OFFICIAL LIST OF CHANGES IN

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

THE ARMY.

From March 21 to April 3, 1895: The following officers are detailed to represent the Medical Department of the Army as delegates at the annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, to be held in Buffalo, New York, May 21 to 23, 1895: Lieut. Col. Dallas Bache, Deputy Surgeon General; Major Philip F. Harvey, Surgeon; Captain Daniel M. Appel, Assistant Surgeon. They will proceed from their respective stations in time to reach Buffalo on May 21, 1895, and upon adjournment of the meeting will return to their proper stations.

The following named officers are detailed to represent the Medical Department of the Army as delegates at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, to be held at Baltimore, Md., May 7 to 10, 1895: Lieut. Col. Wm. H. Forwood, Deputy Surgeon General; Major Charles K. Winne, Surgeon; Major Walter Reed, Surgeon, and Captain Harry (). Perley, Assistant Surgeon. They will proceed from their respective stations in time to reach Baltimore on May 7, and upon the adjournment of the meeting will return to their proper stations.

Captain Rudolph G. Ebert, Assistant Surgeon; relieved from duty at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and ordered to Fort Columbus, New York, for duty at that post.

Captain Paul Shillock, Assistant Surgeon, relieved from duty at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and ordered to Madison Barracks, New York, for duty at that post, to relieve Captain Robt. B. Benham, Assistant Surgeon. Capt. Benham, on being relieved by Capt. Shillock, will report in person for duty at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.

Stiles, Henry R.-The extension of leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of disability, granted First Lieut. Henry R. Stiles, Assistant Surgeon, is

still further extended two months on surgeon's certificate of disability.

Poindexter, Jeffsrson D.-Leave of absence for one month is granted Capt. Jefferson D. Poindexter, Assistant Surgeon.

Gibson, Joseph R.-The leave of ab sence, on account of sickness, granted Lieut. Col. Joseph R. Gibson, Deputy Surgeon General, is still further extended six months on surgeon's certifi cate of disability.

Shannon, Wm. C.-Leave of absence for three months, to take effect on the expiration of his present sick leave, with permission to leave the United States during May and June, 1895, is granted Capt. William C. Shannon, Assistant Surgeon.

Frick, Euclid B.-Capt. Euclid B. Frick, Assistant Surgeon, will be relieved from duty at Fort Townsend, Washington, to take effect upon the expiration of his present leave of absence, and will then report for duty at Presidio, of San Francisco, California, relieving Capt. Charles Willcox, Assistant Surgeon. Captain Willcox, upon being thus relieved, will report for duty at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, relieving First Lieutenant Frederick P. Reynolds, Assistant Surgeon. Lieut. Reynolds, on being thus relieved, will report for duty at Fort Sam Houston,

Texas.

THE NAVY,

Three weeks ending April 13, 1895: Pickett, G. McC., P. A. Surgeon, detached from U S. S. "Newark,' and granted three months leave.

Dunbar, A. W., Assistant Surgeon, detached from U. S. R. S. "Vermont, and ordered to the U. S. S. "Newark,"

LaMotte, Henry, Assistant Surgeon, detached from U. S. S. "Newark," ordered home and two months leave.

Bagg, C. P., Assistant Surgeon, detached from U. S. N. Hospital, Mare Island, Cal., and ordered to the U. S. S. "Monterey.

Baldwin, L. B., Surgeon, detached from Pensacola Navy Yard and or dered to the U. S. S. "Montgomery,"

Dr. W. L. Hudson has removed from Hawley's Store to Dunn, N. C., where he will continue the practice of medicine.

We regret to learn that the American Lancet, one of our most highly appreciated exchanges, has been discontinued.

Mr. Geo. S. Davis, the medical publisher, of Detroit, Michigan, will begin soon the publication of a new medical monthly, to be called Medicine.

Dr. A. A. Kent, the Leader of Debate at the approaching meeting of the Society, has selected for his subject

The Abuse of Alcoholic Stimulants in Practice.

The Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal will soon reach the ripe age of fifty years. The able editor, Dr. Wm. Warren Potter, will signalize its semi

centennial anniversary by increasing its reading pages from sixty-four to eighty, and by making other improvements that will contribute to its efficiency. This journal is already one of the very best medical monthlies in the country, and we extend our sincerest congratulations to the Editor on the great success the past has brought, and wish him still more in the future.

