I have several hypodermic syringes of the latest patterns, and keep them in an excellent condition, but I very seldom use them except by the express wish of a patient who has had injections before. A syringe will not lie idle for very long before it becomes faulty, and the constant attention one has to pay to the fine wires within the needle is a serious handicap to the physician. By the sublingual method, all that I have just mentioned is negatived, the exhibition of the remedy is a direct one, and no mechanism of any kind is required.