Quotations from Doctors: No. 7

"The majority of cases of pneumonia, in my experience of thirty years' medical practice, have had more or less pleuritic complications.

"I presume this is the experience of my colleagues.

"The most grateful application that can be made to a patient suffering with pneumonia is a warm

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poultice under a moderately firm binder or jacket. Its action is, first through the superficial vessels, and then more slowly but just as efficiently on the deeper congested parts."

J. A. H., M.D.,

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y

THE DENVER CHEMICAL MFG. COMPANY

MONTREAL

the skin lesions of syphilis by Loyd Thompson, well illustrated and written in a thoroughly practical way. International Clinics has been a leader for more than a medical generation and is still the most popular quarterly in English.

The Essentials of Histology, Descriptive and Practical, for the use of Students. By SIR EDWARD SHARPLY SCHAFER. F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in the University of Edinburgh. 11th Edition. Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1920.

This class and laboratory text-book has come down through 35 years as one of the best in its class. The fact that this is the 11th edition speaks more than words. The illustrations and letter-press are all that could be desired. Histology is not a subject which changes very much, and therefore this book does not require much revision. It is now, as it always has been, through many generations of medical students, one of the best text-books in existence.

Venereal Disease, its Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment, By HUGH WANSLY BAYLY, M.C., Hox.-SEC. Venereal Prevention Committee, late surgeon R.N., Captain R.A.M.C.. Pathologist to the London Dock Hospitals, etc. London: J. & A. Churchill, 7 Great Marlborough St.

With the formation of venereal clinics in all the large centres on this continent, this manual will find a useful place. It emphasizes the important part a medical man can play in other spheres besides the treatment of these diseases. Dr. Bayly has written a volume at once concise and practical and one that we can recommend as a practical guide.

Dr. J. H. Erb, Pathologist to the Hospital for Sick Children, desires to announce to the profession that he is prepared to do Tissue Pathology, General Bacteriology, Serology (including grouping blood for transfusions and typing Pneumococci) the examination of Spinal and other body fluids and the preparation of autogenous vaccines.

When Mother's Milk Fails

resort must be had to so-called arti-
ficial feeding, for which cow's milk is
universally employed. The greatest
and most important factor in the di-
gestion of cow's milk is the size and
consistency of the curd formed in the
stomach.

Experiment 62- Condensed Milk.
Four ounces of Eagle Brand Con-
densed Milk were added to 15 ounces
of water. The mixture was taken
rapidly and returned in one hour.
About 2 to 3 ounces of curd were re-
turned and gradually sank to the bot-
tom. The curds were soft and floccu-

lent, slightly larger and more distinct than in the previous experiments with condensed milk (Experiments 56 and 57) in which the dilution was greater. They were characteristically uniform in size and like a moderately coarse sand, but not a single curd was larger than a large grain of sand.

(The Coagulation of Cow's Milk in the Human Stomach, Joseph Brennerman, M.D., Archiv. of Ped., Feb. 1917.)

BORDEN'S EAGLE BRAND when properly diluted compares most favorably with mother's milk.

Its digestibility as shown by the above experiment is assured.

Sample, literature, analysis on request.

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Radium in Uterine Haemorrhage due to Non-Malignant Causes

Radium therapy here is as simple and as safe as a dilation of the cervix, and consists in nothing more than introducing a uterine sound with a hollow tip containing 500 millicuries of emanation and applying it successively to eight different points in the uterus, fifteen minutes at each point. This practically always cuts short the menstrual function, and so simply obviates the need for a hysterectomy. In young women, menstruation can sometimes be modified without even suspending it. In one case pregnancy and delivery of a healthful child followed the treatment. Seven of 100 patients had heart disease, two epilepsy, two insanity, and others Bright's disease and tuberculosis, manifestly bad risks for hysterectomy. No serious sequelae follow the radium treatment. Practically in all cases of fibroid tumors, radium has checked the monthly flow completely when desired. In young women it has been possible in some instances to cause the tumor to disappear without stopping menstruation permanently.-Howard Kelly, J. A. M. A., July.

Radium for Malignant Tumors of the Thymus Gland

Janeway (Ann. Surg., 1920) contends that these growths occur more frequently than is generally supposed, and that a favorable result of treatment depends not only upon the early diagnosis and treatment, but quite as much upon the variety of the tumor treated. Ewing states that pathologically these tumors fall into the following groups: (1) lymphosarcoma, composed of a diffuse growth of round polyhedral and giant cells; (2) carcinoma, in which the main tumor cell is a pavement, cubical, or, rarely, a cylindrical epithelial cell; and, very rarely, (3) spindle-cell or myxosarcoma, which is believed to arise from the stroma of the gland.

In all cases X-ray examination is of the utmost importance in the diagnosis.

Radium offers relief to patients with this disease and in certain instances even a prospect of cure. Every effort should be made to treat the condition with radium during an early stage.