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1129 i officer of health and Professor Delépine, Professor by Dr. Tripier the patient had breathed a carbon-medical for without of thirty-one years any pulatmosphere Pathology at Owens College, Manchester, both of whom desuccumbed the clared and to cancer of that the meat as described by the prosecutor’s witnesses finally monary trouble, stomach. On post-mortem examination the lungs were found would be quite unfit for human consumption. Considerable to contain particles of carbon widely disseminated, and stress was laid by the defence upon the fact that the viscera specially numerous in the lymphatics, but without any sign of the beast from which the meat was taken had not been of tubercle. The writer farther argued that the amount of examined ; but it would surely be unreasonable to make the carbonaceous infiltration of the lungs bears no relation to condemnation of diseased meat exposed for sale in a butcher’s the probability of finding tubercle. The latter may be found shop dependent upon the examination of the viscera. The in miners with little or much carbon in their lungs, and bench fined the defendant 5and costs, or two months’ in those who have spent few or many years in occupations imprisonment; but probably, in spite of this, the prosecution involving the constant respiration of carbonaceous particles. must have been a somewhat heavy expense to the Blackpool Cases such as those brought forward by Dr. Tripier are, of sanitary authority, as the costs awarded by the bench only course, inconclusive, bat they must be allowed reasonable amounted to .613 15s. 6d. It is, however, only fair to state weight. They certainly tend to corroborate the view that that in answer to the defendant’s solicitor the bench stated pneumokoniosis or pulmonary anthracosis is not an in- that there was no evidence that the butcher was aware of dependent affection with a definite cause and definite the meat being unsound. Dr. Anderson is certainly to be natural history, but simply one of the many varieties of congratulated on having been successful in what was obviously a very difficult case, and the evidence shows what pulmonary phthisis. very costly proceedings prosecutions of this kind may some-
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A QUESTION FOR THE MEDICAL COUNCIL." SUCH is the heading of a report in the Bristol Mercury of an inquest at Stapleton held by Mr. E. M. Grace concerning the death of Walter John Edward Hinton, aged thirty, a coachsmith. The evidence went to show that the deceased had no local medical attendant, but was taking a certain balsam for which the ordinary charge was 22s. and lls. 6d. per bottle. Dr. J. Ambrose said he had made a necropsy and found death to have been caused by syncope, though deceased was suffering from advanced phthisis. Life might have been prolonged had he had medical attendance weeks ago, but there was no chance of saving it in the advanced state of lung disease. A letter was read from "Dr. Congreve " of Coombe Lodge, Peckham, London, S.E., to a relative of the deceased, commending the balsam and prescribing for diarrhcea, though suggesting his continuing under the care of a local medical man, observing that the balsam would not interfere with the medicine the local practitioner might order. The coroner intimated that it was his duty and intention to send the letter to the General Medical Council.
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DISEASED MEAT AT BLACKPOOL. A GOOD illustration was afforded recently at Blackpool of the enormous difficulties which may be experienced in bringing a prosecution for the exposure of diseased meat to a successful issue in a court of law. In the case in question a butcher was charged by the Blackpool sanitary authority under Sections 116 and 117 of the Public Health Act (1875) with having exposed for sale certain meat alleged to have The inspector of been unfit for human consumption. nuisances-an officer of fourteen years’ experience-seized seventeen pieces of meat exposed for sale in the defendant’s shop, and after ample opportunity had been afforded to, and taken advantage of by, the defendant’s witnesses to inspect the meat seized it was seen by a magistrate and condemned. The inspector gave evidence as to the condition of the meat, and Dr. Jasper Anderson, the medical officer of health, stated that the changes in the state of the meat were such that it would be dangerous for human consumption. Dr. Anderson was of opinion that the beast from which the meat was taken had been suffering from a chronic wasting disease, but on account of the viscera being absent he was unable to state to what this condition was due. This witness’s evidence was practically corroborated by Dr. Leonard Molloy and several other witnesses, among whom were veterinary surgeons and butchers. For the defence alarge amount of evidence was brought forward, the witnesses also including medical men, veterinary surgeons, and butchers. As rebutting evidence the prosecution called the county
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A MEDICAL PALaeONTOLOGIST. IN the Palvaontographical Society’s volume for 1894, which has just appeared, Dr. Wheelton Hind of Stoke-on-Trent contributes the commencement of a monograph on the Carbonicola, Anthracomya, and Naiadites of the Coal Measures. We congratulate Dr. Hind on the energy he has displayed in the production of this work, and we are proud to recognise that the scientific spirit of our profession is sometimes shown in the extension of knowledge not always directly related to medical subjects. The monograph has much valuable information in the introduction and in a chapter headed "Critical Bibliography." The rest of it is naturally almost entirely descriptive. It is accompanied (as are all the monographs published by the Palasontographical Society) by a series of very beautiful plates. A very large number of these drawings are from specimens in Dr. Hind’s own collection. For the information of the reader unlearned in geology it may be stated that Carbonicola, with which this volume principally deals, is a genus of bivalve molluscs, probably of freshwater origin, and most closely allied to Unio and Anodon amongst living genera.
