Medical Practice

During the war, the surgeons of the Southern army had many cases of sickneas to cure, and very few drugs to give. There was scarcely a mannfactory of Chemicals in the Southern States, and the blockade made the foreign supply Bcanty and dear. The doctors were, therefore, obliged to experiment on a large scale. They tried every sort of vegetable product. Tney changed, and in some instances reversed, the old method of treatment, because they were found to conflict with the new remedies. Lives were necessarily sacrificad in this enforced search for knowledge, but a number of valuable discoveries were made. It is said, indeed, that medical practica at the South has been permanently changed by the lessons of the war. In order to collate and permanently record the results of this nnïque exparience, the doctors have formed a Southern Surgeons' Association, which has just held its first annual session at Richmond. The late general of the Confederacy presided. His address and the papers read are to be published. They will doubtless, form a curious chapter in the history of medical scienco. I