lady, aged twenty-three (delivered on the second day of a six
months' foetus), made a fair recovery, took cold after getting
up, and in a few days died suddenly of empyema and pericar-
ditis ; diagnosis confirmed by autopsy. The other, single, aged
twenty-one, had the disease with great violence, recovered
rapidly, and is now well. In each case I dusted finely-sifted
pipe-clay over the face as soon as the pustules became fairly
developed. This formed immediately a clean, dry, wholesome
scab, abolished the intolerable itching and burning, served
apparently as a good absorbent of infectious material, and
scaled off during convalescence, leaving underneath a soft,
natural integument. There was no disfigurement in either
case."
The Etiology of Eclampsia. {HcdheHsma. Chl.f. Med. Wiss.,
Yl, 27.] — The author presents the following hypothesis : The
majority of cases of puerperal eclampsia are in consequence
MISCELLANEOUS AND SCLENTIFIC NOTES. 545
of retention of tlie contents of the urine, resulting from the
pressure upon the ureters. The two ureters, before reaching
the fundus of the bladder, include the lower part of the uterus
between them. If the latter is greatly enlarged, tlie ureters
must be compressed, and thus retention of urine caused.
Hence, it follows also that, by the action of the abdominal
pressure and the contraction of the uterus, inasmuch as the
uterine walls become each time anaemic, while, in the rest of
the vascular system and especially in the region of the kidneys,
a collateral hyperemia must ensue, through the latter, as well
as from diffuse nephritis, the production of eclampsia is effected.
Graduates in Medicine for 1872. — "We give below the num-
ber of recent graduates at the various medical colleges of
which we have thus far received reports :
Bellevue, New York 129
Jefferson, Philadelphia 115
Medical College of Ohio 87
University of Louisville 84
University of Nashville 84
University of Pennsylvania 83
University of Michigan 82
College of Physicians and Surgeons Xew York 78
Rush Medical College, Chicago 77
University, New York 75
St. Lonis Medical College 68
Miami Medical College, Ohio 67
Missouri Medical College 40
Butfalo Medical College 34
Chicago Medical College 32
Woman's Medical College, Pennsylvania 13
Geneva Medical College 12
Woman's Medical College, New York 8
Kansas City College 5
On the Absorption of Gray and Corrosive Sublimate Ointment
by the Uninjured Skin. [All//. Wien. Med. Zeit., Ko. 43.] —
Dr. Keumann publishes some microscopico-chemical studies on
this subject. By the inunction of gray ointment upon the
uninjured skin, the globules of quicksilver penetrate into the
hair-follicles as far as the bulbs, into the commencement of
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546 MISCELLAiq^EOUS AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
tlie sudoriparous glands, into the open fat-glands (at least into
those opening into the hair-follicles). How they then pene-
trated into the circulation, and in what form, could not be
determined ; they were probably converted into the sublimate,
and absorbed by the superficial lymphatic system. In the
blood, however, and in the internal organs, mercury rubbed
into the uninjured skin as gray ointment, as well as the sub-
limate, is demonstrable only by chemical means. In the sub-
cutaneous cellular tissue and in the cutis the globules were
never discoverable. Mercury does not penetrate the cartilagi-
nous tissue.
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