Dr. J. M. Browne, a quite prominent young colored physician of this city, recently died and was taken to his old home in Virginia for interment. Antipyrine in doses of one to two grains every two hours to a child of five years is the most successful treatment for whooping cough.yet discovered. After forty years' toil as a surgeon and teacher Prof. Moses Gunn only accumulated about $50,000. Truly, the ways of the physician are not those of wealth. Dr. J. Ashworth, of Denver, Colo., says that hyposulphite of sodium is absolutely useless as a remedy in typho-malarial fever, despite its high laudation. A Paris physician claims to cure hydrophobia by hot baths often repeatedtemperature 140-making his patient remain continually in a very hot room. Dr. G. R. Baldwin, of Ft. Scott, has been very ill with a paranephritic abscess, followed by septicemia. LATER : He has died. Particulars in next issue. Dr. Wm. Murrell, of London, says he obtains the best effects from calomel by giving one-tenth grain, in the form of the triturates, every three or four hours. In a rebellious case of chronic diarrhoea in a child three years of age, eight or ten grain doses of salicylate of bismuth, three times a day, were found to be effective. The greatest per capità consumption of opium in the United States is in the city of Portland, Maine, where the sale of alcoholic liquors is absolutely prohibited. Physicians wishing to attend the Kansas State Society at Topeka, can secure railroad rates of one and one third usual fare one way. Ladies same. Prof. Shoemaker recommends as a local application in erythema, a mixture of one dram of borax, one ounce of glycerine and two ounces of rose-water. A case of surgical instruments has just been excavated at Pompeii. Many of the implements are said to bear a remarkable resemblance to those used at the present day. Subscriptions for 1888 are now due While money is scarce in the country it is just as scarce in the city. Therefore try to raise $2.00 to send to the INDEX for 1888. It is said that the application of one part red oxide of mercury to one hundred parts of yaseline to commencing 'boils will prevent suppuration if done early. The board of examiners of California will not, after 1891, recognize the diploma of any college that requires less than three separate years of attendance on lectures. Dr. Alexander Dunlap, of Springfield, Ohio, recently performed laparotomy in a child one hour old without chloroform or other anæsthetic. The child has recovered. Dr. J. B. Tyler, for many years engaged in the practice of his profession in New York, has removed to this city and opened an office in the National Waterworks building. A number of foreign physicians who attended the International Congress, are reported by the New York Times as having about concluded to locate in the United States. A prize of $2,000 has been offered by the Paris Academy of Medicine for the best work on stricture of the urethra or on the therapeutic methods for diseases of the urethra. Among the aphorisms of Amidee Latour there is none more apt than : Remember always to appear to be doing something above all, when you are doing nothing. Osler, Medical Times, says that when convulsions occur for the first time after the thirtieth year, and usually epileptiform in character, suspicion points to cerebral tumor. Dr. Hal Foster has removed his office from 1400 Summit to 1115 Main St. Physicians wishing to consult him concerning cases of throat or chest diseases will bear this in mind. Fifteen grain doses of antipyrin taken each morning and repeated in an hour, if necessary, will often wholly relieve the distress of hay fever. Remember this until next summer. Prof John H. Duncan will deliver the valedictory address before the graduating class of the Medical Department of the University of Kansas City, Thursday evening, March 17. In treating gummata of the brain Bartholow claims to have received most speedy and satisfactory results from the use of pilocarpine, mercury and iodide of potassium given together. Hammond makes the statement that of all the larger number of inebriates that have come under his observation, every one was found to be sexually impotent or masturbators. For herpes, Shoemaker prescribes three grains of sulphate of morphine and one-half ounce each of calamine and subnitrate of bismuth. Mix and dust over the affected surface. Albumin is frequently present in the urine of insane and epileptic patients, so that one should not always think of Bright's disease simply because of the existence of albuminuria. One of the brightest and most promising young physicians of this city, has been forced to give up his practice-in fact, has become a perfect physical wreck from the use of cocaine. In the treatment of scabies Kaposi uses lard, 100 parts; green soap, 50 parts; naphthaline, 15 parts; powdered white chalk, 10 parts. Mix. The same mixture has been used with success in acne. Practical joking can be carried too far. A street car conductor of this city was recently held up" by two of his intimate friends imitating footpads. The poor fellow was so frightened that he died a few hours later from shock. An Iowa physician reports to the board of health the death of a child from "colery and phantom." He has taken the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal for something less than fifty years. About four hundred babies out of every thousand die by the end of the second year. Three hundred of these deaths are probably directly due to ignorance of hygiene and dietetics. To allay incessant desire to urinate (or irritable bladder) try a mixture of two drams of benzoic acid and three drams o borax in twelve ounces of water. Dose, one tablespoonful three times a day. As a broad rule it may be laid down that in cases of suspected intestinal obstruction, if obstinate constipation, pain and vomiting has persisted for fortyeight hours, laparotomy should be performed at once. The eminent Roswell Park regards inflation of the bowel in attempts to overcome obstruction as a very dangerous act, as fatal perforation of the