JAMAICA MEDICAL NEWS. Several
interesting particulars relating to medical matters in (The Lancet) by the last mail. In the first place, cinchona cultivation seems to be progressing favorably. About 20,000 young plants of the C. Officinalis, and 10,000 of the C. Succirubra will be ready for sale at the government plantations early next jear. The trees grow with surprising luxuriance, as has been evinced by upwards of 1,000 plants, temporarily planted fourteen months ago, then a few inches high, being from now three to four feet in height. The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum has been much improved in its management, but it is overcrowded, and two new ranges of buildings are to be erected. Yellow fever has now left the island ; good results have been obtained in the treatment of cases of this disease by the free exhibition of carbolic acid. The dry-earth system has been adopted with great success in several of the public institutions. A board of examiners is to be appointed under the Medical Act of 1859, to examine medical men wishing to practice who do not possess a British degree. The new Medical Bill has not yet been brought before the Legislative Council. "What it will be is not yet known, but it is hoped that it will be of such a nature as to hold out advantages to medical men to settle in the country districts, where they are so much needed. Jamaica have reached us
interesting particulars relating to medical matters in (The Lancet) by the last mail. In the first place, cinchona cultivation seems to be progressing favorably. About 20,000 young plants of the C. Officinalis, and 10,000 of the C. Succirubra will be ready for sale at the government plantations early next jear. The trees grow with surprising luxuriance, as has been evinced by upwards of 1,000 plants, temporarily planted fourteen months ago, then a few inches high, being from now three to four feet in height. The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum has been much improved in its management, but it is overcrowded, and two new ranges of buildings are to be erected. Yellow fever has now left the island ; good results have been obtained in the treatment of cases of this disease by the free exhibition of carbolic acid. The dry-earth system has been adopted with great success in several of the public institutions. A board of examiners is to be appointed under the Medical Act of 1859, to examine medical men wishing to practice who do not possess a British degree. The new Medical Bill has not yet been brought before the Legislative Council. "What it will be is not yet known, but it is hoped that it will be of such a nature as to hold out advantages to medical men to settle in the country districts, where they are so much needed. Jamaica have reached us