TRAUMATIC GLYCOSURIA. "EVER since the time of Claude Bernard, who first experimentally demonstrated the existence of the so-called sugar centre in the floor of the fourth ventricle, head injuries have been recognised as playing a certain part in the etiology of some cases of diabetes." Such is the introduction to a paper Dr. F. A. and Dr. J. B. Ogden in the Boston Medical Higgins by and Surgical Jowrnal of Feb. 28th. The paper is the result or observations made in 212 cases of head injuries. The writers remark that in addition to permanent glycosuria following traumatism of the head there is another form mentioned by some observers, and of which a number of cases have been reported. This last form is merely transitory, and comes on directly after the traumatism or in a few days. On the other hand, the permanent form of glycosuria occurs at a period of weeks or even months afterwards. After giving an account of the various classes of cases met with they summarise their conclusions as follows : 1. That, after injary, sugar may appear in the urine as early as six hours and disappear within twenty-four, the average time for its appearance, however, being from eight to twelve hours ; and for the disappearance of the same from the fifth to the ninth day. 2. That a small proportion of the cases may exhibit a permanent glycosuria from the date of injury to the head. 3. That acetone and diacetic acid are rarely, if ever, found in such cases, excepting where the condition becomes a permanent
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"INOUEST AT STAPLETON:
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A QUESTION FOR THE MEDICAL COUNCIL." SUCH is the heading of a report in the Bristol Mercury of an inquest at Stapleton held by Mr. E. M. Grace concerning the death of Walter John Edward Hinton, aged thirty, a coachsmith. The evidence went to show that the deceased had no local medical attendant, but was taking a certain balsam for which the ordinary charge was 22s. and lls. 6d. per bottle. Dr. J. Ambrose said he had made a necropsy and found death to have been caused by syncope, though deceased was suffering from advanced phthisis. Life might have been prolonged had he had medical attendance weeks ago, but there was no chance of saving it in the advanced state of lung disease. A letter was read from "Dr. Congreve " of Coombe Lodge, Peckham, London, S.E., to a relative of the deceased, commending the balsam and prescribing for diarrhcea, though suggesting his continuing under the care of a local medical man, observing that the balsam would not interfere with the medicine the local practitioner might order. The coroner intimated that it was his duty and intention to send the letter to the General Medical Council.
times become.
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DISEASED MEAT AT BLACKPOOL. A GOOD illustration was afforded recently at Blackpool of the enormous difficulties which may be experienced in bringing a prosecution for the exposure of diseased meat to a successful issue in a court of law. In the case in question a butcher was charged by the Blackpool sanitary authority under Sections 116 and 117 of the Public Health Act (1875) with having exposed for sale certain meat alleged to have The inspector of been unfit for human consumption. nuisances-an officer of fourteen years’ experience-seized seventeen pieces of meat exposed for sale in the defendant’s shop, and after ample opportunity had been afforded to, and taken advantage of by, the defendant’s witnesses to inspect the meat seized it was seen by a magistrate and condemned. The inspector gave evidence as to the condition of the meat, and Dr. Jasper Anderson, the medical officer of health, stated that the changes in the state of the meat were such that it would be dangerous for human consumption. Dr. Anderson was of opinion that the beast from which the meat was taken had been suffering from a chronic wasting disease, but on account of the viscera being absent he was unable to state to what this condition was due. This witness’s evidence was practically corroborated by Dr. Leonard Molloy and several other witnesses, among whom were veterinary surgeons and butchers. For the defence alarge amount of evidence was brought forward, the witnesses also including medical men, veterinary surgeons, and butchers. As rebutting evidence the prosecution called the county
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A MEDICAL PALaeONTOLOGIST. IN the Palvaontographical Society’s volume for 1894, which has just appeared, Dr. Wheelton Hind of Stoke-on-Trent contributes the commencement of a monograph on the Carbonicola, Anthracomya, and Naiadites of the Coal Measures. We congratulate Dr. Hind on the energy he has displayed in the production of this work, and we are proud to recognise that the scientific spirit of our profession is sometimes shown in the extension of knowledge not always directly related to medical subjects. The monograph has much valuable information in the introduction and in a chapter headed "Critical Bibliography." The rest of it is naturally almost entirely descriptive. It is accompanied (as are all the monographs published by the Palasontographical Society) by a series of very beautiful plates. A very large number of these drawings are from specimens in Dr. Hind’s own collection. For the information of the reader unlearned in geology it may be stated that Carbonicola, with which this volume principally deals, is a genus of bivalve molluscs, probably of freshwater origin, and most closely allied to Unio and Anodon amongst living genera.
TRAUMATIC GLYCOSURIA. "EVER since the time of Claude Bernard, who first experimentally demonstrated the existence of the so-called sugar centre in the floor of the fourth ventricle, head injuries have been recognised as playing a certain part in the etiology of some cases of diabetes." Such is the introduction to a paper Dr. F. A. and Dr. J. B. Ogden in the Boston Medical Higgins by and Surgical Jowrnal of Feb. 28th. The paper is the result or observations made in 212 cases of head injuries. The writers remark that in addition to permanent glycosuria following traumatism of the head there is another form mentioned by some observers, and of which a number of cases have been reported. This last form is merely transitory, and comes on directly after the traumatism or in a few days. On the other hand, the permanent form of glycosuria occurs at a period of weeks or even months afterwards. After giving an account of the various classes of cases met with they summarise their conclusions as follows : 1. That, after injary, sugar may appear in the urine as early as six hours and disappear within twenty-four, the average time for its appearance, however, being from eight to twelve hours ; and for the disappearance of the same from the fifth to the ninth day. 2. That a small proportion of the cases may exhibit a permanent glycosuria from the date of injury to the head. 3. That acetone and diacetic acid are rarely, if ever, found in such cases, excepting where the condition becomes a permanent