Show what doctors rr prescribe the subscribers to the chemist and druggist london having been asked to send bend to the editor prescriptions a digest of the answers received shows that spirits of chloroform sal eal volatile glycerine and of orange peel take high ailigh places as drugs most frequently prescribed to these being also added bromide of potassium which ranks second only to chloroform wine of Bul sulphate phate of quinine bicarbonate of soda carbonate of ammonia liquor ammonia ace bicar bonatis and are the other members of the group of twelve drugs most frequently ordered several of these thesa minister to tho disorder of tho the respiratory tract and the time of the year may have some influence on their use this kind of information cannot however be regarded as representative thus if the statistics of some hospitals and dispensaries dispensa ries were taken bi carbonate bicarbonate of soda rhubarb and genii gentian would it is thought exceed tho the other drugs in re of frequency of prescription further spirit of chloroform and sim of orange peel are mainly used as adjuncts r chicado tribune f |