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Germany is unhappily now passing has induced the organising committee of the approaching Congress to leave the questions of its patronage and its honorary presidentship
the deputy coroner had called Mr. Bailey himself. We venture to believe that he will have some different account to give of the matter. It is unlikely that a medical man would leave a blank certificate, any more than a blank and business transacted on in the the the meantime; open 12th inst, was chiefly limited to the appointment of working cheque. If the account is true, of course we have no excuse office-bearers. Dr.Reiss was elected president; Drs.Virchow to suggest for it, especially after the full condemnation of and Bastian, vice-presidents; Drs. Olshausen and Hellmann, such practices by the profession and the Medical Council. general secretaries ; and Drs. Gussfeldt. Stiibel-Dresden, Joest, and J. Ranke, ordinary secretaries; while Dr. SchonDR. BRAMANN. lauk will act as treasurer. These names amply warrant the DR. FRITZ BRAMANN has been gazetted in Berlin as the expectation that in point of interest and solid achievement the Congress will maintain, if not enhance, the reputation recipient of the Commander’s Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order, bestowed by the Emperor as a reward for his of its predecessors. skilful performance of the operation of tracheotomy on the Crown Prince. Dr. Bramann is the eldest son of a still A BELGIAN PHARMACIST ON DOCTORS WHO DISPENSE. surviving landed proprietor near Darkemen in East Prussia., He studied medicine at lionigsberg, and acted as assistant A BELGIAN medical journal publishes an indignant epistle to Dr. Schildner, Professor of Clinical Surgery in that school. addressed by a pharmacist to a relief committee, endeavourIn this capacity he earned a high reputation for skill as an ing to show them how improper and injurious it is to allow and was specially deputed from Berlin, where his their medical officers to dispense medicines (as in some cases operator, have long been known, to perform tracheotomy, if merits they do) for the poor. He complains that medical men do occasion arose, on his Imperial Highness. Dr. Bramann, who not pass through a course of study or examinations fitting is only in his thirty-fifth year, has had to struggle with them for compounding and dispensing medicine, that they severe illnesses, which wellnigh wrecked his proare ignorant of the adulterations (falsifications) of drugs, many career. He has suffered successively from typhus, fessional and that where the same person both prescribes and disfrom enteric fever, and from diphtheria, and on each occapenses there is no guarantee against error, and any mistake sion his life was despaired of by the skilled physicians who is sure to be undetected or hushed up, so that, in fact, -
were consulted. paupers run a serious risk of being poisoned ! Of course, the gist of all this is that the writer wishes for the appointPOLLUTION OF THE THAMES AT STAINES. ment of dispenser. The medical man who quotes this letter THE question as to the liability of the Staines Local says that the bureau to whom it was addressed took no Board as regards the pollution of the Thames at Staines has notice of it, and remarks that the writer-who, by the way, often been discussed, and, as certain legal questions must be sells paints, varnish, &c., as well as drugs-has evidently decided before this liability can be decided, it has now been studied the question of falsification to some purpose, for in agreed that the ancient practice of taking a special verdict an account rendered to one relief committee he charged should be followed. The result of this will be that the 70 fr, for medicines for two months for a pauper before his in dispute will be brought before the Court for Crown death, and 20 fr. more for medicines up to a date seven weeks points Cases Reserved. The Thames Conservators have power to after his death. At that rate Poor-law pharmacists must prevent drainage into any canal, cut, or watercourse leading have a very superior position to Poor-law doctors. to the Thames, within ten miles of the river; and in view of the sources of metropolitan water supply, it is most important that all technical hindrances to their action FEVER IN LONDON. should be removed as speedily as possible. THE number of cases of scarlet fever admitted into the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board was 92 during the week ended Feb. 24th; during the preceding week 110 THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC. cases were admitted. Two cases of small-pox, 9 of enteric SMALL-POX is still extending in various parts of Yorkshire, fever, and 1 of typhus fever were also received, the small- Lancashire, and