THE post-graduate faculty of University Medical College of New York City has resigned. They state that the promises made of doing post-graduate work have not been fulfilled. There is a probability that this faculty will organize a new medical school in New York City as a department of Cornell University.

DR. MURRELL, of London, thinks that the Bethesda water, is worthy of trial in Bright's disease. We have used several barrels of the water in the treatment of chronic cystitis and regard it as a valuable adjunct to certain drugs. A large amount of the water may be taken without causing any discomfort.

DR. PARKER (New England Medical Monthly) uses the following in gonorrhoea:

M. S. Use as an injection night and morning.

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THE following is recommended by the New England Medical Monthly in amenorrhoea with torpid circulation:

KÖHNBORN recommends, in the night sweats of phthisis,

A cloth should be held over the face during the dusting to prevent coughing. The arrest of perspiration is confined to the parts to which the application is made.

THE following is good for removing the accumulation in ascites:

B. Pulveris digitalis.....

Pulveris scillæ...........
Elaterii

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M. Et in chartulas sexdecem (16) divide. S. One powder in water three times per day.

The quantity of elaterium may be increased; or this ingredient may be omitted if only the diuretic effect of the powder is desired.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Reported for THE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

The regular quarterly meeting of this Board was held at Greenville, Michigan, on April 11, 1882, in connection with the sanitary convention held at the same time and place. The following members were present: Rev. D. C. Jacokes, of Pontiac ; J. H. Kellogg, M. D., of Battle Creek; Arthur Hazelwood, M. D., of Grand Rapids; John Avery, M. D., of Greenville; and Henry B. Baker, M. D., of Lansing, secretary; William Oldright, M. D., chairman, and J. J. Cassiday, M. D., member of the newly-appointed provincial board of health of Ontario, were present and were invited to take seats in the meeting. In the absence of the president of the Board, Dr. Jacokes presided.

The secretary presented the subject of inspection of immigrants and stated that the National Board of Health had granted the request of this Board for an inspection service at Port Huron, and the system would go into effect on May 1, at which time the whole system, by coöperation of several State Boards of Health, would go into effect. He suggested that the health authorities of Toledo and Cleveland be invited to join in this movement. He stated that at the meeting of the sanitary council of the Mississippi Valley, at Cairo, Illinois, April 19, this subject would be considered, and that it was desirable that this Board be represented at that meeting. By yote of the Board, Dr. Baker was requested to represent the Board at that meeting. Dr. Oldright spoke of the inspection of immigrants at Toronto, and of the importance of notification to other Boards of danger to be feared from immigrants. He also said any movement made by this Board would meet with hearty coöperation by the Ontario Board. He said the work done by this Board for the restriction of scarlet fever and diphtheria was fully as important as that for the restriction of small-pox.

The following motion was carried:

That the secretary be instructed to correspond with the health authorities of the Dominion of Canada, and the several provinces thereof, and of provincial and municipal Boards of Health where they exist, asking their coöperation in the proposed immigrant inspection service.

Dr. Hazlewood read a proposed document giving best household antidotes to be used in case of poisoning, while waiting for a physician or when one is not to be had. It was accepted and the committee authorized to modify it before publication in the annual report.

Dr. Hazlewood, committee on poisons, etc., presented a let

ter from Dr. Gordon, of Swartz Creek, relative to lead-poisoning by use of a feeding-bottle (which was exhibited to the Board) in which the sinker keeping the supply pipe in the milk was of lead and so arranged that all the milk had to pass over it before entering the infant's mouth. The secretary was requested to notify the manufacturer of the pernicious character of the bottle, and the report was accepted and ordered published in the annual report.

Circular 35, revised, relating to the duties of health officers, was presented, adopted, and twenty thousand copies ordered printed.

Dr. Kellogg, as special committee to prepare a circular on criminal abortion, made a report and read a proposed circular. The report was accepted, the committee continued and the subject of issuing the circular laid over.

Dr. Kellogg was requested to represent the Board at the meeting of the American Medical Association at St. Paul. The next meeting of the Board will be on Tuesday, July 11, 1882.

TRANSLATIONS.

Translations from Dutch Journals for THE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

BY J. VANDERLAAN, M. D., MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

AN UNDESCRIBED DISEASE OF THE NEW BORN.

BY DR. WINCKEL, ib Deutsche Med. Wochenschrift, 1881.

From the most prominent symptoms the author has described this disease under the name of "Cyanosis febrilis enteritica perniciosa cum hemoglobinuria."

He observed the disease in its endemic form, and gives the results of his investigations as follows:

Death took place in eighty-two per cent. of the twenty-three attacked. The disease makes its appearance on the first, second, or sometimes as late as the fourth day after birth.

