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Archaeologies (the Forum, the House of the Vestals, the refraction error has been corrected, the epilepsy will continue, Sacred Way, the Basilica of Constantine, the Arch of Titus, generally in a modified form, in consequence of other irrita" the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine, and the Palace of tion, even though the error of refraction may have been the the Caesars) will be brilliantly illuminated. Thirty-two nations exciting cause of the fits in the first instance. Mr. Dodd? will be officially represented at the Congress by seventy-three is strongly of opinion that in every case of epilepsy-in, delegates; 344 scientific"corsi" (lectureships) will also send addition to general treatment and the investigation of other representatives. The communications hitherto announced for organs-the eyes should be carefully examined under a (possible) reading and discussion are 2080. Among the chief mydriatic with a view of correcting any error of refraction personages in the science and practice of the profession that may exist by the use of proper spectacles. there is hardly one-Italian or non-Italian-who has not intiTHE SALE OF ICE CREAMS. mated his intention of coming to Rome. The official business I may will be overtaken by April 5th, as already stated. SOME time ago we called attention to the decision of a add that among the excursions in contemplation after Glasgow sheriff that a seller of ice cream should be registered! the rising of the Congress few will equal in attractiveness the under the Dairies Orders together with purveyors of milk. On, three now being organised by the Balneological Society of appeal to the Court of Session this judgment has now been Naples. Incidentally meant to show the members the rich reversed. The desirability of registration and systematicresources possessed by the Neapolitan Riviera in mineral sanitary supervision was not denied, but it was held that the, waters, the excursions will cover ground in which archeology present law could not be construed as giving the necessary has alighted on its most precious treasure trove, besides power. The matter is certainly of considerable importance, affording views of mountain, insular, and coast scenery un- and the defect in the law should be remedied at the earliest rivalled on the Mediterranean littoral. " opportunity, which will come, we suppose, when Scotland obtains its long-talked of, but long-delayed, new PublicGRATEFUL HOSPITAL PATIENTS. Health Act. THERE is plenty of abuse of the hospitals by patients who THE DENTISTS’ REGISTER. avail themselves of their open doors and their gratuitous would be THE Dentists’ terms. Probably it found that such abuse is more Register for the present year was issued) in common those who have no claim to be relieved gratuit- on the 9th inst. and therefore comes to hand at a much ously. It is pleasant to report an instance of gratitude. The earlier date than in any preceding twelvemonth. The work, Evening iYe7vs publishes a letter by Thomas Tovey narrating which gives evidence of careful revision, contains the nameshow late one night, in circumstances of agony, he repaired to of seventy-two additional Licentiates in Dental Surgery who’ St. Thomas’s Hospital and had all his wants respected and have been registered during the past year. While the number his agony relieved by a skilful operation. The consideration of names of dentists in the United Kingdom, 4795, is nearly for his wants was so refined that when "the kind Sister of the same as that appearing in the Register for 1893, a further the Clayton ward " found he was a veteran smoker she " had diminution is apparent in the number of those whose claims to. him wrapped in blankets and wheeled into a smoking-room. " registration existed in the fact of their having been in practice We are not blind and undiscriminating admirers of our great before July, 1878; but an increase is shown in the number of voluntary hospitals. But they are too splendid an achieve- those registered on the production of a diploma. Of the. ment of the voluntary principle to be lightly left to one-sided former class there are still 72 ’95 per cent. on the Register, but criticism. The correction of the abuses of the out-patient the percentage of those holding a diploma now amounts to department and of the admission of those who can afford 26 48. A comparison of the present record with that con-reasonable fees outside would leave them the finest institu- tained in the Register for 1879, where the respective per-tions of civilisation under Christian conditions. centages were 90’87 as against 9’13, thus shows a great increase in the proportion of qualified dentists to the total number of gentlemen practising that branch of surgery. TheEPILEPSY AND ERRORS OF REFRACTION. IN the current number of Brain Mr. Work Dodd deals Register also contains the names of twenty-seven dental pracwith the question of the relationship between epilepsy and titioners who hold diplomas granted by the University of An analysis is given of the results of Harvard or that of Michigan, but the General Medical errors of refraction. examination of the eyes