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HOSPITAL WORKSHOPS FOR THE EPILEPTIC.
260 which are met with in the paracental dangerous places, but they would hardly submit to total The authors assert that the demonstration deprivation of freedom. Many epileptics labour in ordi. now is complete that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is nary workshops, and trust to the kindness of their confined to a particular set of nervous fibres ; it is a fellow-workers. Other working epileptics have learnt the strictly systemic affection, but it involves the system throughout its premonitory signs of their attacks, and act on this knowwhole length, reaching from the large pyramidal cells of the ledge. In epilepsy the fits sometimes set in with great cerebral cortex to the large cells of the anterior horns of the suddenness, and this may happen anywhere and at any spinal cord, whence it is extended to the peripheral time. The points for consideration are so numerous muscular element. and varied that to deal with them all in a comprehenaiy scheme would require machinery and agencies far beyond SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA CAUSED BY whatN. N." contemplated in suggesting hospital workshop: LABOUR. for the epileptic. DR. A. KIRALYFI of Buda-Pesth describes in the -Pester MICROZYMES OF JEQUIRITY. Med.-Chir. Presse the case of a woman, aged thirty-four, NOTWITHSTANDING the excellent advocacy of the "non. after an occurred interval of six whose sixth pregnancy of abrus bacillar nature the was and labour the child The poison" by Drs. Warden and severe; large years. parts were also unusually rigid ; and the straining of the patient Waddell, the subject has not been settled. Sattler, it will with closed glottis produced a rupture in the larynx or be remembered, believed in the existence of a specific trachea, after which each pain forced air into the subcu- bacillus of jequirity. Cornil maintained that the sub. taneous and submucous cellular tissue, the consequent cutaneous injection of small doses of the poison conferred swelling in the mouth, pharynx, and posterior nares causing immunity from subsequent inoculations. This was also the voice to become nasal. The face and neck were also opposed by Drs. Warden and Waddell. MM. J. Bechamp puffed, and crepitated on pulsation. There were no other and A. Dujardin have recently worked at the question, symptoms, with the exception of a slight feeling of oppres- They find that the microzymes isolated from the seeds of sion on the chest. The author therefore made no searifica- jequirity possess active phlogogenic properties, as has the tions, but determined to treat the case in an expectant way, jequirity infusion itself. Further, these agents can fluidify and the emphysema disappeared within six days. Except starch, and they can develop into bacteria. Injected into in cases where immediate danger is apprehended, he does the veins, they produce a disease and death altogether like not think the plan of letting the air out through punctures that due to the jequirity infusion. These observers assert of the skin is advisable, as, if the alveoli do not communi- that the activity of a maceration of jequirity is not cate, a large number of incisions must be made, and there dependent on the presence of microbes from the air. äs danger of extensive abscesses resulting.
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MR. GLADSTONE’S HEALTH. MR. GLADSTONE has derived very material benefit from the prolonged rest of his voice and from the local treatAT the monthly meeting of the Liverpool City Council on ment which has been assiduously carried out during thz the 5th inst., it was resolved by a majority of thirty-three last three weeks. His voice is much stronger, and the to five " that, the Committee of the Royal Infirmary having hoarseness hardly noticeable. He leaves town to-day (Friday) informed the Finance and Estate Committee that it is their for a cruise in Sir Thomas Brassey’s yacht, the Sunbeam, and intention to rebuild the infirmary on an enlarged site, and it is hoped that the bracing air of the ocean will contributt having represented that funds are required for this purpose, towards completing the improvement so far obtained. it be recommended that there be included in the next application to Parliament power to grant to the trustees of the DOES NORMAL URINE CONTAIN CYSTINE? Royal Infirmary the sum of .615,000 out of the capital estate of the Corporation, to be specifically applied towards the IT being difficult to account for all the sulphur contained expense of acquiring the requisite land, and towards the in normal urine, and it having been supposed by several chemists that cystine, which contains a large proportion .expense of rebuilding the infirmary." of sulphur, exists in normal urine-a supposition rendered more probable by the considerable Iævo-rotatory HOSPITAL WORKSHOPS FOR THE EPILEPTIC. power of urine, cystine being known to possess that proTHE suggestion made by " N. N." in the current number of perty in a high degree,-Stadhagen has recently examined the Charity Organisation Review, though a good one, appears numerous residues from normal urine, and has come to thl to us, after careful consideration, to be impracticable. The first conclusion that neither cystine nor a peculiar sulphur aciw ,difficulty