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they appear to us the most convenient, both for ourselves and the reader, that could possibly be chosen. In its publication, we are happy to inform our readers, that the well trained efforts of Mr. J. Morris (the half-brother of the late Publisher, Mr. James McCafferty) have been secured. Mr. M. has been for many years the foreman of the office, and a principal conductor of the printing department, and we can therefore promise satisfaction in the style and execution of the work.

Fully aware of our inexperience in the field of labor we have entered, we can but acknowledge that we are not without misgivings; but an earnest desire to contribute our quota to the promulgation of sound medical doctrine strongly impels us to the obligation, however scant may be our resources for its accomplishment. From our Brethren we invoke that indulgence, which the known liberality of our Profession entitles us to expect.

With this valuable work, so long established, so fostered and so well sustained, we now present ourselves before the Profession, and claim for it in the future, that support which they have so freely given in the past. We earnestly solicit contributions for our pages, and promise to use every effort on our own part to sustain the present character of the Journal, and to emulate our predecessors, at least in their energy and devotion.

Augusta, Ga., Jan. 1st, 1857.

HENRY F. CAmpbell.
BORERT CAMPBELL.

PROFESSOR L. D. FORD'S LECTURE.-Accompanying our present issue, our readers will find this highly polished and philosophical production published by the Class. Any enconium of ours, would be inappropriate as well as superfluous; for in it we behold the author himself too nearly allied to us by position, and the yet closer ties of personal friendship, to allow us the gratification of praising him. "Self-praise is no praise at all," says the old proverb; "Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth, a stranger and not thine own lips," says the book of Proverbs, and the Book of books.

THE SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES.-This excellent Journal has for a short time disappeared from our list of exchanges from causes not affecting its soundness financially or otherwise. We are glad to welcome it again, and wish it uninterrupted success. In the present number (for June) the Editors say:-"Our next issue, to consist of some 200 pages, will be issued forthwith, and will embrace the months of July, August and September. We will give in a third number the months of October, November and December, so that by the close of the year, our subscribers will have received their full complement of 768 pages."

Works Received. We are indebted to the authors for a large number of works, some of which are highly interesting, and deserve special notice. We regret that we are not able at present to do any more than merely to direct attention to them.

The History and Statistics of Ovariotomy, and the circumstances under which the operation may be regarded as safe and expedient; being a Dissertation to which the Prize of the Massachusetts Medical Society was awarded, May, 1856. By George H. Lyman, M. D.

Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society, for the year 1856. Transactions of the South Carolina Medical Association, at the extra meeting in Greenwood, July 18, 1855, and at the annual meeting in Charleston, Feb. 6, 1856.

The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, instituted 1847. Vol. I.-Part V.

Report of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in the City of Williamsburg, Va. 1853-4 and 1854-5.

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica. Transmitted to the Legislature, Feb. 9, 1856. Annual Report, with the Medical Report, of the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1855. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association, at the fifth annual meeting, held in Baltimore, Sept. 1856. With a list of the members. First Report of the Woman's Hospital Association, presented to the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary meeting, Feb. 9th, 1856. Essays on the Physiology of the Nervous System, with an Appendix on Hydrophobia. By Benjamin Haskell, M. D., of Rockport, Mass.

Encysted Osseous Tumors; or a thin secreting membranous cyst, developed in cancellous structure of bone, and surrounded by a thin bony wall. By Alden March, M. D., of Albany.

History of the Ligature applied to the Brachio-Cephalic Artery with statistics of the operation. (Paper read before the Tennessee State Medical Society, May, 1856.) By Paul F. Eve, M. D.

Bronchial Injections: a Report, with a statistical table, of one hundred and six cases of Pulmonary Diseases treated by bronchial Injections. By Horace Green, M. D., LL. D., President of the Faculty, and Professor Emeritus of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, of the New York Medical College, &c.

Remarks on Vesico-Vaginal Fistule, with an account of a new mode of Suture, and seven successful operations. By N. Bozeman, M. D., of Montgomery, Ala.

The Mutual Responsibilities of Physicians and the Community: being an Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical College of the University of Michigan. Delivered March 27th, 1856. By Henry P. Tappan, D. D., LL. D., Chancellor of the University of Michigan.

