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AN IMPROVED FORM OF VACCINATOR.
NEW INVENTIONS.-ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.
531
Dr. Arthur Stanley, medical’ officer of health ofIIconsists of a Krause’s snare with a Y-shaped endfurnishes some interesting notes on an Outbreak piece fitted ; the two upper ends of the Y are joined Shanghai, of Cattle-plague and of its control by the method devised by 1by a curved surface and the polypus is caught between i The loop is tightened in wire and this surface. Professor Koch of injecting small quantities of the gall fromthe 1 usual way by approximating the finger-plates. the an animal already dead from the disease into the cattle of The results in the outbreak in questionBy simply separating the fingeran invaded herd. not only does the polypus were eminently satisfactory, and the method possesses theplates off but the loop is re-made drop advantage that the reaction produced by the injection of thewithout any of the usual finger.gall has no disturbing influence upon the secretion of milk, ing. With this instrument -a fact which will commend the practice to dairy-farmers,. polypus after polypus can be and others. The Geographical Distribution of Anopheles snared without once taking one’s and of Malarial Fevers in Upper Palestine is the fingers from the finger-plates, without assistant preparing subject of a communication by Dr. John Cropper. loops, andany with a great saving of He found that malaria prevailed wherever anopheles time, which, from the patient’s represented the majority of the mosquitoes present point of view especially, is a in native dwellings, that the disease occurred mainly among great gain. As there is no twist .children. and that it was absent or occurred in a sporadic or knot in the wire it has not the In usual tendency to break. form only in places where anopheles was not found. he addition to its use for simple study of the Structures and Biology of Anopheles is carried polypus it is particularly adapted on in the current number of the journal by Dr. George for the removal of moriforms Nuttall and Mr. Arthur Shipley, and many very interesting: from the posterior end of the and instructive facts are brought forward. This is especially, inferior turbinal, as the instrucan be passed without the case with regard to the musical appreciation of anopheles. ment with the retracted difficulty Not only is it attracted by certain musical sounds, but and when in its loop right position the note produced by certain electrical vibrations has’ the loop can be ejected, when it will take on any curve to which .apparently a peculiar fascination for the males who seem has been previously bent. The recognise therein the female insects. The volume underr it instrument can be had with .sotice concludes with a paper by Dr. E. W. Ainley Walker of varying size and end-pieces on the Protective Substances of Immune Sera in which he could be used for the larynx discusses in the light of his own experimental work some of as well as for the nose. Messrs. the recent developments of Ehrlich’s theories. and Meltzer can supply the instrument complete or will make the addition to a Krause snare for a small sum. Mr. Hunter F. Tod told me when I showed the instrument at the Laryngological Society of London that he had seen a somewhat AN IMPROVED FORM OF VACCINATOR. similar instrument in Vienna, but judging from an illustration MESSRS. DOWN BROTHERS have at my are many differences. ATWOOD THORNE. suggestion made an improved form of Nottingham-place, W.
- districts.
.
-
’
to ) ,
I Mayer
New Inventions.
,
Hitherto the
vaccinator. been
of the most
one
but the chief
objection
Cooper-Rose popular
in
to it-the
has use,
inspectors invariably find fault with-is the inablity thoroughly to asepticise the some
material for microbic
bound
to
remain.
More-
thoroughly to cleanse cap apt to form, thereby preventing the needles from protruding To obviate these through properly.
over, not
being
the
rust
difficulties
able is
Messrs.
Down Brothers
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF
point,
i.e., which the Local Government Board
cap, where infection is
there
ENGLAND.
I
AN ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Feb. 13th, Mr. H. G. HowsE, the President, being in the chair. It was agreed, as recommended by the Court of Examiners, that one set of surgical instruments should be lent to the University of London for the purposes of the M. B. and B. S. examinations. The PRESIDENT reported that he had chosen Mr. Howard Marsh as Bradshaw Lecturer for the ensuing collegiate year.
have
manufactured a cap which can be opened at once and the interior made thoroughly aseptic and dried, closing up
A letter was read from the Clerk of the Privy Council stating that it had been determined to hold the Medical Congress at Cairo from Dec. 19th to 23rd next, instead of from the 10th to the 14th. Mr. Reginald Harrison was appointed as the delegate from the College to this Congress.
again tightly, and thus fulfilling the requirements of a thoroughly aseptic
THE COTTON DISTRICTS CONVALESCENT FUND.—
vaccinator
The above title seems to suggest an echo of the distant past, MONTAGU H. C. PALMER, for those who remember the cotton-famine resulting from the American war of North and South belong to a former generaM.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. tion. A meeting of the governors of the Fund was held in Newbury. Manchester on Jan. 30th, when the Hospitals and General Purposes Committee was appointed as were committees to A SELF-LOOPING NASAL POLYPUS SNARE. represent the governors on the boards of management of the hospitals at Southport and Buxton. During MESSRS. MAYER and MELTZER have recently made the convalescent year 2815 patients were sent to the convalescent past for me -a snare that I have found , Lhospitals at a cost of .E4797. very useful.
