IT would do away with a great deal of trouble in the world if the gray was more evenly divided between the inside and the outside of the skull. -- Chicago InterOcean. BLOOD PURIFIER.. Hicks. “I may be a plebeian in this world, but in the next I hope to be a pure blood patrician. Mrs. H. "I don't know why you shouldn't; sulphur is beneficial." - Med. Review. Ir appears that in England an American diploma does not entitle its possessor to call himself M. D. A doctor has actually been prosecuted and convicted for this offence, and upon the application to quash the conviction, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge expressed the opinion that within the meaning of the law of England, our countryman had falsely pretended to be a doctor of medicine, having only an American degree. His appeal was dismissed, and he will now have the pleasure of paying into the Queen's Treasury the sum of one hundred dollars, for using in England a title to which in America he has a legal right. — Med. Times. HIGH TEMPERATURE IN INTERMITITENT FEVER. Dr. Stephen Mackenzie in the British Medical Journal for Feb. 13th, reports a case of intermittent fever in which the temperature was 107° Fahrenheit, twice 113°, and once 1138°. The observations were made with the thermometer in one or the other axilla; sometimes two thermometers were placed in the axilla at one time and found to correspond. On account of rigors the temperature could not be taken in the mouth. The periods of hyperprexia were exceedingly brief, sometimes a return to normal temperature occurring in five minutes. The patient recovered. - Aled. and Surg. Jour. A DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC CAUSED BY ICE. - The Washington newspapers report the singular origin of an outbteak of thirty-two cases of diphtheria, of which fifteen proved fatal, that occurred in a small locality in that city. The body of a child that had died of diphtheria was packed in ice for two days, and when the body was transferred to the coffin the undertaker threw the ice on the ground outside his shop. Three children were seen eating the ice, and in eight days they presented acute symptoms of diphtheria and died in a few hours. In all, thirtytwo cases of the disease were ascribed to the deposit of the ice on the ground. Boston Med. and Surg. Review. ONE day, recently, Dr. P-, who had company to dinner, sat quietly chatting in a corner of the drawing-room, when he was told that a patient had come to see him who was strongly recommended by some fellow-practitioner, and whose card was brought in by the page. The doctor submitted with a bad grace and stepped into his surgery. The visitor was in an advanced stage of consumption. The bronchial tubes were in a deplorable condition, and the vocal chords nearly worn out. Our physician was in the habit of ascertaining the condition of the patient by asking him to count, and generally stopped him at thirty or thirty-five-quite long enough for the purpose. This time also Dr. P- asked his patient to count. Time passed on, and the guests began to feel alarmed at his protracted absence. One of them opened the surgery door. Dr. P- had gone to sleep in his armchair, and the patient had counted up to 8642. — Le Matin. THE TREATMENT OF HEART-FAILURE FROM CHLROFORM. - The International Medical Magazine, July, 1892, quoting from a German journal, gives Maass's description of a method in use at the Gottingen Clinic, by which the heart can be made to resume its action after apparently fatal paralysis from chloroform. Rapid impulses are given to the region of the heart by the hand of the surgeon, as many as one hundred and twenty a minute. The operator stands at the left side of the patient, laying his right hand on the left side of the chest, and placing the ball of the thumb half-way between the apex beat and the sternum. The left hand is applied to the right side of the chest and steadies it. The rapid compressing motions are made with the right hand. Two patients have been revived by this method perseveringly applied for half an hour or more, after their restoration seemed hopeless. Heart contractions ceased whenever compression was interrupted, though shallow respirations continued spontaneously - Med. Record RISING YOUNG PHYSICIAN (who cured so many patients in last year's epidemic). - “Not much chance of more influenza in England this winter, I fancy!" His Wife. "Let us hope for the best, dearest." -- Punch. PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS. -:0: F. P. BACHELDER, M.D., has removed to 285 West Chester Park, Boston. Office hours, 2 to 4 P. M. LIZBETH D. MILLER, M.D., Class '92, B. U.S.M., has located at 43 Greenwich Street, Providence, R. I. DR. GEORGE R. STEARNS has changed his residence from Holliston, Mass., to 188 High Street, Pawtucket, R. I. DR. S. E. FLETCHER, class of '91, B.U.S.M., is associated with Dr. F. M· Bennitt at 96 Grape Street, Chicopee. DR. E. P. COLBY has removed from 10 A Park Square, to Woodbury Building, 229 Berkeley Street, corner Boylston. Office hours, 1.30 to 3.30 P. M. JOHN H. BENNETT, M.D., has settled at 142 High Street, corner Exchange Street, Pawtucket, R. I. Hours until 9 A. M., I to 3 P. M., 7 to 8 P. M.; Sunday, 2 to 4 P. M. DR. WALTER B. WHITING will be the medical attendant, and Dr. LaForrest Potter will be the surgeon in attendance at the Malden Hospital for the next quarter, beginning November 1st. DR. FRANCIS M. BENNITT has removed his residence from Chicopee Centre to 38 High Street, Chicopee Falls. He will