DR. C. H. STODDARD, of Colton, has gone east for several months. His father, Dr. C. L. Stoddard, of San Bernardino, will care for his practice during his absence. DRS. W. W. HITCHCOCK, W. L. Wills, I. B. Hamilton and H. Bert Ellis will attend the meeting of the American Medical Association in Philadelphia, to be held June 1st to 4th. THE Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Publishers' Association will be held in Philadelphia May 31 (the day preceding the meeting of the American Medical Association.) E. B. TREAT, medical publisher, has admitted to partnership his sons, William H. and Edwin C., under the firm name of E. B. Treat & Co., and has removed to 241 and 243 W. 23d St., New York city. DURING April there were in Los Angeles 28 deaths from phthisis pulmonalis, as follows. natives of Los Angeles, 1; other natives of Pacific coast, 4; from other parts, 23. Of the 28, 21 had lived here less than ten years. PHYSICIANS from Southern California at the State Medical Society were : Dr. C. L. Bard of Ventura; Dr. D. B. Van Slyck of Pasadena, and Drs. E. A. Follansbee, Granville MacGowan, W. L. Wills, Geo. L. Cole, H. Bert and Lula T. Ellis of Los Angeles. THE physicians of San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara county, met at San Luis Obispo, on April 16th, and organized the San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara County Medical Association. Dr. W. W. Hays was elected President, Dr. J. H. Glass, Vice-President, Dr. E. A. Dial, Secretary, and Dr. Thomas Norton, Treasurer of the Association, which numbers forty physicians. FOUR hundred dollars cash takes the household furniture, office furniture, horse, buggy, books and instruments of regular physician in Southern California. Will introduce purchaser to cash business of $1600 per year. Everything new and first-class. Am going East and must sell at once. Do not write unless prepared to buy. Address Southern California Practitioner, Bradbury Block, Los Angeles. THE Medical College is now quite cosmopolitan. It has three Greek letter societies, Nu Sigma Nu, Theta Nu Epsilon, and Phi Rho Sigma. The latter society recently met at the Westminster Hotel and initiated the following well known physicians: Drs. Norman Bridge, E. W. Fleming, I. B. Hamilton, Van Dyke, and W. J. Barlow. After the initiation they proceeded to the banquet room where an elaborate repast was served. Conversation and speeches were kept up until a late hour. The table was beautifully decorated in red and black, the fraternity colors. THE following gentlemen have been named by the six judges of the Superior Court to be capable, under the definition of the new lunacy law, to act as medical examiners : Drs. E. N. Mathis, Henry S. Orme, Henry G. Brainerd, Walter Lindley, L. T. Holland, E. C. Buell, G. L. Cole, Wm. W. Hitchcock, S. H. Boynton, W. Wernigk, Granville MacGowan, W. G. Cochran, Henry H. Maynard, J. H. Davisson, Horace G. Cates, W. L. Wills, Frank K. Ainsworth. BOOK REVIEWS. INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Laryngology, Pharyngology, Rhinology, Otology and Dermatology, and Specially Prepared Articles on Treatment by Professors and Lecturers in the Leading Medical Colleges of the United States, Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain and Canada. Edited by Judson Daland, M.D., Philadelphia, Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; J. Mitchell Bruce, M.D., F. R. C. P., London, England, Physician to and Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Charing Cross Hospital; David W. Finlay, M.D., F. R. C. P., Aberdeen, Scotland, Professor of Practice of Medicine in the University of Aberdeen. Vol. 1. Seventh Series. 1897. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, There is one article on Literary Methods in Medicine by Keen, the surgeon, of Philadelphia, which is both unusual in matter and one that the reviewer would like every one to peruse and obey. A habit of literary living outlined by it would greatly increase the knowledge of the profession and the expression of such knowledge. The very first article is a pithy discussion of the rules governing the treatment of appendicitis, by J. W. White of Philadelphia. J. B. Hamilton, among other things, describes a case of feigned hip joint disease, so diagnosed by manipulation under an anesthetic. He concludes thus: "To determine the presence of rheumatism the usual urinary tests should be made." The reviewer, who unfortunately suffers at times from rheumatism, would hate to have his remaining quiet or not depend on the result of an urinalysis. Bromwell describes a case of hemiplegia in a girl of five, following a fright. He argues it to be embolic, and this case seems to be quite natural, for he is not certain just what the matter is. It is quite refreshing once in a while to see a case reported where the author frankly admits he is not positive what the trouble is. The present number is a sample of the pointed every day clinical experience as seen in the large universities. One of the best features in the International Clinics is the fact that instructive cases, and such as are likely to come under the observation are described, rather than the unusual and bizarre. SYRINGOMYELIA, An Essay to which was Awarded the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for the year 1895, by Guy Hinsdale, A. M., M. D., Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the American Academy of Medicine, etc. P. B. Blakiston Son and Company, Philadelphia. 