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846 contaminated. Compensation is to be given for such1 slaughtered horses or mules when diseased to the amountt of one half their value ; in the case of suspected animals3 destroyed the full value is to be awarded. Such compensation is likely to prove a great inducement to fraud, and witht respect to diseased animals is decidedly unfair to the ratepayer. Suspected stables may be entered and placarded ifE found to be infected, and power is given in other ways to, control the disease ; but the task of combating this destructive and dangerous equine scourge should have been undertaken by the central authority. No notice has been takeni of the risk of having glandered horses imported from infectedl countries; in fact, we can only look upon the Order as anI attempt to silence the agitation that has been going on for. energetic action in dealing with the disease and to evade: responsibility and trouble. Such an Order might have been. issued any time during the last twenty years, and before the: impotency of the local authorities had been so clearly demonstrated. .
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in various hospitals in Paris also, who fnlly admitted the resemblance between the affections. A case in Charcot’s ward which had been diagnosed as typical syringomyelitis, and in which several fingers had been painlessly amputated, was brought to the Hopiial St. Louis and introduced to MM. Vidal, Besnier, Fournier and Hallopeau, all of whom declared the patient to be a leper. In some Oriental countries leprosy assumes a much severer form than it does in Brittany, where the disease often remains abortive, and appears to inexperienced observers as an entirely different or even perfectly new disease, and as such Morvan described it.
physicians
His
syringo-myelitis,
however, comprises, according
to
Dr. Zambaco, various diseases which should be separated, one division clearly representing "lepra ansesthetica," as von Daniellsen has described it ; while others still lack Permanent residents of Constantinople an exact description. are not subject to leprosy, and in those rare instances in which it has been acquired it has always been found that the ancestors of the patients had lived in the Cyclades or other islands of the Greek archipelago.
DEATH OF LORD TENNYSON. AT the moment of going to press we learn that Lord Tennyson, enfeebled by years, and after lingering in a condition of extreme weakness, but unruffled by physical pain, has passed away. There is probably no living Englishman whose loss will be more mourned. He has left a gap that cannot be filled, for as a poet he stood far If he occupied a position beabove all his compeers. neath some of our country’s greatest poets, in power of creation and dramatic force, he was above most of them in grace and delicacy and refinement of expression and diction. There was nothing false or meretricious about his verse. He had the true touch of genius, and, what is a rare gift among versifiers, an evenly balanced mind. Lord Tennyson was always true to himself. He did not seek to lead a forlorn hope of attack against the false aspirations and ideas of his age. His tolerance and charity were broad, his sympathies deep, and a vein of tenderness and reverence He died in the early hours of ran through all he wrote. and painless illness. after a brief Thursday morning,
THE IDENTITY OF SYRINGO-MYELITIS AND LEPROSY. AN important paper was recently read by Dr. Zambaco before the French Académie de Medecine on the identity of syringo-myelitis and leprosy. He had seen in Constantinople a considerable number of lepers, and became gradually convinced that the affection described as Morvan’s disease, or syringo-myelitis, was no other than leprosy. He had also carefully studied the subject in Brittany, where syringomyelitis had been first described, and where later on the disease was reported to occur frequently. He observed in all cases which were detained in hospital as incurable deformity of fingers and various other trophic changes, such as loss of one or more phalanges, muscular atrophy, anaesthesia or ulcerations, and all these symptoms he had previously observed in lepers. Photographs of a large number of these were shown which indicated a great resemblance between the two affections. Names of localities, such as lambezeller-i. e., " leper village"-and which are still called des lepreux, of cemeteries, bridges &c., disease has been endemic in that the to the fact testify Old pictures of saints and earliest times. since the Brittany fairies represent lepers just as they appear now. In a picture, for instance, of the miracles of St. Vincent, the saint is represented as restoring to a leper child its missing fingers. Dr. Zambaco believes that he is justified in concluding from stones, figures, and other objects found in many graves in Brittany that leprosy was imported into the country by the Phoenicians. He had discussed the subject with many
THERAPEUTICS
IN
THE WESTERN GLASGOW.
INFIRMARY,
IT would be wrong to say therapeutics is conspicuous by its absence from the clinical teaching in the University of Glasgow, but it is a striking fact that the Professor of Therapeutics has no beds at his disposal with which to illustrate his teaching on the uses of medicines. This is a most unusual and anomalous state of matters, contrasting with that of the other Scotch universities and other medical schools. There is at present a vacancy for a visiting physician in the Western Infirmary, and it does seem most reasonable that it should be filled by one occupying so responsible a post as the Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, to say nothing of the personal fitness and claims of Professor Charteris, which will be everywhere recognised. It is due to the students that such an appointment should be made, and that the right use of medicines in the treatment of disease should be demonstrated by one whose special function it is to study them and their action. Professor Charteris, besides being Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, has had large experience in teaching clinical medicine in connexion with the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow. -
THE DIGESTIBILITY OF TRIPE. WE have been challenged to pronounce an opinion on the dietetic virtues of tripe, an article of food which is largely consumed in certain parts of the country, especially during’ the winter months. Tripe consists of the soft muscular walls and mucous membrane of the stomach of ruminant animals with a small proportion of delicate omental fat adhering, from which, however, all fibrous portions of the From serous covering, or peritoneum, have been removed. frequent experiments it has been proved that tripe stands high in the list of albuminous substances that are quickly acted on by the gastric juice and reduced to a state of solution, and has therefore acquired a reputation for digestibility. But plain boiled tripe in itself is a very insipid article of food, and in order to make it palatable the art of the cook has to be invoked, which, whilst making it more "savoury," causes it often when so served to be an offence to the stomach. The usual mode of serving tripe in this country is to boil it with milk and onions, and there can be little doubt that such a combination is not particularly digestible. Tripe is also sometimes frieo’ in batter, but unless very carefully cooked it is apt to become leathery. If only plainly boiled in water it requires a considerable amount of condiments in the shape of salt, pepper and mustard to make it acceptable to the palate. There-
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in various hospitals in Paris also, who fnlly admitted the resemblance between the affections. A case in Charcot’s ward which had been diagnosed as typical syringomyelitis, and in which several fingers had been painlessly amputated, was brought to the Hopiial St. Louis and introduced to MM. Vidal, Besnier, Fournier and Hallopeau, all of whom declared the patient to be a leper. In some Oriental countries leprosy assumes a much severer form than it does in Brittany, where the disease often remains abortive, and appears to inexperienced observers as an entirely different or even perfectly new disease, and as such Morvan described it.
