Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 77

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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minate an object so as to produce a perfect symphony of tints and gradations of tones, which fused together so harmoniously that even the dullest object became in- teresting if pictured by him. With it all he was ever true and faith- ful in his interpretation of form so that also in regard to scientific accuracy his medical drawings bear close scrutiny. This is a splendid combination and Ameri- can medical literature is fortu- nate to have had an artist of Horn's type contribute to its pages.

Horn's success is, I think, capable of some analysis. His art training was almost identical with that of a number of the best medical illustrators of to-day, viz., Heroux, Unger, the two Keilitz, Kirchner, Becker and others. They were all Leipzig men, brought up in an art school, where drawing and painting were supplemented by splendid training in the graphic arts (lithography, wood engraving, etching, engraving on copper, etc.). In this manner there was acquired, besides a solid draughtsmanship equal to that of many well-known painters, a perfect technique requisite to representations of minute and exact conditions as demanded in medical work. When they chose medical work as their profession they realized

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that they had to begin to study once more, for while their artistic skill was perhaps equal to the task of a portrait, a landscape, or a composition, they knew little of medicine. The study of medicine from the standpoint of the medical illus- trator was tedious work, there being no instructor to guide them. Each was his own teacher and each developed his own style in conception and execution. All of them have achieved a notable success, a success which, though reached in various ways, had, underlying it, a common training which laid stress on accuracy and technical efficiency. I am convinced that this technical efficiency was greatly aided by practise in the graphic arts, by the painstaking attention to detail learned, for instance, in the work of engraving. 1 men- tion this again only because it appears that the medical illus- trators of the future could with the greatest advantage be re- cruited from the ranks of art stu- dents, who have had a similar training. Certain it is that tech- nical efficiency is demanded more and more in the medical illustra- tions of to-day. Twenty years ago the original of a medical drawing was often sketchy in character, even careless in tech- nique. The artist usually depended on the wood engraver, lithog- rapher, or etcher to redraw his original and, in doing so, to give it the exquisite finish which we admire so much in the medical works of a generation ago. To- day the cheaper photomechanic processes have supplanted the en- graver and the illustration once made is final. The process, how- ever, is sure to bring out all the technical shortcomings of the orig- inal with faithful regularity even accentuating their ugliness and it is apparent that a greater technical skill than ever before is demanded of the artist.

August Horn was 41 years of age when he died. The last twelve years of his life, his best years, were given to medicine. He was a serious minded man and his sincere manner and conscientious attitude toward his fellowmen made him much beloved by all who came in contact with him. He had few outside interests, for his whole soul was centered in his work. His untimely death is indeed a serious loss to the art of medical illustration, since a large part of the work done in this line displays the immature efforts of men or women, who have not had the necessary training for such difficult drawing.

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NOTES AND NEWS.

, recent meeting of the Congress of American Physicians geons held in Washington in May, 1910, a joint session American Orthopedic and American Pediatric Societies and the subject of epidemic poliomyelitis was discussed. wing resolution was adopted:

ving been shown by recent epidemics and investigations I with the same that epidemic Infantile spinal paralysis 'ectious communicable disease that has a mortality of 20 per cent, and that 75 per cent, or more of the patients are permanently crippled, State boards of health and Ith authorities are urged to adopt the same or similar as are already adopted and enforced in Massachusetts aining the modes of origin and manner of distribution ease with a view of controlling and limiting the spread ›us an affection."

mittee with Dr. Robert W. Lovett, president, Boston, Irving M. Snow, secretary, Buffalo, N. Y., was appointed le various State and municipal health authorities to e work of investigation of the various foci of epidemic is, to study its epidemiology and to instruct the pub- ? disease is at least mildly communicable.

PERSONAL.

k C. Beall is Professor of Anatomy, Fort Worth Uni- `th Worth, Texas.

M. Berry is Radiographer and Orthopedic Surgeon, pital. His address is 2 Chestnut Street, Albany, N. Y.

tes Block is Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases ita College of Physicians and Surgeons, and its Visit- n to the Piedmont Sanitarium, St. Joseph's Infirmary sbyterian Hospital.

Blumer is Dean of the Yale Medical School, Physi- New Haven Hospital and the New Haven Dispensary, the Connecticut Society of Mental Hygiene and Chair- Section of Medicine, American Medical Association.

