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1627 Locomotor ataxia occupies several lectures, remarkably varied clinical and pathological history is well narratecl. The rarer conditions of Friedreich’s ataxia, ataxic paraplegia, and syringomyelia receive considerable attention, and are deserving of careful study. In particular we would draw attention to the very careful and detailed analysis of the symptoms of syringomyelia, especially as regards its differential diagnosis from the numerous conditions that simulate it. Acute myelitis, chronic myelitis, and acute ascending paralysis are next discussed, and are followed by the subject of multiple cerebro-spinal sclerosis. Here again, in regard to differential diagnosis, Dr. Bramwell is full and explicit. His remarks on this head should prove of much service, especially those made in respect to the differentiation of disseminated sclerosis from general paralysis of the insane and from hysteria. Meningeal affections, tumours of the cord and membranes, concussion of the spine and traumatic lesions, with especial reference to " railway spine," complete a volume which has the merit of being readable and instructive, accurate without being too recondite, and above all practically helpful as a guide in the differentiation and treatment of spinal cord affections. Opportunity has evidently been taken to subject the work to careful revision, and its indefatigable author may be assured that his book is one which will be of service to many a practitioner who is unable to devote the time necessary to master more voluminous treatises of neurological science.
portraits.
and its
necessity
for
writing
the
names
MESSRS. WILLIAM COLLINS, SONS, AND Co. (London and Glasgow) have a large variety of diaries for 1896, the largest bciug the Seribbling Diary, interleaved with blotting paper, of large foolscap size, ruled for three days on each page, and the smallest being the Bijou, also ruled for three days on each page, and of dimensions suitable for the waistcoat pocket. The smaller sizes are hand-iornely bound in morocco.
The British rzrcd Colonial and is
a
Dru.ggi.sts’ Diary, 42, Bishops-
in its eleventh year of issue, substantial volume of quarto size, interleaved with paper, and ruled to show one week on each page.
gate Without, E.C., is
blotting The introductory
and
now
contain a large information useful to pharmaceutists and prescribers, lists of the London hospitals, with the hours of attendance, and (which we hope will be omitted
concluding portions
amount of miscellaneous
lists of " general and specialist" surgeons in London and the provincial towns, next
year)
physicians and
New Inventions. A VACCINATION SHIELD.
IN order to avoid the irritating and injurious friction and pressure of the clothing at the site of vaccination, I have devised a shield which consists of a well-padded wire ring, bent to suit the contour of an infant’s arm, and having its aperture filled by an open net-work of fine wire. There are no constricting tapes, and the plan of fixing the shield by means of adhesive plaster (preferably the American rubber plaster) renders any shifting of position impossible. In applying the shield, if care be taken that the strips of plaster do not overlap at their ends, there can be no constriction of the arm such as occurs when tapes are employed. The Chemists’ Association, Limited, Curtain-road, E.C., manufactures the shield and has the wholesale agency for it.
DIARIES. MESSRS. BURROLTGHS, WELMOME, AND CO., Snow-hillbuildings, London, E.C., have earned the thanks of many busy practitioners by the publicaticn of their A B C Medical Diary and Visiting List, which is so well and so favourably known as hardly to require detailed recommendation. The volume for 1896 is of a size very convenient for the pocket, and is strongly bound in blue cloth, gilt-lettered, with red edges, and a pencil holder at the back. The diary portion, which occupies about half the book, gives two pages (one opening) to each week of the year and is conveniently ruled for the insertion of patients’ names, cash entries, and other memoranda. The special feature of the work, which distinguishes it from other publications of the same class and renders it of utility to prescribers, is a copious list of all the most recent additions to materia medica, together with a description of their actions and uses. Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co. announce that they send a copy of this diary free of charge to every medical man in Great Britain, India, and Australia, and they invite hints and suggestions for incorporation in the issue for 1897. MESSRS. CASSELL AND Co., La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate-hill, send us Letts’s Medical Diary for 1896 in various bindings, either red or maroon morocco, with a flap, inside pockets, and gilt edges, or in cloth with marbled edges. Each four pages (two openings) are ruled and headed to suit each week of the year. This diary is a longestablished favourite. MESSRS. HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, 52, Long-acre, W.C., and 1, Creed-lane, E.C., are the publishers of Smith’s Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Visiting List for 1896, which is now in its fiftieth year of issue and is well known to medical men. It may be had either strongly bound in morocco with pockets inside the cover, or of less thickness bound in cloth. The same firm are now bringing out Hazell’s Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Visiting List for 1896, which is about the same size as the thinner form of Smith’s List, but has the distinguishing feature that each alternate page, ruled with the days of the week and month, is less than half the full width. This arrangement has the advantage that it enables the visits of one month to be seen in one opening at
glance, and obviates the each week.
a
I
Upper Tooting, S.W. THE "BLUE BUOY"
EDWIN
SMITH,
M.B. Lond.
SWIMMING BELT.
MOST persons who have travelled by sea are familiar with the ordinary life-belt, consisting of slabs of cork connected by cords or fine canvas. Under the name of the "Blue Buoy"swimming belt Mr. J. E. Holdsworth, of 19, Golden-square, London, W., has brought out a similar article for the use of those who are learning to swim, the slabs of cork being replaced by japanned metallic cylinders about two inches in diameter. As each belt contains nine of these, conveniently fastened together by tapes, six of them being seven inches long and three of them ten inches long, its supporting effect in the water is sufficient to give confidence to the most timid novice, and when a certain amount of proficiency is attained the buoyancy of the belt may be reduced at will by the removal of some of the cylinders. The wearing of such a belt would probably enable bathing to be indulged in by anybody with safety, either in the sea or in fresh water.
