4. Give varieties of luxations of the shoulder joint. 5. What are the signs of fracture of the surgical neck of the femur.

6. Give definition and treatment of a retro pharyngeal abscess.

OBSTETRICS, &c.

1. Give the differential diagnosis of pregnancy. 2. Name the presentations of the fœtus usually found in natural labors, and also those requiring manipulative interference for their correction.

3. Give the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of concealed or accidental hemorrhage and the conditions existing in unavoidable hemorrhage.

4. What are the chief causes of sudden death during or immediately following labor.

5. What are the most approved measures for the restoration of the new-born in cases of asphyxia or suspended amination.

6. Describe the Sims and knee-chest positions, and state their respective object.

PRACTICE.

1. Describe the differential diagnosis between croupous and catarrhal pneumonia.

2. Give the treatment proper for capillary bronchitis of infancy and childhood.

3. Describe the differential diagnosis between the eruptive symptoms of variola or small pox, and varicella or chicken pox.

4. Describe the physical diagnosis of acute pleuritis, both in the dry or moist, or effusive stage.

5.

Name some of the chief causes of infantile convulsions and explain their mode of action.

6. Name some of the chief causes of acute nephritis and describe its proper methods of treatment.

MATERIA MEDICA.—(HOMEOPATHIC)

1. Give the indications for aconite in sthenic fever. 2. Differentiate between aconite and belladonna in scarlet fever.

3. How is opium prepared and what are the therapeutic indications for its use in sunstroke?

4. Give the uterine indications for sepia.

Three tablespoonfuls a day, of which two are to be taken in the evening towards bed-time.

(This is the prescription which the great Napoleon the First formerly employed.—Prit

[We have used the above prescription in an

treatment of morphine poisoning.

7. Give the mind symptoms of arsenic.

8. Give the difference between decimal and centessimal triturations.

MATERIA MEDICA.-(OLD SCHOOL.)

duced into the circulation and the conditions when each is to be preferred.

2. What are anaesthetics? Contra-indications for their use. Treatment of dangerous symptoms. Modes of death from ar æsthetics.

3. To what class of remedies do the following belong; give most efficient preparation with dose of each? Arsenic, iodine, zinc, hyoscyamus, chloral, aspidium felix-mas.

4. What are oxytocics? Mention three, with mode of action and dose.

5. Name the principal digestive agents; explain their physiolog cal action and dose.

6. Explain the action of saline cathartics

the principal ones in use, with dose.

Name

7. What medicines are employed as gastric seda

tives, and explain their mode of action.

8. Write a prescription containing at least four ingredients, stating for what conditions it might be used. (Do not abbreviate.)

an apparently complete cure.-ED.]-Toledo Med. Compend.

PREVENTION OF IODISM.

Dr. H. N. Spencer recommends the following mode, due to Professor Hardaway, of prescribing iodide of potassium; the tendency to coryza is counteracted by the nux vomica and ammonia citrate, while the tonics prevent depression:

R. Iodide of potassium......... ............................................oun es ss
Citrate of iron,

Ti cture of nux vomica......................drams ij
Water..
.........ounces jss

Compound tincture of cinchona to make up ounces iv. Dose, one teaspoonful in half a glass of water after meals. The quantity of iodide may be i creased to any desired extent by adding the necessary amount of a saturated solution.

-Internat. Med. Mag.

Reviews.

THE GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE FAIR. With nearly one thousand illustrations. 240 imperial quarto pages (11 by 16 inches), cloth $4.00 and in different binding up to $10.00. Published by the Graphic Company, 358 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ills.

We find this work very interesting, so far as the text is concerned. The illustrations constitute the predominant feature of the work. Being photogravures, some of them have not printed up as clearly as could be wished.

WHERE TO SEND PATIENTS ABROAD FOR WATER CURES AND CLIMATIC TREATMENT. By Dr. Thomas Linn; paper, 25 cents. Geo. S. Davis, Detroit, Mich.

Of interest to those who have patients wealthy enough to go abroad if they are so directed.

THE MODUS OPERANDI OF QUININE IN LABOR. Reprint, by R. B. McCall, M.D., Hamersville, O. THE ACTION AND USES OF PENTAL. By David Cerna, M.D., Ph. D., and

SOME THOUGHTS ON HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION AND MEDICAL ETHICS, by the same author. Reprints. 1320 Ave., E. Galveston, Tex.

FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION. Reprint, by W. Blair Stewart, A. M., M.D., Byrn Mawr, Pa.

ASEXUALIZATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE ARREST OF THE PROPAGATION OF CRIMINALS. Reprint, by F. L. Sim, M.D., Mem phis, Tenn.

STHAVARA: A NON-SURGICAL RADICAL CURE FOR HERNIA, and

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF STHAVARA IN HERNIA. Two interesting and instructive pamphlets, free. The Sthavara Company, No. 1224 Betz Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE NURSING WORLD. A monthly journal devoted to the Theory and Practice of Nursing. J. Edmund Brown, M.D., editor. Price, $1.00 per year. Providence, R. I.

HEALTH. A Journal of Practical Hygiene. Quarterly. 50 cents per year. The Health Publishing Co., 84 Reade street, New York, N. Y. New subscribers who send $1 now for 1895, will receive WORLD for the remainder of this year free. "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BUSINESS LIFE." W. H. Schieffelin & Co., New York. A handsomely illustrated pamphlet.

We congratulate the house of W. H. Schieffelin & Co. upon the completion of one hundred years of successful experience in providing supplies for the medical profession. We wish them a thousand years longer of useful and prosperous existence.

Readers can procure the reprint, "Hygienic vs. Drug Treatment for Typhoid Fever," by Dr. Page, noticed in August WORLD, by sending 25 cents to Darwell & Upham, 283 Washington street, Boston, Mass., or by sending 10 cents to Wm. Wood & Co., New York, N. Y., for a copy of The Medical Record of April 28, 1894, which contains the article.

Wit and Wisdom.

You use aconite every day in your practice. Send ten cents to the Philadelphia Granule Co., No. 10 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa., for 100 granules of aconitine, the active principle (or 65 cts. for 1000) and try them instead of the uncertain tincture.

THE ALMIGHTY'S TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DEBILITY. When Elijah was utterly depressed in mind, and belived that his brave attempt to create a reformation in Israel had completely failed, and that there was nobody left that cared for the true God, and was ready to die of a brokenheart, then God gave him a quiet desert far from distraction, then a good sleep, then a comfortable meal, then sleep again, then more food, and then a six weeks' vacation. After that he recovered his spirits and was greatly improved in his religious feeling, his faith in God, as well as in bodily condition. One's religious moods may often depend on the condition of the body, if not one's religious life." The Independent."

For shaking palsy nothing excels Tinct. Esculus Glabra, drachm, and Celerina, 8 ounces. Teaspoonful every two or three hours.

THE "SLANTING HANDWRITING," so dear to our grandmothers and grandfathers, has long been out of fashion in England and America. It will soon be a thing of the past in Germany. There, however; the change will not be due to esthetic considerations, it is a sacrifice made to hygiene. An inquiry set on foot by the School Committee of Hanover, at the desire of the Prussian Minister of Education, leads to the conclusion that, while a slanting handwriting favors a crooked position of the writer, straight up writing forces him to have his copy-book or writing paper straight before him, and thus helps the writer to keep his body straight while writing. For this reason slanting writing is henceforth to be discouraged in German schools.-British Medical Journal.

PIPERAZINE-BAYER has been extensively employed in the treatment of gouty affections, renal lithiasis, hematuria, and diabetes, and the testimony is moet favorable as to its utility in these conditions. It can be obtained of all druggists in half and one ounce vials and also in tablets, and pamphlet will be furnished on request by the agents W. H. Schieffelin & Co. of New York.

TREATMENT FOR MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.

Case 2.-Mrs. B., the wife of one of our city's chief officials; for years had been a sufferer from the worst form of muscular rheumatism I ever saw. She was a constant sufferer when she called herself well, but when the acute attacks came on, as they did two or three times a year, she suffered excruciating agony and the illness lasted usually in spite of the best treatment I could give her, from three weeks to two months.

