Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

— ——;794 Miscellaneous.Publications of the Sydenham Society.—The following works areannounced for the year 1860 :" Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumors and Intumescence," by Dr.Bright; edited by Dr. Barlow. A Year-Book for 1859, on Anatomyand Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Diseases of Women and Children,Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. French's " Clinical Account ofDiseases of the Liver." Hebra's Atlas of Illustrations of Skin Diseases ;and Professor Simpson offers to edit a reprint of Smellie's Midwifery.[Ibid.The Workhouse, as pictured by Dickens, is, at even this time, nomyth.The Medical Times and Gazette says, that a visitor at the Cork Workhousewas shocked at the appearance of the children, of whom a largenumber are maintained in the building. Upon investigation he discoveredthat an enormous proportion were afflicted with scrofulous diseasesmany of them dying prematurely ; others becoming blind ; and thosewho survived, dragging on a miserable and feeble existence to whichdeath itself would almost appear preferable.Dr. Call an an says, when examined on oath before the Poor Law Inspector: "On the day I arrived, it was the hour the boys were at dinner.I examined the food, and after their meal I inspected it. I askedfor a bowl of the soup ; I examined and tasted it, and I found it almostperfect water. I asked of what it consisted, and was told of rice, oatmeal,and vegetables ; some green leaves of leek were in the soup. Iwent along the form while they were at the meal, and I found some ofthe porringers untouched. I asked them why they did not take theirsoup, and they said they could not drink it. I saw the bread, andthought it very inferior ; it smelled sour, and was heavy and gluey."On this evidence, says the above journal, Mr. Arnott makes the bitterremark, that in Dickens' " Oliver Twist," the workhouse-boy astonisheshis superiors by asking for more,—but in the case of the Cork Workhouse-boys,they prefer starvation itself to eating the food placed beforethem. [Ibid.Gallows Confession.—We have before noticed the heresies whichafflict all varieties of quacks, when they attempt to band together forthe purpose of attracting public attention and mutual admiration. Thishas been evident in such meetings as the late Homoeopathic Convention,in which it was admitted that a portion of the order were inclined tomerge into "Eiecticism." And now a noted homoeopath, Dr. Heringof this city, whom we have looked on as the very personification ofhomoeopathy, and who, we supposed, relied on it with the devotion of afanatic, yields with an honesty not to have been expected, the followingacknowledgment, which we copy from an article by him in the AmericanHomoeopathic Review.He says ": We all know that the numbers in our homoeopathic ranksare not lessening ; but it is the general observation that the numberis year after year increasing, who, instead of deriving benefit fromhomoeopathy, are made incurable by so-called homoeopathic practitioners."[Ibid.i