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INOCULATION OF TYPHUS FEVER.
1459 from tablets ? Tablets themselves require moisture them, and to enable them to act. Lemonjuice might possibly prove of service, but how is that to be obtained in the exigencies of war? Even if a few moments’ relief were afforded by such means the imperative desire for water would not be abolished and would probably only be intensified. We must regretfully admit that we know of no means but water to relieve the feeling of thirst that proceeds from violent exertion under a tropical sun, either with or without the additional misery of those bodily injuries which ao materially increase its intensity.
will be confined to specialists, and clinical will be reported and papers read at meetings to be held monthly. The office-bearers are: President, Dr. Ramon Guiteras, professor of genito-urinary diseases in the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital; first Vice-President, Dr. Winfield Ayres of Bellevue Hospital; second Vice-President, Dr. Otis K. Newell, formerly of the Harvard Medical School, now of New York ; Treasurer, Dr. George W. Blanohard ; Secretary, Dr. A. D. Mabie ; Corresponding Secretary and Stenographer, Mr. Samuel Bennett, 161,
INOCULATION OF TYPHUS FEVER.
DR. Frank G. Clemow has been appointed, in succession the late Dr. E. D. Dickson, as British delegate to the Ottoman Board of Health and physician to H.M. Embassy,
expected
to dissolve
membership cases
Garfield-place, Brooklyn,
U.S.A.
inoculated to
A RUSSIAN physician. Dr. Mochutkovski, has himself with the blood of a typhus patient with the result that after feeling no ill-effects for 17 days he had a severe rigor on the 18th day with fever, delirium, and a comatose condition lasting for a fortnight. The rash appeared on the fifteenth day of the disease and desquamation began 11 days later, he being convalescent on the 23rd day after the initial rigor. This interesting experiment appears to prove that the virus in typhus fever resides in the blood. It should, however, be mentioned that Dr. Mocbutkovski had previously attempted to inoculate himself with the blood of typhus fever patients no less than seven times.unsuccessfully.
Constantinople.
THE annual conversazione of the Medical Society of London will be held on Monday, May 21st, at the ooms of the society, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. The President will hold a reception at 8.30 P.M., and at 8.45 P.M. the oration will be delivered by Dr. J. Kingston Fowler, the subject being Science and Medicine in the Eighteenth
Century. AT the
Society EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION OF DENTAL CARIES.
-
-
meeting of
to be held
on
Royal Medical and Chirurgical May 22nd, Mr. Clinton T. Dent and
the
Sir William Mac Cormac will deliver addresses on the Wounded in the Present War. The addresses will be illustrated by lantern slides and an exhibition of specimens showing the effects of various forms of bullets.
M. J. CROQUET has recently made some experiments on the propagation of dental caries by direct inoculation of healthy teeth with the carious microbe and the results of his observations were read before the Academy of Sciences in A REUTER’S telegram in the Times of May l4th states that Paris at the meeting held on April 2nd. That dental ’, the number of cases of plague in Sydney up to May 13th was caries is due to a micro-organism has been established by 216 with 73 deaths. It will be seen by comparing these the labours of several investigators, but its reproduction by figures with those given on p. 1470 by our correspondent that direct experiment has not as yet been demonstrated. From there has been a spread of infection during the past month. three stopped teeth, the stopping of which had remained intact for periods varying from three to seven years, he THE opening lecture of the summer session at the succeeded in isolating five species of microbes. Of one of for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, these he was able to obtain pure cultures. The characters Hospital will be delivered by Dr. C. Theodore Williams on it presents are that it is short, motile, ramifying when Brompton, Wednesday, May 23rd, at 4 P.M. The subject of the lecture growing in extract of meat, and incapable of liquefying is the Relation of Pleurisy to Pulmonary Tuberculosis. gelatin. It does not grow on or in gelose, potato, or serum. On