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AN IMPROVED EVACUATOR AND TUBES FOR STONE IN CHILDREN.
1034 is illustrated by several lithographs. It deals with first aid to be rendered in cases of sudden illness and acci. dents and injuries, such as are unhappily of frequent occurrence in all large towns, cities, and centres of industry. The nature of the information is indicated by its title, and we have only to remark that it sets forth methodically and practically what is to be done and to be left undone until further and more skilled aid can be procured. The application of antiseptic principles to cases of traumatism is briefly but clearly inculcated. The information is arranged in four chapters, with an appendix, together with an interesting notice of the objects, composition, and work done by the Bordeaux Ambulance Society since its formation.
is discussed; next the German dissertations and French works, statistics, the general pathology and pathological anatomy; then in chronological order is given a list of the descriptions of the cysticerci in the brain, in the spinal canal, in the subcutaneous connective tissue and muscles, in the heart, liver, &c.; and of the cysticercus occurring in the same individual along with the tsenia form. The same remark applies to this portion that applied to the first. It should prove an exceedingly useful list of references to any one working at the subject. Premiers Secours en Cas d’Aceidents ou de Maladies à Invasion Subité. Par le Dr. A. LÉON. Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhon. 1892.-This small work of eighty-one pages
part of the bulb, that they are shot rapidly towards the bottom, sink at once into the receiver, and do not return
New Invention.
through the tube. This has been shown to be in every way true, for even fine dust and sand may be quickly AN IMPROVED EVACUATOR AND TUBES FOR trapped with this instrument. Its chief advantages over STONE IN CHILDREN. all others Dr. Newell considers to be the fact that it is the Dr. 0. K. NEWELL some time ago published in the simplest eiFective evacuator yet devised, that it is without New York Medical Record an article on the improvement any trap or valve, the bulb with receiver being of itself a of evacuators for litholapaxy, and the later trap; it has the shortest evacuating canal thus far made possible. Iis the lightest evacuator yet made. Its capacity is nine ounces and three quarters. The form of stopcock, as already stated, is readily movable with a single finger. The evacuator ianon-corrcdi6le, being made of rubber and glass. Accordirg to his experience he considers
developments
these tubes me perfect as far as their application for evacuation of fragments from a child’s bladder is concerned, there being no enlargement of the prostate
of the operation, and described an evacuator and special construction of straight tubes for use in such cases as they were suited to, laying especial stress upon the value of the straight tubes in conditions approaching the normal in adults, but especially in children. He also called attention to the short or, as he called it, the surgical distance into the bladder when the passage is engaged by the calibre of a metallic instrument. This distance, varying anywhere from two inches and a half or more in children to six or eight inches in adults. He now sends us a description of his evacuator, which he has since improved, without making material alterations in the principle of its construction. The taper
joints
are so
in these
cases
or
other
abnormal conditions. The tubes were at first made of aluminium, and their lightness was an advan. tage, but the difficulty cf working this metal has decided him to abandon the use of such tubes for the nickel-plated brass or silver ones.
improved
that the form of stopcock is readily and unfailingly operated with a single finger. The evacuator is constructed on the principle all of the fragments are received at the upper
that
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.-At the usual meeting of the members of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, held on Saturday afternoon at the offices of the London County Council, Spring-gardens, the returns which were presented as to the fever and small-pox patients under the charge of the Board showed that, in regard to fever, 447 patients had been admitted during the fortnight, 45 bad died, and 285 had been discharged recovered, leaving 1660 under treatment, or an increase of 117 as compared with the figures of the preceding fortnight. There were 54 smallpox patients in hospital, as compared with 45 in the pre. cedicg fortnight.
