The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
MEDICAL MATTERS.

No preparation containing alcohol
should be put in prescription with
chloral-hydrate, especially if there be
also bromide of potassium or sodium.
The choral will separate and an over
dose may be taken.
DIR. Davy, of Ohio. reports a curious
case of advanced consumption wherein
TIE paHent was attacked with small
pox. On recovering from this acute at
tack all lung trouble was gone and he
continued we'll
A bill is before the New York legisla-
ture to include cocaine in the list of
drugs forbidden to be sold without a
physicians prescription. This action
was rendered necessary because many
drug stores are selling paste made of
coca leaves and lime, which is i'm great
demand.
From statements recently made at a
meeting of the New York Charity Organ
ization society it appears that at least
one-third OF all who apply to our medi-
cal institutions for aid are unworthy of
free treatment. 1t was also stated that
the average physician spends at least
ohO-ehiu Va hio liiIc III ChdIltduiC
work.
Cases are occasionally reported con-
firming the belief that contagious
diseases may be conveyed by letter.
Recently little girl who was dying of
scarlet fever in New York desired to
send a kiss to little playmate in
another town. She kissed q letter,
which was sent by mail to the little
playmate, who in turn kissed the letter
as a message from her dead friend. In
few days she herself died of scarlet
fever.
We have had so many mistakes in
dispensing poisonous drugs that the
Western Druggist ironically suggests
that, to prevent the dispensing of NOR
phine for guinine, strip of steel should
be firmly riveted over the mouth of the
bottle containing it, the neck being first
plugged with torpedo, so arranged as
to explode and shatter the steel when
the poison is taken in hand. If the
clerk survive he will know that the
shock meant morphine.
The Lancet thinks that in process of
time it may become the fashion to in
oculate with the mitigated virus in
order to give protection against the
possible bites of mad dogs; but at pres
ent there seems little likelihood of this
practice being established, nor, on the
whole, is it desirable. That inocula-
ton for rabies is founded on a scientific
basis there seems no shadow of a doubt.
1t remains to be seen whether Nj. Pas
teur can establish as an art what APP
pears as n very plausible theory.
Guided by the light of his experiences
with incubation as preventive against
splenic fever in cattle he will avail him.
self of every assistance that is likely to
The public and the profession must
be prepared for failures, and not ex-
pect more than can reasonably be de-
manded.
M. Liegeois, professor in the medical
faculty of Nancy, well-knOwn by his re-
searches on hypnotism, has made ex-
periments to ascertain the possibility of
making hypnotized persons forget
names and yet feel the desire of recall
ing them. Two medical students, one
of them lady, and both exceptionally
intelligent, submitted to experiment
While they were asleep it was suggested
to them that they had forgotten proper
names; on awakening they could not
remember one, not even their own. M.
Liegeois asked the lady to write her
name; she could write the first letter
U), but could not remember the others.
The male student tried to help her, and,
after great deal of trouble and hesita-
ton, they succeeded in writing the
name entire. As soon as they turned
their eyes from the paper they forgot it.
M. Liegeois made several other expert
ments, equally successful They were
told they could repeat proper name
once, and it was impossible to make
them repeat it twice. 1t was suggested
to them that they could use the infini-
tive of verbs. They Immediately began
to talk "nigger French ''Vous venir
ici;" ''moi etudier lie SOU