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Title: The Maryland and Virginia medical journal
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: (Richmond, Va. : J.B. McCaw)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ct, that the movement hasmet the cordial and emphatic approbation of our parents or guardians and theenthusiastic eudorsation of the whole South, with scarcely a dissenting voice. Resolved, That we have neither expressed nor entertained the slightest dis--satisfaction with the course of instruction, as conducted in this College, but,on the contrary, we have realized the fact, that the Faculty, in point of prac-tical ability to instruct in all branches of the profession, are fully equal, if notsuperior to those of the Northern Schools we left, and, in some respects, thefacilities of medical instruction are greater. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the New York Herald, with the request that they may be published, and all Southernjournals to give an insertion. B. J. Field, Ark. ; N. B. Sadler, Ga. ; J. M. Keyes, Miss.; J. W. Mcllhany,Va.; W. M. Mayes, Ala.; R. T. Wilson, Miss.; J. B. Fontaine, Va.—Comtee. M. H. THOMPSON, Chairman.Emmett A. Drewry, Secretary.
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ir-3 THE MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA MEDICAL JOURNAL. Vol. XIV—No. 5. MAY, 1860. New Series. Art. I.—Clinical Lecture on Lithotomy. Delivered at theBaltimore Infirmary. With a Plate and Description of hisLithotome. By Prof. N. R. Smith, of the University ofMaryland. In the case of the young man before us, aged 20 years, I pre-sent you with an example of probable lithiasis. I have not yetstruck the stone in his bladder, but the symptoms are verycharacteristic. His countenance has the impress of physicalsuffering—his complexion is anemic—his person wasted. Hehas painful micturition at frequent intervals, and with cystictenesmus. He has the usual pain in the glans penis. Theflow of his urine is sometimes suddenly arrested as by a ballvalve. Any jarring succussion of his body causes pain andexcites tenesmus. He has often passed gravel and sand. Nevertheless, all these symptoms are sometimes fallacious.They were nearly all present in a case which I examined afew days since, and yet there

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