Hydrate of Chloral: A Therapeutic Study

It was said by a great master, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, that every thinking and working man should take stock now and then of his intellectual material, test its force and action, and satisfy himself that it still has practical meaning and power. Those busy craftsmen, physicians and surgeons, ought to take earnest heed of Coleridge's saying. Things in use yesterday go out of fashion to-day, although they are as true and vital as ever; or the reasons for their original use fade from the memory; or a popular whim runs against them, and professional judgment bows unworthily to ignorant prejudice. The fluctuations of the therapeutic market make an interesting chapter of medical 2