PHENALGIN:-No matter how severe or where located pain is promptly and satisfactorily controlled by this effective anodyne-and without disturbing the digestion, suppressing the secretion, causing constipation or inducing a drug habit. This is why Phenalgin has superseded opium and its derivatives for relieving Headaches, Rheumatism, Gout, LaGrippe, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Disorders of the Female, Dysmenorrhea, and Painful Conditions generally. To thousands of physicians Phenalgin "is the one dependable analgesicthe logical supplanter of opium."

IN MOOST CASES OF CORYZA, cystogen in full doses (gr. X-XV, 4 times daily for an adult) acts promptly and effectively if treatment is given at the inception of the attack. The irritation is relieved, the watery secretion is checked, and the "stuffiness" and headache disappear.

Where the "cold" is well established, this treatment will materially shorten the infection, reduce the quantity of purulent secretion and lessen the danger of complications such as sinusitis, otitis media, and bronchitis. Cystogen Lithia is a most elligible preparation.

A ROUTINE PRACTICE:-To guard against them from the bronchial and pulmonary inflammations to which they are usually susceptible, many physicians make it a routine practice to put the weak and anemic members of their families on Cord. Ext. Ol. Morrhuae Comp. (Hagee), just as soon as cold and changeable weather sets in. The value of this preventive measure lies in the power of the Cord. Ext. Ol. Morrhuae Com. (Hagee) to make blood and add resistance to tissues.

THE KENTUCKY STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, at its annual meeting in Louisville, September 21-23, elected the following officers: President, Dr. Ap Morgan Vance, Louisville; Vice Presidents, Dr. M. F. Hoag, of Quicksand; Amos Davis, of Eastington, and J. B. Mason, of London; Secretary, Dr. A. T. McCormack, of Bowling Green; Delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. W. W. Richmond, of Trenton, and Carl Louis Wheeler, of Lexington.

FUNCTIONAL HEART DISORDERS resulting from faulty innervation or fatigue are promptly relieved by Cactina Pillets. Made from Mexican Cereus Grandiflorus, this time-tried preparation provides a safe and effective means of steadying and strengthening the weak, irregular or rapid heart. A true cardiac tonic without cumulative action:

THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION at its recent session held in Lexington, Ky., October 19, 20, 21, ult., elected Dr. William J. Stone, of Toledo, O., President. Dr. Henry Enos Tuley, of Louisville, was re-elected Secretary, and Dr. S. C. Stanton, of Chicago, Treasurer. Indianapolis was selected as the place of meeting in 1916. About 300 members were in attendance, and the work in both sections was most satisfactory and enjoyable.

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY:-The college work for the ensuing year at Vanderbilt University Medical School opened with more than 300 applicants for admission to the freshman class. A large majority were denied admission on account of the rigid enforcement of the revised standards of the University which has enjoyed the distinction during the past year of being placed in Class A plus by the ComImittee of the A. M. A.

SLEEPLESSNESS depending on nervous excitation, reflex conditions, vasomotor disturbances or the various neuroses-is especially amenable to the bromides in the form of Peacock's Bromides. This is due, not alone to the purity and quality of the several salts entering into the composition of this product, but also to their particular combination which assures maximum therapeutic action with minimum untoward effect.

DR. BLUE HONORED:-Trustees of the American Medicine Gold Medal Award have unanimously selected Surgeon-General Rupert Blue, of the United States Public Health Service, as the American physician who did most for humanity in the domain of medicine during 1914, and have therefore awarded him the 1914 gold medal for his work in national health and sanitation.

THE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES on which Antiphlogistine was originally compounded, have always been the common property of the Medical profession. The faithfulness with which the original product has, for more than 20 years, been maintained, remains the proud stewardship of the original makers.

A TRUE HEPATIC STIMULANT:-Whenever it is necessary or desirable to increase the functional activity of the liver without producing catharsis, Chionia will be found of exceptional value. Remarkably useful and effective in the treatment of Biliousness, Jaundice, Intestinal Indigestion, Constipation, Hepatic Torpor, etc.

PRUNOIDS: A laxative that acts by stimulating physiologic processes; does not gripe or produce after-constipation. Remarkably effective in the treatment of chronic constipation and all intestinal conditions requiring safe, pleasant and dependable action.

