healed several weeks, during which time he wore the lever constantly as tight as could be tolerated, I took an impression of the gutta-percha on the end of the lever, around which the parts had healed, and made a silver tube shown in Fig. 2. The dotted

FIG. 2.

The large end I lined with

lines show its position in the nose.

celluloid to simulate the mucous membrane. The upper end

W.MACKWITZ

FIG. 3.

was open and another opening a little distance from the end communicated with the middle meatus of the nose. When in position, the tube would escape the notice of the casual observer. Figs. 1 and 3 were drawn from photographs taken from life and neither flatter nor exaggerate the original. His appearance was much improved. He recovered the sense of smell, and his tone, which had been decidedly nasal, was much less so. These results were highly gratifying.

CORRECTION.

DEAR SIR :-In the report of the transactions of the Missouri Dental Association, by mistake, I am reported as calling up the action of a former meeting in the case of Spaulding and Brecht. I am very confident that it was Dr. Price who referred to the matter; and then when there had been a good deal of discussion I offered the resolution as the best thing for both gentlemen in question and the Society. Yours, I. D. PEARce.

Iowa City, Nov. 21, 1876.

BOOK NOTICES.

A Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative, by Charles S. Tomes, M.A. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1876.

The Editor has read the above valuable work, and will give a more extended notice of it in the next number of this journal.

EXPLOSION OF A VULCANIZER.

The following pithy account of the explosion of a vulcanizer was received by a dentist of St. Louis from a friend in the country:

Nov. 17, 1876.

DEAR :-That "Hell Pot" of yours in the laboratory of your old office, which you remember made a ghost of one Dr. S――, went off last night about 10 o'clock, as Dr. Phad just stepped out of the room. The report was like that of a twenty pound cannon. It went through the ceiling into the gallery above, and through the floor into the the store below. It knocked the work bench to splinters, and the windows to the devil. It left everything in confusion. I was going up the stairs at the time, and thought that the damned old building was coming down on me. Yours, &c., A.

A GENERAL CALL TO THE DENTAL PROFESSION OF MISSOURI.

In pursuance of a notice heretofore given in the JOURNAL, that I would, in all probability, take steps to introduce a bill at the next meeting of our Legislature, I hereby give notice that a meeting of all Dentists having this matter at heart, is called for the 28th of the present month, at the Temperance Hall, corner of 9th and Washington Avenue, at S o'clock P. M.

It is desirable that a full representation of the Dentists, both of city and country, should be present. Let every one come

out.

St. Louis, December 12th, 1876.

I concur in the above call.-W. H. EAMES.

J. CAMPBELL.

ITEMS.

CROTON-CHLORAL IN FACIAL NEURALGIA.-Dr. F. B. Lee reports the case of a lady, æt 32, who had suffered for years from attacks of facial neuralgia, had had several teeth extracted, had been blistered behind the ears, and had tried numerous other means without avail. He prescribed croton-chloral in three grain doses every four hours. After the third dose perfect ease was experienced, and although three months had elapsed, there had been no return of the disease.-The British Medical Journal.

INCONTINENCE OF URINE.-If they blister the child's sacrum, put it on tinct. of iron and belladonna, and give no salt in its food, they would have very few cases of incontinence of urine.— T. M. Madden, Dublin Journal Medical Science.

FOUL BREATH-OFFENSIVE EXPECTORATION.-R. Salicylic acid, 5 grains; glycerine, one drachm; water, one ounce; mix. To be taken three times a day. In some instances it is preferable to use it as an atonizer. As a mouth wash, wash and gargle, R. borax, salicylic acid, of each 10 grains; glycerine, one drachm; water, one ounce; mix.-Medical Brief.

WILL the Monthly Review please say that the article signed "Gold Foil," in the November number, was taken from the MISSOURI DENTAL JOURNAL?

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