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HONOUR TO SIR JOSEPH LISTER.
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Montpellier, celebrated even in the twelfth century as ’the fountain of medical wisdom’; the rival from her first beginnings of Salernitan medicine; long devoted to jurisprudence and liberal culture ; justly raised, moreover, to the dignity of a university six centuries ago by the Bull of the Holy Father Nicholas IV.; the prolific mother of most learned teachers, among whom Frangois Rabelais stands conspicuous for the undying glory of supreme wit and humour, now celebrating her auspicious entrance on the seventh century of her academic life, the Rector and Senatus of Leipsic University, wish for her, with cordial congratulations, a perennial measure of health and activity and the fruits, ever fresh, of literature and science.") The epithet, "Fons artis physicæ " was originally bestowed on Montpellier by the German monk Cæsarius von Heisterbach (1170-1240), but in a spirit of irony, regretting as he did that her physicians and surgeons should, in contempt for the miracle cures in which he believed, proceed by the prosaic method of interrogating and cross-examining nature. It was well conceived, therefore, on the part of the monk’s modern compatriots to give back to Montpellier what in his ignorance he had withheld, and to "rectify the scientific frontier"by turning the sarcasm of the twelfth century into the compliment of the nineteenth. at
HONOUR TO SIR JOSEPH LISTER. As already stated, the new Policlinic in Rome will have its two facades adorned with bas-reliefs in illustration of the modern genius of medicine : John Baptist Morgagni, representing pathological research, and Sir Joseph Lister surgical treatment. Designs for the bas-reliefs in question have been sent in by twenty-one competing sculptors, and are this week on view in the Scuola Vittorino da Feltre, in the Via della Polveriara. The number of designs is thirty-six, several artists having submitted more than one to the " Comitato Aggiudicatrice." The committee, which is composed of an equal representation of fine art and medicine, under the presidency of Dr. Guido Baccelli, has no easy task before it, as the competitors include the acknowledged masters of sculpture in Italy.
THE
PULMONARY
CIRCULATION DISEASE.
SPEAKING of the disordered
IN
MITRAL
and pulmonary vein must become distended with blood. It is suggested that one reason for the conduction of mitral regurgitant murmurs to the back may be due to the cur. rent in the pulmonary vein, as well as to the posterior position of the left auricle.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. THE Committee of the Exhibition to be held at Berlin during the meeting of the Medical Congress desire it to be known that all applications must be sent t)them by the middle of June. They especially invite authors of papers and others to send preparations, pathological and other in. struments, apparatus, &c.-for example, pelvic deformities and tumours, methods of preservation and staining, and for bacteriological research; and for such space will be found free of charge. Arrangements will be made for the purpose of scientific demonstrations at certain hours, and those who wish to undertake them are invited to communicate with the committee. ___
"DACCA" DISASTER: MEDICAL HEROISM. THE success which naturally should, as it often does,
THE
the efforts of those who exhibit self-possession and endurance in the presence of danger was never more strikingly illustrated than in the recent disaster to the emigrant steamship Dacca. The vessel, it will be remembered, struck on a reef in the Red Sea. The removal of her large and precious freight of human life became an instant necessity. Yet so admirably were all the needful arrangements carried out that not a life was lost. The’most remarkable feature about this occurrence was the entire absence of anything like a panic. This very satisfactory circumstance is doubtless explained in part by the fact that daylight and the prevalence of calm weather combined would do much to allay any suspicion of impending misfortune in the minds of the passengers. No less important is it to note that the discipline of the ship had been admirably maintained since her voyage began. To this fact and to the intelligent energy and coolness exhibited by officers and crew the marked success which attended the work of landing and transhipping passengers is mainly to be attributed. To us it is particularly gratifying to observe that foremost in his unpretending display of these qualities was a member of our profession, the ship’s surgeon, Mr. Hickling. His conduct, as described by an eye-witness, affords a most pleasing example of methodical self-possession and courage. Whether in assisting the captain to maintain order, in directing the transit of his patients to the boats, carrying one invalid himself, or in his unflagging attention to the sick when safely housed on shore, he constantly appears as the right man in the right place. It is certainly not too much to say that to his conspicuous example, and the similar presence of mind shown by each officer and man, we must ascribe the ultimate safety of every life on board. crown
