PAPER HANDKERCHIEFS.

Valuable Medicinal Properties Are Claimed For Them.

A curious and in some respects a sug gestive Illustration of what may be termed manufacturing ijjeas is afford ed by the recent Introduction into the English market of the paper handker chief of Japan. The Irish Textile Journal, which devotes a leading arti cle to this weighty subject, Instances the fact that so long ago as 1862, the year of the second exhibition, some Chinese visitors to the west, after they bad discarded their handkerchiefs, ex perienced the satisfaction of seeing the occidental "barbarians" rush forward to pick them up and carry them away as curios. But obviously, and doubt less It Is something to be thankful for, we have got a long way beyond that kind of thing now.

The enterprising Japanese, among whom, it is perhaps unnecessary to ob serve, the use of paper handkerchiefs has obtained for centuries, are now laying these articles down in the home market at 2s. 6d. per box of 100, or, Bay, 3*_ pence per dozen, and, when It is remembered that the laundry price for washing handkerchiefs Is a halfpenny each, or sixpence a dozen, It becomes pretty certain that the Jap anese manufacturer will in this par ticular become a strong rival not only to the British laundry woman, but to the British manufacturer also. The Japanese handkerchiefs are described as being the finest articles of the kind known in Japafi, and they are stated to be in regular use by the ladies of the mikado's kingdom. In addition to this, they have an agreeable resinous scent, and valuable antiseptic virtues are also claimed for them.

The paper collar has never been able to oust the linen collar from the mar ket, but we should not be at all sur prised If the paper handkerchief, as time goes on, more than held its own. The Irish Textile Journal seems to think that, although linen handker chief manufacturers may not be af fected by the threatened Innovation for a long time to come, if at all, there would seem to be a difficulty in finding good and sufficient reasons for oppos ing it if the notion should obtain the active support of medical men arid happened to "catch on" with the pub lic. The latter no doubt is the more important consideration, after all. There is a wide gulf between the man who uses a handkerchief and the man who does not; but, given a community that believes in its mouchoir, there Is no reason why paper shouldn't do as well as any other material.

Treatment of Consumption.

Consul Atwell at Roubaix, France, has transmitted to the state depart ment aa article by Dr. Mendel, the French tuberculosis expert, on his treatment of consumption by the use of essential oils. This is a subject which aroused considerable interest among physicians in this country, owing to an earlier and more meager report from Consul Atwell. The present re port is sent at the request of the state department.

Dr. Mendel says that his treatment is based on the antagonistic effect that certain essential oils were observed to

have on the germs of tuberculosis. His

formula is as follows: Five grams each ~,of essence of thyme, essence of euca lyptus and essence of cinnamon, 100 cubic centimeters of sterilized olive oil, five grams of iodoform aud one-fifth of a gram of bromoform. The physi cian uses a long curved Collin syringe, containing three cubic centimeters of this solution, which is emptied three or four times consecutively into the tra cheal duct. A mirror was at first used to guide the introduction of the syringe to the throat, but with practice this was discarded. The treatment was given daily to 27 patients in all three stages of the disease. The results were encouraging in all cases but one, this patient, in the third .stage, dying, but

being relieved of much pain and dis-

comfort in his last days. A detailed --statement of results is given, which is of interest to physicians.

Electricity as Annesthetic.

The rather interesting statement was made to the American Association For the Advancement of Science by a Yale professor that sinusoidal alternat ing electric currents of sufficiently high frequency aud in which the positive and negative phases were nearly equal possessed the power of produc ing local anaesthesia. After the fre quency has reached 5,000 complete al ternations per second the muscular contraction so familiar with medical batteries and other alternating cur rents decreases, and at 25,000 alterna tions per second a current passing from the elbow to the hand completely deadens that portion of the arm, and needles may be passed through the flesh without being felt. When sub jected to currents of such high fre quency, the sensory nerves appear to lose power of transmitting sensations. A special machine is now being built by which it is expected to demonstrate] the possibility of using this application* of the current in practical surgical work, such as dentistry.

Extermination of Locusts.

The Cape department of agriculture publishes in its journal an account of successful efforts to exterminate lo custs by inoculating them with the lo cust disease fungus. The fungus is prepared and sold for 12 cents a tube to all applicants living in Cape Colony. In one case more than 100 locusts were inoculated and then distributed among a swarm. Next morning and the fol lowing days large numbers of dead locusts were found, and microscopical examination revealed the fact that death was due to the fungus. It is stated that those districts in Cape Col ony where these inoculation measures are not taken are much more infested with locusts than those localities where tbe treatment is carried out.

THE "ASBtstiRTON GUARDIAN : WEDNESDAY, APRI_ li, _90l

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