ItI
531
Dr. Arthur Stanley, medical’ officer of health ofIIconsists of a Krause’s snare with a Y-shaped endfurnishes some interesting notes on an Outbreak piece fitted ; the two upper ends of the Y are joined Shanghai, of Cattle-plague and of its control by the method devised by 1by a curved surface and the polypus is caught between i The loop is tightened in wire and this surface. Professor Koch of injecting small quantities of the gall fromthe 1 usual way by approximating the finger-plates. the an animal already dead from the disease into the cattle of The results in the outbreak in questionBy simply separating the fingeran invaded herd. not only does the polypus were eminently satisfactory, and the method possesses theplates off but the loop is re-made drop advantage that the reaction produced by the injection of thewithout any of the usual finger.gall has no disturbing influence upon the secretion of milk, ing. With this instrument -a fact which will commend the practice to dairy-farmers,. polypus after polypus can be and others. The Geographical Distribution of Anopheles snared without once taking one’s and of Malarial Fevers in Upper Palestine is the fingers from the finger-plates, without assistant preparing subject of a communication by Dr. John Cropper. loops, andany with a great saving of He found that malaria prevailed wherever anopheles time, which, from the patient’s represented the majority of the mosquitoes present point of view especially, is a in native dwellings, that the disease occurred mainly among great gain. As there is no twist .children. and that it was absent or occurred in a sporadic or knot in the wire it has not the In usual tendency to break. form only in places where anopheles was not found. he addition to its use for simple study of the Structures and Biology of Anopheles is carried polypus it is particularly adapted on in the current number of the journal by Dr. George for the removal of moriforms Nuttall and Mr. Arthur Shipley, and many very interesting: from the posterior end of the and instructive facts are brought forward. This is especially, inferior turbinal, as the instrucan be passed without the case with regard to the musical appreciation of anopheles. ment with the retracted difficulty Not only is it attracted by certain musical sounds, but and when in its loop right position the note produced by certain electrical vibrations has’ the loop can be ejected, when it will take on any curve to which .apparently a peculiar fascination for the males who seem has been previously bent. The recognise therein the female insects. The volume underr it instrument can be had with .sotice concludes with a paper by Dr. E. W. Ainley Walker of varying size and end-pieces on the Protective Substances of Immune Sera in which he could be used for the larynx discusses in the light of his own experimental work some of as well as for the nose. Messrs. the recent developments of Ehrlich’s theories. and Meltzer can supply the instrument complete or will make the addition to a Krause snare for a small sum. Mr. Hunter F. Tod told me when I showed the instrument at the Laryngological Society of London that he had seen a somewhat AN IMPROVED FORM OF VACCINATOR. similar instrument in Vienna, but judging from an illustration MESSRS. DOWN BROTHERS have at my are many differences. ATWOOD THORNE. suggestion made an improved form of Nottingham-place, W.
- districts.
.
-
’
to ) ,
I Mayer
New Inventions.
,
Hitherto the
vaccinator. been
of the most
one
but the chief
objection
Cooper-Rose popular
in
to it-the
has use,
inspectors invariably find fault with-is the inablity thoroughly to asepticise the some
material for microbic
bound
to
remain.
More-
thoroughly to cleanse cap apt to form, thereby preventing the needles from protruding To obviate these through properly.
over, not
being
the
rust
difficulties
able is
Messrs.
Down Brothers
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF
point,
i.e., which the Local Government Board
cap, where infection is
there
ENGLAND.
I
AN ordinary meeting of the Council was held on Feb. 13th, Mr. H. G. HowsE, the President, being in the chair. It was agreed, as recommended by the Court of Examiners, that one set of surgical instruments should be lent to the University of London for the purposes of the M. B. and B. S. examinations. The PRESIDENT reported that he had chosen Mr. Howard Marsh as Bradshaw Lecturer for the ensuing collegiate year.
have
manufactured a cap which can be opened at once and the interior made thoroughly aseptic and dried, closing up
A letter was read from the Clerk of the Privy Council stating that it had been determined to hold the Medical Congress at Cairo from Dec. 19th to 23rd next, instead of from the 10th to the 14th. Mr. Reginald Harrison was appointed as the delegate from the College to this Congress.
again tightly, and thus fulfilling the requirements of a thoroughly aseptic
THE COTTON DISTRICTS CONVALESCENT FUND.—
vaccinator
The above title seems to suggest an echo of the distant past, MONTAGU H. C. PALMER, for those who remember the cotton-famine resulting from the American war of North and South belong to a former generaM.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. tion. A meeting of the governors of the Fund was held in Newbury. Manchester on Jan. 30th, when the Hospitals and General Purposes Committee was appointed as were committees to A SELF-LOOPING NASAL POLYPUS SNARE. represent the governors on the boards of management of the hospitals at Southport and Buxton. During MESSRS. MAYER and MELTZER have recently made the convalescent year 2815 patients were sent to the convalescent past for me -a snare that I have found , Lhospitals at a cost of .E4797. very useful.
ItI