CHARGE Efje (Kxratruates JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, Delivered at the Public Commencement, March 8,1856. ROBERT M. HUSTON, M.D. WITH A LIST OF THE GRADUATES. published be the ©rabuating QLlass. PHILADELPHIA: JOSEPH M. WILSON, 27 SOUTH TENTH STREET, BELOW CHESTNUT STREET. 1856. Gentlemen : • The toils and anxieties of the days of your pupilage are now passed, and you are about to enter on a new course of honour, and of usefulness to your fellow men. The honourable board of Trustees of Jefferson Me- dical College of Philadelphia, by their president, with all the authority of the commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania, have pronounced you doctors of medicine, "inter nos, et ubique gentiumr This is an event of great interest to you, and to your immediate relatives and friends, and of much gratifi- cation to the faculty and trustees of the Institution, which now enrols your names on the long list of its alumni. My colleagues of the faculty have assigned to me the grateful task of addressing you on this interesting oc- casion, to welcome you into the ranks of our time- honoured profession, to extend to you in their name a few words of parting counsel and advice. Often as I have, as your friend and teacher, counselled you in matters of professional instruction, and sometimes in affairs more purely personal, I have rarely felt the re- sponsibility so powerfully as at this moment. [ 4 ] To exchange the feelings of conscious dependence on others for instruction in the essentials of the pro- fession, which is to be the business of your future lives, for that which must assure you of being tjieir peers— the proud and manly satisfaction that you have at- tained to the reward for which you have long and hopefully looked forward, and that henceforth you are to be not mere recipients, but dispensers of the trea- sures of our profession—are reflections well calculated to cheer your minds, and inspire you •with, grateful hearts. At a period of life when others are throwing away equal advantages, and wasting their time in idleness and frivolity, that you have had the courage and good sense to devote yourselves assiduously to the acquisition of a useful and honourable profession, is in the highest degree creditable, and must ever be to you a subject of the happiest reflection. To your parents and friends who have not only supplied you with pe- cuniary means for the purpose, but have denied them- selves the comforts of your society during the long months that you have been thus laudably engaged, this auspicious termination of your pupilage, whilst it must occasion deep satisfaction, will cause them to look forward with an earnest hope to your further success in the new scenes and new duties and respon- sibilities, that are about to devolve upon you. One of the first subjects of embarrassment will be the choice of a location in which to exercise your pro- fession. At an early period in my professional career, in a conversation on this subject, with the venerable [ 5 ] Dr. Tilton, of Delaware—one of the three earliest gra- - duates of the University of Pennsylvania, and for some years surgeon-general of the U. S. Army—he remarked to me: "Dr. Huston, I find that physic is like every- thing else; it thrives best in good ground." In a district of country chiefly dependent on agriculture, if the land is sterile, as a general rule, the inhabitants are poor; and when that is their condition, the want of the comforts and conveniences which obtain under more favoured circumstances, greatly restricts the phy- sician's usefulness, besides limiting his income beyond the means of a bare subsistence. Too often this fact is not sufficiently considered by the new beginner. A very common object with the young physician is to find a field where he will have but little competition, and such situations are, for the most part, only to be had where the land is unproductive, and the popula- tion sparse—the very circumstances most to be avoided by the competent and well instructed. Let me caution you against this common error. Your education has not been such as should make you shrink from fair competition, with the best and wisest of the profession. The poor and the afflicted will have claims upon you, which neither can nor ought to be disregarded; but I know of no