New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-25


.rade against railway msmanagement in the
United States a TRADE based, unhaDpiIy, to great
exrent on facts. but singuilrly out Of place at
moment when railway managers have had 20 hght
for their lives and for the security Of the property
what is left oft-of English and American citizens
alike. Tho most ingenious and fanciful OF all
theorie-llr Brights excepted that they are due to
protective tarif-llyanced TO account for The riots
il that OF The Spectator That paper thinks that the
revolving laborers were only applying 10 business
affairs the principle admitted in pHitics, that
the majority ought to rule; and that the
laborers being in the majority, are convinced
that this ought to override the Judgment
of the employers when they diifer rom
them upon question Of wages. fou may thuh
this s meon4 as Joke hut it is not II is seriously
put forward by one Of the ablest journals in Eng
land-one Of the most friendly to America, aiso-as
the true explanation of the RIOTS as a sober state
ment Of what the writer believes 10 be in the minds
of the mon who eaused and supported the disturb
ances. " II follows" says he that when she rail
way corporations are attacked there is general dis
position among Americans Of the working class to re-
gard their troubles az . just punishment Tor their
attempt 10 violate what deemed the spirit OF the
Constitution"
This need offend nobody-it is too purely gro
tesqne: but II hardly pleasant to such writer
"a Mr. John Morley, af6er full accounts Of the yio-
lence and murder aud destruction of property had
been received still holding his Judgment in suspense
between society and its enemies. lie describes the
outbreak rs q Generalization of the relations he
tween workingmcn and employers. and concludes
page Of comment which contains not WORT OF
hearty condemnation for the rioters, with the re-
mark that 1T present too little is known Of the orr
Gin of these disorders TO pronounce authoritative
# hoy
indcate; but the spectacle presented to US
Of the mutual hostilites of classes in America
demonstrates degree Of social Reorganization and
disunion calculated TO awaken serious and painful
anxieries" man whose Judgment was in a less
balanced condition might observe that when disor-
ders took The shape Of murder ard pillace and open
war against order the origin Of thcm might be an
interesting topic Of philosophical speculation after
the authors Of them had been legally dealt with.
Some Of ms would Ike to know who the Federal
Judge IS who is reported to have yindicated the
majesty Of the law in Indiana by sentences Of thTee
months imprisonment on men convicted Of commit
ting these outragcs Sentences OF that sort seem n
this distance, only so many premiums on future
riots.
Ny reference to Dr. Lander Brunton's discovery Of
a remedy for angina pectoris IAN exploit which made
him Fellow of the Royal Society has brought me
% Il
the discovery is not generally known to
the medical profession in America. let
ter from one of the largest cities in the
United States expresses the surprise of its lead
ing physicians at tins statement and their desire
TO know more abont it. / have therefore applied
70 Dr. Brunton who kindly sends me a copy OF 4
paper published by HIM in The lancet July 27, 1867,
which forward to you, and which soae American
medical Journal may like to reprint. The remedy in
question is Nitric OF Amyl, which was discovered BY
Ballard. experimental with by Guthrie, DIR. b. W.
Richardson and Dr. Arthur Gamgcc in sundry ways,
and by Dr. Bruuton first employed for the treatment
Of angina pectoris. lie thus describes the method
and result:
on ponrinr from five to ten drops o. the ntr'te
cot. ana swing IT, To- the patti 10 iHh1ie, the phys0
logical ac ioH tOoA place m rom thirty 30 sixty see NOS;
and simultaneously with the flushing OF the face the
pain completely piarcd anu @enrtdIl olu n9tr utl
tin It's Wontoi Tin" next night OccasO"ay % begun 10
return aborl five minutes alter it, Brst iaunoaronoa;
but or giving tow Iroi" more ~ aEah Gl-HVpea. ei
and cd not return. On r" occasions have fouHd
part OF the chest, 1T remained persistent ~ spot
about two inches 10 the inside ~ the right nj pie AND
minutes before This completely suhsiled In almost all
che uther In which have gwen %, rs well as m
b once i disappeared Ia eases ct ancnrsn
where the pain vls constant iniai zion 81 me mn
-aye no relief; but whore was sDtSn3c or subject
10 occasional cNaccrbatiOus, n either completely re-
moved or neatly relieved IT, II may bc ~, well To
tLat those cases in which 1t failed small bieedngs
werH INCONSISTENCIES.
These experiments were made in tho clinical
wards Of the Royal In6rmary. Edinburgh DR.. Brun-
tor being ut the time Senior President of the Royal
Medical Society. They took place ten years ago.
For year or two after so conservative is the pro-
fesson in this couutry-they attracted little alton
ton though some physicians to whom Dr. Brunton
had personally shown the action of the nitric be-
gan 10 use it. paper read by him before the Gin
ical Society FIRST drew general notice 70 the remedy
the experiments were widely repeated and it has
now been tried very extensively ana with great
success giving relief in almost every attack of
angina pectoris. One two cases have been
recorded in which. for some reason not vet
asccrtaned it seemed 10 be of lit1ie use.
parer on the subject is to he read by DR.. Brunton
before the British Medical Association. now as
sembcd at Manchester, which viii contain, we pre-
sumo the latest information. and be accessible to
those who care about it. ! need scarcely add. that
all this is intended for physicians. Nobody in his
senses would think of treating himself for such
maadv as angina pecorls, or of touching so dan
ror,us substance rs nitric of amy except under
advice Inyalids inclined to tribe with il may like
70 know that it is capable of producing paralysis of
the nerves and variety of other rather serious
effects on the human body. CIV. 5.
HETHODISTS AT CAMP T4BOR.