Salicin, Salicylic Acid and Its Salts

comparative value of this drug with that of other medicinal agents which have already received the sanction of experience, amongst the foremost of which may be mentioned the wet-pack quinine, atropine, aconite, &c., administered subcutaneously. I have tried the last three side by side with salicin, and by thermometric observations during the past two years I have failed to find any superiority of the one over the other, barring the facility of giving the drug by the mouth. I have prescribed it in malarial fevers with visceral complications, and have found it useful, but only during the hot stage. In these cases during apyrexia I have had to fall back upon quinine, which had to be pushed in and sulicin resumed during the exacerbations of severe remittents. Given in the first stage of simple ague, it has no appreciable effect in preventing the second stage, nor without subsequent doses diminishing its intensity or duration. I fancy for this latter object the Nitrite of Amyl would be the thing to give. In small doses I found the Salicylate of Soda to be a carminative, especially when given in an effervescing form, and is admirably suited to those cases of severe remittents with