MAY 22 1889 LIBRARY ASS N. N. S. DAVIS, M. D., and F. H. DAVIS, M. D. Volume XV., 1874. CHICAGO. PUBLISHED AT 65 E. RANDOLPH STREET. To Subscribers.. 63 Ophthalmic Lecture, by S. J. Jones, M. D. Ophthalmic Miscellany Ovulation and Menstruation. 508 -459 -409, 391 -267,50 Obstetrics and Gynecology, Report on Progress of..95 Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland...208 Ovary, Multilocular Disease of, A. R. Jackson....235 Tape-Worm, by D. B. Trimble, M. D. Typhoid Fever, Statistics of Mortality from. 550 -559 Typhoid Fever, Anatomical Changes in, Klein....618 Pulmonary Cavities, On Local Treatment of...346, 265 Pleurisy, Artificial Rest in. U 256 Pus Corpuscles, Origin of, in Inflamed Cornea. --254 Pathology of the Nervous System, The Study of, P. S. Hayes..... 240 Plagiarisms.. -413, 195 Pus, What it is Not, Lester Curtis, M. D. Paracentesis Thoracis.. 165 Urethritis, Treatm't of, by Cubebs and Oleo-Resins 296 Urethra, Stricture of, The Electrical Treatment...502 - 155 Pneumatic Aspiration, Cases Illustrating the Use of.48 Private Medical Practice in New Orleans. -72 Perineum, Case of Restoration of, by J. T. Everett, M. D... .83 Pneumonia, Treatment of (Translation) 218, 190, 137, 87 Parturition, Electricity in. --99 Pemphigus.. -99 MAV誘の MEDICARESAMINER. A REPORT PREPARED FOR THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY, AT ITS REGULAR MEETING, DEC. 15, 1873. BY N. S. DAVIS, M.D. A LTHOUGH not a member of this Society, the late Dr. Milton Parker had been a practitioner in this city during the last seventeen years, and was so well known to most of us, that I have thought a brief history of the disease which terminated his life would not be without interest and value. Dr. Parker was born in 1810, in the State of New Hampshire, and died Dec. 7, 1873, at the age of sixty-three years. His education, both preliminary and medical, was obtained chiefly in Cambridge and Hanover. During the first few years after he entered the profession, he practiced with his father, who was a physician, residing in Acworth, New Hampshire. Desiring the advantages of a milder climate, however, he removed to Virginia in 1845, and continued the practice of his profession in that State until 1856. In the last-named year he became a resident of this city, and soon acquired a fair practice, and also won the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends. About three years since he began to complain of a feeling of uneasiness and pressure, accompanied at times by sudden sharp pains in the region of the lower cervical and four upper dorsal vertebræ. There was also tenderness on pressure over the third, fourth and fifth dorsal vertebræ. These symptoms were very variable in the degree of their severity, but seldom were sufficient to interrupt his attention to professional business. After a few months, he found a considerable space over the anterior surface of his chest entirely anaesthetic, or devoid of ordinary sensibility. Then followed, in succession, a great variety of morbid sensations along the spine and in the lower extremeties. These sensations were sometimes like the trickling of cold water, sometimes a prickling heat, and at other times numbness. There were also frequent twitching sensations, like the spasmodic action of in |