252 NEWS AND MISCELLANY Married.--Miss Laura Mumford and Dr. Clifton Covert, were married at the home of the bride's mother, Table Rock, Neb., May 15th. Pinard claims that when, in the sixth month of pregnancy, pain is produced by placing the hand on the fundus uteri, a breach presentation may be confidently expected. Such is Fame.-The Woman's Medical Journal spoils a pretty editorial by designating Dr. Porter as editor of the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, instead of Dr. Wm. Warren Potter. Not the Sign he was Looking for.-A good natured Irishman rushed into the office of a broker one day, wearing an anxious expression on his face, and asked "Have you a closet handy, Oi d'now; Oim quite unaisy, sir!" He was directed out the back door, and told to turn to the right, where he would see the sign. Having occasion to step outside himself in the course of a few moments, the broker found his guest squatting alongside of the wall of the office. With an expression of anger, the broker asked Pat why in thunder he did'nt follow instructions and go to the closet. "Begorra," says Pat," that sign says ' urinal,' and indade, sir, I had to have an arsenal! Prof. Karl Ludwig, the eminent physiologist, died April 27th at Leipsic, Germany. He was born in 1816, at Witzenhausen, and studied medicine in Marburg and Erlangen. In 1841 he was made demonstrator, and in 1846 professor of anatomy at Marburg. In 1849 he was called to the chair of anatomy and physiology at Zurich, and in 1855 he became professor of physiology in Vienna. He took the chair of physiology at Leipsic, which he held at his death, in 1865. Prof. Ludwig discovered the kynographic method for the study of blood pressure. Among the best known of his writings are, The Gas of the Blood," The Structural Conditions of the Heart, Liver, Kidneys, and Other Internal Organs," and "The Secretions of the Kidneys." 66 Conception. The menstrual cycle, if it may be so termed, consisting of 28. days, usually, and embracing time of menstrual flux and intervening days, may be divided into two periods, viz., a genetic and an agenetic period. The genetic period embraces the first 18 days of the menstrual cycle. During this period conception is most likely to occur. If conception occurs within the first third of this period, the parental vigor being equal or nearly so, the child will be a girl; but if conception occurs within the last third the child will be a boy. Within the second third, the earlier or later the period in which conception occurs will govern the sex approximately. The agenetic period embraces from the 19th day to the close of the menstrual cycle. Within this period conception rarely occurs.-Medical Brief. 66 He Doctors as Companions.-Mr. James Payn pays a neat tribute to the doctor, in a recent issue of the Cornhill Magazine. Upon the whole, and for a 'scratch companion, I prefer a doctor to a man of any other calling. He may not be very good as a conversationalist, but he is rarely very bad-like a cheroot. has had a genuine experience of life, and has seen down to the depths of it; a sick man does not attempt to deceive his doctor, or put the best face on his character, as he does with a priest. Moreover, what is very unusual, your doctor knows more about you professionally at all events, than you know about yourself. He does not tell you about it, it is true; not a word of that aneurism you carry about with you, and which will some day kill you in half a minute, but your consciousness that he may possess such knowledge makes him interesting. The best suggestionsI have had made to me for plots for my novels have come to me from doctors, to whom I have also had cause to be grateful for many things." 253 Child Insurance is now prohibited by the State laws of Rhode Island. Influenza in England.-This disease, which is now on the decline, claimed 473 deaths in one week, in London alone. Medical Press Exhibition.-It is proposed to hold a universal medical press exhibition, in connection with the International Medical Congress, at Moscow next year. Dr. Idelson suggests that a catalogue be prepared, containing full information concerning all medical journals in the world. In Hard Luck.-The diplomas of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Keokuk, Iowa, and the Northwestern Medical College, of St. Joseph, have been refused recognition by the respective Boards of Health. This is the second time the latter school has failed to meet the requirements of the Board. It graduated a class of fourteen this Spring. To Remove a Fish-Bone From the Throat.-Give about four to six ounces of milk to drink. In forty minutes give an emetic dose of sulphate of zinc. The milk goes down in a fluid state, and easily passes the obstruction; by a short stay in the stomach it becomes coagulated into a more or less solid mass, and on coming up forces the bone before it. Medicine, the new Davis magazine made its appearance in Detroit last month, and presents a very creditable appearance, with the exception of its cover, which is entirely too sombre an exterior for so bright and interesting a monthly. Dr. Harold Moyer's name appears at its mast-head, as editor, but, save the book reviews, no evidence of Dr. M's faber is discernable in the issue before us. Perhaps the mss. was lost en route from Chicago to Detroit; or can it be that Dr. Moyer aims at an originality in not making the profession a "bow" in his first issue? Cheaper Medical Services.