A Decade of New Remedies.—“There are at least one hundred new remedies of synthetic origin now in general use that were not known ten years ago.” So an American contemporary says; but we doubt if anyone can compile a list of one hundred. Who will try?—Chemist and Druggist (London), Sept. 30, 1893. We are not responsible for the original statement; but the invitation is general, and we are anxious that our English friend should have a prompt response from America, so here goes: Acetanilid, agathin, alpha-oxynaphthoic acid, alumnol, amyl-enhydrate, analgen, antipyrine, antiseptol, antispasmin, anti-thermin, aristol, asaprol, asepsin, benzanilide, benzonaphthol, benzosol, betol, bromal-hydrate, bromoform, bromol, chinoline, chloralamide, chloral-ammonium, chloralose, chlorphenol, creolin, cresalol, cresin, cresol, cresol-iodide, cresotic acid, diuretin, dulcin, ethyl bromide, ethyl chloride, eugenol, eugenol-acetamid, euphorin, europhen, exalgine, formalin, formanilid, gallacetophenone, gallobromol, gallanol, guaiacol-carbonate, homatropine, hydracetine, hydroquinone, hypnal, hypnone, ichthiol, iodol, iodopyrine, kairin, losophan, lysol, metaldehyde, methacetine, methylal, methyl chloride, methylene-blue, methylene chloride, methyl-violet, microcidine, naphthalene, naphthol, naphtopyrin, orexine, oxychinaseptol, paraldehyde, pental, phenacetine, phenetol, phenocoll, piperazine, pyridine, resorcin, resorcinol, saccharin, salacetol, salicylamide, saliphen, salipyrin, salocoll, salol, salophen, saprol, solutol, solveol, sozal, sozoiodol, styracol, sulphaldehyde, sulphaminol, sulphonal, tetronal, thalline, thermifugin, thilanin, thioform, thiol, thiophen, thioresorcin, thiosinamin, thymacetin, tolypyrin, tolysal, tribromphenol, trional, tumenol, uralium, urethane. This makes 114 new definite chemical products—and the list is not exhausted. It may also be urged that some of these products have been in use longer than ten years. This is the case only with naphthol, which was first recommended as an antiseptic in 1881; but we have omitted several legitimate new naphthol compounds, so that a balance is maintained. Other products, as acetanilid, guaiacol, anilin colors, pental, etc., were known as chemical products; but their medicinal application dates back less than ten years.

Referring to above list, a casual examination shows, that about thirty-three are patented products; between fifty-five and sixty bear proprietary “utility” names (including the thirty-three patented); and about thirty are absolutely free and non-proprietary. We may publish an accurate division with details on some future occasion.—Notes on New Remedies.

Llareta; A New Antigonorrhoeic.—Dr. Infante (Aerztl. Rundschau). Llareta is the abbreviated name for Haplopapus Llareta, a plant growing abundantly in Chili, and with which the author claims to have obtained a radical cure within ten to fifteen days in every case of gonorrhoea in which it was tried. The following is his formula:

Disinfectin.—(Pharm. Zeitschr. f. Russl.) Disinfectin is the name of a preparation intended for ordinary disinfection, said to be obtained as follows: 5 parts of the residue left in distilling crude naphtha are thoroughly mixed with one part (by volume) of concentrated sulphuric acid, and allowed to cool. The fluid portion is separated from the sediment, and gradually mixed with an equal volume of ten per cent. soda solution, and well shaken. Thus is obtained a yellowish-brown emulsion,—disinfectin,—which, when intended for use, is diluted with four parts of hot water, and thoroughly shaken.—Amer. Med. Surg. Bulletin.

Hippuric Acid as a Diuretic.—This acid, obtained^[1] from the urine of the cow, is a favorite diuretic with many French practitioners. Dujardin-Beaumetz prescribes it combined with lime:

Four to six tablespoonfuls daily. As before mentioned it is excreted in the urine as benzoic acid.—Provincial Medical Journal.

Thymol in Toothache.—Dr. Hartmann (Deutsche Med. Wochenschrift) has employed thymol in toothache from hollow teeth, in place of arsenious acid. He fills the cavity of the tooth with a tuft of cotton on which a few crumbs of thymol have been sprinkled. It does not irritate the mucous membrane of the mouth much, and it is easily removed by rinsing the mouth with water. If a rapid action is desired let the patient rinse the mouth often, with warm water, in order to facilitate the solution of the drug. It never increases the pain at first, as arsenic does, and is not poisonous.—Lancet-Clinic.

Chloroform Narcosis.—Resultation in chloroform narcosis has been accomplished by a new method devised by Maas, one of Koenig’s assistants of Goettingen. In the first case, the ordinary means of resuscitation had been tried for an hour without effect: respiration and pulse has entered ceasec. Maas then made rapid rhythmical compressions, about one hundred and twenty per minute, of the cardiac region, whereupon the heart’s action gradually increased and the patient recovered. In a second severe case responded with the same result to the treatment. Maas ascribes the effect of the cardiac compressions to the driving of the blood into the larger arteries.—Chicago Medical Recorder.

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