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Title: Brooklyn medical journal.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County, N.Y.)
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Medical Society of Co. of Kings
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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ate ; and in a fortnights time itwas quite subsided. He continued to be electrified every day forfive weeks, till he attained a degree of sight sufficient to distin-guish objects on the other side of the way. The method used wasto throw electrical sparks from a wooden point directly into theeye. This report is not in any way intended as a reply to Dr.Alleman, but is simply published because of its interesting bearingon the subject, as the work of an investigator 116 years ago. BROOKLYN VITAL STATISTICS FOR JANUARY, 1892. By J. S. Young, M.D., Dep. Commissioner of Health. Population estimated January I, 1892, 880,780 ; Births reported, 1,347 ;Deaths reported, 119. CAUSES OF DEATH. Croup, 48; Diphtheria, 99; Scarlet fever, 64; Typhoid fever, 8; Whoopingcough, 4; Pneumonia, 330. REPORTED CASES. Diphtheria, 217; Scarlet fever, 350; Measles, 121; Typhoid fever, 30;Small-pox, 1. DEATH-RATE FOR JANUARY, 1892. Brooklyn, 24.48; New York, 27.50; Philadelphia, 31.74; Berlin, 25.46;London, 29.52.
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JOHN RADCLIFFE, M.D. Use all mankind ill ; such was the maxim which this celebrated eccentric physician imparted to his protege and suc-cessor, Dr. Mead, as the secret of success in his professional career. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, where he was born in 1650. At the age of fifteen he became a student in one ofthe colleges of Oxford, where he took his M. A. degree in 1672. He then took up the study of medicine, but seems to have studied in an irregular and superficial manner. The writingsof Thomas Willis, then at the summit of his fame in London, were those which Radcliffe chiefly studied. When Dr. Bathurst,head of Trinity College, asked him once in surprise where his library was, he pointed to a few vials, a skeleton and an herbal,saying : * Sir, this is Radcliffes library. He soon acquired a considerable degree of reputation as a successful practitioner of medicine, though he never paid anyattention to the rules and methods then universally followed, and drew upon himsel

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