Dr. Charles Brewer, class of 1855, of Vineland, N. J., died at his home, in Vineland, March 3, 1909, aged 76. From 1858 to the outbreak of the Civil War he was a member of the Medical Corps of the Army, and during the war a surgeon in the Confederate States service. Under President Cleveland he was postmaster at Vineland, N. J., and resident physician at the State Prison, Trenton, from 1891 to 1896.
Dr. William F. Chenault, class of 1888, of Cleveland, N. C., a member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, died at his home, in Cleveland, N. C., February 24, 1909, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.
Dr. James B. R. Purnell, class of 1850, of Snow Hill, Maryland, died at his home, in Snow Hill, March 7, 1909, from senile debility, aged 80. He was vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1900-1901, formerly physician to the county almshouse and health officer of Worcester county.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Laughlin, class of 1904, of Kingwood, West Virginia, died at the home of his father, in Deer Park, Md., from paralysis, March 9, 1909, aged 31.
IN PNEUMONIA the inspired air should be rich in oxygen and comparatively cool, while the surface of the body, especially the thorax, should be kept warm, lest, becoming chilled, the action of the phagocytes in their battle with the pneumococci be inhibited.
Antiphlogistine
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