The great and distinctive merits of Dr. Chapman, as Professor in that Institution with which his name was so honourably connected during nearly half a century, and in which his ascendency was so conspicuous, will doubtless be delineated in due season. They are fully appreciated by numbers in this College, who, in common with thou sands from all parts of the United States, listened to his attractive prelections, and formed their medical opinions under his tuition and guidance.

On motion, the foregoing report was ap
proved, and the resolutions contained therein
adopted, and the whole directed to be pub.
lished in the American Journal of Medical
Sciences and Medical Examiner.
From the minutes.

D. FRANCIS CONDIE,
Secretary of the College.

OBITUARY RECORD.-Died, at his resi dence in St. Louis, on the 25th of April last, WILLIAM BEAUMONT, M. D., in the 68th year of his age. Dr. Beaumont was a native of Lebanon, Connecticut, where he was born in 1785. In 1812, after studying medicine at St. Albans, Vermont, for two years, he joined the sixth infantry, with the appointment of assistant-surgeon. For more than twenty years he was a mem

Farther manifestations of his untiring zeal in fostering medical instruction were afforded by his lecture-labours, for a period of twenty years, in the Philadelphia Medical Institute, a summer school, of which he was the founder, and, from first to last, the President. As editor and journalist, intent on disseminating medical knowledge, Dr. Chapman has strong claims on the esteem of the en-ber of the medical staff of the regular army, tire profession in the United States. The periodical created, and for several years conducted by him, still flourishes, the vehicle for a vast number of highly valuable facts, and for the advocacy of sound ethics. Long will the name of Chapman be asso-1830, he was stationed at Jefferson Barciated in the memory of the members of this College, and of the community in which he lived, with the amenities that give a charm and refinement to social intercourse, and with the radiant yet genial wit which illuminated and quickened into gladness all whom he approached.

being stationed at various points on the northern frontier, and through the war of 1812, with distinction being present, among other occasions of interest, at the capture of Fort George, in May, 1813. In

racks, and afterwards in the Arsenal at St. Louis, taking up his residence in this city about 1834. Two or three years later, he resigned from the army, and subsequently has resided constantly in St Louis, enjoying an extensive practice and high professional reputation up to the period of his late illness.

Dr. Beaumont is widely and most honorably known in the literature of our pro

How many can bear willing and grateful testimony to his generous heart and freely. giving hand, ever responsive to the calls of friendship and of charity, to the timid re-fession by his "Physiology of Digestion quest of the youthful student for a temporary loan, and the faltering plea of old age for permanent support.

and Experiments on the Gastric Juice❞— based on, and containing an account of experiments conducted by himself upon a Canadian (Alexis St. Martin), whom he

In commemoration of so much worth, and as an incitement to the members of this Col-attended at Michilimackinac, in 1825. The lege and of the profession at large to follow in the path of their distinguished associate, Resolved, That a bust and portrait of Dr. Chapman be procured, and placed in the chamber of the College.

work has been reprinted in Great Britain, France, and Germany, with the highest commendations from the profession, and has become an acknowledged authority in matters where speculation had hitherto taken the place of observation.

The sincere and respectful condolence of the College is at the same time offered to Dr. Beaumont had lived in St. Louis for the widow and family of the deceased under many years, engaged in arduous profestheir bereavement. Also, Resolved, That asional duties, and wherever he was known, copy of the preceding record be communi- it was as the kind-hearted, generous gencated to Mrs. Chapman, by the present Committee.

JOHN BELL,

W. S. W. RUSCHENBERGER,
FRANCIS WEST.

tleman. In his social relations, he was most happy, diffusing, at all times, cheerfulness and contentment to those around him-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journ.

Died, at Dubuque, Ia., on the 22d of April, Dr. G. W. RICHARDS, aged 53 years. He was for a short time connected with the Rush Medical College in Chicago, as one of its Professors, and afterwards became Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical College at La Porte, Ind. At a later period, he assisted in organizing a Medical School at Rockquired; and the use of alkaline fluids beIsland, and but two weeks before his death he was elected President of the Northwest ern Medical Society, organized at Dubuque. -New York Journ. Med. July, 1853.

passed into the bladder. Then pressure is made, until the calculus gives way. In many cases, a very slight amount will suffice. Should any difficulty arise, the pressure may be directed alternately towards the right or the left, that every part of the surface of the stone may be acted upon. In cases where the calculi are hard, several sittings are re

to

comes needed, to favour their disintegration. A quantity of warm water should be injected into the bladder after each operation, that the smaller fragments may be immediately washed away.-Medical Times and Gazette, Aug. 20.

