LIVE FROGS AS AN ANTITHERMIC.—An English practitioner of Constanta, Roumania, writes: On the evening of October 19th I was called to visit a Roumanian boy, six years old, suffering from typhoid fever. I found him _in extremis_, almost pulseless. The child’s head was completely wrapped over with a large white sheet, and as I looked at it this enormous white envelope seemed to be on the move, and while I was surveying this covering there crept from under it a small frog, which quietly sat over the child’s left arm. It seemed quite content. I immediately called the mother’s attention to it and requested her to take the animal away, thinking it had crept there as an intruder. “Oh, no!” said the old lady, “a doctor recommended that a lot of them should be kept to the head to keep it cool.” Seeing the head covering still on the move, I raised it for curiosity, and in a second out jumped about twenty other frogs and hopped away in all directions. I have often heard the expression “as cold as a frog,” but this was the first time I had seen a frog applied as a head-cooler.—_London Lancet._ TREATMENT OF ENDOMETRITIS IN BROMINE VAPOR.—Nitot (_La Gynecologie_, October 15, 1897,) maintains that the correct prophylactic treatment of parenchymatous metritis and chronic salpingitis consists in rapid cure of recent endometritis, which is the starting point of those troublesome diseases. To insure cure a remedy is needed which can penetrate to the deepest recesses of the muscosa, and even the tubes, without dangerous effects. Caustics and fluid preparations do not possess such properties. A gas is required, and it must be freely diffusible, antiseptic, and capable of acting on the epithelium so as to modify without destroying them (“anticatarrhal action”). Bromine emits gas with the necessary qualities; a saturated aqueous solution should therefore be placed in a bottle with double tubing like an ether spray or the chloroform bottle in a Junker’s inhaler. A hollow sound, connected with one tube, is passed into the uterus, while the solution is made to bubble by pressure on a ball connected with the second tube. Thus vapor is propelled into the uterus. Nitot claims the best results, and notes that the advantages of gaseous diffusion over intra-uterine injections or other medication are self-evident.—_British Medical Journal._ THE AMERICAN PRACTITIONER AND NEWS. “_NEC TENUI PENNÂ._” ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Vol. 25. FEBRUARY 1, 1898. No. 3. ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ H. A. COTTELL, M. D., Editor. * * * * * A Journal of Medicine and Surgery, published on the first and fifteenth of each month. Price, $2 per year, postage paid. * * * * *