gut often occurs where a timely laparotomy would have saved life. "Dudley," said the wife of a prominent and Progress-ive physician of Kentucky, "your patent combination pocket-knife is very rusty-all but the corkscrew part." Charles Carroll Lee, of New York, has performed Alexander's operation a score or more times--three times for complete procidentia of the uterus. Contrary to the belief of many, he has found the operation curative. Ween obesity occurs in multipara reproduction ceases, according to Dr. Andrew F. Currier, of New York. Such has not been the observation of the INDEX. Will correspondents please take notes and report ? Dr. W. D. Bidwell, of Leavenworth, has been passing a few weeks in the City of Mexico. His friend, Dr. Parsons, a very bright and pleasant, as well as successful physician, has charge of the American hospital there. The Kansas City College of Pharmacy is getting into first-class shape for the next winter's session. A beautiful cabinet of all articles of the materia medica has just been recieved from Lehn & Fink, of New York. How wise was he who said: the physician who depends upon the gratitude of his patient for his fee, is like the traveler who waited upon the bank of a river until it would finish flowing that he might cross to the other side. For persistent vomiting try one-fourth grain of pure nitrate of potash every four or five minutes until the nausea entirely subsides, which will probably be in from ten minutes to half an hour. It is valueless in reflex vomiting. A case is reported in a late foreign journal, of a woman affected for seven years with hystero-epilepsy, in which a complete cure was affected by a reposition of a retroflexed uterus and the application of a Hodge's pessary. New York has one hospital bed to every two hundred and sixty inhabitants. Kansas City has only one bed to eight hundred and eighteen inhabitants. some public-spirited individual please endow another private hospital here ? Will Prof. Forbes lays down this rule: To diagnose intracapsular fracture of the hip joint, place patient on his abdomen and carry the foot backward; if able to carry nearly to a right angle with the body, it is undoubtedly a fracture. Parke, Davis & Co., have sent to the INDEX an excellent crayon portrait of Sir Morell Macknezie. A copy can be obtained by addressing the firm at Detroit, Mich. It is a most excellent engraving, well worth permanent preservation. Prof. Hebra advises washing the parts and the underclothing, previous to the application of chrysophanic acid in skin affections, with a solution of bicarbonate of sodium or potassium. This will prevent staining-the greatest objection to the drug. Dr. C. Dannaker, of this city, reports the case of a child, three years of age, swallowing one-half of a pair of medium sized scissors. It was passed per anum on the fourth day, no untoward symptoms having arisen and no drugs admin istered. Trust the French for originality. M. Leven before the Soc ete de Biologie, not long since claimed that obesity is a nervous disorder to be treated by avoidance of mental and physical fatigue and a diet of eggs, soup, milk, rice and potatoes! The Missouri Medical Association will meet in this city Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 17, 18 and 19 More than one thousand dollars have been promised to entertain the members, a banquet to be among the good things promised. Prof. Ch. Fauvel, of 13 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, writes to the New York Medical Journal thus: Will you kindly have it announced in justice to myself before the medical profession, that the various notices appearing in journals and circulars quoting my name in connection with coca are entirely false and in every respect a prevarication? The only preparation of coca employed by me with undoubted and uniform success has been the so well-known vin Mariani, which, since 1865, I have had occasion to prescribe daily in my clinique, as well as in private practice. My opinion of this valuable medicament, together with those of many of my confreres, has during many years been frequently made known for the benefit of the profession in various writings, and it is but just to this worthy preparation that it receive all honor due. The physicians of Lawrence, Kansas, 64 are the 'deadest" of any in the West; at least one would so judge from the fact that of some twenty-five there were only four in attendance at the recent meeting of the East Kansas District Medical society held in that city. The following is a good rule, laid down by Paget, for applying passive movement to stiff joints: "If the affected joint is at any one time of the day colder than the opposite (healthy) one, then you can use passive motion, and the more frequently the better." A sanitary expert, who has been investigating the matter, expresses the belief that the recent epidemic of typhoid fever at the Michigan State Prison, originated in a consignment of flour from Minneapolis. Will the North-Western Lancet "rise to the occasion?" Saccharine, the new derivative from coal tar, has two hundred and twenty times the sweetening properties of sugar, yet it is eliminated as saccharine undergoing no change in its passage through the digestive tract, and does not act as a food either directly or indirectly. Dr. J. H. Medaris. of Nashville, Kansas, reports, in the Medical World, a child born at full term with the occipital bone grown fast to the scapula, and with the inferior maxilla grown to the sternum so that the jaws could not be closed. Death relieved it in one and one-half hours. Dr. Voisin relates the case of a girl, eleven years of age, who was a most inveterate and persistent liar, and whom he cured completely of this reprehensible habit by means of hypnotism. Here is a grand field of usefulness opened before this young science.