chronic bronchitis, with emphysema, and in the dyspnoea of advanced Bright's disease.

Belladonna in Collapse.-Dr. REINHARD WEBER, in the Philadelphia Medical Times, recommends the use of small doses of belladonna as more efficient in cases of collapse than camphor, musk, alcohol, and other stimulants usually prescribed to restore the failing action of the heart. Dr. Weber claims to have been the first to recommend the use of belladonna for this purpose. He gives a physiological theory of its action, and supports his arguments by reports of several

cases.

Women in the University of London.-An unusually large meeting of the University of London was held January 15th, to consider the new supplemental charter providing for the admission of women to degrees in all the faculties. Great ef forts were made on both sides, and the question was warmly. debated. The result was a vote of 242 in favor of the charter, and 132 against it. The University has thus determined to ask the Government for powers to grant the same degrees to women as it now grants to men.

Human Temperature in the Tropics. We learn from the Medical Times and Gazette that Surgeon-Major Johnston has made an extensive series of observations in India, on the subject of the normal temperature of the body in the tropics, and has found that, contrary to the general opinion, it is rather lower than the average temperature in the North. In one series of observations he found the mean axillary temperature to be 97.63°, and in another series 97.74°.

Lectures at the Paris Morgue.-Prof. Brouardel delivered the first of the new course of demonstrative lectures to the students at the Morgue. The number of students admitted on each occasion is limited to thirty. The object is to give instruction in the art of making a medico-legal autopsy, and drawing up a clear and correct report of it. The students are required to take notes as the autopsy is conducted before them, and to deliver a report at the next demonstration.

Threatened Strike of Doctors.-There has been some trouble between the public and the medical practitioners in Havre, France, in consequence of which the latter have united, and issued a circular to their patients, threatening a general strike unless their terms are complied with. From $2 to $4 for night and urgent visits is the moderate sum demanded.

Journalistic Notes.-The month of January brought us two new journals from Michigan-the Detroit Lancet, a monthly journal of eighty-two pages, edited by Drs. H. A. Cleland and Leartus Connor; and the Michigan Medical News, a semi-monthly journal of twelve pages, edited by Dr. J. J. Mulheron. Both promise well.

The New Maternity Hospital. The appointments to the new Maternity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, are the following: Consulting Surgeons, Drs. Isaac E. Taylor and Fordyce Barker; Attending Surgeons, Drs. T. Gaillard Thomas, W. R. Gillette, W. T. Lusk, and M. A. Pallen.

A Physician's Black-Book.-The physicians of Antwerp have established a black-book, in which the names of delinquent patients are entered, and by reference to which each practitioner is able to ascertain his probable chances of obtaining remuneration for his services.

Army Intelligence.

Official List of Changes of Stations and Duties of Officers of the Medical Department, United States Army, from January 14, 1878, to February 13, 1878.

WATERS, W. E., Captain and Assistant Surgeon.- Assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at San Antonio, Texas. S. O. 17, Department of Texas, January 23, 1878.

CALDWELL, D. G., Captain and Assistant Surgeon. Relieved from duty in Department of Texas, to proceed to New York City, and report, on arrival, by letter to the Surgeon-General. S. O. 9, A. G. O., January 10, 1878.

PAULDING, H. O., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Leave of absence extended for three months. S. O. 19, A. G. O., January 26, 1878.

TURRILL, H. S., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Relieved from duty as Post Surgeon at San Antonio, Texas. S. Ö. 17, C. S., Department of Texas.

SPENCER, WM. G., First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon.-Assigned to duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Townsend, W. T. S. O. 4, Department of the Columbia, January 7, 1878.

Obituary.

WILLIAM STOKES, M. D., D. C. L., F. R. S., etc., died in his native city of Dublin, January 7th. Dr. Stokes was born in 1804. His medical education was obtained in Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1825. Even as a student his remarkable abilities attracted attention. He entered on the practice of his profession in 1826, in Dublin, and became the colleague of Dr. Graves. He soon became popular as a lecturer and writer, and began early to contribute to the literature of medicine. His work on "Diseases of the Chest," that on "The Heart and Aorta," and his lectures on Fevers, are enough, alone, to establish his fame, and are widely known and read in this country. Dr. Stokes was one of the founders of the Pathological Society of Dublin, and was ever active in promoting the best interests of the profession. For many years he enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, and at the same time carried on his clinical instruction with great zeal and His intellect was of the highest order, and his name will occupy a prominent place in the annals of medicine.

success.

