Show I An Amazing Cure Due to an Error 1 a druggists druggist's mistake In refillIng refilling refilling refill refill- H HOW ing a prescription led to to what may turn out to be a quick cure for erysipelas Is related by Dr L L. S. S I Rogers of or Jackson Miss in a letter I to the Medical Record i Dr Rogers was treating a large muscular negro twenty five years old for serious erysipelas of the the scalp I I He Re was fearful of losing the patient so violent was the attack with high 1 fever rapid pulse and immense swell swell- i I ing He gave him the usual twenty I five drops of ot tincture tin ot of iron well I diluted every four hours in addition addition to loc local i applications Being called out of town he ordered the prescription refilled On returning to town the following day Dr Rogers found a man waiting for him to go to see the patient again I 1 aSKed him writes the doctor how the patient seemed He replied better better better bet bet- I ter but he felt feIt sure some mistake had bad been made in refilling the last prescription prescription prescription pre pre- and to prove it showed ine me methe me methe the m medicine dicine I readily recognized d that the druggist had dispensed tincture tincture tine tine- ture of iodine in place of t tincture of ot iron I asked the man if the patient load had been taking the twenty-five twenty drops every four hours as he had been taking taking taking tak tak- ing the former prescription He said he had Knowing that twenty-five twenty drops of tincture of iodine was a pretty heroic dose as three to five drops is a dose usually reco recommended ed by medical writ writ- ers I went immediately to see se results I You can imagine my surprise when I entered the cabin door and found th negro sitting up in bed eating a piece of corn bread and drinking a glass of buttermilk with great relish All AlI fever had gone and the swelling ot o of the face and scalp entirely relieved lin in fact he was a well negro I asked him how he felt He lIe said all right right- but that hat the last medicine Ine shore w stout He was all right from rom that t. t time on Dr Rogers waited twenty years ears before be e fore another case of erysipelas of the face or scalp happe happened ed to come his III is' is x way Then he be was called to see a a. aman aman man about twenty-five twenty years years age f age robust strong and muscular muscular- who Lad had had been bitten in the nose In a str street et fight Erysipelas had set up in the bitten nose f I told the assistant surgeon of ot my former experience and ordered the tha patient to be given twenty five drops of the tincture of iodine every tout hours In Ia his case as in the case case of the negro the temperature began go go 1 ing down the swelling of the face arid and head was relieved On the fourth day dayo he lie w was s discharged from the h hospital In good shape Dr Rogers rec recognizes that t two twos 1 cases are not sufficient of a test upon which to reach any definite any conclusion conclusion sion slon but they were so remarkably successful in rapidly curing such a x grave disease that tha he urges other do doctors doe doc tors to try iodine internally a as t a a. a remedy f |