=Treatment of Atonic Dyspepsia.=—Dr. Thorowgood, in a paper just published, refers to the existence of torpor of the colon as a complication in cases of this kind. In treating cases of dyspepsia occurring in those who work hard with their brains and have but little “tone” about the stomach and bowels, he is convinced that the more we refrain from the administration of purgatives the better. At one time he used to think that when the tongue was crusted a purgative could not be amiss; but to whatever degree this holds good with strong country people and over-fed townspeople, it does not apply to those who have feeble appetite and who work hard. In these cases he has seen an acid mixture or a chalybeate do more service in cleaning the tongue and promoting digestion than alkalies or aperients. If the colon be filled with scybalæ, the best evacuant is a table-spoonful of castor-oil in peppermint water. When the constipation takes on a less or more obstinate character, he uses a saline chalybeate in imitation of the saline chalybeate waters of Kissingen, Harrogate, &c. In addition he gives a zinc pill, with extract of henbane, at night. But he avoids the use of opium. (See _Lancet_, April 24.) =Anaemia and Chlorosis treated by Nickel and Manganese.=—Dr. Broadbent lately read a paper before the Clinical Society (April 9th), in which, on the principle that chemical substances closely allied have similar action, he recommended manganese and nickel as substitutes for iron in the treatment of chorea. He recorded various cases, in some of which good results appeared to follow this method. =Operation for Chronic Inversion of Uterus.=—At the meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, on the 13th of April, Dr. Barnes read a paper, in which he described a new operation for the relief of chronic inversion of the uterus. He gave the statistics of the different methods now in use. He stated that the ligature and excision were open to the double objection that, besides being very hazardous to life, success was only achieved at the expense of mutilating the patient. Forcible taxis was a violent and often fatal proceeding. Sustained elastic pressure had given remarkable results, but cases would occur where the constricted cervix uteri would resist simple pressure. He then described a case of inversion of six months’ standing, which had resisted elastic pressure kept up for five days, and in which he resorted to a plan then practised, he believed, for the first time, of making three longitudinal incisions into the os uteri, so as to relax the circular fibres; taxis then applied quickly succeeded, and the woman made an excellent recovery. He proposed, therefore, as the best proceeding where simple sustained elastic pressure fails, to make an incision on either side of the os uteri, and then to re-apply the elastic pressure, as being safer from the risk of laceration than the taxis. (See _British Medical Journal_, April 24.)