3. Branch is Resident Physician and Superintendent, Tospital, Macon, Ga.

₹. Caulk is one of the Genito-Urinary Surgeons on the Washington University, St. Louis. His address Building, St. Louis, Mo.

Cunningham is Instructor in Clinical Medicine, Los cal Department, University of California.

avidson is Pathologist to the Seattle City Hospital, 1 and has charge of the Dispensary of the City Hos- dress is Empire Building, Seattle, Wash.

C. Dickson is Assistant Professor of Pathology, rd, Jr. University, Fellow of the Rockefeller Insti- al Research, and Assistant Pathologist to the Lane he City and County Hospital, San Francisco. His California Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Erlanger is Professor of Physiology, Washington lical School. His address is Forest Park Building,

W. Farr is Physician to the Leamy Home. His tnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.

. Feurbringer is Assistant, Surgical Clinic, Uni- urg, Germany.

Isborough is Professor of Obstetrics, University of tending Gynecologist and Assistant Obstetrician General Hospital. His address is 459 Franklin N. Y.

Dr. Frederick M. Hanes is Associate in Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. His address is 437 W. 39th Street, New York City.

Dr. August Hoch is Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College and Director Psychiatric Institute of the New York State Hospitals.

Dr. Campbell P. Howard is Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, State University of Iowa, and Physician to the Uni- versity Hospital. His address is Iowa City, Iowa.

Dr. Charles R. Kingsley's address is West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.

Dr. J. D. Madison is Attending Physician to the Milwaukee County Hospital and to the Johnson Emergency Hospital, Mil- waukee, Wis.

Dr. Harry T. Marshall is Professor of Pathology and Bacteri- ology at the University of Virginia.

Dr. E. M. Mason's address is Birmingham, Ala.

Dr. Adolf Meyer is Psychiatrist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His address is 1035 N. Calvert Street.

Dr. Charles Wilson Mills is Assistant Physician, Loomis Sana- torium, Loomis, N. Y.

Dr. Charles F. Nassau is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Jeffer- son Medical College, Assistant Surgeon, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital and Consulting Sur- geon to the Frankford Hospital.

Dr. E. L. Opie is Professor of Pathology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.

Dr. Jewett V. Reed is Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Indiana University School of Medicine, Superintendent of the Indianapolis City Dispensary, Secretary of the Executive Board " of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Visiting Sur- geon at the City Hospital.

Dr. E. H. Richardson's address is 216 E. Preston Street.

Dr. Stephen Rushmore is Instructor in Clinical Gynecology, Tufts College Medical School, Visiting Gynecologist, Carney Hos- pital and Assistant Visiting Physician to the Obstetrical Depart- ment, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Dr. Glanville Y. Rusk is Assistant Professor of Pathology, Uni- versity of California. His address is Berkeley, Cal.

Dr. W. W. Russell is Gynecologist at the Union Protestant Infirmary, the Church Home and Infirmary and the Women's Hospital of Maryland.

Dr. William F. Shallenberger is Resident Surgeon to the Wo- men's Hospital of Maryland, Baltimore.

Dr. Charles J. Spratt's address is Reid Corner, 900 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.

Dr. Roland L. Stacy's address is Ogdensburg, N. Y.

Dr. A. Raymond Stevens is Adjunct Assistant Attending Genito-Urinary Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. His address is 40 East 41st Street, New York City.

Dr. Harvey B. Stone's address is 213 E. Preston Street, Balti- more, Md.

Dr. Henry C. Thacher is Assistant in Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. His address is 20 West 50th Street, New York City.

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Dr. Louis W. Warfield is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Wis- consin College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Assistant Super- intendent and Resident Physician, Milwaukee County Hospital. Address: Wauwatosa, Wis.

Dr. Percy T. Watson's address is Fenchow, Shansi, China, where he is stationed as a medical missionary.

Dr. Harry I. Wiel is Assistant in Medicine in Charge of Tuber- culosis Class, San Francisco Polyclinic.

Dr. Otis B. Wight is Lecturer in Gynecology, University of Oregon, and Clinical Assistant in Surgery, Free Dispensary, Port- land, Oregon.

Dr. J. Whitridge Williams is Honorary President of the Glas- gow Obstetrical Society.

Dr. Paul G. Woolley is Professor of Pathology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dean of the Medical Faculty and Director of the Laboratories of the Cincinnati Hospital.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

Diseases of the Heart and Aorta. By A. D. HIRSCHFELDER, M. D. 632 pages. (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910.)

