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94 to
date, and special indexes have been added
to facilitate
reference. This volume also contains articles of interest on press subjects by such well-known pressmen as Mr. James Walker, Mr. Stead, and Mr. Fox-Bourne. Mr. Walker supplies an able article on " The Growth of the Provincial Press in London," in the course of which he says : "Iam well within the mark in saying that the editors, sub-edibors, and reporters of provincial papers working for their respective journals in the metropolis are twice as numerous as the whole staffs of the London press." The general reader will find much to consider and to learn when he peruses this work. The information it contains is given in a clear and concise manner, and its literary articles on press work are of a higher order.
more
rapid
PROPHYLAXIS OF INHERITED INEBRIETY. AT the quarterly meeting of the Society for the Study of Inebriety held at 11, Chandos.street on Tuesday, 5th inst., Dr. Charles Hare presiding in the absence of Dr. Norman Kerr (to whose indisposition the chairman made feeling allnsion), a paper was read by Mr. JAMES STEWART, F,R.C.P.Ed., of Clifton, who said they could not too often as
scientific men protest against the use of the words drunkenness and inebriety as if they were convertible terms. M. Tfelat had put the difference very clearly thus : I I Drunkards are people who drink when they find any opportunity of drinking. Dipsomaniacs are diseased persons who get drunk whenever their attack seizes them." The drunkard, con. tinued the lecturer, if he continues his vicious course might so inj are his brain structurally or functionally that he would eventually become an inebriate. The inebriate, on the other hand, was an individual who was in most cases born with an unsound brain. He might even be a man who had never so much as tasted any alcoholic drink in his life. IMPROVED TONSIL GUILLOTINE. True, the disease might be acquired, but the experience of fifteen years had taught him that the neurosis was in most THE insufficient removal of an enlarged tonsil when cases an inherited one. The neurosis often led the sufferer using " Mackenzie’s guillotine " may depend upon want of to seek relief by the narcotism of alcohol, and so cause and dexterity in the operator, a defect which nothing but expeeffect were greatly mixed up. Admitting, as they all must, rience can remove. There are, however, conditions in the it was a transmissible cachexia, the question arises that instrument itself which are calculated to frustrate the how to best the germs of the inherited disease from prevent intention of the operator. In the usual instrument the Dr. developed. Joseph Parrish had said "inebriety being of the director or lower handle is placed close to the end but it was just as likely to change descend as might inebriety, so that when knife is home the the blade, pushed driving thumb comes close to the grasping fingers, and the muscular the form of its appearance into insanity or other allied mechanism of the hand establishes an arc of movement manifestation." Bearing this in mind, it was important from the forefinger and hand towards the thumb, which that the child of an inebriate should be kept free from what causes the distal end of the instrument to diverge from might upset the nervous equilibrium, care being specially right and left or from left to right, according as the right or taken that the surroundings during early years were bright the lefthand is employed in operating. In other words, and calculated to develop the higher and nobler chao the instrument has a movement away from the tonsils racteristics of the individual. He deprecated especially corporal punishment at the hands of strangers. He advised the mother, if her husband hed been an inebriate at the time of her child-bearing, to not only bring up her children absolutely as total abstainers, but, by telling them after puberty of their terrible inheritance, to warn them against ever touching alcoholic drink all their lives. The neglect to give this warning, the keeping back of this knowledge, had in some cases treated caused reproaches to be uttered against the mother for omitting to perform a duty to her child out of a desire to shield the memory of her husband. But if this duty was imperative in the case of a son, how much more so in the case of a daughter If she is if either parent had suffered from the disease. to marry, she ought to be warned as to the danger of marryinganyone whose family history was tainted with a danger enormously increased if The lecturer concluded she should marry a first cousin. his the of views : 1. Drunkenness summary by following towards the middle line of the throat. This tendency may is a vice, inebriety a disease; the two terms must not be be obviated by placing the handle further forwards, and by confounded. 2. The disease of inebriety once established be transmitted to the patient’s offspring either in the making the knife itself at the same time longer, so that may form of the alcoholic diathesis, epilepsy, chorea, insanity, when it is pushed home an inch or so remains behind the or even tendency to crime. 3. The child of an inebriate commencement of the director. The result of this is that born after the functional or structural lesion has been the main arc of manual motion is from the thumb towards established is sure to inherit some nervous diathesis. 4. The the rest of the hand, and not vice versi, and the distal end only security against this diathesis developing as inebriety of the instrument moves towards, not away from, the tonsil. is by life-long total abstinence on the part of the child. 5. Even the adoption of this precaution will not absolutely Messrs. Arnold and Sons have constructed such an make certain that there will be no transmission of the instrument for me, in which also the fenestra for admitting cachexia by the child to his or her offspring. 6. To prevent the tonsil is a large oblong, which may be diminished by the development of the alcoholic neurosis in other directions excitement of the emotions and pushing forwards the knife, the cutting edge of which is -such as epilepsy-sudden such as might be produced by corporal punishsensibilities, of not as usual. the fenestra has convex The concave, shape ment by strangers, should in all cases be guarded against. been modified in order to obtain as long an oblique diameter 7. In the prophylaxis of inebriety the principle to be acted as possible, toensnarelong and obliquely placed tonsils, which on with regard to children’s training is that if we accentuate 8. The marriage of the are not so easily included in the ordinary circular opening. the good we attenuate the evil. child or even grandchild of an inebriate to a first cousin ALEXANDER MORISON, M.D., F. R.C P.Edin. should be absolutely interdicted. Green Lanes, N.
