200 ITEMS OF INTEREST. The St. Joseph Academy of Medicine now meets the second and fourth Mondays in each month at the Commercial Club. Your Sister or somebody's else's sister would appreciate the Ladies' Home Journal, or Munsey's Magazine, for a year. We furnish either, clubbed with THE MEDICAL HERALD for $2.50,or all three for $3.50. For the Assistant Postmaster-General. —“6 6 Large reward offered' for a good reason why a monthly journal should pay third-class postage for local delivery and second-class for delivery three thousand miles away."-The Trade Press. Prosperous People Wear Good Clothes" is the reply we make to inquiries such as "How can you afford to issue THE HERALD in such elegant style?" We would add that THE HERALD is one of the very few medical journals in this country whose running expenses are balanced by its paid-up subscription list. Medical Lake, a peculiar body of water, being a prototype of the Dead Sea, in Palestine, is situated about the center of the state of Washington, in a fine, slightly undulating country. It is very sparsely settled with trees, but on the borders of the lake pine trees are thriving well, and the branches even overhang the water; but let them touch it, and those particular branches are doomed to death. Fine fruits and vegetables of all kinds suitable to the climate are growing in the immediate vicinity of Medical Lake, and in this respect it differs from the Dead Sea Universal Prescription.-Every doctor should read it and have his family read it, and then their friends, and when it is worn out he should buy another copy, and every now and then for his patient write out an order 66 M. Sig. One story three times a day just before meals. As a result his patient's digestion will be improved. A demand for food will soon be established, assimilation will be hastened and all will go as merry as a marriage bell with that patient.--Medical Mirror. The Methods Used by the Somalis for Enforcing Virginity.—The custom of enforcing virginity is adhered to by the Somalis with a religious strictness (Indian Medical Record). The gabad or maiden, when seven years of age, is forced to submit to a plastic operation, the operator in this instance, as in all other cases of surgical necessity, being the vadad or priest. He pares the coinciding edges of the labia majora upwards of three-fourths their length in the anteroposterior direction, and holding them tight between the forefinger and thumb of his left hand, effecting thereby the coalescence of the pared margins, he fixes them by means of three stitches. The needle used here is a wooden one, smoothly hewn from the trunk of a certain tree, said to be mentioned to their Koran; and the thread is a course, thick twine twisted from the interior of the bark of the same tree. There is only a very small opening left for the menstrual discharge and the escape of urine, which has to find its way out the best way it can. After the operation the young lady is placed on a mať on the floor of their abode, which is of very frail and temporary construction, specially so intended to meet the requirements of their nomadic pursuits. There she lies for several days, her legs tied together, with no dressing of any sort, except a piece of rag used as a covering for the part, until nature versus ill-nature sets up a friendly union of the parts. The gabad usually gets married after the age of twelve--that is, if there happens to be a young man about who is desirous of marrying her. The duty of breaking through the dam devolves upon the bridegroom, who is often too shy to undertake such an operating measure, in which case he is replaced by the oldest woman of the family, who with the help of a small knife surmounts the difficulty in no time. Hypnotic Anti-Spasmodic Anti-Neuralgic CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA MERRELL This preparation contains all the active medicinal constituents of Passiflora Incarnata in concentrated form, and is the result of an extended investigation in our Laboratory. It is the most eligible form for exhibiting the valuable properties of the drug, since from it we have succeeded in eliminating the inert principles invariably present in ordinary preparations of the market. CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA Is a valuable adjunct to the treatment of nervous affections attended with the congestion of the cord and ganglionic centres. As a soporific without narcotic action and as an anti-spasmodic and anti-neuralgic, it is without an equal. Its action is between Morphine and Chloral Hydrate, but it does not depress the system nor derange the stomach. It is devoid of danger, non-poisonous, and may be given in any case where sleep is needed. It is the remedy-par excellence-in infantile convulsions, in diarrhea of children, and in nervous affections of the aged and infirm. In nervous or sick headache, neuralgia of the fifth pair of nerves, in sleeplessness of typhoid and other fevers as well as from overwork so common among professional and business men, it will produce a quiet and dreamless sleep, and at the same time prove a permanent tonic to the nervous system. CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA Is recommended in cases where opium and its preparations, the Bromides, Chloral, etc., cannot be given or are not well borne, and where it is undesirable to lock up the secretions. It is recommended in tetanus, cerebral pain, hysteria of women, dysmenorrhoea, tic douleroux, accelerated respiratory movement, pain in the rectum and neuralgia of the heart. CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA Is prepared for physicians' prescriptions only, and not for popular sale. Printed matter with extended notes furnished to the medical profession only. Samples supplied without charge on payment of expense of delivery. CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA May be ordered of our New York office, No. 96 Maiden Lane, of Geo. In ordering or prescribing, please specify "CORDIAL PAS-CARNATA "-" Merrell." Compiled by CHARLES WOOD FASSETT, Secretary American Medical Publishers' Association, ST. JOSEPH, Mo. NOTE. Society Secretaries will please keep us informed as to changes in dates, etc. Extra copies of this calendar printed on heavy paper, may be obtained by addressing as above, with stamp. Duplicate plates of this page for sale. The St. Joseph Academy of Medicine Meets second and fourth Monday evenings, in each month, at the Commercial Club rooms. Visiting physicians cordially invited. ALL matter pertaining to this department, or concerning advertisements, to insure prompt attention should be addressed to the Business Manager . THE HERALD'S circulation being among a class of physicians who PAY THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS (and consequently READ each issue), this journal naturally offers the best opportunity to those advertisers who desire to reach the thrifty and progresive practitioners of the West and South. THIS DEPARTMENT will be devoted to such notices and comments as the Business Editor may feel inclined to make of deserving and meritorious preparations, and such items of news concerning new goods as will prove interesting to our readers. Practitioners are particularly requested to send us brief facts concerning the success of preparations advertised in THE HERALD, as demonstrated in their practice, and we will always be glad to give space in our Original Department for extended reports of clinical cases. Practices for sale, or notices of removal, not exceeding ten lines, will be inserted FREE three times for subscribers. Always state reasons for selling. Phosphorized Cod Liver Oil has been known to restore gray hair to its original color. Celerina is one of the most prompt and efficient of remedies for devitalized or broken down constitutions. The Modern Kiss.