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993 Dr. ARTHUR HALL and Dr. ADDISON exhibited and demonan instance was given of such a group where seven members of one family were affected with typhoid fever within strated numerous Physiological and Anatomical Preparations a few weeks. As to the treatment of typhoid fever, statistics lately added to the museum of the Medical School. The President, Mr. Arthur Jackson, Dr. Dyson, Mr. Snell, showed that though the mortality from typhoid fever had very much decreased in England when considered per population Mr. Richard Favell, Dr. Sinclair White, Mr. Atkin, Dr. Arthur (in 1871 the mortality per 1,000,000 was for England 371, for Hall, Dr. Rhodes, and Dr. Addison took part in the disLondon 267, for Manchester 450 ; in 1892 it had fallen for cussions. England to 137, for London to 102, and for Manchester to 240), the case death-rate, or the relation of the morBRADFORD MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL tality to the morbidity as shown by the reports of some SOCIETY. as the such the fever of hospitals Metropolitan largest still shows a the Monsall Fever &c., Board, Hospital, Asylums mortality of over 17 per cent. This compares unfavourably TrPatment of Diphtheria by Antitoxin.- Traumatic Stricture of tlae Urethra -Tumour in the Region of the Sella Turcica. with the mortality observed in some of the large German and American hospitals where the treatment by the cold A MEETING of this society was held on April 2nd, the Vicebath is carried out systematically. As yet the good effect of President, Dr. ADOLPH BRONNER, being in the chair. the antiseptic treatment which is now largely adopted in Dr. HONEYBURNE read notes on two cases of Diphtheria. England, and which has many advocates, is not apparent which he had recently Treated with Antitoxin. The first case from the statistics. At the Monsall Hospital, where this was a child aged six years, who was seen on Jan. 18th, 1895, treatment had been tried for some time, the mortality somefrom croup. There was no visible membrane ; the suffering what diminished, but was still over 13 per cent. temperature was 103° F. After the injection of Klein’s antiMr. G. A. WRIGHT also made some remarks upon recent toxin there was a gradual improvement, the membrane‘ cases of Renal Surgery. The second case was a, being easily coughed up. child aged three years with croupy symptoms. The temperature was 101 4°. After the injection of antitoxin marked imSHEFFIELD MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL provement took place. There was a slight rise in temperature after the injection, followed by a fall to normal. SOCIETY. Dr. Honeyburne referred to the importance of making a bacteriological examination in all doubtful cases. After the Exhibition of Cases and Specimens. --Ectopia Testis. injection of antitoxin the children were well in two days.-A MEETING of this society was held on March 28th, the Dr. A. Bronner, Dr. Bell, Dr. Kerr, Dr. Evans, Dr. S. Lodge, Mr. Horrocks, Dr. H. Bronner, and Dr. Goyder spoke on the President, Mr. MAKEIG JONES, being in the chair. Dr. KEELING showed two Dermoid Ovarian Cysts removed paper, and Dr. Honeyburne replied. Mr. HORROCKS described a case of Traumatic Stricture of a week before from a married woman aged twenty-seven years who had borne two children. One of the cysts was the Urethra in which he had cut down on and excised thelaid open, showing solid fatty contents interspersed with stricture, uniting the divided ends of the urethra with sutures and draining the bladder from the perineum. The wound hair. The patient was making a good recovery. Mr. SNELL introduced cases of Optic Atrophy following healed well, and the result was very satisfactory. Dr. WOOD described a case of Tumour in the Region of the Fracture of the Skull, and other patients. Dr. PORTER showed a well-marked example of Albnminurio Sella Turcica. which occurred in a man admitted for a fracture of the leg. The symptoms noted were a drooping of the right Retinitis. Mr. MAKEIG JoNES showed a woman aged forty-six with upper eyelid, dizziness, and mental dulness. The right eye Double Optic Neuritis who first came under his notice last showed corneal opacities and anterior polar cataract, the In addition there were diarrhoea, vomiting, year with a tumour of the left upper jaw, which rapidly vision being subsided under treatment with biniodide of mercury. She and headache. Later on dysphagia came on, necessitating was next seen about three months ago, when she had severe feeding by means of a tube, followed by left-sided hemihemicrania on the left side, which soon got well under the old plegia and the formation of a bed-sore on the right buttock. treatment. She came again last week with the pain on the The day before the patient died a discharge of pus came from opposite side of the head, and spasm and pain of the right the nose and mouth. There was no fever. On post-mortem forearm. There was double optic neuritis, worse on the right examination there was a tri-lobed enlargement, 13/4 in. by 2¼in., side, with old anterior synechia of both lenses. Some months of the pituitary body, which did not press on the second after marriage (twenty-four years ago) she had inflammation nerve, but had eaten its way into the nasal cavity. Microof both eyes for months. She had had twelve children and scopically the growth was an adenoma of the anterior lobe of three miscarriages. The first children died directly after birth, the pituitary body.-Dr. A. Bronner, Dr. Kerr, Dr. Goyder, and some of the children now alive showed well-marked signs Mr. Horrocks, and Dr. Major discussed the case, and Dr.. Wood replied. of congenital syphilis. Mr. PYE-SMITH showed a case of Double Excision of the Hip. The patient was a girl aged ten years. She was admitted into the Sheffield Public Hospital in June, 1893, A long splint was with symptoms of left hip disease. applied, but an abscess formed and was opened in January, 1894. Before this the right hip had begun to show signs Clinical Diagranas for Reeording Cases of Heart Disease. By of disease ; an abscess formed, and the joint was excised on GEORGE HERSCHELL, M.D. Lond. London : Baillère, May 16th, 1894. It had quite healed by July 1st. A sinus Tindall, and Cox. 1894. continuing on the left side this hip was also excised on THE graphic method of recording physical signs is of Sept. 7th, 1894. It was quite healed by Sept. 25th. The was in the head anterior incision made both cases, carious unquestionable value as an adjunct to notetaking. When and part of the neck only being removed and temporary pursued on a systematic and simple plan it can be made to. The patient was walking afford a mass of information which can be gauze drainage being used. appreciated at about the ward before Christmas, but she caught measles schemata have been put time various From time to and was removed to the Fever Hospital. When now sight. to we which can only say forward observers-as clinical exhibited she could stand and walk with a somewhat by and the walk as the are best. Dr. Herschell in well with the of two sticks. a could aid that, rule, waddling gait simplest There was free movement in the hip in all directions. The the is he has of this opinion diagrams prepared evidently wounds were sound, and there was no pain.- Mr. Pye-Smith also. For it will be seen that he gives three chest outlines in also showed a man on whom he had operated seven and a half years ago for Spasmodic Torticollis by excising part of order to record respectively in cases of cardiac diseaseo the spinal accessory nerve. He had been shown in 1888,1 and (a) the areas of pain and tenderness; (b) the areas he had resumed work and gradually regained more and more of murmurs ; and (c) the areas of dulness and impulse. By the use of his sterno-mastoid and trapezius muscles. this means he obviates the overcrowding of a single Dr. CLARKE (Chesterfield) read a paper on a somewhat diagram by many signs. The outlines are further unusual case of Ectopia Testis. marked by vertical lines corresponding to the mid1 Brit. Med. sternal, parasternal, mammillary, and anterior axillary lines, Jour., 1888, vol. i., p. 272.

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