"For _internal_ administration I have always found the 2x tincture the most efficacious, given in from one to two drop doses every two, three, or four hours, according to the severity of the symptoms. For _external_ purposes I strongly advise the [Greek: theta] tincture. It may be employed either in the form of a lotion (20 to 60 minims of [Greek: theta] tincture to a tumblerful of water), the ointment or the liniment (30 to 40 minims of the [Greek: theta] tincture to [Latin: ezh]j of pure olive oil). Cloths steeped in the lotion and renewed when dry may be applied to the painful parts, or the ointment or liniment may be rubbed well in. Experience has taught me that external treatment combined with internal greatly assists in hastening the cure. In the treatment of rheumatism _Stellaria media_ is a very active drug, acting very promptly; a low dilution of the mother tincture of the drug taken internally is very apt, therefore, to intensify the pains, and these should therefore be avoided and the 2x dilution used." STIGMATA MAIDIS. A Tincture of the Fresh Corn Silk. NAT. ORD.--Gramineæ. COMMON NAME.--Corn Silk. PREPARATION.--One part of fresh corn silk is macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol. (A great deal has been published lately concerning this remedy. The following by Dr. Dufan, _London Medical Record_, seems to give the best outline of its uses:) 1. The stigmata of maize have a very marked, though not always a favorable, action in all affections of the bladder, whether acute or chronic. 2. In acute traumatic cystitis, and also in gonorrhoeal cystitis, they have a very marked diuretic action, but, at the same time, increase the pain; hence they should not be employed in these cases. 3. The best results have been obtained in cases of uric or phosphatic gravel, of chronic cystitis, whether simple or consecutive to gravel, and of mucous or muco-purulent catarrh. All the symptoms of the disease, the vesical pains, the dysuria, the excretion of sand, the ammoniacal odor, etc., rapidly disappear under the influence of the medicine. 4. The retention of urine dependent on these various affections often disappears as improvement progresses, but the use of the sound must sometimes be continued, in order to empty the bladder completely. 5. The stigmata maize have very often produced a cure after all the usual internal remedies had been tried in vain, or with only partial success. In other cases, the ordinary methods of treatment, which had at first proved more or less entirely useless, became efficacious after stigmata had been administered for a time, and had, as it were, broken the ground for them. Most frequently the stigmata alone sufficed for the cure, but still in some cases the effect was incomplete, and it was found that the treatment could be varied with benefit. Injections and irrigations of the bladder also proved useful adjuncts to the maize.