highly of the same agent, to be applied after thoroughly drying the surface. Its effect is also good Its effect is also good when applied in other than fresh wounds, as in a case cited where a man had suffered for ten days from a wound of the shin inflicted by a carriage-step. Water dressing had been applied continuously, and the surface of the sore had suppurated, and its edges for some distance around were red and tender. The limb was raised to empty it of blood, dried with an absorbent, and painted with collodion, then bandaged, and cicatrization was perfect in four days, the patient having sustained no interruption of his use of the leg. REPORTED MORTALITY FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 2, 1884. Deaths reported 2624 (no reports from New Orleans and Buffalo): under five years of age, 922: principal infectious diseases (small-pox, measles, diphtheria and croup, whooping-cough, erysipelas, fevers, and diarrhoeal diseases) 388, lung diseases 455, consumption 405, diphtheria and croup 141, typhoid fever 54, scarlet fever 44, measles 40, diarrhoeal diseases 25, erysipelas 23, cerebro-spinal meningitis 17, malarial fevers 13, puerperal fever 15, whooping-cough 13, small-pox two, typhus fever one. From measles, New York 13, Philadelphia 10, District of Columbia nine, Brooklyn seven, Boston one. From diarrheal diseases, New York six, Boston four, Philadelphia and Brooklyn three each, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New Haven two each, Baltimore, District of Columbia, and Milwaukee one each. From erysipelas, New York seven, Philadelphia, and Boston three each, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Charleston two each, District of Columbia one. cerebro-spinal meningitis, Worcester three, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Lowell two each, Boston, Fall River, Springfield, Salem, Holyoke, and Brockton one each. From malarial fever, New York and St. Louis four each, Brooklyn and Baltimore two each, Chicago one. From puerperal fever, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis three each, Boston two, Providence, Cambridge, and Philadelphia, one each. From whooping-cough, New York four, District of Columbia three, Chicago two, Brooklyn, Boston, St. Louis, and Fall River one each. From From small-pox, St. Louis and Cincinnati one each. From typhus fever, Philadelphia one. Seven cases of small-pox were reported in St. Louis; scarlet fever 47, diphtheria 30, typhoid fever four, and measles three in Boston; scarlet fever seven and diphtheria three in Milwaukee. In 92 cities and towns of Massachusetts, with an estimated population of 1,319,769 (estimated population of the State 1,922,530), the total death-rate for the week was 16.59 against 17.78 and 20.00 for the previous two weeks. In the 28 greater towns of England and Wales, with an estimated population of 8,620,975, for the week ending January 19th, the death-rate was 20.7. Deaths reported 3479: acute diseases of the respiratory organs (London) 395, whooping-cough 117, scarlet fever 108, measles 100, fevers 61, diphtheria 28, diarrhoea 27, small-pox (Sunderland six, London five, Birmingham and Liverpool four each) 19. The death-rates ranged from 11.3 in Wolverhampton to 26.7 in Manchester; Bradford 17.2; Nottingham 18.8; Newcastle-on-Tyne 19.3; Leeds 19.8; Birmingham 20.3; London 20.5; Liverpool 20.7; Leicester 22.8; Sunderland 23.3; Sheffield 25. In Edinburgh 20.3; Glasgow 26.1; Dublin 26.9. The meteorological record for the week ending February 2d, in Boston, was as follows, according to observations furnished by Sergeant O. B. Cole, of the U. S. Signal Corps: 1 O., cloudy; C., clear; F., fair; G., fog; H., hazy; S., Lt. snow; R., rain; T., threatening. RESOLUTIONS ON THE LATE DR. GEORGE C. LAWRENCE. THE following resolutions were unanimously adopted at the meeting of the Berkshire District Medical Society, held at Pittsfield, January 30, 1884 : Whereas, It has seemed best to the Supreme Ruler to remove from our midst our brother, George C. Lawrence, of North Adams. Resolved, That while we bow with submission to the Divine will, we still in the death of our beloved brother deplore the loss of an earnest and faithful physician, temperate and true in his professional obligations, towards his brethren courteous and honorable, while progressive, not radical, thoroughly loyal and sincere in his professional work. Resolved, That we tender to his family our sincere sympathy in their sudden loss of a kind and faithful husband and father, and to the community in which he practiced of a laborious, studious, and self-sacrificing physician. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent by the Secretary of this Society to the family of our deceased brother, and to the papers of North Adams, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and also be placed on the records of this Society. A. M. SMITH, Williamstown, H. M. HOLMES, Adams, H. J. MILLARD, No. Adams, N. S. BABBITT, No. Adams, A. M. SMITH, Pittsfield. DEATHS. Committee. DIED, in Pittsfield, Mass., February 6th, Almon N. Allen, M. D., aged sixty-three. He was a native of Petersburg, N. H., a graduate of the Albany Medical College, and had practiced in Pittsfield over thirty years. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 1861. He leaves a widow, and a son, who is a physician in Brooklyn. Died, in Great Barrington, Mass., February 5, 1884, Noble Bennett Pickett, M. D., M. M. S. S., aged eighty-three years. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: ard for the purveying, compounding, and dispensing of drugs or medicinal agents, and shall be taken as authority in the Treasury Department on all questions arising under the tariff laws of the United States with regard to the nomenclature, description, and purity of drugs or remedial agents, and shall further be received as evidence in the United States courts. And the matters contained in the said pharmacopoeia shall be free for use by all authors and commentators for the benefit of the medical and pharmaceutical professions and of the community at large; and it shall not be lawful for any one to reprint and publish the said pharmacopoeia as a whole. SECT. II. That the medical officers detailed as above provided shall invite the American Medical Association and the American Pharmaceutical Association, at their next annual meetings, to form committees of not more than three members from each of the said Associations, which committees, if so appointed, may cooperate with the above-named medical officers in the preparation of the said pharmacopoeia, forming a board which shall have power from time to time to add to its number as may in its judgment be necessary, and which shall elect a chairman and a secretary, and adopt such rules as it shall see fit for the expediting and perfecting of the said phar macopoeia, which, when completed, shall be printed under the supervision of the said board; and an edition of not less than five thousand copies shall be printed for use in the several departments of the government of the United States; and copies may be furnished to private persons in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-eight hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes. SECT. III. That for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of preparing the said pharmacopoeia the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the same shall be disbursed under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. SECT. IV. That the said pharmacopoeia shall be revised once in ten years, upon the plan embodied in this Act. THE WINTER CLIMATE OF NEWPORT. Ar a regular meeting of the Newport Medical Society, held February 5th, at which twelve members were present, it was Resolved, That the Newport Medical Society indorses the opinion advanced by Dr. H. R. Storer, that the winter climate of Newport is preferable to that of the rest of New England for certain forms of pulmonary diseases, and for general invalids, provided that when here the patients are under proper hygienic conditions as regards location, etc. THATCHER GODDARD, M. D., Secretary. LIST OF CHANGES IN THE MEDICAL CORPS OF THE NAVY DURING THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 9, 1884. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, as soon as prac ticable, detail two officers of the Marine Hospital Service, and the Secretary of War shall detail two officers of the Medical Staff of the Army, and the Secretary of the Navy shall detail two officers of the Medical Staff of the Navy, for the duty of compiling and preparing a pharmacopoeia, which shall be known as the National Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, and shall be held and accepted as the stand-ton to the Powhatan. VAN REYPEN, W. K., surgeon, from the U. S. S. Powhatan, to the Navy Department as assistant to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and acting chief of that Bureau. HOEHLING, A. A., surgeon, from special duty at Washing November 23, 1883. irst Death and its Cause. A Letter from the BOSTON, Oct. 22, 1883. 