The breathing is comparatively easy and cough less. Patient died on the seventh day, of asthma. =Impermeable Dressings in Eczema.=—In an article on this subject in Mr. Erasmus Wilson’s “Journal,” Mr. Alfred Pullar makes the following remarks on the value of this mode of dressing:—“The method of local treatment first brought into notice by Professor Hardy at the Saint Louis Hospital in Paris, consists in covering the diseased parts completely with vulcanized india-rubber cloth (_toile caoutchouquée_). The material used for this purpose is ordinary cotton cloth covered with a solution of caoutchouc and subsequently vulcanised: by this means it is rendered impermeable to watery fluids, and acquires on one side a smooth surface. The therapeutical effects resulting from a covering such as that described would seem to depend essentially upon two conditions:—_First_, the exclusion of the air. As it has been proved by experience that the influence of the atmosphere increases the inflammation of the diseased surface, its complete exclusion fulfils an important indication in the treatment: this is accomplished by the india-rubber covering, which also protects the abnormally sensitive skin from variations of temperature. _Second_, the retention of the secretions of the skin. These—exuded in considerable quantity, and _unchanged_ by the atmosphere—are retained in contact with the skin, and seem to act by relaxing the inflamed structures. Whilst visiting Hardy’s wards at the Saint Louis Hospital, I had the privilege of seeing several cases of eczema treated by this means (these cases being chiefly eczema of the limbs in old people). The impermeable dressing was so applied as to cover completely the affected parts, and was removed, from time to time, in order to be cleaned and re-applied. Under this treatment, the painful symptoms of the disease were greatly relieved; and the morbid surface gradually assumed a more healthy appearance.” (_Journal of Cutaneous Medicine_, April.) =Tetanus treated with Calabar Bean.=—Drs. Boslin and Curron (_Chicago Medical Journal_) have treated a case of acute traumatic tetanus of violent character with large doses of morphia and calabar bean. For a portion of the time, a grain and a half of morphia and three grains of the powdered bean in glycerine were given every hour, with the manifest effect of quieting the patient and relieving the spasm. The patient recovered.