HYDROZONE IS THE STRONGEST ANTISEPTIC KNOWN. One ounce of this new Remedy is, for its Bactericide Power, equivalent to two ounces of Charles Marchand's Peroxide of Hydrogen (medicinal), which obtained the Highest Award at the World's Fair of Chicago, 1893, for Stability, Strength, Purity and Excellency. CURES DISEASES CAUSED BY GERMS: DIPHTHERIA, SORE THROAT, CATARRH, HAY FEVER, LA GRIPPE, OPEN SORES: ABSCESSES, CARBUNCLES, ULCERS,-INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY ORGANS, INFLAMMATORY AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT: TYPHOID FEVER, TYPHUS, CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, - WOMEN'S WEAKNESSES: WHITES, LEUCORRHOEA,-SKIN DISEASES: ECZEMA, ACNE, ETC. GLYCOZONE Both Medal and Diploma Awarded to Charles Marchand's Glycozone by World's Fair of Chicago, 1893, for its powerful healing properties. This harmless remedy prevents fermentation of food in the stomach and it cures : DYSPEPSIA, GASTRITIS, ULCER OF THE STOMACH, HEART-BURN, AND ALL AVOID IMITATIONS. Hydrozone is put up only in small, medium and large size bottles, bearing a red label, white letters, gold and blue border, with signature. Charles Marchand's Peroxide of Hydrogen (medicinal) is put up only in 4-oz., 8-oz., and 16-oz. bottles, bearing a blue label, white letters, red and gold border, with signature. Glycozone is sold only in 4-oz., 8-oz., and 16-oz. bottles, bearing a yellow label, white and bletters, red and blue border, with signature. THESE REMEDIES ARE PREPARED ONLY BY Mention this publication. Charles Marchand Chemist and Graduate of the "Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris" (France). 28 Prince St., New York. Charles Marchand SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS. PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL. VOL. XXXVII. NOVEMBER, 1894. No. 11. . Original Articles. FOREIGN SCHOOLS VERSUS AMERICAN PHYSICIANS. By W. S. THORNE, M. D. Physician to St. Mary's Hospital. Professor of Surgery, San Francisco Polyclinic. "Unmannered dog! Stand thou when I command, Or, by St. Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness." England protects its medical men by a judicious provision, requiring all practitioners to obtain a licentiate, or a degree, from some authorized medical body within the United Kingdom; France, by denying the medical function to all, except to those possessing a French or Spanish (Mexican) qualification; Germany, by a prohibition against its own graduates, and until they have passed a further examination by a State Board, independent of all the Universities. Even benighted Mexico has established a wholesome law for the protection of its medical men, and it recognizes no medical degree giving a right to practice within its borders save and except the French. Such are the restrictive measures against foreign practitioners that prevail, for the most part, throughout Europe. Who will question the wisdom or the justice of such restrictions, tending, as they do, to promote the welfare and the sovereignty of a representative national body? We have no adverse criticism to pronounce against them. We approve them, and we endorse their practical application. When the government of Prussia-speaking through the Berlin University-refuses to recognize any diploma from an American medical college, we say, amen. When the French Minister of Public Instruction announces the law, that all foreign medical men must undergo the final examinations of the French candidate for the medical degree, we would give our assent: be it so. VOL. XXXVII-42. But, how much longer will the great body of American physicians patiently submit to the invidious discrimination against them by every foreign government? How much longer shall we tacitly submit to the foreign tradition, that the "medical sciences" are not taught in America; that the "medical sciences" are known and practiced only abroad? If the blood that warms in my veins as I write at this moment is a sample of that which should inspire my countrymen, we opine that it will not be long. We venture the assumption that this great and learned body will proceed to inquire if there is any special reason in law, ethics or the comity of nations why a certificate of medical attainment granted by a medical board in Prussia should entitle its possessor to rights and privileges in America that are not accorded in Prussia to the medical certificate from a learned body here? Why a diploma from a college in Prussia permits the holder to practice under it in this country, but is not considered a proper qualification in Prussia? Why men of equal intelligence and equal attainments are not equal in fact? Having traced the reason of this ruling through the arrogant pretense of superiority, we find, at last, the true explanation in protection-protection of home talent, protection to domestic genius, to home institutions and to fatherland. When the great body of American physicians shall have fully realized the anomalous position it occupies, the stigma and gratuitous insult thrust upon it by an arrogant and presumptuous rival, bidding for honor and lucre before the world, when this cowardly national insult shall have been fully weighed by our local and national medical organizations, there will grow out of it, we trust, an irresistible movement in the direction of reform in the medical laws, that will effectually secure protection to American physicians. The