HE next Quarterly Meeang of this Board, for the Ex-Breast Pumps, THE next Quarterly rovincial, forthe, do. Do do Maw's Improved be held at the Odd Fellows' Hall, in this City, on Tuesday, Dissecting Cases, the Secretary, at least eight days before the Meeting. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Pocket Cases, Spatulas, Tincture Presses, Hair Gloves, Clines Splints, Steel Sounds, Respirators, Ladies, Scalpels, Do Plated, Stethoscopes, Trocars, Dispensing Scales, slabs, Infusion Pots, Tela Vesicatoria, or Blister-Pill Machines, with marble ing Tissue, THE Ordinary Monthly Meeting of this Society, will Pill Tiles, Monday evening, the 25th inst., at Eight o'clock. WM. FRASER, M.D., Secretary. Montreal, May 1, 1846. R. W. REXFORD, THE &c. &c.. WM. LYMAN & CO., St. Paul Street, Montreal. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. HE Subscribers have constantly on hand a lar assortment of superior Surgical Instruments of best Sheffield manufacture, consisting of: Complete Pocket Cases, of various sizes Midwifery do I CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, 39 M'GILL STREET, MPORTER of Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, &c. &c. Montreal, July, 1845. do Dentist's do do Dissecting do do do Postmortem do every variety of Instruments usually required. An additional supply received per "Lady Seaton' and "Pearl." -AND Genuine Drugs, Chemicals and Apothecaries Ware. Montreal, Nov.10, 1845. THE uine Drugs and Chemicals, which they offer low for cash, or approved credit. WM. LYMAN & CO JRN OF PATIENTS admitted into the Provincial Tables exhibiting the civil condition, and other par. anatic Asylum, Toronto, from September, 1844, to ticulars, are here with subjoined. In regard to the more st October, 1845. With an abstract of Returns minute details, the treatment pursued, together with from the opening of the Institution, January 21, 1841, to 21st October, 1845. By W. REES, Medical the general economy of the Institution, nothing farther Officer in charge. remains to be observed, these matters being contained in the last Report. Since the last Annual Return, (1st September, 1844, to the 21st October, 1845,) the admissions and re-admissions to this Asylum amount to 80, (54 males, and females. There remained in the Institution or the September, 1844, 69 patients-38 males, and 31 les; being in all 149 patients under treatment dur. the above period. Of this number 50 have been harged cured, and 7 have been discharged relieved, removed by their friends, 17 died, and 75 patients are remaining, of whom 7 are convalescent. Of the cured, 31 were discharged within three months of their admission. Of the 17 deceased be. tween the 1st September, 1844, and the 21st October, 1845, 12 were old cases, and 5 recent. Of the old cases, 4 died in a state of fatuity, I was a congenital idiot, and 1 epileptic. Of the recent cases, 1 died within three days of admission, being brought to the Asylum in a state of inanition. Since the opening of the Asylum, 331* patients, inuding re-admissions, have been received, (some of hem idiotic or incurable from other causes.) Of this umber 163, or 498 per cent, have been discharged cured; 55, or 16204 per cent. have been discharged relieved, or removed; and 38, or 11159 per cent. died. Of the cured, 91, or 27163 per cent., were discharged within three months of their admission; 28, or 8152 per cent. within six months; 13, or 3307 331 per cent. within nine months, and the remainder from one to four years after admission. In 107 of the patients discharged cured, the duration of the disease before admission and during treatment, was one year and under; in 16, from one to two years; in 6, from two to three years; and in 5 from three to five years; of the remainder no particulars could be ascertained. 332 are on the Steward's books as admissions and re-admis sions; but one patient being removed on the day following her 2 By THOMAS REYNOLDS, M.D., Brockville, C.W. Mr. C., ætat 20, of a healthy constitution, and full habit, was standing in a shop where a druggist was breaking up cakes of camphor to put up in bottles. 72 Talking to a bystander, he began to eat the crumbs of 39 camphor, and unconsciously swallowed, bit by bit, pro21 bably from one to two drachms in the course of a few 132 minutes. Feeling a degree of headache coming on suddenly, and without thinking of the cause, he went to the open air, felt greatly exhilarated, met a friend in the street with whom he proposed to have a rubber of whist. Upon reaching his lodgings, he said he felt unusually clear-headed, and felt quite confident that he 10 could play a capital game. Soon after sitting down, his gestures and conversation became very strange and 29 wild. Leaving the room suddenly, he retired to his Discharged cured of old cases, From within three months, - 143 13 6 Poisoning by Corrosive Sublimate. bedroom adjoining, and returned, to the no small astonishment of his friends, naked and dancing wildly about, and attempting to jump out of the window. I was sent for, and upon questioning him, found that he had 33 POISONING BY CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. The subjoined memoranda