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Russia ; Volhynia, July 21 to August 3, 688 cases, 238 each litre of soapy water. The cleansing is said to be more deaths. easily effected, and the linen is less spoiled and becomes : 1 death. Turkey Constantinople, August 8,1 case, while the expense is to a saving in soap. in Asia: 28 to 12, 264 cases, whiter, less, owing Turkey Aleppo, July August in German hos¬ 93 deaths; Konia, (vilayet) July 21 to August 12, 32 cases, The method is to be tried other military 16 deaths; Adana, (vilayet) July 23 to August 10,105 cases, pitals. 49 deaths 24 to 12, 98 cases, ; Aleppo, (vilayet) July August A Case to go to the Jury.—The general term of the Su¬ 57 deaths; Diabekir, August 5 to 12,83 cases, 66 deaths; June in the case Hisnei-Mansur, July 28 to August 10, 87 cases, 69 deaths ; preme Court of New York decided 21,1895, Homs, August 9, 1 case, 1 death; Hudavendkjar, (vilayet) of Comstock v. Green, that there was evidence to go to the July 29 to August 12, 24 cases, 22 deaths. jury. This was an action brought to recover for the profes¬ YELLOW FEVER—FOREIGN. sional services of the plaintiff, as a physician, rendered to Brazil : Rio de Janeiro, August 10 to 17, 8 deaths. the wife of the defendant, which were necessary for her 22 to 2 deaths. Mexico: Vera Cruz, August September 5, health and comfort. The evidence in tended to Puerto Rico: San 24 to 31, 1 case, 2 deaths. question Juan, August treatment Cuba: Cienfuegos, September 1 to 8, 4 cases, 2 deaths; prove: 1, that the defendant's negligence and ill Havana, August 29 to September 5, 80 cases, 26 deaths. of his wife while she was ill was such as to justify her in go¬ ing away with her daughter, where she could be cared for NECROLOGY. and protected ; 2, that she did go away, with the consent and approval of the defendant ; 3, that she needed the med¬ ical attendance and services of the plaintiff for which the Van Buren Hubbard, M.D., surgeon and major, U. S. ., was Further than this, the court indicates no is reported by telegram, dated September 9, to have died at bill rendered. but, in as it does, it reverses the Allegheny Fort McPherson, Ga., at which post he has been serving as opinion ; holding county court. post surgeon. The cause of his death is reported in the tele¬ graphic notice as an illness of several weeks from an old Medical Women in America.—Commenting on the interest¬ of trouble. The regulation military funeral was held Septem¬ ing address of Dr. Frances Emily White, professor physiol¬ ber 8, and the body, under the escort of his brother, Dr. ogy in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania on George C. Hubbard, was taken to Staten Island for burial. "The American Medical Woman," Dr.Malcolm Morris, editor of Major Hubbard was appointed to the Army from civil life of the Practitioner, is moved to remark that, the leading and was breveted during the war for meritorious services. women in the medical profession whose portraits and bio¬ He was from Ohio. graphical sketches are being published in the Woman's Medi¬ " Felix Weidman, M.D., of Albany, . Y., September 10, cal Journal, there is not one whose name has," so far as he " aged 70. He was graduated from the Albany Medical Col¬ is aware, crossed the Atlantic." This omission bids fair to lege in 1847.-F. B. Haller, M.D., of Vandalia. 111., Septem¬ be remedied before Dr. Forbes Winslow's return to Albion. ber 14, aged 69. He was an honored member of the Illinois Judging from the newspaper accounts the English alienist State Medical Society.-J. T. Strong, M.D., of Plainfield, has succeeded in arousing the medical woman in America Ind., September 10, aged 55. He was graduated from the to a volubility and vehemence sufficient to carry her name University of Michigan and served with credit during the across two Atlantics. war.—Newton Herrick Ballou, M.D., of Lansingburg, N. Y. A Question of Heredity.—A writer in the New York World September 9. He was born in Sheldon, Vt., in 1816, was calls attention to the fact that reunions—save those from the Jefferson Medical of Philadel¬ family graduated College of the Smith few phia in 1839. He served through the war as surgeon of the possibly family—have delegates bearing 2d Regiment, Vermont Volunteers. He had practiced medi¬ the true family name. His explanation of the circumstance cine nearly fifty years, having spent twenty-five years in St. may be judged from the following paragraph : in " Albans, twenty years Burlington, and a few years in A recent reunion of the Stone held at of family Milford, Lansingburgh.