G. A. Neuffer, in the _Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association_ for February, 1915, states that he has met with universal success in this condition by means of the following treatment: A sixty-grain (4 gram) to the ounce (30 c.c.) solution of silver nitrate is at once applied to the conjunctiva and immediately precipitated with a solution of sodium chloride made by dissolving one teaspoonful of the salt in a glassful of water. This application is repeated once every twenty-four hours, until one is satisfied that the disease has been controlled. Only in extreme cases are more than two applications necessary, and often one proves sufficient. In addition, an ounce (30 grams) of boric acid is ordered dissolved in a quart (litre) of hot water and the solution kept constantly warm. With this the nurse or mother is instructed to wash out the eyes as often as any pus collects, even if this is required a hundred times a day. One drop of a one per cent solution of an organic silver preparation is dropped into each eye three times a day as long as there is any pus; after this an astringent lotion is substituted. The author also has squares of lint kept on a block of ice and applied constantly, with frequent renewals, for forty minutes in each hour. The treatment described should be applied both day and night until the condition has been mastered.—_New York Medical Journal._ Editorial PUBLISHER’S NOTICE—The Journal is published in monthly numbers of 48 pages at $1.00 a year, to be always paid in advance. All bills for advertisements to be paid quarterly, after the first insertion of the quarter. Business communications, remittances by mail, either by money order, draft, or registered letter, should be addressed to the Business manager, C. S. Briggs, M. D. corner Summer and Union Streets, Nashville, Tenn. All communications for the Journal, books for review, exchanges, etc., should be addressed to the Editor. SLOW DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE. Charles Darwin, in his “Descent of Man,” published in 1871, writes thus of the appendix: “It is occasionally quite absent, or again is largely developed. The passage is sometimes completely closed for half or two-thirds of its length, with the terminal part consisting of a flattened solid expansion. In the orang this appendage is long and convoluted: in man it arises from the end of the short cecum, and is commonly from four to five inches in length, being only about the third of an inch in diameter. Not only is it useless, but it is sometimes the cause of death, of which fact I have lately heard two instances: this is due to small, hard bodies, such as seeds, entering the passage, and causing inflammation.”