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COCAINE AND ITS SALTS.
590 but comments on the absurdity ofattempting to let this virus out in two or three pustules. Mr. Chang,
found that they contain, not only. earthy substances, sodium carbonate and lime salts, but also a waxy subhowever, has a ready reply : the foetal virus congregates stance and traces of petroleum. While these samples are about the Gate of Life and the Three Passages. lie does variously represented as containing from 80 to 90 per cent, not say where these are, but on either arm between the of alkaloid, Dr. Paul asserts that one sample he examined shoulder and the elbow are two depressions, the " eddy of did not contain more than one-half the reputed quantity of purity and cold"and the 11 lessen estuary," which two com- crystallisable hydrochloride. These chemical details will municate by means of veins directly with the Gate of Life. be received with considerable interest by all who have been By introducing vaccine, therefore, in the upper part of the struck with the different effects resulting from the use of arm, it is conveyed by the flowing of the blood along the cocaine. They forcibly call to mind the supposed explanavein to its goal. For the reason that " blood must be warm tion of the cerebral symptoms formerly noted after the usa before it can flow" (vide Chinese text-books), "cold" food of salicylic acid, and lead to the hope that the numerous must not be given the patient, or rather, to use our instances of so-called cocaine poisoning may eventually be expression, food which is credited with being traced to the accidental admixture of foreign substances popular " with a valuable therapeutic agent. cooling."
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A DEATH AFTER TOOTH EXTRACTION.
AN INSANITARY DWELLING.
Sheffield Telegraph gives an account of an inquest held at Stalybridge upon a child aged five years. The child had The
IN a case just decided in the City of London Court (Kellyv, Fox), damages for £ 10 with costs on the higher scale were suffered from toothache and went to a herbalist, who extracted the tooth. There was a good deal of haemorrhage, granted to the plaintiff, who sought compensation by reason and shortly after the child died " from debility from the loss of injury from bad drains. The plaintiff took a house in
of blood." Whether the herbalist was in any way to blame Bayswater, after receiving an assurance that the drains for want of skill or carelessness during the operation does were in perfect order; but it soon appeared that they were not appear in this report, but it is not to be expected that faulty, and rats made their way through them into the his " profession"qualifies him to deal with the more house. The defendant then spent X20 in some repairs, but serious accidents and complications which unfortunately do Mr. Commissioner Kerr granted the additional sum referred sometimes occur during or after the extraction of teeth. to by way of damages. Surely such a sad case as this should have some infiuence in FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. deterring the public from patronising unqualified praco’K.—Professor IIertwig of Jena, who has been titioners. appointed to the second Professorship of Anatomy, will THE AITKEN PORTRAIT FUND. commence to lecture on Oct. 1st. Dr. Nagel has been in the Assistant out-patient department of ProTHE Treasurer of the Aitken Portrait Fund requests us to appointed in fessor Gusserow’s Clinic, place of Dr. Wyder, who is now intimate to the subscribers that the portrait of Sir William in Professor Dorpat. Aitken, intended for the Mess Room, Netley, will be on view - Kea?!.—Dr. A. Ponormoff has qualified as privat docent at the artist’s (Mr. W. R. Symonds’) Art Studios, I I olland-parkroad, on the 31st inst. and April 1st, between the hours of in Medicine. St. Petersburg (Alilitary Medical Academy).-A regulation 3 and 6 o’clock P.M. Mr. Symonds will be pleased to show has been made that aprivat docent must give at least one free the picture to subscribers and their friends on presenting course of lectures every year. Professor Nasilof and Docent their cards. V. Popoff have been appointed delegates to represent the FEVER IN LONDON. Academy at the Congress of French Surgeons. Vienna.