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are the true mouth-pieces of the profession, and offer almost the only means by which the opinions of physicians can be learned, we find that with four exceptions the journals are unanimous in their condemnation. These four are the New York Medical Record and Medical Journal, the Therapeutic Gazette, and the Chicago Medical Review.

Nor are the journals of the old school the only ones that condemn and ridicule the new code; many of our own school distrust and oppose it almost as strongly. In order to show that the millennium of medical tolerance has not yet arrived, and that there is no probability of favorable action being taken upon this code at the meeting of the American Association, we will give a few extracts from journals in different parts of the country.

Whatever the motive with which it was conceived and executed, we have the clearest conviction of its ill-advisedness and reprehensible character. It will not elevate the standing of the regular profession, whilst it will give credit and respectability to quackery and professional irregularity. Nor can the result, as we believe, be in doubt, since the American Medical Association, backed by all the other State societies, will be able to maintain an attitude of firmness, and resist the encroachments of the ill-advised and unwarranted authors of such innovations. Encouraged by such support, the better thinking men of the New York profession will probably band together to form another State society in affiliation with the national body and its branches, and seek to elevate rather than pull down the noble profession to which we all feel proud to belong. - Maryland Medical Fournal.

But, surely, "the times are out of joint" most strangely when a medical society representing the professional dignity and intelligence embodied in that of the State of New York can, by a two-thirds majority, adopt a code of ethics expressly abandoning the clauses which forbid participation in the farce of consultation with the dogmatists of any exclusive therapeutic sect or school, and when a medical journal of the standing and previous respectability of the New York Medical Record can be found not only to connive at, but to defend, the action. The Canadian Fournal of Medical Science.

It looks as if the profession of New York had outworn the code instead of outgrown it. It is hoped in this region that they may reconsider their ill-advised action, and not be lost to their friends and fellows in other States. · Louisville Medical News.

From the profession of almost every State and section, as reflected by the medical journals, come the earnest protests against the attempted innovation of the New York State Medical Society upon the 'code of ethics. Some of the comments. are extremely vigorous, and some even caustic. The unanimity of opinion, however, is remarkable. . . . It gives us It gives us renewed faith in the honor and integrity of the profession. Atlanta

Medical Register.

It is our belief that, however the commercial spirit may dominate the profession of the State of New York, it will not dominate every other State. The Detroit Lancet.

The sole object in view in the adoption of this code seems to have been to open the doors for consultation with irregulars. The Physician and Surgeon.

Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit unite with the smaller towns of the West and South, with few exceptions, in opposition. New York stands almost alone, and possibly New York City, for there is no doubt that a portion of the State will coincide with the general opinion. -The Medical Annals, Albany, N. Y.

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Most unwise, ill-timed, and injurious, both to the interests of the profession and of the community, untenable in every aspect in which it can be viewed, and is not sustained by the action of any other respectable body of medical men in Europe or America. The Chicago Medical Fournal and Examiner.

The leaders of this movement in New York have ample reason to feel uncomfortable. In their own school they are almost universally condemned; by homoeopaths they are ridiculed; but few outside of their own clique approve of their action, the best members of the profession uniting in the openly expressed hope that the innovating society shall be debarred from participation in the deliberations of the American Medical Association. Medical and Surgical Reporter.

The door might thereby be thrown wide open for the entrance of numberless abuses, and the result be a perceptible lowering of the whole standard of medical ethics, already none too high. Buffalo Medical Fournal.

These two clauses, concerning consultations, contain all the originality of the new code, which, with this exception, is but a rehash or an abbreviation of the old, and on these two hang all the law and the profits. - The Southern Practitioner.

The New York Medical Record and the New York Medical Fournal both favor it of course. With these exceptions we have

not seen a single journal, from North, South, East, or West, that did aught but condemn the action in no uncertain sound. And these utterances are the true index of the feelings of the profession. Fifty-two doctors at Albany, reckless of honor but greedy for gold, undertook to sell out the regular profession, but only succeeded in selling themselves, and very cheap at that. . . . The fees which those men hoped for they will not get, while the honorable name which has been heretofore accorded to them is theirs no longer. - Ohio Medical Fournal.

