HiJUKHJ 1i Hll i71 U 1'. DR. HECQUET, formerly physician to the Abbeville Hospital, very strongly recommends the perbromide of iron or ferric bromide in many affections in which it is desirable to soothe without depressing and to strengthen without exciting. Out of twenty-five cases of apertnatorrlona treated by this drug nineteen were completely cured, two only being unrelieved, and in these cases complications were present in the form of prostatic enlargement and stricture of long standing.

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... e perbromide was frequently found useful in cases of chloro-ansomia, leucorrhoea, hysteria, amenorrhoea, hydraemia of pregnancy, chorea, epilepsy, diabetes, and tuberculosis. In conjunction with Dr. Vacossin a series of trials were made in the Abbeville Hospital on its action in cases of cardiac hypertrophy, with the result that Magendie's observations, made more than fifty years ago, were confirmed, the patients being strengthened and relieved by the calming of the palpitation and of the dyspnoea. This combination is well