COLLABORATORS. EDWARD H. BARTON, M. D. Profes- | SAMUEL P. HILDRETH, M. D. Marietta, sor of the Theory and Practice of Ohio. Medicine, in the Medical College of SAMUEL HOGG, M. D. Nashville, TenLouisiana. nessee. WILLIAM J. BARBEE, M. D. George M. Z. KREIDER, M. D., Lancaster, town, Ky. GEORGE W. BAYLESS, M. D. Dissector for the Pathological Cabinet of the Louisville Medical Institute. A- H. BUCHANAN, M. D. Columbia, Tennessee. CHARLES CALDWELL, M. D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, in the Louisville Medical Institute. Ohio. Moses L. LINTON, M. D. Springfield, Kentucky. HENRY MILLER, M. D. Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children, in the Louisville Medical Institute. JOHN W. MONETTE, M. D. Washington, Mississsippi. HENRY PERRINE, M. D. Florida. SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT, M. D. Mis- SAMUEL B. RICHARDSON, M. D. Lousissippi. isville, Ky. A. CLAPP, M. D. New Albany, In- JOHN L. RIDDELL, M. D. Professor of diana. Chemistry in the Medical College of Louisiana. LANDON C. RIVES, M. D. late Professor of Obstetrics, in the Medical Department of the Cincinnati College. CHARLES W. SHORT, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica, in the Louisville Medical Institute. G. TROOST, M. D. Professor of Chem istry and Mineralogy, in the Uni versity of Nashville. AMASA L. TROWBRIDGE, M. D. Professor of Surgery, Willoughby University, Ohio. JOHN A. WARDER, M. D. Cincinnati, Ohio. WILLIAM WOOD, M. D. Cincinnati, Ohio. CONTENTS OF NO. VII. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ESSAYS AND CASES. ART. I.-Remarks on the Medical Statistics of Natchez-a com- parison of its mortality while medicine was protected, and since the introduction of the "Reformed Prac- tice." By SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT, M.D. ART. II.-Practical Observations on the use of Sulphate of Quinine. By JOHN W. MONETTE, M. D. ART. III.-Report of a Case in which a Testis was found, post mortem, in the Abdomen of a Man. By GEORGE W. Varieties of the Human Species. Illustrated by 78 plates, and a colored map. By SAMUEL GEO. MOR- TON, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, &c. 35 Case of Introsusceptio cured by forcing Air into the Intestines. Dividing the Internal Rectus Muscle for the cure of Squinting ORIGINAL INTELLIGENCE. APR 1 1887 ART. I.-Remarks on Statistical Medicine, contrasting the result of the empirical with the regular practice of Physic, in Natchez. By SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT, M.D., of Natchez. I HAVE Witnessed two very different eras in the practice of Medicine in Natchez. In the first, the practice was confined to physicians, who had been regularly educated for that purpose, and the doors closed against all species of empiricism. In the second, the practice has not been confined to physicians properly so called, but fully and freely laid open to all kinds of quacks and ignorant pretenders. I am now about to test the results of the practice of medicine in these two eras, |