, 1842-05-07


plishment. The green sward is COW
cred with gay dancers, enjoying the
favorite waltz of the country. Hear
a Doctors scientific a%postrophe in
admiration Of this amusement. "The
velocity with which they whirled
round was truly marvellous, and seem.
ed to present a TAR scope fer surgical
caSuahies.!!'
take this occasion to remark, that
if our city would initiate the Wen
mes in thus furnishing gratuitious mu-
steal entertainment to the public, We
: should save The entire expense in the
police and judiciary department., by
exerting a most happy moral infu-
ence over those classes of the COM
munity, which, from the entire alb.
sence Of such innocent diversion
within their reach, are driven in
search Of excitement our nature
Graves, to places where the recrea-
tive enjoyments are made to minister
10 their evil passions alone.
Switzerland, DR.. Mott pronounced
unsuited TO invalids, on account of the
sudden changes of temperature, occ
stoned by the cold winds from the
Alps. He cautions his countrymen
against seeking health there. He
never met elsewhere SO large a num-
Der of cases Of pulmonary complaints
as in the hospital of Geneva.
Goihe.-This distressing malady
of mountain regions appears, by the
Doctors observation, to be generated
in the damp valleys oil mountain gor-
ges. Removal 10 the dry air of the
high mountains is one of the most
popular remedies for it. He says it
is analogous to the ricketts, and soften
ing of the bones, produced in dogs
and other animals by long c%on6ne-
ment in damp and dark situations
These effects he has witnessed in a
Series Of careful experiments, made
at Paris by DR.. Jules Guerin.
Dupuytren.-Dr. Mott distinctly
charges this great surgeon with hav-
ing laid claim to priority in the per-
formance of the operation Of exsect-
ing the lower jaw for osteo sarcoma,
which DR.. Mott performed a year be-
for, and from a detailed account Of
which Dupuytren took instruction.
Casarean Operation.-This dan
gerous operation, we are informed
by DIR. Mott, has been twice QUO
cessiulIy performed by DR.. Gibson.
of our city, upon the same mother
in both cases saving the life of the
mother and the child! This is in
deed worthy of record in the annals
of Philadelphia surgery.
Doctors go in considerable Stale
in Cairo.-Dr. Primer rides a beau
tiful donkey, preceded by a January
in red, with a long sword, running on
foot as an aUant courier. He wears
a very splendid Egyptian dress, with
a servant unbuckles when he visits
the apartments Of the sick, and re-
turns to its place when he leaves.
The Leprosy the Doctor pronoun-
ces to be l%egitimately descended from
the same parentage as modern syph-
Ills; and hence the adherence of
those who are afflicted with this
loathsome disease. And this also
accounts for the civil and e~cclesiasti-
cal law which in Greece, authorizes
a divorce in case of leprosy. The
remedies are also the same in both,
m%ercurial and arsenical.
Labelling Patients.-The great
hospital in Vienna is the best in the
world; here every patient is labelled;
a card at the head of his bed gives a
brief history of his complaint, and
the treatment pursued. What a con-
venience to medical practitioners and
students! So obvious an improve
ment ought at ono to be adoptedhere.
What a saving Of interrogations, and
Of the annoyance Of repeated an
swers from the poor patients would