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Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Manitoba User on 06/04/2015 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF NEWPORT. NEWPORT BY THE SEA. - - - This picturesque and fashionable summer re- trees, surrounded with pleasant lawns, some sort,1 at which the Fortieth Annual Meeting of perched on the edge of the cliffs overlooking the the American Medical Association will be held, sea, and nearly all within sight and hearing of is seated on the southern extremity of Rhode the ever restless ocean. Island at the main entrance to Narragansett Bay. Newport was first settled in 1639, and during The territory of Newport comprises the southern the old colonial days surpassed New York as a portion of the island of , joining an commercial port. During the Revolutionary war elbow-shaped peninsular, of an average width of its commerce was destroyed, and though slowly about two miles, the harbor being on the inside. recovering from the devastating effects has never All that section near the wharves and for some regained its commercial position. distance back is the old and historic Newport, The chief of Newport summer institutions is and is the business portion of the city. Here are the Casino, in which the daily sessions of the As¬ still to be seen many old houses with gambrel sociation will be held. The building has a front¬ roofs or projecting eaves, built previous to the age of 186 feet, and is in imitation of the old Revolution, and most of them have interesting colonial style of architecture, the first floor being histories of the old colonial days, famous families, occupied by stores and the upper part by the or revolutionary events. The appearance of an- stockholders. In the grounds to the rear are a tiquity is further heightened in this quarter by theatre, a tennis court and an extensive bowling the narrowness of the side streets, lined in places alley. The Casino was erected by James Gordon with the ancient houses. Bennett, but is now owned by a joint stock com¬ Lying to the east and south of the older por¬ pany. Near the Casino are the handsome resi¬ tion, on the ridge of the peninsular, on all the dences of James Gordon Bennett and Mrs. Paran intersecting avenues and all along the bold and Stevens, coast, are palatial mansions known The principal promenade and drive for fashion¬ picturesque ' ' ' by the unpretentious name of ' cottages, but in able society in the season is Bellevue avenue. reality many of them are palaces, rich in treas¬ The grand drive is around the Ocean House, ures of wealth and taste, and fitted up with every sometimes called the ten-mile drive. The first conceivable luxury. They are embowered in part of the drive is up Touro street and along Bellevue avenue. Starting from Bailey's Beach 1 We are indebted to J. Truman Burdick & Co., of Newport, R. the road follows the indentations of the I., " shore, for a copy of Picturesque Newport," from which we have com- piled this sketch. affording magnificent views of the rocky coast.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Manitoba User on 06/04/2015 On the return very fine views of the city and har¬ known as Purgatory, and there are various legends bor are obtained. connected with it. At the southern extremity of Two miles across the city is Easton's Beach, the eastern ridge are the Hanging Rocks and the one of the chief attractions of Newport. On the Happy Valley of Paradise. west side of Easton's Beach the shore is faced with cliffs of broken jagged rocks, For about three miles a graded pathway leads along the edge affording magnificent views. At the foot

PURGATORY. THE SPOUTING ROCK. of avenue are the Narragansett Forty Steps. Short excursions can be made to , Beyond Easton's Beach, and separated from it by to the United States and to the is Training Ship James¬ peninsular of Easton's Point Sachuest town. On the way to the Fort, Lime Rock much than Light Beach, which is larger Easton's, but is passed in the upper part of the harbor near the not so safe. On the east the side of peninsular, shore on the rock of the same name, and the

THE FORTY STEPS. FORT DtJMPLINGS. and pointing on Sachuest Beach, is a deep yawn¬ keeper of the light is Ida (Wilson) Lewis, a brave ing crevice in the face of the cliff, 160 feet long, woman who has acquired a national reputations 8 to 14 feet wide and 50 feet in depth. It is for the daring manner in which at various time^

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Manitoba User on 06/04/2015 she has rescued persons from drowning. The Fort is an immense structure, the parade ground in the interior covering no less than eleven acres, and there is an extensive redoubt to the south. The United States Training Ship " New Hamp¬ shire ' ' is moored off the southern end of Coast¬ er's Harbor Island, which lies along the shore at the north of the harbor and city. The large white building on the slope of the hill is the War Col¬ lege. The Torpedo Station is on Goat Island. Strangers are not allowed on the island, as the work of the station is the construction of and experimenting with sub-marine projectiles. The finest harbor excursion is over to James¬ town on Conanicut Island by the steam ferry boat. With a climate for mildness and equableness unsurpassed on the Atlantic coast, a purity of at¬ mosphere resulting from the close proximity of the ocean, a good water supply, a fine system of THE GLEN. sewerage, broad avenues, beautiful homes, an old historic town, a magnificent harbor, the city ought to continue to be a fa¬ vorite and fashionable summer resort, and with all these advantages should develop in other lines as well.

