Show fashion in medicine A curious communication has been made to the french academy of 0 medicine by dr grambert Gr imbert who has a fondness for statistics the doctor has been making inquiries with a view to finding out whether there la Is a fashion in medicine lie he has discovered that the old fashioned medicines such as opium laudanum iodine and bismuth are sold in about the same quantities as they have always been the sale of leeches has diminished in 1876 etere vi ere sold by a certain number of chemists shops in paris but this year the same shops sold only the glycera phosphates and sold 60 per cent less than they used to and quinine has gone down 24 per cent As tor for the newer drugs pyra as perine etc their sale aale has haa increased enormously 0 I 1 |