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DEFECT OF ORGANIZATION IN THE EXTERNAL EAR.
20 stances which compose semen tionably larger, but many of capable of fecundating; this is them fewer in number. Rep the most considerthe function which we may sup- tiles of fish have the those pose them to perform in the animal economy. If these mo- longest tails, though it is more tions are wanting-, the mixture difficult to perceive them. I may not take place, and the se- shall shortly publish an engravmen consequently remain iming in which about 50 species of cercariæ will be reis To the that it perfect. suppose animalcule which fecundates, is presented and described.-Jouran idea hazarded, or revived by nal de Physiologie,
able ;produce
carefully
Buffon, which is by
no
means
i
conclusive. I have calculated that in the DEFECT OF ORGANIZATION IN of
and
healthy thousand zoospermœ, excessively pressed against each semen
man,
a
strong*
a
other, occupy the
space of
THE EXTERNAL EAR. BERNARD, HOUSE SURGEON THE HOSPITAL DES ENFANS.
BY M.
AT
a
A child, named Alexandre square miHimetre (half a line). The size of zoospermœ is not Trippet, aged eight years proportional to that of the ani- was admitted into the Hospital mals, which nourish them. That in the month of September, of man is nearly of the same size 1822, for a slight complaint of A few days after as that of the cock, and only the bowels.
that of the silk- its admission, we perceived beare somewhat hind the ears, in front of the than those of the mastoid processes, a deep funours ; larger horse are somewhat less than nel-like cavity, the bottom those of the male ass, and yet of which was directed upwards the horse and the ass impreg- and inwards, and by which the nate the same female, which patient heard whether the nawould not happen if it was the tural openina was closed or not; animalcule which impregnated. a stilet introduced into this acThe same thing would happen cidental cavity, penetrated to in this case which takes place the depth of several lines. The cartiiag-inous portion of with respect to globules of the ear had undergone no alI which have blood,on remarked, as M. Dumas has also judicious- teration, only the opening- 01 ly done, that an animal will the meatus auditorins externus live if you inject into its veins was thrown forward, and was globules of blood of equal bulk, narrower than common. The whereas.he dies in convulsions patient’s hearing’ was hard, and if you employ for the injection he answered only in monosylglobules of blood of a different lables. The child was on the point of bulk from its own. In general, the size of the zoospermœ is in quitting the hospital, when he the inverse ratio of the size of was attacked by a malignant the animal ; the smallest ani- Angina, which carried him off twice as large
worm.
as
The bull’s
-
mals have zoospermœ propor- in
a
few
days. On a careful ex
21
amination of the
discovered
the
two ears, we
following ap-Taliacotian New Nose.
pearances. The cealed
Operation for
--From the de Santé, June 15.
accidentalopening, conentirely by the cartila-
a
Gazette
One of the most horrible deis undoubtedly that formities ginous portion results which from the loss of the and terminated in enlarged, bottom of the meatus auditorius the nose, and that operation may externus, the cartilage of which be regarded as a great triumph was interrupted in this place, as of surgery, by which we are enabled to make, if not a perfect, at we shall presently observe. of the
ear
was
’
There existed no membrane of least a supportable nose by takthe tympanum, or small bones of ing a portion of skin sufficient the ear; a very thin mucous for this purpose from the forehead of the patient. This opemembrane lined the cavity of tympanum, and the two meatus, ration, which has recently been and was blended exteriorly with called the rhinoplastic, has been. the skin ; the length of the ac- successfully performed by Procidental meatus was from about fessor DELPECH. The patient four to five lines, that of the who was the subject of it had his nose from the effects of right side was closed by thick could which never be crusts, syphilitic ulcees ; after a long extracted during the child’slife. course of treatment, the operaThe meatus auditorius exterperformed on the 4th of In the month of was June., contracted, ntts, slightly from five to six lines in length ; August following, the cicatrix it was bent anteriorly; the pos- was perfect, and the patient reterior part of its cartilage in- turned to Toulon, his country, terrupted by the internal orifice where be became an object of of the accidental meatus, was at- general astonishment, so haptached on one side to the base ofpily was nature imitated by his the zygomatic process, and on artificial nose. learn from an English the other to the summit of the Medical mastoidean eminence. This emiJournal, that Mr. Traits base vers, a Surgeon of St. Thomas’s nence was hollowed at to form the posterior paries of recently performed the the accidental meatus ; the mas- same operation, but not with toidean cells were only covered the same success, half of the skin by a fine lamina of compact sub- detached from the patient’s forestance. The internal parietes of head having mortified. the cavity of the tympanum, and the openings communicating Necrology. with the labyrinth were observed The faculty of - medicine at at the bottom of the meatus au- Montpellier, has just sustained an ditorius externus.—Idem. irreparable loss in respect to the instruction of the numerous pupils of that distinguished school. All those who have had the ,
theB
lost
tion was
1823.
