The patient, a male child, aged five years, was brought to hospital with a history that he could not pass urine properly. There was a history of the frequent passage, accompanied by pain, of a small amount of urine which contained some sediment. I thought that it might be a case of calculus and prescribed potassium citrate (grs. v), tincture of belladonna (minims iii) and syrup of orange (minim...

see a patient suffering from a typical attack of lobar pneumonia with pleurisy. The crisis occurred on the seventh day of illness. The next day?17th Feb., 1927?he noticed a swelling below the left ear, which on examination proved to be the left parotid gland acutely inflamed. The pneumonia had been right-sided, whereas it was the left parotid gland which was affected. Ichthyol with belladonna i...