speaker that cancer was a local disease, but he queried the truth of this fact.

one.

Dr. T. A. Reamy, of Cincinnati, read the statistics of Dr. A. Martin, of Berlin, which he presented to the International Medical Congress at Washington. The speaker believed that skill will bring the operation to such perfection that it will not be a primarily dangerous As the Fallopian tubes are a part of the uterus, why would you remove the uterus and leave a part of it behind? Will anyone deny the anatomical and physiological proposition? He reported a case where he removed a cancerous cervix seven years ago. The specimen was submitted to Dr. Kebler, of Cincinnati, one of the best pathologists in that city, and under the microscope it proved to be a cancer. This patient is still living, and has two healthy, happy children. He had two other cases where he had done the same operation, and the patients also bore children. Had he removed this uterus, the result could not have been better, the dangers would have been greater, and she would not have had these children. If cancer commences in the body of the uterus, any man who would recommend any other operation than total extirpation would be foolish and dangerous. Why do so many cases of high amputation get well? Why have advertising quacks been able to remove mammary glands with arsenic paste, and the disease did not return, when in similar cases in which we have operated it does return? The less traumatic surface you can have, if you remove the whole disease, the better. The less surface you have and open vessels for absorption, the less danger you have for recurrence.

Dr. Wm. H. Wathen, of Louisville, was of the opinion that in a great many cases where amputation of the cervix had been made for cancer and the patient recovered, the diagnosis, be it either clinical or microscopical, was incorrect.

Dr. J. L. McIntyre, of St. Louis, wished to enter his earnest protest against the assertion that total extirpation of the uterus was an ideal operation.

Dr. Martin closed the discussion, and cited a case on which he was operating before the class at Chicago, and Professor Byford came along and told him to amputate the cervix and let the rest alone. He removed the entire uterus, and presented the specimen at the Chicago Gynecological Society, where it was cut open and the disease found to extend in a narrow line clear up to the fundus. This was examined by the pathologists of the Society, and found to be carcinoma.

Vomiting of pregnancy was introduced by Dr. E. W. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, who reported two cases, very severe in character. Both were multipara; both had obstinate vomiting in the first pregnancy with much prostration, which ceased spontaneously at three and one-half

months. Both had sustained some laceration of the cervix with some cicatricial deposit in the rent. Case first had an attack of puerperal fever after the first labor, which left her in an invalid state from which she had not recovered when she was again impregnated. Vomiting was so extreme, loss of strength so rapid, and the outlook so serious, that labor was induced by means of the faradic current. The patient made a prompt recovery. Case second became pregnant with her second child seven months after the birth of the first. Vomiting became so severe and so incessant as to prevent sleep, rectal feeding being necessary, and only partially successful. No remedy stopped the vomiting except opium by suppository or hypodermically. Rectal injections of chloral and bromide, and nitrate of silver to os were without benefit. Copeman's method of digital dilatation of the cervix was successful in stopping the emesis, but an abortion followed seven days later. Patient recovered.

RESOLUTIONS ON TUBERCULOSIS.

Presented at the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, by L. McLean, V. S., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Whereas, We, the members of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, being sensible of the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in the United States, particularly in the dairy stock of the eastern States, it being computed that at least from 10 to 15 per cent. are so affected in one form or another, and being satisfied of its infectious and contagious character and of its identity with tuberculosis, or consumption in the human family, and that it can be conveyed to others both by inoculation and ingestion, believing that a large percentage of this disease in mankind can be traced to this source:

Resolved, That we strongly condemn the use of the milk or flesh of animals so affected in any form, as an article of diet.

2. Resolved, That this Association urgently protests against the employment of empirics as meat or dairy inspectors; that such duties should be confined to duly qualified veterinarians having a comprehensive knowledge of comparative pathology.

3. Resolved, That the inspection of meat can only be properly conducted at the abbatoirs.

4. Resolved, That all dairies should be periodically visited, the cows carefully examined and their condition reported upon to the local authorities.

5. Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to place these resolutions before the Secretary of Agriculture, so that national measures may be adopted by which this disease can be placed under the same category as contagious pleuro pneumonia, and to be similarly dealt with.

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EDITORIAL.

SUMMER AND ITS DANGERS.

"Why is it that so many persons return to the city, after a summer's outing, and soon are taken sick with fever?" This question is often asked of physicians; and that it is so often asked implies that there is some basis for it in fact. We imagine that there are many reasons, some of which are known, and others, probably equally potent factors, which are as yet unknown.

