tion. to use such language in a medical journal. This notice is not intended for readers in other States, but for those who have misrepresented the personal political standpoint of the Editor of the Virginia Medical Monthly. Politics ought not to be involved in medicine, and he is foolish who attempts to bring the one into the other. We have only asserted that the present Board of Visitors or Directors needs reorganizaPoisoning Cases at the Western Lunatic Asylum (Va.) Dr. J. W. Mallet, the distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, has lately examined the contents of three of the stomachs of the unfortunate victims of fatal poisoning at the Western Lunatic Asylum_(Va.), and has found that aconitine was the poison used. But the detectives have not been able to "work up the case," as to the guilty party or parties who put the aconitine in the medicines of those who died. It is generally supposed that some one of the insane inmates of the Asylum is the murderer. We are glad to learn that no one of the heads of the several departments of the Asylum is adjudged culpable even of carelessness. We trust the Physicians of the institution will publish full reports of the cases of fatal poisoning in some journal-both for professional good and jurisprudal value.New York Code of Ethics.-One of the first subjects of general interest considered by the Medical Society of the State of New York, on assembling in Albany, February 6th, 1883, was that of their revised Code. Our readers will recall its import. It allows consultation, on the part of "regular practitioners," with eclectics, homoeopathics, etc. It was on account of this measure, adopted last year, that the American Medical Association refused recognition of the delegates of the New York Society last June while in session in St. Paul, Minn. During the recent session of the New York Society, the decision of last year was re-affirmed by a vote of 105 against 95 What is the Relation of the Regular Profession of New York State to that of Other Parts of the United States?-It is an avowed principle of the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association, that all practitioners who do not recognize its authority are to be classed as "irregulars." Hence, they are not open to professional recognition, and therefore it would be "derogatory" to the dignity of members of the "regular profession" to hold consultations with them. But, in the list of the 105 who voted their sentiments as being opposed to the restrictions of the Code of the American Medical Association, there are some men of national professional eminence who are being sought in consultations by "regular doctors" from all parts of the country. Are all the "regular doctors" of other States who may wish to consult with New York surgeons or physicians of wide reputation and established ability required, first of all, to write, asking whether or not he is a member of the New York Society? We will not go further just now; but we venture the assertion, that if a judicious conservatism is not exercised in the management of this vexed question, the result will be that in less than ten or fifteen years, there will be a marked degeneration of the material of the American Medical Association. Principles live forever, and it is upon them we build character; but customs die out, as generation succeeds generation. Customs are like fashions. Whatever may be the value of the cloth, or the style of the suit of clothes this season, it will appear antiquated and worn-out a few years hence. There may be no objection to a fashion when established; but a persistence in its use for years, when everybody else has adopted a different color and another "cut," makes the wearer of the old suit the jest of the city. Ought not we, as doctors, attempt to advance with this age of liberal thought, and greater privileges of inde'pendent personal opinion?-Fees of President Garfield's Medical Attendants.-The Congressional Board of Audit, allowed Dr. D. W. Bliss, of Washington, D. C., $6,500; Drs. D. Hayes Agnew and Frank H. Hamilton, each $5,000; Dr. Boynton, $4,000, and Mrs. Dr. Edson, $3,000. We regard these amounts as very small, under the peculiar circumstances. Had so many lawyers been granted so little, the Nation would have been ashamed of the small aggregate of $18,500 for the special professional services rendered. The medical profession is ranked next to that of the "calling to the ministry"; and the pecuniary value for the services of the doctor would be gladly paid, if the professional fee was called for at the moment he enters the sick-room. Obituary Record. Dr. Geo. L. Nicolson, the last member of the original appointees for the organization of the Board of Directors of the Medical College of Virginia, has just died, at his home in Middlesex county, Va. He was, in former years, a practitioner of extended fame in this sectien. His son, Dr. Wm. P. Nicolson, Dean of the Southern Medical College of Atlanta, Ga., has made for himself an enviable reputation. INDEX TO VOLUME IX. (APRIL, 1882-MARCH, 1883, inclusive.) EXPLANATIONS.-This Index is divided into two parts: first, Index of The letter T preceding some of the figures refers to the paging of the Notices of books, colleges, journals, deaths, personals, and proceedings of INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS, AND TITLES OF THEIR ARTICLES. D. HAYES AGNEW, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Stone in the Bladder-A Clinical Lecture JOHN S APPERSON, M, D., Town House, Va. Report of the Necrological Committee..T., 516 HARVEY BLACK, M. D., Blacksburg, Va., Ex-President Medical Society of Virginia. Late Med- ical Superintendent Eastern (Va.) Lunatic Asylum. Treatment of Fracture of the HON. JAMES V. BROOKE, Warrenton, Va. Address of Welcome to the Medical Society JAMES L. CABELL, A. M., M. D., LL. D., of the University of Virginia. President of the Na- .............. 65 517 man... 219 .225, 494, 577, 669 557 222 WM. G. EGGLESTON, M. D., Hampden Sidney College, Va. Translations from the Italian 675 M. G. ELLZEY, M. D., Washington, D. C. The Use and Effects of Alcohol as a Bever- ....... J. R. GODWIN, M. D., Fincastle, Va. Case of Extra Uterine Pregnancy. 338 I. J. M. Goss, A. M., M. D., Marietta, Ga. Excerpts from Work on Practice 729 695 261 R. I. HICKS, M. D., Casanova, Va. Vaccinia.... 718 MOSES D. HOGE, Jr., Berlin, Germany. Translations from the German... 731 S. K. JACKSON, M. D., Norfolk, Va. Some Cases of Hystero-Epilepsy or Hystero- 336 .T., 492 M. L. JAMES, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of CHARLES H. JONES, M. D., Baltimore, Md. A Case in which Chorea and Albuminuria 79 .... 575 E. MILLER. M. D., Florence, S. C. Co-existence of Puerperal Peritonitis, Erysipelas JAMES L. MINOR, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York C. G. POLK, M. D, Philadelphia, Pa. Compound Syrup of the Hypophosphites of 492 278 332 665 629 408 648 F. PEYRE PORCHER, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College M. A. RUST, M. D., Richmond, Va. Phthisis, and the Means to Prevent it-Its Her- .561, 635 W. T. SAWYER, M. D, A. B., Ex-President Medical Association of Alabama, Whistler, Ala. A 282 R. B. STOVER, M. D., Richmon Va. Cholera Infantum, 265; Typhoid Fever....... 453 HUGH M. TAYLOR, M. D, Richmond, Va. Drainage in Gunshot Wounds, T. 443; B. B. TEMPLE, M. D., Danville, Va. Traumatic Hernia of Lung T., 467 .... .655, 710 J. TIPTON, M. D., Selma, Ala. Otology for General Practitioners, 197; What the ..... JOHN N. UPSHUR, M. D., Richmond, Va. Diseases of the Spleen...... J. A. WADDELL, M. D., Staunton, Va. Medical and Surgical Jottings-(1) Acute La- B. A. WATSON, M. D., Surgeon to Jersey City Charity and St. Francis, Jersey City, N. J. Woo- ease....... 325 207 669 16 573 1 FOSEPH A. WHITE, M. D, Surge n-in-Charge Richmond Eye and Ear Infirmary, Richmond, Va. J. F. WINN, M. D., Richmond, Va. Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, cured by Positiou, 412; 597 |