METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT ST. LOUIS, MO. By A. WISLIZENUS, M.D. The following observations of daily temperature in St. Louis are made with a MAXIMUM and MINIMUM thermometer (of Green, N. Y.). The daily minimum occurs generally in the night, the maximum about 3 P. M. The monthly mean of the daily minima and maxima, added and divided by 2, gives a quite reliable mean of the monthly temperature. REPORT OF ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, TEMPERATURE, AND HUMIDITY. BASED ON DAILY OBSERVATIONS at 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, AND 9 O'CLOCK, FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT, AT ST. LOUIS, MO. 1.-Monthly Mean of Positive Atmospheric Electricity. Year. 1868. 1868. 1868. 1868. Month. 6 a. m. 9 a. m. 12 m. 3 p. m. 6 p. m. 9 p. m. Mean of Month. 44.9 29.3 29.9 November. 39.5 42.2 49.1 49.7 45.6 143.5 December. 25.9 27.8 32.6 33.8 30.2 3.-Monthly Mean of Relative Humidity. November. 81.1 70.1 58.7 59.2 66.9 72.6 68.1 88.9 75.8 65.7 62.9 76.1 81.4 75.1 December. November was, as usual, a mild, pleasant month, a continuation of Indian summer. Its mean temperature, 43.5 deg., differs scarcely from that for 30 years, which is 43.4 deg. The quantity of rain in November amounted to but 2.04, while the average is 3.16. December, that presents us often with fair weather until Christmas, acted this year the part of Jack Frost so thoroughly, that the present generation has probably not seen its like in St. Louis. On 24 days the minimum thermometer fell below freezing point; on the 11th even as low as -II deg. Fah., which is 4 deg. lower than has, within 33 years, been observed for this month in St. Louis. The average for the month also, 27.9 deg., is far lower than its general average, 33.8 deg.; while the quantity of rain and snow, 3.09, approaches its average, 3.16. Rough northwest winds prevailed, and frequent snowstorms spread over the whole country, followed by a wave of such intense cold, that the thermometer is reported in some localities to have been depressed to -20 and 30 deg. Towards the end of the month it became somewhat milder. Requiescat in pace! but people generally will recollect him as a winter ruffian. YEAR. YEARLY REPORT OF ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY, TEMPERATURE, AND HUMIDITY, FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE AT ST. LOUIS, MO. By A. WISLIZENUS, M.D. 1.-Monthly Mean of Positive Atmospheric Electricity in 1861-1868, based on daily observations at 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock, from morning till night. Aug. Sept. Oct. Mean...... II. I 10. S So 5.9 4.3 2.7 2.4 3.4 27 6.3 8.8 9.1 6.3 2.-Monthly Mean of Temperature and Relative Humidity in 1861-1868, based upon daily observations contemporaneous with those of Atmospheric Electricity. Mean...... 29.8 36 4 43 4 56 3 667 76.6 81.1 78.6 69 9 56.3 45 7 34-7 56.3 Mean 7 59.1 61.4 8 63 7 61.9 64.7 60.7 60.0 63.7 61.8 72.9 69 7 88528253 359 88252855 9 6 67.4 75.1 76.3 70.8 69.0 63.0 60.9 65.8 67.0 66.0 72.4 71.2 68.5 76.5 69.0 3.4 3.0 4.8 1 8 1 2 5.3 7.1 10.0 3.2 7.0 10.2 3.5 4.2 2.6 4.3 12.6 13. 12.1 11.5 6.6 9.0 14.3 43196746 9090965542 44267205 3.-Yearly Mean of Positive Electricity, of Temperature and of Relative Humidity of the atmosphere at the hours of 6, 9, 12, 3, 6 and 9, from morning till night, based upon daily observations at those hours in 1861-1868. THE SAINT LOUIS Medical and Surgical Journal. MARCH 10, 1869. Original Communications. CLINICAL LECTURE ON INDICATIONS FOR TREATMENT IN INFLAMMATION. Delivered before the Class of the Missouri Medical College, Dec., 1867. By J. H. WATTERS, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Pathology, and Clinical Medicine. GENTLEMEN : You are asked to-day to direct your attention and thoughts to the indications for treatment in inflammation. The varieties of external inflammation, as they have occurred in this hospital during the last few weeks, have been presented for your observation. The morbid anatomy of inflammation, and of such varieties of the disease as you have been called upon to observe, have been considered. The inflammations of internal parts are, as you will at once apprehend, subject to like variations with those externally observed. Inflammation, though genetic, includes different species and varieties, and appropriate treatment is subject to like modifications. I therefore desire, in anticipation of |