The chief seat of the rheumatism was in the intercostal muscles of the chest, though every muscle of the body seemed to be affected more or less. Large doses of morphine were ordered frequently to quiet her at these times and I dreaded each attack for fear that the heart might become involved. In October last she had an attack, one of the severest I ever saw. I at once gave her arsenauro ten drops four time: a day, with such palliatives as were needed. Much to the surprise and delight of her family and myself, she commenced to improve on the fourth day. Opiates were dropped on the fifth day, she was up and about on the seventh day, and had a rapid convalescence from that time on. I ordered the arsenauro continued t. i. d. and after a

month all pain ceased. I met her on the street yesterday, a healthy, happy woman and a grateful patient. She still takes five drops of the medicine once a day and I propose to keep it up for a year. This led to another case, her brother, Mr. M., American, aged 47, resident of Bethel, Conn., who had not been able to work for two years Was all crippled up with rheumatism, which was hereditary, When he first consulted me he was not suffering from an acute attack but was in a bad way. Three months treatment with arsenauro ten drops four times a day, removed all the pain and the man is now working every day He will take five drops twice daily for a year until all the symptoms disappear and the cure is complete. Dr. W. C. Wile, in N. E. Medical Monthly.

Have you seen the portable air compressor advertised by Willis H. Davis, Keokuk, Iowa? See their adv. It has a great many different uses. Is operated by the foot.

I have given PEACOCK'S BROMIDES a thorough trial, and have since then invariably prescribed it in preference to other preparations of its kind. During my trip across the ocean, I gave it to several passengers who suffered a great deal from sea-sickness, with very beneficial results. J. WILMOTH, PH.D., M. D.,

New Orleans, La.

THE ROCKING CHAIR.-An English surgeon says that people who use rocking chairs most, get deaf soonest. Rocking also hurts the eyes and makes people near-sighted.

Rocking chairs are also a very common cause or one of the factors in producing pelvic diseases. The contraction, pressure and relaxation produced by several hours constant rocking produces a hyperemie condition of the pelvic organs. At first the vaso-motors soon exert themselves and the vessels return to their normal condition, but when this is keep up for years the vast-motor control becomes less and less till congestion takes place, and the long list of pelvic symptoms follows A straight chair and hot water injections have cured a large number of gynecological cases in our hands.-Medical Compend.

Dr. Charles Kelly Gardner reports to The Medical Age good results from the use of Liquor Sedans (Parke, Davis & Co.) in a case presenting severe and obstinate derangement of the female generative organs, attended with very irregular and painful menstruation.

The

DR. GORDILLON, St. Amand. France, says: I have tried Aletris Cordial in a case of dysmenorrhea. result I obtained from the use of the preparation was excellent-far better than I obtained in the same patient by prescribing the usual remedies employed in such cases.

WHERE OLD SOL IS REGULAR.-Liberia is the only more or less civilized country where clocks are almost entirely dispensed with. The sun rises exactly at 6 A. M., and sets at 6 P.M., throughout the year, and is vertically overhead at noon.-The Medical Herald.

W. R. WARNER & Co. will furnish gratis, for extreme cases, Ingluvin, to the address of any physician who may have a case of Marasmns, Cholera Infantum or sickness in Gestation, for which it is claimed to be a specific.

SANMETTO IN CHRONIC TROUBLES OF THE

GENITO-URINARY ORGANS:

I am pleased to state that I have used several dozen bottles of Sanmetto in my practice, and in properly selected cases have never seen anything to equal it. In pre-senility, cystitis, and in all chronic troubles of

the genito-urinary organs, Sanmetto has given entire satisfaction to myself and patients. Lookout, La. R. M. COLLINS, M.D.

DP. O. SCHULER, of Berlin, has had excellent results in the use of Diphtheria Antitoxine-Schering. He injected it in many incipient cases of diphtheria, the result being a marked amelioration of the course of the disease. He also injected it in many cases exposed to diphtheria, it proving an efficient preventation to the contagion.

EXPENSE OF DISPENSING ALKALOIDAL

PREPARATIONS.

This is a topic which can not fail to interest all, for, with the existing antagonism of the druggists, if for no other reason, physicians wil, for the present at least, be compelled to supply their own medicines.

Experience in an extensive general practice, embracing both city and country, in which, inside and outside the office, practically everything is supplied, our average expense does not exceed three per cent of the work done on an ordinary range of fees.

This we hold is paid back manifold in convenience to the prescriber, in saving time, in holding patients, in avoiding druggists refilling of prescriptions, in more frequent consulations, in securing patients who prefer a physician that supplies his medicines and in th general satisfaction of having things in ones own hands, to say nothing about infinitely better success and the great saving to our patients, which amounts in the end to a great saving to all concerned.-Alkaloidal Clinic.

