you were fully in sympathy, and in active co- | tissues. It is in fact the natural fat of the epiöperation with them; and in speaking to Dr. dermis and its appendages. It readily absorbs Gross, of what had been done at this meeting, I its own weight of water, and is, in turn, readily said that Dr. Yandell had misjudged the course absorbed by the skin. you would pursue, and it did not appear that you were the "friend" that his conversation with us seemed to imply. I have no knowledge of your having voted against Dr. Yandell's reappointment at Chicago; and, in reply to his inquiry on this point, so stated to him. I strongly disapprove of drawing the attention of the public to matters which are purely personal, yet if you adhere to your intention of publishing your correspondence with Dr. Yandell, I must request you to include your note to me and this reply, so that the manner in which my name has been drawn into this controversy may not be misconstrued. Very truly yours, prom THE OHIO SANITARY ASSOCIATION has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Dr. S. H. Herrick, Cleveland; Vice-PresiDr. W. H. Phillips, Kenton; Dr. C. T. Langdon, dents, Professor E. T. Nelson, Ph.D., Delaware; Westerville; Secretary, Dr. R. Harvey Reed, Mansfield; Treasurer, Professor John Simpson, Ph.D., Mansfield. AMERICAN MEDICAL EDITORS.-The meeting of American medical editors for 1886 will occur in St. Louis on Monday, May 3d, the day preceding the meeting of the American Medical Association. The following are the present officers: Dr. H. O. Walker, President; Dr. F. L. Sim, Vice-President, and Dr. F. E. Daniel, Secretary. BUFFALO MEDIcal College.—The following new chairs have been created, and professors elected: Dr. H. R. Hopkins, Professor of Nervous Diseases; Dr. Bernard Bartow, Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery; Dr. F. W. Hinkel, Clinical Professor of Laryngology; Dr. F. P. Vandenburgh, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. The vacancies in the Board of Curators have been filled by the appointment of Dr. G. C. Clark, of Niagara Falls, and Dr. E. C. W. O'Brien, of Buffalo. RAGWEED AS A HÆMOSTATIC.-Dr. J. H. Hill (Transactions of the Medical Society of North Carolina) extols the virtues of ragweed ( Ambrosia artemisiafolia) as a hæmostatic. One of the cases he reports was an aggravated case of hæmo DR. GASPAR GRISWOLD, one of the most nent young physicians of New York, died at his philia, in which blood oozed from the nostrils, home in that city on March 4th. gums, and urethra. The patient, a child six years of age, had been bleeding for several days, DR. E. T. WELLS has been appointed to the and the usual remedies had been employed withChair of Materia Medica in the College of Phy-out effect. Dr. Hill then administered an infusicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, Ills. DR. D. D. MARR (Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner) considers chloral hydrate to be the most reliable agent in the treatment of the vomiting of pregnancy. DR. J. S. JEWELL, of Chicago, has been appointed editor of the Neurological Review, a new journal published by Rand, McNally & Co. The first number will be issued in May. THE DAKOTA MEDICAL BRIEF is a new journal which will be published at Mitchell, Dakota. It is to be issued monthly, and edited by F. Andros, A.M., M.D., and H. S. Sevey, M.D. LANOLIN.-Lanolin, the new ointment basis introduced by Liebrich, of Berlin, is obtained from sheep's wool and other keratin-holding sion of ragweed and the hemorrhage promptly ceased. VINEGAR AND SALT FOR DIARRHOEA.-Dr. Amos Sawyer, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, January, 1885, states that the late Dr. B. F. Edwards had told him that for forty years he had used in the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery a remedy which he had found in use in domestic practice. This was simply pure cider vinegar in tablespoonful doses, with a little common salt added to it. The remedy is one that has been employed by others with equal satisfaction. Probably the antiseptic action of the combination is the secret of its efficiency, although some would suggest that it may simply aid digestion. Simple as the remedy is, it is worth remembering.-American Lancet. ORGANIZATION of the InteRNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS.