Quinine in Hooping Cough

of July last in nay family, and I venture to think a few brief notes <>f them may not be devoid of intei'est, as the remedy I found successful in their treatment?quinine,?has been only recently noticed in the columns of Lancet, and well deserves to be widely known. Case 1.?An infant ten months old, stout and healthy, but teething, was brought iu contact with another child convalescing from hooping-cough, and was seized with cough, which, in from eight to ten days, became suffocative in character, and soon after developed a well marked whoop. The paroxysms were very frequent and distressing at night, and the retardation of the return of blood from the head was shewn by a puffy state of the eye-lids, and general turgescence of the face. The expectoration which was glairy and scanty at the onset, became in the hooping stage muco-purulent and abundant, but so tenacious that it was with difficulty expelled from the larynx, and at times was ejected with such force as to seem to issue from a pop-gun. In this case emetics of ipecacuanha were given every morning, and occasionally at night when the bronchial tubes appeared obstructed by an excessive accumulation of the tenacious secretion, and a mixture of the extract of belladonna with the bromide of potassium was exhibited ; but