The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-28

which terminated htally. BE says that the essen
tlal difference between fhe two diseases 4, Ast the
s dom n y . sass - e !Pp ca:s 1h a
those Of hydrophobia are owing, In great measure,
to morbid oonditoa Of the msdxue SbIo~gata, the
spinal nerves being at the Same time Affected T,
greater or Lesser extent The one b purely an afec
ton Of the spinal system Of nerves, while In the
other those q the brain arc to greater Or less en-
tent involved.
An asylum for the insane is about being established
in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In paper read before the Statistical Society Of
London by DR.. Guy, it said that the duration Of
life Is greater among physicians and surgeons than
among the general practitioners Of medicine and sur
gerry. The duration Of life Of members Of the medi.
cal profession does not differ materially from that Of
The seventh annual meeting of the American
Medical Association Is to be held in st. Louis, May
2, 1854
DR.. B. D. Carpenter relates, IN the Medical Times
Of this city, two cases Of tetanus successfully treated
by the application of ice to the head and the whole
length Of the spine.
DR.. La Roche, Of Philadelphia, has written pa
per OF great learning and ability, the black vsmit
DR.. La R. takes the ground that when considered BY
,ssst Without sse'snS S to other By
y when noticed only In single or few sporadic in
stances the black vOmit is not su cent to stamp the
disease In which it occurs as being the true yellow
fever.
ahirs but 70 physicians rare. Recently the people
of Willow place, Long Island, surprised their good
old doctor-who has stood between death nad them
for good part Of century.with donsaon visit,
hundred in the comforts of the larder.
The Opthalmic Hospital in this city is to have con-
nected with it school and courses of lectures to
which students who wish to improve themselves in
that important branch of ned eel and surgical science
may have access. Measures are now in progress to
this end, and legislative aid is to DO solicited.
LieutenantG Governor Nesbitt in his address 1t the
opening Of the Bahama Parliament, congratulates
the colony on its considerable freedom from cholera,
but recommends the adoption of efficient sanitary
reforms
DR.. 7. K. Chambers in his "Gulstonian Lectures
gives the histories collected by him, of thirtyeight
obese persons from which it appears that the most
common age at which corpu1ency begins is from
eighteen to thirty; in q Of the 38 cases. it began
between these ages. In most of them there was an
hereditary disposition TO corpulency. Sex seemed
to exercise no influence, as it occurred in Is males
ard 10 females.
Dr.. 0hr, Of Cumberland, Nd, in . published ps.
per on the cholera, which SO violently prevailed in
that place last summer and which he improved every
opportunity to study in its various phases and phe-
nomena expresses his conviction that the disease Is
system, and mere particularly of the sympathetic
or ganganic system Of nerves, the powers Of which
it depesses and parayzes This view of the case the
doctor supports BY facts presented in numerous
cases which he witnessed.
Some Of the newspapers have announced the death
OF DR.. Kramer Of Berlin, the author Of well knewn
work diseases Of the ear. This, however, is mis-
take, the person actually deceased being Professor
Kramer, Of Milan, distinguished chemist.
The London Lancet states that British Associa
tion Of Chemists and Druggists has been formed with
view to the establishment of College of Pharmacy
and Board Of Examiners to grant certificates to
persons properly educated and fully qualified
to dispense medicine, whereby chemists and drug
gsts will secure to themselves permanent status.
The New jersey Medical Reporter, lately under
the charge Of Dr. Parrish is to be edited in future by
DIR. s. N. Butter, with whose medical communica-
tons through the press the public are already
well acquainted.
The stereotype plates ard copyright Of Souths
Household Surgery recently sold at auction 10 Lon
don for ego.
DR.. William Halves, young physician of great
promise, in Boston, and son OF Prince Halves, IN
eminent merchant in that city, died recently Ct his
hsme, aged sc. He was o man OF genial qualities,
and an honor to his profession.