Small Doses of Antimony in Inflammations

fact that Dr. Kent Spender, of Bath, had pointed out in the March 1885 number of the Practitioner, that antimony in frequently repeated smnll doses ?th of a grain of tartar emetic, every hour or two hours, has the power of completely dissipating early local inflammations. Acting on Dr. Spender's suggestion, the treatment of surgical inflammation by antimony in small doses, frequently repeated, was commenced in the Afzalgunj Hospital in May 1885. "We have gradually extended its use, and have now come to look upon it as one ot the most valuable drugs we possess, and as useful in local inflammations as quinine is in malarious fever. It prevents and arrests inflammation, if this is not originated or kept up by a specific or septic cause. There is nothing