Discoveries In Medicines

Japanese physicians are said to look npon the bicycle with disfavor, and regard the use of the wheel as injurious to both men and womeu. Hypnol is the trade name of a new remedy for insomnia. In chemical language the drug is known as manotrichloracethylediraethylphenylpyraza- lon. Cohn, a celebrated bacteriologist, says a single germ could, under favorable conditions, multiply in three days to 4,772,000,000,000 ' and make a mass weighing 7,500 tons. The degree of M. D. was recently eonferred upon Prince Bismarck. Thus the man of blood and iron is possessed of all the degrees eonferred by Germán universities. One who has made a study of dyspepsia claims that in a large number of cases the disturbance is due to the use of lard. He suggests the liberal use of beef tallow to the exclusión of all pork fat as a remedy. He says a person who is fond of "grease" can satúrate his food in this with no resulting digestive disorder. A new remedy was recently suggested for cold in the head. The treatment consisted of a few slight taps with a rubber hammer on the forehead, just above the root of the nose. The discoverer of this remedy claims that slight shocks upon terminal nérvea have the effect of causing the blood vessels to contract. A British army surgeon is authority for the statement that the cause of death is clearly shown in the expression of the face of a corpsa on the field of battle. He states that those who have been killed by sword thrusts havo a look of repose, whüe those killed by tmllets usually have pain of an intense nature clearly depicted. A medical man wlxp has made a careful study of oleomargarine advocates the use of this compound in preference to butter. He claims that a good quality of "oleo" is safer and more "healthful" than the best grades of butter obtainable. He examined numerous samples of butter and found them contaminated with all sorts of germs, white the specimens of oleomargarine examined were all remarkably free from germs.