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Sugar in Cholera.-Dr. J. INNIS MACKINTOSH recommends (Lancet, April 8, 1854,) sugar in the treatment of cholera, and asserts that under its use, in thirteen cases of collapse, nine recovered. He gives it as follows: Two ounces of refined sugar are dissolved in six ounces of camphor mixture, with a few drops of rectified spirit. One tablespoonful was given every ten minutes. Wine was also generally given in frequent quantities, and beef tea.

Whether or not the wine, beef tea, and camphor had not more to do with the cure than the sugar, we leave the reader to decide.

Cholera at Jamaica.-At the last advices cholera was raging to a fearful extent at various places on this island.

that town, Mr. J. B. Hume, the chief commissioner, from evidence that had been laid before him, made a calculation that the epidemic had cost the town £3,800 for medicine and burials alone, and would cost it £50 a week for eight years, to support the widows and destitute-nearly £30,000. In addition to this sum, he said, some thou. sands of pounds had been collected and distributed by the Vicar. There are also 200 benefit societies in the town, and taking the average loss at £500 each, made £10,000 more.-Lancet, Feb. 25, 1854.

MEDICAL NEWS.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Cholera in Mexico.-By a late arrival, we Epidemic Cholera.-This disease is at learn that cholera was prevailing to a fright- present prevailing to a greater or less exful extent in various parts of Mexico. In tent in various portions of our country. At one day there were 200 deaths in the capital. different towns on the Mississippi River, Madam Sontag, Mr. Barclay, the Secretary and even in the interior of the States of of the English Legation, and Senor Busta- Missouri and Kentucky, it is said to prevail. mente, the Secretary of the Spanish Legato a considerable extent. In New York, tion are among its victims.

The Cost of Epidemics.-During the sitting of the government commission, held at Newcastle-on-Tyne, to inquire into the cause of the fearful ravages of cholera in

Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, the disease has made its appearance, but so far to only a limited extent. The following Table shows the mortality from bowel com. plaints in Philadelphia and New York, during each of the past four weeks:

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Death from Chloroform.-It is stated in Pennsylvania College.-This school has the Springfield newspaper, that Mrs. Amasa been recently reorganized by authority of W. Richardson, of North Adams, came to the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania Colher death in consequence of inhaling chloro-lege of Gettysburg, and the Faculty is now form administered by Dr. C. E. Streeter, constituted as follows:

for the purpose of extracting a tooth.

DAVID GILBERT, M. D., Professor of Ob

stetrics, and Diseases of Women and monthly journal, edited by Drs. Coppin, Children. Beard, Schlater, and Boyer, of New Orleans, ALFRED STILLÉ, M. D., Professor of Theory the first No. of which was issued on the first and Practice of Medicine. of March last. It is conducted with much JOHN NEILL, M. D., Professor of Principles ability, and we wish its editors success in and Practice of Surgery. their enterprise.

J. M. ALLEN, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
JOHN J. REESE, M. D., Professor of Medical

Chemistry and Pharmacy.

FRANCIS G. SMITH, M. D., Professor of In

stitutes of Medicine.

JOHN B. BIDDLE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

The new members of the Faculty are Drs. A. Stillé and John Neill. The former, who is one of the most accomplished physicians in our country, is well known by his writings, which have justly earned for him a high reputation. He has been for some years one of the physicians to St. Joseph's Hospital, and has lectured on the Practice of Medicine in the Philadelphia School for Medical Instruction.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Death from the Inhalation of Chloroform. -Jane Morgan, aged 59, was admitted into the Bristol Royal Infirmary, January 19th, 1854, with dislocation of the humerus. On the 21st of January, chloroform was given preparatory to making efforts for reduction. One drachm of chloroform, from the manufactory of Duncan, Flockart & Co., of Edinburgh, was poured on a cupped porous sponge, and care was taken to insure a due passage of atmospheric air. Nothing unusual occurring in the patient's general conDr. Neill is one of the surgeons of the dition during inhalation, a second drachm Pennsylvania Hospital, is a fluent and plea- was poured on the sponge, and the inhalasant lecturer, and a well-read and judicioustion continued. Almost immediately after surgeon. These acquisitions cannot but add the addition of the second drachm the considerably to the strength of this school. { chloroform was withdrawn, as the patient's breathing became stertorous, and immedi

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American Journal of Insanity.—We re-ately afterwards her pulse suddenly became gret to learn from the April No. of this imperceptible, and respiration ceased. All journal, that Dr. T. R. Beck, who for the efforts at resuscitation proved fruitless. last four years has conducted it with so much ability, "admonished by advancing age and more imperative avocations," has retired from the editorship. We wish him in his retirement the ease and comfort to which his long career of useful labour so justly entitles him.