External Application of Atropia in Neuralgia. By LUIGI CROSIO-In four cases of severe neuralgia-trigeminal, supraorbiremedies had failed, the external application tal, brachial, and ischiatic-in which other of atropia effected a speedy cure.

One

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Litholiby.-Dr. Denamiel has read before the Academie des Sciences, of Paris, a me moir upon Litholiby (2005, stone; exißw, crush); by which term he designates an operation consisting in the crushing of the stone, as it lies in the trigon vesica, behind the prostate, between an instrument intro-gramme of atropia, dissolved in spirit and duced by the urethra into the bladder, and mixed with a drachm of fat, was rubbed the fore and middle fingers of the left hand, into a surface of integument excoriated by a introduced per anum. He affirms that some cation in one case only. Upon the second blister. There were symptoms of intoxicalculi are so friable as to break under the least pressure; that the trigon vesica, where day, in each case, the pupils were dilated, free calculi generally lie, is accessible to All objects appeared small and confused, the skin hot and dry, the head oppressed. the finger introduced into the rectum; and that a sound passed into the bladder may As these sensations subsided, the neuralgic and the patients feared to become blind. serve as the point d'appui. He also states that the action of alkaline fluids upon the pains disappeared. Care was taken that the brain became not too much affected.-lbid. mucus, which forms the common cement of from Gazz. Lomb. 1852. the elements of calculi, leads to the disin tegration of the mass, whatever may be the chemical composition of the layers which compose it.

Aneurism of the Gluteal Artery.—Ligature of the Common Iliac. By Professor C. The distance from the integument to the W. F. UHDE-A Smith, aged 26, for five neck of the bladder is commonly 24 inches; years subject to rheumatism, complained of it varies between 1 inch and 4 inches. The severe pain in the left thigh of fourteen days' prostate gland and the trigon vesica are duration. The author found a tense, painseparated from the rectum by only a very less, elastic, and pulsating swelling in the thin layer of areolar tissue, in which fat is buttock above the trochanter. Having, upon never deposited; consequently, any hard examination, arrived at the conclusion that body may be easily felt and compressed. it was an aneurism, Professor Uhde proThe patient, having the bladder mode-ceeded to tie the common iliac artery (Ocrately distended, is put into the horizontal position, upon a properly constructed bed; the thighs separated and raised; the feet resting upon chairs. The left fore and middle fingers of the operator are then introduced into the rectum, and the stone is felt. A curved sound, grooved upon its convexity, as far as its vesical extremity, that it may the more readily hold the stone, is next

tober 7) in the usual manner. The patient died October 11, four days afterwards.

Examination of the Body-Wound healthy; the peritoneum in the neighbourhood covered with a thin layer of lymph. The areolar tissue around the iliac vessels infiltrated with pus. The gluteal artery within the pelvis exhibited a marked dilatation. The gluteus medius muscle ap

may be done with them hereafter. The star fish appear to be rather more difficult

peared like a dark-coloured bladder full of blood, and it formed the outer wall of the sac, which contained four ounces of coagu-in treatment, but among those displayed lum.

in the tank appropriated to them are two fine specimens of palmipes membranaceus. Echini are not unfrequent, and gorgeously coloured ophiocomas and solasters brighten up the dark stones and shaded recesses of the alge with an effulgence which is irresistibly charming. A few holothurias complete the series of this division of the British radiata, which the work of Professor Ed. ward Forbes has rendered more popularly known than any other. The crustacea, too, which occupy the adjoining tank, are as numerous in species as they are lively in action.

