The above-mentioned indications of producing a local sedative and curative action, joined With the constitu tional alterative and tonic action of an esteemed remedy, such as iodine, are admirably fulfilled by the employ ment of iodide of ethyle - by far the most valuable and important of the volatile hydro-carbons I shall have oc casion to mention. Iodine has been used as much as any other substance for inhalation in consumption, but its irri tating properties render it unfit for direct application to so delicate an organ as the lung, and, in consequence, it had for this purpose been almost entirely laid aside, until it was suggested by Dr. Turnbull, of Liverpool, that it should be given along with a compound possessing the necessary degree of volatility, as well as one which would disarm and nullify its irritative action. That desideratum is fulfilled by its employment in chemical combination with ethyle, and that the public and profession are largely indebted to Dr. Turnbull for its introduction to use will, I think, be admitted by all who have given the remedy a trial.

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