principle in morals that can require a man to stultify himself by volun- tarily choosing a situation, where neither professional success, nor pecuniary benefit is to be the fruit of his labours. Why should you place yourself at a permanent dis- [ 6 ] advantage to avoid competition? There is much to be gained by a young physician in frequent intercourse with his more experienced brethren. "As iron sharp- eneth iron, so does the countenance of a man his friend,"—or, as the motto on the seal of the Philadel- phia Medical Society reads: "Ex Collitione Scintilla" —the collision of the flint and the steel elicits the sparks. A young physician, by submitting his treatment of a case to the friendly criticism of an honourable com- petitor of more extensive experience, will find it the most ready way to awaken reflection, and to correct any mistakes or hasty conclusions, into which he may have fallen. Occasionally, conscious error may mantle his cheek, but the regret which it will call up, will inspire caution for the future, and render him the safer and more successful practitioner. It may, per- chance, happen to a young man that this open and confiding course may call down on him the sneers or ill-natured comments of an unprincipled brother; but it will be of little consequence, since it will be none the less instructive to him, whilst the candor and man- liness of his conduct will be certain to secure the con- fidence and respect of his patient, although it inay be at the expense of his traducer. In your intercourse with neighbouring practitioners of good standing, never lose sight of the fact that they are your peers, and that whatever injustice is done to them is a wound to yourself and to your common pro- fession. Let your deportment towards them be always . [ 7 ] frank and magnanimous,—and be ever ready to yield a point where it involves no principle, rather than en- gage in controversy and contention. Let this be your conduct, and you will have nothing to apprehend, but much to gain from free competition with your profes- sional brethren. You have been carefully instructed in all that di- rectly pertains to medicine, and therefore your studies in future will consist in great part in personal obser- vation of the sick—comparing what you see with what you have read and have been told in lectures, and watching the progress of the art as disclosed in journals and the recent publications of competent observers. Medicine is a progressive science, and they who do not strive to keep pace with its onward course will inevitably fall in the rear. By this I do not mean that you should investigate all the crude theories and hypotheses that scheming minds may put forth, and still less the groundless assertions of facts that are ever and anon proclaimed by ignorant and interested individuals to excite wonder or entice the credulous victims of disease. Such is the character of nearly all the so called improvements, for which the world is indebted to the class of modern me- dical reformers. How different from the phenomena observed and reported by men whose character and attainments entitle them to our confidence and re- spect, or the rational inductions legitimately drawn from such data, promulgated by ingenuous minds! The conscientious and intelligent physician will select as L 8 ] well as seek after knowledge—the laggard's post is not the place for him. The professional man who allows himself to fall behind in the race of improvement, besides the disgrace which he incurs, suffers deeply in conscience as well as in his worldly prospects. Interest, reputation, and self-respect will all urge you on to im- provement in sound and practical knowledge. The man who is content to occupy an inferior position in a learned and liberal profession must expect to suffer many mortifications and disappointments in his daily progress. But something more than a knowledge of what is ordinarily considered as constituting, strictly speaking, a medical education, is required for complete success in practice. , In a refined community, a physician is expected to be a polished gentleman, and therefore to have the suaviter in modo, as well as the fortiter in re. It is a high accomplishment to be able to adapt ourselves to the society in which we are thrown, by intelligent conversation, easy manners, and all the other