The Richmond and Louisville medical journal (1873) (14799981023)

Identifier: richmondlouisvil16loui (find matches)
Title: The Richmond and Louisville medical journal
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: Louisville, Ky. : E.S. Gaillard
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ng; absolutely nothing. The physicianson the committee with Dr. Foss have done nothing; the physi-cions of Paducah, where the Society enacted the law, have donenothing. Is not this discreditable? In the next number of the Journal there will be given thenames of derelict committeemen and officers of the Society;also the names of those who, talking a great deal in regard tothis matter, have been too indolent to do anything whatever.The leading physicians of derelict counties are doing nothing.They are, it seems, always prominent when talking is to bedone, but valueless when work is to be done. Shall this iner-tion, this laziness, continue ? It is to be hoped not. All phy-sicians, whose county lists are not completed, should be up andat work. The Legislature meets in December. Erratum.—The review of Dr. Gouleys work by Dr. J. L.Cabell, page 266 of the Journal, is inaccurate. In the sixteenthline, instead of the text being suggested to Dr. Gouley, it shouldread, suggested by Dr. Gouley.
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IE 3a. ille.IEy. THE RICHMOND AND LOUISVILLE MEDICAL JOURNAL. Vol. XVI. DEOEMBEK, 1873. N©< 6. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Qui docet discit. Art. I. —Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages? By J.Drummond Burch, M. D., Yazoo City, Miss.;. Late Pro-fessor of Anatomy in the Louisville (Ky.) Medical College. A friend, whose nobility of character enables him to seesomething of interest in the work of a laborer in the same field,has caused me to put on record the two following cases of for-eign bodies in the air-passages, occurring in my practice duringthe past year. The last I submit as one of as much interestas any recorded that I now remember. I believe no two cases-contrasted could fix more indelibly on the mind of the youngpractitioner the difference in symptoms between a case in whichthe foreign body is movable and one in which it is fixed in theair-passages: February 24, 1872.—At night Dr. J. P. Moore was called into see Lena, aged six years, daughter of Mr. C, then living onComo Pl