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pertussis, being, we shall say, 8 per annum out of the above strength, and there was only one death. But my own observation leads me to conclude, that if we had a larger and wider
evil, M. Uytterhoeven proposes that soldiers should be to arrest arterial haemorrhage by means of sponge and bandage tightly applied to the wound, and that each man should carry a few pieces of pasteboard and a roller, so as to steady fractured limbs whilst the sufferers are carried to the rear. The author states, very justly, that most soldiers possess a laroe amount of manual skill, resulting from the various trades
of
taught
field of observation, it would show a different result, both as respects prevalence and severity......But its severity is greatly moderated, and apparently so, by the high range of the thermo-
meter......The disease I have sometimes seen so mild as to render it difficult to distinguish it from common cough, although the manner in which the cough attacks, (in fits more or less violent,) and the specific hoop, ought to be enough to guide us. ......1have known children who have had well-marked hoopingcough in India have the disease again severely in Europe. We may imagine the Indian attack not severe enough to protect the organism from a future invasion, as appears to happen when vaccination, though successful, is not entirely protective. At some of our hill stations the disease is severe and often fatal, another proof seemingly that it owes its generally mild character with us to the high range of temperature.-DR. MACKINNON on the Epidemics of Bengal.
they carried on before enlisting,
and that it is not more difficult to carry out a few simple surgical indications, than to become perfect at drill. Of course, we should not attempt to make surgeons of our men, but many lives might perhaps be saved, especially after a great battle, when hundreds of men are lying wounded, if soldiers were taught how temporarily to help themselves and others. The only additional articles which the men would have to carry are, as stated above, bits of sponge or tinder, strips of pasteboard, and a roller. FORMULA FOR THE INTERNAL USE OF CHLOROFORM.
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M.
DANNECY, pharmacien, at Bordeaux, recommends the following formula:--Pure chloroform, half a drachm; oil of sweet almonds, two drachms; gum arabic, one drachm; syrup
MEDICAL AND POST-MORTEM FORENSIC
INQUIRIES IN INDIA. WHEN, as generally happens, death has occurred several of orange flowers, one ounce; distilled water, two ounces; mix days previously, and decomposition of the body has advanced the chloroform with the oil, and make an ordinary oily draught. to a horrible extent, the task placed before the surgeon, who The author also gives a very ready mode of testing the purity is really desirous of throwing some light upon a case which he of chloroform. Mix the latter with some oil; if the chloroform doubts not involves questions of vital moment, is a very trying be quite pure, the limpidity of the oil will not be destroyed; and difficult one. The order forbidding the police to send in whereas, any chemical impurity, however small, will give rise bodies for examination whenever it is probable, that, on account to a cloud. of the weather, or of the distance, they will reach the Sudder station in a state of advanced putrefaction, is not always SUGAR SECRETED BY THE LIVER. attended to, and account is not generally taken of the rapidity THIS function of the liver, pointed out some time ago by M. with which decomposition advances in a body wrapped in a Bernard, is now called into question by M. Fiquier, Assistant- sheet of matting, hurried along some thirty or forty miles, Professor at the School of Pharmacy of Paris. The discussion through a burning atmosphere, at from two to ten days after is taking place before the Academy of Medicine, and has given death; under these circumstances, its very appearance, when rise to several clever papers. We may add that Lehmann, of freed from its swathings, is almost appalling even to the iniLeipzig, has lately made experiments which would tend to tiated-bloated in every part, almost to bursting, with its strengthen M. Bernard’s views, respecting the glucogenic func- limbs widely separated by sheer gaseous distention, the eyes tions of the liver. dissolving, and forced from the sockets; the tongue enormously swollen and protruded between the teeth, through which the THE SPECIES OF THE ACARUS. gases of putrefaction bubble with loud crepitations; the skin Oult knowledge respecting this parasite has increased con- everywhere separated, displaying the white surface beneath, blotches and veinings, and preyed siderably for the last few years; we knew already a great deal marbled with gangrenous of the acarus scabiei, both male and female, and then came the upon by gigantic ants and beetles of sinister aspect, and by -Professor de Hessling mentions, in maggots, which roll forth in measuresful when the clothes are acarus follicularum. Schmidt’s " Jarhbiicher" of 1852, three different species which unloosed. A body of this kind offers no very safe or encouraghe found in a case of plica polonica; and we have now Dr. ing field for the morbid anatomist’s researches.—Da. CHEVEB’S Willigk describing, in the " Vierteljahrschrift," 1st vol., of Report on 3ledical Izsrispreac_lence in the Bel/gal Presidency. 1855, a new species which he found under crusts oftaenia favosa. This latter species bears some resemblance to the acarus folliFIBRINOUS CONCRETIONS IN THE HEART. culorum ; but we should add that Dr. Willigk has not found ACCORDING to Dr. Kennedy, it is now more than thirty years the acarus in other cases of favus; hence the parasite may be since the late Dr. Hartey had directed special notice to the looked upon as an accidental complication, superadded to crypof fibrinous concretions in the cavities of the heart, and subject togamic elements of favus. Being on the subject of parasites, to the signs and effects produced by such’astate. Of late, we may state that M. Berend has just found a cvsticercus celluthis subject had been brought forward by gentlemen losus in the lip of a child one year old. The labial tumour was however, in London as if it were not being aware, possibly, of what about the size of a bean, and a little incision freed the eysti- had been done before. new, It was right to observe that in London cercus ; the wound healed by first intention. it was stated as a fact that these concretions, or a portion, could be carried by the circulation to some point where obstruction occurred, and where this took place, as, for instance, SECRETION OF MILK BY A COLT ELEVEN DAYS OLD. in the brain, paralysis might be the result. Dr. Kennedy THE fact of infants now and then presenting the phenomena thought that this point required much stronger evidence before of a secretion of milk from the mamrnse has been pretty often it could be received.-Report of S’urgical Society of Ireland. observed, and M. Billard, in his work, "On Diseases of Chil____
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dren," mentions this strange glandular activity.
