Denver Medical Times (Volume 18)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... DENVER MEDICAL TIMES THOMAS H. HAWKINS, M.D., LL.D., Editor. DENVER MEDICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. THOS. H. GIBBS, Business Manager. COLLABORATORS: Henry O. Marcy, M.D., Boston. S. H. Pinkerton. M.D., Salt Lake City. Thaddeus A. Resmy, M.D., Cincinnati. Flavel B. Tiffany, M.D., Kansas City. Nicholas Senn, M.D., Chicago. M. B. Ward, M.D., Topeka, Kan. William T. Lusk, M.D., New York. Erskine S. Bates, M.D., New York. Horace Tracy Hanks, M.D.. New York. E. C. Gehrung, M.D., St. Louis. Joseph Price, M.D., Philadelphia. Graeme M. Hammond, M.D., New York. Joseph Eastman, M.D., Indianapolis. James A. Lydston, M.D., Chicago. Franklin H. Martin, M.D., Chicago. J. T. Eskridge, M.D., Denver. William Oliver Moore, M.D., New York. Leonard Freeman, M.D., Denver. L. S. McMurtry, M.D., Louisville. Bradford Galloway, M.D., Leadville, Colo. G. Law, M.D., Greeley, Colo. Subscriptions, $2.00 per Year in Advance; Single Copies, 20 Cents. Address all Communications to 1740 Welton Street, Denver, Colo. We will at all times be glad to give space to well written articles or items of interest to the profession. Entered at the Postoffice of Denver, Colorado, as mail matter of the Second Class. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Snakes and Snake Bites. Dr. B. Merrill Ricketts concludes a careful scientific article on Serpents and Their Venom (Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic, Sept. 3d) with the following observations: The copperhead, coral and rattlesnake are the only serpents in the United States which possess fangs, at the base of which is a sack containing a poisonous fluid. The result of inoculation depends upon the dose and size of human being or animal. Most of the authentic cases of death by these serpents have been among children. No authentic death, as the result of the bite of either one of t...