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the same time a sedative influence on their nervous sys tems. I have frequently seen hardened drinkers renounce their fatal habit and return to a healthy condition. "I have also used Vtn Mariani to save smokers of ex- aggerated habits, from nicotinism. A few glasses of Vin Mariani taken in small doses, either pure or mixed with water, acted as a substitute for pipes and cigars, because the smokers found in it the cerebral excitement which they sought in tobacco,wholly preserving their intellectual faculties. "I have also employed it with success for chronic bron chitis and pulmonary phthisis. Vin Mariatii increases the appetite and diminishes the cough in these two morbid states. "To combat the cough I give it mixed with water in the form of tisane, a Bordeaux-glass of Coca wine in a glass of water. "Besides I have used it to the greatest advantage in convalescence from typhoid fever, when no wine, not even Bordeaux,was retained by the stomach on account of gas tric irritation which is the rule after fevers of this nature. "Although I have confined myself to giving but a rapid glance at the results that I have obtained,I have the sta tistics, which I keep in reserve should they be needed. "I can certify that Vi7i Mariani is the most powerful weapon that can be put in the hands of military physicians to combat the diseases,the infirmities,and even the vicious habits engendered by camp life and the servitude of mili tary existence." Dr. Villeneuve, among other cases of morphinomania conquered by the combined use of the pdte and the Vin Mariani, communicated to us in 1884 the following obser vation: "M.X ,barrister, 32 years of age, five years ago began to use morphine preparations as a remedy against a very alarming chronic bronchitis and granulations in the