4. What is the best remedy, administered internally, for phosphatic and alkaline urine? Give dosage. 5. What are the antogonists of aconite? What is the dose of the tincture according to 1900 Pharmacopeia? 6. Name the antagonists of cocaine. 7. State the effects of alcohol and strychnine on the arterioles. 8. For what is boric acid most frequently used locally? For what purpose is it given internally, and the dose? 9. Give the forraula for making Seidlitz powders. 10. Write a prescription for half an ounce of a 10 per cent solution of cocaine. 11. What is the composition of oxide of zinc ointment? 12. How would you prepare wine whey for a patient? 13. In what disease is veratrum viride most frequently used? What is the dose of the tincture, 1900 Pharmacopeia? 14. Name the ingredients and principal use of black wash. 15. Give technic of enteroclysis and indications for its use. Name the two best antidotes and the two best antagonists to carbolic acid. 17. Name three local and three general or systemic emetics. 18. What is the adult dose of each of the following remedies: (a) Morphine sulphate; (b) codeine sulphate; (c) tincture opii. deod.; (d) tincture opii. camph. ? S. T. TURNER, M. D., El Paso, Texas. PHYSIOLOGY. 1. Explain what is meant by "blood-pressure" and "peripheral resistance." 2. At what point in the circulatory system does the blood flow most rapidly? 3. Which travels with greater rapidity, the pulse or the blood stream? 4. In what organ is lymph most rapidly formed? 5. How is digestion modified by the absence of hydrochloric acid from the gastric juice? 6. To what kind of diet is the addition of sodium chloride of most importance? 7. What are the limitations to the use of milk as the sole article of diet? 8. What is meant by "internal secretion ?" 9. What is the chief source of urea? 10. What are the functions of the red blood corpuscles? 11. Why does the injection of a large quantity of normal saline solution into the vessels cause diuresis? 12. What are the functions of the pancreatic juice? SAM R. BURROUGHS, M. D., Buffalo, Texas. SECOND-HAND MEDICAL BOOKS.-I have a very large number of medical books upon every branch of medicine and surgery, some almost brand new and others quite ancient. I am determined to sell these boooks at all hazards between this time and the first of January. Write me in detail what you want and let me quote you my very low prices on everything. Address, H. P. N. Gammel, Medical and Law Book Man, Austin, Texas. PARTNER FOR SANITARIUM WANTED.-A party desires to associate himself with one or more others to establish a first-class sanitarium. No one need answer this advertisement who is not willing to invest as much as $5000. Such investor may obtain position as medical director at good salary. Certain of 25 per cent on investment after first year. Best of references required, and furnished. Texas physician preferred. Write fully in first letter qualifications, standing, etc., and reply will give all details. Address, Sanitarium, care Texas Medical News. AXIOMS IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER OF THE RECTUM.Charles B. Kelsey believes that in every suitable case of cancer of the rectum the patient should be subjected to immediate excision or resection by some one of the half-dozen well-recognized varieties of the operation. Every other case should be treated at once by colostomy. As operable cases, he considers such only as allow of complete removal of the disease with no more risk than attends any other major surgical operation. The mortality rate depends upon the choice of cases and upon the operator. But no matter what its form, cancer of the intestine is an unsatisfactory disease. In some cases recurrence is cured when the original operation was not successful. There is no one operation that is applicable to all cases. The site of the growth must be the controlling factor. The writer then gives an outline of the method which he has found satisfactory for many years. The greatest of all palliatives for cancer of the rectum is colostomy.-Medical Record. THE TEXAS MEDICAL NEWS. A JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, SURGERY AND HYGIENE. MATTHEW M. SMITH, M. D., Managing Editor. S. C. RED, M. D., Houston, ASSOCIATE EDITORS. J. W. MCLAUGHLIN, M. D., Galveston, A. M. ELMORE, M. D., Dallas, R. W. KNOX, M. D., Houston, H. A. BARR, M. D., Beaumont, T. J. BENNETT, M. D., Austin, WM. E. LUTER, M. D., San Antonio, The Texas Medical News Publishing Co., Publishers, Austin, Texas. BRANCH OFFICES. 215 Main Street, Corner Sixth and Houston Streets, FORT WORTH, TEXAS. Subscription, $1.00 per annum in advance. Single copies, 10 cents. Advertising rates on application. GOOD TIMES IN TEXAS. As stated in our last issue, owing to the large crops of the various products raised in most all portions of the State, makes the general prosperity of the State of Texas almost unprecedented. Already the large money lender and vendor's lien note-holder is having past-due paper paid off rapidly, and the farmer, laborer, and even the doctor will be able this year to get his share of the general prosperity. The result of this increased wealth in the community will bring about a stimulation of many industries. There will doubtless be many investments of a material kind, new houses constructed, new lands purchased, new improvements made of various kinds. Getting down more minutely to the members of the medical profession, they will be interested in new vehicles, and probably a large number in