great body of intelligent and influential citizens will personally enter into the canvass of every legislative candidate throughout every State in the Union. It will reject every and all candidates not pledged to enact a law requiring foreign physicians to pass a most rigid examination, equal to the final examination of the most advanced institutions; such examination always to be taken in the English language. And when a candidate shall have passed the examination, he may apply his foreign sauce to the American goose without let or hinderance. From the hod-carrier up through the Trades' Unions, the mechanic, the artisan, every industrial body throughout this broad land has its protective barriers. Inventive art, scientific devices and letters are providently fostered by patents or copyrights. The legal profession protects itself from encroachment by the itinerant and the incompetent. The medical profession alone stands without the semblance of protection from the insolent assumption of itinerant frauds and medical tramps from every capital and village in Europe. Fostered by the doctrine of superiority to all the world in general, and to the American medical profession in particular, the foreign carpet-bagger assumes a supremacy with easy grace. The arrival of a Medical Exotic in a small community is an event of note. The community soon learns that the Imperial College in which I grew, and by which IT is accredited does not recognize the existence of such a thing as an American Medical Diploma, ERGO the local physician is not qualified, in a word he is not a physician; he is an American pretender! His nationality and education are against him. The prestige of the foreign gentleman holding a diploma from the only genuine medical school is too much for the native Esculapius, and the "Original Jacobs" captures the community. Let the Yankee humbug be silent in the presence of this stupendous jugglery from " over the seas!" What has become of American manhood, or the blood of '76, that year after year thousands of well-bred, well-educated American gentlemen calmly submit to the arrogant assumption of a horde of medical tramps and impecunious tricksters who flock to our shores from every country under the sun, and whose only guarantee of medical attainment is a cabalistic suffix and a foreign name. Let our next legislature and our National Association answer this question, and give to it a practical solution. We hereby disclaim intent to offend or insult any gentleman holding a foreign degree. We speak for even-handed justice to the honest and qualified American practitioner. We claim his right of protection against foreign insult and assumption. We thank God that we are American, that we are educated in this country, that we hold American degrees, of which we are proud. We are speaking to a principle in American politics, and for medical ethics. If our laws regulating foreign immigration are not amended, the medical profession is only one of the many orders of society in this country that must be driven to the wall. As American citizens we claim the right of untrammeled speech and as such we assume the responsibility of our language. PENETRATING WOUND OF THE ABDOMEN, WITH WOUND OF THE INTESTINES, FECAL EXTRAVASATION, SUPPURATIVE PERITONITIS, CŒLIOTOMY, SUTURE OF THE INTESTINES, RECOVERY. By W. E. TAYLOR, M. D., Professor Principles and Practice of Surgery, Medical Department, At 11 o'clock P. M., Saturday, March 5, 1894, I saw Master E. H., aged 8 years, in consultation with Dr. Calderon, and obtained the following history, viz: About ten hours previous to my visit, and while playing in the yard, he fell upon the point of a pair of rusty scissors, and sustained a wound in the right side of the abdomen. He was a slender, delicate looking lad, and had several ulcers of a strumous character on his hands and legs. Upon examination, a small punctured wound was found on the right side of the abdomen, about the middle of Poupart's ligament, and some two inches above it. As it was impossible to form any idea of its depth from a superficial examination, he was immediately placed under the influence of chloroform and the wound carefully enlarged, and traced upwards and inwards until the peritoneum was reached. We were unable, however, to find an opening in that membrane, nor did his condition indicate anything more serious than a non-penetrating wound, and it was assumed that even if the peritoneal cavity had been penetrated, without wound of the intestine, the condition was not necessarily of much consequence, and, from his appearance and symptoms, there was not sufficient reason to suppose that the bowel had been injured, and hence further surgical interference was not then indicated. A drainage tube was passed to the bottom of the wound, simple dressings applied and absolute quiet enjoined. Unfortunately, his mother had given him some kind of a purgative soon after the accident. I did not see the patient again until half past five on the afternoon of Monday, the 7th inst.-fifty-three hours after the accident and found him in a serious condition; very restless, with fever, nausea, vomiting, abdomen very much distended, painful and tender, all the symptoms pointing to a severe peritonitis, and probably suppurative in character. At 9 o'clock P. M., under chloroform, and with a poor light from coal oil lamps, the abdomen was opened in the middle line, by an incision four |