Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 104

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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The Dawn of the Health Age. By BENJAMIN MOORE, M. A., D. Sc., M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P. Price $1.40. (London: J. & A. Churchill. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1911.)

Dr. Moore's object in writing this book, is, as explained in the preface, " to demonstrate on clear, broad lines, the necessity for entirely remodelling the present system of medical service, in the interests of the whole community." Much remodelling of medical service is necessary here as well as in England, and those in- terested in the larger problems of the profession will be glad to read this book, that they may see the difficulties, and study the cure proposed by the author. He suggests that all hospital ap- pointments should be under the control of the State, and all doctors be paid by the State, so that there should be no rivalry amongst them, and so that the State might be better served. To stamp out tuberculosis he thinks the State should have the right to segregate all suffering from this disease until they died or were cured. Such radical measures do not seem feasible at the present moment, but who can foresee what changes will come about sooner or later in society, or what reforms a socialistic government might introduce.

Report of the International Commission on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis. Reprint from 47th Annual Report of the American Veterinary Medical Association, September, 1910. The Commission is composed of men well fitted by their knowl- edge and experience to deal with the problem under considera- tion, and their report evidences a careful review of the many factors entering into this difficult question. Their recommenda- tions are made under four headings: (1) Education and legisla- tion. (2) Location of tuberculosis. (3) Dissemination. (4) Dis- position of tuberculous animals.

The recommendations under the head of education are very wise and practical and may be regarded as the first and most fundamental step in the entire campaign. Without intelligent cooperation on the part of the farmers, dairymen, butchers and consumers, legislation will fail.

The value of the tuberculin test is fairly defined and the recom- mendations for its use and safeguard from abuse are clearly set forth.

Until more widespread organization occurs-State Livestock Sanitary Boards, or other competent authority for wisely enforc- ing laws relative to bovine tuberculosis -- little can be expected from legislative enactment.

The recommendations of means by which owners of herds cf prevent their infection, or eradicate tuberculosis, or build ; new herds free from tuberculosis are practical and deserve : more extensive trial than they have yet received in this country W. L. Moss

Remedial Gymnastics for Heart Affections Used at Bad-Nanhein Being a translation of "Die Gymnastik der Herzleidenden" von Dr. Med. Julius Hofmann und Dr. Med. Ludwig Poblar: Berlin und Bad-Nauheim. By JOHN GEORGE GARSON, M.D. Edin., etc. With fifty-one full-page illustrations and & grams. Price $2. (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1911.)

With a few pages to explain the value and proper use of gr nastics in diseases of the heart, supplemented by photographs with accompanying descriptions of the exercise shown, this box: should appeal to many a practitioner, who has not had the chance to learn what gymnastic exercises can be safely practix: by a patient with heart trouble, and how his heart will : strengthened by them. But the physician must be able first : make a careful diagnosis of the condition of the patient, fer i haphazard treatment of heart disease with gymnastics wea. quickly prove fatal in many a case. The diagnosis having be: made then this work can be safely used, and can be recommendet without danger.

Emanuel Swedenborg's Investigations in Natural Science and ti!

Basis for his Statements Concerning the Functions of f !! Brain. By MARTIN RAMSTRÖM. University of Upsala, 1910.

