of all matters relating to the State Homœopathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown, to present names to the Governor for any vacancies that may occur from time to time in the Board of Trustees, and to protect generally the interests of Homœopathy in said asylum. [Adopted.] The following were appointed such committee: Drs. E. D. Jones, Albany; C. H. Billings, Cohoes; H. V. Miller, Syracuse; E. M. Kellogg, New York; Henry D. Paine, New York. Notice was given that a resolution to amend the By-Laws would be presented at the next annual meeting, to create a standing committee on the Middletown Asylum. The Society then adjourned sine die. FRANK L. VINCENT, Recording Secretary. MEETING OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. THE semi-annual meeting of the above Society will be held at Ann Arbor, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16 and 17, 1875. This notice is intended for the members of the several medical bureaus appointed at the annual meeting of the Society in May last. Dear Doctor, Please notice below, opposite your name, the subject assigned to you to report upon at the above announced semiannual meeting. It is earnestly hoped that you will be present and have ready your report. Members who cannot attend will please forward their reports to the General Secretary, who will present them and have them read. A more general notice of the meeting will be sent to all our physicians in the State on Nov. 1. The Elementary Principles of Medicine. T. F. Pomeroy, Detroit. Ophthalmology. F. A. Rockwith, East Saginaw. Surgery of Cancerous Tumors. A. I. Sawyer, Monroe. Importance of a Mixed State Board of Health. I. N. Eldridge, Flint. Ethics of the Practice of Medicine. F. Woodruff, Detroit. Retained Placenta. W. J. Calvert, Jackson. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. Mr. Rorabacher, Litchfield. Typhoid Fever. George A. Robertson, Chelsea. Hepatitis and the Sequela. A. J. Adams, Flint. Extra Uterine Gestation. Thos. W. Robertson, Battle Creek. Intermittent Fever, J. B. Hyde, Eaton Rapids. Relation of Drainage to Disease. Charles Hastings, Detroit. Diseases of the Arytenoid Cartilage. B. F. Bailley, Detroit. Pecuniary Remuneration of the Physician. A. B. Cornell, Kala mazoo. Puerperal Fever. J. A. Partridge, Kalamazoo. Membranous Croup. J. T. Harrington, Detroit. Thermomety of Hyperexia. De Forest Hunt, Grand Rapids. Differential Diagnosis of Scrofula and Mercurial Cachexy. O. Q. Tuberculosis of the Kidneys. R. B. House, Tecumseh. Dentition. W. D. Clark, Monroe. Materia Medica. I. N. ELDRIDGE, M.D., General Secretary. FLINT, Oct. 1, 1875. THE NEW YORK OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL FOR EYE AND EAR, corner 3d Avenue and 23d Street. Report for the month ending Oct. 31, 1875: Number prescriptions, 2,467; number of new patients, 307; number of patients resident in the hospital, 30; average daily attendance, 95; largest daily attendance, 145. ALFRED WANSTALL, M.D., THE HOMOEOPATHIC FREE HOSPITAL. THE building on Ward's Island, formerly known as the Inebriate Asylum and more recently as the Soldiers' Retreat, has been set apart by the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction as a free homœopathic hospital. It is 275 feet in length, with a depth in the main structure of 100 feet and in the wings of 50 feet. It is three stories high, and is built of brick, with brown-stone trimmings. The rooms are large and well ventilated, and the halls and corridors are spacious, and can be used in case of emergency as wards. The building, whose capacity is 800 beds, will gradually be filled with patients, as the exigencies of public charity may require. All permits must come, the same as those to the other city hospitals, through Mr. Kellock, the Superintendent of the Poor. All those who wish will be sent to this hospital. If the number falls below its due proportion, they will be allotted to it in the ratio of one to four, that being its pro rata from its number of beds. There will be four assistant physicians, who will receive their board, but no salary. The homœopaths thus take their position in the great public charities of New York on the same footing and will enjoy the same privileges as the allopaths. The Board of Charities and Correction has taken this step in obedience to the expressed wish of citizens paying nearly half the taxes of the city. It may be said to the credit of the allopathic school that thus far some of its leading men have cordially indorsed the action of the Commissioners, and but very little opposition has been made from any quarter. The Medical Record, the leading allopathic journal in this country, in a recent editorial, says, Within the past few years the doctrine of the survival of the fittest has gained much ground, and its tenability has so forced itself upon the public mind that it is perfectly safe to rest the issue of opinion upon it. In this view, the establishment of a homœopathic hospital is a step which we have no reason for regretting, as being one of the means to the end which must sooner or later come. Whatever may be the real claims of Homœopathy as a practice, the foundation of a greater part of its apparent triumphs has been laid in our bitter and foolish opposition to its doctrines." The new hospital was formally opened Sept. 10. The medical and