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the hospital, and subsequent to that only at night. The line of fracture was not detectable; but one of the teeth, where the suppuration of the periosteum had been most extensive, had necrosed, and required removal.
broken-kneed hobbies. M. Piorry, in the course of his answer to M. Trousseau, managed to give all his stud a turn and an airing. We had a reference to the instantaneous diminution of the spleen in ague, as effected by quinine (a little experiT am- Sir_ vonr obedient servantment only lately shown up by M. Nonat); we heard a great H. HOWARD HAYWARD, M.R.C.S. many diseases called by a great many ugly names-all of M. Piorry’s own coining from ancient Greek material; we heard constipation simplified and explained by being termed " scoMEDICAL AND SURGICAL AID TO THE renterasie,"5ncipient phthisis reigning under the title of " phyWOUNDED IN SICILY. and we were reproached, in company with the mo-selerosie;" To the Editor of THE LANCET, medical world at large, for not having adopted this " classical, SiR,-I beg to request a place in your columns for an ac- rational, and not inharmonious nomenclature" with that eagerknowledgment of the following contributions, some of them ness which its projector would have considered becoming and exceeding £90 in value, offered to me in aid of the sick and appropriate in welcoming so glorious a conception. wounded in Sicily :We were told that Pott’s disease, under which comprehensive Messrs. Savory and Moore: 2 hospital panniers, completely term M. Piorry groups no less than twenty separate pathofitted with chemicals, &c., affording a supply for a regiment in logical conditions, could be cured by phosphate of lime, this the field. drug being directly conveyed to the diseased osseous tissues for Messrs. Whicker and Blaise: 12 double inclined planes, their repair, just as might a mason carry his hod of mortar to 12 pairs of leg splints, 12 pairs of thigh splints, 12 pairs of the wall which he is employed in rebuilding. These, and the action of chemical antidotes in poisoning, of nitric acid in lead arm splints, 500 rollers, 12 screw tourniquets, 12 field tournicolic, of alkalies in gastralgia and gout, of nitrate ofsilver in of 12 artificial 1 set instruments. legs, amputating quets, Messrs. Evans and Co., Old Fish-street, City: A similar aphthous sores, and of quinine in the tubercular meningitis of children, were the arguments destined to crush M. Trousseau assortment. Heather Bigg, Esq.: 20 artificial legs, 20 artificial arms, and his vitalist theory. M. Piorry concluded by an appeal to M. Trousseau’s feelings. 25 whalebone splints, 25 crutches, and 25 rollers. In this appeal, he asked whether, as a question of simple gratiDaniel Hanbury, Esq.: 500 yards of diachylon plaster. Also contributions of drugs and dressings from Messrs. Cor- tude for past services, M. Trousseau should not relent a little, a modest corner in the sphere of therabyn, Messer, and Stacy; Messrs. Lloyd Bullock, Watts, and and allow to chemistry and terminated action, from by saying that when men had and instruments and Messrs. peutical dressings Ferguson Cooper; and Son, and Mr. Frederick Walters. nothing to say better worth hearing, they had better (se taire) These and any other contributions which may be offered be silent-a conclusion we all wished the talented Professor of will be forwarded without delay to the head quarters of the Charite had arrived at eight days before. Here, I hope, the matter may end; and as M. Bouillaud withdrew his name General Garibaldi at Palermo. from the discussion some few days back, there are no more I am. Sir. vour obedient servant. ERNEST HART, M.R.C.S. champions likely to come to the rescue. Were this the only sample that I had ever seen of the academical debates, I should rate the medical oratory of France very low indeed. There are, however, many members of the Academy who rarely speak, GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND UNIVERSITY but who possess debating powers of the very highest order, reDEGREES. quiring subjects to their own peculiar tastes to make them shake off their usual apathy. To the Editor of THE LANCET. M. Uiviale, a great authority on lithotrity, next read a SIR,- Will you permit me to call the attention of the pro- paper upon certain organic débris sometimes met with as confession to the regulations about to be issued by the Medical stituting the nucleus of vesical calculi. These were mostly Council regarding university degrees. I am not going to ques- hairs and teeth. In one case, that of a female, noticed by tion the propriety of making it imperative that, in future, all M. Civiale, these materials were, without doubt, furnished by with the candidates for degrees in Medicine should have previously gra- an ovarian cyst, which had contracted adhesions and had opened into this viscus. But in certain bladder-wall, duated in Arts, which may be very correct; but I will only other cases, in which hairs alone were found, M. Civiale seemed say that I hope due notice will be given to those gentlemen inclined to think that these had been detached from the pubes, who are now in practice, possessing the double qualification, and had travelled along the meatus up into the bladder. and who may for some time past have had in contemplation I see in your last issue a reference to M. Lafosse’s case of such a termination to their studies as the addition of M.D. to i vaccine inoculation from a grease pustule. The testitheir other titles, after eight or ten years’ practical experience. supposed of M. Renaud, a veterinary surgeon and member of the mony I think that unless a proper public notice is given in the Academy, was given on the 26th ult., and seems to be worthy medical periodicals (say of six months, previously to the final of attention, as M. Rénaud went himself to Toulouse in order examination taking place) from those universities which now to investigate the alleged discoveries of M. Lafosse; personally grant degrees in Medicine to practitioners, several gentlemen and he expresses himself as positive that the disease whence will be seriously disappointed; and I need scarcely add that, to the virus was obtained was not the grease (Gallici, "ozothem, a residence at college is simply out of the question, as it jambes"), but a disease perfectly distinct from it. It appears, would necessarily entail the loss of their connexion and the however, that M. Renaud arrived at Toulouse a day after the breaking up of their establishments. fair, and when the horse which furnished the virus was in a Trusting that the justice of these remarks will be observed, state of convalescence, and the traces of the disease much I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, fainter and less recognisable in consequence. M. R. C. S. E. and L. S. A. July 1st, 1860. M. Nonat showed me the other day, in his wards at the Charite, a well-marked case of what he terms "luxation"of the kidney, and of which he has met with some dozen or more PARISIAN MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE. examples in the course of his long hospital and private practice. The patient was a woman of fifty, who had never (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) suffered from any disease or discomfort whatever in connexion with the urinary apparatus; and the kidney, although out of THE discussion at the Academy of Medicine was brought to place, seemed as much up to its work as when in its usual a close by M. Piorry, on Tuesday last. It had long become lodgings, its functions not being in any way affected by its most interesting to the general public from the fact that the! erratic mode of life. The organ could be chased over the abdoat will within a certain range of tether. Its favourite participators in the debates seemed entirely to have forgotten men seat seemed to be the right hypochondrium, in front of the that the point to be settled was the relative claims of the chethere it could be grasped, and its contour easily made mical and dynamic modes of action of perchloride of iron on i, liver; out. It might then be pushed down towards the epigastrium, the human economy; and, moreover, that the academical arena and so on through all the right side of the abdomen. Oceawas not intended as an exercising ground for the benefit of oldL sionally it was lost, ducking probably amongst the coils of
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broken-kneed hobbies. M. Piorry, in the course of his answer to M. Trousseau, managed to give all his stud a turn and an airing. We had a reference to the instantaneous diminution of the spleen in ague, as effected by quinine (a little experiT am- Sir_ vonr obedient servantment only lately shown up by M. Nonat); we heard a great H. HOWARD HAYWARD, M.R.C.S. many diseases called by a great many ugly names-all of M. Piorry’s own coining from ancient Greek material; we heard constipation simplified and explained by being termed " scoMEDICAL AND SURGICAL AID TO THE renterasie,"5ncipient phthisis reigning under the title of " phyWOUNDED IN SICILY. and we were reproached, in company with the mo-selerosie;" To the Editor of THE LANCET, medical world at large, for not having adopted this " classical, SiR,-I beg to request a place in your columns for an ac- rational, and not inharmonious nomenclature" with that eagerknowledgment of the following contributions, some of them ness which its projector would have considered becoming and exceeding £90 in value, offered to me in aid of the sick and appropriate in welcoming so glorious a conception. wounded in Sicily :We were told that Pott’s disease, under which comprehensive Messrs. Savory and Moore: 2 hospital panniers, completely term M. Piorry groups no less than twenty separate pathofitted with chemicals, &c., affording a supply for a regiment in logical conditions, could be cured by phosphate of lime, this the field. drug being directly conveyed to the diseased osseous tissues for Messrs. Whicker and Blaise: 12 double inclined planes, their repair, just as might a mason carry his hod of mortar to 12 pairs of leg splints, 12 pairs of thigh splints, 12 pairs of the wall which he is employed in rebuilding. These, and the action of chemical antidotes in poisoning, of nitric acid in lead arm splints, 500 rollers, 12 screw tourniquets, 12 field tournicolic, of alkalies in gastralgia and gout, of nitrate ofsilver in of 12 artificial 1 set instruments. legs, amputating quets, Messrs. Evans and Co., Old Fish-street, City: A similar aphthous sores, and of quinine in the tubercular meningitis of children, were the arguments destined to crush M. Trousseau assortment. Heather Bigg, Esq.: 20 artificial legs, 20 artificial arms, and his vitalist theory. M. Piorry concluded by an appeal to M. Trousseau’s feelings. 