for the present season shows the progress of} the disease :

Week ending June 30,

July 9,

46

46

46

16,

23, 44 30,

August 6,

13,

66

66

20,

17

32

44

119

173

222

291

394

357

301

9,

Dr. Benedict's Sanitarium at Magnolia, East Florida.-We take pleasure in recommending this institution, which is to be opened in November next to physicians, and to invalids laboring under affections of the throat and lungs. It is easy of access, being but one day's journey by steamboat, from Savannah or Charleston, and four days by steamer, from Philadelphia or New York via Charleston or Savannah. The location has been selected after much observation and deliberation, as possessing as many if not more, advantages than any other in this country. The mean temperature of the winter months there is about 60°; frost is rarely seen. The house is commodious, has Yellow Fever at the South-Yellow fever large airy chambers, and is said in every which prevailed to a dreadful extent in Nor-respect to be well constructed for the purfolk and Portsmouth, and in a most malig. pose. Dr. Benedict, who was lately supernant form, has now abated. It has broken intendent of the New York State Lunatic out at Vicksburg, Yazoo city, Cooper's Asylum, is well known as a skilful and Well, Jackson, Canton, on the plantations most humane physician, and the invalid may in Wilkinson County, and other places in feel confident of receiving there every comMississippi. fort which kindness and professional skill can afford.

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The late Dr. Moreton Stillé.-Extract from the minutes of the Philadelphia Asso. ciation for Medical Instruction :

"At a special meeting held by the Association this evening, for the purpose of taking action in regard to the death of their late Associate, Moreton Stillé, M. D., who departed this life on the 20th inst., it was unanimously

American Physicians in the Crimea.-Dr N. E. Gage in a letter from Berlin to the Editor of the New Hampshire Journal of Medicine, states that "twenty-four American Physicians have now gone to the Cri mea. I wish that a word expressed in your Journal would do any good in persuading our young medical men at home, that the prospect is really anything but encouraging, without one is qualified for the greatest physical trials, and for continual embarrass. Resolved, That in Dr. Moreton Stillé we ment from an ignorance of the language." {have to lament a most zealous and efficient colleague; one who in all the relations of Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal.-life was most exemplary and unexceptionaThis is the title of a new candidate for Proble; as a friend, earnest and steadfast; as a fessional favour, edited by Dr. Jos. P. LOGAN man, upright and punctilious; as a gentle. and W. F. WESTMORELAND, Professors in the Atlanta Medical College. The first No., which appeared last month (September), is an interesting one, and manifests a dignified catholic spirit on the part of its conduct. ors. We wish it every success.

The Physician's Visiting List, Diary, and Book of Engagements for 1856.-We are indebted to Messrs. Lindsay & Blakiston for a copy of this convenient book, which we strongly recommend to the attention of those who have never used it. To those who have done so, no recommendation is necessary, they will, we are quite sure, consider the possession of it indispensable

man, affable and courteous; as a physician, mature in judgment, skilful and humane; {and self-sacrificing in his efforts to promote the interests of his profession.

Resolved, That we will attend the funeral of our late member, to-morrow, at 4 o'clock P. M.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the deceased, as an expression of our deep sympathy with them in their sad bereavement."

ELLERSLIE WALLACE, Sec'y.

August 22, 1855.

PHIL'A, Aug. 23, 1855. At a meeting of the students of the "Phi

ladelphia Association for Medical Instruction" held this morning, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :

Whereas, It has pleased an all-wise Providence to remove from our midst a valuable instructor and friend, Dr. Moreton Stillé, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Association, whose able and conscientious discharge of his duties has filled us with esteem, and whose moral worth and valuable counsels have thrown around us the closest ties of affection: Therefore,

Resolved, That while we bow submissive ly to the Divine decree, we make this expression of heartfelt sorrow for his death and respect for his memory; feeling that not to ourselves alone, but that to medical science at large, his loss is one of no ordinary character.