observe office hours at this place and also at 96 Grape Street, Chicopee. THE Springfield Union in a recent issue says, 'Dr. A. J. Bond, of Adams, assisted by Dr. Riley, performed for the first time in this section, the O'Dwyer method of intubation for membranous croup." DR. ALBERT W. HORR has opened an office at Room 6, Congregational House, corner Beacon and Somerset Streets, where he will give his exclusive attention to the treatment of diseases of the eye and ear. Office hours, 10 to 12 A. M., 2 to 4 P. M. DRS. MARTHA E. MANN and MARY L. SWAIN removed, on Nov. 1st, to No. 2 Commonwealth Avenue, corner Arlington Street, where they enter upon associate practice. Office hours, 8 to 9 A. M., 10 A. M. to I P. M., 2 to 5 P. M.; Wednesdays from 11 to 2. DR. RHODA A. LAWRENCE has opened an office at No. 2 Commonwealth Avenue, corner Arlington Street, where she will give special attention to the treatment of women and children. Office hours from 10 A. M. to I P. M. Office hours at Dunreath Street, Roxbury, from 2 to 4 P. M. SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY. Keating's Diseases of Children," four volumes, in sheep, in perfect condition, for $20.00. "International Encyclopædia of Surgery," by Ashhurst, six volumes, in sheep, in perfect condition, for $36 00. Apply to OTIS CLAPP & SON, Providence, R. I. DR. HELEN L. F. WRIGHT has located at No. 201 Clarendon Street, rear of "The Brunswick and "Trinity Church" Having devoted three years to study in the hospitals of London, Paris, Munich and Vienna, she is prepared to give special attention to gynæcological and obstetrical cases. NOTICE. Will the friend who sent me an anonymous package of sputa, Oct. 21st, be kind enough to forward his address. I am not a clairvoyant, and know of no way to prepare sputum, so as to make it reveal the name of the party who sent it. To prevent such mistakes in the future, let me suggest that the sender always enclose his card. Respectfully, J. P. RAND, M. D., Worcester, Mass. FOR SALE. A large-size McIntosh Storage Battery, Type B., 75-ampere, 4volt., with a lamp-resistance suitable for charging the battery from a 500-volt. circuit wire. These are in perfect order and have never been used. Will be sold low for cash. Apply to OTIS CLAPP & SON, 317 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. FOR SALE. The library, medicines, instruments, batteries, etc., of a physician lately deceased, who has been located in same place for twenty-eight years. The good-will and an introduction to his former families will be included for the price that the goods have been inventoried at. A splendid opening for a physician desirous of locating in a city. Very little capital required. Apply to OTIS CLAPP & SON, 317 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. J. B. GREGG CUSTIS, M.D., ZENO B. BABBITT, M.D., and JESSE H. HOLMES, Ph. D. (J. H. U.), all of Washington, D. C., have been elected members of the Faculty of the Southern Homeopathic Medical College. Dr. Custis will fill the chair of Professor of Practice of Obstetrics, dividing that chair with Professor Drane, who will continue, and lecture on the Principles of Obstetrics. Dr. Babbitt will lecture on General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy, and Dr. Holmes will serve as Demonstrator of Chemistry. THE homœopathic physicians of Worcester, have organized for semi-monthly meetings to be held at different offices during the coming season. Each physician pledges himself to furnish at least one paper, and provide a place for meeting once a year. The first meeting was held, Oct. 21st, at the office of Dr. E. D. Fitch, who read a paper on Diphtheria," which evoked an interesting discussion. There were present thirteen physicians. The next meeting will be held at the office of Dr. J. P. Rand, who will read a paper entitled " Specialties in Medicine." It is proposed to conclude the meetings with a social banquet at the end of the season. WORLD'S CONGRESS NOTES. As some of the profession may not fully understand the authority of the Congress, the following extracts from public documents will make the matter plain. "DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, May 23rd, 1892. One of the accompaniments with the President's invitation to the several foreign governments, issued in accordance with the Act approved April 25th, 1890, was the World's Congress Auxiliary to the World's Columbian Exposition." The purpose of its organization was fully stated, and among them it was proposed that a series of World's Congresses, to promote the objects in view, was to be held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 'The World's Congress Auxiliary,' it added, ‘has been duly authorized and organized to promote the holding and success of such Congresses.' I observe in conclusion, that a representative of the World's Congress Auxiliary, a few days ago, called at the department to learn whether it would be possible to send their pamphlets to all foreign governments, with a suitable instruction to our minister to present them to the Governments to which they were respectively accredited, as supplementary to the original invitation. Assurance was given that the department would gladly do so upon the receipt of a formal written request to that effect. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, HON. JOHN SHERMAN, JAMES G. BLAINE. Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate." THE OFFICIAL INVITATION TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO APPOINT DELEGATES TO ALL OR ANY OF THE WORLD'S CONGRESSES TO BE HELD AT (CIRCULAR.) CHICAGO, IN 1893. "DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, June 13th, 1892. To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States: Gentlemen: - The department is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Charles C. Bonney, President of the World's Congress Auxiliary, dated Chicago, the third inst. It states that in pursuance of the course indicated in the original announce ment of the World's Congress Auxiliary, which was transmitted with the Act of Congress approved April 25th, 1890, and the President's invitation of Jan. 14th, 1891, extending to all foreign governments a cordial invitation to participate in the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago, in 1893, the work of the World's Congress Auxiliary has been organized. It is particularly requested that a convenient number of the most eminent representatives of the various departments of human progress be selected as delegates to attend the respective Congresses. On receipt of the names of such delegates, suitable communications will be forwarded to them. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, WILLIAM F. WHARTON, Acting Secretary." Under this authority, Hon. C. C. Bonney, President of the World's Congress Auxiliary, appointed J. S. Mitchell, M. D., Chairman, R. Ludlam, M. D., ViceChairman, Committee on a Congress of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons; Julia Holmes Smith, M. D., Chairman, Elizabeth McCracken, M. D., vice-chairman, Woman's Committee on a Congress of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons. P. C. MAJUMDAR, L.M.S., of Calcutta, India, editor of the Indian Homœopathic Review, who wrote the "History of Homœopathy in India," for the Atlantic City Congress, will personally attend the Chicago Congress, and hopes to be able to give a very cheerful account of the progress and advancement of homeopathy in India." Dr. E. T. ADAMS, a prominent member of our school at Toronto, Canada, will attend the Congress, and is taking an active interest in its success. D. N. Banerjee, who also sent a very interesting account of "Homœopathy in India" to the last Congress, writes that he will be present at the World's Congress in Chicago. Both Dr. Majumdar and Dr. Banerjee are good English scholars, and will add greatly to the interest of the sessions. Engagements for rooms at the hotel already made indicate that the profession will be well represented at the Congress. Rooms will be furnished during the week of the Congress at regular rates. Address, Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. ADDRESSES ALREADY PROMISed. "The Homœopathic School and Public Health." R. Ludlam, M.D., Chicago. "Historic Development of Homœopathy in Germany." A. Von Villers, M.D., Germany. "The Further Improvement of our Materia Medica." England. Richard Hughes, M.D., Homeopathy and Prophylaxis." P. Jousset, M.D., Paris. The Value of Specialties in Medicine." F. Park Lewis, M.D., New York. Bacteriology." A. Haupt, M.D., Germany. "The Value of Efforts to Enlighten the Public on Homœopathy." A. C. Pope, M.D., England. "The Relation of Adjuvants to Therapeutics." J. D. Buck, M.D., Cincinnati. "Medical Education in the Homœopathic Colleges and Hospitals of the United States." I. T. Talbot, M.D., Boston. "The Future of Homeopathy." J. P. Dake, M.D., Nashville. "The Selection of the Homoeopathic Remedy." T. F. Allen, M.D., New York. "The Development of Medical Science through Homœopathy.” Martha A. Canfield, M.D, Cleveland. SECTIONS. Gynecology ·O. S. Runnells. Chairman, Indianapolis. Materia Medica — A. C. Cowperthwaite, Chairman, Chicago. Ophthalmology and Otology-A. B. Norton, Chairman, New York. Pædology Emily V. Pardee, Chairman, Hartford. Mental and Nervous Diseases - Selden H. Talcott, Chairman, New York. THE NEW-ENGLAND MEDICAL GAZETTE. No. 12. DECEMBER, 1892. VOL. XXVII. Contributions of original articles, correspondence, personal items, etc., should be sent to the publishers, A MATTER OF PROPHYLAXIS There is a show of justice in the phrase which speaks of neurasthenia as the "American Disease." The general practitioner to say nothing of the specialist who casts a statistical eye over his case-book at the end of the twelve-month, cannot fail to be deeply impressed, perhaps shocked, to note how large a proportion of the patients he has treated have had diseases originating in outworn and outraged nerves. well ask himself, and ask the statesman and the hygienist and the sociologist, what is the future of a generation so many of whose fathers and mothers drift or abruptly fall into a state of semi-invalidism, before what should be their years of active and happy usefulness are nearly sped. He may That neurasthenia should obtain, as a national scourge, far more on this side of the Atlantic than on the other, is not very greatly to be wondered at. Many reasons combine for its explanation. For one, our American climate, or certainly that of the Northern States, has in it a stimulating quality that drives one mercilessly to work and work and work again. Americans, like the thoroughbred of the old proverb, have a spur in the blood. Howells as truly as cleverly says that when the European climate braces a man up, it stands by to see him through; while the American climate braces him up, and leaves him to take the consequences. Add to climate, social conditions which are in themselves a spur, and the impulse to speed without rest is VOL. XXVII. No. 12. 549 |