Having occasion to remove the larger portion of the left upper jaw of a female, about forty years of age, I brought together the incised wound of the face with wire sutures, and directed a bread poultice to be at once applied and renewed at intervals. The entire wound united by the first intention. A boy had his hand and fore-arm crushed by machinery, and it was necessary to perform amputation below the elbow. The flaps of integument were carefully adjusted, and the stump was poulticed. On the ulnar side the tissues united without suppuration; on the radial a portion of skin sloughed in consequence of the hurt it had sustained at the time of the accident, and on this side consequently the repair was less quickly completed. I recently amputated at the thigh, on account of strumous disease of the left knee of a boy, and brought the flap surfaces into apposition. The wound was at once covered with a linseed meal poultice. The next day, the stump being swollen, the wire sutures were cut. Bread poultices, and then warm water dressings, were afterwards employed, and the wound healed without any suppuration having been set up by the action of the local remedies. What pus did form was no more than might have been expected from incomplete primary union of portions of the cut surfaces. I should like to see a more extended trial given to applications which keep a wound warm and moist continuously from the time of the operation. I think their use would give satisfactory results. No doubt they are most serviceable remedies throughout various forms of ulceration, and especially so in cases of lupus. THE HYPODERMIC INJECTION OF MORPHIA IN MENTAL DISEASE: A CLINICAL NOTE.[7] BY C. LOCKHART ROBERTSON, M.D. CANTAB., F.R.C.P. _Medical Superintendent of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward’s Heath._ In the first number of the _Practitioner_, July 1868, Dr. Anstie has published a Paper on “The Hypodermic Injection of Remedies,” in which he truly says, that despite the satisfactory working of the method and of the greatly increased power in handling remedies which it gives us, it is still very much unappreciated. Believing that this remark applies even to the employment of the hypodermic injection of morphia in the treatment of mental disease, I venture on this occasion to lay before the Medico-Psychological Association in the half-hour we devote to Clinical Discussion, a brief outline of three successful cases illustrating the treatment by the hypodermic injection of morphia in recent mania, chronic mania, and melancholia respectively.