RT Journal
T1 BAltimore.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD December 9
VO XXXIII
IS 24
SP 1503
OP 1503
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450760059023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450760059023
AB Dr. J. S. Woodward of Sparrow's Point, a suburb of Baltimore, has been fined $50 and costs, amounting to $76.21, for failure to report a case of smallpox last summer, to the State Board of Health. W. A. Fisher of the Johns Hopkins Medical School is investigating actinomycosis, working on a case which was successfully operated on two weeks ago by Dr. J. T. M. Finney. He is cultivating, in the Hopkins Laboratory, a bacillus removed from the tissues, and inoculating rats and mice with it. Dr. Howard A. Kelly of the Johns Hopkins University, is much interested in snakes and keeps a considerable collection of poisonous and non-poisonous varieties. Dr. Kelly and Dr. Thos. R. Brown are investigating the subject of snake poisons and their antidotes, and the former proposes writing a book on the snakes of North America. The Chemical Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University was damaged