the stricture, and on this Mr. Curling di- do. do. ; Jas. Dickson, do. do. ; C. F. Pervided part of the latter. The case is underkins, Erie do.; J. T. Ray, Mercer do. treatment. W. Townsend, Chester do.; Charles Innes, Delegates to the American Medical AssoTenotomy. In a case in St. Bartholo-ciation.-J. P. Hiester, Berks County; W. mew's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Paget, in which, after acute rheumatism, the man had allowed his knee to stiffen at a right angle. The operator divided all the hamstring tendons. By gradual extension, by means of a back splint, the limb has been got quite straight, within the month. It must be remembered, that there was probably no disease within the articulation.do. Three cases of talipes varus have been operated on in different Hospitals, and remain under treatment. MEDICAL NEWS. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Hollidaysburg was selected as the place of meeting in 1855. Reports were received and read from the medical societies of the following counties: Berks, Blair, Bradford, Delaware, Huntingdon, Lebanon, Lehigh, Mifflin, Montgomery, Chester, Perry, Philadelphia, and Schuylkill; all of which were referred to the Committee of Publication. A resolution was adopted to request the Medical Society of the State of Pennsyl- county medical societies to append to their vania -This Society held its annual meet-annual reports brief notices of such of their ing on the 31st of May, and 1st of June, in the city of Pottsville. Fifty-nine delegates were present. The President, Dr. John P. Heister, of Berks County, read the annual address. The following officers were elected :President.-Jacob M. Gemmill, of Hunt. ington County. members as have died during the year. Resolutions were unanimously adopted, expressive of the feelings of the Society, in regard to the loss sustained, the past year, by the death of Dr. Henry S. Patterson, of Philadelphia, one of its Secretaries; Dr. Francis S. Burrowes, of Lancaster, one of its Vice-Presidents, and Dr. Jos. Stewart, of Philadelphia. Vice-Presidents.-Wilson Jewell, Philadelphia County; E. W. Hale, Mifflin do. ; Votes of thanks were adopted to the offi Wm. Housel, Schuylkill do.; A. K. Gas-cers for the acceptable manner in which ton, Chester do. Recording Secretaries.-D. Francis Condie, Philadelphia County; H. Carpenter, Lancaster do. they had performed their duties; to the Commissioners of Schuylkill County, for the use of their commodious room, and to the medical profession of Pottsville for their Corresponding Secretary.-John Neill, courtesies and hospitalities. Philadelphia County. Censors, First and Second Districts. J. B. Biddle, Philadelphia County; J. T. The Society then adjourned to meet at Hollidaysburg at 10 o'clock A. M., on the last Wednesday of May, 1855. Cholera.-This disease continues its rav. Huddleson, Delaware do.; Hiram Corson, Montgomery do.; G. F. Horton, Bradford do.; P. Cassady, Lancaster do.; William Gries, Berks do.; Charles H. Martin, Le-ages to a greater or less extent, at various high do.; R. E. James, Northampton do. points on this Continent from Montreal to Third and Fourth Districts.-Thomas Wood, Lycoming County; J. B. Luden, Huntingdon do.; Jos. Henderson, Mifflin do.; W. W. McIlvaine, York, do.; J. H. Case, Perry do. Texas. Of the larger towns, St. Louis has, perhaps, suffered most. Neither in Philadelphia nor New York has the disease pre{vailed to as great an extent as on previous visitations. The following table exFifth and Sixth Districts.-J. P. Gaz-hibits the mortality in these two cities during zam, Alleghany County; W. Anderson, the past four weeks: There were 223 deaths in Buckly last week, of which 76 were from Cholera. The total number of deaths in Montreal, from Cholera, from the first appearance of the Epidemic, June 24th, up to July 18th, was 732. 517 78 13 23 160 761 98 74 11 34 20 19 256 717 147 117 17 41 29 13 364 22 915 183 145 21 47 36 14 446 board the English ships in the Baltic, every exertion is making throughout the German towns to engage medical men on the most liberal terms." Let our own Government learn a lesson from these facts, and accord justice, in the The number of deaths in St. Louis dur-point of rank, to the medical officers in our ing the week ending July 15th, was 282, of naval service. which 138 were from Cholera; nearly one half less than during the previous week. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. New Mode of administering Cod Liver Oil.