Professional letters from Europe, written during the summer of 1852 / by the Assistant Editor of the Nashville medical and surgical journals ; to the subscribers of the Nashville medical and surgical journal.

  • Paul F. Eve
Date:
1854
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Credit: Professional letters from Europe, written during the summer of 1852 / by the Assistant Editor of the Nashville medical and surgical journals ; to the subscribers of the Nashville medical and surgical journal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THESE LETTERS WERE ADDRESSED TO PROF. WM. K. BOWLING, M. D., EDITOR OF THE NASHVILLE MED. AND SURG. JOURNAL. Paris, May 25th, 1852. I arrived here safe on the 21st, and soon met our friends, Prof. Lindsley and Drs. Duval, Breckenridge and some others, who like myself have been attracted to this head-quarters of medical science. I find our colleague labours in the labora- tory nine hours a day. [Dr. John S. Duval was an assistant to Prof. Silliman, Jun., and for the past two years filled the same office, with much satisfaction to students and faculty, to Prof. Lindsley in the Nashville University. He is now a practitioner of rising reputation in our city. Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge has been elected to the Professorship of Thera- peutics and Materia Medica in the Kentucky Medical College, since his return from Europe. He was also recently nomi- nated to Congress, but had to decline on account of his only deficiency for that high and resposible office—the requisite age for membership. He has the appointment of physician to the Louisville marine hospital. Few possess higher order of talent or promise to arrive at greater professional dis- tinction.] I have, as yet, only visited La Charite and shaken hands with the great Velpeau. He has but little of much interest in his wards. I saw him divide the tendon of the tibialis anticus muscle, and operate for cataract. He has one curious case to Avhich he specially directed my attention: this is a salivary fistula situated about % of an inch behind the angle of the inferior maxileary bone, in a young man of 19 years. The patient says he had an abscess in the parotid region which was open seven years ago and this fistula is the result. The peculiarity is its position, so distant from the canal of Steno. In his lecture of the morning he dwelt upon the therapeu- tic effects of Tinct. Iodine in mammary abscesses. Used of full strength, he has known excellent results in abcesses even with free suppuration, provided there is no internal organ affected. To Velpeau we are indebted for the valuable practice of injecting strong solutions to obliterate closed cavi-