graces which go to make up a character for refinement, and all this is necessary to inspire confidence in the minds of a well educated community, in the professional competency of a candidate for their patronage. The early years of a physician's practice may be both pleasantly and profitably spent in laying a broad . foundation for future usefulness and distinction, in the cultivation of the embellishments of life, and in storing his mind with the treasures of what are called the [ 9 1 auxiliary branches of medicine. You have already made creditable advances in the essential objects of a physician's studies. These may be profitably reviewed at your leisure, and such things as have escaped your attention supplied, and their value appreciated. A more intimate acquaintance with " belles lettres" including a knowledge of those modern languages, as the French and German, which by extensive usage have become in a measure classical in our profession, is most desirable. Several branches of Natural Science, too, not embraced in the College curriculum, may be studied in vacant hours with much advantage. I will merely indicate Botany and Mineralogy, although others might be profitably included. Although but ancillary, they are highly ornamental, and of great utility in the every-day walks of life. That their suc- cessful pursuit requires much time and attention is no valid objection to a young physician, whose early pro- fessional life has so much unoccupied time, which, if not directed to some useful object, is very liable to be appropriated to ignoble purposes. The laws of hygiene, especially in reference to the diseases most likely to occur in the particular locality where you exercise your profession, will necessarily occupy a portion of your attention, and never more appropriately than at the outset of your practice; and, as intimately connected with the subject, the consi- deration of the sanitary regulations proper to be adopt- ed to guard against endemic and epidemic diseases. A physician is apt to be applied to by citizens and legis- [ io ] lators for instruction in matters relating to individual and general health, when the display of ignorance is not only embarrassing but highly inexcusable. The course which I have sketched may seem long and irksome, and to promise little of pleasure or reward. But it will not prove so. To be able to spend pleasantly and with eventual profit, the time which must elapse before being fully engaged with strictly professional business, is a great privilege. Medicine affords, indeed, many priceless opportunities for improvement and useful occupation. I have advised that in choosing a location, you should not select a place, which does not hold out the average prospects of eventual profit—but you are not to understand me as suggesting, that you can expect to find a spot so favoured that the people are all either wealthy or prosperous—for "the poor" we are told, "ye have always with you" and such are entitled to our especial regard. It was the benevolent and beautiful remark of one of the fathers in our profession, that "the poor were his best patients, for God was their pay-master." Beside the delightful consciousness of doing good to the needy, the outgushing expression of grateful hearts for services which they cannot re- quite, and the interest inspired in the minds of their more fortunate neighbours who are the witnesses of your disinterested benevolence, will bring to you more than pecuniary reward. In your duties to the sick, be ever faithful and at- tentive,—not backward and reluctant in rendering [ 11 ] your services, but always unwearied and hopeful— permitting no ordinary engagements to interfere with the punctuality of your visits. Kemember that the profession of your choice imposes no common respon- sibility. Its duties demand the most unflinching sac- rifice of time and personal convenience on the part of the physician, and such has ever been the opinion of the eminent men whose lives have been devoted to it. Who can estimate the value of life and limb when sacrificed by negligence or want of skill ? In your communications with patients and their friends, have a constant regard for truthfulness and the strictest integrity. How often do we hear a lack of can- dour charged on physicians,—sometimes, too, because of mistakes, rather than