The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-19

Medical News.
Several members Of hitherto healthy family in
Baltimore, having recently died one sft1r another,
an investigation to the capse was instutsd, which
showed that the parties Lowy poisoned in con-
sequence OF drinking water which flowed through
. long leaden pipe-that II was the action Of the
ties. 1t wss pump water Lead pipe, IL il bstisvod
has NO such effect upon hydrant water.
The medical and surgical profession figure largely
In the recent issues Of the patent office, nearly one
relating to them, nsmey:-Salivs pumps, disphnm
pumps, pil machines, t0nAil instrIments, amputat-
ing apparatus. sDd trusses. 20 p
DIR. Matthew Wendell has been reelected by ths
Common Council Of Brooklyn, N. Y, health phyd-
clan of that city. The doctor has proved himsef
useful officer, and our peghboring city has done IT.
self favor in keeping him In Office.
An exchange paper advises one Of it, correspon-
dents who II afflicted with that losthsoms disease
the lsprcsy, to apply friction, warm baths sulphur
baths ano afterwards slightly stimulating ointnenx,
such a. pitch ointment or weak citrine ointment,
with hsh and moderate diet and abstinsnoe from
wine and stimulants
The United States Surgeon General has made
report to Congress, from which it appears that the
adultea alton Of drugs and ticnes Il carried on
more excessively since the passage Of the act Of
Congress to suppress the importation OF such artl
clos. than before; 30 that it Is now alleged to be
mixed with some foreign substances or from which
Some portion Of the active principle has not been
abstracted BY chemical process.
There are eleven physicians in the tive houses Of
the Ohio Legislature.
Flames Il daile, surgeon in the East India Com
panys service, has forwarded from Scotland me-
mortal 70 Congress- in which he assert priority to
all Americans in performing surgical operations
without pain to the subjects, whom he rendered
senseless by mesmeric influences as early as 1s45.
de says hig Object is to release Congress from the
shame OF saDctoDiDg by its high authority another
OF the lies Of history.
York Legislature has been presented, praying that
the measure now before them extending the privi-
leges OF dissectiog the bones Of the dead, to the
medical fAculty, may not becomea law. He opposes
dissection, sn0 quotes largely from the writings of
Dr. Dlcnon, tue distinguished chrome thermaIst, of
LoLdnn, III support Of his position.
There were living Ia the VILLAGE Of Dightou, Mass,
on the fystd day Of January, 1853 no less than forty
ak years, all withina circle of one mile radius.
Their ages, added together, amount to thirty.fve
hun dred years
Virginia furnishes three hundred medical stud snts
annually, and the whole South probably furnishes
Mrs. Mary A. ". johnson, q somewhat noted medi
cal individual. has been delivering . course Of lee
lures on physiology in Broohlyn, N. Y.
Among the reforms Ia Turkey induced by Eure-
pcan influence, was that Of quarantine. This oc-
Cured IN 1889. In 1888 the plague had been worse
In its r4vsges than for thirty years previous y and It
was estimated that during the year so 900 people
Died from It Ia Constanunoplc; and Notwithstanding
the quarantine worked badly at drst yet for fourteen
years there had been hardly . case OF the plague,
and 1t has now ceased to be an epidemic.
The tables Of mortality show that the average
length OF time persons who have attained to thirty
years Of age will I've Is 81 years and ia days; 40
cording to the experience Of seventeen Life insurance
offices "a years and l56 days; according to tho Lon
Don Equitable Life Insurance Company, 81 years and
40 days.
l.. Voltaires definition Of physician is: I" An unfor
tunase gentleman, expected every day to perform
miracle namely 70 reconcile health with intemps-
rance" better definition it would be impossible to
give.
The Practical Dentst SAYS that the great and all.
powerful destroyer Of the human teeth is acid, ve-
getable or mineral, and 1t ma ters not whether that
acid be formed in the mouth by the decomposition OF
PARTICLES OF food left between and around the tseth
or whether il is applied directly TO the organs them
selves the result is the ne the enamel Is dissolved
corroded, and the tooth destroyed.
Dr. +. II. Kelly has assumed the editorial chair of
the Worcester Saass ycsS~al o. Medie.~e:
Dr John 4. Wells, Of Bellows Falls. vt, died sud.
denly at that place, aged seventy years.
A new homeopathic periodical has been started
In Chicago, Ill., and another iii St. Louis, Mo.
In some OF The Eastern countries, one Of the
mothers earl.et cares Is to promote the growth Of
her childrens eyelashes by tipping aud removing the
nne gosssmerlke points with q pair Of scissors,
when they are asleep. By repeating this every
month or sx weeks they become in time long, close,
never fails, and Is very useful, when, owing to in
ned or stinted.
The following are the officers of the Boylsson Me.
dcsl Society Of Bostonone Of the most useful medi.
cal associations in thecouptyfor the ensuing year:
President, Calvin Ellis; Vice President, Samuel A.
Green; Secretary, Henry K. Oliver, Jr.
The scarlet fever Is quite prevalent in the more
some instances, whole families have been swept away
by it.
The smallpox Is prevailing in Charleston, 8. c.,
also Morristown, NJ, and in New York city.
The whole number OF desths In Stamford, Conn.,
year, was As, or one in hundred. Toere died In
January, l; February, 2; March, 8; April, S; May,
81 June, 8; July. 2; August, 8; September, 10; DC.
tober, z; November, 4; December 8. The deaths
4; other diseases, !, 2 and s.
DR. Duikee, Of Bottom, has had awarded To him {
bronze medal for specimens Of microscopic anatomy
and natural history prepared by him and exhibited
preparations no. and arc Of great beauty and per
lection.
During the year 1853 the number Of intermeuts in
Baltimore was $3.50, or to about SO OF the popuia.
old age; 256 by cholera iafantum; 554 by niantile
diseases.
medical correspondent Of Nelson's Am1scan
Lancet states that he has applied chloreform sue
sebsIuDy III Cdses VI uVurhiBl8, TIC 0Oler64uX, tetAr
mus, &C. In case Of tetanus he applied lint satu-
rated with cbloroform along the whole spine, and
covered with Indarubber cloth, which was attend
ed with the best results In cases Of tOothache he
had found remedy in filing the cavity With cotton
saturated with chloroform and renewing IL until the
Feasibility Of the nerve vas touched.
Experiment proves that the beard, II sved n ows
from four to five times faster than IL unshorn; and
reckoning the stimulus given the beard by the nrst
use Of the razor in adolescence TO be double, and the
consequent difference tn size and weight Of the FIBRE
and the result s that We raise thirty times the natu
raj quantity Of beard.
The New Orleans Medical s~d Surgical Journal
states that q young female, whose erost zoe vas
about to be amputate1 BY one Of the Waiting sur
geons Of the Charity Hospital in that CITY, suddenly
expired while under the influence Of chloroform Il
was some time before she could be drought under the
effects Of the ssdsfhetic; she finally, however, be-
came completely ins1nsbe. and before the operation
was concluded she fanh and rapidly expired in spite
Of the most strenuous and judicious ers OF several
medical men present. A post mortem was made by
the professor Of physiology in the Univenaity Of
Louisiana and all the organs found perfectly healthy