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The comments which are at liberty to be so attended. very flourishing, has not received due attention from the authorities of the Scottish Universities. One final reason our contemporary makes on the matter seem, however, which, strange to say, has escaped the Scottish mind to call for some notice. In the following passage, for in accounting for the university decadence is the instance, our contemporary misses the point altogether: undoubted fact that for the last fifty years the competi- "Nothing has been done or left undone that could have tion of English and Irish schools has become more suc- contributed to the death of the deceased, only a rule of a4 cessful mainly owing to the reinforcement of their society has been broken because nothing occurred to show The that there was any necessity to comply with it. General, teachers and examiners from their northern sister. academic Saturn north of the Tweed, like his antique sympathy will therefore be with Miss Jennings, who can prototype, is being devoured by his own progeny. For this scarcely be blamed when a doctor would be free." It i& Scotland has her own lack of professional outlets to thank. not the question whether Miss Jennings adopted the best The best of her sons are precisely those whom she can least treatment in this particular instance or not. The point is. powerfully attract to her own service. Her whole academic that in all serious cases-and there could hardly be a. and professional life is at present being painfully reminded more serious one than a case where three or four quarts of its defects under latter-day competition and requirements, of blood are lost at the onset of labour-it is the midwife’s but we can hardly think her so unequal to her better self duty to call in a qualified medical practitioner without as to suppose that having discovered the kind and degree delay. It is obvious that a properly qualified member of the bane she will be unable to devise the appropriate of the profession must necessarily, as a general rule, antidote. be a better judge of what should be done in a serious case than a woman whose education is only adapted to fit her ALLEGED NEGLECT OF A SICK PAUPER. to attend ordinary straightforward cases efficiently, and to. THE Woodbridge board of guardians have been discussing know in what cases to send for skilled assistance. As Miss Jennings admitted, the case in question was one of a complaint against one of their medical officers, Mr. in which she was taught to send for a medical man, those for in and in medicine Edwardes-Ker, delay visiting sending to David Gardner. A letter alleged to have been sent immediately, and it is because she failed to do so that she by the relieving officer does not seem to have reached was censured. Mr. Edwardes-Ker. There were, besides, other discrepancies of statement. The guardians very properly appointed a INSANE JOURNALISTS. committee to find out the facts of the case. We hope the ’’IN several of the English lunatic asylums," says a guardians will make their investigation complete, and writer in a French medical periodical,,.the management has, consider the means whereby medical officers are or can be had the happy and original idea of introducing journalism. informed in proper time of the illness of patients or can send the inmates as a curative measure, and according to them medicines with sufficient despatch. Without judging amongst to the reports furnished annually the innovation has the medical officer or his accusers, it seems to us that after been attended with the best effects. Some of the the defects in these means have been considered there will even declare in instances that physicians many they have’ be little blame attaching to Mr. Edwardes-Ker. been indebted to the lucubrations of their patients for valuable hints as to the best way of treating them. "A NOTEWORTHY INQUEST." One demented person, for example, obstinately refusedt OUR attention has been called to a paragraph in the to take any food, and with equally invincible stubbornness’ Watford and West Herts Post commenting on the inquest, declined to furnish any reason for his refusal. There was nO’ whicb we reported in our issue of last week, held at Bushey dtfficulty, however, in persuading him to commit his thoughts by Dr. Lovell Drage on a patient who died in child-birth to paper, for apparently the cacoëthes s(J’J’ibendi is quite as while being attended by a midwife, Miss Alice Mary powerful amongst people who have lost their wits as it is Jennings. Our readers will remember that the case was one amongst those who have contrived to preserve them, and at of severe accidental haemorrhage, and that, according to once this individual’s peculiar delusion was made manifest. Miss Jennings’s own evidence, three or four quarts of blood This is what the hitherto intractable monomaniac wroteo had been lost before she arrived, though there was not much ’ I desire to be buried as quickly as possible. It is a monbleeding going on when she first saw the case, which was strous scandal that I should be compelled to drag about all’ at 7’45 A.M. The head was presenting; she plugged the os over this house a dead and putrefying corpse.’ As soon lightly with a soft silk handkerchief, and in about an houras the bent of the patient’s weak-mindedness was thus afterwards, when the os was dilated, she ruptured the brought to light he received appropriate treatment, and is membranes, and brought down first one foot and afterwardssaid to have eventually recovered." The French commentator the other-in other words, performed podalic version. Theselects The New Moon, which hejustly regards as very appro child was born at 12.30 mid-day. The patient died about priately named, for especial commendation, but he omits to, i where this journalistic luminary rises. He quotes from 4.30 P.M. the same day. The post-mortem examinationsay showed that the cause of death was pulmonary embolism4it . the following passage, which shows, at all events, that a and that the case had not been one of placenta prsevia, !sense i of humour is compatible with lunacy; " Wanted as the midwife had supposed, but that the placenta hadfor a throne, which it would be indiscreet to specify been normally situated. The jury found that the midwifeat present, an Emperor or King who is thoroughly was to blame, among other things, for not calling in aconversant with the business. It is quite useless for medical man in the first instance as soon as she saw the the Czar of Russia to reply to this advertisement." serious nature of the case. It appears from the paragraph We may inform our contemporary that journalism by in our contemporary above referred to that notice has beenlunatics for lunatics is by no means a novelty in our given that " Miss Jennings is and will be at perfect libertyestablishments for the insane. Writing in 1857 Dr. Andrew to fulfil all existing and future engagements, even if Wynter said, with reference to Murray’s Royal Asylum at the Obstetrical Society should see fit to recall her diploma."Perth: ’’ Not content with these efforts, they seem to think Probably so far as the legal aspect of the matter goes that they are nothing unless critical, and accordingly they this is so. If those who had engaged her previously, have set up a journal in which they review their own being now aware of the case that formed the subject performances. The first number of Excelsior is now of the inquest, are still willing to be attended by her before us, in which we find poetry, news, and criticisms ___
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The comments which are at liberty to be so attended. very flourishing, has not received due attention from the authorities of the Scottish Universities. One final reason our contemporary makes on the matter seem, however, which, strange to say, has escaped the Scottish mind to call for some notice. In the following passage, for in accounting for the university decadence is the instance, our contemporary misses the point altogether: undoubted fact that for the last fifty years the competi- "Nothing has been done or left undone that could have tion of English and Irish schools has become more suc- contributed to the death of the deceased, only a rule of a4 cessful mainly owing to the reinforcement of their society has been broken because nothing occurred to show The that there was any necessity to comply with it. General, teachers and examiners from their northern sister. academic Saturn north of the Tweed, like his antique sympathy will therefore be with Miss Jennings, who can prototype, is being devoured by his own progeny. For this scarcely be blamed when a doctor would be free." It i& Scotland has her own lack of professional outlets to thank. not the question whether Miss Jennings adopted the best The best of her sons are precisely those whom she can least treatment in this particular instance or not. The point is. powerfully attract to her own service. Her whole academic that in all serious cases-and there could hardly be a. and professional life is at present being painfully reminded more serious one than a case where three or four quarts of its defects under latter-day competition and requirements, of blood are lost at the onset of labour-it is the midwife’s but we can hardly think her so unequal to her better self duty to call in a qualified medical practitioner without as to suppose that having discovered the kind and degree delay. It is obvious that a properly qualified member of the bane she will be unable to devise the appropriate of the profession must necessarily, as a general rule, antidote. be a better judge of what should be done in a serious case than a woman whose education is only adapted to fit her ALLEGED NEGLECT OF A SICK PAUPER. to attend ordinary straightforward cases efficiently, and to. THE Woodbridge board of guardians have been discussing know in what cases to send for skilled assistance. As Miss Jennings admitted, the case in question was one of a complaint against one of their medical officers, Mr. in which she was taught to send for a medical man, those