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NEW TESTS OF DEATH:-It is quite natural that the subject of the speedy and accurate diagnosis of death should receive increasing interest in those countries in which the business of killing seems to have supplanted all other forms of human activity. Three methods of determining the cessation of life are discussed in La Clinica Medica Italiana, 1915, No. 3. The first of these is the ether test. A drop of ether is instilled into the conjunctival sac of one eye. If this is followed by a reddening of the conjunctiva it affords proof that the circulation is intact and that life is still present. The other eye is used as a control. The second test has recently been proposed by Icard. It consists in the subcutaneous injection of fluorescin, which, if the individual is still living, is soon followed by a yellowish coloring of the skin and mucosa. The conjunctiva and the mucous membrane of the mouth, and particularly of the frenum of the tongue, show this coloration most distinctly. The test consists in the injection of 8 to 10 c.c. of a solution of 20 grams of fluorescin and 30 grams of sodium carbonate in 100 grams of distilled water. A negative result is obtained in cases of marked slowing or enfeeblement of the circulation, as during the agonal condition. The third test has recently been proposed by Halluin. It consists in direct exploration of the heart by means of a stilette. This is introduced through a small incision in one of the intercostal spaces. Any movement in the heart is communicated to the stilette. In some instances of suspended animation it is possible to arouse cardiac activity by means of gentle movements of the stilette, combined with artificial respiration.-N. Y. Med. Record.

THE USE OF PICRIC ACID IN BURNS:-A one per cent solution of picric acid in water forms a saturated solution of great value in the treatment of burns and scalds at the first onset. Its use depends on the well known fact that picric acid coagulates albumin, thus forming a protective, antiseptic covering to the injured part. The dressing may be left in place for forty-eight hours without changing. A second application of picric acid is unnecessary; indeed, the only ill-effects recorded as to the use of picric acid were in cases where repeated applications were made. A signal advantage connected with the use of picric acid in burns and scalds lies in the prompt cessation of pain in the injured part. In burns of the eye a two per cent ointment of picric acid, preceded by the instillation of a little cocaine, has been recommended. For the removal of the somewhat persistent yellow stain it has been suggested that, after forty-eight hours, the parts be washed with a solution containing five grains of potassium permanganate in one pint of water, afterwards washing with weak ammonia solution, and then with hydrogen peroxide. Many practitioners have obtained good results by using a 1 in 200 solution. The necessity of making a prompt application in cases of burns suggests the wisdom of keeping on hand one or two pints of the saturated aqueous solution of picric acid for emergency use in the office, or surgical ward.— St. Paul Medical Journal.

THE LACTOSE TREATMENT OF DIABETES:-For a long time it has been known that the administration of lactose in some cases of diabetes is followed by a marked diminunition or even a disappearance of the glycosuria. Fernand Farges (Gazette Hebdomadaire des Sciences Medicales de Bordeaux, June 6, 1915), reports the excellent results he has obtained with this method in a series of seven cases of diabetes. In some of the patients the diet was restricted to two quarts of milk daily with the addition of from 20 to

30 grams of lactose, and in other cases the patient continued his regular diet to which the lactose was added. In most of the cases the sugar disappeared completely from the urine. In other instances the glycosuria was considerably diminished. The author concludes from his experience that lactose is completely assimilated by the diabetic. At the same time it appears to augment the assimilation of other carbohydrates that are ingested with it. Lactose is ordinarily a diuretic, but in the diabetic it has the opposite effect. As a supplementary article in the diet of typhoid fever and other diseases requiring an easily assimilated nutrient, milk sugar plays an important role. In diabetes its role is a double one: First, as a nutrient, and second, as an agent that greatly increases the carbohydrate tolerance of the individual.-Med. Record.

TREATMENT OF TYPHOID:-J. Feldner (Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift), is an ardent advocate of the starvation treatment of typhoid, insisting that the experience of years has established that the disease runs its most typical and mildest course when the patients are not fed by the mouth. He says that Abderhalden's protective ferments amply explain the advantages from refraining from feeding typhoid patients. Nature takes away the appetite, as the protective ferments are needed in the blood to combat the bacteria and their products. When food is given by the mouth, the ferments have to go into the digestive tract to take care of the food, and the blood thus loses a large proportion of its means of defense. Saline infusion also promotes the vital, the defensive processes, he thinks, as it weakens some inhibiting function, by diluting the blood, and thus leaves free play to the defensive forces. In the test tube, intensity of agglutination may increase as the serum is more and more diluted, and there is every reason to assume that this occurs with saline infusion in the body. Hence treatment of typhoid, he declares, should consist of deprivation of all