We perceive lately in Belgium, according to the Journal de J,.Iédecine ’lJétérinaire, M. Dayot saw a colt, eleven days old, which could
SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY.
that
THE phrases" "madness," "madhouse," "lunatic," "lunatic asylum,"" keepers,""cell,"should be at once and for ever expunged from our vocabulary. The term madness" is unquestionably an unscientific one. The word " lunatic" is obviously The appellation founded upon an acknowledged error. keeper" only suggests to the imagination wild beasts, iron cages, and certain officials who perambulate the Zoological Gardens, and should never escape the lips of humane and scientific men..... A man in a state of insanity is not likely to be soothed by being informed that he is going to a madhouse; and we would humbly suggest, when there, that the irritation which is necessarily increased by his sudden removal from IN INDIA. HOOPING-COUGH home, and being placed amongst strangers, is not likely to be IF I were to judge from the only return at present before me, much mitigated by telling him that he is to be consigned to a I should say that it is a rare disease in this climate; for in a cell, or that he has a keeper to watch his every movement, to return showing the average strength for three years of European sleep in the same room with him, and, if necessary, to control soldiers’ children to have been 2,291, there were only 23 cases his actions.-EDITOR, Psyrhological Journal. be milked like a cow; but the flow of milk was stronger when the little animal drew milk from the mother: fluid of the same kind then flowed in abundance from the colt’s own breast, each time the sucking aspiration was made.
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pertussis, being, we shall say, 8 per annum out of the above strength, and there was only one death. But my own observation leads me to conclude, that if we had a larger and wider
evil, M. Uytterhoeven proposes that soldiers should be to arrest arterial haemorrhage by means of sponge and bandage tightly applied to the wound, and that each man should carry a few pieces of pasteboard and a roller, so as to steady fractured limbs whilst the sufferers are carried to the rear. The author states, very justly, that most soldiers possess a laroe amount of manual skill, resulting from the various trades
of
taught
field of observation, it would show a different result, both as respects prevalence and severity......But its severity is greatly moderated, and apparently so, by the high range of the thermo-
meter......The disease I have sometimes seen so mild as to render it difficult to distinguish it from common cough, although the manner in which the cough attacks, (in fits more or less violent,) and the specific hoop, ought to be enough to guide us. ......1have known children who have had well-marked hoopingcough in India have the disease again severely in Europe. We may imagine the Indian attack not severe enough to protect the organism from a future invasion, as appears to happen when vaccination, though successful, is not entirely protective. At some of our hill stations the disease is severe and often fatal, another proof seemingly that it owes its generally mild character with us to the high range of temperature.-DR. MACKINNON on the Epidemics of Bengal.
they carried on before enlisting,
and that it is not more difficult to carry out a few simple surgical indications, than to become perfect at drill. Of course, we should not attempt to make surgeons of our men, but many lives might perhaps be saved, especially after a great battle, when hundreds of men are lying wounded, if soldiers were taught how temporarily to help themselves and others. The only additional articles which the men would have to carry are, as stated above, bits of sponge or tinder, strips of pasteboard, and a roller. FORMULA FOR THE INTERNAL USE OF CHLOROFORM.
-
M.