-M. SAUVAN gives the following formula for administering cod-liver oil, by which, he says, the taste and odour of the Coil is completely masked:R.—Yolk of egg Sugar No. 1; Orange flower water 30 monds 90 1 drop. Creasote in Cholera.-M. WEBER, a surgeon of Trueberg, has published four cases of cholera, in children under two years of age, cured by the administration, every two hours, of a tablespoonful of a decoction of salep to which is added one drop of creasote to every hundred grammes of the de Want of Surgeons in the British Navy.— The British Navy is now suffering from the consequences of the Admiralty refusing to surgeons proper rank and accommodations. An officer, serving in the Black Sea, writes to a friend in England: "It is quite lamentable to think of the dearth of medical Ann. Cliniq. de Montpelier. officers there is in this squadron. The Arethusa ship has only had one assistant since January, and there is not a spare one in the fleet. Had we gone into action at any time the surgeon would have done all that was in his power, but another pair of hands, either to administer chloroform or to put on a tourniquet, would have been found wanting. My impression is, that each line-coction.-Les Moniteur des Hopitaux, July of battle-ship is one short; however, if we 4, 1854. are to have men deficient in attainments, perhaps we are better without them, as in the hour of need you do not require a man who is to be taught what he ought already to know. A very bold push ought to be made to get what is necessary to induce men of worth to enter this service as readily as the army." "Owing," says the Independance, of Brussels, "to the want of surgeons on To Readers and Correspondents.-Professor BENNETT's valuable Treatise on Pulmonary Tuberculosis, is completed in the present number. In our next, will be given the commencement of the promised work On Ulcerations of the Os Uteri, by CHARLES WEST, M. D., the whole of which will be comprised in the No's for the present year. Lithotomy-Number of cases, 5; reco-7, vered, 3; under treatment, 1; died, 1. who for two years had suffered from stone, in St. Mary's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Spencer Smith. A stone the size of a large almond was extracted, and the patient has since done well. Case 5. A man, aged 30, under the care of Mr. Fergusson, in King's College Hospital. In fair health. Calculus oxalic acid. Recovered. Case 1. A boy, aged 14, in good health, but of irritable habit, under the care of Mr. Cutler, in St. George's Hospital. Two cube-shaped stones were successfully removed, and the boy has since done well. Case 2. A very delicate strumous boy, aged 3, in Guy's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Birkett. He had suffered for several months with symptoms of stone. The calculus proved a very small one. He recovered without a bad symptom. Case 3. A boy, aged 5, in good health. Nothing unusual occurred during the operation, and the stone was not large. Repeated attacks of passive hemorrhage from the wound occurred dur-been in each," sac not opened." ing the following week, under which the boy sank. No single attack had been very profuse, and the bleeding had never lasted long enough at a time to make the use of Herniotomy. The case left under treatment by last report (Case 9) has since recovered. In Case 7, Mr. Luke's, we accidentally omitted to state the duration of strangulation, which was three days. In Cases 12 and 14, Mr. Cock's, it was erroneously printed "sac opened;" it should have Number of cases, 13; recovered, 8; under treatment, 1; died, 4. Case 1. A woman, aged 37, in St. George's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Published monthly by BLANCHARD & LEA, Philadelphia, for One Dollar a year; also, furnished GRATUITOUSLY to all subscribers of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences," who remit the Annual Subscription, Five Dollars, in advance, in which case both periodicals are sent by mail free of postage to the subscriber. In no case will this work be sent unless the money is paid in advance. VOL. XII.