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;E122 18s. 2d. For some reason there has been a falling off of Z22 Is. lld. The total sum paid in grants was .6145, a sum in excess of the local contributions to the Fund. Only ,127 out of 204 members of the medical profession in Belfast subscribe and only 29 medical men in the country contribute. Professor J. A. Lindsay was elected president for the ensuing year. An effort is to be made to interest the members of the profession in the society.
believed it to be entitled. Moreover, the number of papers read before the German Surgical Congress was so great that there was no opportunity for a discussion after many of them, and especially after those dealing with orthopædic surgery. The orthopædists therefore hold a special meeting of their own of only one day’s duration on the day before the opening of the German Surgical Congress in order to allow members to take part in both Congresses. The Fifth Congress of the Society for OrthoThe Darnell Case. Surgery was accordingly held in Berlin on April 3rd, pædic At a joint meeting of the Ulster branch of the British Professor Lorenz (Vienna) being in the chair.-Professor Medical A-sociation and of the Ulster Medical Society held S-.’hulthess (Ziirich) read a paper on a Peculiar Form of recently it was decided to start a fund to assist Mr. C. K. Scoliosis which occurred in young children having a Darnell in defraying his expenses at the recent trial. tendency to rickets and was encouraged by the children May lst. lying in their cradles in unnatural positions. Mothers ought, therefore, he said, to pay great attention to the positions which children assumed in the cradle.-Dr. Finck (Charkov) PARIS. read a paper on the Gradual Reduction of the Deformity (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) produced by Pott’s Disease. In contradistinction to the forcible reduction practised by Calot the principal feature of this method was that the patients must remain at perfect Paratuberculosis. AT a meeting of the Academy of Medicine held on rest for several months or even a year wearing a plaster-ofapparatus padded with cotton wool, by which con.April lObh M. Poncet returned to a theory of which he Paris ,has made himself the champion and which is as follows. tinuous pressure is maintained on the deformed part. After ’He considers that the bacillus tuberculosis, whether of itself several months they are allowed to walk by the aid of supports which reach as high as the occiput and the angle or by means of the toxins which it secretes, is capable of of the jaw. They begin by getting up for half an hour, a in the various lesions an of organism producing extremely diverse character, in the production of which the action of period which is by degrees extended to six hours, and in the the bacillus has not been up to the present suspected. intervals they are again placed in the plaster-of-Paris The field of action of tuberculosis, which is already apparatus.-Dr. Spitzy (Graz) recommended the transplantaof nerves in cases of paralysis. He showed a boy, aged only too wide, is thus found to be much increased tion who had suffered from paralysis of the radial 12 years, but at the same time certain lesions the origin of which is difficult to account for can be explained nerve and had been successfully treated by uniting fibres satisfactorily on this hypothesis. M. Poncet, for instance, of the median with the paralysed radial nerve.-Dr. considers that there is a tuberculous rheumatism with- Cramer (Cologne) described an operation for restoring the out any tuberculous bacilli being visible locally but that mobility of an ankylosed elbow.-Dr. Withek (Graz) read a the local lesions are the result of an intoxication by the paper on Dislocation of the Hip-joint. He said that in old cases of dislocation extension by weights, even as heavy as ba,:;illary toxins. There are certain tumours of the breast 50 kilogrammes, must be used.-Professor Lorenz said that and of the thyroid gland—namely, the adenomata-which reduction of these dislocations must not be made at too have in from cancer. great difficulty - surgeons distinguishing M. Poncet considers that these adenomata have all the advanced an age because ankylosis might easily develop.character of inflamed reactive tamours. They possess no Dr. Heusner (Barmen) remarked that extension which was definite microbial forms nor very often any bacillus of any too forcible tended to produce loosening of the knee-joint.kind, but having studied the hereditary history of patients Other papers read before the Congress dealt with trophoaffected with adenomata, and by comparing their clinical neurotic diseases of the joints occurring after poliomyelitis, forms, M Poncet considers that they are of a tuberculous habitual dislocation of the patella, the mechanical treatment .nature. M Labbé asked M. Poncet for more definite proofs of dislocation of the hip-joint, the treatment of club-foot, of his argument and remarked that tuberculous lesions and the treatment of varicose veins. which were free from bacilli could be inoculated into Statistics of Sitieide. animals, such as the rice grain bodies found in cases of to the statistics published by the Imperial According .synovitis. M. Poncet answered that these lesions were not Statistical Office, the number of suicides has slightly tuberculou3 properly so called but inflammatory, although decreased, being 12,468 in 1904 as compared with 12,730 in their structure indicated toat the primary cause of the in- 1903. The proportion of suicides per 100,000 of the populaflammation was tuberculous. M. Fournier said that M. tion was 21 - 0 in 190d, 21 -7 in 1903, 21 -4 in 1902, and 20’88 Poncet’s idea was plausible and all the more in that it pre- in 1901. Arranged according to sex, in 1904 there were 9704 sented an analogy to the idea which he (M. Fournier) had and in 1903 there were 10, 017 suicides among males ; while often put forward on the subject of syphilis. Thus, the in 1904 there were 2764 and in 1903 there were 2713 suicides syphilitic viras does not produce anything but syphilis, but among females, so that the decrease occurred only among under certain conditions it produces lesions of which the the males. With regard to the local distribution of suicides syphilitic character is by no means evident, lesions which re- the report states that the lowest number was reached in the sisted treatment by mercury ani the iodides but which cannot, Prussian provinces of P..sen, Hohenzollern, and Westphalia, be produced without the intervention in the beginning of being 9’ 9, 10 3, and 11.0 per 100,000 respectively. The .syphilis. Such lesions, for instance, are tabes and general highest numbers were registered in Saxe Coburg and Saxe paralysis, ar d in these conditions we have the right to talk Altenburg, being 41 8 and 41’5 per 100,000 respectively. of para,.ypbills. Similarly, in certain maladies of the skin, In Hamburg 37 -8 and in Berlin 31’0suicides per 100,000 such as lupus erythematosus and the tuberculides, no bacillus were registered. of tuberculosis is found in the majority of cases but yet they April 30th. are tuberculous in origin. There is no reason thcn why we should not admit the possibility of a paratuberculosis. ITALY. April 30th. ‘
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(FROM BERLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The German Congress of Orthopædic Surgery. THE German orthopas lists who formerly were members of, antook part in, the Congresses of the German Surgical Society have since 1902 combined to form a separate association to which they have given the name ot the German Society for Orbhopasdic Surgery, They had found that in comparison with the other branches of surgery orthopædic .surgery did not receive the consideration to which they
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENT.)
The Sixth IYiter72ationaZ Congress of Criminal Anthropology. FROM Portugal to Piedmont, from Lisbon to Turin, is a trip delightful at all times, whether by sea or land, but particularly so when undertaken by the professional man who, satiated from the abundant and varied menu of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medicine, passes on to the piquant bill of fare provided by the Sixth International Congress of Criminal Anthropology. I have already indicated some of the attractions of this latter symposium and will only add on this, the morning of its inauguration, that both in its personnel and in its programme it
1284
;E122 18s. 2d. For some reason there has been a falling off of Z22 Is. lld. The total sum paid in grants was .6145, a sum in excess of the local contributions to the Fund. Only ,127 out of 204 members of the medical profession in Belfast subscribe and only 29 medical men in the country contribute. Professor J. A. Lindsay was elected president for the ensuing year. An effort is to be made to interest the members of the profession in the society.
believed it to be entitled. Moreover, the number of papers read before the German Surgical Congress was so great that there was no opportunity for a discussion after many of them, and especially after those dealing with orthopædic surgery. The orthopædists therefore hold a special meeting of their own of only one day’s duration on the day before the opening of the German Surgical Congress in order to allow members to take part in both Congresses. The Fifth Congress of the Society for OrthoThe Darnell Case. Surgery was accordingly held in Berlin on April 3rd, pædic At a joint meeting of the Ulster branch of the British Professor Lorenz (Vienna) being in the chair.-Professor Medical A-sociation and of the Ulster Medical Society held S-.’hulthess (Ziirich) read a paper on a Peculiar Form of recently it was decided to start a fund to assist Mr. C. K. Scoliosis which occurred in young children having a Darnell in defraying his expenses at the recent trial. tendency to rickets and was encouraged by the children May lst. lying in their cradles in unnatural positions. Mothers ought, therefore, he said, to pay great attention to the positions which children assumed in the cradle.-Dr. Finck (Charkov) PARIS. read a paper on the Gradual Reduction of the Deformity (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) produced by Pott’s Disease. In contradistinction to the forcible reduction practised by Calot the principal feature of this method was that the patients must remain at perfect Paratuberculosis. AT a meeting of the Academy of Medicine held on rest for several months or even a year wearing a plaster-ofapparatus padded with cotton wool, by which con.April lObh M. Poncet returned to a theory of which he Paris ,has made himself the champion and which is as follows. tinuous pressure is maintained on the deformed part. After ’He considers that the bacillus tuberculosis, whether of itself several months they are allowed to walk by the aid of supports which reach as high as the occiput and the angle or by means of the toxins which it secretes, is capable of of the jaw. They begin by getting up for half an hour, a in the various lesions an of organism producing extremely diverse character, in the production of which the action of period which is by degrees extended to six hours, and in the the bacillus has not been up to the present suspected. intervals they are again placed in the plaster-of-Paris The field of action of tuberculosis, which is already apparatus.