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JANUARY 9, 1901-MORNING SESSION, 10 A. M.

President's Address.

Election of Officers.

SECTION ON OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLOGY.

Dr. W. B. Anderson, Chairman; Dr. J. M. Woodson, Secretary. "Cataract." Paper by Dr. J. R. Ferrell, Waco. Discussion opened by Dr. G. B. Foscue, Waco.

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Paper by

2. "Purulent Otitis Media and Its Complications.' Dr. E. L. Scott, Waco. Discussion opened by Dr. M. M. Smith, Austin.

3. "Headaches Due to Eye-strain." Paper by Dr. W. B. Anderson, Brownwood. Discussion by Drs. E. D. Capps and Jno. O. McReynolds.

4. "Sarcoma of the Orbit." Paper by Dr. Jno. O. McReynolds, Dallas. Discussion by Drs. J. M. Woodson and B. E. Hadra. 5. Subject announced. Paper by Dr. J. M. Woodson, Temple.

SECTION ON DISEASES OF NERVOUS SYSTEM AND MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE.

Dr. F. R. Ross, Chairman; Dr. W. R. Thompson, Secretary. 1. "General Paresis." Paper by Dr. M. L. Graves, San Antonio. Discussion by Dr. D. R. Wallace, Waco.

2.

"The Care of the Insane in Our State Institutions."

Paper

by Dr. R. B. Sellers, San Antonio. Discussion by Dr. John S. Turner, Terrell.

3. "Foreign Body in the Frontal Lobe-Report of a Case." Paper by Dr. Frank R. Ross, Austin.

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*SECTION ON OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY.

Dr. J. S. McCelvey, Chairman; Dr. J. W. Embree, Secretary. "Face Presentations and Their Management." Paper by Dr. O. I. Halbert, Waco. Discussion opened by Dr. W. R. Blailock, McGregor.

Individual Report of Cases.

*The balance of program under this section sent in too late for publication.

Abstracts and Selections.

Simple Treatment for Persistent Vomiting.

Dr. Mitchell states that he has succeeded frequently in overcoming persistent vomiting by the aid of cold compresses. The method he uses is to wring towels out of ice water and to change them every minute until the vomiting ceases. It takes from fifteen to twenty minutes to stop the vomiting.-Medical Summary.

To Control High Temperatures.

Dr. C. C. Booth suggests the following method of reducing a high temperature: "The patient is stripped entirely of all clothing, placed upon rubber sheet and covered with one thickness of a piece of cheese-cloth two yards long and the usual width, one end having been split so that each leg can be covered separately. A nurse is directed to squeeze water at about the temperature of the body from a sponge over the entire anterior surface of the body, and to wet the gauze freely as often as necessary to supply the water for evaporation. A case of typhoid fever, with persistent high temperature, is reported in which this method was used. From the beginning of treatment the pulse, nervous system, temperature, strength, and every symptom rapidly improved. The idea originated upon observing the depression of the wet bulb of a wet and dry bulb hygrometer caused by the evaporation of the water from the gauze, which is applied tightly to the bulb containing the mercury. that is claimed for this method is that it is more convenient, more easily applied, less dangerous, cheaper and pleasanter to the patient than any other method. The gauze is to be kept wet until the temperature is reduced to normal."-Philadelphia Medical Journal.

Pruritis Ani.

All

An injection of ergot, hydrastis and carbolized oil of two drachms into the rectum is given first. If the skin is hard it is painted with a saturated solution of silver nitrate every third day for three visits. Then every day citrine ointment is used and bound on with a cotton pad. The itching at night may be relieved by extremely hot water, followed by black ointment or calomel salve, being care

ful not to scratch the skin. This daily routine is followed for six weeks, then at longer intervals for six months, never stopping in less time, but occasionally going longer. Of two hundred cases thus treated, permanent cure resulted in every case, many cases having been observed for five years. As the author considers the lithic acid diathesis a prominent constitutional cause, this must receive internal medication and the bowels must be moved every day.-Philadelphia Medical Journal.

The Urine as a Diagnostic Factor.

Dr. Kernode concludes an article with the above title with the following succinct rules, formulated by a Dr. Formad and verified. by many investigators:

1. Sediment in the urine has no significance unless deposited within 24 hours.

2. Albumin in the urine does not indicate kidney disease unless accompanied by tube casts. The most fatal form of Bright's disease-contracted kidney-has little or no albumin.

