Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-16
remarkable Care Of Consunn ptio,,

TIE CURE OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JEREMIAH
DAY OF YALE COLLEGE.
The Transactions OF the Connecticut State
Medical Society contain paper from professor
s, G. Hubbard of New Havcn, relative to the
cure of the la'e Rev. Jeremiah Day, former
President of Yale College, of tubercular con-
sumption, President Day during early life,
gave little promise Of long lite, and when in
l7S0, in his seventeenth year, he entered Yale
College he was soon compelled to leave from
pulmonary. difficulty. He rallied, however,
and was able 10 finish the course and graduate
in 1895. He was very feeble, however, for
many years. He became clergyman, and in
1901 was elected Professor Of Mathematics and
Natural History in the College. But he could
not undertake the duties. An alarming hem
orrhage Of the lungs Frustrated him, which
was treated ''learnedly' by bleedlnes coplous
enough to have charmed even Doctor Sangrado.
He went to Bermuda, where be was piled with
digitalis to such an extent as almost to take
what little life was left He came back to bis
native town, Washington, Connecticut to die
He suffered from continued hemorrhage and
repeated venesections till he happened to meet
DR.. Sheldon of Ltchhed, who had made the
treatment with iron hobby. He expressed
belief that Mr.. Day could be helped. Though
the case was regarded as hopeless, the patient
was placed under the care Of DR.. Sheldon, who
treated him with iron and calisaya bark, feed
lug him carefully with wholesome food. Under
this regimen he soon exhibited indications Of
Improvement: and finally, in 1903, returned
home as one restored from the dead, in sufG-
cient yigor to be naugIrated in the professor
ship. He never afterwards exhibited symp-
toms of pulmonary disease, although he had
been affected by it for more than twelve years.
He lived till August, 1867, and was ninety-fivc
years old at the time OF bis death
The cavity Of the thorax was examined to
ascertain the traces of his former malady. Only
about pins of serum was found the lungs
we're everywhere Tree from tubercle, and were
apparently healthy. In the apex of each lung
was found dense, corrugated circular clcatrlx,
an inch and half or more 10 diameter. Also,
third circular clcatrlX on the lett side or the
lung, few inches below the apex, each invol-
wing such depth OF tissue as to indicate that
the vomicn of which they were the remains,
had been large and of long duration. Both
lungs were slightly adherent to the apex.
Here then, remarks Professor Hubbard, vas
all that remained to mark the beginning, pro-
gress and cure of o case Of tubercular consumD-
ton, occupying twelve years in its period OF
activity, and with its inclplcnt stage dating
more than three quarters OF q century. ~ le-
gibe record SURPRISING in interest and lmpor.
tance to the human race those OF the slabs or
Nineveh or the Runic Inscriptions.
MISSIONARY ATTACKED BY AN ELEPHANT
A correspondent Of the Newark Advertiser
says that Dr. House, an American missionary
at Bangkok, Siam, has been severely injured by
an elephant. He was On his way to new
station, in order to render medical aid to other
missionaries He was accompanied 0y his four
native guides and three large elephants to car,
ythe baggage, as through the jungles and
mountainous country, this is the only way Of
procedure. When near the end Of his journey,
. while passing one of the huge beasts, as he had
often done before on the way, the animal sud
denly turned upon him. and smote him with
his trunk, laying him PROSTATE, and then with
80 his great tusks tore his clothes and pierced his
flesh in a terrible manner. One OF the natives
was on the neck of the beast all the time, and
only descended and gained contro over. him
just in time to save the doctor from being
trampled to DEATH He lay under the trees
where he was stricken down for two weeks, be-
ing himself bis own physician and surgeon,
with great tortitudc sewing up his own wounds
Ia due courss OF time he recovered sufficiently
to be carried to the cud of his journey and the
arms Of his friends.
DEFALCATIoN IN STEWARDS n. Y. DRY
GooDS SEsrABLIsIIMENT- "A young man named
Livingstone who was in the employment of A.