Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . n our own words: The only new hypnotic introduced during the last ten years is pello-tine; its value is not yet established, although several favorable clinicalreports have been published; nothing valuable therapeutically has beenheretofore gained from the cactus plant. Trional, introduced recently, isonly an improved sulfonal (dating back more than ten years), and the twoare equally dangerous. Chloralamid is the next recent introduction, andis the safest of all; but even chloralamid can induce a habit, although fewcases are on record; it is least p
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . n our own words: The only new hypnotic introduced during the last ten years is pello-tine; its value is not yet established, although several favorable clinicalreports have been published; nothing valuable therapeutically has beenheretofore gained from the cactus plant. Trional, introduced recently, isonly an improved sulfonal (dating back more than ten years), and the twoare equally dangerous. Chloralamid is the next recent introduction, andis the safest of all; but even chloralamid can induce a habit, although fewcases are on record; it is least poisonous, and patients have recoveredwithout damage from enormous overdoses. All the new hypnotics can be used successfully in some cases prop-erly administered. Chloral and chloralamid appear to yield the best andmost reliable results, while least exposing the patient to dangerous symp-toms. The ideal hypnotic* is still to be attained.—[Editorial in 1 heAmerican Therapist, August, 1897. J The Top of the Ozarks. 579 THE TOP OF THE AVING become tired of a big, smoky city,wearied by the constant noise and strife, Iwanted a rest; and, in truth, it was should I go? there was the rub. Icould go almost anywhere, but the ques-tion was: Where could I secure completechange of air, scene and surroundings? Ihad been told by enthusiastic friends thata little town named Eureka Springs,nestled in the Boston mountains in North-west Arkansas, was just the place. So, toEureka Springs I went. Leaving St. Louisin the evening, via the magnificent Frisco railway, at 9 oclock the next morning Eureka was art shows some queer towns perched among the Alps. Noneof them are more remarkable than this Arkansas city. Wherever a goatcan travel there is a street. When it is not a street it is at least a path.
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