POINTS OF INTEREST. Almy's Pond, near Bailey's Beach, north. Bailey's Beach, end of Bellevue ave. Black Rock, near Brenton's Point. Blcck Island {see advertisement, page 23). Brenton's Point, the most southerly extre;:?if:y o* the Island, off Ocean ave. Bull House (oldest in Newport) Spring St., short distance from Washington Square. City Hall, foot Washington Square, Thames St. Channing Memorial Church, Pelham, opposite Touro Park. Channing House (old), Thames Street. Children's Home, 24 School. Casino, 129 Bellevue Ave. Coddington School. Castle Hill, western extremity of peninsula, over¬ looking main entrance to Narragansett Bay. Coggeshall Ledge, at end of Ledge Road. Castle Hill Point, northern point of Castle Hill. County Jail, 13 Marlborough. Cherry Neck, Ocean road, just beyond Lily Pond. Cliff Walk, from Easton's to Bailey's Beach. Easton Beach, end Bath road. THE GRAND DRIVE—BELLE.VUE AVENUE Easton Pond, north of Easton Beach. Fort Adams, entrance harbor. Fort Greene. 011 harbor, end Washino-ton. j+ort waicott, near jt/ort tireene. Forty Steps, end Narragansett ave. Friend's Meeting House, Farewell and Marl¬ boro. Gooseberry Island, off Cherry Neck. Goat Island, in harbor. Halidon Hill, overlooking-harbor from south. Hanging Rocks, back of Sachuest Beach. High School, Church. Happy Valley of Paradise, nr. Happy Recks. Industrial School for Girls, Broadway. Jewish Synagogue, Touro, near Washington bquare. Jewish Cemetery, eastern corner of Kay St. and Bellevue Ave. Lawton's Valley, about six miles north, on west shore of Island. Liberty Tree, Liberty Square, junction of Warner, Farewell and Thames. Land's Kud, near end of Ledge road, over¬ looking Bailey's Beach. Lily Pond, west of Almy's Pond and Bailey's Beach. Linie Rock (and Lighthouse) in south part of harbor. Mason's Hall, corner Church and School. LAND'S END.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Manitoba User on 06/04/2015 Music Hall, Bellevue, Ave., between Casino and Ocean House. respecting these manifestations, in them to fo] Miantonomi Hill, an elevation feet in a mile and a allowing 150 height, the of one half north of Washington Square. low regular course their evolution, facilitate Newport Artillery Armory, Clark. not only the appearance of local lesions often irremed: Newport Historical Society Building, next above Jewish Syna¬ able, we leave to the diathesis the time and the t on Touro. facility gogue evolve and to a of Newport Reading Room, cor. Church St. and Bellevue Ave. lead patients fatally to state cachexia , 16 Howard Ave. and Friendship St. whereas by an energetic medication, properly employed Opera House, Washington Square. the progress of the malady is checked, if it does not lea< Old Stone Mill, Touro Park. cure." Ochre Point, off Marine and Ruggles Aves. to Perry Statues : Com. Oliver Hazard Perry, Washington Square; The success obtained by Dr. Lecorché in hospital a Com. M. C. Perry, Touro Park. well as private practice, is due to the judicious employ Parade, Washington Square. of the of People's Free Library, 260 Thames. ment specifics gout. The observations consigne* Polo Grounds, north end Thames. in the "Treatise on Gout" leave no doubt whatever oi Price's Neck, Ocean Road, beyond Cherry Neck, U. S. Life Sav¬ the subject. Station at its extremity. ing Extract of Case xcix : Purgatory, on Cliffs west of Sachuest Beach. (page 380) "Articular gout wit) , off F. W. Vanderbilt's house, Bellevue Ave. multiple attacks. G., aged 60 years. The hai off patient Rocky Farm Gully, Ocean road, south from Lily Pond. tried species of medication, with results more o Ragged Point, the southern point of Castle Hill. every Ramshead, Castle Hill. less satisfactory, but of all the medications, that whicl Redwood Library, Bellevue Ave., near Touro Park. succeeded the best, and which succeeded in insignifican Sachuest Beach, beyond Easton's Beach. doses is the Liqueur and it did not in th St. Church C), corner of Levins and Laville, produce Mary's (R. Spring. either or State House, head Washington Square. patient perspiration diarrhoea. He had scarcel; Sheep Point, Cliffs off Yznaga Ave. taken the medicine, when he experienced an interna of Beach. Sporting Rock, west Bailey's sensation which indicated that it was going to act on th· Telegraph Hill, Beacon Road, about five miles south of Wash¬ part affected." ington Square. " The Glen, about six miles north, on east shore of Island. Extract of Case Ixxv (page 532) : Gouty cephalalgi; Touro Park, Bellevue Ave, Pelham and Mill. cured by the Liqueur de Laville. 