and expectorating daily nearly a pint of thick, tenacious mucus, freely mixed with tubercular matter in a granular form. The infra-clavicular space was considerably fallen in, and all the symptoms and signs plainly evinced quite an advanced stage of the disease. He had been under treatment for several weeks, just previous, for chronic diarrhoea, which was not entirely cured. In about a week after commencing the use of this prescription, the cough and expectoration ceased, and the patient was much improved generally. He has continued its use up to the present time, Jan. 10, 1856; has regained his natural fullness and rotundity, and is fast regaining his strength.

Dr. Davis subsequently used the same remedy in a case of incipient tuberculosis, with equally satisfactory results. Dr. De Laskie Miller recently prescribed it in a more advanced stage of the disease, with the most happy effects. In conclusion, I believe it a most valuable addition to the list of curative agents.

Ill Effects of Tight Bandaging.

[From the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal.]

Dr. Dalton, of Aberdeen, in a letter to the Editor of the Buffalo Medical Journal, relates a case in which a negro boy, aged sixteen, lost his leg from the effects of tight bandaging in a case of fracture. Dry gangrene followed, and amputation was rendered necessary. A somewhat similar case occurred in our own practice not long since, in which an ignorant practitioner, in treating a fracture of the arm in the case of an interesting little girl, applied the bandage so tight over a rude splint, as to cause the death of the part. On our removing the bandage a week after its application, gangrene and death of the arm was manifest, and, at our request, amputation was performed by Professor Pope. Young surgeons should be especially careful in the application of bandages to see that they are not too tight.

EDITORIAL AND MISCELLANY.

Salutatory.

In presenting the first number of our Journal to the members of the medical profession, we would deem ourselves deficient in gratitude were we not to embrace this opportunity of acknowledging the many favors we have received-of thanking our friends for the liberal support which they have already accorded us in our new and laborious enterprise, and to express a hope that they will continue to support and protect the Encyclopedia, whose aim it shall be to diffuse knowledge in reference to the practice of Medicine, to aid in the science of Surgery, and to assist in the better understanding of the laws of Hygiene.

It will, ever be the aim of its editors to render the Encyclopedia a repository worthy of the support of the man of taste and information, and in some degree to repay the kind solicitude of those to whom it is so much indebted for communications and assistance.

To attain these desirable objects, no trouble, pains, or expense will be spared. The undertaking is certainly arduous, but we are not to be deterred by difficulties; and, knowing that the medical practitioner is sometimes so situated as to be almost isolated from his brethren in the profession, and his mind at times perplexed with doubt, we shall endeavor to make our Journal to him a welcome visitor,

"Content, if hence the unlearned their wants may view,
The learned reflect on what before they knew;

Averse, alike to flatter or offend,

Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend."

Atlanta Medical College.

The regular exercises of this institution commence on the first Monday of the present month, and the class this. session bids fair to excel, in point of numbers, that of any previous session.

The advantages to be derived by a student in this college, over any other with which we are acquainted, are unsurpassed; particularly to one who desires to possess a thorough knowledge of the science of Materia Medica. The Botanical Garden attached to the institution has, at very great expense, been at last completed, and the votary of science can here see living specimens of plants from the cold frigid, as well as from the sultry torrid zone.

We take pleasure in recommending this college, for it is an institution of our own, and looks for support to the students of her own sunny South. Too long has the South been slumbering in inactivity, and suffered her geniuses to be transplanted in other climes for that nurture which has been refused them at home. Hitherto she has been the passive pupil of science, content to draw knowledge from foreign sources; but the voice that drives away her slumbers shall arouse her to emulation, and the South shall disdain to borrow what she can herself so copiously supply.

STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-The annual meeting of the Medical Association of Georgia took place in Rome on the second Wednesday in April last, we learn, with a large attendance of the profession from every quarter of the State. The proceedings of the society were received too late for publication in our present issue.

ANODYNE LINIMENT IN OTITIS.-M. Trosseau recom mends a mixture of the alcoholic extract of belladonna in water, with glycerine; a cotton ball, soaked in the mixture, to be placed in the external auditory canal.

Jefferson Medical College.

The last catalogue from this institution indicates that it is well sustained by numbers of students, as well as by the talents of its very able faculty. At its last commencement in March, it had a list of 630 students, of whom 120 were from Pennsylvania; 94 from Virginia; 50 from Alabama; 49 from Mississippi; 44 from North Carolina; 44 from Georgia; 36 from Tennessee; 35 from Texas; 22 from Kentucky; 15 from Maryland; 14 from Ohio; 13 from New Jersey; 12 from Missouri; 12 from Illinois; 10 from Indiana; 9 from Arkansas; 8 from Delaware; 7 from New York; 4 from Florida; 3 from Massachusetts; 2 from New Hampshire; 2 from Iowa; 2 from the District of Columbia; 2 from U. S. Navy; 2 from Canada West; 2 from Maine; 1 from Connecticut; 1 from Michigan; 1 from Wisconsin; 1 from Kansas; 1 from New Foundland; 1 from Nicaragua; 1 from South America; and 1 from Germany.

SESQUICHLORIDE OF IRON IN HEMORRHAGES.-Doctor Herzfelder quite confirms the good accounts of this given by the French practitioners, as a most valuable agent in various kinds of internal hemorrhage, and far superior to ice, alum, tannin, etc. He dissolves a scruple in four ounces of water, and gives a spoonful every quarter or half hour. Dr. Rath, confirming this account, and especially as regards uterine hemorrhages, prefers the tinct. ferri sesquichl., as the watery solution is very nauseous.-Buckner's Repert.

SEDATIVE APPLICATION.-Extract of belladonna, one drachm and a half; liquify with from thirty to forty-five drops of laudanum; triturate in a mortar, and add one drachm of chloroform. Spread this three or four times a day on the region affected with neuralgia or acute inflammation. It will adhere to the skin longer than an ointment. Dr. Diday.

Ancient Marriages of Consanguinity. By Dr. ISAAC Cas

SELBERRY.

This work has been received and read by us with much pleasure and profit. It evinces deep study and research, and does the author great credit. This subject has commenced to attract the attention of the profession. The evils resulting from the marriage of blood relations are to be seen wherever such unions exist, and should be a warning to all not to transgress the laws of nature, as, by so doing, they will bring misery and disease upon their innocent offspring.

Dental Anomalies and their influence upon the production of diseases of the maxillary bones. By AM. FARGET, M. D., C. L. D., etc. Memoir crowned by the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, at its meeting of the 14th March, 1859.

This is a neat and valuable publication of seventy-two pages, illustrated with numerous fine plates, translated from the French, and issued by the well known publishers, Messrs. Jones & White, of the Dental Cosmos. Address the publishers, (Messrs. J. & W., of Philadelphia,) enclosing forty cents in postage stamps, which will secure the work free of postage.

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