Naphthaline in Ulcers.... 554 332 634 77 434 154 ..561 266 513 552 Notes and Items, 28, 36, 56, 80, 83, 110, 123, 132, 140, 168,196, 224, 230, 252, 280, 307, 335, 364, 392, 419, 447, 476, 504, 560, Point Pressure and Reflex Spasm. Pregnancy, Hydrops and Albuminuria. Radius, Fractures of Lower End. Rallroad Shock, Neurotic Sequency Recent Pharmaceutical Investigations. Rectal Injection of Medicated Gases.. Rectal Medication and Alimentation. Reflex Spasm Produced by Point Pressure. Religious Newspaper Advertising Retinitis Exudative in Bright's Disease. Retinitis Pigmentosa, Retardation.. Restrictions of Medical Colleges.. Rheumatism Acute; Antipyrine.. .519 .616 Pancoast, Dinner to... 702 561 ..684 194 Pelvic Organs in the Female. 424 639 .551 Permanganate of Potash in Burns, etc. .553 .219 Philadelphia Correspondent to the British Medical Philadelpbia County Medical Society, Report of Dele- 211 139 .649 213 346 Phthisis, Iodine Carbolized. ..554 56, 169 115 Pilocarpine, Hepatic Abscess.. 5549 Urethan, Antidote to Strychnine. Urethan, etc., in Neuroses and Psychoses. Urinary Incontinence in Children. Uterine Appendages, Frequency of Disease. 464 349 434 Scarlet Fever, Biniodide of Mercury. Secale Cornutum in Phthisical Sweats. Sensationalism in Therapeutics. Specialists and Specialty in Medicine... Spinal Apparatus, Homemade....., Spine, Lumbar Curve in the Several Races. "Splitting the Cervix;" Fatal Results.. Spondylitis, Etiology and Diagnosis Stomach, Ulcer Perforating Heart. Strabismus; Advancement of Tenon's Capsule Stricture, Treatment by Electrolysis.. Strychnine, Urethan as an Antidote. Surgical Dressing, a Novel Mode. Syphilis, Hypodermic Treatment.. Tissue Metabolism; Salicylate of Soda.. Tracheotomy, Membranous Laryngitis. Treatment of Acute Gonorrhea... Tubercular Meningitis; Iodoform.. Tuberculosis; Hyposulphate of Soda.. Tuberculosis in Lungs, Sublimate.. Tuberculosis; Skin and Mucosa.. Tuberculous Infection of Wounds. Tube-Ovarian Abscess; Operation Tympanic Membrane... Vermiform Appendix, Perforation.. Vertebral Arteries; Ligation in Epilepsy. Vertigo, Role of Nervous System... Vitreous Humor, Foreign Bodies Whooping Cough, Nasal Insufflations. Wounds Penetrating of Abdomen.. Wounds, Tuberculous Infection. Yellow Fever in Brazil.... 332 CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME XIV. ARMSTRONG, L. C., Taylorville, II. Carcinoma of Breast and its Removal by Amputa- ASHBY, T. A., Baltimore, MD. The Influence of Pregnancy and Parturition upon 34 ASHBY, THOMAS A., Baltimore, Md. Dilatation of the Cervical Canal, for Stenosis of: the Internal Os, Under Cocaine.. BARCLAY, ROBERT, St. Louis, Mo. Noises in the Head and Ears.. .178 Fractures of the Leg and Treatment. CHENOWETH, W.J . Decatur, Ill. 96 ..231 287 A Case of Stenosis at the Mitral Cardiac Orifice Illustrating the Advantage of Digitalis.... .566 ..176 627 Case of Cut Throat Involving the Larynx... .455 289 HALLAM, J. S.. Centralia. Ill. Goitre Treated by Carbolic Acid.. Bromide of Potassium and Lotions of Etherin Sun- LEE, ALEXANDER F., Quincy, III. LEE, ALEXANDER F., Quincy, Ill. Report of a Case of Pelvic Abscess.. LEE, ALEXANDER F., Quincy III. LOOMIS, A. L., New York. The Effect of High Altitudes on Cardiac Disease....203 Artificial Alimentation and Medication.-Epider- 64 315 LUTZ, FRANK J., St. Lou s, Mo. Laparotomy for Penetrating Gunshot Wound of MARSHALL, S. W., Sparta, Ill. 68 MCKEE. E. S. Cincinnati, O. 515 Peristaltic Action of Muscular Blood Vessels, Es- pecially in Assimilation and Digestion.. 44 317 PORTER, WILLIAM, St. Louis, Mo. Some Practical Suggestions on the Treatment of POWERS, CHARLES A., New York. Compound Fractures.-An Abstract of Eighteen Con- 260,372 177 STEELE, A. J., Charleston, Ill. THOMHSON, JEROME, Evansville, III. .589 .341 WASHBURN, T. S., Hillsboro, Ni. WETMORE, A., Waterloo, ul. 625 372 Fracture of Skull. Hysterectomy for Removal of a Fibrocystic Tumor 7 Physiological Action of Cocaine, by Senor Brignon, 679 Is the Pneumatic Cabinet Practical ?........ 149 Puerperul Fever and the Early Employment of An- ...650 SELECTIONS IN VOLUME XIV. CLOUSTON, T. s., Edinburgh, Scotland. The Relationship of Bodily and Mental Pain........600 Laceration of the Os and Cervix Uteri and the Oper- 628 542 Lettsomian Lectures on Some Moot Points in the .402, 429, 485 On the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilil..632 CORRESPONDENCE IN VOLUME XIV. ANONYMUS. 