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FREDERICK I. KNIGHT, M. D., Assistant Professor of Laryngology A New Building has just been completed at a cost of more than a quarter of a million of dollars. Its numerous apartments are spacious, well light provided with carefully contrived apparatus for heating and ventilation. The comfort and convenience of the students have been constantly borne in a the arrangement of rooms, the construction of seats, and in the furnishing of the various laboratories, halls for lectures, and rooms for recitations, stud conversation. The building is devoted to laboratory instruction and didactic teaching, while the general and special clinics take place at the various and dispensaries. Greatly enlarged and improved facilities are offered at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Dispensary, both of whi tutions have recently constructed buildings to meet the constantly increasing demands for their usefulness. Every candidate for admission not holding a degree in arts or science must pass a written examination on entrance to this School, in English, Latin, and any one of the following subjects: French, German, Elements of Algebra or of Plane Geometry, Botany. The admission examination for 1884-8 held June 23d, at Boston, June 26th, at Exeter, Andover, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and San Francisco; on September Boston only. Instruction is given by lectures, recitations, clinical teaching, and practical exercises, distributed throughout the academic year. In the subjects of Am Histology, Chemistry and, Pathological Anatomy, laboratory work is largely substituted for, or added to, the usual methods of instruction. The year September 25, 1884, and ends on the last Wednesday in June, 1885, and is divided into two equal terms. Students are divided into four classes, according to their time of study and proficiency, and during their last year will receive largely increased opport for instruction in the special branches mentioned. Students who began their professional studies elsewhere may be admitted to advanced standing persons who apply for admission to the advanced classes must pass an examination in the branches already pursued by the class to which they seek adı Although the course of study recommended by the Faculty covers four years, until further notice the degree of Doctor of Medicine will continue to b upon the completion of three years of study, to be as ample and full as heretofore. The degree of Doctor of Medicine cum laude will be given to ca who have pursued a complete four years' course, and obtained an average of 75 per cent. upon all the examinations of this course. In addition to the degree of Doctor of Medicine as hitherto obtained, a certificate of attendance on the studies of the fourth year will be given to such students desi shall have attended the course, and have passed a satisfactory examination in the studies of the same. ORDER OF STUDIES. FOUR YEARS' COURSE. For the First Year. For the Second Year. and Clinical Surgery. Anatomy, Physiology, and General Chemistry. Practical and Topographical Anatomy, Medical Chemistry, Materia Medica, Pathological Anatomy, Clinical Medicine, For the Third Year.-Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Theory and Practice of Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Surgery, and Clinical Surgery. For the Fourth Year - Ophthalmology, Otology, Dermatology, Syphilis, Laryngology, Mental Diseases, Diseases of the Nervous System, Dis Women, Diseases of Children, Obstetrics, Clinical and Operative Obstetrics. Clinical Medicine, Clinical and Operative Surgery, Forensic Medicine. THREE YEARS' COURSE. For the First Year. Anatomy, Physiology, and General Chemistry. For the Second Year. ical Surgery. Practical and Topographical Anatomy, Medical Chemistry, Materia Medica, Pathological Anatomy, Clinical Medicine, a For the Third Year. Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Theory and Practice of Medicine. Clinical Medicine, Surgery, Clinical Surgery, Ophthalmolog matology, Syphilis, Otology, Laryngology, Mental Diseases, Diseases of the Nervous System, Diseases of Women, Diseases of Children, Forensic Medic ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS. At the end of the first year- -Anatomy, Physiology, and General Chemistry. End of second year - Topographical Anatomy, Medical Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pathological Anatomy. End of third year-Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Theory and Practice of Medicine, Surgery. (Students of the three years' course are also examined in REQUIREMENTS FOR A DEGREE. Every candidate must be twenty-one years of age; must have studied