of a case of poisoning with THEOPHILUS MACK, M. D. St. Catherines, May 7, 1846. been eating camphor, as described above. I found the bichloride of mercury, I transmit to you for publicahim in a state of great excitement, almost amounting tion, if you consider them worthy of it, in the hope that to phrenzy, his pulse 180 and small-conjunctiva in-they may prove beneficial to any brother practitioner, jected-pupil not much dilated, scarcely sensible to should a similar case ever occur to him. The unusual light countenance pale and haggard-breathing hur features of this instance, are the shortness of time that ried, and at times greatly laboured-a frequent desire elapsed from the reception of the poison into the stomach, to make water, with some pain in the course of the to the fatal termination, and the total absence of circumspermatic vessels-urine quite clear, but having, as stances to lead to the suspicion of poison at the first apwell as the perspiration, a very strong odour of cam-pearance of the symptoms. phor-a clammy sweat breaking out over the body. Drachm doses of vinum opii., which happened to be at hatd, were administered every fifteen minutes. After the third dose there was a tendency to vomiting, which the 1st April ult., I found a messenger from Samuel was freely encouraged by giving tepid water and vine- Stinson, Innkeeper of this Town, who stated Stinson was gar. Some of the camphor was thrown up with the suffering extreme agony from having swallowed that contents of the stomach. After the vomiting, drowsi- morning two ounces of Epsom salts, which he had purness came on; but as the pulse was still very small, and chased at a grocers, and requesting my immediate attenthe respiration hurried, it was thought advisable to dance. Iaccompanied the messenger to Stinson's house. keep him awake, and keep up the administration of the The patient was about forty years of age, dark comvin. opii. in doses of 3ss. every twenty minutes. After plexion, slightly intemperate in his habits, had been a few doses the pulse became fuller and less frequent married seventeen years, with issue, and had previously the countenance much less anxious-the respiration less never been affected with any serious disease. He told hurried, and he was allowed to fall into a sleep, in which me that his bowels had been relaxed, and gave me this he continued for about three hours, starting at inter- as a reason for having taken the salts. He expressed his vals, but becoming gradually composed. When he conviction of approaching dissolution, and desired that awoke, he had but a very confused idea of what had the salts should be examined. He was constantly occurred; recollected something about camphor, and moaning, and complained of burning heat at the scrobiasked "What have I been doing? Have I been mak-culus and stomach and pharynx, his face was flushed, exing a fool of myself?" &c. There was very little head-pressive of intense suffering, and swollen, his voice was ache' or stupor after the opium, but the stomach and husky, deglutition painful, constant vomiting of bloody bladder were irritable for a few days. These and all mucus with other contents of the stomach. He had slimy other unpleasant symptoms gradually disappeared after evacuations mixed with blood, and finally dysenteric; the use of a few bottles of Caledonia water. For some complained of dysuria, and the catheter produced a ranty days he complained that he could not take his usual discharge of bloody urine; pain on pressing epigastrium; glass of wine at dinner, without feeling the effect upon extremities cold; clammy diaphoresis; pulse small, his head; this would probably arise from the action of senses perfect, and heart's impulse weak. Staff Surthe camphor on his brain, as well as upon the other or-geon J. Mair, M. D., who was in attendance, informed gans of the body. He described the sensation while under the influence of the camphor as most exhilarating, but gradually becoming oppressive. From the quantity of camphor taken, I have very little doubt this might have proved a fatal case but for the timely use of the opiunt; and as wine is recommended in these cases, perhaps the vinum opii. is one of the best forms for its administration. Decem er, 1845. me that at 10 o'clock, A. M.. he found the patient as I have described, and upon inquiring the cause of his illness he had been told that it was consequent upon taking, a short time before, two ounces of epsom salts mixed with beer, and a portion of the salts were shewn to him and Dr. Carson who had also been sent for. Tasting and inspecting these they had eonsidered them pure Crystals of the ordinary Su'phate of lagnesia of commerce; they had then administered diluents feely. from the impression that the medicine wight have produced severe symptoms from having been swallowed imperfectly dissolved in beer; cilalk was then given as an antidote 34 Analysis of the Tuscarora Sour Spring, near Brantford. to oxalic acid. After my arrival, stimuli were exhibit- We carefully secured the stomach, contents of the ed, upon the grounds that the symptoms might be ac-stomach, and of the intestines, in bottles sealed and las counted for