The past few years have witnessed an unusual activity in the clinical study of abnormal cardiac conditions. Instruments of precision such as the sphygmomanometer, the polygraph, the electrocardiogramd the orthodiagraph have furnished data that have added much to our knowledge and have corrected or confirmed opinions that were otherwise impossible of scientific demonstration. This new knowledge has rendered obsolete many of the older text-books. It is a pleasure, therefore, to find in Dr. Hirschfelder's book a careful and critical review of this new material and an attempt to combine it with the older cardiac path- ology. In addition to this the relation of clinical conditions to those which are observed in the physiologic laboratory is dis- cussed by one whose original researches on the pathologic physiol- ogy of the heart makes his opinion of unusual interest.

The first third of the book deals with the general principles of cardiac physiology, pathology, methods of examination, and thera- peutic measures. The conventional anatomic introduction is re- placed by a physiologic introduction and throughout this part of the book the physiologic point of view is evident; noticeably in the discussion of the arterial and venous pulses, the effect of exercise, and the action of drugs. The latter two-thirds of the · book deals with the various diseases of the heart. The division of diseases is made on the anatomic basis so far as possible. Interesting chapters are introduced on vasomotor crises and angioneurotic lesions, on angina pectoris, on the heart in preg- nancy and labor, on heart-block and the Adams-Stokes syndrome, on paroxysmal tachycardia, and on the heart in disturbances of the thyroid. It is to be regretted that the author has not given separate consideration to the common and important changes associated with continuous high blood pressure, with its distinct clinical picture and special dangers. The chapter on the so-called cardiac neuroses is short and indicates the unsatisfactory char- acter of our knowledge of these conditions.

The book is illustrated with numerous photographs, X-ray pictures, drawings, and illustrative case histories. The majority of these are original and highly valuable in rendering more easy an understanding of the subject matter. Each chapter is followed by a full bibliography which adds greatly to its reference value.

On the whole, the book may be regarded as the best that we have in English on this subject. The discussions are often of a theoretical character, too technical perhaps for a general practi- tioner, but to one who has followed the many recent advances in our knowledge of diseases of the heart, they are instructive and stimulating.

A. W. H.

Fiske Fund Prize Dissertation, No. LIII. The Classification and Treatment of Diseases Commonly Known as Rheumatism. By FRANK E. PECKHAM, M. D. ( Providence: Snow and Farn- ham Company, 1910.)

We welcome anything which throws light on the obscure prob- lems of arthritis, but it cannot in honesty be said that this work lessens the darkness. The conditions " known as rheumatism "

are classified by the writer as "villous arthritis, atrophic arthritis, hypertrophic arthritis, infectious arthritis and gout." The writer opens with the statement that " A classification must be founded on some logical basis, ... . " with which we all agree. But should villous arthritis then be regarded as a special form! Is it not a change which occurs with various joint disturbance and which has in no respect a specific character? For example villous arthritis may occur with traumatic arthritis, with tuber- culous arthritis or with what is termed arthritis deformans. Then again when one form is classified on an etiological basis, e. g, infectious arthritis and another on an anatomical basis, e. g. hypertrophic arthritis, can we be regarded as proceeding on a logical basis? The objection is also made stronger by the fact that there is good proof that many of the cases of hypertrophic arthritis are secondary to an infection. The term infectious arthritis-would not infective arthritis be a better designation- is used to-day in a very loose way. It would be wiser if we restricted it to those forms of arthritis in which the bacterial origin is definitely proved; as for example, tuberculous or gonor- rhœal arthritis.

Much of the treatment advised for these conditions is to be commended, particularly the emphasis which is placed on the uselessness of calling many forms of arthritis rheumatism and directing treatment, especially by drugs of the salicylate class, to that supposed disorder. There are not many who will agree with the author as to the results to be expected from electrical treatment. The man who believes enthusiastically in this is to be envied; the influence of his belief is probably more important that the electricity itself.

Golden Rules of Refraction. By ERNEST E. MADDOX, M. D., F. R. C. S. Ed. " Golden Rule " Series, No. XII. Third Edition. Revised. Price 1s. (Bristol: John Wright and Sons, Ltd.) What was said of this work in this journal in May, 1903, holds true of it to-day. In very small compass it holds much useful information for students beginning the study of refraction, but we cannot recommend such condensed food as a nutritious diet.

