Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

American Medical Association.\)^rm.sxY,mac, suggests that the inferior quality of the salt used in curingthe meat was one cause. Dr. Foltz sums up the causes of thedisease in the Mexican Gulf squadron thus : 'Protracted cruisingbetween the tropics, unwholesome and innutritions saltprovisions, vitiated atmosphere on board, resulting from imperfectventilation, at times a reduction in the quantity of water;and, in the crew of the Raritan, the despondency and disappointmentresulting from being kept on board ship after theexpiration of the time for which many of the crew had shipped.'He observes, in regard to the treatment, that it consists in supplyingthe system freely with protein, by giving freel}^ suchvegetables as most abound m it. The vegetable acids and potatoesare the chief means. The basis of the potatoe beingstarch, he suggests experiments with that substance. He confirmsthe experiments of Becquerel and Rodier in not havingfound the blood dissolved." Cancer does not affect the sexes indifferently. Mr. WilkinsonKing* gives as the result of post-nlortem examinationsmade at Guy's Hospital^ the extraordinary announcement thatone-half of the females who die about the age of 44 are subjectsof cancerous formations, and of males one-eighth only." Diagnosis in cases of Cerebral Disease.—Mr. Corfef saysthat when the lesion of the brain has been sudden, the eyes areclosed, and the patient is insensible ; when slow and progressivethey are half closed, or wide open, and there is distortion of thefeatures, irregularity of the pupils, dullness of the countenance,and palsy." Here the Committee will close their report with a contrastedreference to the opinions of two authorities, high in theestimation of their respective countrymen." In discussing the treatment of 'fevers and other diseaseshaving a definite course to run,' Ranking, in his RetrospectiveAddress, speaking of the contributions on the subject for thepast year, remarks:— 'We may, however, acquire this one ideafrom their perusal, that these cases get well but are not cured.Nature is the agent in the benefit produced, and he is the bestphysician who most clearly acknowledges her power and interferesleast with her operations. He is the worst who is everattempting to force her to bend to the potency of his drugs.'Prof Dickson, in his beautiful introductory before his class atthe University of New York, says, on the contrary, Our fevers'will kill, in a large proportion of cases, if not arrested artificially; our inflammations tend rapidly to disorganization, and ourproduvia to exhaustion, among the hardy and hard-living inhabitantof our wide spread territory, with the great majorityMed. Gazelle, 1815. t Med. Times, 1847,