoms of pneumonia set in, accompanied with extreme debility, and, in spite of the treatment usual in such cases, the patient quickly succumbed. *The Lancet, June 29, 1850. VOL. I. 50 centigr. 50 99 1 gram. Valerianate of zinc...... Valerianate of quinine.. Extract of quinquina.. Extract of gentian..... 1 "" Extract of belladonna.... 10 centigr. F. S. A. and mix to form 10 pills, which will then be silvered. One pill morning and evening in the case of continued neuralgia with irregular fits. In intermittent neuralgia, the two pills are given some hours apart, and the second administered five or six hours before the next attack is expected. Observations.-The first formula is only suited to continued neuralgia without exacerbation. The second formula is useful in continued neuralgia with irregular attacks; experience has shown me that it succeeds perfectly likewise with regularly intermittent neuralgia, following the same rule as in the administration of sulphate of quinine. I give two or three coffee cupsfull of a | exhibits in some cases, a great tendency to sweetened infusion of valerian in the course reappear. It would, therefore, be useful to of the day, sometimes even I order an enema of a strong infusion of the same root, footbaths with mustard in them night and morning, moderate vesication on the course of the nervous filaments and trunks, finally, the general health must not be neglected. find a means for the prevention of this ON VAPORS OF ACETIC ACID AS A and cause a slight modification on the mucous membrane, but still sufficient to dry up at its source the flow, or nasal flux; that this means should succeed, it is only necessary that it should be used as nearly as possible at the first appearance of the coryza. BY DR. SAINT MARTIN, OF MORT. CORYZA is certainly an affection of benign nature. It is probably to this circumstance that must be attributed the little anxiety hitherto shown to find a really efficacious treatment. It is nevertheless THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. very certain that its development may occasion serious complications among the IT is rumored that the Pharmaceutical lacrymal, or air passages. It is not un- Journal will in future appear without Mr. common, for example, to see inflammation Bell's name: we warn our readers not to of the pituitary gland reach the posterior be satisfied with this disgraceful comproorifice of the nasal fossa, and extend pro-mise. So much having been conceded, all gressively to the larynx, the trachea, and bronchial ramifications. Besides, coryza that is desired may be obtained by perseverance. The monopoly should be put down. Repertoire de Pharmacie, July 1850. IV. REVIEWS, NOTICES OF BOOKS, &c. the subject of the Pharmaceutical Society, we reply that they have success in their own hands, and if they persevere, victory is quite certain. THE COMMERCIAL HAND-BOOK OF "M. P. S., (Liverpool):" "M. P. S. G. B., TO CORRESPONDENTS. 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