from a deliberate intention to mislead? To be deceived in diagnosis is a sad blunder; to err in prognosis is scarcely less unfortunate for the reputation of the professional attendant. Some- times the apparent want of frankness proceeds from an amiable weakness, which shrinks from giving pain where the circumstances of the case do not promise a happy issue; nevertheless, such things are, if possible, to be avoided. Nothing, however good the intention, can excuse deception practised towards those who, by becoming our patients, repose in us the greatest con- fidence, and especially when it involves the question of recovery or death. Honour and self-respect alike demand the most perfect frankness under such trying circumstances. Caution, in the exercise of this can- dour, is unquestionably not only proper, but a duty, [ 12 ] lest the patient and his friends may be unnecessarily alarmed, and confusion and dismay be created in .the minds of both, at a time when the greatest calmness and self-possession are required in order to give tp the progress of the case the most favourable tendency. —"Whatever cheerful or serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope; the halm and life-blood of the soul; It pleases and it lasts." The practice of medicine has ever been esteemed a highly useful, and therefore commendable avocation. It has been dignified by the sanction of the wisest and best men, and rendered illustrious by the example of the learned and humane of all countries, in all periods of time:—and, furthermore, it has been hallowed by the precepts and example of the Saviour himself! Go forth, then, in the faithful discharge of the du- ties of your noble profession; be kind and compassion- ate to all; and suffer nothing to interfere with the regularity of your attendance on those who invoke your aid, and the blessings of the afflicted and those who are ready to perish, will rest upon you. GRADUATES OF JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA, MARCH, 1856. At a Public Commencement, held on the 8th of March, 1856, the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on the following gentlemen by the Hon. J. B. Sutherland, President of the Institution; after which a Charge to the Graduates was delivered by Professor Robert M. Huston. subject of thesis. Eclampsia. Scarlatina. Pneumonia. Smallpox. The Shoulder Joint. Pneumonia. Typhoid Fever. Remittent Fever. Diagnosis. Remittent Fever. Medicine. Retentio Alvina. Acute Rheumatism. J Modus Operandi of Therapeutical X Agents. Colo-rectitis. Diarrhoea. The Heart. ( Responsibilities of the Young Phy- \ sician. j Constitutional Peculiarities of the Fe- \ male. Apoplexy. Death. Yellow Fever. Relapsing Fever. Scalds and Burns. Enteric Fever. Hydrophobia. Hereditary Disease. Uterine Hemorrhage. f Pleurodynia and Intercostal Neu- \ ralgia. 4 Eclampsia Gravidarum et Parturien- \ tium. / Anatomy of Diarthrodial Articula- X tions. Physiological Effects of Water. Acute Pleurisy. Anaesthesia. Entero-mesenteric Fever. Typhoid Fever. Cataract. Placenta Praevia. Scorbutus. Erysipelas. Inguinal Hernia. Diagnosis. Auscultation and Percussion. Acute Gastritis. NAME. STATE or country. Alexander, Charles T. Kentucky. Allen, James M. Alabama. Anderson, D. R. South Carolina. Banks, John L. Virginia. Baxter, John S. Georgia. Beall, R. L. North Carolina. Beeler, George (M. D.) Kentucky. Bennett, J. W. North Carolina. , Bloxom, John H. Alabama. Boucher, James H. New York. Bowen, Julius M. New York. Bower, Franklin H. Pennsylvania. Bowman, John Davis. Pennsylvania. Branch, John L. Georgia. Brawner, Lucius W. Georgia. Brawner, William M. Georgia. Brewster, T. Fort Georgia. Britton, George W. New Jersey. Bruce, J. D. North Carolina. Buck, Horatio B. Maine. Bunting, Ross R. Pennsylvania. Burroughs, Richard Georgia. Burton, William H. Virginia. Butts, James A. Georgia. Byrd, W. B. South Carolina. Cantrell, James Henry Pennsylvania. Carlton, Henry H. Georgia. Carpenter, A. Jackson Pennsylvania. Carswell, B. S. Georgia. Casselberry, Jesse R. Pennsylvania. Chubb, Charles H. Pennsylvania. Coad, Joseph R. Pennsylvania. Cochran, Henry King Virginia. Cock, J. Walter Texas. Cole, Lorenzo S. Maine. Collet, W. A. North Carolina. Cooper, Alfred M. New Jersey. Cotton, David'B. Ohio. Crain, J. R. Texas. Crawford, William M. Virginia. Cropp, J. T. Virginia. Crymes, A. C. Alabama. Cummiskey, James Pennsylvania. Cunning, Samuel R. Georgia. [ 14 ] NAME. Dorsey, Frederic] Dozier, Allen S. Druet, John T. Dulaney, Nathaniel T. Dunglison, Richard J. Espy, Kirk Etheridge, John H. Ewbank, William J. Everett, P. Root Farrar, George W. Fenn, M. B. Fisher, William Foote, George A. Foote, W. W. Freeman, Ingraham B. Garland, Wilson Garnett, Algernon S. (M. D, Ghent, Henry C. Gibson, John J. Good, Samuel M. 