-James Ash, M.D., Philadelphia, Septem¬ Conn., was remarkable for its resemblance to all other fam¬ ber 2, aged 67. He was descended from a family which lived in in ily reunions one important respect. This was that the this country before the Revolution, and was graduated of the of the honored ancestor bore from the Medical School of the of majority representatives University Pennsylvania some other name. In other there were more descend¬ about He in German- words, fifty years ago. practiced medicine ants female lines than an exclusive male until the of the Civil when he through through town, Pa., beginning War, line. This of course is a mathematical In ten entered the service of his as of the 1st Ex¬ certainty. country surgeon a female descendant name celsior of New that until generations single changes the Brigade York, retaining position whereas it an succes¬ the end war. was a permanently, requires uninterrupted of the He member of the Philadelphia sion of ten male descendants to maintain Medical of etc.- generations of the County Society, the Sons the Revolution, name is not Edward S. Donaldson, M.D., of Waupaca, Wis., September 2, unchanged. But this the main point. The main point is this : if the female ancestry as well as the male an¬ aged 51.-W. P. Burts, M.D., of Ft. Worth, Texas, Septem¬ is ber of cestry recognized, which is only common sense, then a 5, aged 68.-Willard Wright, M.D., Atlantic City, reunion to not all the de¬ N. 63. He was born in New and family ought recognize merely J., September 8, aged York, scendants but all the ancestors as well. This is .was from the of He country go¬ graduated University Pennsylvania. into the business of ancestor now on a scale not went to Atlantic in 1872 and took an active in the ing worship City part exceeded China. When we get to ancestors He was elected mayor of Atlantic by worshiping Greeley campaign. City it is just as well to bear in mind how many ancestors we five times and was appointed postmaster by President Cleve¬ land during the latter's first term.-Charles S. Beck.M.D., have. They are many." of West Superior, Wis., September 4, aged 35.-V. C. Mc- Photography in Colors.—At the recent Springfield, Mass., Clure, M.D., of Chicago, September 16, aged 80.-George for Spees, M.D., of Milwaukee, Wis., September 13, aged 62. meeting of the American Association the Advancement of Science, reference was made by Prof. W. L. Stevens to the progress that is being made in color-photographs. He ex¬ MISCELLANY. pressed the opinion that the best method had been devised by F. E. Ives, of Philadelphia, who had made a camera which Denver, Colo., Medical College.—The opening exercises of took three negatives at once, each sensitive to one of the this were college held September 11. three primary colors which, combined make our sensations of Petroleum in Military Hospital Laundries.—According to Public color. Prints on glass from these three negatives could be Health,Augu$t, in one of the military hospitals of Germany, looked at in a special box in such a way as to reproduce in a petroleum is used in washing the linen, as commonly em¬ wonderfully faithful manner all the original colors of an ob¬ ployed in certain districts of Russia. One gram is added to ject or group of objects. Within a few months, however, Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Calgary User on 05/25/2015 Mr. Ivés, by means of three suitably dyed gelatine prints be obtained. 3. Moderate enlargement of the axillary glands placed one over the other between plates of glass, has been is no bar to successful operation or to a successful issue, pro¬ able to produce a photograph which gives to the eye the vided they are systematically and carefully removed and natural colors of an object or landscape when hung as a the axillary space carefully cleared. 4. It is wellnigh impos¬ transparency in the window or before a light without any sible to discover trifling enlargement of the axillary glands special apparatus. by an examination through the unbroken skin. 5. No oper¬ ation for removal of cancer of the breast can be considered Physicians Alone to Report Births and Deaths.—Section 2609 complete, unless the axilla be examined through the wound of Vol. of Hill's Annotated Statutes and Codes of the State —the additional risk of such a procedure being very slight. of Washington, requiring physicians, accoucheurs and mid- 6. The large number of cases in which recurrence occurs locally, points to the for free removal of tis¬ wives to register their names and post-office address with necessity very sue ; all doubtful skin must be taken away and great care and re¬ the county auditor of the county where they reside, must be exercised not to leave any outlying portions of quiring them to report, under penalty of $10, to the county breast tissue.