in 100 cases of true epilepsy, and a Council has decided that these qualifications are not at comparison is made with the refractions obtaining in appar- present registrable. ently normal eyes. Of simple hypermetropia there were 28 THE CORDITE CASE. cases per cent. less in the epileptic than in the apparently THE hearing of the recent action brought by the Nobel’s, normal class. Of astigmatism of all kinds there were 26 cases in the cent. more division than in the normal Explosive Company against Dr. Anderson of the Government per epileptic in this difference inmade the factory at Woolwich for an alleged infringement of Mr. one, being great part up by crease in epileptics of compound hypermetropic astigmatism Nobel’s patent of 1888 for ballistite or smokeless powder has -viz., eighteen cases more than the normal percentage. If brought to light some facts in regard to the nature of explothe difference of the 26 cases per cent. of total astigmatismL sives of more than usual interest. Thus it transpired that, in the epileptic be added to 42 cases per cent. of the simple, although there are certain ingredients common to both ex-hypermetropia of the normal class, the result comes to, plosives, yet the essential point of difference between them within 2 cases per cent. of the normal amount of simplei is that in ballistite the variety of nitrated cotton soluble in a hypermetropia-viz., 68 cases per cent. It would almost; mixture of alcohol and ether is used, while in cordite the appear, Mr. Dodd says, as if the increase of astigmatism in insoluble nitrate is employed. Mr. Nobel’s powder consists of epileptics was taken from the normal amount of hyper- nitrated cotton and camphor dissolved in nitro-glycerine and metropia. The conclusions at which Mr. Dodd has arrivedl cast and granulated to the required size, a volatile solvent are that, given a certain condition of instability of the being used in the manufacture to aid solution, which is afternervous system : (1) errors of refraction may excite epilepsy ;; wards evaporated off, leaving behind a horny mass. In his. the that some correction of the errors of refraction in it is combinawould attached! will, (2) specification importance appear tion with other treatment, in many cases cure or relieve thei to the use of the soluble variety (di-nitro cellulose) in epileptic condition-in the 100 cases forty-nine patients wereJ preference to the tri-nitro compound (ordinary gun-cotton), relieved or cured ; and (3) that in some cases, when the; since the latter is more violently explosive than the former ,
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Archaeologies (the Forum, the House of the Vestals, the refraction error has been corrected, the epilepsy will continue, Sacred Way, the Basilica of Constantine, the Arch of Titus, generally in a modified form, in consequence of other irrita" the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine, and the Palace of tion, even though the error of refraction may have been the the Caesars) will be brilliantly illuminated. Thirty-two nations exciting cause of the fits in the first instance. Mr. Dodd? will be officially represented at the Congress by seventy-three is strongly of opinion that in every case of epilepsy-in, delegates; 344 scientific"corsi" (lectureships) will also send addition to general treatment and the investigation of other representatives. The communications hitherto announced for organs-the eyes should be carefully examined under a (possible) reading and discussion are 2080. Among the chief mydriatic with a view of correcting any error of refraction personages in the science and practice of the profession that may exist by the use of proper spectacles. there is hardly one-Italian or non-Italian-who has not intiTHE SALE OF ICE CREAMS. mated his intention of coming to Rome. The official business I may will be overtaken by April 5th, as already stated. SOME time ago we called attention to the decision of a add that among the excursions in contemplation after Glasgow sheriff that a seller of ice cream should be registered! the rising of the Congress few will equal in attractiveness the under the Dairies Orders together with purveyors of milk. On, three now being organised by the Balneological Society of appeal to the Court of Session this judgment has now been Naples. Incidentally meant to show the members the rich reversed. The desirability of registration and systematicresources possessed by the Neapolitan Riviera in mineral sanitary supervision was not denied, but it was held that the, waters, the excursions will cover ground in which archeology present law could not be construed as giving the necessary has alighted on its most precious treasure trove, besides power. The matter is certainly of considerable importance, affording views of mountain, insular, and coast scenery un- and the defect in the law should be remedied at the earliest rivalled on the Mediterranean littoral. " opportunity, which will come, we suppose, when Scotland obtains its long-talked of, but long-delayed, new PublicGRATEFUL HOSPITAL PATIENTS. Health Act. THERE is plenty of abuse of the hospitals by patients who THE DENTISTS’ REGISTER. avail themselves