The Peninsular and Independent Medical Journal, Devoted to Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy V. 1-2, April 1858-March 1860 Volume 1 (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. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...the police), and answered each one with a circular--not furnishing the information promised, but setting forth the inducements requisite to make them forward the sum of $3 or $5 each, for another and larger printed missive, which should contain the desired directions. Strange to say, great numbers fell into the trap, and not only sent their money to this swindler, but exposed their most sacred secrets to his keeping, to be subsequently, as it turned out, filed away in a police office. The authorities found a large number of letters continually coming to Mrs. Brown's box, with money enclosed, all which they seized and returned to their owners, with advice not to be so confiding in future. 1 state these things, not on account of their intrinsic importance, but in order that your readers in the country may have some tangible facts to use in warning the people among whom they practice against the arts of these city swindlers. These advertising scoundrels have no reputation at home, as every physician here and elsewhere knows, but they make their money from people at a distance, mostly from the country; and country physicians, by taking a little pains to keep their patrons informed on the subject, may do much to protect them from imposition. X. Ouicioo, August loth, 1858. The extreme heat and large amount of rain, which characterize the season with us, have produced a considerable number of dysenteries and diarrhrcas. The dysenteries are quite sthenic at the commencement, and seem to require more mercurials than in former years. They also resist the beneficial effects of astringent injections more than formerly. One physician is treating the early stages by introducing into the anus pieces of ice, and claims excellent success. In consequence of the...