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A PORTABLE RADIATOR FOR BLOOD CULTIVATIONS.
697 to a dog, there are many observations to be made which would not be relevant in the case of a cow or horse. In a book of this kind it is absolutely necessary to combine the experience of many practitioners with the results of laboratory work. We think that on its issue there is certain to be an interest awakened in veterinary toxicology, and this will cause many specific details which are not in this present volume to be reported for publication in the future. The work is needed and is good, but it would have been better had it not been so generalised, especially in regard to the sections upon symptoms and treatment, to which the practitioner will naturally turn first when in doubt.
held in various
foreign languages. Thus we have the Anglo-American Medical Society with the Hertford British Hospital, founded by Sir Richard Wallace, 72, Rue de Villiers, and the American Hospital, 44, Rue Chauvau, Neuilly. Then for the Latin languages, notably Spanish, there is l’Union Médicale Franco-Ibéro-Américaine, more briefly known as l’Umfia, which has its headquarters at 18, Avenue Trudaine. Medical men of the German language forgather 120, Boulevard Saint-Germain, and those of the Russian language at 4, Place Clichy. All are welcome to profit by the medical teaching for which Paris has acquired world-
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wide
This little guide gives us many details and of the hospitals, laboratories, and institutions that at the disposal of the medical student. renown.
pictures
are LIBRARY TABLE. The Care of the Body. By R. S. WOODWORTH, Professor of Psychology in Columbia University. New York : The Macmillan Co. 1912. Pp. 359. Price 6s. 6d. net.-We learn from the author’s preface that "this book is intended chiefly for the young man, and is founded on PORTABLE RADIATOR FOR BLOOD CULTIVATIONS. the belief that an intelligent man, without technical knowIN cases Qf septicaemia in which a cultivation from the ledge of medicine, and without excessive attention to the blood (basilic vein) must be made for the proof of a care of his health, can still do much to keep himself in circulating organism there is a point in the technique has not received the attention it deserves. I refer on condition." It a work is, therefore, popular physio- which good to the desirability of keeping the broth tubes (inoculated it is circumand as such can do harm if not logy, widespread at the bedside with the blood) at or nearly at blood heat spectly as well as accurately written. In the author’s words, from the moment of withdrawal until the incubator is it ’’ enters not too deeply into some of the important topics reached. This time in practice varies from a few minutes of physiology." On the whole, in our opinion, the book will to several hours. Human blood is bactericidal, and if in prove useful to those for whom it is written, though occa- addition a big fall in the temperature occurs in the blood cultures an additional factor is allowed which is adverse to sionauy rroressor wooawortn, in ms anxiety not to enter bacterial growth. This defect in procedure was first pointed too deeply into physiology, has fallen into the opposite out to me some years ago by Dr. H. E. B. Bruce-Porter, Thus we and error, and writes in too superficial a manner. reviewing the cultivations I have done under various think that the statement on p. 76, that starch continues to be conditions for the last seven years, in no case did I acted upon by the saliva in the stomach, is too positive a obtain so rapid or copious a growth of streptococci as Its digestion is certainly delayed, and quite in a case undertaken statement. and in that for probably is arrested. His first chapter, "The Science of case him, the patient was Health,"is eminently practical, and is an expansion of his lying a few yards from remark on p. 10, "If there is any one general rule theincubator, and of which is useful in the care of health-call it principle, course the time for rather-it is to avoid excesses," but he is also care- cooling was very brief. ful to point out that what is moderate for one In the books one finds recommendations to After the physioperson may be excessive for another. carry one’s tubes in logical chapters Professor Woodworth considers in a wool warmed before a I practical fashion such subjects as bodily heat, in which we fire, or in one’s coat are glad to see a word of warning against the foolish idea pockets, or, again, a "that you should never wear an overcoat in the house, or Thermos flask may be utilised. Since the you will not feel the good of it’ when you go out." The means of warming proper use and care of the eye, the ear, the muscles, the should be obtained in avoidance of causes leading to neurasthenia, and the judicious a rapid and simple way, I have designed use of work, rest, and recreation are next dealt with, while in the three final chapters indulgences (e.g., stimulants and and tested the applishown in the ance tobacco), the cycle of life, and disease are considered. In accompanying illustration. The apparatus is a felt-lined the last chapter we note that the credit for definitely proving wood case 8 by 8 by 4inches occupied by a metal container, that anthrax is due to the bacillus anthracis is given to Koch. divided into compartments by a sliding partition, and It is true that Koch was the first to work out the life-history furnished with a buffer of wool or corrugated paper to of the bacillus and to cultivate it outside the body, but we prevent fracture of tubes on its metal floor. The interior takes 16 tubes of culture media, and the box can be carried think that Davaine, who saw the bacillus in 1850, and in in a culture bag. 1873 positively asserted that the "rods" were the cause of The best test gave the following result. By means of a anthrax, should have been mentioned also. funnel, one pint of boiling and a half pint of cold water The Guide to the Medical Schools and Teaching of Paris.- were poured into the metal container and mixed. This practical and illustrated guide is published for the temperature of the experimental fluid (tap water) in the tubes was as follows : 15 minutes after filling, 32.0°C. ; modest sum of 50 centimes by Masson et Cie on behalf 30 minutes after filling, 34.5° ; 60 minutes after filling, of La Presse Medicale. There is a map of Paris attached, 37’ 50 (approximate blood heat) ; 90 minutes after filling, on which all the hospitals and schools that interest the 35.2° ; 2 hours after filling, 31.0°. By this simple medical profession are printed in red. The date and place and inexpensive instrument a temperature near blood heat of the principal lectures for the year are given, as well (but not exceeding it) can be quickly secured by the use of boiling and cold water, which are always available when as practical details concerning every class and laboratory blood cultivations. On arrival at the case I first proavailable to the student, whether French or foreign. We doing ceed to fill the radiator, and after preparation of the arm are reminded that not only are all the French clinics open to foreign medical men, but that there are in Paris clinics CHARLES RUSS, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng.
