Shock, with or without loss of blood.
Collapse, occurring in the course of any disease, particularly cholera, cholera infantum, typhoid fever, and especially in the collapse following severe opera tions.
Puerperal infection, in which the salt solution is given to increase the power of the tissues and blood to resist the action of the microbes, destroy them and assist Nature in throwing off their effects. It should be given hypoder mically in 2-o needoses, twice daily for some days. Good results have followed such a practice, and it may be that other infectious diseases would be benefited by similar treatment.
Epilepsy and puerperal eclampsia, es pecially after a preliminary bleeding.
Ureemic convulsions, both after bleed ing and as a diluent of the blood, and to favor the elimination of urea by the kidneys.
In poisoning by coal-gas or by nar cotics it is a powerful aid to elimina tion.
Anemia, in the different forms, to be followed by appropriate food and medi cation.
In all cases the treatment must be considered as the most helpful expedi ent that can be used to bridge over the gravest emergencies, and thus gain sofa 6_4 time in which the slower-acting, but more permanently useful, remedies may exert their curative effects. G. W.
Wagoner (Amer. Medicine, May 11, 1901).
"salt solution is employed by the writer in all diseased conditions asso ciated with either haemorrhage or in tense toxemia. In hemorrhage it re places the fluid lost to the tissues and refills the blood-vessels, thereby giving the heart something on which to work. IL stimulates the cardiac ganglia; sus tains the nutrition of the heart itself, rendering it possible for the remaining blood to be propelled to the vital entres; and sustains life temporarily until new blood can be formed. It raises the temperature to normal and relieves collapse. In toxic conditions it excites diaphoresis and diuresis, lowers the specific gravity of the urine, increases phagneytosis, dilutes the poisons circu lating in the blood-stream, and, by a process of eell-lavage, removes the toxin from the paralyzed cell, allowing it to resume its normal function. H. F. Thompson (Medical News, April 25, 19:1).