from the salts having been taken on an empty belled for further examination, and an inquest which stomach, excessively irritable from a recent debauch. had been summoned, returned a verdict of death by These modes of treatment proving ineffectual, we suspect-poison. ed the symptoms to be caused by corrosive poison, and The bottles with their contents were sent with a trust. the whites of eggs, with copious draughts of milk were worthy person, furnished with letters of transmission, to ordered. The debility, and other symptoms increased, and be minutely examined by the professor of chemistry, in the patient expired in about twelve hours from the time the University of King's College, Toronto, who, after a he had taken the epsom salts. careful analysis, was enabled to obtain globules of mer Sectio cadaveris thirty-six hours after death. cury. Coupling this with the appearances post The body was about the medium stature and muscu-mortem, he, with his colleagues certified that lar; countenance unaltered since death, lips red. The death was caused by corrosive sublimate. Upon tips of the ears and the nails were livid, abdomen de- the receipt of this document, a second inquest was sumpressed. The thoracic viscera were unaltered, and the moned by the coroner, Dr. Raymond, and after three heart and its membranes presented no lesion, there was days deliberation and investigation, the jury promulgated a slight transparent adhesion of the pleure at the apex the following verdict : of left lung. Viewing the contents of the abdomen in The deceased Samuel Stinson died from the effects of situ, the liver appeared paler than usual, and its structure poison, administered to him in a dose of epsom salts, by was softened. The gall bladder distended with bile. his wife, and that Henry Byron alias Holmes, was an The peritoneal coat of the stomach was vascular and li-accessory before the fact. vid, in some places a dark patch at the greater curva- The parties suspected, were tried at the Niagara Dis ture, the trunks of the vessels here were filled with dark trict Court House, and acquitted, from insufficient eviblood. This organ was diminished in size, and contract-dence of the fact of the poison having been mixed with ed near the pylorus, where it felt much thickened. The the draught, by the female prisoner. On the trial, it was peritoneum was much injected; the portion investing the proved that Stinson's wife had been living in adultery with intestines had a pink blush, becoming darker at the sig-Byron, for some years. Portions of salts had been taken moid flexure with livid spots interspersed upon the ileum, by several individuals, from the same package, without small intestines, and left curvature of the colon. The causing any unpleasant consequences, and it was shown omentum was vascular, the bladder shrunk. A livid that no one but his wife had access to the dose from the streak extended along each side of the tongue, the pa-time it was purchased until it was taken. pillæ at its base were enlarged, the mucous lining of the (We give insertion to the above, at the request of Dr. labium inferius was darkened, softened, and corroded. In Mack. It is certainly a case which portrays in a the pharynx at the angles of the cricoid and thyroid car-most vivid manner, the imperative necessity of a knowtilages were dark spots resembling effused blood beneath ledge of chemistry to every medical practitioner. An the epithelium, which was abraded and easily torn off; acquaintance with the laws of that science, would, in a the inner surface of the epiglottis and trachea appeared minute, have afforded the means of detecting unequivoinflamed. The stomach was carefully removed and cally the nature of the poison swallowed, and have indiopened along the lesser curvature, the contents measured cated the antidote.-EDS.) about 3iv. of a greyish brown colour. This viscus was much inflamed at the cardiac extremity, the mucous membrane extending from this orifice to the centre of the greater curvature was softened and easily removed; By HENRY CROFT, Esq., Professor of Chemistry, King's College of a bronze hue, interspersed with stellated patches coA very remarkable spring is situated near Brantford, loured dark red. At the pyloric extremity of the inferior it is called the Tuscarora Sour Spring, and is exceedcurvature, we found a space of an irregularly oval shape, ingly interesting from its containing free sulphuric acid. about six inches in circumference, very much altered Such Springs are very rare, and I will briefly notice and disorganized, the central part of an ash colour, corru- the information which I have been able to procure congated, with a dark olive margin. The intestines were cut cerning those already known. open and their contents preserved; dark spots were observed in the colon, at the caput coli, and in the ileum. The intestinal mucous membrane was highly injected throughout, and the duodenum inflamed. ANALYSIS OF THE TUSCARORA SOUR SPRING, Toronto. Bergman mentions a mineral water at Latera, near Viterbo, in the Ecclesiastical States, which is remarkable for containing free sulphuric acid. Another similar one exists at Selvena, near Siena. |