regions for localities more favorable to their condition, has by itself saved many who, had they remained in their former environments, would have died.

Intermarriage between healthy and tubercular persons should never be sanctioned. The family physician can warn parents of the dangers of such unions without offending or appearing officious.-Louisville Medical Journal.

SUDDEN DEATH DURING LABOR.-Dr. Mary E. Hagadorn, in South. Cal. Prac. (Vol. XII, No. 7), reports a case of a primipara, who during the period of pregnancy was well. The urine was examined several times, but always with negative results. While the patient was in labor (bag of water having ruptured, with head causing bulging of perineum) she dropped into a refreshing sleep, when suddenly there were two stertorous respirations. The face instantly changed from a good rosy color to extreme pallor; the lips became deeply cyanosed and the ears and the entire fingers became a livid blue, the pupils minutely contracted, and the radial pulse could not be detected. There was no dyspnea; but an instantaneous cessation of respiration. Restorative treatment was resorted to, without avail. No satisfactory autopsy was allowed, and the cause of death was not ascertained. She was delivered of a deeply cyanosed, but living boy, weighing 6 pounds. There was no blood in the cord when it was cut.-American Medico-Surgical Bulletin.

CAMPHOR IN HEART-FAILURE.-C. C. West recommends the hypodermic administration of camphor, the following solution being employed:

Camphor, 1 part.

Olive-oil, 10 parts.

Inject two syringefuls into each arm (about 5 cubic centimetres altogether).

A needle with a somewhat larger bore than that commonly employed is necessary. With the ordinary needle the injection

*Was it not embolism occluding the arteries supplying the respiratory centres, or a hemorrhagic infarct involving the same areas―most probably the latter.-ED. S. P.

is difficult, because of the thickness of the oil. In a case in which the patient had a number of times been absolutely pulseless and apparently lifeless, its use was followed by the most gratifying results. It is given throughout the illness, whenever the pulse fails, to supplement other cardiac stimulants.-Philadelphia Polyclinic.

SANDER & SONS' Eucalyptol Extract (Eucalyptol).-Apply to Dr. Sander, Belle Plain, Iowa, for gratis-supplied sample of Eucalyptol and reports of cures effected at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald. Meyer Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., Dallas, Texas, and New York, N. Y., sole agents.

Editorial.

OBITUARY.-JOHN BERRIEN LINDSLEY, A.M., M.D., D.D.

At the regular meeting of the Nashville Academy of Medicine held in its hall, Thursday, Dec. 9th, Dr. W. D. Haggard, Jr., offered a resolution which was adopted that a committee be appointed to draft suitable resolutions in regard to the death of Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley. The President appointed Dr. W. D. Haggard, Jr., J. R. Buist, and Paul F. Eve. Dr. T. G. Shannon moved that the next regular meeting night of December 16th be observed as a memorial meeting, and that some member of the Academy be selected to prepare a brief memorial of the deceased. Dr. Deering J. Roberts was selected, who, on the evening of December 16th, in the presence of a large attendance of the members of the Academy and other physicians and friends of the deceased submitted the following:

John Berrien Lindsley, A.M., M.D., D.D., born in Princeton, N. J., October 24th, 1822, died at his residence in this city, December 7th, 1897, in the 76th year of his age. Descended from the Lindsleys who were among the first settlers of Morristown, N. J., and the Lawrences who settled at Hell Gate, Long Island in 1660, his ancestors on both sides emigrating to this continent on the downfall of the Cromwell party to whose cause they were firm adherents. His name he took from his mother's grandfather, John Berrien, Chief Justice of the Province of New Jersey prior to the American revolution, who was of French Huguenot origin. If tracing back one's lineage has any bearing on nobility he was not lack

ing, but whether of inheritance or acquirement, it can be truly said of him, he was one of nature's noblemen.

His father, Philip Lindsley, D.D., came to this city in 1824, after having declined the presidency of the great college of New Jersey, believing that his labors would be more redundant of good to his fellow man in building up a great university in the Southwest, and for twentyfive years he labored assiduously, earnestly and most successfully, in placing in existence an institution that has done much indeed to establish the reputation of this Athens of the South, and many of our ablest men, by his efforts have been enabled to take their stand with the most able, the most enlightened and most learned of the world. He made this city and state the home and abiding place of universities and colleges.

My esteemed friend and respected teacher obtained his early education at home, at the feet of his revered and most able sire, and it was so thorough that he was able in three years to accomplish the curriculum of a four years' course, receiving the degree of B. A., from the University of Nashville in his 18th year, and that of M.A., three years later. Possibly it was from this early home training, that he derived that modesty of demeanor, that reliance of self that marked his long and useful life. Mixing more with the youth of his age in the common or public schools of the day might have made him more aggressive, more assertive of his personal rights and inherent or acquired rank, but it could not have made him more lovable, more humane in all that pertains to the word, and might have diminished that woman-like tenderness and kindness of heart that was one of his prime characteristics. It might have advanced his own career to a greater degree politically or socially, but could not have given him a larger clientele of warm and loving friends which he in the marked unselfishness of his nature so greatly esteemed and deserved. He could well say.

"Let him have fame who will;

I have no wishing for it.

But I would ask to be remembered

By that chosen few, whose lives

Have mingled long with mine

In a sweet blending. This granted,

I care not who is trumpeted

In this year, next, or down through all the ages."