Messrs. Lea & Febiger (Philadelphia and New York) have issued a convenient pocket-sized Practitioners' Visiting-List for 1911. In the diary there is space for recording visits to thirty patients per week. For quick reference there are numerous tables which are useful to the practitioner in his daily work, and also rules for aid in surgical and medical emergencies. It is neatly printed and bound. Price $1.25.

Chronicles of Pharmacy. By A. C. WOOTTON. Two vols. (London: Macmillan & Co., 1910.)

A study of the " chronicles of pharmacy " is likely to lead one into many interesting by-paths and side excursions. Pharmacy, as we know it to-day, can hardly be regarded as other than & . prosaic matter, but in its long history it has come through many varied experiences. As the author of this work well states it has been associated " with magic, with theology, with alchem!,

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avup trau, with the strangest fancies, and gmas and delusions, and with the severest science." The list those who have contributed to pharmacy is a long one. From pollo and Chiron the Centaur to Thomas Dover the Buccaneer, have all sorts and conditions of men.

This work has evidently been a labor of love and bears the arks of having been in preparation for many years. It would difficult to write such a work in any brief time for the great riety of information must have been obtained fromn many urces and demanded long and patient search. A pathetic feat- e was the death of the author while the work was going rough the press. In the preface he asks for corrections, which adds, with prophetic voice, he may not have the opportunity utilizing.

There is so much of interest in the volumes that it is not easy choose what should be specially noticed. In the discussion of armacy in early times, the myths of the ancients, pharmacy hong the Pharaohs, in the Bible, and of the Arabians are dealt th. Of the remedies in use at the time of Hippocrates it is orthy of note that among a list of one hundred and ninety-five ugs, thirty-four are still in use in ordinary medicine and some hers are domestic remedies. There is an interesting chapter on e Arabian school of medicine and pharmacy, especially in re- rd to its influence on European knowledge.

The account of pharmacy in Great Britain has many interesting ints and of course describes the great battle over the dis- nsaries between the physicians and apothecaries. One does not onder at the protest against the apothecaries when some of the ounts charged for medicines in those days are quoted. The apters on Magic and Medicine, and Dogmas and Delusions are Il of interesting matter and perhaps none is more so than the count of the so-called sympathetic remedies. The most often oted example is Sir Kenelm Digby's "power of sympathy," but did not originate the idea. Pliny had the germ of it when he vised that if one should be sorry for a blow given, if he spit to the middle of his hand, "the party that was smitten shall esently be free from pain." Paracelsus was a strong advocate the value of a sympathetic ointment which was to be applied the weapon which had given the wound, but he threw out an chor by saying that it was not of value if an artery was severed the brain, heart or liver was injured. Robert Fludd, the sicrucian, was a warm advocate of the sympathetic ointment, 1 Madame de Sévigné was another firm believer in this principle treatment. It is, however, with the name of Digby, that the ne of the power of sympathy is especially associated. The .pters on Masters in Pharmacy and Royal and Noble Phar- cists contain references to many interesting characters and ir contributions to pharmacy. Sir Walter Raleigh's Cordial Bishop Berkeley's Tar Water receive due mention. Under contributions from chemistry comes the history of many of modern agents. Many details are given in reference to the overy of the action of the metals which form so important a : of our materia medica to-day.

he second volume has perhaps even more varied discussions. use of animals or parts of them in pharmacy makes rather ressing reading, sometimes also amusing. A cure for drunken- has certainly something to recommend it: "Eels being put wine or beer and suffered to die in it; he that drinks it will r endure that sort of liquor again." The chapters on some d Drugs, Familiar Medicines and Noted Nostrums are full interesting points. We are to-day returning to the use of cuanha as a remedy for dysentery. This was the disease which it was employed when introduced into Europe from U by a Portuguese friar in 1625. It was brought specially to by Helvetius who cured the son of Louis XIV of dysentery suse. Many old favorites are discussed, " Dover's powder," gory's powder," "Plummer's pills." "Friar's Balsam," etc.

Chapters on Persons in History, Pharmacy in the Nineteenth Century, and Names and Symbols conclude the work.

