Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: translations. FROM THE FRENCH. Article V. Excerpts From Late French Journals. [Translated for the Journal.] By A. H. Ohmann-dumesnil, A. M., H. D., ... more »of St. Louis. Salicylate op Soda In Bye Affections. -- Dr. Abadie reports that he has administered salieylate of soda with great success to many of his patients. It is particularly in rheumatic iritis that he has obtained the best results in patients who had been treated for a long time, whose iris was deformed, and whose visual acuteness was rapidly failing. In light but persistent scleritis, or in grave forms he has also administered salieylate of soda with success. -- [ Journ. de Mtd. et de Chirurg. Prat. Treatment Of Diphtheria With Papaine. -- M. Bouchut, whose researches in connection with Wurtz on papalno, have acquired a certain amount of notoriety, thinks that it would be a good remedy in diphtheria as it has given him. good results. It is a vegetable pepsin and a one-third solution applied to the diseased parts rapidly dissolves the false membranes. At the H« less