1897. Price $1.00. This essay is made from the study of an extraordinary amount of literature. It gives a bibliography of over 500 references, and also from a careful study of two unpublished cases. It has chapters devoted to the history of pathology, symptomatology, etiology, forms, diagnosis, cause, treatment and its association with other disorders. It is a careful and exhaustive discussion on this rare malady, and an article that should be in the hands of all interested in neurology, and considering that so great an amount of suffering is due to a disordered nervous condition, who is not interested in that branch of medicine? MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY. Los Angeles, California. Month of April, 1897. T MONTHLY RANGE OF BAROMETER: 1877 1878 1879. 1880 1881. 1882. 1883. Greatest daily range of temperature 35°, date 10. Least daily range of temperature 5°, date 27. MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THIS MONTH IN T Maximum velocity of wind, direction, and date, Total Precipitation, .02 inches. Mean temperature for this month for 19 years, 60° Average excess of daily mean temp. during month, 1° Number of days on which .01 inch or more of precipitation 60 61 NOTE-Pressure reduced to sea level. .27 1895.. .22 1896... ....1.26 1897 Average precip'n for this month for 19 years, 1.36. .22 ... .19 .13 .46 .19 .02 Total dificiency in precipitation during month, 1.34 inches. partly cloudy days, 12. cloudy days, 2. Dates of Frost, Light, none; Heavy, none; Killing, none. "T" indicates trace of precipitation. METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY SOUTHERN CAL., APRIL, 1897. 3.20 1892..... .2.36 1893.. .12 1894. .15 1889.. 3.54 1890... 2.00 1891 OBSERVERS.-George E. Franklin, U. S. Weather Bureau, Los Angeles; Ford A. Carpenter. U. S. Weather Bureau, San Diego; Hugh D. Vail, Santa Barbara; A. Ashenberger, U. S. Weather Bureau, Yuma. JAMES A. BARWICK, Director California Weather Service, Sacramento, Cal. Cid'y 3228 73. 1 02 16 12 72. I .02 69. 1 .02 T 1 0.01 17 5.29 17 10 12 3.41 2442646 2334703 13 W 2.43 W .... Total 198 MORTALITY OF LOS ANGELES. REGISTERED MORTALITY OF LOS ANGELES. WITH SEX AND NATIVITY OF DECEDENTS. OUR ADVERTISERS. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS ON DIURETIN. BY VON R. SIEVERS AND T. W. TALLQUIST, FROM THE MARY HOSPITAL AT HELSINGFORS. (Finska Lakar. Handl. Vol. 38, Chapter VI, 1896.) After giving a short description of Diuretin and considering the indications for its use, the authors report on some of the cases treated with Diuretin by them, a detailed account of which forms the contents of the work. From the history of cases we copy the following: Case 2. Male, 53 years. Aneurysma Aortæ. Incompetence of Aortic Valve. Patient was exceedingly pale, with cyanosis of the lips, and had frequent attacks of dyspnea with anginal symptoms. His legs were edematous, liver enlarged and painful. During twelve days patient was given three times a day a subcutaneous injection of 0.25 Caffein Sodium Benzoate. At the end of this period the angina, palpitation of the heart and severe attacks of dyspnea still persisted; the patient became sleepless nnd the edema had extended over the entire body. was then resorted to. Daily quantity of urine. 200-300 Čcm. Diuretin Treatment and remarks. 1,600 6 gm. Diuretin administered daily. Patient looked upon himself as entirely cured and insisted on leaving the hospital. He had no edema, no dyspnea and during the Diuretin treatment no asthmatic attack. In addition to the prompt action of the Diuretin treatment in this case, the author calls particular attention to the fact that the severe cardiac asthma which had troubled the patient for several weeks and robbed him of his sleep, had during the Diuretin treatment disappeared entirely. Case 4. Coachman's wife aged 48. Suffering from mitral insufficiency with face, hands and feet cyanotic, general edema and ascites, palpitation of the heart, dyspnea, and sleeplessness. Daily quantity of urine. 800 Ccm. 1,000 Ccm. Treatment and remarks. Infus. Digitalis (1,5:200) given 3 times a day in 1 table-spoonful doses. Caffein sodium benzoate 3 times a day 0,25 for dose. 66 6 gm. Diuretin administered daily. 1,700 6 " The patient had during the first few days headache and vomiting as a secondary effect of the Diuretin. Further, in a case of Arterio-sclerosis and Hypertrophia Cordis in a 70-year old man, after digitalis had been used without mentionable relief, Diuretin worked exceedingly well, causing decrease in the hepatic swelling and disappearance of all edema; while in a case of acute nephritis the result was very gratifying. In two cases of amyloid kidney the Diuretin was given without results, as also in a case of chronic peritonitis with ascites and edema. |