-From the Chairman of the Executive Committee we learn that the organization of the International Medical Congress is nearly complete. More than three hundred of the representative physicians in all parts of the country have now signified their acceptance of nominations in the several Sections, and declared their willingness to do all in their power to make the Congress successful. We are glad to hear that the Secretary-General, Dr. Davis, is regaining his health, and has not abated his enthusiasm for his task. He expects to be able to present a very favorable report to the St. Louis meeting of the American Medical Association. Philadelphia Medical Times. TO THE AMERICAN To THE DELEGATES MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-The rates given to the delegates to the American Medical Association meeting, May 4th, in St. Louis, have been fixed by the different railroad companies of the country at one and one-third fares for the round trip. Delegates must pay full fare coming, and will receive, on application from the agent at the starting-point a certificate, which, when signed by the Chairman of the Local Committee of Arrangements, will entitle them to the reduced return-rate. No reduced return ticket will be issued unless the purchaser can show a certificate issued by the agent from whom he purchased the going ticket, and signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. LE GRAND ATWOOD Chairman Committee of Arrangements. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.-Once more we are compelled to take the Medical Record to task for the inaccuracy of its statements. In its issue of March 6th, we read: - THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS.We would call the attention of our readers to the letter, published in another part of this issue, which was written to the Editor of the College and Clinical Record. It is the recital of the scene enacted by the Philadelphia County Medical Society, under the management of the seceders of the International. It will bring the blush of shame upon all who hold the honor and dignity of the profession at heart. It was simply outrageous, and the storm of indignation it has created throughout the country will make the conspirators feel, as they have never felt before, that the honor and reputation of the profession of the United States is not contained in the cities of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, but is as broad as the whole land, and that the profession at large are exceedingly jealous of their reputation as gentlemen. Under these circumstances, the tactics, which have been slowly unfolding since the meeting of the American Medical Association in New Orleans, showing them to be those of abuse, vituperation, and misrepresentation, till the meeting of the Philadelphia Medical Society, when all the tricks of the ward politician were brought into play, there can be no such thing as reconciliation. Complete surrender the deserters must make or they cannot attend the Congress. This attempt to capture the American Medical Association would be laughable were it not for the methods. The meeting at St. Louis will be largely composed of men from the West. Do the seceders think for a moment that the men whom they insulted by giving all or nearly all the appointments of the Original Committee to men from Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, can forget the slight? We have too high an opinion of the stuff that Western doctors are made of to entertain for a moment such a sus picion. When these men, these disruptionists, these ment on the Committee of Nine, down to date, seem to have lost all sense of justice and the in stincts which ordinarily control gentlemen: when, we say, they come back, it must be on the basis now existing, viz., under the arrangements made by the Enlarged Committee, and no other. -New England Medical Monthly. "The prevailing feeling here regarding the Congress now is one of profound apathy and indifference. The news from abroad is equally discouraging. Almost the only smiling face is men, who from the first moment of their appointpublished at Chicago weekly. We hope for better news after the St. Louis meeting." If the editor of the Record was a thick-headed Gothamite, we might believe that this wilful attempt, weak though it is, to injure the Congress, was the result of stupidity; but as we believe him to be a progressive American, we can only characterize it as a lame effort to say something in the direction which his journal has pursued. Now for the truth: there is a certain amount of "profound apathy and indifference" among those few who would but could not rule, while among the very great mass of the profession there is a lively interest in the coming Congress, and a determination to make it a success. committee is at work, and all preliminary preparations are being satisfactorily made. The Medical and Surgical Reporter. The INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL Congress of 1887. PROGRESS OF ORGANIZATION.