THE LADY AITCHISON anrans,l
HOSPITAL,
LAHORE.-The
meeting of this institution was held on Jan. 30h last, Lady Lyall presiding, in the unavoidable absence of Sir James Lyall, The report, which was read, was adopted. Ib was resolved to close rha building and furnishing fund, paying the deficit of Rs. 30.41 from the current expenses fund. Some discussion took piece as to the need of constructing a new City Dispensary; but, pending the receipt of funds for that purpose, a subcommittee was appointed to select a commodious house at a central part of Lahore city, and to report on the question of a new dis. pensary and its probable cost.
is discussed; next the German dissertations and French works, statistics, the general pathology and pathological anatomy; then in chronological order is given a list of the descriptions of the cysticerci in the brain, in the spinal canal, in the subcutaneous connective tissue and muscles, in the heart, liver, &c.; and of the cysticercus occurring in the same individual along with the tsenia form. The same remark applies to this portion that applied to the first. It should prove an exceedingly useful list of references to any one working at the subject. Premiers Secours en Cas d’Aceidents ou de Maladies à Invasion Subité. Par le Dr. A. LÉON. Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhon. 1892.-This small work of eighty-one pages
part of the bulb, that they are shot rapidly towards the bottom, sink at once into the receiver, and do not return
New Invention.
through the tube. This has been shown to be in every way true, for even fine dust and sand may be quickly AN IMPROVED EVACUATOR AND TUBES FOR trapped with this instrument. Its chief advantages over STONE IN CHILDREN. all others Dr. Newell considers to be the fact that it is the Dr. 0. K. NEWELL some time ago published in the simplest eiFective evacuator yet devised, that it is without New York Medical Record an article on the improvement any trap or valve, the bulb with receiver being of itself a of evacuators for litholapaxy, and the later trap; it has the shortest evacuating canal thus far made possible. Iis the lightest evacuator yet made. Its capacity is nine ounces and three quarters. The form of stopcock, as already stated, is readily movable with a single finger. The evacuator ianon-corrcdi6le, being made of rubber and glass. Accordirg to his experience he considers
developments
these tubes me perfect as far as their application for evacuation of fragments from a child’s bladder is concerned, there being no enlargement of the prostate
of the operation, and described an evacuator and special construction of straight tubes for use in such cases as they were suited to, laying especial stress upon the value of the straight tubes in conditions approaching the normal in adults, but especially in children. He also called attention to the short or, as he called it, the surgical distance into the bladder when the passage is engaged by the calibre of a metallic instrument. This distance, varying anywhere from two inches and a half or more in children to six or eight inches in adults. He now sends us a description of his evacuator, which he has since improved, without making material alterations in the principle of its construction. The taper
joints
are so
in these
cases
or
other
abnormal conditions. The tubes were at first made of aluminium, and their lightness was an advan. tage, but the difficulty cf working this metal has decided him to abandon the use of such tubes for the nickel-plated brass or silver ones.
improved
that the form of stopcock is readily and unfailingly operated with a single finger. The evacuator is constructed on the principle all of the fragments are received at the upper
that
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.-At the usual meeting of the members of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, held on Saturday afternoon at the offices of the London County Council, Spring-gardens, the returns which were presented as to the fever and small-pox patients under the charge of the Board showed that, in regard to fever, 447 patients had been admitted during the fortnight, 45 bad died, and 285 had been discharged recovered, leaving 1660 under treatment, or an increase of 117 as compared with the figures of the preceding fortnight. There were 54 smallpox patients in hospital, as compared with 45 in the pre. cedicg fortnight.
THE LADY AITCHISON anrans,l
HOSPITAL,
LAHORE.-The
meeting of this institution was held on Jan. 30h last, Lady Lyall presiding, in the unavoidable absence of Sir James Lyall, The report, which was read, was adopted. Ib was resolved to close rha building and furnishing fund, paying the deficit of Rs. 30.41 from the current expenses fund. Some discussion took piece as to the need of constructing a new City Dispensary; but, pending the receipt of funds for that purpose, a subcommittee was appointed to select a commodious house at a central part of Lahore city, and to report on the question of a new dis. pensary and its probable cost.