DR. EDMUND RANDOLPH PEASLEE.

We cannot render a more appropriate tribute to the memory of the distinguished man whose loss has made so great a blank in the profession, than by giving a portion of the proceedings of the New York Academy of Medicine, at the meeting held February 7th, regretting that space does not permit of giving them entire, including Dr. Austin Flint's appropriate and impressive address.

By the kindness of Dr. Fordyce Barker we are permitted to make the following extract from his eloquent biographical tribute to the memory of his late colleague. Dr. Barker said:

In attempting the duty which the Council of the Academy of Medicine has allotted to me on the present occasion, a nervous anxiety oppresses me from the fear of inadequate and unsatisfactory performance. But, as his oldest acquaintance and friend in the profession of this city, I am encouraged by the feeling that I am trying to do just what our departed brother would have wished me to do. It is but a few weeks since, that Peaslee and myself were appointed a committee to report resolutions appropriate to the death of one of our fellows, who had been a successor to both of us in a chair of one of our medical colleges. As we were returning home from the meeting of the Academy, Peaslee said to me, referring to some remarks of mine before reading the resolutions which we had prepared, "I hope that you will live to do for me what you have done for Budd to-night." He added with a quiet humor, which those who knew him intimately will recognize as characteristic, "but I am in no hurry for it."

EDMUND RANDOLPH PEASLEE, the son of James and Abigail (Chase) Peaslee, was born at Newton, N. H., January 22, 1814. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. Professor E. D. Sanborn, in some "Personal Recollections" published in the college periodical (The Dartmouth), says: "When I came to Hanover to reside, in the autumn of 1835, I found Edmund R. Peaslee a member of the senior class in Dartmouth College. He was then a tall, slender, graceful young man, modest and reserved in social life, but manly and independent in action. His relative rank and influence among students then, were as marked and positive as they were afterward in professional life. His life-long friend, Samuel C. Bartlett, now President of the College, was his classmate. They were class-leaders in scholarship. They moved on so evenly through the entire college course, that no one presumed to give the precedence to one over the other. Dr. Peaslee was then a very strongly-marked character. His pure morals, his superior endowments, and his thorough

mastery of every college study, commanded the sincere respect both of students and teachers. For one year after graduation he taught in Lebanon Academy, and made a new school at once popular. At the beginning of the college year in 1837 he returned to the college as tutor, where he remained two years. In the lecture-room he was always master of the situation. Good order and thorough instruction characterized his whole career as tutor. During his last year as a teacher, President Bartlett was his colleague. Here, similar pursuits and congenial tastes ripened their friendship into brotherly love, so that the survivor could say, 'Outside of my family circle I had not a dearer friend on earth.'

Dr. Peaslee studied medicine with Dr. Noah Worcester and Dr. Dixi Crosby, of Hanover, and Dr. Jonathan Knight, of New Haven, and graduated as M. D. at the Yale College Medical School in 1840. During the following year he began the practice of his profession at Hanover, N. H., and also began to lecture on Anatomy and Physiology at Dartmouth College. He became a professor of these two branches in 1842, and continued to hold this chair until 1870. He became Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1845, and was Professor of these two branches of education from this time until 1857, when he gave up anatomy, but continued to act as Professor of Surgery

until 1860.

Dr. Peaslee was one of the first lecturers in the medical schools of the United States to make use of the microscope in teaching histology, physiology, and pathology.

[In 1851, solely through Dr. Barker's influence, he was induced to accept the appointment of Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the New York Medical College, which he retained until his removal to this city in 1858, when he succeeded Dr. Barker in the chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the same school, and held the position for three years.]

He was elected Professor of Gynecology in Dartmouth College in 1872, and in Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1874, both of which positions he occupied at the time of his death.