Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

:784 Dk. 0. C. Gibbs. Summary. [November,Misce et S. Take a tea-spoonful every three hours. This constitutionaltreatment I have found very successful in my hands,and desire nothing better."This corresponds very nearly to the treatment we have foundvery serviceable. We are, however, in the habit of prescribingthe tincture of iron in a little larger doses, say twenty dropsevery three hours; and the quinine in combination with Dover'sPowders, from one to two grains of the former to five ofthe latter, every four or six hours.A Case of Epilepsy Cured.—In the same journal for August20th, Dr. S. N. Pierce, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, reports a case ofepilepsy, cured under treatment in compliance with the followingprescriptionty.—Ext. stramonii." conii, aid gr. xv.Strychnia, (cry.,) gr. ij.Argent, nitr., Bij.et div. in pil. No. xxx."Of these," he says, " I gave three a day. This course waspursued perseveringly, the amount of the strychnia and nitrateof silver being slowly increased, until I found the disease graduallyyielding to its influence. I now have the satisfaction offeeling that the disease is subdued." Patients have recoveredin cases of epilepsy under a variety of treatment that subsequentexperience has proved to be of non-effect.One case is quite too limited to judge of the effects of anymedicines. The case of Dr. Pierce loses in interest when it isremembered that the improvement at the time of the report wasof but five weeks' duration.Mental Influence on the Products of Conception.—In the Medicaland Surgical Reporter for August 27th, Dr. Ziegler, of Philadelphia,reports a case of a mother, who, in the early weeks ofpregnancy, was badly frightened by what she supposed to beone of her children cutting off the hand of another. She wasconfined at full time of a child minus the right hand—the radiusand ulna terminating abruptly in a stump at the wrist. Theeditor adds that, four years since, he saw a woman delivered ofa child with a deformed nose, which was in exact resemblanceto that of an unfortunate girl's who lived next door, who had acancer of the nose.The first case was doubtless a case of spontaneous intra-uterineamputation, caused by the cord being wound around thewrist. The second was doubtless a case of incomplete development,which occasionally occurs as freaks of nature, of which