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the family and friends of the deceased in their bereavement,

Resolved, That we will attend the funeral and wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

upon an affection of tic douloureux, to which she was much subject. The result, as might be conjectured, was, that the sufferer inhaled an over dose of the anaesthetic agent, and upon her friends entering her room one morning this week, they found her a lifeless corpse in bed, with the bottle which had contained the chloroform by her side. Dr. Bartolone was called in, but he found the body quite rigid, and the vital spark had been extinct for some hours.-- Lancet, Sept. 1.

Epidemic of Gangrenous Ergotism observed in the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons. By Dr. BARRIER.-Many years have elapsed since gangrenous ergotism had been observed at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons, in any other than a perfectly sporadic form; but during the last year about thirty patients have been admitted into that institution labouring under this species of gangrene, and coming for the most part from the departments of Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire, and Ardèche. A few belonged to the Rhône and other neighbouring departments. The epidemic seems, to judge from the cases treated in the institution, to have attacked men in preference to women. The age of the patients varied from 12 to 60 years. The majority of the patients were, previously to the debility due to the gangrene, in a state of constitutional or acquired weakness, which must have presented an unfavourable OBITUARY RECORD -Died, at Reading, predisposition. The gangrene chiefly atPennsylvania, September 12th, ISAAC HIES-tacked the feet and hands, and from them TER, M. D, in the 71st year of his age. ascended towards the trunk. In no patient In New York, on the 12th of August, in { was the head or trunk affected with mortithe 65th year of his age, Dr. J. C. BLISS.

Resolved, That a record of the proceedings{ of this meeting be sent to his family, and likewise be published in the "Medical News" and "Medical Examiner." S. BAXTER, Chairman.

E. STRUDWICK, Sec'y,

In Washington, on the 12th September, HENRY S. HIELKELL, M. D., Surgeon U. S. A.

At Laona, Illinois, at a venerable age, STEPHEN W. WILLIAMS, M. D., formerly of Deerfield, Mass.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

fication; in the greater number the gangrene destroyed an entire, or almost an entire, foot; in some, a toe only; in others, the two lower limbs mortified nearly to the knee. In a child, aged 14, the disease did not stop until it had reached the middle of the thigh.

Less common in the upper extremities, the gangrene most frequently implicated one or more fingers; it sometimes reached, but seldom passed, the wrist. Local examination seemed, observes M. Barrier, to deDeath from Chloroform.-A young lady, monstrate the existence in almost all the Miss Naylor, residing with her friends in patients, of either primary or secondary arHanover street, Sheffield, was for some time teritis. We regret very much that the surpast in the habit, notwithstanding the remon-geon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons strances of those about her, of inhaling did not avail himself of these cases to give chloroform for the purpose of producing a tolerably complete description of arteritis. trance, and allaying the pain consequent, The gangrene in general was dry; still there

were some cases of moist gangrene. In cellulosus in the pig by administering joints most instances the surgeon confined himself of the tænia. This result was, however, not to waiting for the spontaneous separation of the mortified portions, regulating as much as possible those stumps which presented bony projections, or too unequal flaps. Amputation of the leg was twice performed at the place of election; one of the patients recovered, the other died. This epidemic presents the closest resemblance to that of 1814, which was described by Dr. Janson, of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons.-Dublin Medi cal Press, August 29, 1855, from Gazette Hebdomadaire, August 3, 1855, p. 581.

obtained with the dog or sheep. He urges upon his professional brethren to repeat his experiments, but to begin earlier than he did, and contrive to make a prisoner likely to suffer capital punishment, ingest fresh cysticerci, at the distance of four weeks, several times over. The experiment is, according to Dr. Küchenmeister, quite jus tifiable; for even in case the man were not condemned, it would be an easy matter to expel the artificially produced tænia.—Lancet, July 28, 1855.

