THE MEDICAL EXAMINER.
PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY, 1853.
TRIBUTE TO DR. BROWN-SEQUARD
At a meeting of the medical gentlemen who have attended the lectures
of Dr. E. Brown-Sequard, held Dec. 14th, 1852, Dr. Warren was called
to the chair, and the following resolutions, offered by Dr. Henry J.
Bigelow and seconded by Dr. Bowditch, were unanimousljr adopted, after
amendments by Dr. Bartlett and Dr. Coale:
Resolved, That having attended a course of lectures by Dr. Brown-
Sequard, illustrated by dissections and experiments upon subjects con-
nected with physiology, and especially with that of the nervous system,
we are desirous of expressing to Dr. Sequard the gratification which we
have received from these lectures, which have been the result of extended
original research, which have been eminently characterized by a spirit
of rigid induction, and which have conveyed many practical hints upon
pathological subjects. Therefore
Resolved, That we hereby offer our thanks to Dr. Sequard for the
gratification and profit we have received from his very interesting lec-
tures. That we commend these lectures to those members of our pro-
fession in other cities who may not have had the pleasure of hearing
them; and that we indulge the hope that Dr. Sequard may find it con-
venient to continue his lectures here at some future time.
CORRECTION.
The paper of Dr. Alison’s, communicated by Dr. S. Lewis, in the
January Number of this year, should have been accredited to the 11 Pro-
ceedings of the Royal Soc. of Edinburgh,” instead of Edinb. Phil. Trans.
NEW JERSEY MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
A new summer school has been established at Burlington, with which
Dr. Joseph Parrish, Editor of the N. J. Medical Reporter, Dr. B. H.
Rand, Dr. S. S. Brooks, Dr. J. B. Coleman and Dr. L. Read are associ-
ated. They offer many advantages to students during the summer season,
and we doubt not will receive a full share of patronage. We wish them
success.
CABINET OF MINERALS.
AVe call the attention of our readers to the following letter from Dr.
Coxe. The collection is a very valuable one.
My Dear Sir,—May I request of you the favor to announce in your
‘‘ Examiner ” my intention of disposing of a very large and valuable
Cabinet of Minerals, the collection of more than thirty years, and at an
expense of several thousand dollars. The specimens are mostly of large
size and beauty, and well adapted for a College or Public Institution.
A large collection of models of the forms of crystals, constitute a part of
the Cabinet; also, two large and fine specimens of hexagonal columns
of Basalt, from the Giant’s Causeway, in Ireland.
I am very truly your friend and obedient servant,
John Redman Coxe.
Dr. Smith.
Jan. 5, 1853.
At a stated meeting of the Northern Medical Association, held
January G, 1853, the following members were elected Officers for the
present year :
President—Dr. Benjamin S. Jarney.
Vice President—Dr. N. L. Hatfield.
Cozmsellors—Drs. Joseph R. Bryan, John F. Lamb, Wm. Mayburry,
Isaac Remington and John Uhler, Jr.
Secretary—Dr. J. Henry Smaltz.
Corresponding Secretary—Dr. Isaac Remington.
Reporting Secretaries—Drs. John Rhein and C. P. Turner.
Delegates to the American Medical Association—Drs. L. Curtis, B. S.
Janney, N. L. Hatfield, J. F. Lamb, R. J. Levis and Isaac Remington.
Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal is the title of a new as-
pirant for favor in Richmond, and edited by George A. Otis, M. D. and
H. L. Thomas, M. D. The first number will be issued on April 1st,
1853, and the succeeding numbers will appear monthly.
The objects proposed in its publication are the diffusion of Medical
Knowledge and Intelligence; the advancement of Science; and the
support of the dignity and interests of the Medical Profession.
Each number will consist of eighty large octavo pages, containing
Original Papers, Memoirs, and Reports of cases; an account of the tran-
sactions of Medical Societies in Virginia; a Summary of Improvements
and Discoveries in Medical Science, at home and abroad; Reviews and
Bibliographical Notices ; and a portion of a Standard Work in some im-
portant Department, in Medicine. Price, $5 a year.
We welcome our new friends into the editorial fraternity, and assure
them of our hearty wishes for their success. There is material and
talent enough, and to spare, in the Old Dominion to support and en-
courage another good Journal.