in that institution since 1886, to fill the Chair of Surgery left vacant by the death of Dr. Albert B. Miles. INDIANA MEDICAL COLLEGE, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, November 3d. RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. A. C. Cotton has been appointed Professor of Diseases of Children. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF CHICAGO. Dr. G. F. Butler, formerly connected with Rush Medical College, has been chosen Professor of Materia Medica. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF ST. LOUIS.-Dr. M. C. Ussery, for a long time Professor of Physiology in the Woman's Medical College, has resigned that position to accept the Chair of Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of St. Louis. WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ST. LOUIS. -Dr. F. P. Gillis has resigned from the Chair of Obstetrics in the Woman's Medical College of St. Louis. Dr. A. S. Barnes, Sr., formerly Professor of Obstetrics in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, has accepted the same Chair in the Woman's Medical College. Dr. Emory Lanphear has been elected Profes sor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Woman's Medical College of St. Louis. ENSWORTH MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. Barton Pitts has been elected Professor of Ophthalmology and Dr. J. M. D. France Professor of Therapeutics. KANSAS MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. J. P. Lewis and S. J. Hampshire were appointed to the Chairs of Demonstrator of Surgery and Assistant in Chemistry, and Dr. B. D. Eastman and S. E. Sheldon to the Chairs of Materia Medica and Gynecology, respectively. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF KANSAS CITY.—Dr. W. F. Wilkins, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, was awarded a valuable prize and the degree of Master of Arts by Miami University, in Ohio, for his essay entitled "The Effects of Alcohol on Man." Dr. V. L. Todd, of Kansas City, Kas., has been appointed to the Chair of Chemistry, to succeed J. B. Paul. This is the first college in the Missouri Valley to give a chair to a woman. Dr. Katherine Berry Richardson is the Professor of Visceral and Histological Anatomy. SIOUX CITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.-Dr. Leo Phelan has been made Professor of Therapeutics and Dr. D. S. Shellabarger Professor of Physiology. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO.-Dr. J. M. Blaine has been elected Professor of Dermatology. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.-Professor Giesy has consented to take part of the work of the Chair of Theory and Practice, heretofore attended to by an adjunct lecturer to Professor MacKenzie. Dr. John M. Wells has been appointed Lecturer on Pathology, vice Dr. J. Hunter Wells, resigned. The already broad field of clinics has been added to by the establishment of college clinics by Dr. Tucker and Dr. Koehler. WILLAMETTE MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. H. R. Holmes has been elected to the Chair of Gynecology, Dr. R. L. Gillespie to the Chair of Medicine, and Dr. J. J. Gingles to the Chair of Anatomy. Dr. E. H. Parker, formerly Professor of Anatomy, has taken the Chair of Topographical Anatomy. Dr. Robert C. Yenney, late of the Philadelphia Hospital, will conduct the department of bacteriology. FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-The Lancet notes the following appointments: Bonn: Dr. Pletzer has been recognized as privat docent in Midwifery. Bordeaux: The sum of 100,000 francs has been given by M. Dupouy, Senator of La Gironde (in memory of his father, who practiced for fifty years in Bordeaux as a medical man), to establish a Professorship of Gynecology. Cracow: Dr. K. von Kostanecki has been promoted to be Ordinary Professor of Anatomy, in succession to Dr. Teichmann, who is retiring. Giessen Dr. H. Walther, of Darmstadt, has been recognized as privat docent in Midwifery and Gynecology. Gratz: Dr. F. Kraus, of Vienna, has been appointed to the Chair of Clinical Medicine in succession to Dr. Rembold, who is retiring. Halle: Dr. C. Fraenkel, of Marburg, has been appointed to the Chair of Hygiene. Lemberg: Dr. H. Kadyl has been appointed to the Chair of Anatomy. Rostock: Dr. Garè, of Tubingen, has been appointed to the Chair of Clinical Surgery, in succession to Dr. Madelung. Vienna: Dr. Lott has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship of Midwifery and Gynecology, and Drs. Finger and Mracek to Extraordinary Professorships of Syphilography and Dermatology. Dr. Emil Redlich has been recognized as privat-docent Professor of Histology and Comparative Anat. in Neurology. Warsaw: Dr. H. F. Hoyer, omy, is about to retire, after thirty-five years' service. Würzburg: Dr. Heidenhain has been recognized as privat-docent in Anatomy, and Dr. O. von Franqué as privat docent in Midwifery and Gynecology. Zurich; Dr. von Monakow has been promoted to an Extraordinary Professorship of Cerebral Anatomy and Physiology. by death. Dr. Vance was universally held in MEDICAL NEWS AND MISCELLANY. high esteem. DR. ARPAD G. GERSTER has received from A HOSPITAL for lepers has been established in the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Rio de Janeiro. THE Eastern Iowa District Medical Society met at Keokuk, Iowa, November 15, 1894. THE third meeting of the International College of Dermatology and Syphilology is to be held in London. DR. H. A. KELLY has removed to 1406 Eutaw Place, Baltimore. Sanatorium and office, 1414 -1418 Eutaw Place. RESIGNATION OF SIR HENRY ACLAND.-With the end of 1894 the relation of Sir Henry Acland to medical teaching at Oxford ceased. THE Boylston Medical Prize for 1894 has been awarded to Dr. Norman Walker, of Edinburgh, Scotland, for an essay entitled "The Histologi. cal Varieties of the Cutaneous Cancer." THE corner-stone of the German Hospital of Brooklyn was recently laid. The property covers an entire block, and the structure is planned to expend a quarter of a million dollars. THE next (sixth) Congress of Russian Physicians in memory of Pirogoff will be held in Kief, from April 21 to April 28, 1896. The last was held in St. Petersburg in January of last year. "THERE is more pleasure in giving than receiving," was a proverb that a mother was trying to instill into a youthful mind. "That's true about castor oil, mother," was the answer she got.-London Tid-Bits. THE officers of the Detroit Medical and Li. brary Association for the ensuing year are: President, Dr. Eugene Smith; Treasurer, Dr. A. P. Biddle; Secretary, Dr. Luther S. Harvey; Librarian, Dr. J. V. Becelaere. APPOINTMENT.-Dr. George Thomas Jackson has been appointed Foreign Secretary for the United States of the Third International Congress of Dermatology, to be held in London, July 31 to August 4, 1895. PROFESSORSHIP OF MEDICAL HISTORY.-We are informed by Prof. H. A. Wheeler, Dean of the Sioux City College of Medicine, that that institution was one of the first to establish such a chair, the occupant being Prof. Edward Hornibrook, who teaches medical history and ethics. DR. B. D. VANCE, of Gold Dust, Tenn., who recently passed away, was born in Kemper County, Miss., in 1868, graduated in medicine at the Memphis Hospital Medical College in 1889, and located at Gold Dust, where he successfully practiced his profession until removed the high distinction of the Knight's Cross of the of his valuable philanthropic labors in founding Order of Francis Joseph, in grateful recognition the Hungarian Emigrant Aid Association of New York. This is the first instance in which an American citizen has received this honor who has not held office under the Austrian government. AT the nineteenth general meeting of the British Laryngological and Rhinological Association the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. W. M. Whistler (London); Vice-Presidents, Dr. Edward Woakes, Dr. Richard A. Hayes (Dublin), Mr. Mayo Collier; Council (Metropolitan), Dr. Edward Law, Dr. Dundas Grant, Dr. Farquhar Matheson, Dr. N. Wolfenden, Dr. J. Macintyre (ex officio); ExtraMetropolitan, Dr. Barclay Baron (Bristol), Mr. F. Marsh (Birmingham); Honorary Secretary, Dr. Hemington Pegler. THE Forty eighth Semi-Annual Meeting of the District Medical Society of the County of Camden was held November 13, 1894. The following papers were read: "Gunshot Wounds of the Intestines," by Dr. O. B. Gross; "Fractures of the Skull," by Dr. J. H. Wills; "A Case of Prolapse of the Laryngeal Ventricle," by Dr. W. S. Jones; Report of a Case of Stramonium Poisoning," by Dr. H. H. Sherk; "Typhoid Fever," by Dr J. E. Hurff; Report of a Case of Epithelioma, with Specimen," by Dr. A. McAllister; "The Pathology of Insanity," by Dr. J. M. Ridge; "The Antiseptic Properties of Creolin," by Dr. George T. Robinson; "Eclampsia," Obstetrical Blunders," by Dr. W. H. Ireland; by Dr. H. F. Palm " THE LATE PROF. LUDWIG MAUTHNER.