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held in various
foreign languages. Thus we have the Anglo-American Medical Society with the Hertford British Hospital, founded by Sir Richard Wallace, 72, Rue de Villiers, and the American Hospital, 44, Rue Chauvau, Neuilly. Then for the Latin languages, notably Spanish, there is l’Union Médicale Franco-Ibéro-Américaine, more briefly known as l’Umfia, which has its headquarters at 18, Avenue Trudaine. Medical men of the German language forgather 120, Boulevard Saint-Germain, and those of the Russian language at 4, Place Clichy. All are welcome to profit by the medical teaching for which Paris has acquired world-
at
wide
This little guide gives us many details and of the hospitals, laboratories, and institutions that at the disposal of the medical student. renown.
pictures
are LIBRARY TABLE. The Care of the Body. By R. S. WOODWORTH, Professor of Psychology in Columbia University. New York : The Macmillan Co. 1912. Pp. 359. Price 6s. 6d. net.-We learn from the author’s preface that "this book is intended chiefly for the young man, and is founded on PORTABLE RADIATOR FOR BLOOD CULTIVATIONS. the belief that an intelligent man, without technical knowIN cases Qf septicaemia in which a cultivation from the ledge of medicine, and without excessive attention to the blood (basilic vein) must be made for the proof of a care of his health, can still do much to keep himself in circulating organism there is a point in the technique has not received the attention it deserves. I refer on condition." It a work is, therefore, popular physio- which good to the desirability of keeping the broth tubes (inoculated it is circumand as such can do harm if not logy, widespread at the bedside with the blood) at or nearly at blood heat spectly as well as accurately written. In the author’s words, from the moment of withdrawal until the incubator is it ’’ enters not too deeply into some of the important topics reached. This time in practice varies from a few minutes of physiology." On the whole, in our opinion, the book will to several hours. Human blood is bactericidal, and if in prove useful to those for whom it is written, though occa- addition a big fall in the temperature occurs in the blood cultures an additional factor is allowed which is adverse to sionauy rroressor wooawortn, in ms anxiety not to enter bacterial growth. This defect in procedure was first pointed too deeply into physiology, has fallen into the opposite out to me some years ago by Dr. H. E. B. Bruce-Porter, Thus we and error, and writes in too superficial a manner. reviewing the cultivations I have done under various think that the statement on p. 76, that starch continues to be conditions for the last seven years, in no case did I acted upon by the saliva in the stomach, is too positive a obtain so rapid or copious a growth of streptococci as Its digestion is certainly delayed, and quite in a case undertaken statement. and in that for probably is arrested. His first chapter, "The Science of case him, the patient was Health,"is eminently practical, and is an expansion of his lying a few yards from remark on p. 10, "If there is any one general rule theincubator, and of which is useful in the care of health-call it principle, course the time for rather-it is to avoid excesses," but he is also care- cooling was very brief. ful to point out that what is moderate for one In the books one finds recommendations to After the physioperson may be excessive for another. carry one’s tubes in logical chapters Professor Woodworth considers in a wool warmed before a I practical fashion such subjects as bodily heat, in which we fire, or in one’s coat are glad to see a word of warning against the foolish idea pockets, or, again, a "that you should never wear an overcoat in the house, or Thermos flask may be utilised. Since the you will not feel the good of it’ when you go out." The means of warming proper use and care of the eye, the ear, the muscles, the should be obtained in avoidance of causes leading to neurasthenia, and the judicious a rapid and simple way, I have designed use of work, rest, and recreation are next dealt with, while in the three final chapters indulgences (e.g., stimulants and and tested the applishown in the ance tobacco), the cycle of life, and disease are considered. In accompanying illustration. The apparatus is a felt-lined the last chapter we note that the credit for definitely proving wood case 8 by 8 by 4inches occupied by a metal container, that anthrax is due to the bacillus anthracis is given to Koch. divided into compartments by a sliding partition, and It is true that Koch was the first to work out the life-history furnished with a buffer of wool or corrugated paper to of the bacillus and to cultivate it outside the body, but we prevent fracture of tubes on its metal floor. The interior takes 16 tubes of culture media, and the box can be carried think that Davaine, who saw the bacillus in 1850, and in in a culture bag. 1873 positively asserted that the "rods" were the cause of The best test gave the following result. By means of a anthrax, should have been mentioned also. funnel, one pint of boiling and a half pint of cold water The Guide to the Medical Schools and Teaching of Paris.- were poured into the metal container and mixed. This practical and illustrated guide is published for the temperature of the experimental fluid (tap water) in the tubes was as follows : 15 minutes after filling, 32.0°C. ; modest sum of 50 centimes by Masson et Cie on behalf 30 minutes after filling, 34.5° ; 60 minutes after filling, of La Presse Medicale. There is a map of Paris attached, 37’ 50 (approximate blood heat) ; 90 minutes after filling, on which all the hospitals and schools that interest the 35.2° ; 2 hours after filling, 31.0°. By this simple medical profession are printed in red. The date and place and inexpensive instrument a temperature near blood heat of the principal lectures for the year are given, as well (but not exceeding it) can be quickly secured by the use of boiling and cold water, which are always available when as practical details concerning every class and laboratory blood cultivations. On arrival at the case I first proavailable to the student, whether French or foreign. We doing ceed to fill the radiator, and after preparation of the arm are reminded that not only are all the French clinics open to foreign medical men, but that there are in Paris clinics CHARLES RUSS, M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng.
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