THE HEALTH RECORD-"A MOVEMENT-CURE JOURNAL." Edited by Mark S. Purdy, B. S., M. D., Corning, N. Y. SOME REMARKS ON THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF SPASMODIC STRICTURE. By John Blake White, M. D., Physician to Charity Hospital, New York. Reprinted from Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases. NOVEL METHODS OF TREATING DISEASES OF THE MIDDLE EAR. By Seth S. Bishop, M. D., Chicago. Reprinted from Journal American Medical Association. SUMMER AND WINTER IN GEORGIA. By H. T. Gatchell, M. D., Atlanta, Georgia. REPORT ON DISEASES OF THE RECTUM. By Joseph M. Mathews, M. D., Louisville, "practice limited to diseases of the rectum.' STERILITY: MANAGMENT OF THE SECUNDINES. By Wm. H. Wathen, M. D., "practice limited to diseases of women and children." LAPAROTOMY AS A DIAGNOSTIC RESOURCE. By T. Gaillard Thomas, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Women in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Reprinted from Medical News, December 11, 1886. THE LOCAL TREATMENT OF PULMONARY PHTHISIS, BY MEANS OF A NEW INSTRUMENT. By Geo. A. Evans, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. RIVERSIDE, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AS A HEALTH RESORT. By J. F. T. Jenkins, M. D., C. M., member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Province of Quebec, Canada; member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, etc. Reprinted from the Canada Medical Record. NEW LICENTIATES. SAN FRANCISCO, February 9, 1887. AT special meetings of the Board of Examiners, held January 10th and 13th, 1887, the following physicians were granted certificates to practice medicine and surgery in this State: Wm. E. Conlan, San Francisco, Medical Department of the University of California, December 3, 1886. George Corcoran, San Francisco, University of Glasgow, Scotland, April 29, 1849. Andrew J. Dean, Haywards, Medical Department of the University of California, November 7, 1881. John R. Doig, San Diego, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, Ill., March 11, 1884. Robert R. Dorsey, Los Angeles, Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, March 15, 1882. M. E. Gonzalez, San Francisco, Cooper Medical College, Cal., November 6, 1883. VOL. II. C-4. Alfred B. Gregory, San Luis Obispo, Jefferson Medical College, Penn., March 15, 1882. Thomas Keefe, San Diego, Cooper Medical College, Cal., November 4, 1882. Thos. H. Kingsley, Lower Lake, Medical Department of the University of California, December 3, 1886. John Lagan, San Francisco, King and Queen's College of Physicians, Ireland, October 8, 1886; Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, July 29, 1886. Ernst Lichau, San Francisco, University of Wurzburg, Germany, July 14, 1886. Lois F. Mansfield, Santa Barbara, Women's Hospital Medical College of Chicago, Ill., February 29, 1876. Jas. M. Mathewson, East Oakland, Medical Department of the University of California, November 10, 1882. Wm. T. Maupin, San Jose, Jefferson Medical College, Penn., March 10, 1864. Thos. J. McDonald, San Diego, University of Victoria, Canada, May 12, 1886. B. A. Rabe, Oakland, Medical Department of the West. Res. University, Ohio, February 7, 1871. M. Washington Ryer, San Francisco, Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, 1845. Jacob P. Sargent, San Francisco, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, May 1, 1886. Chas. F. Taggart, Tulare, St. Louis Medical College, Mo., March 5, 1884. Fred. W. Trull, San Francisco, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, March 15, 1886. Aug. H. Warren, Los Angeles, Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, March 6, 1886. G. W. Zimmerman, Woodland, Medical College of Ohio, O., March 2, 1868. At the regular meeting of the Board, held February 2, 1887, the following physicians received certificates to practice medicine: Frank B. Elwood, M. D., Alhambra, Kansas City Medical College, Mo., March 7, 1882. Edgar D. Seaman, M. D., Wilmington, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, N. Y., October 2, 1883. Silas E. Morse, M. D., San Lucas, Medical Department of the University of Kansas City, Mo., March 2, 1882. Willard N. Smart, M. D., San Diego, Long Island College Hospital, N. Y., June 22, 1871. At a special meeting, December 8, 1886, the application of R. E. Foley, of Janesville, was rejected, because of insufficient credentials. At a special meeting, held January 13, 1887, the application of Wm. H. Sommers, of Moore's Station, was rejected, because of insufficient