physicians
His
syringo-myelitis,
however, comprises, according
to
Dr. Zambaco, various diseases which should be separated, one division clearly representing "lepra ansesthetica," as von Daniellsen has described it ; while others still lack Permanent residents of Constantinople an exact description. are not subject to leprosy, and in those rare instances in which it has been acquired it has always been found that the ancestors of the patients had lived in the Cyclades or other islands of the Greek archipelago.
DEATH OF LORD TENNYSON. AT the moment of going to press we learn that Lord Tennyson, enfeebled by years, and after lingering in a condition of extreme weakness, but unruffled by physical pain, has passed away. There is probably no living Englishman whose loss will be more mourned. He has left a gap that cannot be filled, for as a poet he stood far If he occupied a position beabove all his compeers. neath some of our country’s greatest poets, in power of creation and dramatic force, he was above most of them in grace and delicacy and refinement of expression and diction. There was nothing false or meretricious about his verse. He had the true touch of genius, and, what is a rare gift among versifiers, an evenly balanced mind. Lord Tennyson was always true to himself. He did not seek to lead a forlorn hope of attack against the false aspirations and ideas of his age. His tolerance and charity were broad, his sympathies deep, and a vein of tenderness and reverence He died in the early hours of ran through all he wrote. and painless illness. after a brief Thursday morning,
THE IDENTITY OF SYRINGO-MYELITIS AND LEPROSY. AN important paper was recently read by Dr. Zambaco before the French Académie de Medecine on the identity of syringo-myelitis and leprosy. He had seen in Constantinople a considerable number of lepers, and became gradually convinced that the affection described as Morvan’s disease, or syringo-myelitis, was no other than leprosy. He had also carefully studied the subject in Brittany, where syringomyelitis had been first described, and where later on the disease was reported to occur frequently. He observed in all cases which were detained in hospital as incurable deformity of fingers and various other trophic changes, such as loss of one or more phalanges, muscular atrophy, anaesthesia or ulcerations, and all these symptoms he had previously observed in lepers. Photographs of a large number of these were shown which indicated a great resemblance between the two affections. Names of localities, such as lambezeller-i. e., " leper village"-and which are still called des lepreux, of cemeteries, bridges &c., disease has been endemic in that the to the fact testify Old pictures of saints and earliest times. since the Brittany fairies represent lepers just as they appear now. In a picture, for instance, of the miracles of St. Vincent, the saint is represented as restoring to a leper child its missing fingers. Dr. Zambaco believes that he is justified in concluding from stones, figures, and other objects found in many graves in Brittany that leprosy was imported into the country by the Phoenicians. He had discussed the subject with many
THERAPEUTICS
IN
THE WESTERN GLASGOW.
INFIRMARY,
IT would be wrong to say therapeutics is conspicuous by its absence from the clinical teaching in the University of Glasgow, but it is a striking fact that the Professor of Therapeutics has no beds at his disposal with which to illustrate his teaching on the uses of medicines. This is a most unusual and anomalous state of matters, contrasting with that of the other Scotch universities and other medical schools. There is at present a vacancy for a visiting physician in the Western Infirmary, and it does seem most reasonable that it should be filled by one occupying so responsible a post as the Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, to say nothing of the personal fitness and claims of Professor Charteris, which will be everywhere recognised. It is due to the students that such an appointment should be made, and that the right use of medicines in the treatment of disease should be demonstrated by one whose special function it is to study them and their action. Professor Charteris, besides being Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, has had large experience in teaching clinical medicine in connexion with the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow. -
THE DIGESTIBILITY OF TRIPE. WE have been challenged to pronounce an opinion on the dietetic virtues of tripe, an article of food which is largely consumed in certain parts of the country, especially during’ the winter months. Tripe consists of the soft muscular walls and mucous membrane of the stomach of ruminant animals with a small proportion of delicate omental fat adhering, from which, however, all fibrous portions of the From serous covering, or peritoneum, have been removed. frequent experiments it has been proved that tripe stands high in the list of albuminous substances that are quickly acted on by the gastric juice and reduced to a state of solution, and has therefore acquired a reputation for digestibility. But plain boiled tripe in itself is a very insipid article of food, and in order to make it palatable the art of the cook has to be invoked, which, whilst making it more "savoury," causes it often when so served to be an offence to the stomach. The usual mode of serving tripe in this country is to boil it with milk and onions, and there can be little doubt that such a combination is not particularly digestible. Tripe is also sometimes frieo’ in batter, but unless very carefully cooked it is apt to become leathery. If only plainly boiled in water it requires a considerable amount of condiments in the shape of salt, pepper and mustard to make it acceptable to the palate. There-