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A NEW STONE-SEARCHER.
609 and free ammonia nil. Soda water : - soda bicarb. 14 grs. per pint, slight trace of chlorides, and free ammonia nil. Lithia potass water: alkalinity equivalent to 46 grs. of potass. bicarb., or 31 grs. lithium bicarbonate .per pint; chlorides, trace ; and free ammonia, itil. Seltzer: alkalinity equivalent to 15 grs. sodium bicarbonate per pint; common salt,11 2 grs. per pint; and free ammonia, nil. Lastly should be mentioned a specimen of ginger ale, of pale amber colour; pleasantly sparkling and free from irritants.
.pint, chlorides a trace,
We have
no experience of the clinical value of this interesting combination, but judging from its composition it presents iron in a form which should be readily absorbed, while, of course, cod-liver oil is a nutritive ofthe highest order. It
should
serve as a
New Inventions.
" ROSBACH" WATER.
(BOSBAOH SPRINGS, LIMITED, 38, LEADENHALL-STREET, E.C.) Rosbach" water belongs to the class of natural table waters known as " alkaline and carbonated," although in regard to mineral constituents it contains a much smaller proportion than the generality of the members of this group. In some respects this is an advantage ; its taste, for example, is but slightly saline, which renders it well adapted for mixing with milk, lime-juice, &c. When taken alone the water is peculiarly soft and smooth to the taste. According to our - examination its organic quality is beyond reproach. Analysis ,gave the following results: total solids, 1’60 gramme per litre, containing small amounts of carbonates of lime and soda, with sodium chloride ; the latter amounted to 12 grains per pint, and the alkalinity of the water was equivalent to 8.3 grains of bicarbonate of soda per pint. BEANES’ DIASTASED FARINA.
(E. BEANES AND Co., FALCON WORKS, HACENE1" WICK, N.E.) An admirable feature of this preparation is its richness in active diastase. It is essentially a farinaceous food, which in the ordinary process of cooking becomes to a very great extent converted into soluble carbohydrates and sugars, and when thus prepared is undoubtedly a valuable, because easily assimilable, food. The simplest experiment-viz., gradually warming the food to boiling point-suffices to confirm the pre-digestive properties of the preparation. At the end of the process the reaction for starch is feeble and hardly - evident, while at the commencement it is, of course, strongly marked. The preparation possesses a very agreeable malty favour and smell and contains a good proportion of essential .mineral matters. We commend the preparation as a food of special value, because the real digestive action of the - diastase contained in it is utilised and made available in As is well known, unless cases of feeble digestive power. diastase is allowed to act before food is ingested its activity is greatly impaired, if not entirely destroyed, in the acid .juices of the stomach. "ADONIS" NATURAL MINERAL TABLE WATER.
(EMIL TUTEUR, 72, MARK-LANE, E.C.) This water is derived from springs situated in a remote part of the Ardennes in Belgium. It is only slightly mineralised and its alkalinity is equal to 4’5 grains of bicarbonate of soda per pint. The water is agreeably soft to the palate and is well charged with gas, clear, and brilliant. It ds quite free from organic impurity. Of the earthy carbonates present that of magnesium predominates. The comparatively small amount of lime salts present is a probable
advantage. COD-LIVER OIL AND IRON.
(MAY
BAKER, LIMITED, GARDEN WHARF, CHUROH-ROAD, BATTERSEA, S.W.) According to our examination this is a true compound of cod-liver oil and iron. It is a clear, somewhat darkbrown, oily fluid, which proves to be soluble in ether without separation of the constituents. On ignition very finely divided ferric oxide resembling jewellers’ rouge remains. The weight of oxide so obtained from one fluid ounce approximated to one grain. The iron may be extracted from the oil by agitation with hydrochloric acid, ’which will be found to contain the iron in the ferric state. AND
very effective tonic and food.
A NEW STONE-SEARCHER. IN THE LANCET of April 18th and 25th, 1891, there appeared an article by Mr. G. Buckston Browne upon the subject of a bladder pouch, the roof of which was partly formed by the over-growth of the posterior lobe of the prostate gland and the intertrigonal bar. Both by context and by illustration he further very fully and explicitly made it apparent that a stone may be lodged in such a postprostatic pouch and be absolutely beyond the reach of the ordinary stone-searcher. He cites cases to that effect in his own practice and the practices of others, in one of which cases the stone was missed even when a suprapubic cystotomy was performed. Since that time I have seen several cases, and with a view of obviating the difficulty have had made for me by Messrs. Tiemann and Co. of New York a stonesearcher of which the accompanying cut is an illustration. It is passed into the bladder and the bladder is searched as far as possible in the same manner as with the ordinary stone-searcher. The back is then completely reversed until the bend strikes the posterior edge of the prostate gland, and by means of the button on the handle the semicurved stem in the cannula is then protruded a sufficient degree to reach the bottom of the pouch and strike the stone if one is present. I have found this instrument of advantage in several cases in which the ordinary stone-searcher had completely failed me, even with a finger introduced in the rectum in order to push up this
post-prostatic pouch. I would and Mr. success
say that E. Hurry
and
New York.
speak
Incidentally
Mr. Henry Morris Fenwick have used the instrument with highly of it. H. H. KANE, M.D. -
THE CORSET BRACE. WE have received from Messrs. S. Maw, Son, and Thompson, of Aldersgate-street, E.C., a sample of their registered corset brace, which, it is claimed, prevents stooping and corrects any tendency to round shoulders, especially in young girls. The makers state that it neither constricts the waist nor interferes with the natural action of the muscles of the back.
