The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-09
BRONCHO PNEU MONA
Discussed by the Academy Of
Medicine and Surgery.
State Board of Health Of But
Little Importance
Says DR.. J. c. McClintock in Talking
About Resolution introduced.

At the regular monthly meeting of
the Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery last night DR.. r. S. Magee in
troduced a resolution in regard to the
appropriation for the state board of
health. DR.. J. c. McClintock heard the
resolution read and arose and said:
THE state board of health has been
of little Importance It has done but lit
tie good and the people of the state
have not supported it in it's work. If
the appropriation was reduced, or if
even it was made the same I would Op-
pose it. shall vote against this reSo-
lution''
The vote was put and it carried. Fol-
lowing was the resolution:
ITO the committee on public health of
the Kansas legislature: We the mem
bers of the Topeka Academy of Medi-
cine and surgery, learning of the intro
ductiOn of resolution to reduce the
appropriation for the current expenses
of the state board of health, do most
respectfully petition you to refrain from
50 doing, and to allow the appropriation
to remain as it now is. We ask you to
do this as we believe that the efficiency
of the board would be crippled by les
sening the appropriation
The regular paper of the evening was
read by DR.. T. W. Peers on the subject
of "brOnchO-pneumOni He told of
the various symptoms of the disease
and gave his mode of treatment.
He advised the use of corn meal
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attacks children of from one to two
years and is one of the hardest to treat
successfully. 1t is pneumonia of the
bronchial tubes.
DR.. w. S. Lindsay opened the dis
cussion and this developed quite a diff
ference of opinion among the medical
men.
DR.. Lindsay said: "In convalescence I
would give a little whisky with the
milk. l like the pOulticeS of corn meal
and after taking it off 1 grease the
chest with lard and turpentine, just
enough to make the skin red I do not
think that bronchO-pneumonia will run
from one to another in a household /
think it is a germ disease, but the well
ones may have the germs in their mouth
as well as the sick ones"
DR.. Agnes Mckee Wallace: II am
glad there are two old fogies here to-
night 1 like the old fashioned corn
meal poultice. The only case of in
fantile pneumonia L ever lost 1 insisted
on using a jacket poultice.''
Dr. S. G. Stewart: Il believe in
grease, but don't believe IN keeping
the patient quite so greasy as DR.. Lind
say. And L don't believe much in
poulticeS- In every house you'll find
skunk oil and goose grease, and some
times they don't smell very good-the
worse the more efficacious, so sup
posed
DR.. ]. c. McCIintock: why should
we look back in the treatment of this
disease? The mortality rate of 100
years ago was only so per cent as much
in this disease as it is now. That is
food for thought. When the disease
fills the lungs and the blood vessels
are closed there is an extended right
heart. What did they do for that 100
years ago? They took away the pres
sure from that right heart. They bled
the patient. You haven't courage to
bleed that patient and save it. You let
two die where one used to die
This brought DR.. S. G. Stewart to his
feet and he addressed President Ida c.
Barnes as Mr.. President
Said he: Il would take exceptions
to the doctors remarks. In the early
stages of the disease I think the bleed
ing might do good. But after the
change has taken place, bleed them and
you do it at the peril of their lives. L m
glad to feel that the profession has not
gone back in the treatment of the dis
ease''
DR.. Peers in closing the discussion
said: 1T seems to me that to put a
poultice two inches thick on the chest
of a child from one to two years old
would be quite a lift for the muscles of
the chest, considering the number of
times a child with brOncho- pneumonia
would have to breathe"
DR.. S. c.. Stewart followed with the
report of a case. He took for his sub
Fulton, who died in Topeka a few
weeks ago.
He exhibited photographs showing
ing of the dent made in it from the
wound made by a shell in battle This
really caused Mr.. Fulton's death.