Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-19

treatment may prevent this absorption
and cannot be dispensed with. 1t is not
a throat disease exclusively. He had ca
ses where the peculiar emulation was upon
the foot. on the mucous membrane OF the
stomach, on the fingers and the toes, fol-
lowed by the sequelOe of the disease lie
uses local applications, and, in conjunc'
ton with them, tonic course III mid
cases. In malignant cases, where the ex-
udation resembles gangrene, he had used
bromine as local application, in connec-
ton with quinine, and the vapor bath,
and had saved larger proportion of his
patients than formerly. Quinine should
be used in heroic doses Two grains eve
ry hours will kill the patient, while 10
to Is grains will kill the disease and save
life.
DR.. Litemore had seen some 40 cases in
his locality, and had been quite success
full in its treatment save in one school
district, where he had | cases, 9 Of which
proved fatal. These cases we're furious]y
delirious almost maniacal, these symp-
toms soon being followed by prostration
and death. His treatment was rhubarb
and soda to obviate the costiveness which
he sometimes found present, quinine, car
Donate of ammonia, potash and iron, with
pork and onions for an external applica-
ton. He did not think that the dis
ease was any more contagious than ty-
phoid fever.
DIR Richmond referred 10 the division
into true and false diptheria proposed by
the London Lancet. He had found the
peculiar mem branous oxidation in both
forms, but thought it not so thick and te-
nacious in the false as in the true. The
latter he readily recognized by the smell,
it being much like that of rotten apples
in close room. The one form was cons
tutional, the other local. He used a sat-
uratcd solution of muriate of ammonia,
and French Chat being the purest,) chic
rate of potash, with a view to prevent the
decomposition of the membrane, with fair
success.
DR.. Sutton had remarked a difference
in the membrane, extent of the oxidation,
and in the constitutional symptoms in the
two varicties-the false being in spots or
white points, the true of an ash COLOR
into tenacious membrane,
and he had seen both going on together
when the disease prevailed as an epidemic
In the former, he had never observed the
peculiar smell alluded to.
DR.. Crandall related case in which
the membranous emulation of diphtheria
was found in the vagina and on both Ia
bia, occurring after parturition.
DR.. Powers had noticed disease among
horses, which farriers call diphtheria.
In one instance, young man, in remov-
ing the emulation from horses mouth
and throat scratched the skin upon his
hands, and had what he called diphthe-
ria as result.
Both the papers above mentioned were
referred to the Committee on Publication.
DR.. Chandler. of St. Adams, presented
two photographs, taken from life of enor-
nous hypertrophy of the mammae, one of
which measured three feet two inches in
circumference, the other an inch or two
less, and estimated TO weigh .forty-eigh
pounds.
The evening session was mainly devoted
to discussion upon cancer, with especial
reference to the duty of the profession to
prevent, by appropriate treatment, the
cases of cancer and cancroid tumors COM
ing under their observation, from passing
into the hands of the so-called cancer
doctors. "
At late hour, after an exceedingly in
teresting and profitable session, the socie-
ty adjourned.
THE BURNING OF BARNUM's MUSEUM