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195 though weak, and that he had been victimised by an tubes at an electrical works had to discontinue the employunscrupulous quack. The result was no gain to him, though ment because his arms began to be affected, even through it obtained for his quondam adviser an exchange from the his clothing ; he adds that two similar cases, but of far perils of a false position to the security ’of twelve months’ greater severity, occurred in Mr. Edison’s laboratory. imprisonment. The excuse of ignorance might be pleaded by the sufferer in this case, and there are others like him in NEW VACCINATION ORDER BY THE LOCAL every rank of society who should know better, but do not. GOVERNMENT BOARD. In their interest we are pleased to find the law as regards THE Local Government Board has issued a general order fraudulent money-getting so sensibly interpreted. The dated Jan. 7th, 1897, amending paragraphs 5 and 6 of lesson of experience, which is all in favour of qualified man,
because the"Instructions for vaccinators under contract" contained in the order dated Feb. 28th, 1887. The new order it has not been more severely taught. directs that those paragraphs as at present existing shall be replaced by the following :A GENEROUS GIFT TO THE SOUTH WALES " 5. Endeavour to maintain in your district such a succession of cases as will enable you to vaccinate with liquid lymph COLLEGE. directly from arm to arm at each of your contract attendGENERAL regret will be felt at the announcement now ances. When stored lymph, whether humanised lymph or made that Professor Alfred Hughes will be compelled, owing calf lymph, is used, it should be preserved either dry on to the continued ill-health of his wife, to leave the neigh- ivory points, thickly charged and constantly well protected bourhood of Cardiff before the end of the winter session and from damp, or liquid in tubes, hermetically sealed at both extremities. With all stored caution is necessary lest consequently to resign his chair of Anatomy in the Univer- in time it have become inert orlymph otherwise unfit for use. sity College, Cardiff. Before leaving he has granted to the " 6. Consider yourself strictly responsible for the quality College the free use of his anatomical collections, on which of whatever lymph you use or furnish for vaccination. In he has spent large sums of money and many years of labour. storing lymph be careful to keep separate the charges In the event of his wishing to remove them at some future obtained from different subjects and to affix to each set of charges the name or number in your register of the subject period he has placed at the disposal of the College a sum from whom the lymph was derived. Keep such note of all of money sufficient to replace them. Professor Hughes of lymph, whether humanised lymph or calf lymph, supplies brought with him from Edinburgh the reputation of being which you use or furnish as will always enable you to identify one of the most popular and successful of the extra-mural the origin of the lymph. Do not employ lymph supplied by teachers, and during his short tenure of the chair at Cardiff any person who does not keep exact record of its source." he has added to his former reputation. It is fresh in the minds of many that one of his students obtained only THE INDIAN FAMINE. last summer the exhibition and gold medal in anatomy THERE can no longer be any doubt as to the reality of the given by the University of London, an honour only twice famine in India and of the great gravity of the situation. obtained by a provincial school during the last twenty years. Funds are urgently needed to meet the calamity and cope with the distress and suffering entailed upon the natives of DERMATITIS CAUSED BY THE ROENTGEN RAYS. India, especially the unhappy women and children of that country. The crisis is a national one, and we make no doubt THE Boston Ikledteat ana i’:’Jur{Jwal Journal contains several that the people of this country will respond to the call letters own the subject of dermatitis caused by the Roentgen upon their pity and benevolence in a generous spirit and rays. Dr. J. C. White mentions a case occurring in the in the way they have always done when once they have Massachusetts General Hospital where a young lady was realised the need. To those who have no actual personal exposed to the rays for half an hour in one day and for fortyof India it is difficult to form any adequate picture five minutes on the next day, the tube being placed about experience of the extent and poverty of its population. As we have six inches in front of her sternum. On the following day the struggle for subsistence with the "masses " the skin over this region was red ; it subsequently became already said, is a very hard one at the best of times ; but in times like the blistered, and three months afterwards there was an area of it is an impossible one ; they patiently succumb and present angry-looking granulations. Dr. E. A. Codman of Boston die. To the Government of India falls the responsibility of attributes these effects to the brush discharge from the in the first place, the probable extent of any ascertaining, Pro. vacuum tube or possibly to the ultra-violet rays. threatened calamity and of organising the necessary fessor Elihu Thomson, writing from Lynn, Massachusetts, for its relief. That has now been done, and it describes his personal experience. Desiring to test the machinery remains for all classes in this country to do their best to aid action of the rays on the skin, he held his left little finger the Government in their good work-viz., of mitigating at close to a vacuum tube for half an hour, about one and any rate, if they cannot altogether avert, the sufferings of a quarter inches from the platinum source of the rays. their Indian fellow-subjects. For about nine days very little effect was noticed, then the finger became hyper-sensitive to the touch, dark red, someTHE RED CROSS SOCIETY IN RHODESIA. what swollen, stiff, and soon afterwards it to blister.