3. Every white crystal in urine, regardless of shape, is a phosphate, except the oxalate of lime crystal, which has its own peculiar form; urine alkaline.

4. Every yellow cystal is uric acid if the urine is acid, or a urate if the urine is alkaline.

5. Mucous casts, pus, and epithelium signify disease of the bladder or cystitis of other parts of the urinary tract, as determined by variety of epithelium.

6. The urine from females can often be differentiated from the urine of males by finding in it the tessalated epithelium of the vagina.

7. Hyaline casts (narrow), blood, and epithelial casts signify acute catarrhal nephritis. There is much albumin in this condition.

8. Broad hyaline casts and epithelial dark-green granules and oil casts signify chronic catarrhal nephritis. At first, much albumin; later, less.

9. Hyaline and pale granular casts and little or no albumin. signify interstitial nephritis.

10. Broad casts are worse than narrow casts, for the former signify a chronic disease.

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The urine should be fresh for a microscopic examination,

as the micrococci will change hyaline casts into granular casts or devour them entirely in a short time.

12. Uric acid may, in Trommer's test for sugar, form a peroxide of copper, this often misleading the examiner into the belief that he has discovered sugar. Thus, when urine shows only sugar, the other methods of examination must be used,-preferably the lead-test.

13. The microscope gives us better ideas of the exact condition of affairs in examination or urine than the various chemical tests. -Tri-State Medical Journal.

Successful Financiering.

Stranger (midnight)—I should like you to go to No. 999 Suburb av. to see my wife.

Doctor-All right; I'll be ready as soon as I can get my carriage. Wait and you can ride with me.

Doctor (two hours later)-I can see nothing the matter with your wife except that she seems pretty mad at being waked up. Stranger Remarkable recovery, I must say. Here's your dol

lar.

Wife (five minutes later)-Why in creation did you bring a doctor to see me?

Husband-The street cars had stopped running and it was cheaper than hiring a cab.-New York Weekly.

Moral Suasion.

Old Gentleman: "Did you mean to say that your teachers never thrash you?"

Little Boy: "Never! We have moral suasion at our school." Old Gentleman: "What's that?"

Boy: "Oh, we get kep' in, and stood up in corners, and locked out, and locked in, and made to write one word a thousand times, and scawled at and jawed at, and that's all.”

Aunt Geehaw (of Hay Corners): "Did the story you were just reading in the newspaper end happily, Joshua ?”

Uncle Geehaw: "Gosh! Yes; the beautiful heroine got cured of an incurable disease, an' it tells the name an' price of the pills that did the trick.”—Puck.

THE TEXAS MEDICAL NEWS.

A JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, SURGERY AND HYGIENE.

MATTHEW M. SMITH, M. D., Editor and Publisher.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS.

A. N. DENTON, M. D.. Austin,

J. W. MCLAUGHLIN, M. D., Galveston,
A. M. ELMORE, M. D., Dallas,

R. W. KNOX, M. D., Houston,

H. A. BARR. M.. D., Beaumont,

T. J. BENNETT, M. D., Austin,
E. D. CAPPS, M. D., Fort Worth,
G. B. FOSCUE, M. D., Waco,
WM. E. LUTER, M. D., San Antonio,
A. C. SCOTT, M. D., Temple.

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HOW TO SUPPRESS SMALLPOX IN TEXAS.

In our own county (Travis) within the past week there has been two deaths from smallpox, and we believe the disease is becoming more malignant all over the State, and smallpox is no longer confined to one or two precincts; but exists here and there throughout Texas. Some counties put on strict quarantine, isolate, vaccinate and soon stamp out the disease, while others make little or no effort to prevent its spread.

The way the law reads at the present time, there is no uniform system. One county may have a vigilant health officer, and "shut in" a case when it exists, thereby protecting its people and those of neighboring counties; while another county will refuse to incur the expense of a rigid quarantining of its cases, and they are permitted to infect others and go to neighboring counties; thereby spreading the disease and making an additional expense for innocent counties, unless they declare a rigid quarantine, thereby interfering with travel and commerce.

The remedy we have to suggest is compulsory vaccination. If such a law was passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor, suppose we see, what would be its effects: The large number of intelligent people of the State, who realize the value of vac

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