The 200th anniversary of the University of Upsala has inspire. an interesting review of the published and unpublished concs; tions of one of the most remarkable men of the Swedish natic- Swedberg, later ennobled and renamed Swedenborg. Born i: Stockholm January 25, 1688, be obtained his philosophical degre 1709, became assessor extraordinary of the Royal College Mines 1716, was ennobled 1719, ordinary assessor 1724, retire! 1745, and died in London March 29, 1772. A man of extraordi narily wide interests and wide opportunities, he has achievements in mathematics, in geology, neurology, chemistry, physics ax! cosmology, and finally he threw himself with intense zeal inta anatomical and physiological studies which are published #: " ŒEconomia Regni Animalis," dealing mainly with the blow! the brain and the soul. He foreshadowed the theory of epiger esis. His main interest in the brain lies in his emphasis of th: " sphærula," or cerebellula of the cerebral cortex (now recognized as the cell-bodies), from which fibers arise and extend to medula and cord and all parts of the body. The cortex is the seat of từ sensorium commune and also of the motility. Each little cell lies in its own cavity and has its own fiber and a certain it- dependence; but they also work together in groups; and he sap- gests that the relation of the convolutions to the one or the other muscle in the body could only be established on living animals by puncture, section and compression of the convolutions. He also accepted subordinate secondary motor centers for auto matic and habitual movements in the medulla and cord. The soul in turn is localized in the cortex and if it were not for the difficulty about immortality he would identify it with the fluidum spirituosum of the cerebellula. " It amounts to the same thing if we see in this fluid the soul itself or only its faculty of imagination and judgment, for the one cannot be thought of without the other." In a manuscript, partly published in London. 1882 and 1887, under the title " The Brain," he extended his work and even developed the fact that in the motor representation is the anterior parts of the brain, the feet depended upon the highest parts, the abdomen and thorax on the middle and the face and head upon the third lobe.

In his historical study, Ramstrom aims to account for the foundation of Swedenborg's conclusions. The data seem to have

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reatises of Fistula in Ano, Hemorrhoids and Clysters. By JOHN Arderne. From an Early Fifteenth Century Manuscript Translation. Edited with Introduction, Notes, etc., by D'Arcy Power, F. R. C. S. Eng. Price 15s. (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., and Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910.)

Though the operative material of medieval surgeons was neces- 'ily quite limited in amount, no one can come away from their itings with anything but respect for the extensive knowledge y managed to accumulate with inadequate clinical methods. is is the feeling which Arderne's work awakens. Its phrase- gy is charmingly quaint; and it abounds in shrewd, wily ad- e, and a sly, though none too refined, humor. The author was ' type of surgeon who has happily never been absent from gland-an English gentleman as well as a fine surgeon "; and ch of what he writes has to do with the ethics of the pro- ion: which is quite intelligible when one remembers the e too savory reputation of the surgeons of the day, and their hods, not always above reproach. He is strong for caution; ises against undertaking a case, except deliberately; always tions the untoward results that may be expected; and in- ; on the surgeon having a definite understanding with the ent's relatives-even to an advance-collection of a portion of fee-before an operation is done. If the emphasis laid on sort of worldly wisdom seems out of proportion, one has to ember how precarious was the standing of the surgeon in e days; and to recall King John of Bohemia, who sewed up French leech in a sack and threw him into the Oder because ad not cured his cataract as he had promised.

derne advised the operative treatment of fistula and devised lessly cumbersome instruments for it; but the great ad- e he made seems to have been in the avoidance of the cor- e and irritating after-treatment used by every one else. n and again he emphasizes the importance of letting wounds

morrhoids-which, unless they bled too profusely, he re- ed as of use in preventing " mania, melancolia, pleuresis, visy, passions of the spleen," etc .- were treated by local appli- IS.

: Treatise of Arderne belongs to the series published by the English Text Society; and has been excellently edited by y Power. The antiquated spelling, and many of the pecu- es of the original type have been retained. This has en- d the attractiveness of the book; and though it has made it what more difficult reading, the text has been rendered quite ible by an excellent running commentary of marginal notes.

Official Announcement of the University of Vienna about it-Graduate Medical Work, published by Urban and Schwarz- ; of Berlin and Vienna, will be sent to anyone on applica- o Rebman Company, New York, free of charge. This let is printed in German, but accompanied by an English ench translation, so that no prospective student need have ifficulty in understanding exactly the condition of post- te work in that university before going there.

Rules of Ophthalmic Practice. By GUSTAVUS HARTRIDGE, R. C. S., etc. Golden Rule Series, No. VII. Fifth edition. ristol: John Wright & Sons, Ltd. London: Simpkin, rshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1910.)

this small work is very popular is shown by the appear- its fifth edition. This series of " Golden Rules," volumes

THYMO VALY 174 Dy 474 Inches, seems to have had marked success among English practitioners, and there is no doubt that the rules are well chosen, but there is danger that such books, no matter how well prepared, lead to superficiality of work. The practice of medicine cannot be regulated by hard and fast rules, even when "golden."