ANEMIA-I have been using your Hemoferrum (Stearns') pilloids with happiest results in a case of Anemia. Report from Dr. G. G. Gobar, Alma, Wis. Send to Micajah., Warren, Pa., for samples of medicated uterine wafers.

AXIOMS OF HUMAN LOVE.

Dr. Paolo Montegazza, a scholar of international reputation, has made an exhaustive study of the human emotions. Some of his conclusions recorded in "The Physiology of Love," are as follows:

To say that in life we can love but once is to utter one of the greatest effronteries of which love is daily guilty.

To pretend that a prudent marriage generates love is the same as to sow pumpkins and wish them to produce melons.

To please a woman is a phrase that expresses the sum of a hundred virtues and a thousand artifices.

He who has loved and has been loved, even for a day, has no right to curse life.

To preserve the love of a man or a woman it is necessary, after having won it, to win it again every day.

One can love platonically for life, as one can be a great man without having ever won a battle, invented a machine or written a book; but in one case and the other humanity has the right to ask, "A quoi bon ?"

It is our own fault if we are not loved. This dogma is eternal as the world, ancient as man, immutable as the laws which govern the physics of the universe.

The woman we love is always an angel; she is mother, sister, daughter, wife. The woman we do not love is only a female, even were she as beautiful as the Fornarina, as plastic as the Venus of Milo.

Waiting cures caprices and strenghten true love, waiting kills false loves and makes the true ones great and noble; to wait means to be sincere, prudent, good, holy.

To love for an hour is natural to every animal; to love for a day is natural to every man; to love for a lifetime belongs to the angels; to love for a lifetime and one creature only is of the gods.-Pacific Record Medical and Surgical.

THE MEDICAL GOLDEN RULE." I feel constrained for once to give you a golden rule. It is never to speak ill of any of your fraternity, whatever yon may think. You will do your self no good, and it will only be thought that you are jealous."-Dr. Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.

Nux vomica has long been recognized as one of the best tonics Send 10 cents to the Phila. Granule Co., No. 10 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa. for 100 (or 65 cts, for 1000) granules of its active principles, strychnine or brucine. They are convenient for the patient to carry in the pocket.

Dr. Sam.

BY EUGENE FIELD.

Down in the old French quarter
(Just out of Rampart street)
I wend my way
At close of day
Unto the quaint retreat
Where lives the Voodoo doctor,

By some esteemed a sham

Yet I'll declare there's none elsewhere
So skilled as Dr. Sam.

With claws of a devilled crawfish,
The juice of a prickly-prune,
And the quivering dew
From a yarb that grew

In the light of a midnight moon!

I never should have known him
But for the colored folk
That here obtain

And ne'er in vain
That wizard's arts invoke ;
For when the Eye that's Evil

Would him and his'n damn, The negro s grief gets quick relief Of Hoodoo-Doctor Sam ! With the caul of an alligator, The plume of an unborn loon, And the poison wrung From a serpent's tongue By the light of a midnight moon!

In all neurotic ailments

I hear that he excels,

And he insures
Immediate cures

Of weird, uncanny spells;
The most unruly patient

Gets docile as a lamb

And is freed from ill by the potent skill

Of Hoodoo-Doctor Sam!

Feathers of strangled chickens,
Moss from the dank lagoon,

And plasters wet

With spider sweat

In the light of a midnight moon

They say when nights are grewsome
And hours are, oh! so late,
Old Sam steals out

And hunts about

For charms that hoodoos hate! That from the moaning river

We believe that the experience of others who supply their own drugs, especially those who dispense the alkaloids, will bear us out in the assertion that the dispensing physician can collect a much greater percentage of his fees than the one who prescribes. Most of the sickness is among the poorer classes, because there are many more of them, and, too often when the medicines are paid for there is nothing left for the doctor. People are not slow to learn who cares for them the most pleasantly and economically, but physicians are too slow in seeing the inestimable advantage to themselves of dispensing, especially when the alkaloidal preparations are used. The pendulum has attained its maximum and is now coming this way. By and by the physician will practice medicine, and not the clerk in the corner drug store.-The Alkaloidal Clinic.

