The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-25
The New Orleans Journal of Medicine.

Many of our readers, professional and
lay, will be pleased to learn of the pros
perity of scientific journal, which, though
published thousand miles away, counts
among its contributors no less than three
sons Of old Charleston, viz: DR.. SAMUEL
LOGAN, DR.. ]. DICKSON BRUINS, and DR.. WM.
HuTsoN FORD, all of them Professors in the
New Orleans School of Medicine; and, en-
passant, we may mention furthermore, that
in the same College there are two more of
| our "boys," as Assistant Professors, viz:
Dr.. JOHN W. CALDWELL and DR.. LEGRASD
G. CApERs. Surely the old Palmetto city
need not blush at the character Of her rep
resentation in the city of creoles and of
levees.
But to return to the Journal. Article l
treats US to some practical observations on
the theory and treatment Of cholera, BY DR..
U. R. MILNER, of Jefferson City. OF the
scientific merits Of the article we are, of
course, not competent to judge; but the
author, we hope, will pardon little verbal
criticism to which we are tempted by
novel use of much abused word. We
have long known that the word "clever," in
England, is used to denote mental superior
ity, while in America il designates species
of moral excellence; but until we read this
paper of DR.. M1LNER we did not know that
this verbal chameleon had yet another
sense and could be used to express mate
rial prosperity. DR.. NJ. says: Ceases [of
cholera] spring up here and there, any
where, but principally among negroes, and
others who live poorly, and are too igno-
rant to know that their stomach will not
digest brickbats if they choose to swallow
| them. Yet, sometimes, members Of clever
families take the disease, and like tie poor
and ignorant, they die" Some Of our read
ers may be familiar with this use Of the
term. We have no dictionary of Ameri-
canisms at hand to consult, so cannot say
whether it is original in the case before US
or not.
Article is continuation of DR.. FoRD's
article on "The Pathology of Passive Con-
gestion, and its Relation to Asiastic Chol-
era" This very learned essay was pre-
pared and read by special appointment
before the Medical Society of South Caro-
lima in May, 1866.
Article is an interesting paper on "Ob-
servations on Diptheria," by DR.. II. D.
SCHMIDT. OF New Orleans, with illustra-
tions, giving the microscopic appearance OF
the false membrane.
Article I is contribution BY DR.. j..
DICKSON BRUINS on "Rabies." There are
two cases reported here, perhaps more re-
markable than anything on this subject in
the annals of medicine. A colored woman,
aged 6fty-seven years, had been bitten by
O. dog. The wound had healed, and excited
no special attention ut the time, but thirty
five days after, the woman was seized with
unmistakable symptoms of hydrophobia,
and two days afterward she died. The dog
at the time the bite was inflicted, and at the
period of the death of the patient, was en-
tirely free from disease. The diagnosis was
carefully made by Dir. BRUINS and several
distinguished colleagues, and there appears
no room for doubt in regard to it. But DR..
Drums gives case even yet more remark
able,-a patient bitten six months previous
to attack, died in seventy-six hours. The
patient, an Englishman, aged thirry-six'
WAS bitten on the face and hand by his own
dog, with which he was playing The dog
had exhibited no symptoms of sickness, as
far as the family had observed, but it bit a
negro servant of the same household on th'
same day. Its master killed it immedl-
ately after it had bitten him. The master