The diseases were characterized by the fact that the gastric symptoms predom inated over the nervous symptoms. J. D. Gimlette (Brit. Med. Jour., Sept. 7, 1901).
Treatment of Poisoning by Zinc Salts. —Alkalies and their carbonates are the chemical antidotes, producing precipi tates. Eggs and milk are useful, ing albuminates of zinc. Further treat ment will be indicated by the symptoms as they arrive.
Therapeutics. — GASTRO-INTESTINAL DISORDERS.—Zinc oxide is an excellent remedy for gastralgia. Bartholow rec ommends its use for the following con dition: Pain after taking food, nausea, intestinal pain, succeeded by prompt alvine discharges, the feces being made up largely of undigested food. From 5 to 10 grains mixed with aromatic pow der and combined with morphine, if need be, may be given before each meal. It is a very efficient remedy in the sum mer diarrhoea of children: to 1 grain may be combined with 5 to 10 grains of bismuth subnitrate and 2 to 5 grains of saccharated pepsin, to be given every four to six hours. It is also
useful in the chronic diarrhea of chil dren and adults in doses of from 2 to 10 grains. The sulphate has produced beneficial results in that form of dys pepsia which gives rise to oxaluria, when given in doses of to 2 grains. In chronic diarrhoea and dysentery it may be combined, as suggested by Bartholow, with opium and ipecac, 1 grain of each in pill being given three or four times a day.
The sulphate is much employed as an emetic in cases of narcotic poisoning, where prompt and efficient action is sired; the dose (6 to 10 grains), well di luted with water, may be given every fifteen minutes until emesis occurs. RESPIRATORY DISORDERS.—The night-sweats of phthisis are often amen able to a pill containing 3 grains of zinc oxide and V, grain of extract of bella donna, given at bed-time. The oxide has been recommended as a serviceable prophylactic against the recurrence of the attacks of spasmodic asthma and as a remedy in pertussis combined with a small dose of belladonna extract.