-The career of one of the most prominent men of the Vienna medical school terminated tragically. On the morning of October 19th the official Wiener Zeitung published the appointment of Dr. Ludwig Mauthner as Professor of Ophthalmology at the Vienna University, and in the night he died suddenly from heart-failure. Twice already his name had been put on the list of the candidates for the Professorship of Ophthalmology at the Vienna University by his colleagues,-first upon the decease of Prof. Ferdinand von Arlt, and afterward upon that of Professor von Jaeger. In both cases the Minister of Education declined to appoint Professor Mauthner, who left the Innsbrück University without official permission many years ago, preferring to teach his subject at Vienna as a simple privat-docent. "The simple method of application will appeal to all who have seen the disease in children's institutions, and experienced the difficulty of giving ordinary remedies. "In five cases of scarlet fever its modifying influence was immediate and marked, one comfort to the patients being the complete absence of flies and mosquitoes from the apartment after its use." TRI-STATE ANNOUNCEMENT.-Dr. Frank P. | position in the treatment of this harassing and Norbury, of Jacksonville, Ill., Secretary of the heretofore intractable disease. Tri-State Medical Society of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri, announces that the following distinguished physicians and surgeons will attend the St. Louis Tri-State Medical Society (April, 1895): John A. Wyeth, New York City, will give the address on surgery; W. W. Keen, Philadelphia, will hold a surgical clinic; Charles A. Oliver, Philadelphia, will hold an ophthalmic clinic; Fred Byron Robinson, Chicago, will give the address on gynecology; Drs. A. H. Ferguson and G. Frank Lydston, of Chicago, will address the society. Arrangements are now under way which will result in the attendance of other distinguished eastern gentlemen. Dr. Joseph Eastman, of Indianapolis, has promised a paper. Dr. E. P. Davis, editor American Journal of Medical Sciences, has consented to read a paper. Dr. Heneage Gibbes, of Ann Arbor, will attend. A REMEDY FOR WHOOPING-COUGH.-Dr. R. E. Hinman, of Atlanta, Ga., writes: "On the 15th of June, whooping-cough being epidemic among the children at the Crittenden Home, near this city, I was requested to treat them. There were thirteen cases, in all stages, when the treatment given below was commenced. The patients were all placed in a closed room, and a I-per-cent. solution of formalin was sprayed from an ordinary hand-bulb atomizer for ten minutes three times a day, the spray being thrown above the heads of the patients, saturating the air, and inhaled by them. "A marked improvement was noted within two days, and after two weeks' treatment all were well, and no new cases have developed. In age these cases ranged from 3 months to 4 years, with one exception, a girl of about 14, whose duty it was to operate the spray. "It was with this last case that the result was most marked. Previous to the use of the spray the paroxysms had been so violent that she would rush to the open air and cling to some support, and cough until relief would come through sheer exhaustion. On the fourth day of the treatment the cough had so modified that only one or two comparatively mild paroxysms occurred, and after the fifth day none at all. "About the 20th of August, I treated fifteen cases of the same disease at the Inman Orphanage. Here I used a steam-atomizer and a 1-percent. solution of formalin for twenty minutes, three times a day, the room being closed as before. The result was better from the increase. Recent cases cured within a week, and all in ten days. "These results undoubtedly prove the efficiency of the drug and give it a definite THE LATE JAMES Campbell.