gelatin-peptone it forms colonies only on the fifth or sixth A TELEGRAM from the Governor of Mauritius (Sir Charles ,day. These are oval in form, opaque, and whitish in colour. The growth is greatly favoured by the addition of 1 per cent. Bruce) to Mr. Chamberlain, received at the Colonial Office of glycero-phospbate of lime. It is a facultative anaerobe on May llth, states that no fresh cases of bubonic plague with disposition to develop more rapidly in vacuo. It causes have occurred, and no deaths from plague have been glycerine, mannite, glucose, galactose, saccharose, lactose, reported for the week ending May 10th. maltose, dextrine, and inulin to ferment. It is without action on dulcite, erythrite, arabinose, and the nitrates. It THE Council of King’s College, London, have appointed does not peptonise albumin nor does it coagulate milk. F. W. Tunnicliffe to the chair of materia medica and Dr. It does not liquefy starch paste, neither does it form indol in succession to Dr. N. I. C. Tirard, who with peptone. M. Choquet having obtained a pure culture pharmacology was lately appointed Professor of Medicine. of the microbe made a small cavity on the labial side of the incisor of a sheep, not so deep, however, as to penetrate the IT is announced that Her Majesty, by the advice of her pulp cavity. A small platinum cup, sterilised by fire and charged with the culture, was introduced into the cavity Privy Council, has nominated Mr. William Henry Power, so that the culture was in contact with the dentine and M.R.C.S.Eng., F.R.S., to be for five years a member of the hole in the tooth was plugged. Nine months afterwards the General Medical Council. the tooth was examined. The bottom of the cavity was of yellowish colour, due to the dentine being softened by the AMONG the candidates selected on May 10th by the action of the microbe. Cultures made from the carious Council of the Royal Society for election as Fellows were portion of the tooth gave a bacillus of the same form as that Mr. Patrick Manson, M.D. Aberd., C.M.G , and Mr. Leonard which had been used in the experiment. The same results Hill, M.B. Lond. were obtained in two other cases. -
A
medical organisation has been formed under the of the New York Genito-Urinary Society. The
NEW
name
AT a meeting of the North Holland (Lincolnshire) County Council held at Boston on May 16th Dr. Arthur Tuxford was elected coroner for the North Holland Division.
will be confined to specialists, and clinical will be reported and papers read at meetings to be held monthly. The office-bearers are: President, Dr. Ramon Guiteras, professor of genito-urinary diseases in the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital; first Vice-President, Dr. Winfield Ayres of Bellevue Hospital; second Vice-President, Dr. Otis K. Newell, formerly of the Harvard Medical School, now of New York ; Treasurer, Dr. George W. Blanohard ; Secretary, Dr. A. D. Mabie ; Corresponding Secretary and Stenographer, Mr. Samuel Bennett, 161,
INOCULATION OF TYPHUS FEVER.
DR. Frank G. Clemow has been appointed, in succession the late Dr. E. D. Dickson, as British delegate to the Ottoman Board of Health and physician to H.M. Embassy,
expected
to dissolve
membership cases
Garfield-place, Brooklyn,
U.S.A.
inoculated to
A RUSSIAN physician. Dr. Mochutkovski, has himself with the blood of a typhus patient with the result that after feeling no ill-effects for 17 days he had a severe rigor on the 18th day with fever, delirium, and a comatose condition lasting for a fortnight. The rash appeared on the fifteenth day of the disease and desquamation began 11 days later, he being convalescent on the 23rd day after the initial rigor. This interesting experiment appears to prove that the virus in typhus fever resides in the blood. It should, however, be mentioned that Dr. Mocbutkovski had previously attempted to inoculate himself with the blood of typhus fever patients no less than seven times.unsuccessfully.
Constantinople.
THE annual conversazione of the Medical Society of London will be held on Monday, May 21st, at the ooms of the society, 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. The President will hold a reception at 8.30 P.M., and at 8.45 P.M. the oration will be delivered by Dr. J. Kingston Fowler, the subject being Science and Medicine in the Eighteenth
Century. AT the
Society EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION OF DENTAL CARIES.