-The New York Life Insurance Co. is endeavoring to reduce the examiners' fees, and the Atlantic Medical Weekly, in entering a very sensible protest, concludes: "The examiners' blanks have increased in size and number of questions, until what was fifteen years ago the task of a few moments is now one of an hour, to say nothing of the time required for urinal analysis. If the company wishes industrial insurance, it can probably get examiners for 50 cents, and thus be able to add a little more to the meagre salary of the president." The Barber's Pole.-The red and white pole which barbers use to advertise their business is said to be but a memorial of the days when it had an actual use. It dates from the time when a barber was also something of a surgeon, inasmuch as he performed the operation of phlebotomy. In relieving the patients of superflous blood he obtained from them such co-operation as they could give by grasping a pole, whereby a more ready flow was secured. As the pole was in danger of be ing sprinkled with blood, it was commonly painted red. To this and to the practice of twisting the white bandages about it when it was not in use, barbers at a later day owe their conception of the poles painted in stripes. A Slight Mistake.-A western editor had just completed an elaborate criticism of a very popular young actress, who was playing her first engagement in the city, when a telephone message informed him of her sudden and serious illness. The editor after carefully listening to the informant's report, and finding it was too late to make an extended notice, merely added at the bottom of his article the following: "P. S.-We are sorry to be compelled to state that immediately after the performance last evening, Miss B had a chill, and her recovery at this writing is very doubtful." Imagine the editor's consternation the next morning to read that the cold, merciless type-setting machine had transformed the word "chill" into "child." The editor has our heartfelt sympathy in being separated from his family and home by a vindictive, pursuing theatrical manager. 254 ITEMS OF INTEREST. Massage of the Bowels, is the best remedy for constipation in infants. Sir Joseph Lister will preside at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, in 1896, at Liverpool. Discovery of Anæsthesia.-The honors of this valuable discovery still seems to rest uneasy upon the head of the statue of Dr. Horace Wells. According to the British Medical Journal, the honor belongs, at least jointly to Sir Humphrey Davy, while other authorities concede the claim to Drs. Morton, Long, Jackson, Simpson, et al. The Cost of It.-Getting born costs the people of the United States $225,000,000 annually; getting married, $300,000,000; getting buried, $75,000,000; getting insured costs but little, but every physician who does it immediately increases his estate by the amount represented by the face of his policy, and he owes it to his family to do it.-Medical Examiner. Small- vs. Chicken Pox.-The Health officer of Detroit is in trouble for having reported to the Board of Health, cases of chicken-pox which had previously been diagnosed as small-pox by some of the best physicians. This reminds us of a funny circumstance occuring in St. Joseph a few years since, when our city physician was himself stricken down with small-pox while loudly protesting to the Board that not a single case existed in the city. Another Victim of Dr. Duestrow's Crime.-Rose Fatelle, the servant girl employed in the household of Dr. Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire who murdered his wife and son last year, has gone insane as the result of seeing the horrible crime committed. She was present when Duestrow brutally and without provocation shot his wife and boy, and the sight has so preyed on her mind as to unbalance it. She will be sent to an asylum. Her type of insanity differs from that of her former master's, in that it needed no "expert" testimony to deprive it A Patient for the "Neatest Circumciser."-A story is told of a good woman who joined the Methodist Church, but after a while she became dissatisfied and went to a Baptist pastor, and he immersed her and she joined the Baptist Church. After a while she came tearfully and sorrowfully to see her Baptist parson, and she said, "Oh pastor! pastor!" He said, "Why my good sister, what's the matter now? You've been sprinkled, and you've been immersed. What else do you want? "Oh, pastor!" she said; "oh, pastor, I feel that something more is necessary. I want to be circumcised!" An Honest Editor.-The West Virginia Journal of Medicine and Surgery, can boast of an honest editor, at least, judging from the heading displayed in its April issue,"Editorial and Reading Notices." Other journals may ring in an occasional "reading notice" in a position outside of its proper realm, but it remains for the Journal to classify its Editorials and puffs under the same caption, exhorting the medical brethren of West Virginia to use their influence with the State legislators in the interest of the regular profession with one breath and urging them to prescribe "Pil Orientalis" and "Hayderis Yebumen Compound" (?) with the next. 66 The Mirror and Its Reflections.-The talented and versatile editor of The Medical Mirror recently cast a reflection" on the few enterprising medical journals that insert engravings of the "female form divine," and claims that the practice is "an offense against all decency," etc. If this sentiment expresses the editor's dictates of conscience at the present time, what a miraculous transformation must have taken place since the doctor posed beside a nude female figure in "The Triumph of Love 'o'er Science," a reproduction of which appears in a book sold to the public? 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