North Darbyshire. Several new centres of pox cases coming from Greenwich and St. George’s-in-the- infection are reported from the Chesterfield Rural Sanitary east, and the case of typhus from Woolwich. The number District, the authority for which has for years past postponed of deaths from diphtheria in the week ending Saturday, the question of providing means for isolating first cases of Feb. 18tb, was 18, the corrected average for that week being infectious disease. At Eckington the School Board have 13’8. There was therefore a diminution of the mortality been requested to close the school in consequence of the recorded in the preceding week. proximity ofthe disease. As to this, we should have thought that vaccination and exclusion of scholars from infected houses would have been quite as, if not more, BLANK DEATH CERTIFICATES. efficient; but the responsibility for the needed measures THE deputy coroner for Birmingham has referred to must necessarily devolve on the local officials. Registrar-General the statements at an inquest as to the I way in which the certificate of death was given for a child, DEPARTMENT. who, after a fall, was treated at the General Hospital, and THE FRENCH MILITARY MEDICAL SOMETHING akin to boycotting appears to be now oversubsequently by Mr. Bailey. After death a certificate was sent for. The Birmingham Daily Post thus describes how it taking the French military medical service, for, according was given: " Mr. Bailey was out, and his assistant, Mr. to La Province Médicale the last batch of probationer Donald M’Donald, on her (the witness) representing that surgeons (médecins stagiaires) entering the military medical she wasted a certificate at once, filled up a form stating that school of Val de Grace being incomplete, it was determined the cause of death was convulsions. Mr. M’Donald said to hold a fresh competition to fill up the vacancies. This that Mr. Bailey put his pignature to a certificate on Friday was duly advertised, but no candidates made their appearand gave it to witness, with instructions to fill it up if re- ance. The French Government has under its consideration quired. Two patients were expected to die, but deceased a scheme for the establishment of a new military medical was not one of them." It would have been satisfactory if ,chool at the seat of one of the great provincial Faculties ___
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Germany is unhappily now passing has induced the organising committee of the approaching Congress to leave the questions of its patronage and its honorary presidentship
the deputy coroner had called Mr. Bailey himself. We venture to believe that he will have some different account to give of the matter. It is unlikely that a medical man would leave a blank certificate, any more than a blank and business transacted on in the the the meantime; open 12th inst, was chiefly limited to the appointment of working cheque. If the account is true, of course we have no excuse office-bearers. Dr.Reiss was elected president; Drs.Virchow to suggest for it, especially after the full condemnation of and Bastian, vice-presidents; Drs. Olshausen and Hellmann, such practices by the profession and the Medical Council. general secretaries ; and Drs. Gussfeldt. Stiibel-Dresden, Joest, and J. Ranke, ordinary secretaries; while Dr. SchonDR. BRAMANN. lauk will act as treasurer. These names amply warrant the DR. FRITZ BRAMANN has been gazetted in Berlin as the expectation that in point of interest and solid achievement the Congress will maintain, if not enhance, the reputation recipient of the Commander’s Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order, bestowed by the Emperor as a reward for his of its predecessors. skilful performance of the operation of tracheotomy on the Crown Prince. Dr. Bramann is the eldest son of a still A BELGIAN PHARMACIST ON DOCTORS WHO DISPENSE. surviving landed proprietor near Darkemen in East Prussia., He studied medicine at lionigsberg, and acted as assistant A BELGIAN medical journal publishes an indignant epistle to Dr. Schildner, Professor of Clinical Surgery in that school. addressed by a pharmacist to a relief committee, endeavourIn this capacity he earned a high reputation for skill as an ing to show them how improper and injurious it is to allow and was specially deputed from Berlin, where his their medical officers to dispense medicines (as in some cases operator, have long been known, to perform tracheotomy, if merits they do) for the poor. He complains that medical men do occasion arose, on his Imperial Highness. Dr. Bramann, who not pass through a course of study or examinations fitting is only in his thirty-fifth year, has had to struggle with them for compounding and dispensing medicine, that they severe illnesses, which wellnigh wrecked his proare ignorant of the adulterations (falsifications) of drugs, many career. He has suffered successively from typhus, fessional and that where the same person both prescribes and disfrom enteric fever, and from diphtheria, and on each occapenses there is no guarantee against error, and any mistake sion his life was despaired of by the skilled physicians who is sure to be undetected or hushed up, so that, in fact, -