Dr. Graily Hewitt exhibited at a meeting of the Pathological Society of London, Mr. Arnott, President, in the Chair, the Lungs on four children who died of Hooping-cough,

"The specimens now presented consist of the lungs of four children, who have recently died in the St, Marylebone Infirmary and Workhouse, from

hooping-cough, under the care of Mr. Filliter. They are illustrative of the lesions which will in almost all cases be found to be associated with the disease, and all exhibit one peculiar lesion in a greater or less degree. 'In these cases certain portions of the lungs will be found, on examination, to present that condition formerly known as lobular pneumonia, but which now is ascertained to be in reality collapse of the lung substance, without necessarily, inflammation of the parenchyma of the lung itself. Particulars of four fatal cases of hooping-cough were then read, together with an account of the post-mortem appearances in each case, of which the following is an abstract:

In case 1, that of a child aged sixteen months, there was collapse of portions of both lungs, with emphysema and subpleural ecchymosis, some of the collapsed portions presenting minute bronchial abscesses.

In case 2, a child aged twelve months, there was collapse of the lungs, the right middle lobe being quite collapsed, together with the catarrhal or vesicular pneumonia of Legendre and Bailly, and slight depositions of tu

bercle in one lobe.

In case 3, a child aged eleven months, there was partial collapse of the lungs, together with double pleurisy and catarrhal pneumonia. Maceration and inflammation of the Peyerian and solitary glands of the ileum were also noticed.

In case 4, a child aged fourteen months, collapse of the lungs was also present, with a few bronchial abscesses. This case presented a pathological condition in other respects interesting. The gastric fluid had, after death, perforated the oesophagus one inch above the cardiac orifice of the stomach, and escaping into the left pleura, had eroded the posterior and upper part of the left lung.

In all the cases, slight enlargement of the bronchial glands was observed. The bronchial tubes, especially the smaller divisions, were always filled with a thickish muco-purulent fluid. Emphysema of the lungs always coexisted with collapse of the lung tissue.

REMARKS. The points of interests in these cases may be now briefly recapitulated. The subjects were all infants of tender age from ten to sixteen months old. The collapse of the lungs was found. It presented for the most part the usual characters, and with it was associated emphysema of the neighboring lobes or lobules. This is an important fact, as related to the physical examination of the chest during life. Small bronchial abscesses were also present in most of the cases. The history of these cases during life illustrates one or two points important to bear in mind with reference to hooping-cough in very young children. Only one of them was observed to hoop. So far as I have observed, the intensity and frequency of the hoop is a circumstance of good augury, rather than the reverse. The treatment adopted in these cases was of a stimulating character, mild expectorants, and ammonia, together with a little wine, and counter-irritation by means of blisters. The unfavorable hygienic conditions in which the children were placed, however, coupled with their tender age, precluded a favorable result. Death took place, on an average, about three weeks after the commencement of the disease."-[London Lancet.

Phosphate of Iron in Human Bones.-Nikles has described two strongly coloured blue-green bones (the cubitus and the radius of a female skeleton),

which he found in the burial-ground at Eumont. The bones were coloured through their entire mass. Nikles found that this colour was due to the presence of phosphate of iron which existed in a crystalline form in the bones, and considers that the existence of this salt was due to the circumstance of the bones lying in ground impregnated with ferruginous water, which had decomposed their phosphate of lime.-[Ibid.

External Application of Ergotin. (Translated by CH. F. J. LEHLBACH, M. D., Newark, N. J.)-Dr. Hoppe, Professor of Basle, recommends in his medical letters the external use of ergotin. This induced Dr. V. Brenner, at Ischl, to make trials with this remedy, and he obtained satisfactory results. According to Dr. V. Brenner, the character of disease prevailing in that region at present, is the typhoid, tending to decomposition of the blood. Acute inflammations are seen very rarely, and those that occur, have a tendency to assume the typhoid form, so that the abstraction of blood is not only of no avail, but acts injuriously, by diminishing the forces of life very rapidly. This typhoid character, which is prevailing, exercises its influence upon wounds and ulcers. It is very difficult in cases of wounds and ulcers to induce a sufficient amount of reaction, necessary to establish the process of healing. Left to themselves, a long time passes, until suppuration and granulation take place. The same thing is observed after operations. Wounds can almost never be brought to heal by first intention. If, on the fourth day, the dressings are removed, the wound gapes as before, without a trace of inflammation and suppuration. Under these circumstances, a dressing as that of ergot is exceedingly valuable. Under its application the wound or the ulcer soon becomes more lively and clean; it begins to suppurate and granulate; there arise no exuberant granulations, and cicatrization takes a very rapid course. Brenner's usual formula is

B.-Axung. porec. 3j;

Ergotini 3ss. to Dij. M.

