Vol. 71, 1915 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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42 THB CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
to become the "cities of refuge" for unsuccessful
practitioners or professional
ne-er-do-wells. Up to this time the medical
men in this State who have been invested
with this new official position have
been as a rule capable, competent, physicians
with special bent in the direction of
public health work, and all over the State,
there is little but praise for their excellent
work.
Durham, N. C, begins the installation
of a splendid new system of municipal water
works at a cost of $550,000.00.
Dr. Louise Anderson Merrimon, for 11
years past the valued professional associate
of Dr. H. H. Briggs at Asheville,
N. C, was married on January 6, 1915, in
Cincinnati, O., to Mr.' Nelson R. Perry,
and will spend the winter in California.
Dr. Merrimon was an accomplished
young woman physician, much loved and
respected within and without the profes-
.sion in Asheville, and will long be remembered
for her excellent work in her specialty
as well as for large and zealous efforts
in behalf of the public charities of
the mountain city. It is expected she will
later reside in Asheville, N. C.
The Asheville, N. C, Ministerial Association
passe 1 resolutions January 4,
1915, giving cordial endorsement to a bill
before the present session of the legislature
looking to throwing greater restrictions
around marriages in North Carolina.
It is understood that the Better Babies
Camp at Saluda, N. C, a Spartanburg, S.
C, organization which accomplished
much good for teething infants in South
Carolina during the past summer by carrying
them to the North Carolina mountains,
will operate the coming summer upon
an enlarged scale extending the score
of its operations to include a number of
other South Carolina towns in the list of
its clientele.
Drs. G. W. Purefoy and M. H. Fletcher,
Asheville, N. C, were recently elected
members of the Buncombe Board of
Health.
Greensboro, North Carolina.
Editor Charlotte Medical Journal
I beg to note, and to add to a late paper
in The Charlotte Journal by Dr. M.
G. Perrow, of Lynchburg, Va., in which
he mentions the importance of pure butter.
In 1886 Congress permitted the manu-
facture of adulterated butter. Such butter
is like so-called rectified or blended
whiskey, which according to authority
from Washington, can contain "any material."
Process or renovated butter is
better protected, for it is considered adulterated
when a filthy, decomposed, or a
putrid animal or vegetable substance is
added. There are butters and butter:
"Ladled," "Sweet," and "Whey."
Adulterated butter may be defined as
anything directly or remotely gotten from
the udder of the cow, in which acids, alkalis,
chemical, or "any substance whatever"
is used for the purpose of deordorizing
or removing rancidity, or any butter
or butter fat with which there is mixed
any substance foreign to butter "as
herein defined."
It is manifestly a stultification of the
Pure Food Law that the government
should derive revenue from such so-called
butter.
In the absence of pure butter,- preferably
creamery, only oleomargarine, or
some such compound should be legal. The
word butteririe has been ruled out.
From a dietetic standpoint oleomargarine
is much more valuable than butter.
I
mean the original oleomargarine.
THOS, R. EVANS, M. D.
Resident Physician Glenwood Park Sanitarium.
Clinical Conference, Second Division.
Neurologicai Institute, Nevir York
SYPHILITIC MUSCULAR ATROPHY.
Dr. Junius W. Stephenson presented
a case of a married man age 4.2 who denies
all veneral infection but admits excessive
use of alcohol for 15 years.
Father of two children, w'ife no miscarriages.
History antedating present illness
uneventful. Eighteen months ago
patient noticed a weakness of his left
hand which rather rapidly for several
weeks after which patient states it has
remained stationary. About six months
thereafter the right hand was attacked
in the same manner and progressed quite
rapidly for a period of several weeks
when it is said to have become stationary.
There has been no pain or paresthesia.
Physical examination reveals drop wrist
with wasting of the thenar and hypothenar
eminences more marked in the left
hand ; also there is considerable wasting
of the interossei more marked in the left
hand ; extensors of both wrists are very
weak cavising a double wrist drop. There
is a slight thinning of left deltoid. The
right knee jerk is present but very sluggish,
the left is questionably elicited un-