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HOSPITAL MAGAZINES.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.-LOOKING BACK.
1599
Mary’s Hospital Gazette for May.-In addition to a on Aphasia by Dr. Robert Maguire there is a short but interesting article on Medicine in China by Dr. Arthur Stanley, health officer of Shanghai. " The Chinese Pharmacopoeia," says the author, " is the largest in the world." Our national summer game does not seem to be very popular The Field Naturalists’ Quccrterly. No. VI., vol. IL-Edited the students at St. Mary’s Hospital, for in the among Edin. London and M.D. GERALD LEiGHTON, Edinburgh : editorial notes of the by attention is called to the leads from the
intracapsular to the extracapsular protoplasm, the capsule and the diaphragm. The float, the perforating diaphragm, and the single bundle of tubes of communication Two plates accompany are unparalleled among radiolaria. the article.
William Blackwood and Sons. Price 2s. 6d.-Each succeeding issue of this interesting quarterly seems to show some
improvement
upon that of its
predecessor.
In the
present
St.
paper
fact
gazette
that exactly six men have cricket this year.
signified
their intention of
playing
St. Thomas’s Hospital Gazette for lIay has for its number, which is well illustrated, Mr. E. Kay Robinson, in an article on Birds, solicits help in the compilation of a dic- prominent feature Some Extracts from the Common-Place tionary of the language of birds, while Mr. F. G. Aflalo writes Book of William Savory, Surgeon and Student of the upon "The Spring Awakening of the Sea." In "Reptile Studies " the editor discusses the question of immunity, the much debated question as to whether the mongoose is immune or not to snake-bite receiving special attention. Mr. E M. Wood deals with the subject of Symbiosis. Among the contents will also be found papers on the White Cattle of Chartley, Staffordshire ; Newts in Spring ; the Nests and Eggs of Birds ; the Great Black Woodpecker ; Rambles in the Lincolnshire Wold; and a Naturalist’s Rambles in Southern China. The frontispiece is reproduced from a photograph showing four young robins on a bough, but the picture in the copy before us has been spoilt by being pasted to the opposite page. This fault we have noticed before and it is a pity that such an excellent publication should be marred by careless binding.
Borough Hospitals in 1788-89." The picture of the life of this obscure country practitioner in the eighteenth century as depicted by the extracts from his diary and common-place book makes very interesting reading.
Looking
Back.
FROM
THE
LANCET, SATURDAY,
JUNE 4, 1825.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN MEDICAL JOURNALS.
-Dublin Journal of Medical Saience.-The original communications in the May number are on the Operative Treatment of Enlarged Prostate, by Sir William Thomson ; on the Diagnosis of Perforated Gastric Ulcer, by Mr. R. C B. Maunsell; and on Immunity, by Dr. R. J. Rowlette. The Clinical Report of the Gynaecological Department of the Rotunda Hospital, by Dr. R. D. Purefoy, for the year ending Nov. lst, 1902, also appears in this issue.
REVUE MEDICALE—MARS.
HOSPITAL MAGAZINES.
The Olfactory Nerve. M. MAGENDIE has lately reported to the Academy a pathological fact, in confirmation of his former opinion, that the olfactory nerve is not the organ of smell. BECLARD had a man under his care in the Hopital la Pitie. in whom on dissection the anterior portion of the brain and olfactory nerves were found almost destroyed by ulceration, but who at the He took snuff, and same time retained his sense of smell. was quite capable of distinguishing its various qualities.
Charing Cross Hospital Gazette for May.-Under the heading of American Quacks we are glad to see that two popular magazines are called to account for publishing in their advertisement columns the mendacious effusions of
A medical work has made its appearance, the only one during 150 years, at Constantinople, it is a folio, of 300 page?,
Mr. P. L. Daniel commences a paper on the Conservative Treatment of Tuberculosis of Bone and Joints and - of Superficial Abscesses.
quacks.
George’s Hospital Gazette for May opens with an article Compound Fractures by Mr. L. Jones in which he states that the results of the treatment of compound fractures at St. George’s Hospital during the past three years show a marked improvement. Out of 66 cases admitted only two - died (excluding those patients who died from shock within St.
on
admission). " This percentage of 3 stands out markedly against those of 40, 41’ 8, and even 79 which were given by various authors in the pre-antiseptic days." In a foot-note to the word stinkle, which occurs in Kubla Khan," a parody said to have been inspired by a nightmare consequent upon reading about a proposal to remove St. George’s Hospital, the ways of the motor car are aptly described. It 12 hours of
"
as
as
follows : Cf. nursery
rhyme (new style). Stinkle, stinkle little
car !