-Dr. M. Leidesdorf, Professor of Mental Diseases, THE number of cases admitted into the hospitals of the who is now seventy years of age, is about to retire. Dr. Metropolitan Asylums Board during the week ending Victor Ritter von liacker has been recognised as privat March 16h was 105, of which 86 were persons suffering docent in Surgery. from scarlet fever ; this is a decrease of 21 upon the number of the preceding week. Twelve persons suffering from From Messrs. Crookes, Odling, and Tid’i! report on the enteric fever and 6 from small-pox were also admitted, 4 composition and quality of daily samples of the water of the latter being received from the parish of Bethnal- supplied to London during the month of February, it green-three from one house; while of the other 2, 1 appears that even to a greater extent than in December occurred in St. George-in-the-east and 1 in Fulham. and January the condition of the water supplied to the metropolis during the month was quite exceptional for the period of the year, and was found, indeed, to fall but little COCAINE AND ITS SALTS. short of that observable in the most favourable of the IN a paper by Dr. B. H. Paul, read before the Pharma- summer and early autumn months. Doubtless the excepceutical Society on the Hth inst., the author raised several tional condition of the water throughout the past winter, important considerations respecting the variable purity of observe the reporters, is traceable primarily to the excepthe salts of cocaine ordinarily met with in commerce. lIe tional drought, the habitual coincidence of a high character contended that the increased demand for cocaine had been of the river supply with the prevalence of drought being met by an abundant supply of material of very doubtful one of many general evidences showing the extensive composition; indeed, he considered that at the present time self-purifying power of running water. the price was much too low to ensure the purity of the salts of cocaine. Referring to the reports of Dr. Squibb in the THE Alexander Memorial Prize of S60 and a gold medal "Ephemeris of Materia Medica," Dr. Pa,ul said that he could have been awarded to Surgeon Robert Hammill Firth, not accept the trade distinction of cocaine salts under the 1B’.ltC.S., for the best essay on the Relations between the "crystallised" and "granular" forms, since he believed 1‘ood and Work of the British Soldier." The committee that the hydrochlorate of cocaine never assumed the amor- announce as the subject of the next essay, to be sent in by phous condition. Dr. Paul has analysed several specimens Dec. lat, 1890, 11 The U.e of Drugs in the Treatment of of crude cocaine imported from South America, and has3Disease in the Army." -
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found that they contain, not only. earthy substances, sodium carbonate and lime salts, but also a waxy subhowever, has a ready reply : the foetal virus congregates stance and traces of petroleum. While these samples are about the Gate of Life and the Three Passages. lie does variously represented as containing from 80 to 90 per cent, not say where these are, but on either arm between the of alkaloid, Dr. Paul asserts that one sample he examined shoulder and the elbow are two depressions, the " eddy of did not contain more than one-half the reputed quantity of purity and cold"and the 11 lessen estuary," which two com- crystallisable hydrochloride. These chemical details will municate by means of veins directly with the Gate of Life. be received with considerable interest by all who have been By introducing vaccine, therefore, in the upper part of the struck with the different effects resulting from the use of arm, it is conveyed by the flowing of the blood along the cocaine. They forcibly call to mind the supposed explanavein to its goal. For the reason that " blood must be warm tion of the cerebral symptoms formerly noted after the usa before it can flow" (vide Chinese text-books), "cold" food of salicylic acid, and lead to the hope that the numerous must not be given the patient, or rather, to use our instances of so-called cocaine poisoning may eventually be expression, food which is credited with being traced to the accidental admixture of foreign substances popular " with a valuable therapeutic agent. cooling."
theory,
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A DEATH AFTER TOOTH EXTRACTION.
AN INSANITARY DWELLING.