automobiles. The old, superannuated horse will be pensioned, placed in a good pasture for services already rendered, and the new and more comely-looking steed with a two-ten gait will take his place. The doctor's office will doubtless engage his attention, new floor covering with furniture, desk, letter-files, typewriter, and the same improvements will be noticeable in the examination and treatment rooms. Up-to-date instruments and apparatuses of various kinds, those interested in electro therapeutics will doubtless invest in a static machine or coils, wall-plates and various kinds of electrical sundries, surgical chairs, tables, instrument cases, and, in fact, the entire office will be overhauled and the old and out-of-date portions removed and the new and up-to-date will take their place. All of this is but one indication of what general prosperity in Texas will mean. But the profession should not lose sight of this fact, that, as a general rule, the doctor's cotton crop is the "top crop," and with the large yield this season, with active efforts on the part of members of the profession, they cught to be able to collect not only the bills due for the past one or two years, but all outstanding indebtedness for the past year. When these things have all been gone over, the doctor will enlarge his bank account and invest in various and sundry ways, but I hope and trust, never in cotton futures or mining stock and such wild-cat enterprises. The attendance in our post-graduate medical schools will doubtless clearly demonstrate the desire of large numbers of the profession to take advantage of the opportunity when business is slack to go to the medical centers and brush up and refreshen themselves upon the various branches of medicine and surgery. We have but merely enumerated a portion of the things which come to our mind in this disconnected way, simply to put you to thinking and cause you to make inspection of your own offices and rever to be satisfied with standing still, but always moving onward and upward. NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS. The fourth biennial session of the American International Congress on Tuberculosis will hold its meeting at the Astor Hotel, New York City, November 14th, 15th and 16th, and from the present outlook the meeting will be a most successful one, and we can not do better than reproduce the editorial which appeared in the TEXAS MEDICAL JOURNAL for November, written by the honored president of this Congress, Dr. F. E. Daniel: "The preliminary program was received too late for publication in this issue. I had expected to publish it. I am advised that the program in detail is very full and complete. Many strong and important papers have been contributed, and addresses will be made. by notable men. The headquarters will be at the New Astor Hotel, where there will be a committee who will give delegates all desired information, including the special rates secured at hotels and boarding houses, and programs and badges will be then distributed. The fare over all routes will be one full fare going, and one-third fare returning, good for any length of stay in New York. Delegates should get from the local ticket agent a certificate that one full fare has been paid. This certificate endorsed by the secretary will entitle the holder to one-third rate returning. Through-sleeper tickets can be secured, changing sleepers at St. Louis, via the Wabash to New York, if that route is chosen. The management are advised that there will be a large attendance, not only from the States of North, South, and Central America, but from foreign countries in response to the invitations sent out by Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State. There will be a dinner on the evening of the 15th, at which it is expected ladies will be present. Of course, there will be toasts and speeches, "a feast of reason and a flow of" "spirits." Tickets for the dinner must be spoken for in advance and paid for,-so much,-I do not know how much, -per plate. This dinner is given by the Medico-Legal Society in honor of the Congress on Tuberculosis. It is expected that much good will result from this meeting. The discussions will take a wide range, but the keynote will be Preventive Legislation; the prophylaxis of consumption. The government must come to the relief of the people. They are being awakened to the enormity of the losses by this preventable disease, and the medical profession having done its full share in pointing out the cause, mode of dissemination and how it may be controlled, the people must now demand protective legislation at the hands of their representatives. The main plea will be for a Department of Public Health with a minister or commissioner in the cabinet of the President. It is expected that there will be a full representation from Texas. Governor Lanham has appointed a list of fifty representative physicians of the State Medical Association, and a very large majority of them have notified Secretary Smith of their intentions to be present. Dr. Geo. R. Tabor, our popular State Health Officer, has been elected first vice-president, vice Kellogg, unavoidably absent, and is also chairman of Committee on State Sanatoria. Dr. Tabor has signified his intention of being present. Texas is signally honored in that the principal officers are Texans, and she must keep her corner up, and lead in this great matter of sanitary reform. The government must act and at once, to stay the fearful losses by consumption." |