-Med. Record. The examination of the returns of 1,016,278 births in Massachusetts shows twin births in every 113 labors and triplets in every 9,324, t us showing that the common statement that one case of twins occurs in every 100 births and one of triplets in 10,000 is not far from correct. Schele's test for abdominal aneurism consists in making firm simultaneous compression of both femoral arteries for a few seconds. If there be aneurism patients will immediately complain of pain in and around the tumor. Otherwise it will give only ordinary discomfort. The Archives of Dentistry says that a bad breath, no matter what its cause, may be cured by washing the mouth three hours after breakfast with a mixture of two drams of chlorate of potash and sweetened water four ounces, about a teaspoonful being a 1 that is necessary each time. Physicians in Egypt, if worthy, are esteemed. On the death of the father of Dr. J. A. S. Grant, Bey, the Khedive sent a special messenger to him with a letter written by Tonio Pasha, his master of ceremonies, conveying the condolences of his Highness on the mournful occasion. The Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift advises the administration of hyoscin, whenever indicated, after this formula: Hyoscin hydrobromate, one-sixth to onethird grain; distilled water, seventeen and a half drams: syrup of orange, seven and a half drams. The dose is a teaspoonful. In the case of the State of Illinois vs. J. Cresap McCoy, a Chicago judge has decided that a physician has a right to advertise just as much as he chooses, regardless of medical ethics, and that the State Board of Health cannot repeal or refuse to grant a license to practice upon this ground alone. Dr. E. J. Ill, of Newark, N. J., reports, in the Pittsburg Medical Review, two cases of acute confusional insanity and one of melancholia following ovariotomy. Dr. Lawson, of this city, some months ago, related in the INDEX a case of insanity occurring in his practice under similar circumstances. Painful and irregular menstruation frequently accompany obesity in young women. Constipation is usually present. The causes are hereditary predisposition, luxurious habits, and over-indulgence in starchy and fatty foods; treatment addressed to the correction of these will often relieve the dysmenorrhoea. Owing to the laryngeal trouble of the Crown Prince of Germany and the suggestion of extirpation of the larynx, attention is being drawn to the operation. A prominent authority states that onethird of the patients die in a few days, one-third in a few months, and none live longer than twelve or eighteen months. Alexandria, Egypt, must be an excellent place for physicians and midwifes. In a copy of the Egyptian Gazette, sent through the kindness of Dr. Grant Bey, of Cairo, occurs the following item: for Sanitary Bulletin-Alexandria ; the twenty-four hours ending at midnight on 27th of January, 33 births, 21 deaths." Prof. Wm. Goodell says that cancer does not necessarily cause pain-in fact cancer of the cervix need not present so much suffering as most women feel at times in the pelvis. In fact in cervical cancer there is very little pain until the growth involves the os internum. In cancer of the abdominal organs there is frequently no pain. The American Practitioner is responsible for the statement that oil of turpentine is said to be a powerful deodorizer for iodoform. A little rubbed on the hands will completely remove the smell from them. The hands should be afterward washed in soap and water. In the same manner spoons and any utensil may be freed from the smell of iodoform. It is now claimed that imagination is the most frequent cause of vomiting of pregnancy. Chazan, acting upon this supposition, sometime since chloroformed a patient who was incolsolable at the idea of being enciente, and afterward informed her that the foetus had been removed. The previously incontrollable vomiting ceased from that moment. The Medical Standard says that " Piso's Consumption Cure" has the following composition: Sulphate of Morphine, 8 grains. Glycerine, 66 Syrup enough to make Dr. A. P. Busey, late of the Missouri State Insane Asylum, now of St. Joseph, Mo., recently gave the INDEX a pleasant call, leaving $5.00 on subscription. though the doctor has made- some $40,000 in Kansas City real estate, he has Al About the middle of February, Dr. John Fee, ex-health officer of this city, was called to McPherson, Kansas to examine cases having a suspicious eruption. He found seventeen cases of well-marked small-pox. Under his direction prompt measures were taken to check the spread of the affection, hence only a few cases are reported as occurring since his action. An interesting session of the Tri-county Medical society was recently held at Harrisonville, but none of the papers read being as yet sent in for publication, the proceedings are not published as the jist of each paper cannot be written out from memory and a discussion upon a paper of which at least a synopsis is not given is like a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey. The Illinois State Board of Health has placed the Toledo Medical College under the ban: Not in good standing," it having failed to correct certain abuses previously complained of. The West Virginia board sometime ago passed a similar rule regarding Jefferson, though subsequently rescinded. The Kansas City colleges have no trouble of this kind. Moral:- To make a good preparation of saccharin, rub twenty-four grains of saccharin with twelve grains of bicarbonate of sodium in a mortar and gradually add seven drams of water. When thoroughly dissolved add one dram of rectified spirit of wine. Twenty minims of this mixture contains one grain of saccharin and will cover the bad taste of a three or four ounce mixture. Withington, the well-known, the genial, has been in the city recently, calling upon “the profession" in the interest of Messrs. Wm. Wood & Co., of New York, of world-wide reputation as medical publishers. The sales of their standard works he represents as unusually large this year, the number of subscriptions received in this city being far in excess of his expectations. The poet, Joaquin Miller, believes in cremation and has prepared his own funeral pile. It is on the top of a high hill. "When death comes," he says "I shall |