Good Remedies—Out of Fashion

Though elevated to the dignity of book-form this reprint of Dr. Hare's address to the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association would, in respect of quantity, more fittingly have been issued as a brochure. But, voluminous though it be not, it yet affords food for reflection upon the mutability of fashion in medical treatment. Dr. Hare's experience and knowledge are extensive, and he ought to be intimately acquainted with the relative prevalence of various methods of treatment; but we should not have thought that the use of emetics in Croup, Bronchitis, and disordered gastric secretion was so completely extinct as he considers it to be. So also of Opium he states?