DANNECY, pharmacien, at Bordeaux, recommends the following formula:--Pure chloroform, half a drachm; oil of sweet almonds, two drachms; gum arabic, one drachm; syrup
MEDICAL AND POST-MORTEM FORENSIC
INQUIRIES IN INDIA. WHEN, as generally happens, death has occurred several of orange flowers, one ounce; distilled water, two ounces; mix days previously, and decomposition of the body has advanced the chloroform with the oil, and make an ordinary oily draught. to a horrible extent, the task placed before the surgeon, who The author also gives a very ready mode of testing the purity is really desirous of throwing some light upon a case which he of chloroform. Mix the latter with some oil; if the chloroform doubts not involves questions of vital moment, is a very trying be quite pure, the limpidity of the oil will not be destroyed; and difficult one. The order forbidding the police to send in whereas, any chemical impurity, however small, will give rise bodies for examination whenever it is probable, that, on account to a cloud. of the weather, or of the distance, they will reach the Sudder station in a state of advanced putrefaction, is not always SUGAR SECRETED BY THE LIVER. attended to, and account is not generally taken of the rapidity THIS function of the liver, pointed out some time ago by M. with which decomposition advances in a body wrapped in a Bernard, is now called into question by M. Fiquier, Assistant- sheet of matting, hurried along some thirty or forty miles, Professor at the School of Pharmacy of Paris. The discussion through a burning atmosphere, at from two to ten days after is taking place before the Academy of Medicine, and has given death; under these circumstances, its very appearance, when rise to several clever papers. We may add that Lehmann, of freed from its swathings, is almost appalling even to the iniLeipzig, has lately made experiments which would tend to tiated-bloated in every part, almost to bursting, with its strengthen M. Bernard’s views, respecting the glucogenic func- limbs widely separated by sheer gaseous distention, the eyes tions of the liver. dissolving, and forced from the sockets; the tongue enormously swollen and protruded between the teeth, through which the THE SPECIES OF THE ACARUS. gases of putrefaction bubble with loud crepitations; the skin Oult knowledge respecting this parasite has increased con- everywhere separated, displaying the white surface beneath, blotches and veinings, and preyed siderably for the last few years; we knew already a great deal marbled with gangrenous of the acarus scabiei, both male and female, and then came the upon by gigantic ants and beetles of sinister aspect, and by -Professor de Hessling mentions, in maggots, which roll forth in measuresful when the clothes are acarus follicularum. Schmidt’s " Jarhbiicher" of 1852, three different species which unloosed. A body of this kind offers no very safe or encouraghe found in a case of plica polonica; and we have now Dr. ing field for the morbid anatomist’s researches.—Da. CHEVEB’S Willigk describing, in the " Vierteljahrschrift," 1st vol., of Report on 3ledical Izsrispreac_lence in the Bel/gal Presidency. 1855, a new species which he found under crusts oftaenia favosa. This latter species bears some resemblance to the acarus folliFIBRINOUS CONCRETIONS IN THE HEART. culorum ; but we should add that Dr. Willigk has not found ACCORDING to Dr. Kennedy, it is now more than thirty years the acarus in other cases of favus; hence the parasite may be since the late Dr. Hartey had directed special notice to the looked upon as an accidental complication, superadded to crypof fibrinous concretions in the cavities of the heart, and subject togamic elements of favus. Being on the subject of parasites, to the signs and effects produced by such’astate. Of late, we may state that M. Berend has just found a cvsticercus celluthis subject had been brought forward by gentlemen losus in the lip of a child one year old. The labial tumour was however, in London as if it were not being aware, possibly, of what about the size of a bean, and a little incision freed the eysti- had been done before. new, It was right to observe that in London cercus ; the wound healed by first intention. it was stated as a fact that these concretions, or a portion, could be carried by the circulation to some point where obstruction occurred, and where this took place, as, for instance, SECRETION OF MILK BY A COLT ELEVEN DAYS OLD. in the brain, paralysis might be the result. Dr. Kennedy THE fact of infants now and then presenting the phenomena thought that this point required much stronger evidence before of a secretion of milk from the mamrnse has been pretty often it could be received.-Report of S’urgical Society of Ireland. observed, and M. Billard, in his work, "On Diseases of Chil____
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j
dren," mentions this strange glandular activity.
We perceive lately in Belgium, according to the Journal de J,.Iédecine ’lJétérinaire, M. Dayot saw a colt, eleven days old, which could
SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY.
that
THE phrases" "madness," "madhouse," "lunatic," "lunatic asylum,"" keepers,""cell,"should be at once and for ever expunged from our vocabulary. The term madness" is unquestionably an unscientific one. The word " lunatic" is obviously The appellation founded upon an acknowledged error. keeper" only suggests to the imagination wild beasts, iron cages, and certain officials who perambulate the Zoological Gardens, and should never escape the lips of humane and scientific men..... A man in a state of insanity is not likely to be soothed by being informed that he is going to a madhouse; and we would humbly suggest, when there, that the irritation which is necessarily increased by his sudden removal from IN INDIA. HOOPING-COUGH home, and being placed amongst strangers, is not likely to be IF I were to judge from the only return at present before me, much mitigated by telling him that he is to be consigned to a I should say that it is a rare disease in this climate; for in a cell, or that he has a keeper to watch his every movement, to return showing the average strength for three years of European sleep in the same room with him, and, if necessary, to control soldiers’ children to have been 2,291, there were only 23 cases his actions.-EDITOR, Psyrhological Journal. be milked like a cow; but the flow of milk was stronger when the little animal drew milk from the mother: fluid of the same kind then flowed in abundance from the colt’s own breast, each time the sucking aspiration was made.
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