We can very heartily recommend these volumes to all who are interested in the history of medicine, but it is difficult to imagine that anyone could fail to find something which would repay the reading of them. It is to be regretted that the author did not live to see his work published. He has given us an excellent addition to the historical part of our libraries.

Rational Hydrotherapy. A Manual of the Physiological and Therapeutic Effects of Hydriatic Procedures and the Tech- nique of Their Application in the Treatment of Disease. By J. H. KELLOGG, M. D., etc. Illustrated. Fourth Revised Edition. (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1910.)

Those who desire a large treatise on hydrotherapy will do well to purchase this volume, for they will find the subject treated lucidly and in great detail. The author in his preface states that " while water is recognized as without doubt one of the most valuable of all natural agencies, the writer has never permitted himself to be classed with those enthusiasts who place their trust in it as an exclusive measure. It is best employed in con- nection with the use of electricity, massage, and medical gym- nastics. Rational diet is as essential in the treatment of the majority of cases of acute and chronic disease as is water. In the treatment of chronic disorders the regulation of exercise, dress, and of other habits of life is also a matter of paramount importance; also the disuse of tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages, which are often found to sustain a very direct causa- tive relation to the patients' maladies, and are without doubt responsible for many failures in which the fault has been unjustly charged to the inefficiency of water as a therapeutic agent." This work, of over 1200 pages, is divided into 4 parts. Part I contains 6 chapters: Historical; The Physics of Water, Air, Heat and Light in Relation to Hydrotherapy; Anatomy and Physiology in Relation to Hydrotherapy; The Physiological Effects of External and Internal Applications of Water; the Physiological Effects of Friction or Mechanical Irritation of the Skin; and The Physio- logical Effects of Light. Part II is in 4 chapters: The General Principles of Hydriatics; The Therapeutic Effects of Hydriatic Applications; General Rules, Principles and Suggestions Relating to the Practical Employment of Hydrotherapy; Hydriatic Institu- tions and Their Equipment, and the General Management of Cases. Part III has but 1 chapter: The Technique of Hydro- therapy, and Part IV has 4: Hydriatic Prescription Making; Summary of Experimental Work; Hydriatic Measures for Regu- lating Blood Pressure; and Recent Advances in Hydrotherapy. There is also a very full bibliography and index. After a careful study of this work any doctor should have an intelligent knowl- edge of the value, uses, and methods of hydrotherapy.

The Surgery of Childhood, Including Orthopedic Surgery. By DEFOREST WILLARD, M. D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania. With 712 illustrations, includ- ing 17 in colors. Price $7. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910.)

The volume is dedicated to the late D. Hayes Agnew, M. D., LL. D. The author says that one of the principal objects of the book is to induce the earlier examination and recognition of the surgical diseases of childhood, since irreparable damage fre- quently follows through delay in investigation or treatment by the attending physician or surgeon. The importance of the clinical examination of each patient is emphasized, but in addi- tion he urges the systematic use of accurate and scientific methods of investigation by instruments of precision. He has endeavored to select and present methods of diagnosis and treatment that in his long experience have proved to be of practical service.

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The book is divided into thirty chapters, as follows: I, General Surgical Considerations; II, Surgery of the Head and Face; III, Surgery of the Neck and Chest; IV, Surgery of the Abdomen; V, Surgery of the Genito-Urinary Organs; VI, Burns, Frost-Bites, Boils; VII, Orthopedic Surgery; VIII, Fixation Dressings and Splints; IX, Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine; X, Constitu- tional Diseases Productive of Deformities; XI, Fractures in Chil- dren; XII, Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints; XIII, Spinal Caries, Tuberculous; XIV, Spine, Various Surgical Conditions; XV, Pelvis; XVI, Hip-Joint Disease, Tuberculous; XVII, Hip, Various Surgical Conditions; XVIII, Knee-Joint, Tuberculosis; XIX, Knee, Various Surgical Conditions; XX, Ankle and Foot Injuries; XXI, Surgical Conditions of the Shoulder; XXII, Surgical Con- ditions of the Elbow-Joint; XXIII, Surgical Conditions of the Wrist and Hand; XXIV, Non-Tuberculous Diseases of the Joints; XXV, Non-Tuberculous Bone Diseases; XXVI, Paralysis; XXVII, Talipes; XXVIII, Various Deformities of the Feet; XXIX, Con- genital Malformations and Dislocations; XXX, Congenital Defi- ciencies of Bones.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 77

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

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