The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-17

nerve systems Finally. II death does en-
sue. his hand has not been forestailed by
the icy hand OF the irrational DOCTOR"
The paper was exhaustive and treated
the subject from various standpoints the
inception of the disease, the anatomy of
the lungs and general course to be fol-
lowed.
DIR. Leavitt arose to discuss the subject.
''In pneumonia" said he, I'VE are con-
fronted by n condition and not q theory.
Cold and heat have each their uses and
abuses. i select my cases. In some 1
use extreme cold. others cool, others
tepid, some hot applications"
DIR. Sandow said be had discarded poul-
tices altogether and used cotton packing
which prevented dangers of exposure
from changing poultices. He used a hot
bath of one-third vinegar and two-thirds
water IN many cases.
DIR. Lesser also said he had abandoned
poultices of hops, flaxseed, etc, except
where the patient or his friends demanded
their use. Poultices are SO popular with
the laity that IL Is necessary to use them
to satisfy clients. His own plan was to
substitute cotton quilted between cloths,
to even up the temperature of the patient.
DIR. Spelman had a word to say, though
there were so few cases of this disease in
Anaconda he had not had moro than a
dozen during his practice here. He
favored the use of the swathing baudage
against a poultice, but entered a protest
against the oft-told tale that doctors some
times tell their patients that he got there
just in time to check pneumonia. He held
that the disease could not be averted.
DIR. Shultz did not altogether discard
cold in treating pneumonia. Cool towels
frequently relieved delirious patients in
short time. Just why this was so he
he could not say.
DIR. L. A. Gucg aud DIR. Douglas be-
lieved that pneumonia could be and fire.
quently was checked by the early call of
q physician. DIR. Douglas used instead of
poultico cotton or flannel covered with
oiled silk. DIR. Campbell treated the dis
ease likewise, with tho application of tur-
pentine and cod liver oil in many cases.
DIR. Holmes then closed the discussion,
saying that he regarded the cotton BAN
dage as a hot or warm poultice, and his
only objection was to ice used on weak
lungs, and to this all the speakers had
agreed. The meeting then adjourned to
o'clock p. m.
After dinner paper by Carl Shulin, M.
D., of Helena on "Myxoedema and Kim
dred Diseases" was read and generally
praised by the doctors.
DIR. L. A. Grigg of Butte then read an
able paper on the subject, "Glasses. Their
Use and Abuse" He explained very fully
the anatomy of the eye and the causes of
the errors in vision, in terms which were
enjoyed by the physicians. He made clear
his talk by crayon sketches. DIR. Grigg
deprecated the rise and growth of igno-
rant men who call themselves opticians
but " no are not oculists.
DIR. Shultz said a better name for the
so-called opticians" was GLACIERS"
DIR. Spelman, DIR. Lesser and DIR. Shulin
discussed the matter briefly, endorsing
DIR. Griggs' views mainly.
preventive Medicine" was the subject
of DIR. George c. Douglas paper, which
was written in the writer's best style, that
which has won for him recognition from
the ablest of magazine editors in the
country on almost any subject upon which
he comments. DR.. Douglas reviewed the
triumphs of Jenner, Pasteur, Koch and
others in the last half century and
urged sanitary regulation as n leading
preventive of disease. Drs. Holmes,
Shutz, Gum and others added interest
to the discussion by brief remarks.
The meeting then adjourned too o'clock
this morning.
The papers to be read to-day are as fol-
lows: iii fAA 4
."Phlegmasia alba dolens Puerperalis,"
DIR. Sandow of Neihart.
Gistro-Enterostomy by Murphy's But
ton" r. p. r. Gordon, M. D., Great Falls.
Syphilis" by w. M. Shultz, NJ. D.,
Butte.
Typhoid Fever" by o. Lesser, NJ. D.,
Anaconda.
"Antitoxin in Diphtheria," by T. ]. Nc
Kenzie, NJ. D., Anaconda.
"Bright's Disease" by j. f. Spelman,
M. D., Anaconda.