Some Clinical Suggestions.

The following are a few facts proven thoroughly in my own experience; you may use them as you think best.

For a local application in erysipelas, I depend upon the tincture of veratrum.

As a general application in disease of the skin, I dissolve an ounce of sulphate of magnesium and a dram of carbolic acid in a pint of water, and apply this freely.

For the cure of lumbago, I use the sinusoidal current; it has proven curative in a very short time in all my cases.

In the treatment of menstrual colic, I have relieved the pain more quickly with the use of the violet light, even, than with morphine.

C. M. DEEM, M. D.

Ellingwood's Therapeutist, Vol. 3, 1909, was edited by Finley Ellingwood M.D.