We Hospital,
’
good fortune
to hear the bril-
22 lian and solid
_
surgical
lectures will learn with FAGES, the of death that deep regret which took professor, place on the 4th of this month, at an age when it might have been expected that he had still a long career of honour before him. Other professors may perhaps enjoy a more extensive reputation, but the memory of Professor FAGES will remain indelibly impressed in the hearts of those who have been his pupils.Gazelte de Santé. of M.
the
results of many of these
Jabours
rn ero us
are
known, and
nu-
theories have been pub-
lished;but
it must be
owned,
theories founded these on the most exact apparently, experiments, and strict observa tions, are more or less contradictory, and opposed to each other, so that after having’ reflected on them, one arrives at a complete scepticism on the major part of the Questions discussed. that all
inythis
state of
cians,far from
things, physi-
being discouraged direct their attention
oughtto to the nervous
system with a and make known ardour, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, the facts which may tend to BY A. L. J. BAYLE.* confirm, modify, or destroy, the its opinions put forth functions. It is with this view In the midst of the great that we the following questions which divide at present facts :- publish the majority of physicians, the CASE I. nervous system, its functions and qf the Spinal diseases, hold the first rank. But Csucer and Softening 1lIarro1l’. the physiology of this great apparatus of the animal economybeing Fifty-two years ctf age; at the commencement lwteinatirg pains in the enclosed in much deeper obscu- , abdomen and chest, afterwards in the ritv even than its pathology, has pelvis and inferior extremities; sometime after inability of walking and in a manner attracted convuls-t*ve affections of the lower the attention of authors. It has limbs; insensibility, immobility and been proposed to determine the flexion; with rigidity of these extrethe seat of shooting respective uses, of each of the mities, whichtheare base of the leitilt dorpains. At numerous parts which enter into sal vertebra, is a tumour, in form its composition. -In France and like the brain, situated posterior to several neighbouring* nations, the marron which is entirely softened in that part.* medical men have taken the new
all
respecting
particular
same object for-their researches ; analogies drawn from anatomy, and physiology, experiments on animals, pathological observations, nothing has been left un-
tried to lead to the solution of the numerous difficulties, which this subject -presents. At present
* REVUE, MEDICALE
THERESA MORIN, in the habit of doing needle-work, fifty-two years of age, and who had enjoyed good general health till 1819, when he began to feel lancinatiiig pains in the abdomen and
chest. *
She attributed
these to the sup-
Drawn up under the inspection of HONORE, physician to the Hospital Neclcer, by Dr. COLLIN, and communicated to the ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEM.
DICNE .
able ;produce
carefully
Buffon, which is by
no
means
i
conclusive. I have calculated that in the DEFECT OF ORGANIZATION IN of
and
healthy thousand zoospermœ, excessively pressed against each semen
man,
a
strong*
a
other, occupy the
space of
THE EXTERNAL EAR. BERNARD, HOUSE SURGEON THE HOSPITAL DES ENFANS.
BY M.
AT
a
A child, named Alexandre square miHimetre (half a line). The size of zoospermœ is not Trippet, aged eight years proportional to that of the ani- was admitted into the Hospital mals, which nourish them. That in the month of September, of man is nearly of the same size 1822, for a slight complaint of A few days after as that of the cock, and only the bowels.
that of the silk- its admission, we perceived beare somewhat hind the ears, in front of the than those of the mastoid processes, a deep funours ; larger horse are somewhat less than nel-like cavity, the bottom those of the male ass, and yet of which was directed upwards the horse and the ass impreg- and inwards, and by which the nate the same female, which patient heard whether the nawould not happen if it was the tural openina was closed or not; animalcule which impregnated. a stilet introduced into this acThe same thing would happen cidental cavity, penetrated to in this case which takes place the depth of several lines. The cartiiag-inous portion of with respect to globules of the ear had undergone no alI which have blood,on remarked, as M. Dumas has also judicious- teration, only the opening- 01 ly done, that an animal will the meatus auditorins externus live if you inject into its veins was thrown forward, and was globules of blood of equal bulk, narrower than common. The whereas.he dies in convulsions patient’s hearing’ was hard, and if you employ for the injection he answered only in monosylglobules of blood of a different lables. The child was on the point of bulk from its own. In general, the size of the zoospermœ is in quitting the hospital, when he the inverse ratio of the size of was attacked by a malignant the animal ; the smallest ani- Angina, which carried him off twice as large
worm.
as
The bull’s
-
mals have zoospermœ propor- in
a
few
days. On a careful ex
21
amination of the
discovered
the
two ears, we
following ap-Taliacotian New Nose.
pearances. The cealed
Operation for
--From the de Santé, June 15.
