Issue 10, pp. 753-832, October 1861, SMSJ

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l.]Editorial.EDITORIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.ARMY MEDICAL BOARD.Surgeon General's Office, )Richmond, Va.,gept. 27, 1861. ]"Army Medical Boards, lor the examination of Surgeons and AssistantSurgeous, have been ordered to convene at Norfolk, Richmond, YorktownandManaCandidates for the appointments of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeonswill be examined by these Boards, on presenting an invitation to appearbefore them from the Secretary of War, which may be obtained by forwardingtheir application, with testimonials of moral character, to theAYar Department.Examining Board- will be held at other points further South at aconvenient time."The Board of Medical Examiners, appointed by the Governor of Ohioto examine candidates for the Medical Staff of the army, have adoptedthe rule that no person shall be appointed Surgeon who has not a respectablediploma, and who has not practiced medicine ten years. A diplomaand five years' practice are required for Assistant Surgeons. Theexamination to be made by written questions and answers.The prevalent opinion that Army Surgeons have more to do withsurgical than other affections is a grievous error, as the history of allcampaigns abundantly t< I ndeed, the danger of being wounded isthe least that a soldier should dread. A writer of distinction declaresthat in an army of one hundred thousand men, there will be ten thousandtaken sick in the course of the three first months' service, exclusive ofwounds! And the proportion will be still greater in the event of anepidemic! How important it is, therefore, that those who have to treatthem should be men
—826 Editorial. [October,MEDICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS.An institution with the above title has been organized in Houstonwith the following Faculty .Ashbel Smith, M. D., Prof, of Surgery ; N. N. Allen, M. D., Prof, ofAnatomy; G. A. Fcris, M. D., Prof, of Theory and Practice of Medicine; W. H. Gantt, M. ])., Prof, of Obstetrics ; W. S. Rodgers, M. D,Prof, of Diseases of Women and Children ; J. F. Matchet, M. D., Prof,of Mat. Med. and Therapeutics ; W. P. Itiddell, M. D, Prof, of Chemistryand Med, Jurisprudence ; Thos, E. Brooks, M. D., Prof, of Physiologyand Pathology ; B. P, January, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.Opium and Quinine in Puerperal Fever.—Dr. B. S. Woodworth,of Indiana, says :(Cincinnati Lancet and Obs.)"I have now treated about twenty-five sporadic cases with quinine andopium without any deaths. I am well aware that the number is notsufficient to show the superiority of this treatment over any other, andin an epidemic the result might be different ;still I ieel so well satisfiedwith these results that I shall still continue this treatment, aud I thinkit well worthy a further trial on a more extensive scale.Dr. W. administers, on the appearance of the disease, a powder consistingof two grains of pulverised opium and four grains sulph. quinineevery three hours until the subsidence of symptoms.Prescription fop. Whooping Cougil—By Dr. Benson :Miscc. S.R.—Acid. Hydrocyan, - - vi. drops.Ext. Belladonna, - - ii. grains.Tinct. Opii Camph. - - iii, drachms.Syr. Bals. Tolu. - - ij. ounces.Aquae Font. - - - iij. ounces.One teaspoonful four times a day. Louisville Journal'.Chlorate of Potassa in Gonorrhoea,—Dr. Irwin, (Med. & Surg,lleportcr) thus speaks of this remedy :"I have found it to be such an admirable remedy that I seldom rc-BOrt to any other in the treatment of urethral inflammation. My methodof wring it is as follows : one drachm of the salt dissolved in eight ouncesof water, of which an injection is given every hour for twelve hours, atthe end of which time, the discharge will have become changed and diminished,allowing tin remedy 1 to be gradually discontinued until themd or third day. when the disease will be generally found to haved."
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