pulmonary circulation in of mitral valvular disease, M. Duroziez (Union Med., No. 64) points out that in both mitral obstruction and regurgitation there must be produced a pulmonary "venous pulse," analogous to the jugular and other systemic in tricuspid insufficiency. venous pulsation met with Therefore in any case .of mitral disease the lungs should be most carefully and frequently examined, and the signs of slight bronchitis may be the first indications of the effects of the cardiac lesion. The diagnosis of pulmonary congestion, he says, is not always easy; it is often only revealed by the distension of the thorax and the lack of MEDICAL ADVISERS IN POLICE COURTS. expiratory power due to the loss of pulmonary elasticity; THE principle that certainty in the diagnosis of disease, or and in such cases, weakness of the respiratory murmur may be the only ascultatory sign. The existence of even anything approaching it, can only be attained through the such slight abnormalities should awaken suspicion of the medium of a qualified medical man, is too well established in true character of a cardiac bruit; and he points out that experience and in common sense to admit of any question as even "functional mitral regurgitation" must, while it to its truth. Apart from the constant evidence of common lasts, produce a like Effect on the lungs. It is often said life, it finds illustration at least in the occasional practice that the effects of mitral insufficiency are perceived in the of every law court. It also constitutes the foundation of liver before they are manifested in the lung; but this is our system of inquest, and of its most rational development, owing simply to the difliculties in recognition of the pul. the institution of medical coronerships. We are not, theremonary disturbance; unless the tricuspid be simultane- fore, surprised to find that the metropolitan police magisously affected, when the hepatic signs predominate. The trates have come to claim the medical element as an gravity of the pulmonary condition is appreciated by the essential part of the machinery employed in the administraconsideration that with each systole the pulmonary artery tion of justice. Thus far there can be no real difference of cases
Montpellier, celebrated even in the twelfth century as ’the fountain of medical wisdom’; the rival from her first beginnings of Salernitan medicine; long devoted to jurisprudence and liberal culture ; justly raised, moreover, to the dignity of a university six centuries ago by the Bull of the Holy Father Nicholas IV.; the prolific mother of most learned teachers, among whom Frangois Rabelais stands conspicuous for the undying glory of supreme wit and humour, now celebrating her auspicious entrance on the seventh century of her academic life, the Rector and Senatus of Leipsic University, wish for her, with cordial congratulations, a perennial measure of health and activity and the fruits, ever fresh, of literature and science.") The epithet, "Fons artis physicæ " was originally bestowed on Montpellier by the German monk Cæsarius von Heisterbach (1170-1240), but in a spirit of irony, regretting as he did that her physicians and surgeons should, in contempt for the miracle cures in which he believed, proceed by the prosaic method of interrogating and cross-examining nature. It was well conceived, therefore, on the part of the monk’s modern compatriots to give back to Montpellier what in his ignorance he had withheld, and to "rectify the scientific frontier"by turning the sarcasm of the twelfth century into the compliment of the nineteenth. at
HONOUR TO SIR JOSEPH LISTER. As already stated, the new Policlinic in Rome will have its two facades adorned with bas-reliefs in illustration of the modern genius of medicine : John Baptist Morgagni, representing pathological research, and Sir Joseph Lister surgical treatment. Designs for the bas-reliefs in question have been sent in by twenty-one competing sculptors, and are this week on view in the Scuola Vittorino da Feltre, in the Via della Polveriara. The number of designs is thirty-six, several artists having submitted more than one to the " Comitato Aggiudicatrice." The committee, which is composed of an equal representation of fine art and medicine, under the presidency of Dr. Guido Baccelli, has no easy task before it, as the competitors include the acknowledged masters of sculpture in Italy.
THE
PULMONARY
CIRCULATION DISEASE.