which has to be considered is the great variety of for which he also searched, is contained in normal urine, epileptics. What would suit one would not do for all. If all epileptics had a fit once a month, and the time of onset of DR. DAVID BRADLEY. that fit were known in each case, the scheme would be a WE are asked to state that Mr. R. Jeffreys, Eastwood feasible one. It might be practicable for a certain number of - epileptics. Again, if supervision be necessary, it must be House, Chesterfield, will receive subscriptions on behalfoi carried out day and night. The hospital workshop would the fund being raised for Dr. Bradley. It is gratifying to learn that Dr. Bradley’s name has not been remoi-edfcorr occupy the attention of the patients only a part of the twenty-four hours. If residence at the hospital work- the Medical Register. shop be necessary or advisable, then the plan would DR. HERMANN v. BoECK, Professor of Pharmacology in ’be equivalent to that comprised in any asylum for has died at the age of forty-two. Also the doet-’ Munich, not We are sure that would a scheme such epileptics. But would the epileptic submit is announced, at the age of forty-six, of the well-known not be the very best. to it ? The patient who had a fit daily, or more frequently, physician for children’s diseases in Buda-Pesth, Dr, Faludy. might possibly submit to confinement ; but what about the large number of epileptics whose attacks occur much less DR. PILKINGTON, the Mayor of Southport, is a candidate frequently ? You may get this latter class to keep away from in the Liberal interest for the borough.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.
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MR. GLADSTONE’S HEALTH. MR. GLADSTONE has derived very material benefit from the prolonged rest of his voice and from the local treatAT the monthly meeting of the Liverpool City Council on ment which has been assiduously carried out during thz the 5th inst., it was resolved by a majority of thirty-three last three weeks. His voice is much stronger, and the to five " that, the Committee of the Royal Infirmary having hoarseness hardly noticeable. He leaves town to-day (Friday) informed the Finance and Estate Committee that it is their for a cruise in Sir Thomas Brassey’s yacht, the Sunbeam, and intention to rebuild the infirmary on an enlarged site, and it is hoped that the bracing air of the ocean will contributt having represented that funds are required for this purpose, towards completing the improvement so far obtained. it be recommended that there be included in the next application to Parliament power to grant to the trustees of the DOES NORMAL URINE CONTAIN CYSTINE? Royal Infirmary the sum of .615,000 out of the capital estate of the Corporation, to be specifically applied towards the IT being difficult to account for all the sulphur contained expense of acquiring the requisite land, and towards the in normal urine, and it having been supposed by several chemists that cystine, which contains a large proportion .expense of rebuilding the infirmary." of sulphur, exists in normal urine-a supposition rendered more probable by the considerable Iævo-rotatory HOSPITAL WORKSHOPS FOR THE EPILEPTIC. power of urine, cystine being known to possess that proTHE suggestion made by " N. N." in the current number of perty in a high degree,-Stadhagen has recently examined the Charity Organisation Review, though a good one, appears numerous residues from normal urine, and has come to thl to us, after careful consideration, to be impracticable. The first conclusion that neither cystine nor a peculiar sulphur aciw ,difficulty which has to be considered is the great variety of for which he also searched, is contained in normal urine, epileptics. What would suit one would not do for all. If all epileptics had a fit once a month, and the time of onset of DR. DAVID BRADLEY. that fit were known in each case, the scheme would be a WE are asked to state that Mr. R. Jeffreys, Eastwood feasible one. It might be practicable for a certain number of - epileptics. Again, if supervision be necessary, it must be House, Chesterfield, will receive subscriptions on behalfoi carried out day and night. The hospital workshop would the fund being raised for Dr. Bradley. It is gratifying to learn that Dr. Bradley’s name has not been remoi-edfcorr occupy the attention of the patients only a part of the twenty-four hours. If residence at the hospital work- the Medical Register. shop be necessary or advisable, then the plan would DR. HERMANN v. BoECK, Professor of Pharmacology in ’be equivalent to that comprised in any asylum for has died at the age of forty-two. Also the doet-’ Munich, not We are sure that would a scheme such epileptics. But would the epileptic submit is announced, at the age of forty-six, of the well-known not be the very best. to it ? The patient who had a fit daily, or more frequently, physician for children’s diseases in Buda-Pesth, Dr, Faludy. might possibly submit to confinement ; but what about the large number of epileptics whose attacks occur much less DR. PILKINGTON, the Mayor of Southport, is a candidate frequently ? You may get this latter class to keep away from in the Liberal interest for the borough.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.
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