were consulted. paupers run a serious risk of being poisoned ! Of course, the gist of all this is that the writer wishes for the appointPOLLUTION OF THE THAMES AT STAINES. ment of dispenser. The medical man who quotes this letter THE question as to the liability of the Staines Local says that the bureau to whom it was addressed took no Board as regards the pollution of the Thames at Staines has notice of it, and remarks that the writer-who, by the way, often been discussed, and, as certain legal questions must be sells paints, varnish, &c., as well as drugs-has evidently decided before this liability can be decided, it has now been studied the question of falsification to some purpose, for in agreed that the ancient practice of taking a special verdict an account rendered to one relief committee he charged should be followed. The result of this will be that the 70 fr, for medicines for two months for a pauper before his in dispute will be brought before the Court for Crown death, and 20 fr. more for medicines up to a date seven weeks points Cases Reserved. The Thames Conservators have power to after his death. At that rate Poor-law pharmacists must prevent drainage into any canal, cut, or watercourse leading have a very superior position to Poor-law doctors. to the Thames, within ten miles of the river; and in view of the sources of metropolitan water supply, it is most important that all technical hindrances to their action FEVER IN LONDON. should be removed as speedily as possible. THE number of cases of scarlet fever admitted into the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board was 92 during the week ended Feb. 24th; during the preceding week 110 THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC. cases were admitted. Two cases of small-pox, 9 of enteric SMALL-POX is still extending in various parts of Yorkshire, fever, and 1 of typhus fever were also received, the small- Lancashire, and North Darbyshire. Several new centres of pox cases coming from Greenwich and St. George’s-in-the- infection are reported from the Chesterfield Rural Sanitary east, and the case of typhus from Woolwich. The number District, the authority for which has for years past postponed of deaths from diphtheria in the week ending Saturday, the question of providing means for isolating first cases of Feb. 18tb, was 18, the corrected average for that week being infectious disease. At Eckington the School Board have 13’8. There was therefore a diminution of the mortality been requested to close the school in consequence of the recorded in the preceding week. proximity ofthe disease. As to this, we should have thought that vaccination and exclusion of scholars from infected houses would have been quite as, if not more, BLANK DEATH CERTIFICATES. efficient; but the responsibility for the needed measures THE deputy coroner for Birmingham has referred to must necessarily devolve on the local officials. Registrar-General the statements at an inquest as to the I way in which the certificate of death was given for a child, DEPARTMENT. who, after a fall, was treated at the General Hospital, and THE FRENCH MILITARY MEDICAL SOMETHING akin to boycotting appears to be now oversubsequently by Mr. Bailey. After death a certificate was sent for. The Birmingham Daily Post thus describes how it taking the French military medical service, for, according was given: " Mr. Bailey was out, and his assistant, Mr. to La Province Médicale the last batch of probationer Donald M’Donald, on her (the witness) representing that surgeons (médecins stagiaires) entering the military medical she wasted a certificate at once, filled up a form stating that school of Val de Grace being incomplete, it was determined the cause of death was convulsions. Mr. M’Donald said to hold a fresh competition to fill up the vacancies. This that Mr. Bailey put his pignature to a certificate on Friday was duly advertised, but no candidates made their appearand gave it to witness, with instructions to fill it up if re- ance. The French Government has under its consideration quired. Two patients were expected to die, but deceased a scheme for the establishment of a new military medical was not one of them." It would have been satisfactory if ,chool at the seat of one of the great provincial Faculties ___
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