Southern California Practitioner Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...Record recounting the dangers of boxing the ears, in which he says that Alfred E. J. Tovey, editor of the Brewers' Journal, recovered $400 damages from the author, Professor Hjalmarth Hjorth Boyesen, of Columbia College, for injuries inflicted by a slap on his seven years old boy's face. Dr. H. H. Maynard, professor of surgery in the Medical College of the University of Southern California, was called, professionally, a short time since to San Diego, and through the courtesy of Dr. T. C. Stockton and wife, spent a delightful evening in social converse with some of the leading physicians, of that progressive city. The physicians of Los Angeles are.glad to be represented by such a man as Dr. Maynard. The first Crematory on the Pacific Coast was completed in Los Angeles last month, and the body of a lady--the wife of Dr. Bird, a homeopathic physician--was snccessf ully cremated. Dr. Wm. LeMoyne Wills, professor of anatomy in the Medical College of the University of Southern California, is the secretary of this cremation society. Dr. Wills is so extensively interested in real estate and has such a high opinion of its value that he thinks it wise to prevent any more being uselessly occupied by grave-yards. The modern Hamlet will, have, instead of a grave-digger, a soot-begrimed fireman throwing coke into a furnace. Dr. Dabbs, in British Medical Journal, says: A plug of cotton-wool saturated with a six per cent solution of hydrochlorate of cocaine, put into the thin parchment like os during a slow first stage of labor, will ease the pain and relax the os. In case of a rigid perineum, especially in a primiperae, the application of a twelve per cent solution of cocaine will yield most gratifying results. At the June meeting of the Madison (Wisconsin) Literary Club, ..