Sheffield Telegraph gives an account of an inquest held at Stalybridge upon a child aged five years. The child had The
IN a case just decided in the City of London Court (Kellyv, Fox), damages for £ 10 with costs on the higher scale were suffered from toothache and went to a herbalist, who extracted the tooth. There was a good deal of haemorrhage, granted to the plaintiff, who sought compensation by reason and shortly after the child died " from debility from the loss of injury from bad drains. The plaintiff took a house in
of blood." Whether the herbalist was in any way to blame Bayswater, after receiving an assurance that the drains for want of skill or carelessness during the operation does were in perfect order; but it soon appeared that they were not appear in this report, but it is not to be expected that faulty, and rats made their way through them into the his " profession"qualifies him to deal with the more house. The defendant then spent X20 in some repairs, but serious accidents and complications which unfortunately do Mr. Commissioner Kerr granted the additional sum referred sometimes occur during or after the extraction of teeth. to by way of damages. Surely such a sad case as this should have some infiuence in FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. deterring the public from patronising unqualified praco’K.—Professor IIertwig of Jena, who has been titioners. appointed to the second Professorship of Anatomy, will THE AITKEN PORTRAIT FUND. commence to lecture on Oct. 1st. Dr. Nagel has been in the Assistant out-patient department of ProTHE Treasurer of the Aitken Portrait Fund requests us to appointed in fessor Gusserow’s Clinic, place of Dr. Wyder, who is now intimate to the subscribers that the portrait of Sir William in Professor Dorpat. Aitken, intended for the Mess Room, Netley, will be on view - Kea?!.—Dr. A. Ponormoff has qualified as privat docent at the artist’s (Mr. W. R. Symonds’) Art Studios, I I olland-parkroad, on the 31st inst. and April 1st, between the hours of in Medicine. St. Petersburg (Alilitary Medical Academy).-A regulation 3 and 6 o’clock P.M. Mr. Symonds will be pleased to show has been made that aprivat docent must give at least one free the picture to subscribers and their friends on presenting course of lectures every year. Professor Nasilof and Docent their cards. V. Popoff have been appointed delegates to represent the FEVER IN LONDON. Academy at the Congress of French Surgeons. Vienna.-Dr. M. Leidesdorf, Professor of Mental Diseases, THE number of cases admitted into the hospitals of the who is now seventy years of age, is about to retire. Dr. Metropolitan Asylums Board during the week ending Victor Ritter von liacker has been recognised as privat March 16h was 105, of which 86 were persons suffering docent in Surgery. from scarlet fever ; this is a decrease of 21 upon the number of the preceding week. Twelve persons suffering from From Messrs. Crookes, Odling, and Tid’i! report on the enteric fever and 6 from small-pox were also admitted, 4 composition and quality of daily samples of the water of the latter being received from the parish of Bethnal- supplied to London during the month of February, it green-three from one house; while of the other 2, 1 appears that even to a greater extent than in December occurred in St. George-in-the-east and 1 in Fulham. and January the condition of the water supplied to the metropolis during the month was quite exceptional for the period of the year, and was found, indeed, to fall but little COCAINE AND ITS SALTS. short of that observable in the most favourable of the IN a paper by Dr. B. H. Paul, read before the Pharma- summer and early autumn months. Doubtless the excepceutical Society on the Hth inst., the author raised several tional condition of the water throughout the past winter, important considerations respecting the variable purity of observe the reporters, is traceable primarily to the excepthe salts of cocaine ordinarily met with in commerce. lIe tional drought, the habitual coincidence of a high character contended that the increased demand for cocaine had been of the river supply with the prevalence of drought being met by an abundant supply of material of very doubtful one of many general evidences showing the extensive composition; indeed, he considered that at the present time self-purifying power of running water. the price was much too low to ensure the purity of the salts of cocaine. Referring to the reports of Dr. Squibb in the THE Alexander Memorial Prize of S60 and a gold medal "Ephemeris of Materia Medica," Dr. Pa,ul said that he could have been awarded to Surgeon Robert Hammill Firth, not accept the trade distinction of cocaine salts under the 1B’.ltC.S., for the best essay on the Relations between the "crystallised" and "granular" forms, since he believed 1‘ood and Work of the British Soldier." The committee that the hydrochlorate of cocaine never assumed the amor- announce as the subject of the next essay, to be sent in by phous condition. Dr. Paul has analysed several specimens Dec. lat, 1890, 11 The U.e of Drugs in the Treatment of of crude cocaine imported from South America, and has3Disease in the Army." -
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