The author relates ten cases of gluteal aneurism; eight in men, two in women, the patients' ages varying from 17 to 60. The causes assigned were-a stab, disease following drunkenness, rheumatism, severe labour, straining, injury to the hip. In three cases, no cause was given. In five cases, an operation was successful; five patients died. The gluteal artery itself was tied three times, the internal iliac six times, and the common iliac once. The common iliac artery, has been tied, according to the author, about eighteen times, for various acci-The tanks, visible on both sides, afford 390 dents and diseases. In six cases, the pafrents recovered; in the others, death ensued in periods varying from two hours to eight months.-Ibid. from Deutsche Klin. 1853.

Sir Astley Cooper's Clinical Prize.-The prize of £300 has just been awarded to Henry Grey, Esq., of St. George's Hospital, for his Essay on the Spleen. We are farther given to understand, that the council has offered to print the essay, at its own cost, to mark their sense of its excellence.-Med. Times and

square feet of view, and contain seven tons of sea-water. Of the marine fish, of which the blennies and cotti are almost always at the bottom, it may be said that their habits are being now, for the first time, investiThe Aquatic Vivarium, Regent's Park.-gated with success. This exhibition of On the borders of the flower bed, in the living fish and invertebrates, besides excitZoological Gardens, Regent's Park, has ing much curiosity, will be of most impresbeen constructed, of glass and iron, a build-sive usefulness to the student, to whom ing 60 by 20 feet in area, containing 14 they have been only known hitherto by 6 feet tanks of plate glass. Of these, six books and dried remains.-Med. Times and are ready for exhibition. They inclose Gaz. June 4, 1853. masses of sand, rock, gravel, corallines, sea-weed, and sea-water; and are abundantly stocked with crustacea, star-fish, sea-eggs, actinias, ascidians, shelled and shelless molluscs, and fish of the genera gasterosteus labrus, crenilabrus, blennius, gobius, and cottus. The ale, which serve at once as ornaments and shelter for the animals, and as purifiers of the water, ap-Gaz. July 23. pear to bear their new situation as well as the lively zoophytes, and no difficulty has presented itself, so far, to the conservation of both. The collection is altogether from the British seas, but the building is so con structed as to be capable of being enlarged, and the Society does not despair of exhibit ing some of the more striking tropical and intertropical forms of invertebrate animals. The most complete portion of the collection are the Actinias, among which the speci-: OBITUARY RECORD.-Died suddenly on mens of A. dianthus, parasitica, crassicor- Thursday, 18th of August, at the Athenis, are truly magnificent. The rare Adamsianæum Club, BRANSBY BLAKE COOPEr, palliata, Actinia nivea, and A. miniata, are Esq., F. R. S., Senior Surgeon to Guy's also objects which merit more than passing Hospital, &c. He was crossing the hall attention. The shelled molluscs are at pre- at the club, when he stopped, and called sent indicated rather than represented; but for a glass of water; before this could be the vivacity displayed by the pectens and brought, blood spouted from his mouth; he littorine are a sufficient guarantee for what fell, and was almost instantly a corpse.

Consumption of Opium.-From an official report just published, it appears that during the last five months the enormous quantity of 63,354 pounds of opium have been imported into this country; the quantity for the last month was 9,699 pounds.—Med. Times and Gaz. July 23.

Clinical Lectures on the Relation of Re- I might thus bring before you every dis-
nal Disorders to Disorders of the Stomach, ease to which the human body is subject;
and to other Acute and Chronic Diseases.- but though I should gain in completeness, I
By H. BENCE JONES, M. D., Physician to should exhaust your interest, and I shall,
St. George's Hospital. Lect. I. On Dis-therefore, only dwell on the connections
orders of the Renal Secretion in Cholera, in and relations of those diseases which, at
Acute Rheumatic Inflammation of the Kid- the present time, appear to me to possess
ney, and in Scarlet Fever.
most practical interest.

GENTLEMEN: It is my intention, in this Thus, in acute disease, I shall occupy
annual course of Clinical Lectures, to your attention with the connection of the
change the plan which I have usually renal secretion with cholera, rheumatic and
adopted; and, instead of taking as my sub-scarlet fever, delirium tremens, and injury
ject the most acute cases in the hospital, I of the spinal cord.
shall bring before you the most interesting
cases which I have noted of the connection
of renal disorders with other acute and
chronic diseases. I intend, not only to
dwell on the disorders of the stomach which
affect the urine, but I wish to take as many
other acute and chronic diseases as my time
will allow, and to show you their effects on
the renal secretion, and the practical con-

In chronic disease, I shall bring before

you Bright's disease, diabetes, indigestion

and its results, such as renal calculi, irrita-

ble bladder, diuresis, retention and sup-

pression of urine. Lastly, scrofulous and

malignant disease of the kidney and blad-

der, and their effect on the urine will be

mentioned.