25 whalebone splints, 25 crutches, and 25 rollers. In this appeal, he asked whether, as a question of simple gratiDaniel Hanbury, Esq.: 500 yards of diachylon plaster. Also contributions of drugs and dressings from Messrs. Cor- tude for past services, M. Trousseau should not relent a little, a modest corner in the sphere of therabyn, Messer, and Stacy; Messrs. Lloyd Bullock, Watts, and and allow to chemistry and terminated action, from by saying that when men had and instruments and Messrs. peutical dressings Ferguson Cooper; and Son, and Mr. Frederick Walters. nothing to say better worth hearing, they had better (se taire) These and any other contributions which may be offered be silent-a conclusion we all wished the talented Professor of will be forwarded without delay to the head quarters of the Charite had arrived at eight days before. Here, I hope, the matter may end; and as M. Bouillaud withdrew his name General Garibaldi at Palermo. from the discussion some few days back, there are no more I am. Sir. vour obedient servant. ERNEST HART, M.R.C.S. champions likely to come to the rescue. Were this the only sample that I had ever seen of the academical debates, I should rate the medical oratory of France very low indeed. There are, however, many members of the Academy who rarely speak, GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND UNIVERSITY but who possess debating powers of the very highest order, reDEGREES. quiring subjects to their own peculiar tastes to make them shake off their usual apathy. To the Editor of THE LANCET. M. Uiviale, a great authority on lithotrity, next read a SIR,- Will you permit me to call the attention of the pro- paper upon certain organic débris sometimes met with as confession to the regulations about to be issued by the Medical stituting the nucleus of vesical calculi. These were mostly Council regarding university degrees. I am not going to ques- hairs and teeth. In one case, that of a female, noticed by tion the propriety of making it imperative that, in future, all M. Civiale, these materials were, without doubt, furnished by with the candidates for degrees in Medicine should have previously gra- an ovarian cyst, which had contracted adhesions and had opened into this viscus. But in certain bladder-wall, duated in Arts, which may be very correct; but I will only other cases, in which hairs alone were found, M. Civiale seemed say that I hope due notice will be given to those gentlemen inclined to think that these had been detached from the pubes, who are now in practice, possessing the double qualification, and had travelled along the meatus up into the bladder. and who may for some time past have had in contemplation I see in your last issue a reference to M. Lafosse’s case of such a termination to their studies as the addition of M.D. to i vaccine inoculation from a grease pustule. The testitheir other titles, after eight or ten years’ practical experience. supposed of M. Renaud, a veterinary surgeon and member of the mony I think that unless a proper public notice is given in the Academy, was given on the 26th ult., and seems to be worthy medical periodicals (say of six months, previously to the final of attention, as M. Rénaud went himself to Toulouse in order examination taking place) from those universities which now to investigate the alleged discoveries of M. Lafosse; personally grant degrees in Medicine to practitioners, several gentlemen and he expresses himself as positive that the disease whence will be seriously disappointed; and I need scarcely add that, to the virus was obtained was not the grease (Gallici, "ozothem, a residence at college is simply out of the question, as it jambes"), but a disease perfectly distinct from it. It appears, would necessarily entail the loss of their connexion and the however, that M. Renaud arrived at Toulouse a day after the breaking up of their establishments. fair, and when the horse which furnished the virus was in a Trusting that the justice of these remarks will be observed, state of convalescence, and the traces of the disease much I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, fainter and less recognisable in consequence. M. R. C. S. E. and L. S. A. July 1st, 1860. M. Nonat showed me the other day, in his wards at the Charite, a well-marked case of what he terms "luxation"of the kidney, and of which he has met with some dozen or more PARISIAN MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE. examples in the course of his long hospital and private practice. The patient was a woman of fifty, who had never (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) suffered from any disease or discomfort whatever in connexion with the urinary apparatus; and the kidney, although out of THE discussion at the Academy of Medicine was brought to place, seemed as much up to its work as when in its usual a close by M. Piorry, on Tuesday last. It had long become lodgings, its functions not being in any way affected by its most interesting to the general public from the fact that the! erratic mode of life. The organ could be chased over the abdoat will within a certain range of tether. Its favourite participators in the debates seemed entirely to have forgotten men seat seemed to be the right hypochondrium, in front of the that the point to be settled was the relative claims of the chethere it could be grasped, and its contour easily made mical and dynamic modes of action of perchloride of iron on i, liver; out. It might then be pushed down towards the epigastrium, the human economy; and, moreover, that the academical arena and so on through all the right side of the abdomen. Oceawas not intended as an exercising ground for the benefit of oldL sionally it was lost, ducking probably amongst the coils of
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