The Osceola times., 1883-03-03
INFOR NATION.

An examination of 200 insane women
discovered the fact that so per cent. were
suffering from various diseases of the
sexual organs, mainly innammations and
displacements.
The New England Medical Monthly
records the case of a prolific woman who,
by having twins, triplets and even four
at birth, managed to bring forth twelve
children within four years!
In Glasgow braggart proved that he
could drink whole bottle of whisky
without taking his mouth from the bot
tie. He soon became comatose and died.
He at least has done his share toward
dep ,pulating the world of its fools
Our Fish Commission mas sent to
France and Germany 100000 white-tish
eggs and 10000 salmon-trout eggs. We
are indebted to Germany for the quick
growing carp, but we think the Germans
will thank us for our white-fish.
Concerning Bright's disease, DR.. Meigs
concludes that ii is not necessarily incur
able; that as the cause of death it is on
the increase that it is often preceded or
induced by gravel; that the excessive use
Of alcoholic liquors is common cause.
Twenty-Five thousand francs, equal to
about 5000, have been offered by a
member of the French Academy of Med
icine for the discovery of cure for diph-
iberia. The prize may be awarded to
anyone out of the profession if he shall
make the discovery.
The doctors get puzzled now and then.
The medical profession in Paris is puz-
zled. A boy of seventeen seemed to
have reached his growth, measuring six
feet five inches. After stopping on this
for a while he took new start and grew
nineteen and half, he is seven feet and
two inches tall His feet are twenty in
ches long, He has outgrown himself in
such way that he has lost all his
strength and is threatened with con-
sumption.
The car-wax which seems like any
thing but an agreeable or cleanly thing
out of its place, evidently has a purpose.
When il is too forcibly removed from the
delicate walls of the external canal of the
ear there is liable to develop fungoid
growth which gives rise to great deal of
trouble. and especially inflammation of
the drum itself. The moral of this is to
clear out only the surplus ear-wax and
not endeavor to scrape the canal clean
with instruments that will expose its
surface to the depredations of an unnatu-
raj growth.
District-Judge Treat, of the Federal
Court in st. Louis, has-in several cases
latcly-denounced the scandalous prac-
tice of inducing crime for the purpose OF
furnishing evidence against the accused
and so fattening an informer. Some
years ago some physicians who We're
proceeded against by the Vice Society
were acquitted on the ground that the
evidence was obtained through the de-
coys of the Vice Society.
In one of the anti-vaccination tracts
written by ii. d. Dudeeon, we read that
Jenner, the originator of vaccination,
practiced the art upon his own son, first
with swine-pox when he was year and
a half old, and later with other viruses
The son was always delicate in health
had defective understanding, and died
when about twenty-one years old with
pulmonary consumption. 1t is also
stated that King George Ill and the
Commons granted Jenner 100000 after
he had given them the positive assurance
that all who subjected themselves to vac
cination should be perfectly secure from
\ death by small-poX,