-We have read with pleasure a biographical sketch by John M. Campbell of the career of his distinguished father. It is the record of a long, honorable, and useful life. A native of this city, born in 1812, the life of Judge Campbell was, with the exception of four years passed in Washington as a high official, spent in this community. After a good preliminary education, James Campbell studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He early became interested in politics, and in 1842 was appointed Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, when but little more than 29 years of age. In 1852 he became Attorney-General of the State of Pennsylvania. In 1853 he entered the cabinet of President Pierce. At the end of that administration he returned to this city, where the remainder of his life was spent. Judge Campbell was a man of wide culture and excellent administrative ability. He was interested in many charities, and whatever position of trust he accepted was thoroughly and conscientiously filled. He was long connected with the management of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum and Girard College. For twenty-five years he was one of the trustees of Jefferson Medical College, and for two years was its president. He was in the habit of visiting the College Hospital every Sunday and personally satisfying himself that the inmates received the most careful attention. His life "had always been an open book, for the inspection of the world. . . . During all his long and busy years he was ever faithful to principle and to trust. His private life was sincere and blameless, unstained with even a suspicion of immorality or impurity of any description." No higher praise could be given any man. Judge Campbell died January 27, 1893, at the age of 81 years. TEMPERATURE CHART.-W. B. Saunders, of No. 925 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, has published a large temperature chart, prepared by Dr. D. T. Lainé. The chart is so arranged as to constitute a record of temperature, pulse, and respiration. At the foot are columns for notes in regard to urine, bowels, food, and miscellaneous remarks. Of service in any febrile disorder, Part II, by Dr. F. E. this chart is especially adapted for use in cases | chemistry of kola. of typhoid fever. On the reverse side is given Stewart, contains a study of the active constitinformation regarding Brand's method in the uents of kola, with its physiological and theratreatment of typhoid fever and upon alimenta-peutical action, its virtues as a remedy in tion in that disease, taken from the publications of Dr. Glénard. The price of the chart is fifty cents. THE USE OF ANTITOXIN IN DIPHTHERIA FOLLOWING SCARLET FEVER.-Dr. W. S. Gleason, of Newburgh, N. Y., says: "On the morning of October 5th I was called to see John aged 8, a robust boy, son of vigorous parents. I found, upon examination, well-marked evidences of scarlet fever; temperature, 104° F.; pulse, 140. Upon my evening call, temperature, 105° F.; pulse, 144. The temperature, unless reduced by antipyretics, ranged between 1040 and 1050 F., with but slight variation between the morning and evening observation. "On the second day of the disease a fibrinous exudate made its appearance on both tonsils and pharynx, with intense tonsillar enlargement, and in spite of thorough pharyngeal disinfection there was great difficulty in swallowing. Gradually the appearance of the exudate changed its appearance, and upon the seventh day from the time of my first call I felt that I had a true diphtheria engrafted upon the scarlatina angina. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of October 12th I made my first injection of Aronson's serum, using 20 minims, followed by a second injection of 40 minims in six hours. With close observation I could not appreciate the least reaction as an immediate result of the injection. Twentyfour hours from the last injection the temperature dropped to 990 F., with a corresponding amelioration of the symptoms. There was an evening rise of temperature to 103° F., but from that time, October 12th, to this date, October 23d, the patient has steadily convalesced, with no decided fluctuation of pulse or temperature." THE PROPERTIES OF KOLA.-We have re neurasthenia, nervous and cardiac affections, diarrhoea, alcoholism, etc. Part III contains a clinical study of kola in neuralgia, neuritis, migraine, neuroses, simple anæmia, gastro-intestinal irritability, irregular cardiac action, pulmonary tuberculosis, tubercular diarrhoea, simple diarrhoa, catarrhal jaundice, etc., by Dr. John V. Shoemaker. The publishers announce that the work will be mailed free to any physician who desires to consult its pages. PURPURA HÆMORRHAGICA COMPLICATING LOBAR PNEUMONIA.-I. M. Snow, M.D., of The DEATHS OF FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN.-The deaths of the following eminent foreign medical men are announced: Dr. Perles, late assistant in Professor Hirschberg's Ophthalmic Clinic, Berlin. He recently published researches on pigmented cataract and on general infection of the interior of the eye in so-called pernicious anæ. mia.