surgical staff is made up of the following well-known practitioners: Egbert Guernsey, M.D., president; W. Hanford White, M.D., Vicepresident; Alfred E. Hills, M D., secretary; S H. Talcott, M.D., resident physician; Drs. William Tod Helmuth, C. T. Liebold, John H. Thompson, F. S. Bradford, J. H. Demarest, George S. Norton, J. M'E. Wetmore, John C. Minor, Samuel Lilienthal, J. W. Dowling, F. Carleton, Jr., George E. Belcher, Alexander Berghaus, A. T. Throop, F. E. Doughty, C. A. Bacon, Edward T. Fowler, T. D. Bradford, H. D. Paine, James Robie Wood, S. P. Burdick. Weekly. Harper's OBITUARY. DIED, in Chester, Vt., Oct 2, of typhoid pneumonia, Katie E., wife of J. M. Coburn, M.D., of S. Framingham, Mass. PERSONAL. REMOVED, Dr. M. F. Styles, from 103 to 378 Shawmut Ave. MARRIED, at So. Paris, Maine, on Oct. 14, by Rev. S. T. Mills, Fitzwilliam S. Worcester, M.D., of Peabody, Mass., to Miss Nellie A. Green, of So. Paris, Me. MARRIED, D. A. Hiller, M.D., of San Francisco, Cal., to Miss Sadie Loring Ladd. MARRIED, in Bath, Maine, Nov. 1st, 1875, R. L. Dodge, M.D., of Portland, to Mrs. E. E. O'Brien, of Boston, Mass. J. MURRAY MOORE M.D., son of Dr. John Moore, of Liverpool, Eng., so well known to many of our physicians, has settled in San Francisco, Cal. No 410 Kearny St., where, aside from general practice, he gives special attention to diseases of throat and voice. Dr. Moore is a highly educated physician, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and for some time had charge of Liverpool Homœopathic Dispensary. San Francisco is fortunate in having an accession so valuable. THE New England Medical Gazette. Nos. 11-12.] BOSTON, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1875. [VOL. X. TUMOR OF THE BRAIN. [Reported to the Maine Homœopathic Medical Society, by G. P. Jesferds, M.D., 1875.] MRS. D. S., æt. 46. Nervous temperament, always having enjoyed more than ordinarily good health. During the last five months of 1873 and the first five of 1874 she resided in Dresden, spent the summer in Switzerland, and early in the autumn went to Stuttgart, and resumed the duties and care of housekeeping for a family of five misses. He About the first of December the family noticed a slight distortion of the facial muscles upon the right side, which continued some days before numbness of the left hand occurred. Soon there was noticed occasionally some incoherency in conversation. Although still having the care of the household, her symptoms appeared so grave, that Dr. Minet was called in, who examined her, and diagnosed disease of the brain. On a second visit, a few days after, he with positiveness declared it tumor of the brain, prognosis unfavorable. advised her to suspend all care, and avoid excitement, but to exercise as much as possible in and out of doors, which directions were followed. Soon some pain about the left shoulder appeared, then a slight dragging of the left foot when walking. At this time Prof. Sexingen, of Tubingen, was called in council, who confirmed the diagnosis and prognosis of Dr. Minet. Volatile liniment externally and morphine internally were prescribed. Dec. 16 commenced the use of galvanic battery, continued current, then the use of baths medi cated with pitch. These were continued alternate days for four weeks, with no benefit, the patient gradually becoming more and more helpless until complete hemiplegia supervened. Appetite continued good, with but little or no pain, and quiet sleep. Jan. 17, 1875, she left Stuttgart for Hamburg, where she embarked on board of a German steamer, accompanied by two daughters and lady friend, for New York. The passage was very rough, and she was obliged to lie upon her back during the most of the passage. About Feb. 2 she complained of severe pain in back, left arm and leg, and especially severe about the back of the head, upon the right side, extending down the cervical muscles. This was preceded by dropping of the eyelid on the right side, with contracted pupil, all of which symptoms continued until her arrival at New York, Feb. 5, when she came under my charge. In addition to above symptoms, there was constipation; no evacuation of the bowels during the whole voyage. I accompanied her to Malden, Mass., during some of the severest weather of last winter, the journey having been made more comfortably than was anticipated. Feb. 8 she was attacked with excruciating pain in the head, accompanied with great heat. I gave Belladonna, ordered an enema of tepid water, which was soon followed by large dejection, and relief. From that time until the 13th, Nux. vom. 3 was given, and the back packed with tepid water, affording relief and improvement in all respects; was even able to draw up the leg, which had been so long paralyzed. Having learned the opinion of allopaths abroad, I wished to have the diagnosis of both allopaths and homoeopaths at home, and called Dr. R. H. Fitz, an expert, the conductor of autopsies at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Prof. de Gersdorff, of the Boston University. They examined the patient successive days. After hearing their opinions, I gave them the opinions of physicians abroad. Dr. Fitz diagnosed irritation and inflammation of spinal cord ascending to the brain. Dr. de Gersdorff diagnosed scmewhat as expressed in the following letters, written some days after. |