SPEAKING of the disordered
IN
MITRAL
and pulmonary vein must become distended with blood. It is suggested that one reason for the conduction of mitral regurgitant murmurs to the back may be due to the cur. rent in the pulmonary vein, as well as to the posterior position of the left auricle.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. THE Committee of the Exhibition to be held at Berlin during the meeting of the Medical Congress desire it to be known that all applications must be sent t)them by the middle of June. They especially invite authors of papers and others to send preparations, pathological and other in. struments, apparatus, &c.-for example, pelvic deformities and tumours, methods of preservation and staining, and for bacteriological research; and for such space will be found free of charge. Arrangements will be made for the purpose of scientific demonstrations at certain hours, and those who wish to undertake them are invited to communicate with the committee. ___
"DACCA" DISASTER: MEDICAL HEROISM. THE success which naturally should, as it often does,
THE
the efforts of those who exhibit self-possession and endurance in the presence of danger was never more strikingly illustrated than in the recent disaster to the emigrant steamship Dacca. The vessel, it will be remembered, struck on a reef in the Red Sea. The removal of her large and precious freight of human life became an instant necessity. Yet so admirably were all the needful arrangements carried out that not a life was lost. The’most remarkable feature about this occurrence was the entire absence of anything like a panic. This very satisfactory circumstance is doubtless explained in part by the fact that daylight and the prevalence of calm weather combined would do much to allay any suspicion of impending misfortune in the minds of the passengers. No less important is it to note that the discipline of the ship had been admirably maintained since her voyage began. To this fact and to the intelligent energy and coolness exhibited by officers and crew the marked success which attended the work of landing and transhipping passengers is mainly to be attributed. To us it is particularly gratifying to observe that foremost in his unpretending display of these qualities was a member of our profession, the ship’s surgeon, Mr. Hickling. His conduct, as described by an eye-witness, affords a most pleasing example of methodical self-possession and courage. Whether in assisting the captain to maintain order, in directing the transit of his patients to the boats, carrying one invalid himself, or in his unflagging attention to the sick when safely housed on shore, he constantly appears as the right man in the right place. It is certainly not too much to say that to his conspicuous example, and the similar presence of mind shown by each officer and man, we must ascribe the ultimate safety of every life on board. crown
pulmonary circulation in of mitral valvular disease, M. Duroziez (Union Med., No. 64) points out that in both mitral obstruction and regurgitation there must be produced a pulmonary "venous pulse," analogous to the jugular and other systemic in tricuspid insufficiency. venous pulsation met with Therefore in any case .of mitral disease the lungs should be most carefully and frequently examined, and the signs of slight bronchitis may be the first indications of the effects of the cardiac lesion. The diagnosis of pulmonary congestion, he says, is not always easy; it is often only revealed by the distension of the thorax and the lack of MEDICAL ADVISERS IN POLICE COURTS. expiratory power due to the loss of pulmonary elasticity; THE principle that certainty in the diagnosis of disease, or and in such cases, weakness of the respiratory murmur may be the only ascultatory sign. The existence of even anything approaching it, can only be attained through the such slight abnormalities should awaken suspicion of the medium of a qualified medical man, is too well established in true character of a cardiac bruit; and he points out that experience and in common sense to admit of any question as even "functional mitral regurgitation" must, while it to its truth. Apart from the constant evidence of common lasts, produce a like Effect on the lungs. It is often said life, it finds illustration at least in the occasional practice that the effects of mitral insufficiency are perceived in the of every law court. It also constitutes the foundation of liver before they are manifested in the lung; but this is our system of inquest, and of its most rational development, owing simply to the difliculties in recognition of the pul. the institution of medical coronerships. We are not, theremonary disturbance; unless the tricuspid be simultane- fore, surprised to find that the metropolitan police magisously affected, when the hepatic signs predominate. The trates have come to claim the medical element as an gravity of the pulmonary condition is appreciated by the essential part of the machinery employed in the administraconsideration that with each systole the pulmonary artery tion of justice. Thus far there can be no real difference of cases