-Dr. J. J. Stolnikoff, Professor of Clinical Therapeutics in the University of Warsaw.-Dr. V. A. Betz, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in the University of Kieff.-Dr. R. Calvo, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Carthagena, Colombia.-Dr. Leopold Lewin, Medical Director of the Moabite Prison Infirmary, Berlin, whose name may be remembered in connection with the attempt on the German Emperor's (William the First) life by Nobiling, as he was the first medical man to attend to the wound. He was a volunteer surgeon in the FrancoPrussian war, when he was in charge of the ceived from the house of Frederick Stearns PROFESSOR LEYDEN has received the Russian decoration of St. Anne,—the first class of the Order. NEARLY POISONED.-A celebrated German | the case was the psychical condition. It was physician was once called upon to treat an aris- not an example of the folie circulaire. Sollier tocratic lady, the sole cause of whose complaint described a case characterized by periods of was high living and lack of exercise. But it depression and excitement. The development would never have done to tell her so. So his of the disease is slow, the phases becoming well medical advice ran thus:marked later. In the author's case the intervals were very regular, only the intensity varying. The stage of depression began in the evening, and the different period of each phase was regularly repeated. The author strongly believes in the reality of this disease described by Sollier and himself. "Arise at 5 o'clock, take a walk in the park for one hour, then drink a cup of tea, then walk another hour and take a cup of chocolate. Take breakfast at 8." Her condition improved visibly, until one fine morning the carriage of the baroness was seen to approach the physician's residence at lightning speed. The patient dashed up to the doctor's house, and on his appearing on the scene she gasped out: "Oh, Doctor, I took the chocolate first!" "Then drive home as fast as you can," directed the astute disciple of Esculapius, rapidly writing a prescription, "and take this emetic. The tea must be underneath." The grateful patient complied. She is still improving.-London Tid-Bits. HYÆNANCHIN.-The Deutsche medizinal-Zeitung gives a summary of Dr. A. Engelhardt's study of this substance, included in the eighth volume of the "Arbeiten des pharmakologischen Instituts zu Dorpat." Hyænanchin is a chemically-indifferent crystalline bitter found in the seeds and the seed-cases of Hyænanche globosa. Its physiological action resembles that of strychnine, but it acts more upon the brain and less upon the spinal cord, from which the author concludes that it may be used to advantage instead of strychnine in certain cerebral affections, such as amblyopia and deafness of central origin. In many features of its action it resembles picrotoxin. Since the genus Hyænanche belongs to the Buxacea, it is interesting to remark, he says, that the common box (Buxus sempervirens) also contains a poisonous material which, according to Ringer and Murrel, causes death by tetanus and spinal paralysis. CIRCULAR NEURASTHENIA.-Oddo relates a case of an alternating form of neurasthenia. On alternate days the patient presented symptoms of cerebral neurasthenia,-intellectual inaptitude, incapacity to fix the attention, difficulty in expressing ideas, some amnesia, indifference to pleasure or business affairs, anxiety, and somnolence. He also had sensations of heat and cold, sweating, dyspeptic symptoms. On the intervening days there was overactive cere. bration. The author then discusses the diagnosis. At first it was thought to be malaria, on account of the shivering and sweating. The temperature was never raised nor the spleen enlarged, and the interval did not represent a period of normal health. The chief feature in DOCTORS' EXCUSES TO BOOK-AGENTS : Building new house. Bought new house. Going to Post-Graduate. Just returned from Post-Graduate. Just returned from Europe. No time to read. No money for books. Mad with the F. A. D. Co. No time to be canvassed. Office burnt. Lost money in bank-failure. Daughter just going to get married. Only collected $13 in six months.-WRIGHT. SCARLET RASH AFTER ENEMATA.-The occasional occurrence of a bright-scarlet rash after injections of warm water into the bowel should be borne in mind. The rash appears in about two hours after the injection, and lasts about |