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Transfixure of the Body by a Bayonet, without Symptoms.—A gunner and driver of the Royal Artillery had made a murderous attack upon his sergeant with a bayonet, whereby he inflicted two wounds, happily superficial only, upon one leg and arm. Foiled in his efforts of greater success by the seasonable arrival of some other sol51 diers, the culprit rushed through the barrack71 square to escape his pursuers, when the 16 sentry on duty at the gate interposed him82 self with his carbine, in the attitude of

College of Phys. and Surgeons, N. Y. 44 "charge bayonets," to obstruct him. The

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61 was, that, as he was rushing through a nar50 row passage with an impetus which he could 24 not in time control, be threw himself (not 25 premeditatedly, it will be understood) with 17 great force upon the bayonet of the sentry, 35 which entered his body an inch to the left

78 of the ensiform cartilage, and, passing through the abdomen, emerged by its point

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which ulcerated and burst, giving passage to a pin, the head of which was gone. Sixteen others were removed from about the same spot, and others from the left knee, from over the sternum, and from the wrist, in all twenty-two in number. They had all lost their heads except two, and she has lately vomited a number of detached pinheads.

When I reached the scene of action, her appetite, had frequent attacks of vomitwithin two minutes after, I found the sub-ing, and became much emaciated; a small ject of this wound sitting up on a form in swelling showed itself under her left breast, the guard-room, as insensible to any effects from the injury as he was unconcerned at his crime. I could not, therefore, at first believe the statement of his comrades, who told me what had happened, although the bayonet was handed to me, bent by the violence to which it had been exposed; but, on stripping the wounded man, I discovered the two openings of entrance and exit of the bayonet, corresponding, in form and diameter, to those which the different parts of the weapon would have occasioned. Added to this, the bayonet was withdrawn from his body by a non-commissioned officer, upon whose testimony I could rely; and, what is more, this withdrawal of it was witnessed by a crowd of other soldiers around.

Now, this desperate character marched, in a quarter of an hour afterwards, to the hospital, three quarters of a mile distant; and, at the end of a fortnight, was discharged from the same, to be placed upon trial for his life. The day after his admission, his urine was a little bloody ; and, subsequently, there was a general anesthesia of the walls of the thorax and abdomen, which lasted but for a while. With these exceptions, the injury was not followed by a symptom, nor did the subject of it require a dose of medicine for his recovery.

To the circumstance of the affray having been enacted before dinner, I am disposed to attribute much of the immunity from evil which this ruffian enjoyed. Had the stomach been full, it is not easy to conceive that a bayonet could have travelled through such a track of vital organs, without endangering one or more.-. -Med. Times and Gaz. May 6, 1854.

Pins removed from various parts of the Body. Mr. HENRY THOMPSON exhibited to the Pathological Society of London, March 7, 1854, a number of pins removed from various parts of the body. The patient, a young woman, was taking down clothes from the drying lines, and putting the pins in her mouth, when some one came behind her and seized her by her arms, startling her so much that she swallowed the whole mouthful. A neighbouring practitioner was immediately called in, and administered purgatives and emetics, but none of the pins were evacuated. After this, she lost

Mr. Partridge asked, if Mr. Thompson believed that the woman had really swal lowed the pins; all these cases were in his opinion those of hysterical girls, who themselves put the pins into those parts of their bodies from which they were afterwards removed by their medical attendants.

Mr. Thompson said, that her master saw her swallow the pins, and Mr. Jones, who had attended her while the pins were making their way to the surface, believed that her account was a true one. To show that such substances may remain in the intestinal canal for a long time, he would refer to a case related in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, where upwards of a pound of pins was found in the stomach and duodenum twelve months after they had been swallowed.

Dr. Fuller knew a case where a child who swallowed a pin, was ill for twelve months after, and the pin was finally removed from the buttock.

Mr. Mitchell Henry said, that, in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, there were preserved 500 pins found in the body of a Danish Jewess. He also mentioned a case which came under his own notice, where a pin was taken from an abscess in the leg of a child.

Dr. Ogier Ward had often found large pins, such as those used in bleachinggrounds, in the beef of oxen who had been fed in those districts where bleaching was carried on. -Med. Times and Gaz. March 18, 1854.

Radical Cure of Inguinal Hernia.-On the 28th of last March, M. Jobert (de Lamballe) presented a patient to the Academy of Medicine, in whom he had produced a radical cure of inguinal hernia, by puncturing the sac and injecting iodine, which, by occasioning adhesive inflammation, had caused permanent obliteration of the sac.

Sickness among the Russian Troops in

The worst enemy of the Soldier.-Civi- { lians think that shot kills most soldiers, but the Dobrudscha.-By the last letters from

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the banks of the Danube, we find that the Russian army is suffering very much from sickness, and that entire companies are being daily carried off by dysentery. The mortality is described as being so great in the newly arrived regiments, that they were ordered to recross the Danube, and return to a more healthy locality.