In the first place, healthy homes are left behind, for a more or less prolonged stay in malarial regions. Again, the capacity of hotels which are designed to accommodate fifty persons is stretched until more than twice that number are lodged within their walls, and the means provided for the disposition of the waste of the smaller number are so inadequate that soil-saturation and water-pollution inevitably result. Then, too, city houses are closed for months, and no provision is made for the filling of traps, the water of which gradually evaporates during the absence of its inmates, and when in the fall the family returns it is to a house into which, it may be, the air of a feverinfected sewer has been pouring for weeks.

Of course, the remedies at once suggest themselves to the thoughtful physician, and he should consider it his duty to advise his patients as to what they should do to avoid these dangers, not only to health, but to life as well.

A SENSIBLE SUMMER-RESORT.

One of the most enticing of the many advertisements of summerresorts which we have received is that issued by Mr. W. T. Talbot, of Boston. Unfortunately its advantages are open only to boys, and we

should probably find it difficult to persuade the proprietor of Camp. Asquam that we belonged to that class, otherwise we should be tempted to open negotiations.

Camp Asquam is a summer-camp for boys, on the southern border of Lake Asquam, in Holderness, and midway between Centre Harbor and Plymouth, N. H The situation is unsurpassed in natural beauty by any spot in New England. The land is high and dry, and the camp commands fine views of mountains and lakes. The air is fresh and invigorating, and the best opportunities are offered for boating, swimming, and other healthful exercise.

The chief aim of the camp is to make the boys strong and efficient, and able to think and do for others as well as for themselves. To accomplish this purpose, each boy in turn has an appointed daily service of from one to two hours about the camp, and in this way learns the conditions for wholesome living in the woods. In order to induce a proper physical development, special attention is given to the needs. of each boy, that he may learn the way in which best to perfect himself in breathing, walking, running, jumping, and other exercises; while the largest opportunities are afforded for tennis, base-ball, boating, swimming, as well as other summer sports, and always under proper and competent guidance. From time to time, throughout the summer, exploring expeditions are made in the surrounding country. In case

of sickness, suitable nursing is provided at a house apart from the camp.

Far better would it be for our city boys could they spend a summer at such a place as this, rather than at Saratoga or Long Branch; the strength which they would gain and the practical knowledge which they would acquire would be of immense value to them in the battle of life.

PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS.

A regular monthly meeting of the Medical Society of the County of Kings was held in the Society rooms, 356 Bridge Street, on Tuesday evening, May 20, 1890, at 8 o'clock. There were about one hundred members present. President Chase in the chair; Dr. D. Myerle, Assistant Secretary.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

On account of the absence of the Secretary the usual report from the Council had to be omitted.

The following propositions for membership were received:

F. K. Priest, 64 Grove Street, N. Y. Univ., 1881-82; proposed by Dr. J. H. Droge; James C. Kennedy.

B. F. M. Blake, 120 Reid Avenue, Bell. Hosp. Med. Coll., 1890; proposed by Seth D. Boggs; Walter B. Chase.

R. C. Brewster, 134 Lafayette Avenue, L. I. C. H., 1890; proposed by Dr. Frank E. West; W. M. Hutchinson.

Geo. Dominguez, 97 Second Place, N. Y. Univ., 1886; proposed by Dr. L. W. Pierson; Wm. Maddren.

The following, having been favorably reported upon by the Council, were declared elected to membership:

Drs. Wm. Moser, Florence A. Belknap, Peter Scott, Jas. M. Sayles, Chas. J. Peterman, Geo. D. Barney, Wm. F. Dudley, Chas H. Jones, Thos. U. Joyce, R. P. Thompson, Thos. Dixon and John Von Glahn.

SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS.

The first paper of the evening by Dr. J. Fuhs, entitled "Spasmodic Urethral Stricture," was read and discussed by Drs. Bolton Bangs, of New York, and Dr. H. W. Rand.

Dr. A. Ross Matheson then read the second paper of the evening, entitled "Report of a Case. Was it Hydrophobia?"

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.

D. MYERLE,

Asst. Secretary.

PROGRESS IN MEDICINE.

SURGERY.

BY GEORGE R. FOWLER, M. D.,

Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, and to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn.

TRIGGER FINGER.

Du Poirier (Arch. génér. de méd. August, September, 1889, Centralblatt f. Chirurgie, May, 1890). The peculiar conditions present in cases in which an arrest of the movement of a finger until a special effort is made, when it is completed with a jerk, generally occurring in flexion, more rarely in extension, had previously been investigated by Menzal, (Centralblatt f. Chirurgie, 1874), who attempted to support the