-Mother-Did I hear you kiss young Doctor Flynn at the door? Daughter-Yes, mamma; but Charles applied an antiseptic immediately. -Med. Brief. New use for Antikamnia.-The field for Antikamnia appears to grow wider and wider the more the subject is investigated. Dr. D. H. Howell, the editor of the Southern Medical Record, says he has been a great sufferer with his eyes for the last two or three months, at times suffering the most intense pain. After having tried a number of remedies without effect, he thought of Antikamnia. This is the result as he states it: "I was relieved in less than two hours. I now carry Antikamnia in my pocket all the time." At the Midwinter Exposition.-To the Doliber-Goodale Co., Boston, Mass. Dear sirs:-Mellin's Food has given entire satisfaction in the Creche at the California Midwinter International Exposition, and it gives me great pleasure to so advise you. I have made use of no other infant food, but have used Mellin's Eood exclusively for feeding the infants and children left in the Creche, during the whole term of the Fair. Yours truly, Miss COLUMBIA J. von SCHMIDT. Matron of the Creche at the California Midwinter International Exposition. Sander & Son's Eucalypti Extract (Eucalyptol).—In the article treating on inhalations of eucalyptus in cases of diphtheritis (Berlin Klin. Wochenschrift, 1876, No. 21) by Prof. Dr. Mosler, Director of the Medical clinic of the University at Griefswald, it is stated: "The oleum eucalypti folies, I employed in my tests, I received through Holzle & Chelius, Frankfort-on-the-Main; it must not be mistaken for the more frequently offered oleum eucalypti australe which is obtained from the wood of the eucalyptus trees. This latter cil is used commonly for mechanical purposes and has a far cheaper price; it is, however, no longer applied by me as an internal medicament." We certify that the oleum eucalypti folies named in the Berlin Klin Wochenscrift, 1879, No. 21, and there mentioned to have beeu procured from us, was the product of Messrs. Sander & Sons, Sandhurst, Australia. Holzle & Chelius, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Agents. 202 More Appropriate.- "Do you know," said the man who was going to have a tooth pulled, "I don't thing dental parlor' is a good phrase?" "No?" "Drawing-room would be much better."-Wash. Star. Dr Gordillion, St. Amand, France, says: "I have tried Aletris Cordial in a case of dysmenorrhea. The 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. The Herald's Premium List is the best ever offered to western physicians, and the subscriptions are rolling in at such a rate that our limited supply will soon be exhausted. If you need anything in the list now is the time to get it free of charge. All premiums warranted to be first-class. Worth Remembering.-Physicians who dispense their own remedies, and there are but few who do not carry a small pocketcase, will find it greatly to their professional advantage to carry a small supply of gelatin capsules, in order to enclose the tablets, powders or pellets they choose to prescribe. Parke, Davis & Co. make just such an article. About Fluid Hydrastis.-Dr. J. C. Ross of Muncie, Ind., writes to the Wm. S. Merrell Chemical Co., Cincinnati: "One of your best preparations is the Fluid Hydrastis. I think after constant use of it for a long time, it is the best preparation of Hydrastis I have ever tried. I have used everything of the Hydrastic kind and find nothing that fills the bill so well. I am using it at the rate of a pint a week." Dr. E. P. Hershey, who is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Gross Medical College of Denver, and also one of the Physicians at St. Anthony's, the largest hospital here, in his lecture to his class on scarlet fever, said that the most important thing was keeping clean, and in an antiseptic condition the mouth, nose and upper air passages, and that for this purpose he knew nothing better than Pasteurine, because it is a more powerful antiseptic, has a more pleasant odor and taste, and costs less than any other preparation he knew of.-Gross Medical Bulletin, Denver, Colorada. The Ideal Alterative.—Dr. Chauncy Stewart of Allegheny City, Pa., has used Iodia very extensively in his practice and regards it as the "ideal alterativethe sine non in the treatment of syphilis, scrofula, and all diseases arising from syphilitic contamination or a strunious diathesis. Iodia has this advantage over mercurial treatment in syphilis: when the patient get well, he is well. He is not tortured with mercurial rheumatism nor made to blush through the syphilitic blossoming of his face in after years. He is well! Unlike the long-continued use of other alteratives, Iodia does not reduce and debilitate the constitution, but invigorates and restores the vital powers and enables the patient at all times to continue in the discharge of his vocation." Chronic Rheumatism.-G. W. Dunlap, M. D., Perry, Iowa, says: Years ago while residing at Cambridge, Ill., a young lady 19 years, applied to me for a case of chronic rheumatism involving both arms from the shoulders to the ends of the fingers. She had been under the treatment of good physicians for over a year before applying to me, but without obtaining any relief. I put her on the use of Elixir lode Bromide of Calcium Comp. (Tilden's), dose teaspoonful every 4 hours in wineglassful of water for 3 days; then 3 times daily one hour after meals. At the same time I prescribed the Solution Iodo Bromide of Calcium Comp. externally; directed to be heated as hot as it could be borne and applied with flannels three or four times daily. To my surprise and gratification of my patient, she was well and free from rheumatism as any one, inside of six weeks, and has been so from that time to this, nearly sixteen years. I could refer to other cases but this will suffice. |