With this salve the wound or ulcer is dressed twice a day.

[As a similar typhoid character is prevalent among us at present, and a similar difficulty of inducing healthy inflammation in wounds and ulcers, the remedy recommended thus by good authority might be worth a trial.] N. O. Med. News and Hospital Gaz.

Effects of Digitalis on Generative Organs.-M. Brughmanns says, that if from 35 to 40 centigrammes of pulv. digitalis be given for five or six days, the most complete hyposthenizing effect is produced on the generative organs. He has thus given it with very great advantage to combat erotic excitement, whether due to excitable temperament, sedentary life, stimulant regimen, or the privation or excess of venereal pleasures, etc. He also finds

it very useful in subduing the inflammatory accidents that so often accompany syphilitic diseases, and which may be prevented by its early administration. It is pre-eminently useful when phymosis or paraphymosis, chordee, epididymitis, or adenitis are either present or feared.-[Review Méd. Chirurg, and Ibid.

Preparation of Caustic with Gutta Percha.-M. Richard has recently brought this before the Paris Society of Surgery. Gutta percha in powder is intimately mixed with pulverized caustic in proportions according to the

strength required, as, e. g., two parts of chloride of zinc to one of gutta percha. The mixture is to be gently heated in a tube or porcelain capsule, over a spirit lamp. The gutta percha softens, and becomes thoroughly impregnated with the caustic, so that on cooling a gutta percha port-caustic is formed. By its properties the gutta percha possesses the advantages of not altering the tissues, of preserving its consistence and flexibility, of insinuating itself by its suppleness into either natural or abnormal canals, however tortuous, of assuming any desired form under the fingers of the Surgeon, and of allowing, by reason of the porosity of its molecules, the exudation and unimpeded action of the caustic it contains.-[Journal de Chimie Med., 1856, and Ibid.

Air Poison.-People have often said that no difference can be detected in the analyzation of pure and impure air. This is one of the vulgar errors difficult to dislodge from the public brain. The fact is, that the condensed air of a crowded room gives a deposit which, if allowed to remain for a few days, forms a solid, thick, glutinous mass, having a strong odour of animal matter. If examined by the microscope, it is seen to undergo a remarkable change. First of all, it is converted into a vegetable growth, and this is followed by the production of multitudes of animalcules; a decisive proof that it must contain organic matter, otherwise it could not nourish organic beings. This was the result arrived at by Dr. Angus Smith, in his beautiful experiments on the Air and Water of Towns; wherein he showed how the lungs and skin gave out organic matter, which is in itself a deadly poison, producing headache, sickness, disease, or epidemic, according to its strength. Why, if "a few drops of the liquid matter, obtained by the condensation of the air of a foul locality, introduced into the vein of a dog, can produce death with the usual phenomena of typhus fever," what incalculable evil must not it produce on those human beings who breathe it again and again, rendered fouler and less capable of sustaining life with each breath drawn? Such contamination of the air, and consequent hot-bed of fever and epidemic, it is easily within the power of man to remove. Ventilation and cleanliness will do all, so far as the abolition of this evil goes, and ventilation and cleanliness are not miracles to be prayed for, but certain results of common obedience to the laws of God.-Dickens' Household Words, from Edin. Med. Jour.

Poisoning by Chloroform.-Ricord extirpated the testicle of a strong man, 38 years of age, and with all caution let him inhale a very good chloroform. After half a minute narcosis had completely set in without convulsions, the operation was performed. After the chloroform had been taken away for some time, all at once the pulse ceased to beat, respiration stopped, death-like paleness overcame the patient, who turned the eyes upwards and seemed to be dead. Instantly Ricord threw himself over him, and putting his mouth to that of the patient, blew air in it, which he expelled again by compression of the thorax. After this had been done twice, pulse and respiration returned; the color improved, and after half a minute the patient commenced to speak. Ricord makes the following reflections:

1. In consequence of hemorrhages or violent emotions, syncope not seldom occurs after these causes cease. Just the same with chloroform, 2.

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