New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-11
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES.

ANTIDoTE FOR INFECTIOUS DIsEAsEs.-The
beuzoate Of soda has lately been recommended as SUI
perior antseptc all infectious diseases; 1t acts very
powerfully and 1t s claimed that daily dose OF from
thirty TO fifty grains iu grown man will render the
poson OF diphtheria imperative The benZOae Is pre-
pared by dissoVing cTyBtazed benzoc acid in water
neutrazinR at slight heat with solution OF caustlo
i've over suphuric acid under bell glass Large doses
said not to appear aDsOuIeS &c
about twelve grams.
CLIMATE AND CONVENTIONAL writer in The
Medical Journal makes some definite assertions
eernpR the influence Of climate pulmonary diseases.
No zone he declares, enjoys entire immunity from pull
monary consumption moreover the popular belief that
phthiss is in cold climates 10 faacous, aud the
iden now so prevalent. that phthis s rare In warm eli
mates Is az untrue 1t is dangerous; the disease
eauses largo proportion OF deaths the Shore the
mortality diminishing with elevation up 10 O certain
point; altitude Is inimica to the development OF con
sumption owing chiefly to tne greater purity o. tho ut
ganic matter aud It's richness In ozone; moisture arls
most influential factors in s productions dampness OF
atmosphere predisposes to the development OF the dis
ease, but dryness Il OF decided value.
EXPERIMENTS WITH SALICYLIC ACID.-In his
many experiments with salcylic acid Professor KObc
Of Ipsc has found that rain river water containing
one twenty -thousandth Of grain thereof will keep
sweet in warm room four weeks more, while similar
taste This was confirmed by an experiment n large
scale-that s water charged with one gram Of salcyc
acid TO twenty iters was placed on board snip for
years voyage and found sweet and free from or
ganic matter when ut the end OF voyage, the casks
were opened. MIX treated with the acid remains sweet
more than n day longer tnan without IT. As a remedy
for rheumatism the usefulness OF the acid appears
questionable.
FRENCH TREATMENT OF AsTHMA.-Dr. Ev-
rard is said to have obtained very satisfactory results
In severe Of asthma from the use Of spray OF
iodide of potassium The patient, man thirty years OF
age had suffered for eight months from daily attacks OF
asthma and had also been subject to chronic bronchitis
for a. years. At the time the began he had
three or four attacks day aud was reduced 10 pita-
BILE condition. After assduOuB use OF the spray for eight
DAYS the asthnatc attacks had almost entirely ceased
Eighteen months have elapsed since then, but the pa
ent has continued to use tho spray ana Lnc attacks
was 10 20.
OCCUPATIONS AND MoRTALITY.-According
TO the statistics Of mortality Massachusetts, covering
period Of than thirty past the average
ration Of life Of various occupations appears TO he fol-
lows; Gentlemen Of leisure, GO years, farmers &C.
Judges "a lighthouse keepers 3d. female CO.
ket makers 81 pilots CO. sections ship carpenters bank
and clerEynen 3d. professors OF colleges 81 lawy
So physicians 49, clock end watch makern sherifs and
poiceiuvn 3d. Wharhnge and butchers 81, editors
political papers AZ peders &C. artists A, dressmakers
43, druggists and dentists AZ, musicians and music
road agents and conductors 40, miners, factory girls
and dOmestcs 49, Rlass-bl0wers and powder mil oper
atlves 80, clerks ana bookkeepers So plumbers and
carvers 80.
BoRACIc ACID FOR CHoLERA.-1he London
Lancet again calls attention to the value OF boraec acid
in choera as exhibited in treated by Surgeon
Butler of the Madras Medical Service II was, 1t up
pears at the period when the properties OF boraoe acid
were first made public that Dr. Butler determined try
It's effects in this direction Tho pure acid not being
procurabe the biearbonate Of soda bornx was at rs
employed, and with marked penent the percentage OF
being from 20 to 20 per cent, Subsequently
Has used the pure acid IN ten grain dosee avery two
h6iirs combined with borax or bcarbonate OF soda
under which treatment every recovered Dr. But
Ter further seserts that in any signs o.
irritation or I'll effects observed from the remedy
al OF them the renal secretion reestablished with
much greater facility than under any other method.
INFLUENCE OF SINGING UPON HEALTH.-ThC
medical Hoehensehrin Of st Petersburg, publishes At
II a.