40 Church, corner Church, G., aged years Trinity Spring, Several members in his both on the United Congregational Church, corner Pelham and Spring. gouty family, pater U. S. Custom House and Post Office, cor. Thames and Franklin. nal and maternal side. According to the patient's state U. S. Engineer's office. he never had true attacks of U. S. Goat Island. ment, any articular gout Torpedo Station, Now he in a U. S. Naval Training Station, including Training Ship "New and then, felt, transitory manner, pains ii Hampshire," and the War College, on Coaster's Harbor Island. the toes. They were the only manifestations which hi Vernou House (old), corner Clark and Mary. had commonly, with frequent attacks of migraine, till tin Water Works, Pumping Station, north shore Easton's Pond. 1881. 1881 he Washington Square, Thames and Touro. year In was seized with an atrocious ceph Whitehall, back of Happy Valley, ancient residence of Bishop alalgia, localized at the back of the neck, and which hi Berkley. said was altogether distinct from migraine. This cephal algia, particularly marked at night, and which résistée every medication, even specific, and which yielded, am that in a manner almost instantaneous, only to the usi MISCELLANY. of the Liqueur Laville. In the Spring of 1882, he had ¡ fresh return of this pain, localized at the level of the eye brows, which this time also could only be Treatment of of the action dissipated bj Gout.—Apropos of med¬ the Liqueur Laville."—Extractfrom "Treatise on Gout,' icaments against gout, the following was communicated by Dr. Lecorché. by Professor Brown-Séquard to the Biological Society, of Paris : Médical The so known the of Numismatics—Dr. Horatio R. Storer, o remedy well under name Laville R. who has for several sometimes succeeds in as be tes¬ Newport, I., years been makinj marvelously gout, may researches in medical of tified the which came under numismatics, will be glad th< by following examples my aid of the profession in this direction and will dm observation. all of give former of the Faculty, author of several credit for information the kind. Dr. S. has thu: Fleury, Agrégé far the papers the works on hydropathy, was seized with an attack of com¬ published following upon subiect the with "The Medals, Jetons and Tokens Illustrative of Midwif plete paralysis of right side, anœsthesia and and Some manifested them¬ ery the Diseases of Women "—New England Medi aphasia. precursory symptoms cat November, "The selves the day before, he had recommended for the case, Monthly, December, 1886; Medals Jetons ana Tokens Illustrative of Sanitation "—The in which the patient could neither speak nor write, that San a strong dose of the Liquer de Laville should be given. itarian, May, July, August, October, 1887, February Two hours after the April, July, August, November, 1S88, February, March paralytic symptoms disappeared. " ' remarks that of April, 1889 (not yet completed) ; The Goethe Medals Le Practicien cases this kind, which —Amer. are not the Journal of Numismatics, October, 1887, Jauu rare, show happy influence of anti-gouty "The of remedies in the accidents of visceral the ary, 1888; Medals Guislain "—Medico-Lega, gout, develop¬ "Les Médailles la ment of which was formerly attributed to the action itself fournal, December, 1887; de Princessi Charlotte d'Angleterre, Premiere Femme du Roi of these medicaments, without into account that ' Leopold taking er de the cases of to the to the to the Belgique '—Revue belge de numismatique; January gout going brain, heart, 1888; "The Medals of St. Charles stomach, are nothing else than cases of gastric or cere¬ Borromeo, Cardinal bral ursemia, of fatty degeneration of the heart, caused Archbishop of Milan "—Amer, fournal ofNumismatics. lesions of the and of the July, October, 1888; "The Medals, Jetons, and Token; by gouty kidneys heart. The of of means these Illustrative the Science Medicine"—Ibid., surest of preventing accidents is, according be January, to the best modern observers, the adoption of the anti- April, 1889 (to continued). He will present a papei medication at the time. upon "The Medals of Benjamin Rush, Obstetrician," a( gouty proper the the In his "Treatise on Gout." Dr. Lecorché thus formu¬ coming meeting of American Medical Associa¬ " tion. lated his opinion on the subject : It is an error that the generality of physicians, too confident in ancient pre¬ cepts, content themselves, in the presence of gouty mani¬ The Mitchell (Ind.) District Medical Society festations, to advise expectation, one should not hesitate will meet at West Baden, Ind.. Thursday and Friday, June to combat them. Such at least has always been our rule, 13 and 14, 1889. Papers of interest to the entire profes¬ and we never had are have any accidents to deplore. We sion will be presented at the meeting. Reduced rates on even convinced that it is dangerous to act otherwise. In railroads have been secured. Special hotel rates. j

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