The Medical Fortnightly

MEDICAL MISCELLANY

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY.

The next meeting of this society will be held in St. Joseph, on Thursday and Friday, March 22 and 23, under the presidency of Dr. John E. Summers, Jr., of Omaha. The local arrangements are in the hands of Drs. Jacob Geiger, O. B. Campbell and C. R. Woodson, and hospitable St. Joseph extends a hearty welcome to all.

Among those who will contribute to the program are: Dr. N. S. Davis, Jr., L. L. McArthur and Fenton B. Turck, of Chicago; Dr. S. Grover Burnett, Kansas City; Dr. Chas. H. Mayo (President Minnesota State Medical Association), Rochester, Minn.; Dr. C. O. Thienhaus, Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. Wm. Jepson (President Iowa State Medical Society), Sioux City; Dr. D. C. Gore (President Missouri State Medical Association), Marshall, Mo.; Dr. Prince E. Sawyer, Sioux City, Ia.; Dr. Chas. E. Bowers (President Kansas State Medical Society); Dr. Daniel Morton, St. Joseph; Dr. T. C. Witherspoon and Marc Ray Hughes, St. Louis.

Those wishing to contribute papers should send in their titles at once, as the list will close February 15.

If you are not a member of this progressive society, now is the time. to join. Two meetings a year-initiation one dollar, annual dues one dollar (including the MEDICAL HERALD). For application blank address, CHAS. WOOD FASSETT, M. D., Secretary,

St. Joseph, Mo.

FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. Interest is increasing in the approaching session of the International Medical Congress, which is to be held in Lisbon, April 19 to 26. The preliminary program and itinerary of the American party which is being organized, describes a most interesting trip at very low cost.

Dr. John Musser, of Philadelphia, is chairman of the National Committee, and Dr. Ramon Guiteras, 75 West 55th street, New York City, is the secretary, to whom all applications for membership in the Congress and communications regarding papers should be addressed.

The sailing date of the American party is April 7, by the North German Lloyd Steamship, Koenig Albert.

The transportation arrangements are in the hands of Dr. Chas. Wood Fassett, of St. Joseph, to whom applications for reservations should be made. In order that proper hotel accommodations may be secured in Lisbon, there should be no delay on the part of those who contemplate attending the Congress.

THE BALMY SOUTH AS A WINTER RESORT.

This is the season of the year when professional eyes are turned to the Southward, and those who are fortunate enough to have spare time are, at the advice of their physicians, seeking the Gulf resorts, to escape the unpleasant blizzards of the wintry North.

Among the most attractive and comfortable places within easy reach by a direct line of railroad we would mention Pass Christian and Biloxi, Miss., which from their peculiar and advantageous situation on the Mexi can Gulf, are favored with the most delightful weather at this season of the year. Last year the writer found the months of February and March especially healthy and attractive here, with the blue of Italian skies overhead, the perfume of roses in the air and the eye dazzled by the beauty and profusion of the tropical flowers.

At Biloxi, Dr. H. M. Folkes has built a spacious and modern sanatorium facing the Gulf, and providing an ideal place for treatment and recuperation. His patients are enabled to enjoy the open air nearly every day during the winter, and should there be a few days of inclement weather, the sun parlors afford an enjoyable retreat. This institution is equipped throughout in modern style.

At Pass Christian, a few miles further down the Gulf, reached by rail, and connected by a delightful drive over the famous "shell road," is located the Mexican Gulf Hotel, under the management of Mr. E. F. Carroll. Accommodations here are first class in every respect, the fishing is excellent, the sailing fine, while nearby woods afford the hunter an abundance of game. A notable fact and one illustrative of the peculiarly healthy and salubrious climate of these Gulf resorts, is that not one case of yellow fever occurred either at Biloxi or Pass Christian during the recent epidemic.

The carnival season at New Orleans, which opened on January 5 and continues during February, attracts thousands of visitors to New Orleans, which is the gateway of the Mississippi. Mardi Gras week, February 22 to 27, will be one continuous round of festivity, and this year will surpass all previous demonstrations. All those who visit New Orleans should consult their own comfort by securing accommodations in advance at the New St. Charles Hotel, one of our most unique and successful hostelries, conducted upon American and Europeans plans. Under the management of Mr. A. R. Blakely, the New St. Charles has taken a position among the famous hotels of America.

New Orleans offers many attractions at this season of the year, being provided with seven theaters, including the famous French Opera, horse racing, golf and all the pleasures which are usually found in the North during the height of the summer season.

New Orleans is best reached by the through trains of the Frisco and Illinois Central Railways, making close connections with the L. & N. for Biloxi and Pass Christian.

LEGACY FOR HARVARD MEDICAL.-Dr. George S. Hyde has by his will left $50,000 to the Harvard Medical School.

INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION.-Tuffier concludes that beyond the age of 50. all intestinal obstruction is due to cancer.

TEN-YEAR-OLD MOTHER. -A colored girl of Bristol, Va., who was ten years old last October, recently gave birth to an eight-pound infant.

SURGEON-GENERAL DEAD.-Dr. von Leuthold, the Emperor of Germany's body physician and surgeon-general of the army, died.