I shall, as far as possible, bring my cases

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before you as if they were at present under my care in the hospital; and, to save your time, and to avoid repetition, I shall refer you, on most chemical points, to my lectures on animal chemistry, in its relation to stomach and renal disorders.

down the floor of the ward. No urine whatever was passed, and there was no urine in the bladder after death.

The state of the circulation through the kidney appears to me sufficient to account for the different actions of the kidney in these two classes of cases; for the above are types of other cases. I cannot admit that a {hypothetical cholera poison, striving to pass out by the kidney, causes the albuminous urine, because it appears to me that passive

In

The usual effect of acute disease, is to diminish the quantity, and to increase the colour of the urine; but a remarkable exception to this is observable in cholera, one of the most acute diseases. The colour of the urine in cholera was generally re-congestion alone, dependent on the state of markably pale, even when not much more the circulation, is a far simpler explanation. than an ounce was secreted in twelve hours. Moreover, in other diseases, in which we A boy, 12 years of age, was admitted at admit that a poison probably exists in the midnight, July 15, 1849, under my care. blood, and passes off by the kidneys, albuHe was in the cold stage. He had beenminous urine very seldom occurs. Let me attacked with cholera at least twenty-four take rheumatic fever, or acute gout. hours previously. No urine was passed these diseases, unless the kidneys are the until eleven hours after his admission; it seat of active congestion, or of previous diswas very scanty, not much above an ounce; ease, no albumen is ever met with. No pale straw-coloured; contained a consider-diseases are more frequent or more severe able quantity of albumen, with many fibrin- in our hospital. The urine may present all ous casts of the tubes. the marks of the most acute disorder; but how rarely will you meet with albumen in the urine in acute rheumatic fever, or in intense gout. I am not speaking now of those more chronic cases of rheumatism and gout, accompanied, or sometimes caused, by a state of kidney which produces albumen in the urine; but I am impressing on you the rarity of albumen in the urine as a consequence of these acute diseases in which a poison probably exists in the blood. The following case is almost the only example of rheumatic fever and albuminous urine which I can give you :—

The following day the urine became plentiful; it was very light coloured-spe. cific gravity, 1013; contained albumen, and very dark-coloured fibrinous casts; also it gave a deposit of uric acid crystals. On the 19th, the water was still pale; very slightly albuminous; specific gravity, 1010. On the 21st, no albumen was found; the specific gravity was 1008.

A railway porter, aged 29, was admitted March 4, 1843, in the third week of rheumatic fever. The knees, ankles, wrists, and shoulders were affected. He had also severe pain across the loins. The urine was scanty, of a very deep red colour, and contained an excess of urea, but no albumen or blood-globules.

The post-mortem examinations of the kidneys of those who died of cholera, whether in the cold stage or after reaction, showed that congestion of the kidneys, to a greater or less degree, was almost always present. Although this congestion gave rise to the albumen in the urine, and to the low specific gravity of the secretion, yet, in the most severe cases, there was another cause in action which produced a still greater effect on the function of the kidneys. This was the immense drain of fluid from the bowels whereby the total suppression of the March 6.-The pain in the loins was urine was produced. A labourer, aged 35, worse than ever; it was on both sides of was admitted July 13, at a quarter past 9the spine. The urine contained albumen A. M. When going to work, at 6 A. M., he was seized with vomiting and purging. At ten A. M. he became insensible, and he died at three A. M. on the following morn ing. For at least six hours he was kept alive by pumping, from time to time, hot brandy and water into the stomach. The watery motions saturated the bedding, and before it was noticed, they ran in a stream

and blood globules, was slightly acid to test-paper. The perspiration was highly acid and very profuse.

11th. There was acute pain on pressing the region of the right kidney, where the pain was worse than before. The pain was better on the left side. Urine not so deepcoloured, but contained a multitude of pusglobules, and some albumen.