practice, will not,
we
trust, be missed in this
case
letters on the subject ofdermatitiscaused by the Roentgen
began
The blistering started at the maximum point of action of the rays and spread in all directions, covering the area exposed. The letter giving these particulars was written by Professor Thomson on the day three weeks after experimenting with his finger, and the blister then covered the whole exposed
portion of its back and sides. He estimated that the equivalent exposure at six inches distance would be about ten or twelve hours. He was not prepared to admit that the brush discharges had anything to do with causing the injury, because the potential was low, being obtained from a small
24-plate static machine and there were no perceptible sparks from the tube to the finger. Professor Thomson mentions a case in which a young man engaged in testing Crookes’s
WE have received the report of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, better known as the British Red Cross Society, with regard to its work during the operations in Rhodesia during 1896. The report opens with a ’J’é&bgr;umé of the work of the society since 1886 when the last report was published. From this we learn that the society has made grants to various bodies for purposes germane to its work, among which we may note a grant to the fund initiated by the German Red Cross Society to assist M. Henri Dunant, and a special grant to the Italian Red Cross Society for work in Erytbrsea. On April 21st, 1896, it was decided to dispatch two surgeons to Rhodesia, and the gentlemen selected were
because the"Instructions for vaccinators under contract" contained in the order dated Feb. 28th, 1887. The new order it has not been more severely taught. directs that those paragraphs as at present existing shall be replaced by the following :A GENEROUS GIFT TO THE SOUTH WALES " 5. Endeavour to maintain in your district such a succession of cases as will enable you to vaccinate with liquid lymph COLLEGE. directly from arm to arm at each of your contract attendGENERAL regret will be felt at the announcement now ances. When stored lymph, whether humanised lymph or made that Professor Alfred Hughes will be compelled, owing calf lymph, is used, it should be preserved either dry on to the continued ill-health of his wife, to leave the neigh- ivory points, thickly charged and constantly well protected bourhood of Cardiff before the end of the winter session and from damp, or liquid in tubes, hermetically sealed at both extremities. With all stored caution is necessary lest consequently to resign his chair of Anatomy in the Univer- in time it have become inert orlymph otherwise unfit for use. sity College, Cardiff. Before leaving he has granted to the " 6. Consider yourself strictly responsible for the quality College the free use of his anatomical collections, on which of whatever lymph you use or furnish for vaccination. In he has spent large sums of money and many years of labour. storing lymph be careful to keep separate the charges In the event of his wishing to remove them at some future obtained from different subjects and to affix to each set of charges the name or number in your register of the subject period he has placed at the disposal of the College a sum from whom the lymph was derived. Keep such note of all of money sufficient to replace them. Professor Hughes of lymph, whether humanised lymph or calf lymph, supplies brought with him from Edinburgh the reputation of being which you use or furnish as will always enable you to identify one of the most popular and successful of the extra-mural the origin of the lymph. Do not employ lymph supplied by teachers, and during his short tenure of the chair at Cardiff any person who does not keep exact record of its source." he has added to his former reputation. It is fresh in the minds of many that one of his students obtained only THE INDIAN FAMINE. last summer the exhibition and gold medal in anatomy THERE can no longer be any doubt as to the reality of the given by the University of London, an honour only twice famine in India and of the great gravity of the situation. obtained by a provincial school during the last twenty years. Funds are urgently needed to meet the calamity and cope with the distress and suffering entailed upon the natives of DERMATITIS CAUSED BY THE ROENTGEN RAYS. India, especially the unhappy women and children of that country. The crisis is a national one, and we make no doubt THE Boston Ikledteat ana i’:’Jur{Jwal Journal contains several that the people of this country will respond to the call letters own the subject of dermatitis caused by the Roentgen upon their pity and benevolence in a generous spirit and rays. Dr. J. C. White mentions a case occurring in the in the way they have always done when once they have Massachusetts General Hospital where a young lady was realised the need. To those who have no actual personal exposed to the rays for half an hour in one day and for fortyof India it is difficult to form any adequate picture five minutes on the next day, the tube being placed about experience of the extent and poverty of its population. As we have six inches in front of her sternum. On the following day the struggle for subsistence with the "masses " the skin over this region was red ; it subsequently became already said, is a very hard one at the best of times ; but in times like the blistered, and three months afterwards there was an area of it is an impossible one ; they patiently succumb and present angry-looking granulations. Dr. E. A. Codman of Boston die. To the Government of India falls the responsibility of attributes these effects to the brush discharge from the in the first place, the probable extent of any ascertaining, Pro. vacuum tube or possibly to the ultra-violet rays. threatened calamity and of organising the necessary fessor Elihu Thomson, writing from Lynn, Massachusetts, for its relief. That has now been done, and it describes his personal experience. Desiring to test the machinery remains for all classes in this country to do their best to aid action of the rays on the skin, he held his left little finger the Government in their good work-viz., of mitigating at close to a vacuum tube for half an hour, about one and any rate, if they cannot altogether avert, the sufferings of a quarter inches from the platinum source of the rays. their Indian fellow-subjects. For about nine days very little effect was noticed, then the finger became hyper-sensitive to the touch, dark red, someTHE RED CROSS SOCIETY IN RHODESIA. what swollen, stiff, and soon afterwards it to blister.
practice, will not,
we
trust, be missed in this
case
letters on the subject ofdermatitiscaused by the Roentgen
began
The blistering started at the maximum point of action of the rays and spread in all directions, covering the area exposed. The letter giving these particulars was written by Professor Thomson on the day three weeks after experimenting with his finger, and the blister then covered the whole exposed
portion of its back and sides. He estimated that the equivalent exposure at six inches distance would be about ten or twelve hours. He was not prepared to admit that the brush discharges had anything to do with causing the injury, because the potential was low, being obtained from a small
24-plate static machine and there were no perceptible sparks from the tube to the finger. Professor Thomson mentions a case in which a young man engaged in testing Crookes’s
WE have received the report of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, better known as the British Red Cross Society, with regard to its work during the operations in Rhodesia during 1896. The report opens with a ’J’é&bgr;umé of the work of the society since 1886 when the last report was published. From this we learn that the society has made grants to various bodies for purposes germane to its work, among which we may note a grant to the fund initiated by the German Red Cross Society to assist M. Henri Dunant, and a special grant to the Italian Red Cross Society for work in Erytbrsea. On April 21st, 1896, it was decided to dispatch two surgeons to Rhodesia, and the gentlemen selected were