News Invention.
neurotic inheritance—a
date, and special indexes have been added
to facilitate
reference. This volume also contains articles of interest on press subjects by such well-known pressmen as Mr. James Walker, Mr. Stead, and Mr. Fox-Bourne. Mr. Walker supplies an able article on " The Growth of the Provincial Press in London," in the course of which he says : "Iam well within the mark in saying that the editors, sub-edibors, and reporters of provincial papers working for their respective journals in the metropolis are twice as numerous as the whole staffs of the London press." The general reader will find much to consider and to learn when he peruses this work. The information it contains is given in a clear and concise manner, and its literary articles on press work are of a higher order.
more
rapid
PROPHYLAXIS OF INHERITED INEBRIETY. AT the quarterly meeting of the Society for the Study of Inebriety held at 11, Chandos.street on Tuesday, 5th inst., Dr. Charles Hare presiding in the absence of Dr. Norman Kerr (to whose indisposition the chairman made feeling allnsion), a paper was read by Mr. JAMES STEWART, F,R.C.P.Ed., of Clifton, who said they could not too often as
scientific men protest against the use of the words drunkenness and inebriety as if they were convertible terms. M. Tfelat had put the difference very clearly thus : I I Drunkards are people who drink when they find any opportunity of drinking. Dipsomaniacs are diseased persons who get drunk whenever their attack seizes them." The drunkard, con. tinued the lecturer, if he continues his vicious course might so inj are his brain structurally or functionally that he would eventually become an inebriate. The inebriate, on the other hand, was an individual who was in most cases born with an unsound brain. He might even be a man who had never so much as tasted any alcoholic drink in his life. IMPROVED TONSIL GUILLOTINE. True, the disease might be acquired, but the experience of fifteen years had taught him that the neurosis was in most THE insufficient removal of an enlarged tonsil when cases an inherited one. The neurosis often led the sufferer using " Mackenzie’s guillotine " may depend upon want of to seek relief by the narcotism of alcohol, and so cause and dexterity in the operator, a defect which nothing but expeeffect were greatly mixed up. Admitting, as they all must, rience can remove. There are, however, conditions in the it was a transmissible cachexia, the question arises that instrument itself which are calculated to frustrate the how to best the germs of the inherited disease from prevent intention of the operator. In the usual instrument the Dr. developed. Joseph Parrish had said "inebriety being of the director or lower handle is placed close to the end but it was just as likely to change descend as might inebriety, so that when knife is home the the blade, pushed driving thumb comes close to the grasping fingers, and the muscular the form of its appearance into insanity or other allied mechanism of the hand establishes an arc of movement manifestation." Bearing this in mind, it was important from the forefinger and hand towards the thumb, which that the child of an inebriate should be kept free from what causes the distal end of the instrument to diverge from might upset the nervous equilibrium, care being specially right and left or from left to right, according as the right or taken that the surroundings during early years were bright the lefthand is employed in operating. In other words, and calculated to develop the higher and nobler chao the instrument has a movement away from the tonsils racteristics of the individual. He deprecated especially corporal punishment at the hands of strangers. He advised the mother, if her husband hed been an inebriate at the time of her child-bearing, to not only bring up her children absolutely as total abstainers, but, by telling them after puberty of their terrible inheritance, to warn them against ever touching alcoholic drink all their lives. The neglect to give this warning, the keeping back of this knowledge, had in some cases treated caused reproaches to be uttered against the mother for omitting to perform a duty to her child out of a desire to shield the memory of her husband. But if this duty was imperative in the case of a son, how much more so in the case of a daughter If she is if either parent had suffered from the disease. to marry, she ought to be warned as to the danger of marryinganyone whose family history was tainted with a danger enormously increased if The lecturer concluded she should marry a first cousin. his the of views : 1. Drunkenness summary by following towards the middle line of the throat. This tendency may is a vice, inebriety a disease; the two terms must not be be obviated by placing the handle further forwards, and by confounded. 2. The disease of inebriety once established be transmitted to the patient’s offspring either in the making the knife itself at the same time longer, so that may form of the alcoholic diathesis, epilepsy, chorea, insanity, when it is pushed home an inch or so remains behind the or even tendency to crime. 3. The child of an inebriate commencement of the director. The result of this is that born after the functional or structural lesion has been the main arc of manual motion is from the thumb towards established is sure to inherit some nervous diathesis. 4. The the rest of the hand, and not vice versi, and the distal end only security against this diathesis developing as inebriety of the instrument moves towards, not away from, the tonsil. is by life-long total abstinence on the part of the child. 5. Even the adoption of this precaution will not absolutely Messrs. Arnold and Sons have constructed such an make certain that there will be no transmission of the instrument for me, in which also the fenestra for admitting cachexia by the child to his or her offspring. 6. To prevent the tonsil is a large oblong, which may be diminished by the development of the alcoholic neurosis in other directions excitement of the emotions and pushing forwards the knife, the cutting edge of which is -such as epilepsy-sudden such as might be produced by corporal punishsensibilities, of not as usual. the fenestra has convex The concave, shape ment by strangers, should in all cases be guarded against. been modified in order to obtain as long an oblique diameter 7. In the prophylaxis of inebriety the principle to be acted as possible, toensnarelong and obliquely placed tonsils, which on with regard to children’s training is that if we accentuate 8. The marriage of the are not so easily included in the ordinary circular opening. the good we attenuate the evil. child or even grandchild of an inebriate to a first cousin ALEXANDER MORISON, M.D., F. R.C P.Edin. should be absolutely interdicted. Green Lanes, N.
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neurotic inheritance—a