Atropine, the active principle, is more efficacious than the tincture of belladonna, but the the trouble is to dispense it accurately in the exceedingly small doess required. Send 10 cts. to the Phila. Granule Co., No. 10 South 18th St.. Philadelphia, Pa., for 100 (or 65 cts. for 1000) of their elegant, accurate and economical granules of atropine. After using these you will never again go back to the crude preparations.

Mr Wm. Koehl, of Erie, Pa., has bought out the extensive plant of the Gowanda Paper Box Co., of Gowanda, NY. He manufactures paper boxes of all descriptions. A special feature is the manufacture of pill and powder boxes and lables. Address Wm Koehl, 1017 Peach St., Erie, Pa.

Mellin's Food is a prize article. It received highest awards at the Worlds Fair.

For Passiflora Incarnata, the new nerve sedative, address John B. Daniel, 84 Wall St., Atlanta, Ga.

A boy whose leg was repaired in New York by grafting some skin from a dog complains now that his shin barks easily.

"I Have Found It."

Dr. L. M. Roberts, of Little Falls, Minn., writes Oct. 81st, 1893, to Jerome Kidder Manufacturing Co., 820 Broadway, New York: "Dear Sirs:-Instructions came to hand. Well I will say that after 12 years of searching all the shops of the various manufactures— after trying a half dozen different makes for yearsafter seeing foreign exhibits—I have but one word to apply to this new coil you have sent me "Eureka" (which word translated means "I have found it"). So far as I have been able yet to test it, it is a revela tion in mechanics and therapeutic range it is an "Unicum."

Adjectives fail me in my effort to express my appreciation of it-how puny and ridiculous my erstwhile finely appointed apparatus looks by side of it-and

best of all is its simplicity-multiform are its coils and appointments-yet as simple to operate as one coil, household coil, and that rheostat is a great thingnothing like it in any other electrial apparatus I ever saw-gives instant absolute control of any current, and so finely increased or diminished, that a child canı ot complain.

ANDERSON, IND, February 7th, 1893. Enclosed find Postal Note, for which send me one double box Freligh's Tablets. Have used samples sent me and they act like a charm.

For cut rates in first-class surgical instruments address I. Phillips, Atlanta, Ga.

Have you yet tried Sennine, the new antiseptic? Send for sample to Dios Chem. Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Your dyspeptic patients should use Peter's Peptic Essence. Address, Arthur Peter & Co., Louisville, Ky. California Fig Syrup is pronounced the standard family laxative."

We have always had satisfaction with the supporters and other elastic goods we have purchased from G. W. Flavell & Bro., 1005 Spring Garden St., Phila.

In the treatment of gonorrhea and gleet try the soluble bougies made by Charles L. Mitchell, M.D., 1016 Cherry St., Phila.

For a positive antidote for tobacco address F. H. Amlar, Jackson, Mich.

See the excellent adv. of the Ewell Truss Co., (Rochester, Mich.) in this issue.

See the sample offer, 4 preparations for $1.00, of the Walker-Green Pharmacal Co., Kanas City, Mo.

Have you a dry battery? Write to the Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Co., Baltimore, Md.

Do not send your hernia patients to the truss maker. Cure them with Dr Walling's Hernial Fluid and get a big fee. You make the injection, the fluid does the rest. See his special offer in adv.

CHRONIC GRANULAR PHARYNGITIS,

I am better pleased with syrup of hydriodic acid, than with any preparation of iodide I have ever used. Its prompt and permanent action in a case of chronic granular pharyngitis was simply marvelous to me. A child of six years whose tonsils had remained enlarged for about twelve months was given the following:

R. 8yrup acid hydriodic (Hostelley's)...ounces iv Signa-Half teaspoonful in water four times daily. After two weeks of the above treatment the tonsils became imperceptible. The syrup of hydriodic acid is a valuable alterative and discutient. Madisonville, Ky.

D. F. DEMPSEY, M.D.,

HAY FEVER.

Dr. T. E. Beall, of Columbus, Ohio, controls obatinate cases of hay fever with the following:

R. 8yr acid hydriodic (Hostelley's) ..... ..drams vj Big-Twenty minims in water every two hours. The worst cases, the Doctor writes, will yield to the above treatment when other medication fails.

A prominent physician of Des Moines, Iowa, writes to the Abbott Alkaloidal Company, Ravenswood, Chicago, as follows: "The order enclosed marks the end (Continued on next leaf.)