-The statement in some recent medical journals to the effect that the progress of organization for the International Medical Congress of 1887 "seemed to have come to a standstill," is by no means correct, as the following facts will show : Soon after the final meeting of the General Committee on Organization appointed by the American Medical Association in September last, at which the said Committee adopted entirely ` satisfactory Rules for the Congress, selected the general officers, and chief officers of the several Sections, thereby developing under their Rule Ten an independent Executive Committee of the Congress, authorized to take charge of the entire interests and further management of the organization, the said Executive Committee held a full meeting in November and organized for their work. The President and Secretary-General were instructed to issue a preliminary circular giving the general officers selected and the Executive Committee, together with the Rules in English, French, and German, and distribute the same both in Europe and America. At the same meeting sub-committees were appointed on all the more important items of unfinished business, to report at another meeting of the Executive Committee to be held in a few weeks from this time. These sub-committees have been quietly but diligently prosecuting their work so successfully that at the next Executive Committee meeting there will be neither difficulty nor delay in filling all vacancies needed to make the preliminary organization of the Congress complete, and be ready to proceed directly with the preparation of the details for the final programme for the work of every department of the Congress. The local committee of reception and arrangements at Washington, with Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett for Chairman, has increased its members to fifty, acting in harmony, and, for more efficiency in execution, divided into seven sub-committees, each with its allotted part of the work to be done. This is a guarantee that every possible arrangement will be made for the interests and comfort of those who may attend the Congress from any part of the world, and that active efforts will be made to secure the lowest rates of travel on ocean steamers and railroads for those coming from other countries, and in regard to which timely notice will be given. With the aid of the Associate Secretary-General in New York the circulars announcing the Preliminary Organization and Rules of the Congress were freely distributed in foreign countries, and its reception was immediately followed by cordial responses, which have continued to be received almost daily at the office of the Secretary-General from many of the countries of Europe, more especially from Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, giving assurances of personal attendance, promising communications for certain Sections, and asking for further information. Instead, therefore, of a "standstill," the work of preparation for the Congress of 1887 is progressing rapidly and successfully towards completion. We have deemed it proper to make the foregoing statement to prevent misapprehensions, and for the general information of the medical profession at home and abroad. Journal of Anerican Med. Association. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The Thirty-seventh Annual Session will be held in St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, commencing on Tuesday at 11 A. M. The delegates shall receive their appointment from the permanently organized State Medical Societies and such County and District Medical Societies as are recognized by representation in their respective State Societies, and from the Medical Department of the Army and Navy, and the Marine Hospital Service of the United States. Each State, County, and District Medical Society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number; Provided, however, that the number of delegates for any particular State, territory, county, city or town shall not exceed the ratio of one in ten of the resident physicians who may have signed the Code of Ethics of the association. Secretaries of Medical Societies, as above designated, are earnestly requested to forward at once lists of their delegates. Also, that the Permanent Secretary may be enabled to erase from the roll the names of those who have forfeited their membership, the Secretaries are, by special resolution, requested to send to him, annually, a corrected list of the membership of their respective societies. SECTIONS. "The Chairman of the several Sections shall prepare and read, in the general sessions of the association, papers on the advances and discoveries of the past year in the branches of science included in their respective sections. ."-By-Laws, Article II., Section 4. Practice of Medicine, Materia Medica, and Physiology.-Dr. J. T. Whittaker, Cincinnati, Ohio, Chairman; Dr. B. L. Coleman, Lexington, Ky., Secretary. Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.-Dr. S. C. Gordon, Portland, Me., Chairman; Dr. J. F. Y. Paine, Galveston, Texas, Secretary. Surgery and Anatomy.-Dr. Nicholas Senn, Milwaukee, Wis., Chairman; Dr. H. H. Mudd, St. Louis, Mo., Secretary. State Medicine.-Dr. John H. Rauch, Springfield, Ill., Chairman; Dr. F. E. Daniel, Austin, Texas, Secretary. Opthalmology, Otology, Laryngology.-Dr. Eugene Smith, Detroit, Mich, Chairman; Dr. J. F. Fulton, St. Paul, Minn., Secretary. Diseases of Children.