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-The list of successful candidates for the M.D. Degree of the Uni versity of Brussels was published on Tuesday, Dec. 10th. It contains the names of the following British practitioners :Francis Howard Humphris, M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. ; Charles Baring Langton, Al.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. ; William Egmont Kirby, L.S A. Lond. ; and Miss Harrison, L.R.C.P. and S. Edin. Mr. Humphris and Mr. Langton have both won their diplomas " with distinction."
portraits.
and its
necessity
for
writing
the
names
MESSRS. WILLIAM COLLINS, SONS, AND Co. (London and Glasgow) have a large variety of diaries for 1896, the largest bciug the Seribbling Diary, interleaved with blotting paper, of large foolscap size, ruled for three days on each page, and the smallest being the Bijou, also ruled for three days on each page, and of dimensions suitable for the waistcoat pocket. The smaller sizes are hand-iornely bound in morocco.
The British rzrcd Colonial and is
a
Dru.ggi.sts’ Diary, 42, Bishops-
in its eleventh year of issue, substantial volume of quarto size, interleaved with paper, and ruled to show one week on each page.
gate Without, E.C., is
blotting The introductory
and
now
contain a large information useful to pharmaceutists and prescribers, lists of the London hospitals, with the hours of attendance, and (which we hope will be omitted
concluding portions
amount of miscellaneous
lists of " general and specialist" surgeons in London and the provincial towns, next
year)
physicians and
New Inventions. A VACCINATION SHIELD.
IN order to avoid the irritating and injurious friction and pressure of the clothing at the site of vaccination, I have devised a shield which consists of a well-padded wire ring, bent to suit the contour of an infant’s arm, and having its aperture filled by an open net-work of fine wire. There are no constricting tapes, and the plan of fixing the shield by means of adhesive plaster (preferably the American rubber plaster) renders any shifting of position impossible. In applying the shield, if care be taken that the strips of plaster do not overlap at their ends, there can be no constriction of the arm such as occurs when tapes are employed. The Chemists’ Association, Limited, Curtain-road, E.C., manufactures the shield and has the wholesale agency for it.
DIARIES. MESSRS. BURROLTGHS, WELMOME, AND CO., Snow-hillbuildings, London, E.C., have earned the thanks of many busy practitioners by the publicaticn of their A B C Medical Diary and Visiting List, which is so well and so favourably known as hardly to require detailed recommendation. The volume for 1896 is of a size very convenient for the pocket, and is strongly bound in blue cloth, gilt-lettered, with red edges, and a pencil holder at the back. The diary portion, which occupies about half the book, gives two pages (one opening) to each week of the year and is conveniently ruled for the insertion of patients’ names, cash entries, and other memoranda. The special feature of the work, which distinguishes it from other publications of the same class and renders it of utility to prescribers, is a copious list of all the most recent additions to materia medica, together with a description of their actions and uses. Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co. announce that they send a copy of this diary free of charge to every medical man in Great Britain, India, and Australia, and they invite hints and suggestions for incorporation in the issue for 1897. MESSRS. CASSELL AND Co., La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate-hill, send us Letts’s Medical Diary for 1896 in various bindings, either red or maroon morocco, with a flap, inside pockets, and gilt edges, or in cloth with marbled edges. Each four pages (two openings) are ruled and headed to suit each week of the year. This diary is a longestablished favourite. MESSRS. HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, 52, Long-acre, W.C., and 1, Creed-lane, E.C., are the publishers of Smith’s Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Visiting List for 1896, which is now in its fiftieth year of issue and is well known to medical men. It may be had either strongly bound in morocco with pockets inside the cover, or of less thickness bound in cloth. The same firm are now bringing out Hazell’s Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Visiting List for 1896, which is about the same size as the thinner form of Smith’s List, but has the distinguishing feature that each alternate page, ruled with the days of the week and month, is less than half the full width. This arrangement has the advantage that it enables the visits of one month to be seen in one opening at
glance, and obviates the each week.
a
I
Upper Tooting, S.W. THE "BLUE BUOY"
EDWIN
SMITH,
M.B. Lond.
SWIMMING BELT.
MOST persons who have travelled by sea are familiar with the ordinary life-belt, consisting of slabs of cork connected by cords or fine canvas. Under the name of the "Blue Buoy"swimming belt Mr. J. E. Holdsworth, of 19, Golden-square, London, W., has brought out a similar article for the use of those who are learning to swim, the slabs of cork being replaced by japanned metallic cylinders about two inches in diameter. As each belt contains nine of these, conveniently fastened together by tapes, six of them being seven inches long and three of them ten inches long, its supporting effect in the water is sufficient to give confidence to the most timid novice, and when a certain amount of proficiency is attained the buoyancy of the belt may be reduced at will by the removal of some of the cylinders. The wearing of such a belt would probably enable bathing to be indulged in by anybody with safety, either in the sea or in fresh water.
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.-The list of successful candidates for the M.D. Degree of the Uni versity of Brussels was published on Tuesday, Dec. 10th. It contains the names of the following British practitioners :Francis Howard Humphris, M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. ; Charles Baring Langton, Al.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. ; William Egmont Kirby, L.S A. Lond. ; and Miss Harrison, L.R.C.P. and S. Edin. Mr. Humphris and Mr. Langton have both won their diplomas " with distinction."