-
-
meeting of
to be held
on
Royal Medical and Chirurgical May 22nd, Mr. Clinton T. Dent and
the
Sir William Mac Cormac will deliver addresses on the Wounded in the Present War. The addresses will be illustrated by lantern slides and an exhibition of specimens showing the effects of various forms of bullets.
M. J. CROQUET has recently made some experiments on the propagation of dental caries by direct inoculation of healthy teeth with the carious microbe and the results of his observations were read before the Academy of Sciences in A REUTER’S telegram in the Times of May l4th states that Paris at the meeting held on April 2nd. That dental ’, the number of cases of plague in Sydney up to May 13th was caries is due to a micro-organism has been established by 216 with 73 deaths. It will be seen by comparing these the labours of several investigators, but its reproduction by figures with those given on p. 1470 by our correspondent that direct experiment has not as yet been demonstrated. From there has been a spread of infection during the past month. three stopped teeth, the stopping of which had remained intact for periods varying from three to seven years, he THE opening lecture of the summer session at the succeeded in isolating five species of microbes. Of one of for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, these he was able to obtain pure cultures. The characters Hospital will be delivered by Dr. C. Theodore Williams on it presents are that it is short, motile, ramifying when Brompton, Wednesday, May 23rd, at 4 P.M. The subject of the lecture growing in extract of meat, and incapable of liquefying is the Relation of Pleurisy to Pulmonary Tuberculosis. gelatin. It does not grow on or in gelose, potato, or serum. On gelatin-peptone it forms colonies only on the fifth or sixth A TELEGRAM from the Governor of Mauritius (Sir Charles ,day. These are oval in form, opaque, and whitish in colour. The growth is greatly favoured by the addition of 1 per cent. Bruce) to Mr. Chamberlain, received at the Colonial Office of glycero-phospbate of lime. It is a facultative anaerobe on May llth, states that no fresh cases of bubonic plague with disposition to develop more rapidly in vacuo. It causes have occurred, and no deaths from plague have been glycerine, mannite, glucose, galactose, saccharose, lactose, reported for the week ending May 10th. maltose, dextrine, and inulin to ferment. It is without action on dulcite, erythrite, arabinose, and the nitrates. It THE Council of King’s College, London, have appointed does not peptonise albumin nor does it coagulate milk. F. W. Tunnicliffe to the chair of materia medica and Dr. It does not liquefy starch paste, neither does it form indol in succession to Dr. N. I. C. Tirard, who with peptone. M. Choquet having obtained a pure culture pharmacology was lately appointed Professor of Medicine. of the microbe made a small cavity on the labial side of the incisor of a sheep, not so deep, however, as to penetrate the IT is announced that Her Majesty, by the advice of her pulp cavity. A small platinum cup, sterilised by fire and charged with the culture, was introduced into the cavity Privy Council, has nominated Mr. William Henry Power, so that the culture was in contact with the dentine and M.R.C.S.Eng., F.R.S., to be for five years a member of the hole in the tooth was plugged. Nine months afterwards the General Medical Council. the tooth was examined. The bottom of the cavity was of yellowish colour, due to the dentine being softened by the AMONG the candidates selected on May 10th by the action of the microbe. Cultures made from the carious Council of the Royal Society for election as Fellows were portion of the tooth gave a bacillus of the same form as that Mr. Patrick Manson, M.D. Aberd., C.M.G , and Mr. Leonard which had been used in the experiment. The same results Hill, M.B. Lond. were obtained in two other cases. -
A
medical organisation has been formed under the of the New York Genito-Urinary Society. The
NEW
name
AT a meeting of the North Holland (Lincolnshire) County Council held at Boston on May 16th Dr. Arthur Tuxford was elected coroner for the North Holland Division.