ARTICLE V. WESTERN MEDICAL CONVENTION. The Western Lancet for January last, contains an article suggesting the propriety of a convention of delegates from Western Medical Colleges, to consult upon certain points of interest particularly to them, and to consider the propriety of adopting and carrying out the suggestions of the National medical convention. The proposition, so far as we could learn, met with favor generally, and would likely have been carried into effect, but for the shortness of time between the notice and the time proposed for meeting. We, however, are not informed how far the call was responded to by the selection of delegates, except that the faculty of Rush Medical College made such appointment; but we see many reasons why such a convention should be held, and no good reason against it. West of New York, and North of Tennessee, there are ten medical schools, viz.: one at Lexington, and one at Louisville, Kentucky; one at Cincinnati, one at Columbus, and one at Cleveland, Ohio; one at Laporte, Indiana; one at Chicago, and one at Jacksonville, Illinois; and two at St. Louis, Missouri; amongst which there is great want of uniformity in organization, requirements, and policy. There may be points of difference which the customs of the schools, and the expectations of the profession in the different latitudes of this district of country, may require to be retained. But if by meeting in convention these matters could be so harmonized as to bring about uniformity in other respects, it would be a most desirable end attained. E. ARTICLE VI. MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE. At the recent commencement of the Rush Medical College, the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on thirty young gentlemen who had complied with the requirements of the institution, and satisfactorily passed the ordeal of examination. We observe by our excellent exchange, the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, that the States of South Carolina and Alabama have recently organized State Medical Associations. The physicians of Pennsylvania were to have held a meeting at Lancaster, on the 11th of April, for the same purpose. We learn by a letter from Dr. A. B. Price, of Boone Grove, Indiana, that he recently attended a patient only two years old, that passed from the bowels six hundred worms, (ascaris lumbricoides) in the course of six weeks. The child was convalescent. The measles are prevalent in Georgia. Scarletina prevails in different parts of Indiana. There have been quite a number of cases, mostly of a mild form, at Indianapolis, during March and April, but it has nearly, if not entirely, disappeared. No case of the small-pox has occurred here for nearly three months. A lady in Georgia, while under the influence of ether, suddenly and permanently recovered her hearing. The medical class of the University of Pennsylvania, to evince their respect for Prof. Chapman, last winter, procured his portrait to be taken in the best style, and presented it to the Wistar Museum. From accounts received, we have no doubt but the National Medical Association, which convenes in Baltimore tomorrow, will be the largest meeting of physicians ever held in the United States. Dr. Herrick, one of the editors of the Journal, has gone as a delegate from Rush Medical College. We shall expect, in our next number, to be able to furnish an interesting account of its proceedings. A case of congenital absence of both eyes in a negro child is reported by Dr. Williman, in the Charleston Medical Journal and Review. The deficiency is simply of the globes. Prof. Syme, of Edinburgh, succeeds Liston in the chair of surgery, in the London University College Hospital. The Willoughby Medical College, which was, about a year ago, removed to Columbus, Ohio, has been dispensed with, and its faculty transferred to the Starling Medical College, which Lyne Starling, Esq., of that place, recently endowed by a donation of thirty thousand dollars. A portion of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, sufficient for the accommodation of fifty patients, will be ready for their reception by the latter part of July next. The medical Superintendent to be appointed as successor to Dr. Evans, who resigns the place, has not yet been selected by the board of Commissioners. Dr. Post, of New York, recently relieved a case of violent paroxysmal cough, that came on at night, in which no disease was detected, except redness of the fauces, and slight enlargement of the uvula, by the application of a strong solution of nit. argent. to these parts. Dr. THOMAS T. HEWSON, of Philadelphia, for many years one of the surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and the Philadelphia Alms-House, died on the 19th of February last, aged 75 years. He was, at the time of his death, President of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. Dr. JACOB RANDOLPH, son-in-law of the late Dr. Physick, of Philadelphia, one of the surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital, &c., died recently. E. NOTICE TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, AND OTHERS. We have received from Dr. Gregg an original article which will appear in our next number. We have several other original communications promised. We have received from S. S. & W. Wood, too late for notice in this number, the following books, which are for sale by Joseph Keene, Chicago, Ill.: The Young Stethoscopist, or the Student's aid to Auscultation. By Henry J. Bowditch, M. D., one of the Physicians of Mass. Gen. Hospital. Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Martyn Paine, A.M., M.D., Professor of the Institutes of Med. and Mat. Med. in the University of New York, &c., &c. The Obstetrical Remembrancer, or Denman's Aphorisms on Natural and Difficult Parturition, application and use of Instruments, &c. By Michael Ryan, M.D. First American from 9th London edition, with additions by Thomas F. Cock, M.D., visiting physician of New York Lying-in Asylum. Memoranda on Anatomy, Surgery, and Physiology, forming a Pocket Companion for the Young Surgeon, or for Students preparing for examination. By Mark Noble Bower, Surgeon. Corrected and enlarged by an American Physician. Opthalmic Memoranda, respecting those diseases of the Eye which are more frequently met with in practice. By John Foote, F. R. C. S. L., &c., &c. From Lea & Blanchard, a copy of the new edition of Churchill's Midwifery. Also, 25th Annual Report of the New York Asylum for Lying-in Women. The Report of the Physicians of the Lunatic Asylum to the Medical Board of Blackwell's Island. Document No. 48, Board of Aldermen, N. Y. And we have also received our usual exchanges. We invite the attention of those interested in Medical Colleges, of medical book publishers, surgical instrument makers, &c., to our advertising sheet, which will be extended according to patronage. The terms are, for each page, per annum, $10; one insertion, $5. Half page per annum, $6; one insertion, $3. All advertisements of patent or secret remedies, &c., excluded. MEDICAL BOOKS АТ INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. THE undersigned have increased their stock of Medical Books very considerably, and are selling at such prices as will give general satisfaction to the profession : Wood's Practice, Mackintosh's Practice, Bell & Stokes' Practice, Cyclopedia of Practical Med., 4 vols., Bell's Materia Medica, Dunglison's Materia Medica, Eberle's Materia Medica, Horner's Anatomy, Wilson's Anatomy, Smith and Horner's Anat. Atlas, Pancoast's Operative Surgery, Ferguson's Surgery, Miller's Surgery, Brodie's Clinical Lectures, Chapman's Thoracic Viscera, &c. WE ask the attention of the Physicians of Indiana to our assortment, as we are determined to make it clearly their interest to purchase their Medical Books at home. One door west of Browning's Hotel. Indianapolis, Ia., May, 1848. MORRISON & TALBOTT. DAVID CRAIGHEAD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, Oils, Varnishes, DYE STUFFS, GLASS WARE, WINDOW GLASS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. WOULD particularly invite the attention of Physicians, Merchants and others, to his extensive stock, which he has selected with great care, and with a view of having every article pure and genuine. Orders from Physicians and others will be filled with accuracy and at the very lowest prices. Particular attention given to filling prescriptions and compounding medicines. |