How I wonder whose you are! Chucking up the mud and dust Like a geyser on the bust.
Guy’s Hospital Gazette of May 23rd contains a clinical lecture on the Operative Treatment of Gastric Carcinoma by Mr. Charters Symonds and publishes an essay on the Pathology of Chorea to which was awarded the treasurer’s prize by the Physical Society of the hospital.
Arpearanee of
a
Medieal Work in
Turkey !
with 56
copper-plate engravings, on anatomy and medicine, entitled, ., Mirat el abd fi techrih azail," by Chani-Zadeh Mehemmed-Ata-Oullah, member of the religious and judicial
order of the Oulema. The Oulemites fill the offices of ministers of religion, of the laws, of equity, and have always endeavoured to cruh the rising genius of the nation. It is not, therefore, a little surprising that a work on anatomy, physiology, medicine, and therapeutics, should be published by one of this fraternity. The substance of the work appears The author to be a translation from various Frerch works. being a Mussulman, what he says on vaccination is very interesting ; he gives its history, and insists on the many advantages it has over inoculation ; he concludes by giving directions as to its use, and with some of the vaccine virus brought from the village of Aiaz-aga, many thousands have been vaccinated in Turkey.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.
May 23.-Robert Accam, a3t. 74, hale constitution, was admitted into Baldwin’s ward, with a rupture of the cornea and protrusion of the iris on the right side, in consequence of a blow from a cricket ball; his pulse was 80, full and strong ; headache. Cold cloths were applied, and some purgative medicine given (no local depletion!). 28.-Pulse 85 ; more natural ; tongue covered with a slice of Abernethy’s ’leather breeches’pain in the head subsided ; slept well ; the eyelids and face tumid and of a livid colour ; bowels open. This is a common expression ot Mr. ABERNETHY’S, to denote a furred state of the tongue.
1599
Mary’s Hospital Gazette for May.-In addition to a on Aphasia by Dr. Robert Maguire there is a short but interesting article on Medicine in China by Dr. Arthur Stanley, health officer of Shanghai. " The Chinese Pharmacopoeia," says the author, " is the largest in the world." Our national summer game does not seem to be very popular The Field Naturalists’ Quccrterly. No. VI., vol. IL-Edited the students at St. Mary’s Hospital, for in the among Edin. London and M.D. GERALD LEiGHTON, Edinburgh : editorial notes of the by attention is called to the leads from the
intracapsular to the extracapsular protoplasm, the capsule and the diaphragm. The float, the perforating diaphragm, and the single bundle of tubes of communication Two plates accompany are unparalleled among radiolaria. the article.
William Blackwood and Sons. Price 2s. 6d.-Each succeeding issue of this interesting quarterly seems to show some
improvement
upon that of its
predecessor.
In the
present
St.
paper
fact
gazette
that exactly six men have cricket this year.
signified
their intention of
playing
St. Thomas’s Hospital Gazette for lIay has for its number, which is well illustrated, Mr. E. Kay Robinson, in an article on Birds, solicits help in the compilation of a dic- prominent feature Some Extracts from the Common-Place tionary of the language of birds, while Mr. F. G. Aflalo writes Book of William Savory, Surgeon and Student of the upon "The Spring Awakening of the Sea." In "Reptile Studies " the editor discusses the question of immunity, the much debated question as to whether the mongoose is immune or not to snake-bite receiving special attention. Mr. E M. Wood deals with the subject of Symbiosis. Among the contents will also be found papers on the White Cattle of Chartley, Staffordshire ; Newts in Spring ; the Nests and Eggs of Birds ; the Great Black Woodpecker ; Rambles in the Lincolnshire Wold; and a Naturalist’s Rambles in Southern China. The frontispiece is reproduced from a photograph showing four young robins on a bough, but the picture in the copy before us has been spoilt by being pasted to the opposite page. This fault we have noticed before and it is a pity that such an excellent publication should be marred by careless binding.
