The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-28
Medical summary.

According to the last census there were in
the US. 1877 persons of the age of 100 and
over 5000 between the ages of 80 and 100;
$4,000 between the ages of 30 and 90; more
than one half the whole population under 20
' years of age; about two-ffths between 90
and so, and less than one fifth only over 30
years of age. Hurra for "young AmericaP'
The percentage of deaths in the follow
ing American and English cities have been
ascertained to be: N. Y. City, 2.55 per cent;
Baltimore, 2.49; Charleston, 2.48; Boston,
PAS; Lowell, all; London, 1853; Liverpool,
3.34 Manchester, 3.48.-The number OF
medical men in this country in 1850 was
1854, or one TO every $50 of the popula-
tion.-The strawberry, if applied to the
teeth with a brush, will remove tartar as eff
fectually as any other scientific that can be
applied.-Hippocrates, the styled Father
of Medicine lived TO the age of l09 years.
when the last census was taken it was
ascertained hat there were of deaf and
dumb persons in the Union 9,i36; of blind,
1878 of insane, IA, 972 and of idiots, IA
257.-It is stated that the proportion Of
deaths from all pulmonary diseases is, in
Philadelphia, 1857 per cent. in N. Y. City,
2s.os per cent; in Havana, 25.o7 per cent.
in Boston, q .97;i in Baltimore, 1888; Charles
ton, % .73; City of Mexico, 1916; Norfolk,
Va, 1878; N. Orleans, 1887 per cent
The meeting of the National Eclectic Medi-
cal Association was spirited andharmonious.
The New York Tribune published a full
report of its proceedings, devoting Two and
a half columns for that purpose.-The ed
itor of the Charleston 'tMedical Journal re-
ports a case of a negress from whose head
he removed a horn seven inches in length,
measuring its outer border; the other and
shorter border was -four inches. The great
est diameter was q inches.-Prof. Hor.
Ace Green, the great advocate for treating
Throat and Lung Diseases with nitrate Of sik-
ger, has resigned his professorship in the N.
Y. Medical College.-Prof. Nj. Geofroy
Saint illaire, of Paris, has been lecturing in
n. Y. upon the advantages ofbringing horse
flesh into use as food, and declares that
there is no reason why it may not be eaten
like the OK or the sheep.-Prof. VIM II.
Cook Of Cincinnati, Ohio, is about issuing
an Essay on Acute Dysentery, its Nature
aud Management, to which will be added an
article on the Symptoms and Treatment of
Cholera.-Died at Red Bahk, N. j., J. +.
Boyd, M. D., aged 81 years, The doctor
was a graduate of the N. Y. Metropolitan
Medical College Ned Reforme,.
Cool CoUeAeE.-Mr. Philips, whom The
Missouri mob tarted and feathered al Weston,
Mo, was told that he should be hung, il ev-
er again found in Kansas but in spite Of
this threat he Immediately crossed the river,
entered his own house at Leavenworli, and
commenced running nfe balls Men OF
such spirit will not often be molesied. The
first SIX men who approach him next, 10 III
sui! him, will receive passports 10 "kingdon
Gomez
SINGULAR OccURRENcE.-A few days SINCE
a spot Of land, more elevated than any in ihe
immediate vicinity, in Walworh county,
Wisconsin, suddenly sunk 10 The extent oil
about forty feelin circdtnfeTedce, leaving a
small lake or well in its stead. to which,
thus far, no bottom has been found. The
water has risen 10 wi hin three or four feet Of
the surface of The earth Surrounding il, and
remains at the poiut.
IL Mark, who recently murdered a
brother and a sister named Smith, near Holy
Springs, Miss, has been arrested. He was
iucensed against ihe Two because they had
testified before a court against him, and at.
ter firing three times at the brother, walk ed
up 10 bis sister, and despite her prayers and
sgonizing screams, formally placed a pistol
10 herbosom and shot her through The heart.
AsTRosoMIcAL.-rhe planet Venus is new
the evening star, and will continue So until
October list. For Two or three months twill
be increasing in brilliancy, and may be seen
plainly will. the naked eye in the evening,
cas-, Of and about lorty-five degrees from The
sun.
Cows KLLEb.-Lest month 80 cows were
killed on the Reading Rail:oad,-this mouth,
go far, Is.
ay- Seven p. soners bibke out of ,he
Easion Jail on last Monday night.
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