" Salvarsan " (" 606 ") (Dioxy-Diamido-Arsenobenzol). Its Chem- istry, Pharmacy and Therapeutics. By W. HARRISON MARTIN- DALE, Ph. D. Marburg, F. C. S., and W. WYNN WESTCOTT, M. B. Lond., D. P. H. Price $1.50. (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1911.)

The Treatment of Syphilis by the Ehrlich-Hata Remedy (Dioxy- diamido-Arsenobenzol) A Completion of the Published Ob- servations. By DR. JOHANNES BRESLER. Second edition. Much enlarged, with portraits of Ehrlich and Schaudinn. Trans- lated by DR. M. D. EDER. With an Abstract of the Most Recent Papers. Price $1. (New York and London: Rebman Company, 1911.)

The work by Bresler supplements that of Martindale and West- cott to a certain extent, for even in theirs there is some account of the papers abstracted by him. Both books are useful and arrive at a most opportune moment when "606" is being put on the market. Practitioners must carefully study all the latest in- formation on this subject and we recommend heartily " Salvar- san " in which they will find the proper methods of giving this drug set forth clearly, and its dangers noted. Martindale and Westcott have prepared an excellent manual, containing what is most essential for the instruction of the profession at large on this new remedy.

The Principles of Bacteriology. A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians. By A. C. ABBOTT, M. D., Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology in the University of Pennsylvania. Eighth edition. Thoroughly revised. Illustrated. (Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1909.)

The 8th edition of this well known book scarcely calls for ex- tended comment. Naturally a large portion of the text is practi- cally unchanged. As the author remarks in the preface: "The advances in bacteriology which have occurred since the issue of the 7th edition have been considerable, but not such as to affect materially the fundamentals essential to the education of the beginner." Parts of the book, however, have been rewritten, notably the chapter on infection and immunity, and the work has been brought up to date in other respects, as far as is compatible with the purpose it is intended to serve; namely. as a manual for students and practitioners of medicine.

A Handbook of the Surgery of Children. By E. KIRMISSON, Pro- fessor of the University of Paris; Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, etc. Translated by J. KEOGH MURPHY, M. C. (Cantab.), F. R. C. S., etc. Price $7. (Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press. Hodder and Stoughton, Warwick Square, E. C., 1910.)

The author says he has left out all pure theory, history, patho- logical anatomy and pathogeny in order to insist on the knowl- edge of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

He divides all infantile surgery into two great subjects. Firstly, the study of malformations, and secondly, diseases connected with the locomotor apparatus. To these must be joined certain other affections such as appendicitis, mastoiditis, diseases of the throat, empyema, intussusception and lastly prolapse and polypi of the rectum.

The book is separated into four parts. Part I, 280 pages. Surgical affections of congenital origin which include, Congenital

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Affections of the Back, the Head and the Neck; Congenital Mal- formations of the Trunk; Malformations of the Extremities. . Part II, 75 pages. Injuries in Childhood. Part III, 418 pages. Inflammatory Lesions and Disorders of Nutrition, which are divided into Disorders of the Locomotor Apparatus: Affections of Different Regions. Part IV, 30 pages. Neoplasms or Tumors.

The chapter on anesthesia is by Cecil Hughes. He prefers chloroform, either alone or in mixtures, for anesthesia in chil- dren. This is interesting as the majority of anesthesias in this country are with ether, which is safer, in most instances. -

The translator has used, as far as possible, the author's own . words, and his work is nicely done. He has added a few well considered footnotes of his own.

The book is well gotten up and is profusely illustrated. While some of the authors' ideas are at variance with those generally accepted nevertheless the book accomplishes its purpose, and will be a helpful addition to the other works on the surgery of children which have appeared in the last two years.

J. S. D.

Bier's Textbook of Hyperæmia as Applied in Medicine and Sur- gery. By PROFESSOR DR. AUGUST BIER, of Berlin. Only authorized translation from the sixth German revised edition. By DR. GUSTAVUS M. BLECH, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Illinois Medical College. With thirty-nine illustrations. Price $4. (New York: Rebman Company.)