Colonel Queach, a Peninsular officer of some experience, and an authority upon the subject, having served throughout the Peninsular campaigns with the old 95th Rifles, says that 40,000 men were killed in action or died of wounds-120,000 died of disease, a great deal of which was rendered fatal by the want of proper medical attendance; whilst 120,000 more were, by disease, rendered unfit for service. What a melancholy retrospect! Prof. Tiedemann.-The Fête Jubilaire appointed medical staff is of the first im. of the celebrated anatomist, Frederick portance in military operations, and would Tiedemann, who was made Doctor of Me be cheap at any cost, however high or be-dicine in March, 1804, and who has resided yond the usual rate.-Lancet, April 29. at Frankfort four years, has just been celebrated in that town. He was Professor at Heidelberg more than forty years, and he retired from the University in 1849, in consequence of a great domestic afflictionwas shot by the namely, when his son Prussian soldiers. The Universities of Heidelberg, of Giessen, of Friburg, and of Wurtzburg; the Imperial Society of Natu ralists and of the Academy of Sciences at Munich; the Medical Corporation of Mayence; the Learned Societies of Frankfort, and the Municipality of the town of Heidelberg, sent envoys to give him their felicitations. The Society of Natural History of Frankfort opened a subscription for a gold medal, executed at Munich, to be presented to this celebrated anatomist. On one side is a portrait of the Professor, and on the other a star-fish, the subject of his first great monograph, which was rewarded by the Institute of France.-Gaz. Hebd.

Medical Intelligence relative to the War in the East.-Letters from Bucharest under date of May 20, state that the encounter at Oltenitza was a very sanguinary one, for 289 wagons containing wounded Russian soldiers, had come from the battle-field into Bucharest. A letter six days earliernamely, on the 14th-from the Lower Danube, written by the army medical correspondent of the Medicinische Wochenschrift, makes mention of the merciless manner in which the Russian generals de vote whole battalions to death, without taking any trouble to reconnoitre the ground, or calculate their chances of success and defeat in any undertaking. The number of bodies taken up on the field in the battles with the Ottomans at Trajan's Wall, and on the line of march of Turtukan, Silistria, and Rassova, is stated, from official returns, to amount already to 5,000. The encamping of armies in the neighbourhood of recent battle fields is extremely dangerous, as the dead cannot be buried fast enough, and for a number of days the atmosphere is loaded with the effluvia of putrefaction; typhus and gastric fevers of a very malignant character, and in some cases gangrene of the cellular tissue, and other dangerous distempers, have been observed.

Sebastopol.-The last accounts from the Black Sea announce that the mortality is very great at Sebastopol. This circumstance is attributed to violent fevers, which are generally prevalent at the change of the seasons. Prince Menschikoff has caused all the sick to be removed from the Hospital Alexander, and carried to a temporary one established on a height out of the town.

University of Edinburgh.-Prof. FORBES has been appointed to the Chair of Natural History in this Institution, long filled by the late Prof. Jameson. This is an excellent appointment. Prof. Forbes is one of the most eminent and zealous naturalists of the age.

To Readers and Correspondents.—Dr. BENNETT's valuable work on Pulmonary Tuberculosis will be completed in our No. for next month.

In the succeeding No. will be commenced the recent important practical volume on Ulcerations of the Os Uteri, by Dr. Charles West, and the whole of it will be given within the present year.

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autopsy showed abscesses in both kidneys, crude tubercles in the right lung, and a large collection of matter in the left knee

Statistical Report of the Principal Opera tions performed in the London Hospitals (joint. during the month of April, 1854. Herniotomy. The patient under the care Lithotomy.-The case left under care of Mr. Coulson, mentioned last month (No. 4) by our last report has since re-(Case 1), has since recovered. covered.

Number of cases, 14; recovered, 9; Number of cases, 3; recovered, 2; died, under treatment, 1; died, 1. Case 1. A 1. Case 1. A rather delicate boy, aged 6, inan, aged 44, under the care of Mr. Wordsunder the care of Mr. Cock, in Guy's Hos-worth, in the London Hospital, had large pital. Two small stones were removed. {femoral herniæ on both sides. On the right Some considerable bleeding followed the side, a tumour the size of an egg became operation, but he ultimately recovered well. tightly strangulated. Strangulation had exCase 2. A boy, aged 5, in average health, isted twenty four hours when the operation but the subject of rickets, under the care of was performed. The sac was opened. The Mr. Adams, in the London Hospital. The man recovered without a bad symptom. stone was soft, and broke into fragments Case 2. A woman, aged 54, had had illduring the removal. It was, however, suc-marked symptoms of strangulated femoral cessfully extracted, and the boy recovered hernia for three days. There was an enwell. Case 3. A man, aged 31, in but poor health, and suffering extremely from the stone. The extraction was performed in the usual way, and a large oval calculus removed, which weighed an ounce and a half. The man afterwards sank into a low state, and had the symptoms of pyæmia. Death took place on the 8th day, and the

larged gland over the femoral sheath, and the operation was at length performed in much uncertainty as to whether there really was a hernia or not. Behind the gland a small knuckle of intestine was found, which, after some difficulty, was reduced without opening the sac, and consequently unseen. The symptoms of strangulation continued,

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