-Dr. W. D. Haggard, Nashville, Tenn., Chairman; Dr. W. B. Lawrence, Batesville, Ark., Secretary. Oral and Dental Surgery.-Dr. John S. Mar shall, Chicago, Ill., Chairman; Dr. A. E. Bald- | with our foreign brethren of the profession, and win, Chicago, Ill., Secretary. there is no reason why it should not be as equally It is handsomely acceptable in this country. printed, in clear, legible type, and presents an attractive appearance. A member desiring to read a paper before a section should forward the paper, or its title and length (not to exceed twenty minutes in reading), to the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, at least one month before the meeting.By-Laws. Committee of Arrangements.-Dr. Le Grand Atwood, St. Louis, Missouri, Chairman. AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. By Dr. Foster Pratt, Mich.-Each section shall nominate its Chairman and Secretary-all other nominations to be made, as now, by the Nominating Committee. By Dr. I. N. Quimby, N. J.-Create a new section, to be known as the Section on Medical Jurisprudence. WM. B. ATKINSON, M.D., Permanent Secretary. 1400 Pine Street, S. W. cor Broad, Philadelphia. BOOK REVIEWS. Ringze orm; its Diagnosis and Treatment. By 136 Gower Street, W. C., 1885. It is no small praise to say that never within our recollection has there been a treatise published on this particular disease replete with so much valuable information and instruction as is con tained in the little volume before us. An experience of ten years in the diagnosis and treatment of ringworm, particularly of chronic and inveterate cases, enables our author to give as the result of more than ordinary opportunity, "some useful and thoroughly practical hints on the subject, especially as to the production of kerion, the inflammatory form of the affection, and Nature's method of effecting a cure." The book contains twelve chapters, prescriptions, and an index, also five beautiful descriptive plates, and numbers 228 pages. The work opens with a few introductory remarks, and then gives a brief but very interesting history of ringworm, which is well worth reading, followed by a reference to the latest experiments on the life history of the fungus, and then proceeds in each succeeding chapter to describe the different varieties of the disease, and the mode of treatment. are The profession generally, and more especially those of it who have made this branch a specialty, certainly highly indebted to Dr. Smith for this timely production. Especially do we recommend it to the young practitioner as a book of handy reference, to be kept within easy reach, for, even with our large experience, both in hospital and private practice, it has proved of great usefulIt having already reached three editions in Great Britain, stamps the approval of its merits ness. Elements of Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. By WILLIAM Whitla, M.D., Physician to the Royal Belfast Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Ulster Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children. With lithographs and woodcuts. Third edition. London: Henry Renshaw, 1885. To give our readers an idea of the scope of this work is best done by saying that it is divided into six parts. Part I., treating of Pharmacy; Part II., the Administration of Medicines; Part III., Materia Medica; Part IV., Therapeutics; Part V., Non official Remedies; Part VI., Chemical Reactions. To do full justice to the author and his book would require the ample pages of a quarterly, so we will have to rest ourselves with a most emphatic indorsement of its valuable contents. We speak from personal experience, as we have referred to it again and again, in the short time that it has been in our possession, for information, and found it presented in a concise and accurate manner, so much so that it is no marvel that it has already reached three editions, and when we think of the critical test of a British medical reading public it tells very highly of its appreciation. Dr. Whitla's prominence as a physician of high attainments is well known, and the production of this volume proves that he possesses literary talent, combined with patient research, that should not rest content with what he has already done, but continue to aid the profession with his invaluable suggestions. studying the different parts the reader will be surprised at the lucidness and learning displayed, and how every detail is brought up to the latest discoveries in the different branches of medical science. We would also call attention to the Pharmacy. beautiful cuts illustrating the part devoted to In There are also a general index and an index of They are of the highest order. poisons, both of which are of value. The typography and binding are all that can be desired, acquisition of the library. and give a handsome appearance to a welcome NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. On the Treatment of Lupus by Parasiticides, by James C. White, M.D. Reprint from Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Hydrocele of the Hernial Sac, by Thomas E. McArdle, A.M, M.D., Washington, D. C., and Louis Kolopinski, M.D., Washington, D. C. Reprint from the Medical News. Angioma Pigmentosium et Atrophicium, by Jas. C. White, M.D. Reprint from Journal of Cutaneous and Vinereal Diseases. Essentials of the Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases, by E. Darwin Hudson, Jr., A.M., M.D., New York. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas has removed from No. 294 Fifth Avenue, New York, to No. 600 Madison Avenue, between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Streets. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN WANTED at the Buffalo Lithia Springs, Mecklenburg, Co., Va. This sanitarium will be kept open hereafter the entire year. For particulars apply to office of the company, 33 Barclay Street, New York. FOR SALE. Practice ($2000) and complete outfit, consisting of a small stock of drugs, horse and buggy, office furniture, and good-will, in a Southern Illinois railroad town. No competition. Want to move to city. Address, "Doctor," care of THE MEDICAL BULLETIN. A NEW PEPSIN. After more than two years experimentation, involving much expense and many disappointments, William F. Kidder & Co., of New York City, have succeeded in perfecting a non-hydroscopic pepsin, which they are about to place on the market under the name of Kidder's Crust Pepsin. With our later knowledge of pepsin, obtained by chemical experimentation and clinical experience, many new channels of usefulness have been opened for it-not the least of which is its power to dissolve diphtheritic membrane. -hence, any new preparation of pepsin that is an improvement over the several valuable preparations already on the market, must, of necessity, be received by the medical profession with considerable pleasure. The real value of any brand is proportionate to its digestive powers, and we learn from most reliable sources that this new brand, by the egg-a -albumen test, shows more than twice the digestive power of any of the pepsins now on the market. It is palatable, because of its not decomposing in any atmosphere, is free from sugar of milk, salt, or peptones. One part of it dissolves 1200 to 1500 parts of coagulated egg-albumen. A prominent New York chemist says of it: "In my hands it has proved the most active ferment I have ever tested, one grain easily dissolving 1000 grains of egg-albumen; it moreover shows a uniformity of strength not found in the commercial article." The chemist of the Brooklyn Board of Health tested it by the beef process, and finds that it digests more than double the quantity of any other pepsin in the market. To make the saccharated pepsin of the United States Pharmacopoeia, it requires only one grain of this crust pepsin to nineteen grains of sugar of milk-this being only about one sixth as much as was formerly required—and, since the price of this new and potent ferment is to be the same as other good brands, it will be in the physician's hands a remedy, practically six times as cheap as any other similar remedy. We bespeak for this article an enthusiastic reception by the medical profession. STIGER'S PHOSPHATED COCA-MALTA. "No. 391 DEAN Street, "MUTUAL CHEMICAL CO. “Gentlemen :—I have to say for the preparation that it far exceeds anything heretofore presented to me. I have experienced the best results from your combination in the many suitable cases that have presented themselves, and I feel a greater confidence in recommending its use now, as I have experienced great disappoitment in the many preparations of coca that have been highly extolled. I remain "Yours respectfully, "JOHN J. G. CARY." "No. 359 W. FIFTEENTH STREET, "NEW YORK, April 7, 1886. "My short experience in using the Phosphated Coca-Malta has taught me that it does all the manufacturers claim for it. "G. FRAUENSTEIN, M.D. "To the Mutual Chemical Co., New York City." BUFFALO LITHIA WATER. Dr. William T. Howard, of Baltimore, Professor of Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Maryland, attests the common adaptation of this Water in "a wide range of cases," with that of the far-famed White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and adds the following: 66 'Indeed, in a certain class of cases, it is much superior to the latter. I allude to the abiding debility attendant upon the tardy convalescence from grave acute diseases; and more especially to the Cachexia and Sequels incident to Malarious Fevers, in all their grades and varieties, to certain forms of Atonic Dyspepsia, and all the Affections Peculiar to Women, that are remediable at all by mineral waters. short, were I called upon to state from what mineral waters I have seen the greatest and most unmistakable amount of good accrue in the largest number of cases in a general way, I would unhesitatingly say the Buffalo Springs, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia." In |
