and is afterwards of a darting and the most excruciating nature; it reaches its climax in from three to five minutes. AVhen a pinch of powdered alum is put into the eye* the pain of reflected irritation ceases almost instantaneously as the conjunctival mucous membrane begins to smart ; the local pain, perhaps less severe than before, gradually subsides after some hours, and its disappearance is, I am inclined to think, expedited by tho application of firm and steady pressure. In regard to the modus operandi of the alum cure, I will refrain from saying anything beyond that it probably acts by distracting irritation and pain elsewhere. The credit of the suggestion of tne alum cure is due to Drs. Beatty and Greany of the Bombay Army. I

beg

to

remain, Sir,

Your most humble Servant, John C. Lucas, M.D., F.E.C.S. The

Deccan, April

1878.

A WORD ON THE TREATMENT OP SCORPION STING. TO THE

EDITOR, OF THE "INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE."

Sir,?I have no doubt it will be interesting to our professional brethren, and to the public in general, to know that a very

simple, and at the same time an exceedingly efficacious, remedy exists for the alleviation of the suffering caused by the bite of a scorpion, which commences simultaneously with the entrance It is at first like a sharp prick of the venom at the bitten part. from the point of a needle or a finely pointed nail: it soon, in a very few fceconds, assumes a very agonizing form, a3 if innumerable pins and needles were thrust into the part; it then shoots up the limb along the course of the main nerye-truuk,

The eye of the side affected would be preferable.