The Cincinnati Medical Journal

The Medical and Surgical Reporter, in commenting on this action, says that; "In making this appointment, we believe the trustees of the Jefferson College have found a happy solution of the difficulties into which they were precipitated by Dr. Bartholow's retirement. Time is afforded to see if Dr. Bartholow can resume his work, or to find a successor who will add to the reputation or success of the college; which meanwhile will have the services of an excellent lecturer on one of the most important branches of its curriculum."

ANTISEPTICS.--In the December number of Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs we find this subject, which is of such vast importance to the advanced physician and surgeon of the present day treated in a most extensive and interesting manner : The first, by Dr. H. Kuhne, of Wiesbaden, trans. by Vincent D. Harris, M.D., entitled a Practical Guide to the Demonstration of Bacteria in Animal Tissue. The second, by Sir Joseph Lister on the Present Position of Antiseptic Surgery, and the third article being a Handbook to Dr. Koch's Treatment in Tubercular Disease by Drs. Edward F. Green and Walter D. Severn.

The eminence obtained by Koch and Lister would warrant the prediction that these numbers will prove by far the most desirable of the year. Little need be said of an article by "The Father of Antiseptic Surgery" for Lister's reputation places him among the writers of whom it is necessary to keep well posted upon their expressions of opinion, and the furore created by Koch's announcements has so materially enlivened the interest taken in antisepticism, that almost every line written upon the subject is devoured with the most intense interest. In connection with the above the number also contains: Cancer and Its Complications, by Chas. Egerton Jennings, and The Treatment of Epilepsy, by Dr. Ch. Fere.

THE Southwestern Ohio Medical Association holds its fourth semi-annual meeting at Hamilton, April 2nd and 3rd. This society should have the earnest support of all members of the profession of southwestern Ohio. A full programme will be given in next issue.

A death under anaesthesia occured in the St. Barnabas Hospital, Minneapolis, Dec. 25. The patient was a well built young man with a tumor on the foot.

A HUMAN FURNACE.

AN interesting case is reported in Omaha, which if the condition is as reported, is one of the most remarkable cases on record. Mrs. Mc, a patient of Drs. Galbraith and Peabody, in the St. Joseph Hospital, has had a temperature ranging, in the last six months, from normal to 171° F. and has remained at 146° for weeks Heretofore the hightest authenticated case of temperature not resulting fatally has been 114°. On April 3, after the birth of a child, she was attacked with a severe case of peritonitis, when her temperature ran to 112° and remained so several days. Repeated experiments were made and records kept showing a range in the temperature during the past six weeks of from 6° below normal up to 171°. For nearly two weeks the average temperature was 146°. Since April 12 over 1,200 pieces of bone and foetal structures have been removed from the woman. Two years ago while at the Chicago Hospital, Mrs. Mc—, had an attack of Peritonitis at which time her temperature reached as high as 125°

Further investigations will be made in this case, to ascertain if this report of such a phenominal range of temperature be authentic and we will endeavor to publish in next issue a complete history of the case from the attending physicians.

BREECH PRESENTATION. DELIVERY BY FORCEPS.

This unfrequent condition was met with in a case of Dr. C. L. Armstrong's of this city, in which he kindly furnished notes for the following account:

Mrs. E. A., Aet., 26, primipara, was taken sick on July 30, 1883, and after being in labor about six hours, there being no rigidity of the Os the doctor determined to apply forceps and deliver, which he did, the child weighed nine pounds, was strong and healthy and evidently none the worse for his unusual position during his embryonic existence. The patient was admitted to the Cincinnati Free Hospital for Women, in the latter part of 1890, for the repair of a slightly lacerated cervix, which, upon being examined, revealed that soft cheesy condition so strongly indicative of cancer, a microscopic examination made by the pathologist, however, failed to reveal the presence of cancer cells.

The woman made a rapid recovery from the operation and is now in as good health as ever.

A Critical Examination of the Teeth of Several Races, Including One Hundred and Fifty Mound Builders, by E. G. Betty, D.D.S., Cincinnati, O. This is the title of a most interesting and novel article which appeared in the Dental Review of April, 1890, and will well repay anyone to read who may be at all interested in this branch of study.

Dr. Betty apparently entertains the opinion that he will be able to solve the question of the ancestry of the American Indian -which would be a most important point gained—and from the evidence we have of Dr. Betty's perseverance and excellent work in the shape of the results of his investigations we feel confident that if a solution, or any contribution to further a solution of the question of the American Indian's ancestry is possible, the doctor will obtain it.

We have read over the tabulated results of Dr. Betty's many visits and extensive research and study of the skulls contained in the Army Medical Museum at Washington with much pleasure and interest, and we trust that the doctor's interest and investigation will not cease here, for we think that he can present to the profession much that would be of great value and interest to its members in this untrodden and uncultivated field.

THE Medical Society of the State of New York held its eighty-fifth annual meeting at Albany N. Y. February, 3, 4 and 5th, which proved to be the most successful meeting on record, a fact due in a large measure to the untiring efforts of President Dr. W. Warren Potter of Buffalo, who presided with that ease, grace and dignity that a man of Dr.Potter's ability only, can do. There was an unusually large attendance and a large number of papers were contributed, the one on Appendicitis by Dr. Vanderveer of Albany elecited the most extensive discussion. The Society nominated fourteen men from among whom the Regents will select seven to act as State Board of Medical Examiners. Another prominent feature of the meeting and an example which the Ohio State Society could profitably follow, is that of an Annual Dinner set at $1.00 per plate including claret, other wines extra, at which there were 380 present.

There were present from the West and South, Dr. L. S. Mc Murtry of Louisville, Dr. W. E. B. Davis of Birmingham Ala. and Dr. Chas. A. L. Reed of Cincinnati, all of whom contributed papers Dr. Potter chose for the subject of his address, that bearing on the prevention of Disease in Women, which subject he handled na most masterly manner before a large popular audience in the Assembly Chamber of the great Capitol.