Sequelæ of Exanthems," for lack of time was not discussed.

Dr. Wells' paper, entitled "Importance of Examining the Eyes of School Children," will be read before the Section of Sanitary Science and Public Health, which will report January 18, 1900.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ALBERT E. EBERT, Ph. M., Ph.D., of Chicago, recommends the following embrocation for ivy

Brothers, Druggist:

Solution of lead subacetate

Glycerine

Alcohol

Mix. Apply freely to the affected parts.

poisoning in Meyer

A NEW FEMALE URINAL FOR DAY AND NIGHT. The soft rubber female urinals upon the market heretofore have not proved as satisfactory as could be desired, owing to the

impossibility of fitting the mouth of the urinal close enough against the vulva to prevent leakage. This objection, it is believed, has been overcome in the improved form shown above, by the addition of a pneumatic lip surrounding the opening. A valve is attached by means of which it can be

inflated, until the necessary distention is secured to make a close fit. It may be obtained of Otis Clapp & Son. In ordering specify No. 6a Female Urinal.

HEROIN. Heroin is not so harmless as was formerly supposed. It has a far greater depressant action on respiration than is seen in the case of morphine. Heroin is also a cardiac depressant, and in addition gives rise to muscular twitchings and convulsions. The maximum adult dose at present should not exceed 14 grain. Harnack (Münch. med. Woch., July 4, 1899). Monthly Cyclopedia Practical Medicine.

A NEW SALINE INFUSION APPARATUS. - The normal saline solution has proved of inestimable value in cases of collapse or threatened collapse due to shock resulting from an operation

or profuse hemorrhage. Heretofore there has been no special apparatus designed especially for the infusion of this solution and the surgeon has been obliged to resort to crude makeshifts. In order to remedy this, a simple, compact, and portable apparatus has been devised, as shown in the accompanying illustration.

It consists of a long, soft rubber tube with a funnel of the same material attached and a metal shutoff on the tube. Two needles are supplied, one for intravenous and the other for intracellular injection. This apparatus will form an indispensable addition to the outfit of the surgeon or obstetrician, and should be included in the armamentarium of every practitioner. It may be obtained of Otis Clapp & Son. Price, including a bottle of Normal Salt Tablets (four tablets to the quart, making a normal saline solution), $2.50. For further information on the use of this solution, readers are referred. back to the September number of the GAZETTE, in which appears a very interesting paper by W. F. Wesselhoeft, M.D., upon the uses of this solution, together with a report of

cases.

A DEVICE FOR THE APPLICATION OF HEAT OR COLD TO THE EYE. No therapeutic agent in the external treatment

of the eye is more frequently called for than heat or cold, and no more inconvenient or unsatisfactory method of applying it can be devised than the usual procedure.

Water bags are objectionable on account of their weight, particularly in the case of a wounded or inflamed eye.

The size of the bag is necessarily such that a much larger area of heat or cold is applied than is necessary or desirable. Fomentations are tedious and necessarily limited as to length of time they can be used, and in certain conditions of the eye each fresh contact of the heat or cold is extremely painful.

To obviate these difficulties, to make the use of these agencies less irksome and at the same time to make the application only to the desired locality, I devised an apparatus which has proved so exceedingly useful and satisfactory that I venture to present a description of it to those of the profession who may at some time need these auxiliaries in the treatment of eye troubles.

It consists of an oval-shaped piece of vulcanite, about an inch and a half long, an inch wide, and a quarter of an inch. thick. A deep groove is cut entirely around the edge. Two tubes of different sizes are inserted in the middle; to the larger is attached the rubber tube of a fountain syringe, while to the smaller, or the overflow, is attached two feet or more of tubing, which can be carried to a bowl when in use. A piece of rubber dam, a little larger than the vulcanite, is fastened around the edge by means of a thread tied in the groove. This forms a bag-like projection on the under surface, which when filled with water readily adapts itself to the contour of the eyeball.

The apparatus is held in place by a tape which passes around the head, above one ear and below the other.

Hot

or cold water can be used and the flow regulated by the height of the water bag. By attaching the outlet tube of one to the inlet of another, both eyes can be treated simultaneously. The rubber tissue can be quickly replaced by a fresh one, the vulcanite sterilized so there need be no infection.

A greater degree of heat or cold can be used with less discomfort than in any other way and continuously for any length of time by replenishing the water in the bag.

For sale by Otis Clapp & Son. Price, 75 cents.

GEORGE N. TALBOT.