Search -
Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal (1881)
Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal - 1881 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chancre Cured by Sorcery. L' Union Medicale (Rheims, France) describes an ancient method of curing chancrous sore mouth of new-born children, which is still e... more »mployed in some parts of France. "A special gift is nec- cessary," says the writer, "whether from hell or heaven we know not, but a little sorcery is requisite. The performer must be a woman, we believe, for there is no mention of a man capable of blowing away the chancre. Beauty is not required—it suffices to have a breath which can kill fungi. The sorceress first mutters an incantation, and then breathes three times into the infant's mouth. This is repeated every day for nine days. If the child is not cured at the end of that time, it will have died, or the cure may be prevented by the want of faith." This method, the editor says, is even practiced in one of the hospitals by patients properly initiated, who cure for the moderate sum of 1 franc 25 centimes. Hunting up the Black Sheep. The Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College has appointed a committee to seek out and report all the graduates of that institution who are in the practice of violating the code of ethics in regard to advertising, secret medicines, irregular practice, etc. The committee is instructed not to meddle with any graduates who belong to local societies in good standing and possessing a board of censors. This would be a good plan for adoption by all alumni associations. If every college should maintain such an oversight of its graduates, the eft'ect might be very salutary. A Crucial Test of Homeopathic Medicines. In the N. York Homeopathic Timex for March, 1880, is an account of a series of experiments instituted for the purpose of testing the effects of the thirtieth dilution of tincture of aconite. The project was set on foot in...« less