medicine three or four full years, have sp least one continuous year at this School, have passed a written examination upon all the prescribed studies of the course taken, and have presented a the COURSE FOR GRADUATES. -For the purpose of affording to those already Graduates of Medicine additional facilities for pursuing clinical, laboratory other studies, the Faculty has established a course which comprises all of the special subjects of the fourth year in addition to private instruction in H Physiology, Medical Chemistry, and Pathological Anatomy. Any or all branches may be pursued - If the full fee is paid, the privilege of attending t the other exercises of the Medical School, the use of the laboratories and library, and all other rights accorded by the University will be granted. Grad of other Medical Schools who may desire to obtain the degree of M. D. at this University will be admitted to examination for this degree after a year'as in the Graduates' Course. Examination on entrance not required. FEES. For Matriculation, $5; for the year, $200; for one term alone, $120; for Graduation, $30. For Graduates' Course, the fee for one year is $200; for one The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal is published weekly by Houghton, Wifflin & Co.. 4 Park St., Boston, where subscriptions are received and single copies of the Journal are always for sale. See Index to Advertisements, page 27. TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. LACTOPEPTINE DEMONSTRATED SUPERIORITY OF LACTOPEPTINE AS A DIGESTIVE AGENT. Certificate of Composition and Properties of Lactopeptine by Prof. ATTFIELD, Ph. D., F. R. S., F. I. C., F C. S., Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. LONDON, May 3, 1882. LACTOPEPTINE having been prescribed for some of my friends during the past five ars-apparently with very satisfactory results its formula, which is stated on the ttles, and its general characters have become well known to me. But recently the anufacturer of this article has asked me to witness its preparation on a large scale, take samples of its ingredients from large bulks and examine them, and also mix em myself, and to prepare LACTOPEPTINE from ingredients made under my own dietion, doing all this with the object of certifying that LACTOPEPTINE is what its maker ofesses it to be, and that its ingredients are in quality the best that can be obtained. ais I have done, and I now report that the almost inodorous and tasteless pulverunt substance termed LACTOPEPTINE is a mixture of the three chief agents which enle ourselves and all animals to digest food. That is to say, LACTOPEPTINE is a skillilly prepared combination of meat-converting, fat-converting, and starch-converting aterials, acidified with those small proportions of acids that are always present in e healthy stomach; all being disseminated in an appropriate vehicle, namely, powLACTOPEPTINE contains all the agents of digestion that act upon food, from mastication to its conversion into chyle, thus combining all the principles required to promote a Healthy Diges One of its chief features (and the one which has gained it a preference over all digestive preparations) is that it precisely represents in composition the natural digestive juices of the stomach, treas, and salivary glands, and will therefore readily dissolve all foods necessary to the recuperation of the human organism. dered sugar of milk. The acids used at the iactory-lactic and hydrochloric - are FORMULA OF LACTOPEPTINE. .40 ounces. 8 ounces. 6 ounces. Ver. Ptyalin or Diastase. ..4 drachms. 5 fl. drachms. 5 fl. drachms. LACTOPEPTINE is sold entirely by Physicians' Prescriptions, and its almost universal adoption by physicians is the strongest guarantee we can give that its therapeutic value has been most oroughly established. The undersigned, having tested LACTOPEPTINE, recommend it to the Profession. LFRED L. LOOMIS, M. D., Prof. of Pathology and Practice of Med., University of the City of New York. AMUEL R. PERCY, M. D., Prof. Materia Medica, New York Medical College. LE ROY SATTERLEE, M. D., Ph. D., Prof. Chem., Mat. Med., and Therap. in N. Y. Col. AS, AITKIN MEIGS, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., Prof. of the Institutes of Med. and Med. Juris., W. DAWSON, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio, Prof. Prin. and Prac. Surg., Med. Co. of Ohio; PROF. JOHN ATTFIELD, Ph. D., F. R. S., F. I. C., F. C. S., London, Eng., ALFRED F. A. KING, M. D., Washington, D. C., Prof. of Obstetrics, University of Vermont. D. W. YANDELL, M. 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