His early medical education was received at the hands of Dr. W. G. Dickenson, an eminent practitioner of this city in the early part of this century who was a man of noble impulses, and who did more in surgery in his day than any of his associates, being a Brigade Surgeon in the Florida war, a sturdy New Englander who became thoroughly identified with the South. From his office Dr. Lindsley matriculated and attended lectures first in the University of Louisville, and subsequently in the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his degree of M.D., from the latter.

His medical studies having been completed so far as collegiate instruction required, he turned his attention to the ministry, having this idea in view and qualifying himself in medicine in furtherance of this

object rather than the practice of medicine. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Nashville in 1846, and served for some time as the stated supply of the Hermitage and Smyrna churches, and also for a year after he worked for the Board of Presbyterian Missions. On the occasion of the separation of the church of his identification, he allied himself with that branch now known as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, but never afterwards took an active part as a minister, finding other work in which he believed he could do good to his fellow-man.

For the twelve years succeeding 1838 he was the private pupil of Gerard Troost, a German by birth, but who was one of the pioneers in the advancement of American science, who on his death-bed committed his valuable collection to the care of his pupil, who subsequently disposed of it in 1874 to the Library Association of Louisville, after many and repeated efforts, which unfortunately proved futile, to have this grand collection held in the State of Tennessee.

In 1850, Dr. Lindsley organized the club which became the Medical Department of the University of Nashville. He was in the language of his able associate, the late W. K. Bowling, the founder of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville. Yes, he was the pioneer teacher of and organizer of the first medical school established in this State. He was the first dean of the first medical school in the State, and for twentry-three years its Professor of Chemistry. Many, oh! how many of the alumni of this school have preceded him to the great beyond; yet, some survive, and like myself, well remember the earnestness with which he taught the dry details of the branch allotted him.

Early recognizing the fact that he was connected with a great medical institution whose possibilities were incalculable, he spent the interregnum between the sessions of 1852-53 and 1858-59, in the medical schools of Germany and France, still an earnest and indefatigable student, and to this training, and those advantages may be attributed much of the marked elegance and literary finish of his after-work as a teacher and writer.

Dr. Lindsley was largely instrumental in securing the erection of the beautiful and massive stone buildings which form so conspicuous and lasting a part of the University of Nashville, contributing largely from his personal means to secure their erection. In 1855 he was chosen Chancellor of the University of Nashville, and under his management it entered on the most successful career of its existence, a career whose success was only broken by the great maelstrom of civil war that engulfed this country from 1861 to 1865. During those dark and terrible hours, he with his able associate, Dr. Bowling, were indefatigable in their efforts to preserve buildings, grounds and paraphernalia intact to hand down to their successors. How well this work was done the evidence is before us.

In 1867 Dr. Lindsley organized the Montgomery Bell Academy, in accordance with the ideas of its founder, bringing the school to a high state of efficiency at once by the power of his presence and influence. In 1870 he resigned, recommending Gen. E. Kirby-Smith as his successor.

In 1870 he took part in forming the "Tennessee College of Pharmacy" of which he had been the Professor of Materia Medica during its existence since 1876.

In 1876 he was elected City Health Officer; and served as such for four years. During his term of office the great yellow fever plague of 1878 swept over the South, and that it did not reach Nashville was due to the heroic efforts of Dr. Lindsley as City Health Officer. The city was made as clean as a swept floor, and all sources of malaria were banished. By his careful management the death-rate of the city was materially reduced and plans of sanitation introduced which have been of incalculable value since. Persistent, tireless, and most indefatigable in his work, he developed an enthusiasm in his subordinates, and placed the Health Department of this city on a footing so firm, so correct, and so satisfactory that it has been running now for two whole decades most successfully and most agreeably by reason of the grand impetus he gave it.

In 1880 he was elected Professor of Sanitary Science and State Preventive Medicine in the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee, and served most acceptably until advancing years and more pressing duties caused him to again relinquish his most ardent desires of advancing the interests and welfare of the younger generation.

He was at the time of his death the Secretary and Executive Officer of the State Board of Health, a position which he had filled for five years most satisfactorily, having been re-elected in the spring of the current year for another term of five years at an increased salary. His services were ever recognized as able, practical, thorough and systematic. During his term of duty several epidemcis have visited or severely threatened our state, but this efficient executive officer of the board was always found alert, watchful and tireless in his energies to suppress or prevent. At the organization of the State Board, and when unendowed, he served it for two years without salary or compensation.

A firm and ardent advocate of organized medicine he became a member of the Tennessee State Medical Society in 1845, and but few of its meetings have been held without his active participation therein, and his voice and vote were always found on the correct side of all questions in behalf of honorable regular medicine. His services while Secretary were both able and efficient. The various local regular medical organizations that have existed from time to time in this city and county always found in him an earnest and active supporter, and he was at the time of his death a member of the Nashville Academy of Medicine. He was also a member of the American Medical Association since 1851, serving frequently on its Committee on Public Health. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine; a member of the American Public Health Association and for a number of years its Treasurer, and one of the Southern members of its Executive Committee; a charter member of the American Chemical Society; a director of the National Prison Association; a corresponding member of the National Prison Association, of France; a member of the Numismatic