'Goodall, C. Parke Gordon, David C. Gorgas, Albert C. Grant, William L. Green, Bennett W. (M. D.)j Greene, J. M. Gresham, Henry Griesemer, John B. Haley, James Halley, H. Joseph Hammond, J. W. Hanna, E. S. Hardesty, J. R. L. Hardy, William B. Harnish, Tobias Harris, Richard M. Hathaway, Joseph Cushman Herron, Levi B. Hickerson, James Hildreth, Isaac F. Hill, John Hill, William] Hinkson, John F. Hobson, George Fearn1 Hoey, James W. Holman, J. C. Hornet, Volney Hooper, Philo O. Hough, Thomas L. ' Howe, William R. Hubbell, S. J. Hudders, George W. Humphreys, George H. Humphreys, James P. Hunt, J. Spafiford(M.D.) Huntley, Oscar Hamilton James, Jesse Y.i Jenkins, John F. Jennings, Napoleon B. STATE OR COUNTRY. SUBJECT OF THISIS. Maryland. Croup. South Carolina. Menstruation. Ohio. Scarlatina. Tennessee. Hysteria. Pennsylvania. Apncea. Pennsylvania. Delirium Tremens. ' Georgia. Scarlatina. Alabama. Wounds. Ohio. Intermittent Fever. • Georgia. Remittent Fever. Alabama. Reproduction. Tr . . ( xVrrestation of Traumatic Hemor- Virginia. J rhage< North Carolina. Typhoid Fever. North Carolina. Primary Cause of Disease. Nova Scotia. Fracture. North Carolina, Entero-mesenteric Fever. ) Virginia. Animal Heat. Alabama. Digestion. Illinois. Milk-Sickness. Maryland. Epilepsy. Virginia. Typhoid Fever. Mississippi. Dysentery. Pennsylvania. Anaemia. Virginia. Puerperal Fever. Virginia. Inguinal Hernia. Alabama. Fecundation and Conception. y. . . C Vomissements Opiniatres Pendant la * ' \ Grossesse. Pennsylvania. Pneumonia. Mississippi. The Profession. Virginia. Theory of Inflammation. Ohio. Scarlatina. Ohio. Puerperal Peritonitis. Virginia. Aneurism. Missouri. Angeioleucitis. Pennsylvania. Chemistry of Fire. Alabama. Entero-mesenteric Fever. Massachusetts. Cynanche Laryngea. Tennessee. Entero-mesenteric Fever. North Carolina. Remittent Fever. ~, . C Inflammation of the Os and Cervix \ Uteri. Ohio. Secondary Treatment. Illinois. Dysentery. Barbadoes. Tetanus. Mississippi. Yellow Fever. Pennsylvania. Circulation of the Blood. Georgia. Inflammation. Pennsylvania. Erysipelas. Arkansas. Gunshot Wounds. New Jersey. Papaver Somniferum. Pennsylvania. Intermittent Fever. Virginia. Cynanche Trachealis. Pennsylvania. Acute Dysentery. Pennsylvania. Fracture of the Forearm. Tennessee. Uterine Displacements. Illinois. Requisites for Medical Success. New Hampshire. Metamorphosis of Tissue. Pennsylvania. Dysentery. Georgia. Scarlatina. New Jersey. Acute Gastritis. [ 15 ] NAME. STATE OR COUNTRY. Johns, Lynch D. Virginia. Johnson, Joe H. Georgia. Johnson, John D. Virginia. Jones, R. R. Virginia. Jones, U. R. Alabama. Jordan, William F. Alabama. Keating, John L. Georgia. Key, Thomas T. Georgia. Kibler, Benjamin H. Virginia. Lanier, J. D. Alabama. Laughlin, J. H. Ohio. Lawson, H. M. Georgia. Lazzel, James M. Virginia. Le Hardy de Beaulieu, J. C. Georgia. Lewis, Robert S. Virginia. Long, Solon on North Carolina. Longsdorf, W. Harry Pennsylvania. Love, John S. Pennsylvania. Lumpkin, James M. Georgia. Lunn, Lewis Thomas Ohio. i Malone, Joseph H. Georgia. Marbourg, J. L. Pennsylvania. Mathews, Thomas P. Virginia. May, David F. Virginia. May, John W. North Carolina. McCartney, J. S Pennsylvania. McChesney, Robert Aurelius I Virginia. McClelliu, Ely Pennsylvania. McClintic, H. D. Virginia. McCollester, John Q. A.. New Hampshire. McGlaughlin, Charles C. Pennsylvania. McKethan, J. C. North Carolina. McKneely, J. I. Louisiana. McLecd, Alexander Alabama. MeMahan, R. W. Ohio. McMullen, Thomas Pennsylvania. McNair, F. L. Georgia. MeNeil, Bernard A. Pennsylvania. Mease, Levi A. (M. D.) Illinois. Miller, Samuel P. H. Virginia. Mitchell, J. W. Pennsylvania. Mobley, Samuel Goode, South Carolina. Moffett, Charles J. Georgia. Moore, J. Boardman Virginia. Nash, J. Virginia. Nebinger, A. R. Pennsylvania. Nottingham, Southey S. Virginia. Nunn, William C. Virginia. Pancoast, William