73 the sooner they are used the better. We gave the child two teaspoonfuls of turpentine, losing something like a third in the exhibition of it. An ounce was mixed with three ounces of gruel, and thrown up the bowels, and a flannel moistened with turpentine was wrapped round the body, and covered with a greased newspaper. This occupied about five minutes. We then retired for a few mintues, and, on our return, ventured, from the great change in the countenance, to relieve the beating heart, by

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... ving, somewhat gradually, however, a favourable prognosis. This was another case where the system immediately recognised the efficiency of the medicine. We then took breakfast, which occupied some fifteen minutes, and on our return to the patient, found it breathing easily and sleeping sweetly, although the surface was literally as " red as a boiled lobster." There was no further difficulty. A few drops of turpentine three times a day for four days arrested the mucous and muco-purulent discharges, and a few doses of mercury-with-chalk, occasionally, for five days, completed the cure.—DR. THOMPSON, in North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal of Chicago. There has been remarked, of late, in France, a great amount of " diarrhœic flux," i. e., of intestinal catarrh, with the production of bloody and glairy evacuations. Two infants in La 'Salle St. Bernard, were cured in a very simple way. They were still at the breast; one had had cholera, marked by vomiting, diarrhœa, coldness, and well-marked emaciation. Opium, nitrate of silver, and other remedies were given, by which the sickness was arrested, but not the diarrhoea. The other child had not had vomiting, but there was a glairy diarrhœa, showing that the disease was limited to the large intestine. M. Trousseaux prescribed a lavement according to the following formula:-Subnitrate of bismuth, two scruples; thick linseed tea sufficient; the mixture to have consistence of soup. The diarrhoea, ceased immediately upon the administration of the lavement. It is known that M. Monneret gives, in similar cases, to infants, as much as two or three ounces [?] of the subnitrate of bismuth daily. M. Trousseaux rarely goes beyond four scruples; very often he is content with half that quantity, administered in water, or in the form of pastilles.—Journal de Méd. et Chir. Prat. in Dublin, Hospital Gazette. COPPER POISONING. 1. Copper, or its carbonate, will act as a slow poison, by absorption, undermining the constitution, producing emaciation, catarrh, and loss of strength, and leaving the system in a state little capable of resisting the ordinary exciting causes of many diseases. 2. The symptoms, although not acute, are well markedemaciation, a cachectic appearance, loss of muscular strength, colicky pains, cough, without physical signs to account for it, and the peculiar characteristic signs of retraction of the gums, with a purple, not a blue edge. i 3. In none of the cases detailed, although there was muscular debility, was there either acute colic, with constipation, or the local paralysis that so often result from the poison of lead, and the colour of the gums was quite distinct from that produced by lead. 4. Copper, in slow poisoning, seems to exert its deleterious influence mainly on the nutritive functions, or assimilation,