STERILIZED TRAINS.-The Chicago Limited of the Erie Railroad, has its interior daily sterilized by an apparatus perfected by the official chemist of the road.

NUFF SAID.-A twenty-dollar-a-year advertiser wants a ten-dollar reading notice free, each month. I wrote him: "The waiter shouted down the hall "We don't give bread with one cod fish ball.'" That's all I said. -Daniel's Texas Med. Jour.

MONOPOLY OF THE SPECIALISTS.-At a meeting of the physicians one speaker said: "The rage for parceling out the human frame into special territories is passing bounds. We have specialists for the nose, the throat, the ear, the lungs, the heart, the genito-urinary organs, the rectum, the mouth, the brain, etc. It seems to me, gentlemen, that it will not be long ere the specialists, like Alexander, will have to sigh for new regions to overcome. So far as I can see, the umbilicus is about the only portion of the human body not allotted to a specialist." Whereupon a veteran practitioner exclaimed: "Doctor, you're forgetting the naval surgeons."

MEDICAL MEMORANDA.

When an internal mucous astringent is indicated, in such cases as cholera infantum, etc., Kennedy's dark pinus canadensis should be given in an alkaline medium.

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In the treatment of bronchial affections, triacol, Alpers, has proven of great benefit to the medical profession during the past few years. A well known practitioner of the East has said of this preparation: "I have never seen any guaiacol preparation that is so efficient. I am delighted that you have such a fine, palatable solution of those guaiacol salts, and I know of no better combination of them than your triacol." Upon application to The Alpers Chemical Company, 4-6 White street, New York, samples and literature will be sent free of charge.

A bit of very sensible literature has just been received from the press of Searle & Hereth Co., treating of the physiological action and the therapeutic use of guaiacol and creosote. These drugs, as is well known, are theoretically admirably adapted to the treatment of tubercular conditions, especially where the bronchial tract is involved and where increased appetite and forced feeding are a desideratum. The trouble has always been that before enough of the creosote and guaiacol could be absorbed to have any marked systemic effect, the digestive functions had become badly deranged. The use of the sulphonates of guaiacol and creosote as in guaiatonic S. & H. has evidently overcome this difficulty to a very great extent, as clinical testimonies prove. In thus furnishing the profession with an improved method of administering guaiacol and creosote, the Searle & Hereth Company certainly deserves great praise.

Pneumonia. The ill effects of pneumonia which we are so often called to treat, sometimes give cause for alarm. Recently a young man, age twenty, carpenter by trade, applied to us for treatment. Several months previous he recovered from pneumonia. His cough which was very irritating seemed to be constant, and especially was this severe at night. By morning he was usually so much exhausted that he could not attend to his work. The usual remedies gave no relief. Bacteriological examination of the sputum revealed no signs of tuberculosis I put the patient on teaspoonful doses of fitchmul, every two and one-half hours for the first five days; every three hours thereafter and at the end of twelve days the cough had disappeared entirely, and he was again in good health and normal weight within a few weeks after treatment ceased. Fitchmul combines the active properties of fir balsam, Venice turpentine, chloric ether, and a minute quantity of hydrocyanic acid, tartar emetic and aromatics.-New Albany Med. Herald.

One Moment, Please.-Just at this season, when inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs are so prevalent, it is a matter of much importance to apply methods of treatment that will control the respiratory symptoms without deranging the other functions of the body. Expectorants fail so frequently that they are, to say the least, unreliable; cough syrups derange the stomach and thereby add a complication; respiratory sedatives, of which opium and its derivatives are the most frequently employed, depress the central nervous system and have but a transient palliative effect from which an undesirable reaction nearly always results. How much better it is to hold the respiratory symptoms in abeyance with a remedy which not only is absolutely free from deleterious influences, but has also pronounced constitutional effects, which reinforce its specific action on the respiratory tract. The Gray's glycerine tonic comp. has these influences is accepted by the profession at large because the experience of many years has demonstrated the fact beyond question. A convincing proof is evidenced by the effects of this remedy in the ordinary forms of acute bronchitis or "cold." Almost immediately do the symptoms of respiratory inflammation become less pronounced when Gray's tonic is administered; cough is lessened, bronchial distress relieved and expectoration facilitated; persistence in the use of this remedy will practically always control these troublesome symptoms and shorten, very materially, the duration of the attack. In chronic bronchitis and "winter cough," Gray's tonic is a well-nigh indispensable ally to successful treatment. Its use palliates the respiratory symptoms and exercises a beneficial influence upon nutrition in general-and this latter effect is a matter of no small importance, so authorities state, in overcoming these chronic and recurrent forms of bronchitis. Because of these effects, the routine administration of Gray's tonic in the acute infectious diseases with respiratory complications, has become a widespread habit. Influenza, pneumonia, typhoid fever are, by means of this practice, rendered less troublesome by the specific action of Gray's tonic on the respiratory tract-the course of the disease is obviously modified and convalescence more speedily established. Twenty years of experience of skilled scientific physicians constitutes the foundation upon which the above statements are based. Their 1ecognition and application by every physician means much gained in treatment.

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