NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL. A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. EDITED BY ROBERT DRANE JEWETT, M. D. VOLUME XXXVIII. July to December, 1896. ROBERT D. JEWETT, M.D., PUBLISHER. WLMINGTON, N. C.. 1896. Tapeworm 153. Throat, examination of the 345. Tooth powder 87. Urethritis, chronic 247. Vegetation of the vulva 278. Vinegar an antidote to carbolic acid 119. Tonsillitis contagious, to what extent is? 24. Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, Tumors, erysipelas toxines in the treatment Typhoid fever, diagnosis of-Ehrlich's test- Urethra, rupture of, treated by external Uric acid, comparative value of remedies Uterine fibroids, inflammatory origin of 304. Uterus, absence of vagina and 359. Uterus, curettage of the 242. Uterus, indications for suspension of 253. Uterus, indications for ventral fixation of 212. Vaginal fixation, indications for 240. Vomiting of pregnancy, gauze tamponing of NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL. A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY [Entered at the Post-office at Wilmington, N. C., as second-class matter.] If I were called upon this evening to address an audience of medical men alone, the selection of my subject would not be a difficult matter. But I am reminded that there are others in my audience and that I must play to the gallery. I must sing a medley, I must present to your intellectual view a composite picture, I must offer what is known in medical parlance as a shotgun prescription. How difficult my task some of you by experience know and I hope all will appreciate. Life is a subtle, intangible indefinable something that characterises animate creation. Poets in beautiful language and imagery have described it and philosophers with profound reasoning have attempted its definition, but all such have been unsatisfactory and to day with the accumulated learning of the ages and with millions of examples of all kinds of life constantly around us we have no better definition than that furnished by aristotle centuries ago, to wit; "Life, the faculties of self nourishment, self growth and self decay." The properties of life may be spoken of as three: first, composition, its embodiment being composed mainly of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen united together in a peculiar compound called protein, which is found no where else except in living things. Its second property is that of waste and repair or change, the taking in of new material to replace that, which is worn out and no longer fit for use. Every thing that has life is undergoing constant, perpetual change. To-day we are not what we were yesterday, next *Read before the North Carolina Medical Society, Winston-Salem, May 1896. |