for in and in medicine Edwardes-Ker, delay visiting sending to David Gardner. A letter alleged to have been sent immediately, and it is because she failed to do so that she by the relieving officer does not seem to have reached was censured. Mr. Edwardes-Ker. There were, besides, other discrepancies of statement. The guardians very properly appointed a INSANE JOURNALISTS. committee to find out the facts of the case. We hope the ’’IN several of the English lunatic asylums," says a guardians will make their investigation complete, and writer in a French medical periodical,,.the management has, consider the means whereby medical officers are or can be had the happy and original idea of introducing journalism. informed in proper time of the illness of patients or can send the inmates as a curative measure, and according to them medicines with sufficient despatch. Without judging amongst to the reports furnished annually the innovation has the medical officer or his accusers, it seems to us that after been attended with the best effects. Some of the the defects in these means have been considered there will even declare in instances that physicians many they have’ be little blame attaching to Mr. Edwardes-Ker. been indebted to the lucubrations of their patients for valuable hints as to the best way of treating them. "A NOTEWORTHY INQUEST." One demented person, for example, obstinately refusedt OUR attention has been called to a paragraph in the to take any food, and with equally invincible stubbornness’ Watford and West Herts Post commenting on the inquest, declined to furnish any reason for his refusal. There was nO’ whicb we reported in our issue of last week, held at Bushey dtfficulty, however, in persuading him to commit his thoughts by Dr. Lovell Drage on a patient who died in child-birth to paper, for apparently the cacoëthes s(J’J’ibendi is quite as while being attended by a midwife, Miss Alice Mary powerful amongst people who have lost their wits as it is Jennings. Our readers will remember that the case was one amongst those who have contrived to preserve them, and at of severe accidental haemorrhage, and that, according to once this individual’s peculiar delusion was made manifest. Miss Jennings’s own evidence, three or four quarts of blood This is what the hitherto intractable monomaniac wroteo had been lost before she arrived, though there was not much ’ I desire to be buried as quickly as possible. It is a monbleeding going on when she first saw the case, which was strous scandal that I should be compelled to drag about all’ at 7’45 A.M. The head was presenting; she plugged the os over this house a dead and putrefying corpse.’ As soon lightly with a soft silk handkerchief, and in about an houras the bent of the patient’s weak-mindedness was thus afterwards, when the os was dilated, she ruptured the brought to light he received appropriate treatment, and is membranes, and brought down first one foot and afterwardssaid to have eventually recovered." The French commentator the other-in other words, performed podalic version. Theselects The New Moon, which hejustly regards as very appro child was born at 12.30 mid-day. The patient died about priately named, for especial commendation, but he omits to, i where this journalistic luminary rises. He quotes from 4.30 P.M. the same day. The post-mortem examinationsay showed that the cause of death was pulmonary embolism4it . the following passage, which shows, at all events, that a and that the case had not been one of placenta prsevia, !sense i of humour is compatible with lunacy; " Wanted as the midwife had supposed, but that the placenta hadfor a throne, which it would be indiscreet to specify been normally situated. The jury found that the midwifeat present, an Emperor or King who is thoroughly was to blame, among other things, for not calling in aconversant with the business. It is quite useless for medical man in the first instance as soon as she saw the the Czar of Russia to reply to this advertisement." serious nature of the case. It appears from the paragraph We may inform our contemporary that journalism by in our contemporary above referred to that notice has beenlunatics for lunatics is by no means a novelty in our given that " Miss Jennings is and will be at perfect libertyestablishments for the insane. Writing in 1857 Dr. Andrew to fulfil all existing and future engagements, even if Wynter said, with reference to Murray’s Royal Asylum at the Obstetrical Society should see fit to recall her diploma."Perth: ’’ Not content with these efforts, they seem to think Probably so far as the legal aspect of the matter goes that they are nothing unless critical, and accordingly they this is so. If those who had engaged her previously, have set up a journal in which they review their own being now aware of the case that formed the subject performances. The first number of Excelsior is now of the inquest, are still willing to be attended by her before us, in which we find poetry, news, and criticisms ___
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