was the only one that was characteristic, "that distinguished it from all other cases of a like character." I sent one powder of sacc. lac., in which were six pellets of sabadilla, 200th of Jenichen, to be dissolved in six spoonfuls of water, of which one spoonful was to be taken every four hours until all was used. The next day Mrs. O. rode up to my door and asked for a number of powders of the same medicine. She had not sneezed that morning.

To-day I have inquired whether Mrs. O. has had any return of the complaint, but I am assured that she has not, and what is further, she now has flowers and roses constantly in her house. I don't know whether sabadilla has ever been used for "hay fever " before or since, certainly not in my experience or knowledge.

By the way, the symptom on which was based the prescription is under the section belonging to the "eyes."

CONSTIPATION.

Miss R, age forty; suffers from constipation constantly. Has taken continuously aloes for physic for several years. Has no inclination to go to stool. The failure of a passage for several days causes fullness and tightness in the abdomen. A A passage is effected only with great straining when cathartic medicine is omitted. Dry, hard passage like cranberries. Has dry piles and pain running up the spine. Completely exhausted after a passage. Rectum and bowels seem paralyzed.

Alumina three doses.-First, 200; second, 1500; third, 2300; at intervals of three weeks, cured the case perfectly.

THE USE OF CARBOLIC ACID AS A DRESSING FOR WOUNDS.

Carbolic acid is comparatively a "new remedy," having been introduced to the profession within a few years and principally as a disinfectant; as hygienic and not therapeutic.

Its power as a disinfectant is unequaled, but I have never known it to be used for any other purpose, until within one year. Indeed, only eighteen months ago, I inquired at one of our principal drug stores for carbolic acid, and the druggist did not know that there was such an article.

In using this remedy as a disinfectant, and noting its great value, I was led, one year ago, or thereabouts, to apply a lotion consisting of carbolic acid, ten drops, and one half pint water, to a wound on the left side of the face of Mr. M. M. Fry, aged 70, who, while unloading a log from a conveyance, was struck by the binder on the left side of the face, about half way between the nose and

cheek bone. The blow of the stick completely turned the flesh from the point where it struck to the ear; making a wound four or five inches long to two or three wide, laying the bone bare. The flap was placed as nearly as possible to its place and retained by a few adhesive strips. There was more or less bleeding, but owing to its being done with so blunt an instrument, the bleeding was not very great.

From such a wound, produced in such a manner, and in as old a man, I expected there would be profuse suppuration, and be a long time in healing. In order to correct any bad smell that might arise from the wound during the stage of suppuration, I prepared an ordinary sized coffee cup full of water and carbolic acid, ten drops of the latter. With this lotion the parts were to be kept wet. I visited Mr. Fry three times within a week, and to my surprise there was not a drop of pus discharged, and at the end of the week the wound was entirely healed and has so remained to this day.

This surprising result led me to use the same preparation in the following cases:

Charles Stalker, aged 18. Right middle finger was mashed in machinery. The first phalanx was mashed fine and felt like pieces of bone in a small bag. The first joint was implicated. The wound was compound and pieces of bone protruded. The condition was so bad that it did seem wrong to try to save the end of the finger, but with the knowledge of the above case before me, I concluded to try the lotion. The finger was put in as good shape as possible and held by adhesive strips and the lotion applied. In an incredibly short time, young S used his hands to write with, and has continued to do so ever since. He removed one or two fragments of bone, but there was no suppuration, nor much soreness; even the joint is intact,

R. S., aged 33, brother of the last patient, fell from a chestnut tree, and in striking the ground fractured the malar bone and received a bad cut from the eye to the cheek. The malar bone was fractured and driven down upon the muscle beneath it. The eye and its surroundings were blood-shot and greatly swollen. The wound was dressed with the carbolic acid lotion, with the same result, that is, no formation of pus, and entirely healed in a few days.

A. W., aged 20, received, one week ago, a deep cut between the thumb and fore-finger of the left hand, severing an artery. The

bleeding was arrested in the course of a few hours by an application of Mouset's solution, which produced a firm clot in the wound. This clot was not removed for three or four days, when the lips of the wound were brought together, and to-day the wound is nearly healed. Not the least sign of suppuration. The wound was dressedwith carbolic acid lotion.

From this uniform success in treating wounds with carbolic acid lotion, I tried its effect upon a "broken breast," some weeks ago. The abscess had formed and opened, and was discharging pus freely. The usual amount of inflammation was present, and the case gave evidence of continuing a long time. These cases have always, in my hands, continued for a long time discharging, and with little satisfaction in treatment. I think I have noticed that when the abscess has formed slowly it is apt to continue discharging for a long time.

This case had been several weeks in developing, and terminated finally in suppuration, in spite of my best efforts. There was profuse discharge and great soreness of the breast. The opening would admit the ends of three fingers with ease. Here was a case to try the curative virtue of carbolic acid. A lotion was prepared and used, a small quantity made to enter the abscess. The suppuration began to diminish at once, and healed sooner than any case in the limits of my experience.

