John Eberle, ‘Effects of Opium Eating’, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 6, 4 April 1832, 128–31

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Dan Malleck
Keyword(s):  
Boston Medical ◽  
Surgical Journal

Obtaining and Sharing Medical Literature, 1780–1820

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Richard J. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rural Physicians ◽  
Benjamin Rush ◽  
Boston Medical ◽  
Surgical Journal ◽  
Smallpox Inoculation

The quest for timely medical literature was a concern for elite as well as rural physicians in the United States, as evidenced by comments from Drs. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia; Benjamin Vaughan of Hallowell, Maine; and Lyman Spalding of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was the focus of an 1800 correspondence about the new cowpox (vaccination) between Barker and John G. Coffin of Boston who, in 1823, would found and edit the Boston Medical Intelligencer, precursor to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, now the New England Journal of Medicine; smallpox inoculation is also discussed. Topics include obtaining and sharing medical books and journals, the importance of both personal correspondence and newspapers for dissemination of medical information, problems with and for booksellers, medical nationalism, and publishing by subscription.

The Treatment of Cases of Mental Disorder in General Hospitals (Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. clxx, No. 17, pp. 637–642, April 23rd, 1914.) Philip Coombs Knapp, A.M., M.D.

1916 ◽  
Vol 62 (258) ◽  
pp. 624-626
Author(s):  
Philip Coombs Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
Acute Infections ◽  
Boston Medical ◽  
Surgical Journal ◽  
Almost All

The author maintains the thesis that acute and borderland cases of mental disease can be received and temporarily cared for in general hospitals. He admits that mental patients are not looked upon with favour by the nursing staff or by the other patients, on account of—in many cases—their restless, noisy conduct. Yet almost all general hospitals must include at times among their inmates some patients who, in the course of treatment for such conditions as acute infections, accidents, etc., become turbulent and violent.

REMARKABLE APPEARANCE OF THE WORDS "NAPOLEON EMPEREUR" IN THE EYES OF A CHILD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-29
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
German Text ◽  
Light Blue ◽  
Boston Medical ◽  
Surgical Journal ◽  
Blue Eyes ◽  
Hen Egg

The first volume of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1828) contained the following notation, abstracted from an English medical journal. Remarkable Appearance in the Eyes of a Child One of the leading wonders of the day in the French capital, to which the seekers of the extraordinary have been lately attracted, has been an infant of three years of age, who was said to have the words NAPOLEON EMPEREUR very clearly marked in her eyes. Unwilling to allow this lusus to escape us, we took advantage of an opportunity afforded by the kindness of Mr. Guthrie of judging for ourselves. We confess we were before a little skeptical upon this subject. The fact is simply this: The child has light blue eyes, the irides being very strongly striated with irregular white lines which have been thought to constitute the above ominous words. In our opinion, it would require a very poetical vision, and a great deal of imagination to discover them. Some of the lines certainly resemble letters; we endeavored in vain to make out any distinct words. It is true we had no magnifying glass at hand which the mother assured us was necessary to make the letters clearly perceptible. The French police have taken alarm and deemed it prudent to deprive the friends of various certificates which they had obtained from different persons, asserting that they could with facility decipher the much dreaded name. We remember that some years ago, the name of Napoleon was said to have been detected upon a hen egg, in good round German text.

Obstetric and Other Uses of Ether Before Ether Day, According to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of 1828-1846

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sundrayah N. Stoller ◽  
Rebecca D. Minehart ◽  
Theodore A. Alston
Keyword(s):  
Boston Medical ◽  
Surgical Journal
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