of their open doors and their gratuitous would be THE Dentists’ terms. Probably it found that such abuse is more Register for the present year was issued) in common those who have no claim to be relieved gratuit- on the 9th inst. and therefore comes to hand at a much ously. It is pleasant to report an instance of gratitude. The earlier date than in any preceding twelvemonth. The work, Evening iYe7vs publishes a letter by Thomas Tovey narrating which gives evidence of careful revision, contains the nameshow late one night, in circumstances of agony, he repaired to of seventy-two additional Licentiates in Dental Surgery who’ St. Thomas’s Hospital and had all his wants respected and have been registered during the past year. While the number his agony relieved by a skilful operation. The consideration of names of dentists in the United Kingdom, 4795, is nearly for his wants was so refined that when "the kind Sister of the same as that appearing in the Register for 1893, a further the Clayton ward " found he was a veteran smoker she " had diminution is apparent in the number of those whose claims to. him wrapped in blankets and wheeled into a smoking-room. " registration existed in the fact of their having been in practice We are not blind and undiscriminating admirers of our great before July, 1878; but an increase is shown in the number of voluntary hospitals. But they are too splendid an achieve- those registered on the production of a diploma. Of the. ment of the voluntary principle to be lightly left to one-sided former class there are still 72 ’95 per cent. on the Register, but criticism. The correction of the abuses of the out-patient the percentage of those holding a diploma now amounts to department and of the admission of those who can afford 26 48. A comparison of the present record with that con-reasonable fees outside would leave them the finest institu- tained in the Register for 1879, where the respective per-tions of civilisation under Christian conditions. centages were 90’87 as against 9’13, thus shows a great increase in the proportion of qualified dentists to the total number of gentlemen practising that branch of surgery. TheEPILEPSY AND ERRORS OF REFRACTION. IN the current number of Brain Mr. Work Dodd deals Register also contains the names of twenty-seven dental pracwith the question of the relationship between epilepsy and titioners who hold diplomas granted by the University of An analysis is given of the results of Harvard or that of Michigan, but the General Medical errors of refraction. examination of the eyes in 100 cases of true epilepsy, and a Council has decided that these qualifications are not at comparison is made with the refractions obtaining in appar- present registrable. ently normal eyes. Of simple hypermetropia there were 28 THE CORDITE CASE. cases per cent. less in the epileptic than in the apparently THE hearing of the recent action brought by the Nobel’s, normal class. Of astigmatism of all kinds there were 26 cases in the cent. more division than in the normal Explosive Company against Dr. Anderson of the Government per epileptic in this difference inmade the factory at Woolwich for an alleged infringement of Mr. one, being great part up by crease in epileptics of compound hypermetropic astigmatism Nobel’s patent of 1888 for ballistite or smokeless powder has -viz., eighteen cases more than the normal percentage. If brought to light some facts in regard to the nature of explothe difference of the 26 cases per cent. of total astigmatismL sives of more than usual interest. Thus it transpired that, in the epileptic be added to 42 cases per cent. of the simple, although there are certain ingredients common to both ex-hypermetropia of the normal class, the result comes to, plosives, yet the essential point of difference between them within 2 cases per cent. of the normal amount of simplei is that in ballistite the variety of nitrated cotton soluble in a hypermetropia-viz., 68 cases per cent. It would almost; mixture of alcohol and ether is used, while in cordite the appear, Mr. Dodd says, as if the increase of astigmatism in insoluble nitrate is employed. Mr. Nobel’s powder consists of epileptics was taken from the normal amount of hyper- nitrated cotton and camphor dissolved in nitro-glycerine and metropia. The conclusions at which Mr. Dodd has arrivedl cast and granulated to the required size, a volatile solvent are that, given a certain condition of instability of the being used in the manufacture to aid solution, which is afternervous system : (1) errors of refraction may excite epilepsy ;; wards evaporated off, leaving behind a horny mass. In his. the that some correction of the errors of refraction in it is combinawould attached! will, (2) specification importance appear tion with other treatment, in many cases cure or relieve thei to the use of the soluble variety (di-nitro cellulose) in epileptic condition-in the 100 cases forty-nine patients wereJ preference to the tri-nitro compound (ordinary gun-cotton), relieved or cured ; and (3) that in some cases, when the; since the latter is more violently explosive than the former ,
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