H. Pennsylvania. Park, Frank Alabama. Patterson, Samuel D. Pennsylvania. Payn, Frederick G. New York. Perry, Joseph W. Alabama. Philson, C. F. South Carolina. Phister, Benjamin, Jr. Pennsylvania. Pirn, Louis T. (M. D.) Missouri. Prall, Claudius R. New Jersey. Pryor. William T. Tennessee. SUBJECT of thesis. Influence of Ergot on the Uterus. Dysentery. Acute Peritonitis. C Circumstances which modify Thera- £ peutical Indications. . General Dropsy. Entero-mesenteric Fever. Hysteria. Scarlatina. Cholera Infantum. Puerperal Fever. Entero-mesenteric Fever. Gunshot Wounds. Contagion of Typhoid Fever. Generation. f Case of Erysipelas treated by him in X 1855. Amenorrhcea. Gunshot Wounds. The Physician's Mission. Antiperiodic Agents. Latent Pneumonia, j Scarlatina. Medical Botany of Indigenous Herbs. Mania a Potu. Variola. Acute Dysentery. Neuralgia. Inguinal Hernia. Loose Cartilages in Joints. Emetics. Delirium Tremens. Scarlatina. Spermatorrhoea. ] Scarlatina. Scarlatina. Epidemic Cholera. Amenorrhcea Suppressionis, Acute Peritonitis. Physiology of Digestion. Nigrities Ossium. Amenorrhcea. Scarlatina. Dysentery. Cirsocele. Anaesthetics. The Periosteum. Scarlatina. ( Diagnosis between Typhoid and Ty- X phus Fevers. Vis Medicatrix Natures. {The removal of Articular Cartilages from the Surfaces of Diseased Joints. Gunshot Wounds. Amputation. Porrigo Scutulata. Inflammation. Menstruation. The Language of the Tissues. (Ad eundem.) Typhoid Fever. Puerperal Peritonitis. [ 16 ] NAME. state or country. Reber, Charles T. Pennsylvania. Reeves, Samuel North Carolina. Richardson, John M. North Carolina. Richardson, Moses Georgia. Rihl, Jacob L. Pennsylvania. Robertson, R. M. Alabafna. Robertson, William S. Iowa. Robinson, Henry C. North Carolina. Rutherford, Alexander D. Pennsylvania. Sabine, Andrew Ohio. Sankey, J. W. Pennsylvania. Savidge, Aaron Raker Pennsylvania. Saxon, C. A. South Carolina. Sayle, Robert Tennessee. Schiveley, George P. Pennsylvania. Scott, J. Turner Mississippi. Scott, Robert Florida. Selfridge, James M. (M. D.) New York. Semple, James Virginia. Shaw, Daniel Texas. Simpson, Thomas W. Maryland. Smith, G. Selden Illinois. Smith, Hugh G. Kentucky. Snead, John D. Virginia. Spencer, W. Indiana. Stanley, Augustin 0. Georgia.1 St. Clair, W. P. Kentucky. Sternberg, James Herkimer New York. Stevenson, W. Morton Indiana. Stewart, Jordan Pennsylvania. Strudwick, James W. Alabama. Stuckslager, Cyrus R. Tennessee. Sturdevant, S. Burton Pennsylvania. Sullivan, John M. Pennsylvania. Taylor, Joseph Sheppard Virginia. Terrell, J. E. G. (M. D.) Georgia. Thomson, George K. Pennsylvania. Torbet, George A. Indiana. Trout, William F. Pennsylvania. Tucker, John A. Georgia. Tucker, William D. Tennessee. Tupman, P. M. Virginia. Van Home, Augustus K. Illinois. Watson, John W. South Carolina. Watt, William Texas. Weatherly, W. E. Mississippi. Whitmire, James S. (M. D.) Illinois. Williams, Thomas F. J. Virginia. Williamson, William T. Delaware. Wills, Alexander F. Virginia. Wills, James L. Virginia. Winchester, Edgar (M. D.) Illinois. Yates, T. Wesley (M. D.) Mississippi. Young, Henry N. Mississippi. subject of thesis. Laryngitis. Intermittent Fever. Dysentery. Dysentery. Pneumonia. f Case of Gunshot Wound of the Sa- X crum treated by him. Typhoid Fever. Fever. Variola. Milk Sickness. Chronic Gastritis. Parotitis. Hernia. Lobar Pneumonia. Rubeola. Epidemic Cholera. Pneumonia. /An undescribed Medicinal applica- \ tion of Cubebs. Stricture of the Male Urethra. Acute Gastritis. / Epidemic Dysentery as it prevailed in \ Frederick Co., Maryland, in 1854. Scarlatina. Puerperal Fever. Pneumonia. C The Periodical Diseases incident to (_ the Wabash Valley. Pneumonia. Dysentery. Inflammation. Intermittent Fever. Therapeutic Action of Arsenic. Intermittent Fever. The Young Physician. Erysipelas. Inflammation. Yellow Fever. / Epidemic Typhoid Fever of Georgia X in 1854-5. Measles. Epilepsy. Hygiene of Young Females. Autumnal Remittent Fever. Foetal Circulation. Opium, its varieties, &c. Congestive Intermittent Fever. f Epidemic Dysentery as it prevailed X in South Carolina in 1853-4. Acute Pneumonia. Strabismus. ( The Agency of New Alkaloids in the \ treatment of Intermittent Fever. Dysentery. Typhoid Fever. Chronic Gastritis. Acute Pneumonia. Fractures. Puerperal Fever. Yellow Fever. Total, 215. ROBLEY DUNGLISON, Dean.