The Tulane Phagocyte, February, 1902 - New Orleans Medical History - Dr. Matas

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[NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL HISTORY]
THE
Tulane Phagocyte,
NEW SERIES, VOL. I, NO. 4
:
A Monthly Journal published in the interests of the Alumni and Undergraduates of the Medical Department.
Hermann B. Gessner, M.D., '95, Editor-In-Chief - Various Contributors. New Orleans:
Tulane University of Louisiana, Office of Publication: 124 Baronne Street
- Printed by
SEARCY & PFAFF, 106 CAMP STREET, Cor. Canal,
1902. Rare 8vo. Pagination: [70]-92, lists + [9] pages local advertising
(including inside wraps and lower cover)
.
Original printed wrappers, side-stapled, exhibiting slight edgewear, toning at cover wrap. Textblock evenly agetoned - chipping at fore-edges of final four leaves - acceptable condition overall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   This short-lived medical periodical was published from 1901-1905, for a total of five volumes. Lead article includes a successful operation as reported by Dr. Rudolph Matas involving a young boy, engaged as a farmer in one of the neighboring parishes, who was admitted to the Charity Hospital after falling from a high load of hay and striking the ground with his shoulder:
"especially interesting to the Senior students who are cultivating surgical anatomy, as an unusual demonstration of the anatomical forces at work in causing the deformity that usually follows in oblique fractures of the surgical neck of the humerus when these are not recognized or are neglected and repair is allowed to take place by the unaided efforts of nature. To the practitioner, it also illustrates the advantages of the open method of refracture and reduction when the deformity is great and the functional value of the extremity is impaired by the union of the broken fragments in a vicious attitude."
Final three pages address the conclusions of the Mosquito commission of the Orleans Parish Medical Society.