-Dr. Spitzy (Graz) recommended the transplantaof nerves in cases of paralysis. He showed a boy, aged only too wide, is thus found to be much increased tion who had suffered from paralysis of the radial 12 years, but at the same time certain lesions the origin of which is difficult to account for can be explained nerve and had been successfully treated by uniting fibres satisfactorily on this hypothesis. M. Poncet, for instance, of the median with the paralysed radial nerve.-Dr. considers that there is a tuberculous rheumatism with- Cramer (Cologne) described an operation for restoring the out any tuberculous bacilli being visible locally but that mobility of an ankylosed elbow.-Dr. Withek (Graz) read a the local lesions are the result of an intoxication by the paper on Dislocation of the Hip-joint. He said that in old cases of dislocation extension by weights, even as heavy as ba,:;illary toxins. There are certain tumours of the breast 50 kilogrammes, must be used.-Professor Lorenz said that and of the thyroid gland—namely, the adenomata-which reduction of these dislocations must not be made at too have in from cancer. great difficulty - surgeons distinguishing M. Poncet considers that these adenomata have all the advanced an age because ankylosis might easily develop.character of inflamed reactive tamours. They possess no Dr. Heusner (Barmen) remarked that extension which was definite microbial forms nor very often any bacillus of any too forcible tended to produce loosening of the knee-joint.kind, but having studied the hereditary history of patients Other papers read before the Congress dealt with trophoaffected with adenomata, and by comparing their clinical neurotic diseases of the joints occurring after poliomyelitis, forms, M Poncet considers that they are of a tuberculous habitual dislocation of the patella, the mechanical treatment .nature. M Labbé asked M. Poncet for more definite proofs of dislocation of the hip-joint, the treatment of club-foot, of his argument and remarked that tuberculous lesions and the treatment of varicose veins. which were free from bacilli could be inoculated into Statistics of Sitieide. animals, such as the rice grain bodies found in cases of to the statistics published by the Imperial According .synovitis. M. Poncet answered that these lesions were not Statistical Office, the number of suicides has slightly tuberculou3 properly so called but inflammatory, although decreased, being 12,468 in 1904 as compared with 12,730 in their structure indicated toat the primary cause of the in- 1903. The proportion of suicides per 100,000 of the populaflammation was tuberculous. M. Fournier said that M. tion was 21 - 0 in 190d, 21 -7 in 1903, 21 -4 in 1902, and 20’88 Poncet’s idea was plausible and all the more in that it pre- in 1901. Arranged according to sex, in 1904 there were 9704 sented an analogy to the idea which he (M. Fournier) had and in 1903 there were 10, 017 suicides among males ; while often put forward on the subject of syphilis. Thus, the in 1904 there were 2764 and in 1903 there were 2713 suicides syphilitic viras does not produce anything but syphilis, but among females, so that the decrease occurred only among under certain conditions it produces lesions of which the the males. With regard to the local distribution of suicides syphilitic character is by no means evident, lesions which re- the report states that the lowest number was reached in the sisted treatment by mercury ani the iodides but which cannot, Prussian provinces of P..sen, Hohenzollern, and Westphalia, be produced without the intervention in the beginning of being 9’ 9, 10 3, and 11.0 per 100,000 respectively. The .syphilis. Such lesions, for instance, are tabes and general highest numbers were registered in Saxe Coburg and Saxe paralysis, ar d in these conditions we have the right to talk Altenburg, being 41 8 and 41’5 per 100,000 respectively. of para,.ypbills. Similarly, in certain maladies of the skin, In Hamburg 37 -8 and in Berlin 31’0suicides per 100,000 such as lupus erythematosus and the tuberculides, no bacillus were registered. of tuberculosis is found in the majority of cases but yet they April 30th. are tuberculous in origin. There is no reason thcn why we should not admit the possibility of a paratuberculosis. ITALY. April 30th. ‘
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(FROM BERLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The German Congress of Orthopædic Surgery. THE German orthopas lists who formerly were members of, antook part in, the Congresses of the German Surgical Society have since 1902 combined to form a separate association to which they have given the name ot the German Society for Orbhopasdic Surgery, They had found that in comparison with the other branches of surgery orthopædic .surgery did not receive the consideration to which they
OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENT.)
The Sixth IYiter72ationaZ Congress of Criminal Anthropology. FROM Portugal to Piedmont, from Lisbon to Turin, is a trip delightful at all times, whether by sea or land, but particularly so when undertaken by the professional man who, satiated from the abundant and varied menu of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medicine, passes on to the piquant bill of fare provided by the Sixth International Congress of Criminal Anthropology. I have already indicated some of the attractions of this latter symposium and will only add on this, the morning of its inauguration, that both in its personnel and in its programme it