Symptoms.-Cyanosis, icterus; urine of a light color or more or less of a dark-brown, which may contain hemoglobine, normal bladder epithelium, large quantity of "granular casts,' red blood corpuscles, micrococci, detritus, urate of ammonia, and a small quantity of albumen; subnormal temperature; frequent dark yellow alvine discharges; increase of the white blood corpuscles, and the blood contains the remains of the broken down red corpuscles and movable bodies. No increase or hardening of the connective tissue; liver little enlarged, almost entire absence of "chest symptoms," convulsions, subsultus, nystagmus, convergent strabismus.

Postmortem examination revealed the following changes: Infarction of the papillæ of the kidney, dilatation of the stomach, ecchymoses in the intestines; enlargement of Peyers and the messenteric glands, hyperæmia and congestion of the mucous membrane of larynx and bronchi; oedema of the brain, dilatation of the ventricles, congestion with here and there effusion of blood. Of the etiology nothing is known.-Praktizeerende Geneesheer.

A NEW CORPUSCLE IN THE BLOOD OF THE MAMMALIA AND ITS RELATION TO THROMBOSIS AND COAGULATION OF BLOOD IN GENERAL.

Professor Bizzoreo, of Turin, in a communication to the Centralbl. f. d. Wissench, Number II, 1882, describes it as follows: In the small blood vessels of the mammalia (in the messentery of rabbits and dolphins under the influence of chloral) when using a high power of the microscope, there will be found, besides the red and the white corpuscles, yet a third variety, light, colorless, oval or round, flat or lens-shaped discs, having a diameter of from one-half to one-third of that of the red globules, and irregularly distributed.

The reasons why they have not been discovered by others who have investigated the circulation of the blood, the author gives as follows:

(1) Because they are colorless and very transparent.

(2) Because numerically much less than the red and very much more difficult of detection than the white.

(3) Because of the difficulty connected with the direct investigation of the circulation in mammals, and that consequently such investigations have been almost exclusively confined to cold-blooded animals.

These blood discs are found as well in recently drawn blood as in that circulating; in drawn blood they are most frequently found in the immediate neighborhood of the white, or rise to the surface of the fluid and adhere to the cover-glass.

These bodies by their quick change and rapid decomposition give rise to that granular appearance of freshly drawn blood, which some histologists have described as "granular matter" (kornchen haufen).

By the aid of proper reagents they may be kept unchanged for an almost indefinite length of time. Such a reagent the author found to be a neutral solution of chloride of sodium colored with methyl violet. This solution leaves both the red and the white corpuscle unaltered.

In man, in whom these disks change very rapidly, the following method to detect them is advised: Prick the finger with some sharp instrument, and at the wound apply a drop of the above solution, squeeze out a drop of blood, which immediately

mixes with the solution and prepares it for microscopical investigation. The most beautiful discs are obtained from the dolphin.

As to the origin and source of these bodies Bizzoreo has as yet no idea; but he does not think them to be derived or in any way related to the white corpuscle, because the discs have a typical form and there is nothing in the contents of the white having any similarity to them.

These discs, so abundantly present, will have to be considered, says the author, in the future study of the functions and changes of the blood. To me their value is evident, both as regards their numerical increase in many pathological conditions (as for instance after venesection) and as to their influence in the formation of thrombi and of the coagulation of the blood. In the formation of thrombi these discs form the larger part of the white thrombus of mammals, giving rise to that granular appearance, which is often found between the white corpuscles, and which has been mistaken for shriveled up white blood cells, or coagulated fibrin.

To these bodies very probably belongs the influence of coagulating the blood, by Mantegazza and A. Schmidt ascribed to the white blood cells. I have come to this conclusion for the following reasons:

(1) I have never been convinced that during coagulation the white corpuscles fall to the bottom of the liquid in such large numbers as has been described by A. Schmidt; for, in the circulating blood of mammals, the white are comparatively few, and after venesection, provided the blood flows in an indifferent fluid I have never seen the white blood cells thus "sinking to the bottom" as held by Schmidt.

(2) When a drop of fresh blood is watched, it will be found. that the time at which coagulation begins, exactly corresponds to the time at which these blood discs begin to decompose.

(3) If a part of a blood vessel be taken between two ligatures the blood it contains will remain fluid for several hours, and during all this time these blood discs retain their form and shape, but they begin to change within a minute's time in blood deprived of the influence of the serous coat of the vessels.

In consideration of all this it is highly probable that these blood discs directly influence the coagulation of blood.-Praktizeerende Geneesheer.

VOMITING OF URINE.

Generali and Tovini describe a case, the like of which there is none on record in medical literature.

A lady aged thirty-three years, syphilitic, was taken with inflammation of the lung, which came to a crisis on the tenth day. Soon after she suffered from an attack of peritonitis with