More than all this, the code of ethics should be, and must be enforced and maintained at all hazards, or else the line between legitimate medicine, and the base quack systems, would be blotted out. The character of the true, noble, honest and moral physician, must be encouraged and sustained. Local societies, the best judges the only competent judges, must perform this duty for the profession, for it is manifestly out of place for the National Association to do it. Another New Medical Journal · San Francisco Medical Press. We have the first number of a new journal from the Pacific shore. It is styled the San Francisco Medical Press, and is edited by our friend Dr. E. S. Cooper, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of the Pacific. We are much pleased with this initial number - it contains a large amount of original matter of interest, and a careful digest of selections. Its editorial paragraphs have an earnest individuality that is especially refreshing. We wish the San Francisco Medical Press length of days and great prosperity. It is issued quarterly, with 64 pages, and the terms $2.00 per annum. Cincinnati Academy of Medicine.-The annual meeting of the Academy was held March 5th. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President Vice Presidents . Recording Secretary Dr. J. F. White. Dr. Wm. H. McReynolds. Delegates to the American Medical W. H. Mussey, and Wm. Judkins. Hospital Appointments.-At the close of the session of the Ohio Medical College, a number of gentlemen of the graduating class were applicants for the position of Resident Physicians at the Commercial Hospital and Hotel for Invalids. The following most excellent selections were made: At the Commercial Hospital-Drs. J. S. Billings, Robert N. Boyle, and Augustus Holtge. At the St. John's Hotel for Invalids-Drs. J. S. King and C. R. Greenleaf. Commencements of Medical Schools.-Full accounts of many of these have reached us since our last issue, some of them accompanied with interesting exercises. The Massachusetts Medical College appears to have enjoyed an unusually prosperous session-graduating 32 young gentlemen at its close. The newly-organized school at Mobile has commenced with fine prospects for success. At its first commencement it graduated 15. The friends of this institution have been to work for it in earnest. We have heretofore noticed the steps taken by the city of Mobile for establishing the college on a firm footing: we observe recently that the State of Alabama has appropriated $50,000 for its benefit. The medical department of the University of Nashville had a large class-101 graduates. . . . . The Nashville Monthly Record announces 75 matriculants and 9 graduates for the second session of Shelby Medical College, just closed. The medical department of the University of New York had a graduating class of 138. In connection with the exercises of the University various certificates of honor, medals, and prizes were distributed for anatomical preparations, dissections, etc. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York, had a graduating class of 55. The Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduated 170, notwithstanding the famous "stampede." Our neighbors at Louisville graduated 75-38 at the University, and 37 at the Kentucky School of Medicine. The commencement of the Cleveland Medical College took place on the 21st of February, with a graduating class of 18. The Gazette reports the class as 70. Thus it will be seen that there has been a goodly accession to the ranks of the profession: let us hope they will prove worthy and well qualified. Dr. N. Bozeman, who has rivaled Dr. Sims in operating for vesico-vaginal fistulas and the kindred class of disease, has removed to the city of New Orleans, where we learn it is his purpose to establish a Woman's Hospital. We doubt not this will prove a well-advised enterprise, and in so judicious and energetic hands we anticipate for it an abundant success. Prof. Horace Green announces his withdrawal from the New York Medical College, to take effect after the close of the present winter's course of lectures. Summer School of Medicine.--This association for lectures and demonstrations is engaged in its regular course of instruction with a pleasant class. The course was inaugurated with an Introductory Lecture by Dr. White, on Medical Delusions, and the Influence of the Mind on the Body. The address was listened to with pleasure and interest. American Medical Monthly and Buffalo Medical Journal consolidated. With the close of the present volume of the N. Y. Review and Buffalo Medical Journal, which will be with the May issue, it will cease its publication, and become merged in the American Medical Monthly — the new journal to be edited by Dr. J. H. Douglas and Prof. A. Flint, Jr. United States Marine Hospitals.-Senator Pugh, of Ohio, has introduced into the United States Senate a resolution of inquiry into the expediency of abolishing the system of marine hospitals at present sustained by the Government. There is a growing sentiment that all the advantages derived from these hospitals could be obtained in other modes at much less cost.-Louisville Medical Journal. The Appearance of Locusts.-Dr. Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimore, writes to the National Intelligencer that the locusts will appear extensively this year. They will make their appearance in that portion of Pennsylvania bounded by Peters' Mountain on the south, Mahantango Mountains on the north, the Delaware river on the east, and the Susquehanna river on the west.-Medical and Surgical Reporter. Prof. Brainard, of the Chicago Medical Journal, suggests: "In view of the success of the Society of Surgery, of Paris,' the thought naturally occurs: why would not a similar association, composed of hospital surgeons, professors, and others interested in this branch, be advantageous in this country? It might meet -like the physicians of the lunatic asylums-quietly, confine its labors to matters of a purely scientific nature, and be made agreeable as well as useful to its members." Married-In Union Chapel, Tuesday evening, March 13th, by the Rev. Elder Burnett, Dr. J. A. LAIR, of Cynthiana, Ky., and Miss LIDA BICKAM, of this city. Books and Pamphlets Received.-Elwell's Medico-Legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence; Dixon's Guide to the Practical Study of Diseases of the Eye; Suggestions on Medical Education; an Introductory Address by Prof. Joseph Jones, of the Medical College of Georgia; Difficulties and Advantages of Catheterism of the Air Passages in Diseases of the Chest-by Horace Green, M.D., L.L.D.; Annual Address of Dr. William Lough, President of the Adair County (Mo.) Medical Society. The American Medical Association will hold its thirteenth annual meeting at New Haven, Ct., on the first Tuesday of June, 1860. The secretaries of local societies, colleges, and hospitals, are requested to forward the names of delegates, as soon as they are appointed, to STEPHEN G. HUBBARD, M.D., Sec'y, New Haven, Ct. Editorial Abstracts and Selections. PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 1. Turpentine in Hemoptysis.-There are several well known remedies which justly enjoy a high reputation for arresting attacks of hæmoptysis, and amongst them may be mentioned acetate of lead, gallic acid, and dilute sulphuric acid. These we see commonly employed, and almost invariably with success. From some cause or other, however, they will sometimes fail, and our reliance must be placed upon some other astringent and styptic, which shall have the power of effectually checking this slow form of bleeding from the lungs. The oil of turpentine is, perhaps, one of the best next to those we have mentioned, and when properly administered can be relied upon. We lately observed two cases of hæmoptysis in the Charing-cross Hospital, under Dr. Willshire's care, which continued obstinately persistent, in spite of the free use of acetate of lead firstly, then gallic acid, and thirdly dilute sulphuric acid. One patient was a young man aged twenty one years, who has had several recurring attacks of this symptom; he was admitted on the 28th of November. The hæmorrhage was stopped only when the oil of turpentine was administered in doses. of twenty-five drops three times a day in a little syrup and water. The other patient was a female, at first in the surgical wards under Mr. Hancock's care; she had had a breast amputated, which was followed by intense congestion of the lungs, with hæmorrhage. She was now transferred to Dr. Willshire's care, and after taking the other remedies in full doses without effect, the turpentine completely controlled the bleeding, and she is gradually improving. The efficacy of turpentine is well known in hæmorrhages from the urinary passages, and also from the uterus that is to say, in their passive form; and as it exerts a specific and peculiar influence upon mucous surfaces generally, we may look for good results in other parts of the body, of which the bronchi are most certainly not the least important.-London Lancet, Jan. 14, 1860. 2. The Physiological Action of Anaesthetics.-Of course, Mr. President, I (Prof. Dalton, before the N. Y. Pathological Society) have very little experience with regard to the effects of these two agents upon the human subject, although I had the pleasure of witnessing the first operation in which ether was used as an anææsthetic agent. In my own practice, if you may call it such, the patients have been principally animals. I presume, however, that there is very little difference in their mode of operation on animals and on men. When I commenced, I, of course, used ether; but as ether requires to be given in a very large bulk, I soon found it very inconvenient, and commenced using chloroform in its stead, and found it very much more pleasant for myself, because it was more easily administered to the animals, and I continued to use it for a certain time. Very soon, however, I found that the animals would occasionally die, which I attributed to some imperfection in the mode of administering the agent. I con tinued the practice, but still the accident referred to would occasionally occur. Not to take up too much time in details, the simple fact is, that at the end of six months from the time I commenced its administration, I abandoned it. Some time afterward I again had occasion to use it; I gave it, but found that it was followed by the same results. Since that time I have given it up |