Medical history of the year 1868, in California / A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869, and published by order of the Society.

  • Thomas M. Logan
Date:
1869
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Credit: Medical history of the year 1868, in California / A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869, and published by order of the Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Of the Year 1SG8, in California. [Read before the Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement, on the 10th of February, 18G8, and ordered for Publication.] By THOS. M. LOGAN, M. D,, Visiting Physician to the Small-Pox Hospital, Sacramento. The year 1868 will ever remain conspicuous on the pages of history, not only from a medical, but also from a eos- mical point of view. The whole universe has been in commotion. In the air above and in the incandescent elements below, there have been turmoil and strife, while over the surface of the earth a great pandemic wave has rolled with destructive impetuosity. And now that the action is, we trust, well nigh over, and the dust and smoke of the vast battle-ground are beginning to clear away, it is both meet and right for us to make a reconnoissance of the field of ojjerations—to take an account of the killed and wounded, and to place upon record the results of our in- vestigations. Nor will the military metaphor, borrowed from a lamented friend, * be deemed entirely out of place, when it is remembered that the terrible finale of strife is in that last act of the drama in which the surgeon plays his part. From no other source can we get such an appreci- * The late Dr. E. D. Fennel-, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the New Orleans School of Medicine.