Dr. Benjamin Franklin Laughlin, class of 1904, died at his home, at Deer Park, Md., aged 31 years. He first located at Blaine, W. Va., where he practiced. He was taken ill at Kingwood, W. Va., some months ago, and was later sent to a Baltimore hospital, but he showed no signs of improvement. He was a son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Laughlin, Deer Park, and a brother of Hice Laughlin, a prominent Baltimore and Ohio official, Grafton, W. Va.
Dr. George C. Farnandas, class of 1852, of Baltimore, died Sunday, April 4, 1909, at his home, 1721 Maryland avenue, Baltimore, of old age. The funeral took place from his late home, 1721 Maryland avenue. Dr. Farnandas was 80 years old. Before the Civil War he had a large practice, but gave it up so that he might travel. He was well known to the older generation of Baltimoreans. The services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Eccleston, rector of Emmanuel Church.
The honorary pallbearers were Dr. N. K. Keirle, Dr. James M. Craighill, Dr. Samuel T. Earle, Mr. Thomas H. Robinson and Mr. Wm. P. Trimble, of Harford county. Burial was in Greenmount Cemetery.
Mrs. Virginia Blackwell Carder, aged 38 years, wife of Dr. George M. Carder, class of 1891, of Cumberland, Md., died March 17, 1909, after a struggle of two weeks against the ravages of a mastoid abscess.
Mrs. Carder was preparing to visit her sister, Mrs. Gay Breton Leroux, in Douglas, Ga.
Suddenly she was stricken, and when an operation became necessary Mrs. Carder insisted that her husband, a surgeon who has kept constant vigil the last two weeks, perform the operation. The operation was apparently very successful, and Mrs. Carder was improving, when complications in the form of typhoid fever set in. Prof. C. W. Mitchell, of Baltimore, and Drs. J. T. Walker and Harry Hyland Kerr, of Washington, were called by Dr. Carder, and all said everything possible was being done for her, but held out no hope.
Mrs. Carder was the daughter of Thomas Callan, of Narrows Park, and, besides her husband, leaves a little son (Robert Callan Carder), two brothers (George S. Callan, of Duffields, W. Va., and Charles T. Callan, of Little Orleans, Md.), and one sister (Mrs. Leroux). Miss Mary L. Callan, a sister, was accidentally drowned in the Potomac at Little Orleans.
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.