The chapter on the treatment of acute inflammation and sup- puration has been changed and enlarged. Chapters on the treat- ment of keloids, tenosynovitis and diseases of the skin have been inserted. An index has also been added.

The work is well translated and nicely gotten up. There is an extensive bibliography throughout. The author takes up certain criticisms of his methods and demolishes them.

There is no doubt of the efficacy of hyperemia in a number of conditions, and we have all seen good results following its proper use, but the method is hardly a panacea as one might believe after glancing over the volume.

J. S. D.

The Vegetable Proteins. By THOMAS B. OSBORNE, Ph. D, et. Price $1.20. (London, New York, Bombay and Caktı Longmans, Green & Co., 1909.)

This little volume of about 100 pages by the wellmm authority on vegetable proteins, Thomas B. Osborne, of Ner Haven, Conn., is one of the Monographs on Bio-chemistry etter by Plimmer and Hopkins. It is a clear, concise, carefully write exposition of the present state of knowledge in this somer's confusing branch of chemistry. Dr. Osborne has himself bez the chief contributor in this field for a number of years, and book is, therefore, not merely a review of the work done by other but an expression of his own views. Outside of Osborne's on laboratory comparatively little research on vegetable proteine has been carried out since the investigations of Ritthansz: which were not generally credited immediately after their publi- cation, but which are now abundantly approved largely by the investigations of the author of this book.

The volume is divided into 11 chapters in which the occurrence of proteins in different parts of plants and their general char- acteristics, the isolation and separation of seed proteins and ther reactions in respect to solubility, precipitation, denaturing a: hydrolysis are considered with great detail. The classificatiz of vegetable proteins which Dr. Osborne employs is based ups: the work of the American committee on nomenclature, but at the same time the author points out that the American and Engist committees appointed to consider this subject are in practica! uniformity in their views.

To the medical man the last chapter of the book in which soch subjects as tox-albumens, anaphylaxis, precipitins and agglutinits are considered, is naturally the most interesting. The occurrence among plants of reactions which originally were seen with anima! tissues is not without deep significance in view of the fact that many of the diseases in man may be traced to microorganisms belonging to the vegetable kingdoms.

The volume is furnished with a most complete bibliography of over 600 references in accordance with the wishes of the editors that each monograph should furnish a complete list of the papers previously published on the subject of which it treats.

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CONTENTS.

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chard Owen : His Life and Works. (Illustrated.)

By C. W. G. ROHRER, M. A., M. D., Ph. D.

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rentine Anatomist. By PEARCE BAILEY, M. D. . 140

yology and Obstetrics in Ancient Hebrew Literature. By DAVID I. MACHT, M. D. · · ·

143

sseminated Caseating Tuberculosis of the Liver. (Illus- rated.)

By WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER, M. D. . 146 tid-Splitting Ferment in the Saliva. By LOUIS M. WARFIELD, A. B., M. D. . 150

The Relationship Between the Normal and Pathological Thyroid Gland of Fish. (Illustrated.)

152

By J. F. GUDERNATSCH

Tubercular Bursitis. Two Unusual Cases. (Illustrated.)

By SYDNEY M. CONE, A. B., M. D.

155

A Device to Aid in Keeping the Patient Dry After a Suprapubic Cystostomy. (Illustrated.) By GEORGE WALKER, M. D. 160

In Memoriam. Dr. Christian A. Herter.

By Dr. W. H. WELCH .

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Notes on New Books .

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Books Received

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SIR RICHARD OWEN: HIS LIFE AND WORKS .*

By C. W. G. ROHRER, M. A., M. D., PH. D., Baltimore.

subtless some of you have questioned yourselves concern- he "why and wherefore " for this paper, entitled "Sir ird Owen: His Life and Works." I wish to give three reasons for thus imposing upon your time and good e.

'ecause of Professor Owen's contributions to medical science. ecause of Professor Owen's contributions to the allied es. And,

or purely sentimental reasons. On Monday, April 4, 1898, I was a second-year medical student, I attended a Young Christian Association lecture delivered by the late Dr. C. Gilman, an honored president of this university. In arse of Dr. Gilman's remarks he gave us the following it of advice: "Read biography. Familiarize yourself with as of the good and great."

BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.

ard Owen, the subject of my sketch, was born on jam Street in the town of Lancaster, England, on ), 1804. He was the younger son of Richard Owen, y of Fulmer Place, Bucks. His grandfather, William married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Eskrigge. Ichard Eskrigge was high sheriff of Bucks in 1741,

and was the owner of Fulmer Place. In an old family prayer book, dated 1713, with a frontispiece portrait of Queen Anne, and further "adorn'd," as the title-page has it, "with 50 historical cuts," there are the following entries in Richard Eskrigge's handwriting :

Richard Owen, son of William Owen (who was free of the Fishmongers' Company) and of Elizabeth Owen. The said Rich- ard was born in the parish of St. Matthew, Friday Street, Decem- ber 5, 1754, and baptized the Sunday following. The sponsors were Richard and Elizabeth Eskrigge and Mr. Beresford (Cashier in the Bank of England)."

Then, in Sir Richard Owen's handwriting, a few explana- tory remarks are added. He writes :

The above entries are in the handwriting of my great-grand- father, Richard Eskrigge, of Fulmer Place, Fulmer, Bucks, and relate to the birth of his grandson and heir, my father, Richard Owen.

There is also the following entry in the handwriting of Sir Richard Owen's father :

Richard and Catherine Owen were married at Preston, Novem- ber 8, 1792, by the Rev. H. Shuttleworth.

This latter Richard Owen was Sir Richard Owen's father, and the Catherine Owen mentioned was Sir Richard Owen's mother. Sir Richard Owen's mother was of French extrac-

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tion. She was of a Huguenot family of the name of Parrin, who came over from Provence at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Her full maiden name was Catherine Longworth Parrin.

Sir Richard Owen's mother, besides being a woman of great refinement and intelligence, was an accomplished musician. Her father before her had supported himself by the profession of music, and she inherited his talent. In appearance she was a handsome, Spanish-looking woman, with dark eyes and hair. Owen himself never tired of speaking of his mother's charm of manner, and of all that he owed to her early train- ing and example.

Sir Richard Owen's father was a complete contrast. Tall, stout and ruddy, his general appearance bore a strong re- semblance to the face and figure popularly supposed to be- long to the typical John Bull. Nor was his character unlike -bluff, burly, obstinate, and perhaps not particularly bril- liant, he was yet possessed of sound common sense.

CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.

Sir Richard Owen as a school-boy succeeded admirably with his studies. In 1808, when Owen was but four years of age, his father, a West India merchant, and often absent from home, included the following sentence in a letter to his wife: "I am glad to know James and Richard come on so well with their studies and are so attentive." James was Professor Owen's elder brother.

After the above preparatory instruction given by an old Quaker lady, Richard Owen, at the mature age of six, was sent to the Lancaster Grammar School to join his elder brother James. Whewell, the famous master of Trinity, who was Owen's fellow-townsman, also received the first rudi- ments of his education at this school. Another school-fellow who was in the same class as Owen's elder brother was Higgin, late Bishop of Derry.

One of Owen's teachers in the Lancaster Grammar School stigmatized him as " lazy and impudent," and prophesied that he would come to a bad end. This gentleman gave instruc- tion in penmanship. However, in spite of his dismal pre- dictions he managed to teach Owen to write a remarkably clear and neat hand, which hardly varied till within a few years of his death.

" At this period of his life," as Professor Owen's last sur -. viving sister would relate, "Richard was very small and slight and exceedingly mischievous, and he hardly grew at all until he was sixteen."

Owen's family were evidently apprehensive that it would end by his being a " small man." But he soon began to make up for his early want of stature, and when he left the Gram- mar School he was already a big, awkward lad. At mature manhood Professor Owen's height was six feet in his socks. At the age of fourteen Richard Owen had given no signs of a taste for the work to which his life was afterwards de- voted. Part of a manuscript treatise on " Heraldry " still exists, which he wrote about this time, as well as an elabo- rately painted coat of arms of the Owen and Eskrigge family.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 104

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1189

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1189