ACTING upon a suggestion made by Mr. Berkeley Hill, to whose kindness I am indebted for permission to publish the following results, for some time past patients at the Male Lock Hospital with gonorrhoeal epididymitis have been treated by the internal administration of pulsatilla. The drug was exhibited in the form of the tincture, the doses given varying from five to thirty minims every four hours. One patient only complained of nausea after taking the drug. In the case of patients taking the

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... rger dose the pulse-rate was perceptibly lowered, although in one case in which observations were made no diminution of temperature took place. Without going into the details of the cases, I find from a comparison with others treated by the usual methods that in no instance was the duration of the pain and tenderness less than the average; and, in fact, in several cases treated by pulsatilla alone, without local applications, the pain lasted rather longer than usual. The severity of the inflammatory process, as evidenced by the amount of plastic exudation thrown out, does not appear to be influenced at all by this