109 The Jefferson Medical College.. Abscess of the Brain.... LATTA, W. S., Lincoln, Neb. Fracture of the Skull....... LIELL, EDWARD N., New York A Correction... LONDON LETTER.. 138, 321, 247, 334, 361, 416, 520, MCLEAN, JOHN, Pullmann, II. Dr. Bartholow vs. Egypt.. MULLANE, Jos., Lyons, Ind. IT Malaria and Quinine in Pregnancy. NEW YORK LETTER..........54, 109, 167, 250, 395, 390, 415, 474 SHOEMAKER, JOHN. S., Philadelphia, Pa. Reply to Dr. Bartholow's Letter. ..53 A SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS IN VOLUME XIV ..3010 American Dermatological Association.. American Gynecological Society. .383, 41 American Ophthalmological Society. . 220, American Otological Society... Association of American Physicians.. Baltimore Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.. 50, 78. 648, 4 .11 Chicago Gynecological Society, 82, 106, 133, 164. 189, 350, .351, 443, 465, 525, 556, 683, 610, 725 Chicago Medical Society.... 135, 160, 272, 296, 357, 467, 500, 521, 581, 692, 718 Heidelberg University Celebration. 241, 251 Medical Press and Library Association.. 26 Medico-Chirurgical Society of St. Louis. .280, 473 .661, 687 Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia......81, 500, 557, 616,641 Rolla District Medical Society.. 181, 187 Sanitary Convention at Big Rapids, Michigcan.. 722 Southern Illinois Medical Association.. 26, 307, 260 St. Louis Medical Society, 350, 379, 410, 437, 464, 498. 520. 608, 649, 660, 687, 710 ....320 one case THE REPORTS ON PROGRESS. and discussions, claims that have no founda tion either in truth or in possibility, and that REPORT ON OBSTETRICS AND GYNE are conclusively and finally vetoed by the COLOGY. revelations of the dead-house, and by the BY W. L. BARRET, M. D. examination of the organs removed. The author asserts that of all of the extirpated 1. Is DiSEASE OF THE UTERINE APPEN- tubes he has examined, and he has examined DAGES AS FREQUENT AS IT HAS BEEN REPRE a large portion of all of those removed in SENTED. – By Henry C. Coe, American Jour. New York, he has found pyo-salpinx in only nal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women. out of five; that in a large proII. SUCCESSFUL LABOR AFTER RECOVERY portion of the cases, there was no positive FROM RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS.—North Carevidence of pathological changes of a serious olina Medical Journal, April 1886. nature in the ovaries. III. AN UNUSUAL SEQUELA OF OVARIOT The inference to be drawn from his obserOMY.-Medical and Surgical Reporter. vations, is that a large proportion of the patients operated upon were in no way beneIV. A CASE OF VAGINITIS DUE TO fited by the operation, while some of them PRESENCE OF RED ANTS IN THE VAGINA. were made worse. Gillette, American Journal of Obstetrics. He does not, of course, undervalue the V. MANAGEMENT OF PLACENTA Previa. importance of Tait's operation, nor of the -Dr. Malcolm McLean, K. C. Med. Rec. removal of the ovaries, when the necessity exists. His objection is to operations based Is DISEASE OF UTERINE APPENDAGES on insufficient data, and he adduces evidence AS FREQUENT AS IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED? to show that in many instances these operaThis is the title of an interesting and in with pernicious results. We regret our space tions have been performed needlessly and structive paper by Dr. Henry C. Coe, the prevents extensive quotations. accomplished pathologist to the Woman's The author says in conclusion, the followHospital, New York. It deserves a careful ing deductions may be regarded as legitimate: perusal from all who have any interest in the 1. Ovarian disease is not as subject, and no one can read it, except with as it has been represented; the surgeons, pleasure and profit. It is a timely and well directed protest against the unreasoning and not the pathologists, being responsible and unreasonable resort to Tait's operation, far the prevalence of the contrary opinion. , . and to oophorotomy which bas raged with 2. Because an ovary is partially diseased, the virulence and indiscrimination of an epi- it does not follow either that its functions demic. have been