-9 The stricture was in this case Prescott Hewett; hernia femoral; strangu- opened. lation eight hours; sac opened. Recovered. sufficiently relieved by dividing the margin Case 2. A man, aged 42, had suffered from of the femoral ring in a direction forwards an irreducible umbilical hernia for twenty, without opening the fascia propria. The five years. Symptoms of strangulation had hernia had for years been irreducible, and existed for sixty hours when the operation a large mass of omentum appeared to be was performed. The sac was opened, and adherent, and could not be reduced; the a large mass of very dark-coloured omen- intestine, however, was easily returned. tum then came into view, beneath which Recovered. Case 5. A man, aged 44, in lay a coil of small intestine, intensely con- St. George's Hospital, under the care of gested. In attempting to separate these at Mr. Johnson. Hernia inguinal; strangua part where they adhered, a very minute lated twelve hours; sac opened. Recopin-hole laceration of the bowel occurred,vered. This man had been operated on at and some mucus and blood escaped. The another hospital some time previously on opening in the intestine was then enlarged the same side. During his recovery the and stitched to the borders of the wound. cicatrix of the old wound gave way; both, The stricture having been freely relieved, however, ultimately healed. Case 6. A the parts were left in situ, as reduction male infant, aged five months, under the could not be effected. The man gradually care of Mr. Johnson, in St. George's Hossank after the operation, and died in about pital. Hernia inguinal, of large size, and thirty-four hours. At the post mortem, no strangulated ten hours. The sac was evidences of acute peritonitis were found; opened, and, owing to the closeness of the intestines above the protrusion were the stricture, it was necessary to incise it distended with feces. Case 3. A man, in several parts before reduction could be aged 48, under the care of Mr. Cock, in effected. The child recovered well. Case Guy's Hospital. Hernia inguinal, strangu.7. A man, aged 59, in St. Bartholomew's lated thirty hours; stricture very tight. Hospital, under the care of Mr. Lawrence. The sac was opened, and the intestine was Hernia femoral; strangulation 64 hours; found ulcerated beneath the anterior margin symptoms not very acute; sac opened; inof the stricture. The perforation did not testine found inflamed, and adherent to the require enlarging, and its edges were ac-omentum; the latter left in the sac; recocordingly carefully stitched to the margin vered. Case 8. A man, aged 60, who had of the wound, after which the rest of the been for years the subject of a reducible inprotruded bowel was returned into the ab-guinal hernia on the left side, was admitted domen. For three weeks after the opera- about six hours after having received a vio tion the patient did very well; the feces,lent blow on the abdomen. He had the which at first had passed freely by the arti-symptoms of strangulated hernia, and in ficial anus, were beginning to come by the the left inguinal canal was a small tender natural one, and the former was closing swelling. The operation was performed, Suddenly, on the 24th day, the man sank but the sac, which was very much thickeninto extreme collapse, and died after a few ed, was found empty. The man lived after hours' illness. At the post mortem, no lesion the operation for two days. At the post was discovered which threw any light on mortem, extensive peritonitis was found, the cause of death. The intestine at the caused no doubt by a minute rupture of the seat of perforation was well united to the small intestine, which was discovered about surrounding parts. About four inches beloweight inches above the colon. There did the opening, a band from the omentum not appear to have been any escape of feces. crossed the bowel in such a way as to par- Case 9. A woman, aged 64, in St. Bartholo tially stricture it, and there was a large ac-mew's Hospital, under the care of Mr. cumulation of feces above this point; there Paget; hernia, femoral, strangulation was no reason, however, to believe that this twelve hours; symptoms urgent; sac not condition had been produced subsequent to opened; recovered. The wound in this the operation, nor was it at all sufficient to case almost healed by the first intention. explain the termination of the case. Case 4. Case 10. A woman, aged 45, hernia feA woman, aged 50, under the care of Mr.moral, strangulation ten hours; sac opened; Birkett, in Guy's Hospital. Hernia fe death on the fifth day. At the autopsy, exmoral; strangulation forty hours; sac not tensive serous effusion was found in each pleural sac; there was pus in the sub-peri- { _Number of cases, 20; recovered, 6; toneal tissue behind the pubes and beneath under treatment, 6; died, 7. the rectus muscle of the abdomen. The Of the thigh.