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Remedy for Spermatorrhea

Gelseminum, 1/2 grain; lupulin, 3 grains. To be taken cach night on retiring. Gradually diminish the dose as the patient shows signs of improvement. 5747. Belladonna as a Remedy for Typhoid Fever. Dr. B. Kelly, of Dublin, has met with great success in the use of belladonna in typhoid fever. Within 24 hours should be moderate, great care being taken that the digestion be not impaired by too large a quantity being taken. Should the patient be very weak, the food must be administered in in small quantities at frequently repeated intervals. There is no stimulant so important as food. The prospect of recovery in all fevers is very greatly if not mainly dependent on the power of digesting and assimilating food possessed by the patient. The after the first dose, he found delirium, &c., bowels should be moved by a mild laxative, vanish, succeeded by calm, natural sleep, such as the lenitive electuary (see No. 5154), clearness of intellect, and complete repose of effervescing magnesia, or castor oil; and, so the system, accompanied by regular evacua- as to produce a little perspiration, a small tions. Dr. Lewis S. Pilcher, of the U. S.

Navy, reports equally successful results from the use of this drug. The amount and frequency of the dose will probably be understood by every physician, as the authorities dose (for a child, a tea-spoonful), of mindererus spirit (see No. 5143), in a little water, may be given at intervals of 2 or 3 hours. If the rash is long in appearing, or shows a disposition to disappear, the development of the above quoted do not specify these points. eruption may be secured by placing the child 5748. Remedy for Festering Wounds in a warm bath; if the child appears sunk and Cancers. Professor Boettger recom- and the pulse be feeble, a little warm wine mends gun cotton, saturated with a solution and water may be administered. In ordinary of permanganate of potassa, put up in the cases, the early appearance of the eruption form of a poultice, and held over an open will be favored by administering a dose of wound by a bandage, as the best disinfectant sulphur (a small tea-spoonful for a child, in for bad odors that can be conveniently ap- milk); and if there be much hoarseness, and plied. The strength of the solution of per- croupy character of the breathing and cough, manganate, best adapted for the purpose, is 1 it will be expedient to apply a hot sponge part, by weight, of the dry permanganate, in over the throat. (See No. 5626.) With the 100 parts water. Ordinary cotton cannot be appearance of the eruption, these symptoms taken, as it readily decomposes, but gun cotton is permanent, and not liable to explosion when in a moist state. usually decline. Measles not unfrequently terminate in an attack of bowel complaint; this may be slight, and if so, will not require