credentials. He presented to the Board a long affidavit, asserting that he graduated at the Chicago Medical College; but the records of that institution showing that he did not graduate there, he subsequently wrote a letter to the Board admitting the falsity of his affidavit. The application of Chalmer M. C. Prentiss, of San Francisco, who calls himself in his advertisements "Dr. Prentice," was rejected at a special meeting of the Board, held January 26, 1887, because of unprofessional conduct. Pending the investigating of his case before the Board, he sued out a writ of mandate in the Superior Court to compel the issuance of a certificate. The suit terminated in favor of the Board. R. H. PLUMMER, Secretary. PLACEBOES. A VICTIM OF THE COGAIN HABIT.-Dr. William A. Hammond a few months ago married Miss Esther D. Chapin, of Providence, R. I., who has just fallen heir to the income of between $300,000 and $400,000. This bequest comes to Mrs. Hammond by the death of her second cousin, Major Daniel W. Lyman, of Providence. A Los Angeles surgeon recently prescribed some rectal suppositories for an old soldier. The next morning the doctor called on him and asked how he was. He answered: "First rate, doctor; but them catridges was mighty hard to swallow. I got 'em down, though." AN old timer in Los Angeles was consulting his doctor on account of a chronic diarrhea, when he was told that it was his way of living-his bad habit. "Yes, that's so, doctor; the chronic diarrhea is a very bad habit." MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE U. S. SIGNAL SERVICE, LOS ANGELES STATION, FOR JANUARY, 1887. WAR DEPARTMENT, SIGNAL SERVICE, U. S. ARMY. Divisions of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. Los Angeles, California. Month of January, 1887. 88 Precipitat'n .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0') .00 .00 42.3 1879..52.2 18-0..51.3 1881. 51.7 1882..49.4 ......15 30.063 1883..53.5 1885..53.9 1886..54.7 1884..53.9 1887..55.4 Mean Daily Dew Point, 43.2. Mean Daily Relative Humidity. 66.3 Prevailing Direction of Wind, NE Highest Velocity of Wind and Total Precipitation, .20 Number Days .01 inches or more Total Precipitation (in inches 57.4 54.1 67.8 46.4 .00 1880..1.3 1881..1.43 62.0 45.2 .00 Number of Foggy Days, none. 54.2 67.5 38.3 .00 Clear 21 NOTES: Barometer reduced to sea level and standard gravity. The dash (—) indicates precipitation inappreciable. SPECIALISM RUN WILD.-A Los Angeles doctor was attending a case of cerebro-spinal meningitis, when the father of the patient asked if he couldn't call in a consultant who made a specialty of that disease. This is a prophetic anecdote. THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRACTITIONER. VOL. II. LOS ANGELES, CAL., APRIL, 1887. No. 4. ORIGINAL. VENTURA COUNTY AS A HEALTH RESORT. BY R. E. CURRAN, M. D., SAN BUENAVENTURA, CALIFORNIA. SOUTHERN California seems to have been designed for one vast sanitarium. Conditions favorable to longevity are nowhere more numerous or more happily combined. Land and ocean, mountain and valley, sunshine and shade, offer here their choicest benefactions to prolong the lives of the feeble and enhance the enjoyment of the robust. These natural advantages, so fully and ably set forth in the December number of the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRACTI TIONER, are nowhere more fully manifest than in Ventura county. Lying between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, it possesses all the desirable qualities of either, and is only less known to the world because difficult of access, a difficulty soon to disappear before the railroad now rapidly approaching completion. Ventura county comprises an area of one and a quarter millions of acres, of which about one-half million of acres is tillable, much of the balance being valuable for the herder and bee man. Its mountain ranges present scenery unsurpassed in variety and grandeur and enclose many beautiful valleys and sunny, sheltered nooks at any elevation desired by the valetudinarian. It is one of the best watered counties in the State, having two rivers fed by numerous tributaries and springs which never fail. Though irrigation is not necessary for corn, beans and other crops, there is scarcely a farm in the county that cannot be easily supplied with abundance of water from natural sources. The mountain sides are covered with live oak, furnishing abundant fuel for years to come. It is the oil county of the State, and if, as some claim, pulmonary diseases VOL. II. D-I. |