Borough Hospitals in 1788-89." The picture of the life of this obscure country practitioner in the eighteenth century as depicted by the extracts from his diary and common-place book makes very interesting reading.
Looking
Back.
FROM
THE
LANCET, SATURDAY,
JUNE 4, 1825.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN MEDICAL JOURNALS.
-Dublin Journal of Medical Saience.-The original communications in the May number are on the Operative Treatment of Enlarged Prostate, by Sir William Thomson ; on the Diagnosis of Perforated Gastric Ulcer, by Mr. R. C B. Maunsell; and on Immunity, by Dr. R. J. Rowlette. The Clinical Report of the Gynaecological Department of the Rotunda Hospital, by Dr. R. D. Purefoy, for the year ending Nov. lst, 1902, also appears in this issue.
REVUE MEDICALE—MARS.
HOSPITAL MAGAZINES.
The Olfactory Nerve. M. MAGENDIE has lately reported to the Academy a pathological fact, in confirmation of his former opinion, that the olfactory nerve is not the organ of smell. BECLARD had a man under his care in the Hopital la Pitie. in whom on dissection the anterior portion of the brain and olfactory nerves were found almost destroyed by ulceration, but who at the He took snuff, and same time retained his sense of smell. was quite capable of distinguishing its various qualities.
Charing Cross Hospital Gazette for May.-Under the heading of American Quacks we are glad to see that two popular magazines are called to account for publishing in their advertisement columns the mendacious effusions of
A medical work has made its appearance, the only one during 150 years, at Constantinople, it is a folio, of 300 page?,
Mr. P. L. Daniel commences a paper on the Conservative Treatment of Tuberculosis of Bone and Joints and - of Superficial Abscesses.
quacks.
George’s Hospital Gazette for May opens with an article Compound Fractures by Mr. L. Jones in which he states that the results of the treatment of compound fractures at St. George’s Hospital during the past three years show a marked improvement. Out of 66 cases admitted only two - died (excluding those patients who died from shock within St.
on
admission). " This percentage of 3 stands out markedly against those of 40, 41’ 8, and even 79 which were given by various authors in the pre-antiseptic days." In a foot-note to the word stinkle, which occurs in Kubla Khan," a parody said to have been inspired by a nightmare consequent upon reading about a proposal to remove St. George’s Hospital, the ways of the motor car are aptly described. It 12 hours of
"
as
as
follows : Cf. nursery
rhyme (new style). Stinkle, stinkle little
car !
How I wonder whose you are! Chucking up the mud and dust Like a geyser on the bust.
Guy’s Hospital Gazette of May 23rd contains a clinical lecture on the Operative Treatment of Gastric Carcinoma by Mr. Charters Symonds and publishes an essay on the Pathology of Chorea to which was awarded the treasurer’s prize by the Physical Society of the hospital.
Arpearanee of
a
Medieal Work in
Turkey !
with 56
copper-plate engravings, on anatomy and medicine, entitled, ., Mirat el abd fi techrih azail," by Chani-Zadeh Mehemmed-Ata-Oullah, member of the religious and judicial
order of the Oulema. The Oulemites fill the offices of ministers of religion, of the laws, of equity, and have always endeavoured to cruh the rising genius of the nation. It is not, therefore, a little surprising that a work on anatomy, physiology, medicine, and therapeutics, should be published by one of this fraternity. The substance of the work appears The author to be a translation from various Frerch works. being a Mussulman, what he says on vaccination is very interesting ; he gives its history, and insists on the many advantages it has over inoculation ; he concludes by giving directions as to its use, and with some of the vaccine virus brought from the village of Aiaz-aga, many thousands have been vaccinated in Turkey.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.
May 23.-Robert Accam, a3t. 74, hale constitution, was admitted into Baldwin’s ward, with a rupture of the cornea and protrusion of the iris on the right side, in consequence of a blow from a cricket ball; his pulse was 80, full and strong ; headache. Cold cloths were applied, and some purgative medicine given (no local depletion!). 28.-Pulse 85 ; more natural ; tongue covered with a slice of Abernethy’s ’leather breeches’pain in the head subsided ; slept well ; the eyelids and face tumid and of a livid colour ; bowels open. This is a common expression ot Mr. ABERNETHY’S, to denote a furred state of the tongue.