who, after removing the fluid, which contained small bodies showing hyatid degeneration, found a smooth, hard tumor in the epigastric region, extending over to the hypochondrium. From the symptoms already mentioned, along with the fact that the tumor moved but slightly on respiration, he concluded it to be located in the pancreas. The patient made a good recovery, and is now attending to her duties. WHAT IS "UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT"?-This question has often been asked; it is now settled by law. In the bill to regulate the practice of medicine recently passed by the Oregon Legislature, there is a clause providing for the revocation of licenses for "unprofessional conduct," which is defined in the bill as follows: First, the procuring, or aiding or abetting in procuring, a criminal abortion. Second, the employment of what are known as "cappers" or "steerers.". Third, the obtaining of any fee on the assurance a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured. Fourth, the willfully betraying of a professional secret. Fifth, all advertising of medical business, in which untruthful or improbable statements are made. Sixth, all advertising of any medicines or of any means whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated, or the menses reëstablished if suppressed. Seventh, conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude. Eighth, habitual intemperance. PEPSIN CORDIAL.-The extraordinary delicacy of the digestive ferments causes their administration to be attended with some difficulty. Unless thoroughly familiar with the peculiar conditions under which they operate, and their behavior toward other medicaments used in the treatment of indigestion, there is danger of their being destroyed. This applies with particular force to pepsin, and it is safe to say that 90 per cent. of the elixirs, wines and essences of this medicament as now supplied to the trade are either absolutely inert, or will become so, with the lapse of time—a statement which experience will amply confirm. Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co. have long aimed to prepare a satisfactory vehicle for the presentation of pepsin, but until recently their efforts were not more successful than those of other manufacturers. Now, however, they have prepared in Pepsin Cordial a product which is at once therapeutically active, and absolutely permanent, at the same time elegant in flavor. It is possessed of all the properties peculiar to pepsin; will dissolve egg-albumen or other proteid matter, and curdle milk. It is one-third the strength of saccharated pepsin, and an average dose of the ferment is therefore contained in a comparatively small bulk. A sufficient proportion of aromatics has been added to render it a grateful stimulant to the peptic glands, thus exciting a natural secretion of gastric juice. One fluidrachm will dissolve 1,000 grains of albumen under the conditions specified in Parke, Davis & Co.'s modification of the official test for determining the value of pepsin. Pepsin Cordial is essentially an artificial gastric juice containing all the elements which are essential to gastric digestion. THE WILLIAM F. Jenks MEMORIAL PRIZE.—The Second Triennial Prize of four hundred and fifty dollars, under the deed of trust of Mrs. William F. Jenks will be awarded to the best essay an "The Symptomatology and Treatment of the Nervous Disorders following the Acute Infectious Diseases of Infancy and Childhood." The conditions annexed by founders of this prize are, that the "prize or award must always be for some subject connected with Obstetrics, or the Diseases of Women, or the Diseases of Children;" and that "the Trustees, under this deed for the time being, can, in their discretion, publish the successful essay, or any paper written upon any subject for which they may offer a reward, provided the income in their hands may, in their judgment, be sufficient for that purpose, and the essay or paper be considered by them worthy of publication. If published, the distribution of said essay shall be entirely under the control of said Trustees. In case they do not publish the said essay or paper, it shall be the property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia." The prize is open for competition to the whole world, but the essay must be the production of a single person. The essay, which must be written in the English language, or, if in a foreign language accompanied by an English translation, should be sent to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., before January 1, 1891, addressed to Louis Starr, M. D., Chairman of the Wm. F. Jenks Prize Committee. Each essay must be distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto, and containing the name and address of the writer. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The Committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers, or their ageuts, within one year. The Committee reserves the right not to make an award if no essay submitted is considered worthy of the prize. LITTLE ITEMS. Dr. F. W. Brown, of Pueblo, Colo., died a few weeks since. Dr. C. D. Cummings, of Lake City, Colorado, recently married Miss J. Gilmore. That of Dr. S. T. Chews, of Fayette, Mo., is one of the latest deaths among the medical profession of the state. Dr. Harry Wood, of this city, ex-police-surgeon, was lately married to Miss I. Webster. Dr. J. S. Cunningham has changed from Dallas to Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. D. E. Mason has moved from Valley Ford to Cloverdale, Tonomo Co., California. ! ་ Dr. A. J. Cammack has removed from Bosqueville to Waco, Texas, to engage in the practice of his profession. The North-western Medical College, of St. Joseph, Mo., had a grad uating class of 15 members January 20. Two hundred and twenty persons received the degree in medicine from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, April 2. There are 40,000 Kanakas in New Caledonia, of whom, says the Times and Register, one-eighth are lepers. The partnership heretofore existing between Drs. E. R. Lewis and W. T. Lampton has been dissolved, Dr. Lampton having retired and removed to Chicago, Ill., where he will engage in practice. Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, of Maine, was in the city March 11. He is an ex-Governor of Maine, and perhaps the most prominent physician in all New England. Dr. H. A. Hare, editor of the Medical News, has just been appointed Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children at the University of Pennsylvania, vice Dr. Louis Starr, resigned. A brief but pleasant call is acknowledged from Dr. A. W. Leigh, of Stockton, Kansas. He reports medical matters in his part of the state as in a very satisfactory condition. Dr. R. L. Thompson, late editor of the St. Louis Medical Review, has located at Spokane Falls, Washington. He was disgusted with St. • Louis as a field of practice. The American Druggist says it was the veritable castor-oil plant which miraculously sheltered Jonah, and not a gourd, as translated in King James's version. Cholera rages in Mesopotamia, Asiatic Turkey. Three thousand deaths are reported, with more following. It may reach America during the coming summer. The Medical Standard, speaking of an operation done by three prominent Kansas doctors, puts it thus: Drs. Morgan of Clay Center, Tyler of Clifton and Houk of Wayne recently successfully removed a woman from an ovarian tumor. Dr. E. G. Eppler, of Fort Smith, Ark., suggests (Medical Standard) that the frequent occurrence of phthisis among lunatics and the animals in menageries is due to the spread of the disease from one to another because of want of isolation. The Marion Sims School of Medicine is the name of a new institution of St. Louis. So far as the faculty has been decided upon, it includes some of the best-known men in the South-west.-N. Y. Medical Journal. Dr. Wm. T. Belfield, 612 Opera House Building, Chicago, Ill., U. S. A., respectfully solicits information concerning unpublished cases of operations upon the prostate, especially for the relief of the so-salled hypertrophy of the organ. Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Milwaukee, and Dr. Christian Fenger, of Chicago, have been elected Professors of Surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic. In addition to clinical work, they will present a special course in abdom-inal surgery twice yearly. "Awake, my soul; Stretch every nerve; and press with vigor on." ---Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751. (Recommended as a religious stimulant in his Zeal and Vigor in the Christian Race.) This is said to be the first authentic reference to the surgical practice of nerve-stretching. Dr. William Goodell, Professor of Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania (Medical Department), has been invited by the Committee of the Gynecological Section of the Tenth International Medical Congress to deliver the introductory address in that section. The Session convenes at Berlin, August 4th, next. Dr. G. Frank Lydston, editor of the Western Medical Reporter, of Chicago, has been invited to deliver the opening public address at the Kentucky State Medical Society, which meets at Henderson May 14. He will speak upon "Materialism versus Sentiment in the Study of Crime." The South Kansas District Medical Society met at Wichita Tuesday, May 6. The following papers were upon the programme: Puerperal Peritonitis B. Hamilton, M. D., Douglas, Ks. Malarial Fevers-W. B. Dewees, M. D., Salina, Ks. Empyæma-W. W. Cave, M. D., Oatville, Ks. Report of Cases-J. W. McCracken, M. D., Sterling, Ks. In acute rheumatism, remember that the salicylate of soda should be given in doses of seven and one-half grains every three hours until the pain disappears. Too great importance cannot be attached to the frequent repetition of the dose. After the pain has ceased, the dose should become less frequent. Dr. G. Frank Lydston, of Chicago, says that the obstinate headaches of both late and early syphilis, whether associated with cranial bone lesions or not, are benefitted by frictions of the scalp with hydrarg. oleat. 10 per cent. In obstinate cases a blister to the nuchia, followed by mercurial plaster, is quite effective. Dr. L. D. Bulkley's antipruritic ointment is made as follows: Misce. Rub together until a liquid results, then add aquæ rosæ f3j.— Coll. and Clin. Reporter. In falling off of the hair, a writer in the Lancet recommends the following, a little to be rubbed on every night: R Tinct. jaborandi Glycerin. Mix by the aid of a little soft soap. 3ss 3iij 3ij Dr. Charles C.Partridge, a well-known and promising young physician of this city-a valued contributor to the INDEX-has left the city and located at Hyde Park, Mass., a suburb of Boston with a population of about ten thousand. The doctor will carry with him the good wishes of many professional friends, with the hope that he may meet the immediate and permanent success he so well deserves. Little Items. Dr. A. A. Henske advises, as an injection for leucorrhoea : Ꭱ 187 Tinct. of opium 30 grammes 470 grammes M. Sig. Two or three tablespoonfuls to a quart of water, used night and morning. The practice of cremation is so largely on the increase that it has been decided to build a new furnace at the cemetery of Père la Chaise, Paris. The furnace at present in use is kept burning night and day, a system which permits of the complete destruction of the corpse in less than an hour. It is hoped that with the new furnace the same result may be obtained in three-quarters of an hour.-Medical and Surgical Reporter. The following is quoted from the Gazette Med. Lomb., and is claim ed to be very effectual in the treatment of warts: Acid. salicylic Collodion gr.xv mxvj mxl dr.iss M. S. Apply daily to the warts. For incomplete abortion Prof. Parvin recommends the following treatment: Dilate the cervix by means of Hegar's hard rubber dilators; extract the remains of the uterine contents by Emmett's curette forceps, cleansing them each time of removal by dipping it in a carbolic acid solution (weak). After all material is removed, swab out the entire inner uterine surface with tincture iodine (Churchill's) by means of cotton wrapped over an applicator. Dr. Horatio C. Wood (University Medical Magazine) recommends this mixture as an excellent expectorant : R Ammonii chloridi 3ij aa fiss Misce. Slg.: Dessertspoonful every two or three hours. Dr. Steffen, of Regensdorf, warmly recommends the following application for chapped hands (in farm-laborers, laundresses, etc.): 50.0 grammes Misce ft. unguentum. Sig.: to rub into the hands twice daily. The Indian Territory Medical Association met at Atoka, January 18, Dr. B. F. Fortner, the president, presiding. In the absence of the regular secretary, Dr. W. R. Thompson, of Oklahoma City, was elected Secretary pro tem. Drs. Treadwell, E. L. Loomis, W. W. Vannoy, H. C. Nash, R. I. Bonds, E. G. Wands and John A. Cobb were elected to membership. Papers were read by Drs. Rucker, Thompson, Bagby and Lankford. June. The Association adjourned to meet at McAllister next |