To these cases I wish to add one, which may be regarded, in all probability, as pathogenetic.

Some time during the summer, I had occasion to use some carbolic acid, and through carelessness a quantity was spilled in my left hand. It was necessary to leave it in contact with the skin for a few minutes. Some of it trickled down between the fingers and remained as a drop in the back of the middle-finger.

Before it could be removed there was a peculiar feeling of stiff ness and puckering of the entire hand. This discomfort remained on the middle finger until night. At one spot it never left until there appeared a small pimple, which increased in size until it became a sore resembling a carbuncle. The flesh suppurated until a probe could be passed nearly through the finger. For a number of days the sore hand was intensely painful and prevented sleep several nights. It finally healed.

Was this, or not, the effect of carbolic acid? I am firmly convinced that there is no remedy which will compare in its healing power in wounds with this.

ARTICLE XXIV.

A case of Tænia Solium. By C. E. SWIFT, M. D., of Auburn.

A young lady suffering from tape-worm, took two ounces of felix mass. The medicine was placed in two-thirds of a glass of water, of which a table spoonful was given every two hours. The remedy was used fasting, and was continued two days. I then gave about three ounces of bruised pumpkin seeds, excluding the outside integument, followed in two hours by two ounces of castor oil. In six hours after taking the oil, the patient passed a tape-worm eighteen feet in length.

ARTICLE XXV.

A few remarks on Dysentery, as it appeared in New York city and its neighborhood in 1865. By CARROLL DUNHAM, M. D.

From the nature of my business, I have not been called to treat many cases of dysentery. Three forms of that disease, however, have come under my observation in this city and its vicinity during the present summer.

1. In one of the adjacent cities I have seen several cases in consultation, and have heard of others which presented the following history:

The disease began with moderate febrile excitement, and with symptoms, both local and general, which clearly indicated mercurius. Under mercurius the cases improved until nearly convalescent, on about the third or fourth day after the disease had fairly declared itself. At this period the amelioration ceased; the patient became drowsy and stupid, the urine was scanty, and that which was secreted was retained in the bladder; the appetite failed entirely; emaciation was rapid, and the patient presented a strong resemblance to one in the second stage of a severe typhoid fever. Some of these cases lingered in this condition, causing great anxiety to the attending physician, until opium was admin. istered. Under this remedy, given in the 200th potency, rapid improvement took place. The secretion of urine became free and the intelligence clear. The appetite returned, as did likewise the dysentric symptoms. The latter seemed to require mercurius again, and under this remedy the patients made satisfactory recoveries.

In Jersey City dysentery prevailed pretty extensively. Owing to some local exciting causes, it was in some parts of the city quite

severe. From my esteemed friend, Dr. H. Bowen, of Jersey City, I am happy to be able to quote as follows:

"We have treated a number of cases of dysentery this season, and all seemed to have belonged to the same type-very violent cases, and controlled by the same remedies. These were mercu rius sol. and nux vomica. Mercurius sol. has never failed in a single case where it seemed indicated. The discharges were character ized by more violence than I have seeh before; a good deal of bloody mucus, the blood predominating, with great tenesmus, before and after the discharge, lasting a long time. When there was any green in the discharge, it was a 'pea green' color. In cases of this kind, mercurius sol. controlled all the symptoms at once. When there was not any green in the discharges, and the tenesmus continued long after the discharges, sulphur changed it so that there would no longer be pain or tenesmus after the stool, and then nux vom. completed the cure. Nux vom. has never failed me when it seemed indicated. A good deal of pain, but ceasing with the evacuations.

'Colocynth has been of great benefit in a few cases when with the other symptoms in which nux vom. would otherwise seem indicated, there were violent colicky pains in the abdomen and near the umbilicus, with, at times, a small quantity of fæcal matter in the stools. In such cases colocynth has not only controlled the colicky pain, but has gone further and controlled all of the symptoms.

"This is a point that I have observed in the treatment of 'single symptoms,' or in giving a remedy to control a single distressing symptom; that, if it controlled this symptom, it also controlled other symptoms that would seem to require another remedy. All of which shows to me that the characteristics of the remedy should always be sought after as the best means to cure the disease. When I have found the characteristic symptoms of the drug to correspond with the characteristic symptoms of the disease, it has never failed to control the disease or change it for the better."

3. In the city of New York several severe and rapidly fatal cases have been reported to me, though I have not seen any such. The patients (all children) were taken with dysentery of only moderate severity, and which seemed to indicate mucurius or nux vomica. Under this remedy the evacuations ceased and the patients appeared to be convalescent. On the third or fourth day, when there had been no stool for eighteen hours, suddenly, the patients sank into a complete collapse, from which no treatment,