At the regular stated meeting of the Homœopathic Medical Society of Lancaster County, Pa., the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that since the practice of homoeopathy has established for itself an honorable position in the estimation of the community against all opposing forces that the old school could bring to bear against it, that there is no advantage or prestige to be derived by homoeopathic physicians in consulting with allopaths, and therefore the recent action of the Allopathic Medical Society of the State of New York in resolving in future to consult with them was entirely gratuitous." S.

A CASE OF TRUE VACCINIA IN A CHILD, FOLLOWING THE VACCINATION OF THE MOTHER.

BY J. T. HARRIS, M. D., BOSTON.

On the 13th of February, 1882, I called at the house of Mr. G―, intending to vaccinate his two children, one about three years old, the other a seven months' babe at the breast, whose head, face, arms, and legs were covered with eczema, crusta lactea, from which it was suffering severely. Fearing an aggravation of the humor from complication with the vaccination, I declined to operate, giving as my reason that I thought the child was suffering enough already; that she would be more feverish, irritable, and would require greater care if vaccinated than at present. Although the three-years-old child was troubled with the same form of humor, I vaccinated her, and also the mother. Both vaccinations took, and ran the usual course without much constitutional disturbance. The fifth day after the operation was Mrs. G's sickest day. She then had headache, backache, fever, and chill. The vaccination developed normally, but more rapidly than usual.

On the first day of March the baby was more restless and feverish, requiring constant care. On the second day the mother noticed a number of little red pimples upon the child. These

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increased rapidly upon the face, arms, and legs. I was called to see the little patient on Saturday, the 4th of March. The little pimples at this time were very numerous, had increased in size; the areola quite red; some swelling; baby feverish; temperature 102. To the question, "What is it, doctor?" I frankly answered, "I don't know, it is not small-pox nor chicken-pox. I shall have to wait until it is more fully developed."

On Sunday morning, the fifth day since the fever, the vesicles were forming and more or less filled with lymph, and in the afternoon some were umbilicated. Fresh eruptions were also developing, and upon the face, arms, and legs — those portions of the surface most severely marked with the eczema the new eruption had become confluent, the whole character of the eruption resembling that of small-pox. There were without doubt between four and five hundred well-defined circular vesicles upon the child during the course of the disease. I invited Dr. Miles to see the case on Sunday afternoon. After a careful examination, we concluded that it was a case of vaccinia, communicated to the child through the mother's milk. That there should be no mistake, however, I called upon Dr. McCullom, the city physician, reported the case, and invited him to see the patient with me, which he did on Monday morning. Dr. Martin of Roxbury, and Dr. Cutler of Chelsea, also saw the case, and were much interested in it.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the sixth, seventh, and eighth days, there was much swelling of the face, arms, and legs, where it had taken on the confluent form. The little patient was quite feverish and restless. On the seventh, eighth, and ninth days was quite hoarse, and had some difficulty in swallowing. All the symptoms gradually diminished after the ninth day, and many of the scabs were rubbed off. On the seventeenth day very few adherent scabs remained. Acon. and Tart. emetic were the remedies used.

At the present time, May 14, the child shows many pits, not deep however. The parts where the eruption was confluent are still quite red. The eczema, however, seems to have left for good, and I am in hopes of seeing a good, clear skin before many weeks. Although the diagnosis the first few days was obscure, all doubt was removed, and it was pronounced a case of vaccinia communicated from the mother. You will note that on the fifth day after the revaccination of the mother, the paroxysm of fever occurred, and ten days after the baby was feverish, and the eruption made its appearance one day later. We can therefore call it fourteen days from the time the babe first took the milk impregnated with vaccinia from its mother. If the system can thus be so thoroughly impregnated with vaccinia, may we not also

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