Dr. Welch, the bacteriologist for Johns Hopkins Hospital, has demonstrated that germs will not grow in the A sterilimmediate vicinity of silver.

ized silver wire was introduced into a

culture, and, while the colonies grew as usual elsewhere, immediately about the wire was free from them. Drs. Halsted and Kelly are making use of this discovery by using siiver foil in the dressing of aseptic surgical wounds. The foil is placed immediately in contact with the closed incision in sheets

about four inches square, and then the other aseptic dressings are applied.

The Buffalo Druggist is a new pharmaceutical monthly, published in Buffalo, N. Y.. The initial number has reached our table and promises well for the future.

When you write to any of our advertisers, Doctor, it would be but very little trouble to say you saw the advertisement in the NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL, but it would help the JOURNAL.

Two members are to be elected at the approaching meeting of the Society to fill the vacancies on the State Board of Health caused by the expiration of the terms of office of Dr. W. H. Harrell and Dr. John Whitehead.

Regular attendants upon the Society meetings will remember that for several years Mr. Garvens, of the firm of Bartlett, Garvens & Co., Richmond, Va., has been on hand with a beautiful line of instruments. We are pleased to learn that he will be with us again

this year.

The secular papers are circulating the report that Dr. Charles Waldstein has discovered that pilocarpin in minute doses is curative in consumption and cancer, through its stimulative. action on the lymphatics. The papers must have news, even if it does come high. In telling what pilocarpin is, the N. Y. Herald gives the dose at

three grains, hypodermatically.

This means that the quarantine authorities of the Gulf and South Atlantic States will have to exercise more than

ordinary care if they would keep out the disease from our shores. The probability of secret communication between the Island and Florida makes the danger more threatening.

The revolt in Cuba affects this country in more ways than one. Yellow fever is raging at Havana, particularly

among the unacclimated Spanish troops.

All those who intend to read papers at the meeting of the Society in Goldsboro, May 14th to 16th, and who have not sent in the titles of their essays to the Secretary of the Society at Wilmington, have only a few days now in which to do so, if they secure a place on the program.

We learn that the plans and specifications for the Cape Fear Quarantine Station have been completed and accepted, and that bids for doing the work have been asked for. This means that the work will soon be commenced, and as it will require but a short time to complete the station, we hope to see it in operation by the middle of the summer. The Government appropriated $25,000 for the establishment of the Station and $2,000 a year for its maintenance.

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In the after-treatment of a case where an "Operation for the Relief of an Impermeable Occlusion of the Esophagus of Five Years Standing" had been performed, which operation was reported at length in the N. Y. Medical Journal of March 23d, 1895. Dr. Augustus C. Bernays, A. M., M.D., Heidelberg, M.R.C.S., Eng., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery at the Marion-Sims College of Medicine, the operating Surgeon says: •

"The patient rallied fairly well after the operation, but she became greatly emaciated. Liquid food was given at short intervals and stimulants as indications demanded. In order to allay the extreme nervousness and irritability, antikamnia was given, and it acted promptly and satisfactorily in every instance."

Of the further history of the case, it may be further stated that, on the seventh day after operation, the patient took into her stomach, through the natural channel, the first food which had passed it in five years, and that in two months convalescence was regarded as fully established.

VOL. XXXV.

No. 9.

Before reporting the three cases on which this new treatment of morbid growths is mainly based, I must explain what I mean by local electrolysis and zinc-amalgam cataphoresis, and also advance reasons for my belief that these methods, either separately or together, present important advantages over cutting operations in certain cases of benign vascular growths and incipient cancers.

Local electrolysis means simply that the electrical decomposition of the tissue salts is confined to a localized area by the approximation of the poles. If both poles of a galvanic current be placed in the morbid tissue quite near *Read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, January 9, 1895.

each other, the bulk of the current will be concentrated within the portion of tissue immediately between them, and but little will traverse the outside healthy parts. In practice they should not be further apart than from a half to one inch, though this depends entirely on the strength of current to be used and the size of the growth. So placed, an enormous current may be employed to dissolve a morbid tissue without affecting surrounding tissues, the parts having been chilled by a spray, or otherwise rendered anæsthetic, if sensitive. The surgical possibilities of such currents are quite remarkable. All the salts and liquids. of a given growth lying between the points become a prey to such a current,