Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

airs,fusa,L861.]T99ulceration requiring ior potassa fusacum calcr. Jh\ U. Beunett prefers potae a fusa cum calce.This is not energetic enough for Professor Simpson, whoa; while the French strongly advocatea remedy older than Ilippocrates, the actual cautery.These comments upon the treatment of uterine inflammationwill show that i am an eclectic, and that I use allthe valuable agents which I have enumerated in certaines which I shall specify. Again reminding the readerthat I am not writing a treatise, I shall proceed to commenton the use of our principal substitutive agents.Tincture of I •'I'm'.— It is the ordinary tincture of thePharmacopoeia which I mean, not the caustic tincture. Ishall he brief on this agent, having already mentioned it asa revulsive, and having compared it with others then underdiscussion. Tincture of iodine seems to act as an astringentwhen slightly applied to the hypertrophied or inflamedsurface of the neck of the womb, but as a vesciantif several applications are made at one and the same time,and as a resolutive it re-applied every third or fourth day.It is much less useful than nitrate of silver as a topical application,but it suits better some idiosyncracies, and is wellborne in diphtheritica! inflammation, when nitrate of silvershould not be used. The fact that a solution of iodine canbe injected into closed cavities and fistulous passages withoutseverely inflaming them, marks it out as the best liquidto be injected into the bod}' of the womb, in the very rarees requiring such treatment ; for it has less frequently11 rise to the alarming symptoms of peritonitis, whichhave very often followed the intra-urine injection of a solutionof nitrate of silver. I use one drachm of the tinctureto an ounce of distilled water, and inject it by means of aninstrument similar to that devised by Mr. Coxeter for injectingfluids into the larynx.NUtraiiof SUvi r.— --The application of nitrate of silver is ameans, under certain circumstances, of subduing externalinflammation. Might it not, on this principle, be of servicein the treatment of the internal phlegmasia '.'" Suchthe question asked by Mr. Uigginbottom in the prefaceof his admirable little work on u The Lunar Caustic," publishedin 1826. Jlis iquestion answered in theaffirmative by a great many practitioners, who have appliednitrate of silver for the cure of inflammatory affections of•the mucous membrane of themouth, throat,