-Case 1. A man, aged 35, strangulated portion of bowel appeared to much exhausted by old-standing disease of have quite recovered itself. Case 11. A the knee-joint, under treatment, and doing woman, aged 53, in St. Thomas's Hospital, well. Case 2. A man, aged 50, admitted under the care of Mr. Le Gros Clarke, on account of a severe gunshot wound of hernia femoral, strangulation twelve hours; the ankle-joint. He resolutely refused to sac opened; doing well. The patient in submit to primary amputation, and only conthis case is blind and deaf, the subject of sented when the whole limb had become prolapsus uteri and of chronic bronchitis.œdematous, and he had sunk into an almost In the sac, a large mass of adherent omen-typhoid state. Secondary amputation on tum was found, which was left to slough the 7th day, and death on the 11th. Imaway; it has kept up much suppuration inmediately before death there were some the wound, excepting from which the wo-symptoms of tetanus, but he was in a hopeman may now be deemed out of danger. less state before their appearance. Case 3. Case 12. A woman, aged 67, in Guy's Hospital, under the care of Mr. Poland; hernia femoral; strangulation twenty-two hours; sac not opened (fascia propria not divided); recovered. Case 13. A woman, aged 48, under the care of Mr. Fergusson, in King's College Hospital; hernia femoral; strangulation forty-eight hours; sac not opened; recovered. A man, aged 26, admitted into the Westminster Hospital, under the care of Mr. Holthouse, on account of a severe compound fracture, by which the knee-joint had been laid open. He had lost much blood. As soon as reaction had been established, amputation was performed, from the direct shock of which, combined, perhaps, with the influence of the chloroform, the patient Ligature of Arteries.-T. R., a vintner's was very near dying. He has since done porter, of middle age, and accustomed to well, although there has been a little ganfree living, was under Mr. Critchett's care, grene of the stump. Case 4. A girl, aged in the London Hospital, on account of a 15, under the care of Mr. Cutler, in St. large abscess in the right cheek. Repeated George's Hospital, for diseased knee-joint. attacks of profuse bleeding occurred, and She was in fair health, and but slightly pressure having ceased to be available, Mr. hectic. Recovered. Case 5. A strumous Critchett placed a ligature on the common boy, aged 13, under the care of Mr. Johncarotid. A complete arrest of the hemor-son, in St. George's Hospital, for diseased rhage resulted, but the man sank exhausted, knee-joint. Recovered. Case 6. A man, and died on the third day. The post mortem aged 35, in St. George's Hospital, under showed that the abscess had extended back- the care of Mr. Johnson, for pulpy degenerawards to the pharynx, and downwards into tion of the synovial membrane of the kneethe neck. joint. Recovered. Case 7. A boy, aged Compression Treatment of Aneurism.—16, in extreme hectic from disease of the Mr. De Morgan's case in the Middlesex Hospital continues under treatment. knee joint, which had commenced three months before by a scrofulous abscess exAmputations. Of the cases reported last ternal to the articulation. Death took place month, the following have ended fatally: three weeks after the amputation, apparently Case 7. After having appeared to progress from exhaustion. No autopsy. Case 8. A well for eighteen days, the patient became man, aged 22, under the care of Mr. Brook, feverish, and quickly sank into a state of in the Westminster Hospital, on account of well-characterized pyæmia. The tongue suppuration in the knee joint, consequent became brown and dry, and the features on a wound. He was hectic and much resunken; an abscess formed in the popliteal region. Death occurred on the 22d day. No autopsy. Case 16. Death took place on the 11th day from well-marked pyæmia No autopsy. Case 17. Death on the twelfth day, from exhaustion. No autopsy. With these exceptions the cases either remain under treatment or are recovered. duced. He has done well since the operation. Case 9. A man, aged 53, of feeble constitution, under the care of Mr. Birkett, in Guy's Hospital, for compound and comminued fracture of the leg. In order to effect reduction, a large fragment of the tibia, which was loose, had to be removed, and also the lower end of the upper portion |