Experiments on the Smoke of Tobacco.-In Froriep's Journal, of a recent date, an interesting article has been published on the habit of tobacco smoking, and on poisoning

The apparatus used consisted of a stone jar, in which the tobacco was made to burn, connected with a series of bottles communieating by tubes. The bottles were either empty, or contained some water mixed or not with a little sulphuric acid. From a few experiments, it was found that, in the smoke of tobacco extracted by inspiration, there is ten per cent. of nicotine. Thus a man who smokes a cigar of the weight of

The Ingestion of the Cysticercus Cellulo sus the Cause of Tania.-DR. KÜCHENMEISTER, of Zittau, has published in the Wiener Med. Wochenschrift, (No. I., 1855,) a series of experiments made upon an individual by nicotine. Amongst the facts there mencondemned to capital punishment, which {tioned, are the experiments instituted by M. would tend to show that the taenia solium is Malapert, a pharmacien of Poitiers. His generated by the cysticerci cellulosi which intention was to ascertain the exact quantity we swallow with our food. The culprit was of nicotine absorbed by smokers, in propormade to ingest, mixed up with various arti- {tion to the weight of tobacco consumed. cles of food, seventy-five cysticerci, at periods varying from one hundred and thirty to twelve hours before decapitation. The entozoa were procured from the mesentery of a pig and rabbit; the first used were of the variety of cysticercus tenuicollis" and "pisiformis;" but the latter and greater portion were actual cysticerci cellulosi. The intestines were examined forty-eight hours after death. In the duodenum was found a little tænia adherent to the mucous mem-seventy grains receives in his mouth seven brane; and in the water used to wash this grains of nicotine mixed with a little watery portion of the bowel, other specimens of vapour, tar, empyreumatic oil, &c. Altænia, about the sixth of an inch long, were though a large proportion of this nicotine is also seen. It is supposed that these were rejected, both by the smoke puffed from the the result of the cysticerci which were first mouth, and by the saliva, a portion of it is swallowed one hundred and thirty hours nevertheless taken up by the vessels of the before death, as not a trace of those ingested buccal and laryngeal mucous membrane, near the time of decapitation was discovered. circulated with the blood, and acts upon the M. Küchenmeister concludes from these brain. With those unaccustomed to the use experiments-1. The cysticercus, introduc-of tobacco, the nicotine, when in contact ed into the economy of man, is transformed with the latter organ, produces vertigo, into the tænia solium. 2. The mode of transmission of the tænia solium is the same as that of all the entozoa which originate from cysticerci. 3. Men become affected with the tænia solium by eating either uncooked articles of food, or cooked and ingested cold, as procured from pork butch ers, &c.

The author has succeeded, as had before him Benedeus, in generating the cysticercus

nausea, headache, and somnolence; whilst habitual smokers are merely thrown into a state of excitement, similar to that produced by moderate quantities of wine or tea.

From further investigations it is found that the drier the tobacco the less nicotine reaches the mouth. A very dry cigar, whilst burning, yields a very small amount of watery vapour; the smoke cools rapidly, and allows the condensation of the nicotine

ing the recent winter semestre there were 18,201 students registered, the numbers being for that of 1851-'52, 19,354, and for 1852-'53, 18,596. The total number of foreigners at the Universities amounted to 2,711.-Medical Times and Gazette, May 5, 1855, from L' Union Médicale, No. 42.

before it reaches the mouth. Hence it comes that the first half of a cigar smokes more mildly than the second, in which a certain amount of condensed watery vapour and nicotine, freed by the first half, are deposited. The same remark applies to smoking tobacco in pipes, and if smokers were prudent, they would never consume but half a cigar or pipe and throw away the other. Cholera.-The Cholera has spread from Smoking through water, or with long tubes Peath to all parts of Hungary, and is exand small bowls, is also a precaution which{tremely violent in some of the districts near should not be neglected.-Lancet, Sept. 1. the river Theiss.

Effects of Alcohol on the Constitution.DR. DUCHEK, in a memoir on this subject, comes to the following conclusions as the

result of his observations: 1. Alcohol un

dergoes within the body a gradual combus. tion, the products of which are found in the blood. Experiment has shown that Alcohol absorbed by the stomach is immediately converted into aldehyde, and this substance combining with oxygen produces acetic and oxalic acids, which are found in the blood after the narcotic effects have disappeared. 2. The phenomena of intoxication are due to the presence of aldehyde in the blood. 3. The action of this substance seems to consist in the rapid abstraction of oxygen from the blood, and the arrest of the nutritive functions by retarding the combustion of other substances within the body.-Ed. Med. Journal, August, from Viert. &c.