THE foundation stone of a Medical University was laid at St. Petersburg on July 26th. MEDICAL MAGISTRATE.-Mr. Peter Macgregor, L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Edin., has been placed on the Com4 mission of the Peace for the Borough of Huddersfield.
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.pint, chlorides a trace,
We have
no experience of the clinical value of this interesting combination, but judging from its composition it presents iron in a form which should be readily absorbed, while, of course, cod-liver oil is a nutritive ofthe highest order. It
should
serve as a
New Inventions.
" ROSBACH" WATER.
(BOSBAOH SPRINGS, LIMITED, 38, LEADENHALL-STREET, E.C.) Rosbach" water belongs to the class of natural table waters known as " alkaline and carbonated," although in regard to mineral constituents it contains a much smaller proportion than the generality of the members of this group. In some respects this is an advantage ; its taste, for example, is but slightly saline, which renders it well adapted for mixing with milk, lime-juice, &c. When taken alone the water is peculiarly soft and smooth to the taste. According to our - examination its organic quality is beyond reproach. Analysis ,gave the following results: total solids, 1’60 gramme per litre, containing small amounts of carbonates of lime and soda, with sodium chloride ; the latter amounted to 12 grains per pint, and the alkalinity of the water was equivalent to 8.3 grains of bicarbonate of soda per pint. BEANES’ DIASTASED FARINA.
(E. BEANES AND Co., FALCON WORKS, HACENE1" WICK, N.E.) An admirable feature of this preparation is its richness in active diastase. It is essentially a farinaceous food, which in the ordinary process of cooking becomes to a very great extent converted into soluble carbohydrates and sugars, and when thus prepared is undoubtedly a valuable, because easily assimilable, food. The simplest experiment-viz., gradually warming the food to boiling point-suffices to confirm the pre-digestive properties of the preparation. At the end of the process the reaction for starch is feeble and hardly - evident, while at the commencement it is, of course, strongly marked. The preparation possesses a very agreeable malty favour and smell and contains a good proportion of essential .mineral matters. We commend the preparation as a food of special value, because the real digestive action of the - diastase contained in it is utilised and made available in As is well known, unless cases of feeble digestive power. diastase is allowed to act before food is ingested its activity is greatly impaired, if not entirely destroyed, in the acid .juices of the stomach. "ADONIS" NATURAL MINERAL TABLE WATER.
(EMIL TUTEUR, 72, MARK-LANE, E.C.) This water is derived from springs situated in a remote part of the Ardennes in Belgium. It is only slightly mineralised and its alkalinity is equal to 4’5 grains of bicarbonate of soda per pint. The water is agreeably soft to the palate and is well charged with gas, clear, and brilliant. It ds quite free from organic impurity. Of the earthy carbonates present that of magnesium predominates. The comparatively small amount of lime salts present is a probable
advantage. COD-LIVER OIL AND IRON.
(MAY
BAKER, LIMITED, GARDEN WHARF, CHUROH-ROAD, BATTERSEA, S.W.) According to our examination this is a true compound of cod-liver oil and iron. It is a clear, somewhat darkbrown, oily fluid, which proves to be soluble in ether without separation of the constituents. On ignition very finely divided ferric oxide resembling jewellers’ rouge remains. The weight of oxide so obtained from one fluid ounce approximated to one grain. The iron may be extracted from the oil by agitation with hydrochloric acid, ’which will be found to contain the iron in the ferric state. AND
very effective tonic and food.
A NEW STONE-SEARCHER. IN THE LANCET of April 18th and 25th, 1891, there appeared an article by Mr. G. Buckston Browne upon the subject of a bladder pouch, the roof of which was partly formed by the over-growth of the posterior lobe of the prostate gland and the intertrigonal bar. Both by context and by illustration he further very fully and explicitly made it apparent that a stone may be lodged in such a postprostatic pouch and be absolutely beyond the reach of the ordinary stone-searcher. He cites cases to that effect in his own practice and the practices of others, in one of which cases the stone was missed even when a suprapubic cystotomy was performed. Since that time I have seen several cases, and with a view of obviating the difficulty have had made for me by Messrs. Tiemann and Co. of New York a stonesearcher of which the accompanying cut is an illustration. It is passed into the bladder and the bladder is searched as far as possible in the same manner as with the ordinary stone-searcher. The back is then completely reversed until the bend strikes the posterior edge of the prostate gland, and by means of the button on the handle the semicurved stem in the cannula is then protruded a sufficient degree to reach the bottom of the pouch and strike the stone if one is present. I have found this instrument of advantage in several cases in which the ordinary stone-searcher had completely failed me, even with a finger introduced in the rectum in order to push up this
post-prostatic pouch. I would and Mr. success
say that E. Hurry
and
New York.
speak
Incidentally
Mr. Henry Morris Fenwick have used the instrument with highly of it. H. H. KANE, M.D. -
THE CORSET BRACE. WE have received from Messrs. S. Maw, Son, and Thompson, of Aldersgate-street, E.C., a sample of their registered corset brace, which, it is claimed, prevents stooping and corrects any tendency to round shoulders, especially in young girls. The makers state that it neither constricts the waist nor interferes with the natural action of the muscles of the back.
THE foundation stone of a Medical University was laid at St. Petersburg on July 26th. MEDICAL MAGISTRATE.-Mr. Peter Macgregor, L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Edin., has been placed on the Com4 mission of the Peace for the Borough of Huddersfield.
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