accidentalopening, conentirely by the cartila-
a
Gazette
One of the most horrible deis undoubtedly that formities ginous portion results which from the loss of the and terminated in enlarged, bottom of the meatus auditorius the nose, and that operation may externus, the cartilage of which be regarded as a great triumph was interrupted in this place, as of surgery, by which we are enabled to make, if not a perfect, at we shall presently observe. of the
ear
was
’
There existed no membrane of least a supportable nose by takthe tympanum, or small bones of ing a portion of skin sufficient the ear; a very thin mucous for this purpose from the forehead of the patient. This opemembrane lined the cavity of tympanum, and the two meatus, ration, which has recently been and was blended exteriorly with called the rhinoplastic, has been. the skin ; the length of the ac- successfully performed by Procidental meatus was from about fessor DELPECH. The patient four to five lines, that of the who was the subject of it had his nose from the effects of right side was closed by thick could which never be crusts, syphilitic ulcees ; after a long extracted during the child’slife. course of treatment, the operaThe meatus auditorius exterperformed on the 4th of In the month of was June., contracted, ntts, slightly from five to six lines in length ; August following, the cicatrix it was bent anteriorly; the pos- was perfect, and the patient reterior part of its cartilage in- turned to Toulon, his country, terrupted by the internal orifice where be became an object of of the accidental meatus, was at- general astonishment, so haptached on one side to the base ofpily was nature imitated by his the zygomatic process, and on artificial nose. learn from an English the other to the summit of the Medical mastoidean eminence. This emiJournal, that Mr. Traits base vers, a Surgeon of St. Thomas’s nence was hollowed at to form the posterior paries of recently performed the the accidental meatus ; the mas- same operation, but not with toidean cells were only covered the same success, half of the skin by a fine lamina of compact sub- detached from the patient’s forestance. The internal parietes of head having mortified. the cavity of the tympanum, and the openings communicating Necrology. with the labyrinth were observed The faculty of - medicine at at the bottom of the meatus au- Montpellier, has just sustained an ditorius externus.—Idem. irreparable loss in respect to the instruction of the numerous pupils of that distinguished school. All those who have had the ,
theB
lost
tion was
1823.
We Hospital,
’
good fortune
to hear the bril-
22 lian and solid
_
surgical
lectures will learn with FAGES, the of death that deep regret which took professor, place on the 4th of this month, at an age when it might have been expected that he had still a long career of honour before him. Other professors may perhaps enjoy a more extensive reputation, but the memory of Professor FAGES will remain indelibly impressed in the hearts of those who have been his pupils.Gazelte de Santé. of M.
the
results of many of these
Jabours
rn ero us
are
known, and
nu-
theories have been pub-
lished;but
it must be
owned,
theories founded these on the most exact apparently, experiments, and strict observa tions, are more or less contradictory, and opposed to each other, so that after having’ reflected on them, one arrives at a complete scepticism on the major part of the Questions discussed. that all
inythis
state of
cians,far from
things, physi-
being discouraged direct their attention
oughtto to the nervous
system with a and make known ardour, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, the facts which may tend to BY A. L. J. BAYLE.* confirm, modify, or destroy, the its opinions put forth functions. It is with this view In the midst of the great that we the following questions which divide at present facts :- publish the majority of physicians, the CASE I. nervous system, its functions and qf the Spinal diseases, hold the first rank. But Csucer and Softening 1lIarro1l’. the physiology of this great apparatus of the animal economybeing Fifty-two years ctf age; at the commencement lwteinatirg pains in the enclosed in much deeper obscu- , abdomen and chest, afterwards in the ritv even than its pathology, has pelvis and inferior extremities; sometime after inability of walking and in a manner attracted convuls-t*ve affections of the lower the attention of authors. It has limbs; insensibility, immobility and been proposed to determine the flexion; with rigidity of these extrethe seat of shooting respective uses, of each of the mities, whichtheare base of the leitilt dorpains. At numerous parts which enter into sal vertebra, is a tumour, in form its composition. -In France and like the brain, situated posterior to several neighbouring* nations, the marron which is entirely softened in that part.* medical men have taken the new
all
respecting
particular
same object for-their researches ; analogies drawn from anatomy, and physiology, experiments on animals, pathological observations, nothing has been left un-
tried to lead to the solution of the numerous difficulties, which this subject -presents. At present
* REVUE, MEDICALE
THERESA MORIN, in the habit of doing needle-work, fifty-two years of age, and who had enjoyed good general health till 1819, when he began to feel lancinatiiig pains in the abdomen and
chest. *
She attributed
these to the sup-
Drawn up under the inspection of HONORE, physician to the Hospital Neclcer, by Dr. COLLIN, and communicated to the ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEM.
DICNE .