Resignation of Professor Alison.-Dr. ALISON, the distinguished professor of the Practice of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, has been induced by failing health to resign his chair. On his resignation being presented to the town council, a resolution was unanimously adopted expres. sive of deep sympathy with Dr. Alison in his affliction, and profound regret that his resignation should be necessary; also that he be appointed emeritus professor, and that it be recommended to the Senatus Academicus to confer on him a suitable retiring allowance, for the lustre his services have reflected on the school.

German Universities.-In the 28 German Universities there are 1,699 persons engaged in the business of teaching. Of these there are 847 professors, 253 assistant-professors, 46 honorary professors, 450 private teachers, besides several masters of languages. Dur

The cholera is still doing much mischief in the villages of Lombardy and the Venetian provinces, and, strange to say, this year the situations most likely to be exempt by altitude, etc., have suffered most; thus, the small towns in the Varese and at the foot of the Alps, have been more severely attacked

than Milan or Venice.

From official returns it appears that at Madrid from the commencement of May to the end of August, 2,958 persons were attacked by cholera, of whom 1,783 died. The disease has broken out with extreme violence at Pampeluna.

Natural History Chair in University of Edinburgh.-Prof. GEORGE JAMES ALLMAN, Prof. of Botany in Trinity College, Dublin, has been appointed Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, in

place of the late Dr. Forbes.

Gluten Bread.-Dr. JOHN ALDRIDGE gives (Dublin Hospital Gazette, June 15, 1855) the following as the best formula for this:& Fresh moist gluten, 24 oz.

Bicarbonate of Ammonia, 3iij. gr. xij.
Common salt, Ziss.

Powdered caraway, 48 grs.
Wheaten flour, 4 oz.
Powdered bran, 1 oz.
Salt butter, 4 oz.

The above quantities yield 24 oz. of bread, when baked. It should be baked in small and flat circular tin pans, placed on a moderately heated hot-hearth.

For obtaining the gluten, Dr. A. makes a stiff paste with flour and cold water, and then kneads it with the hands under a current of water, on a slanting board placed in a ten gallon black crock, until starch can no longer be detected in small portions (taken from different parts of the mass) by tincture of iodine.

Statistical Report of the Principal Opera-was removed by the usual operation. On tions performed in the London Hospitals, the day following the operation the child during June, 1855.

was attacked by convulsions, from which

Lithotomy.-Number of cases, 4. Reco-death followed in about twelve hours.

Lithotrity.-A man on whom several lithotrity operations were performed in April, by Mr. Hilton, remains under care sun out-patient at Guy's Hospital. Mr. Coulson's case mentioned last month is also under care and doing well.

A healthy-looking man, aged about 58,
is under the care of Mr. Curling, in the
London Hospital, and has had three-opera-
{tions performed during June without ill
results. He is still an in-patient.

vered, 1. Under treatment, 2. Died, 1.
Case 1.-A boy, aged 3, under the care
of Mr. Fergusson, in King's College Hos.
pital. He was in good health, and symptoms
of stone had been observed for about three
months. A calculus, the size of a horse-
bean, was removed by the usual operation.
Doing well. Case 2.-A healthy boy, aged
12, under the care of Mr. Coulson, in St.
Mary's Hospital. Symptoms had existed
for three years. The stone was crushed
during the operation, and was extracted in Lithectasy in the Female.-A little girl,
fragments. The whole together weighed aged three years and a half, was admitted
two drachms and a half. Doing well. Case under the care of Mr. Erichsen, into the
3.-A boy, aged 5, under the care of Mr. University College Hospital, having suffered
Callaway, in Guy's Hospital. Although very severely from the usual symptoms of
not cachectic, he was in delicate health, being stone. With some difficulty the presence
fat but very pallid. The usual operation of a calculus in the bladder was ascertained. ·
was performed. Recovered. Case 4.A Mr. Erichsen employed sponge tents as
healthy-looking child, aged 3, under the dilators for about three hours previous to the
care of Mr. Coulson, in St. Mary's Hospital, attempt at extraction. The child being put

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