materially impaired, or that its The doctor also denies, with the voice of removal is imperative. authority, the brazen claims set up to preci- 3. The expression“cirrhosis” and “cystic sion in the diagnostication of these lesions, degeneration” commonly applied to the ovary that we see so often paraded in the papers are mischievious terms, which are too often THE common a case. The pa used in justification of unjustifiable opera- cessful labor after the recovery from ruptare tions. of the uterus, viz., that by Dr. D. W. Moore, 4. Actual disease of the tubes is far less Milwaukee, Wis., 1881, in Transactions Wisfrequent than is generally believed. Lesser consin Medical Society, Vol. XV. p. 128. In degrees of inflammation, especially slight this case the uterus was ruptured the second “ catarrhal salpingitis,” are seldom apprecia. time, followed by recovery. ble to the pathologist, still less to the surgeon. 5. Many of the symptoms ascribed to dis- AN UNUSUAL SEQUELA OF OVARIOTOMY. eases of the uterine appendages are really due To the Clinical Society of London (March to localized peritonitis, and will not be removed 13), Mr. R. Barwell read a paper on by a removal of the appendages. At the latter end of last October he removed 6. · The physiology of the ovaries and the left ovary of an unmarried woman, aged tubes is still imperfectly understood, their 29. The local results were perfect; but cerpathology must then remain sub judice, and tain sequela ensued which had not hitherto , operations for their removal, on the ground been recorded, but, on questioning other sur , of limited disease alone, must be regarded as geons, Mr. Barwell found the event not to be largely empirical. To which I would venture isolated, and notably that Dr. Keith, Mr. to add the prediction : Thornton, Mr. Dent, Dr. Bantock and others, 7. The present enthusiasm in this country had met with a like complication. in favor of Tait's operation will not endure, tient was of fair complexion, and mobile tembecause it will eventually be discovered that perament. She came into Charing Cross Hosthe number of permanent cures is entirely out pital, and it was agreed that ovariotomy of proportion to the number of operations. should be performed. On October 28th, Mr. Barwell removed the left ovary, first with drawing twenty-three pints of fluid; the pediSUCCESSFUL LABOR AFTER RECOVERY FROM cle was tied with silk, and allowed to fall RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS. back into the abdomen. The usual mode of The remarkable case of rupture of uterus suture was employed. During the three suboccurring in the practice of Dr. D. W. Bul sequent days menstruation recurred, and some lock, of Whitaker's (North Carolina Med- hematuria was observed; it then ceased. On ical Journal, July, 1882, p. 8), will be the third day the thermometer stood for two remembered by most of our readers, but we hours at 102.4°, but with this exception she will hastily recapitulate the prominent fea. never had a temperature worthy of notice. tures : A colored multipara, 34 years age, The deep sutures were removed after fortyhad rupture of the uterus after being in labor eight hours. The abdominal wound four hours. The head was “button-holed " healed on November 2d; there was hardly any through the uterus, as Dr. Bullock expressed tenderness in the left groin or elsewhere. The it, and a loop of intestine was prolapsed patient, who was naturally very docile and through the vagina. There was nothing amenable, showed, on November 3rd, a conwanting to show the correctness of the diag. tradictory and aggressive temper; on the 5th nosis. The woman made a good recovery in (eighth day of operation) this bad developed about seven weeks. We are now able to into insanity. On November 7th she had be. record the fact that this patient was recently come so violent that she had to be secured, safely delivered of a living child, and made a and this could only be effected by giving a a good recovery. little chloroform. A subcutaneous injection Cases are on record of the safe delivery of four minims of solution of morphia only after Cesarean section, but after a consider calmed her for three hours. On the 21st, able hunt we found only one case of a suc- with various phases of comparative violence of was |