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897 and springs is always liable to contamination ; but it is a 1. As to the time of repeating the injections, he did not curious fact-and we understand that it is the fact-that the wait as long as three weeks, as was recommended by the disease is
commonly greatest in the hot Professor Lannelongue, but performed a second injection and directly after the monsoon. as early as on the seventh or even third day after the The cookhouse, filters, foulness of soil from continued first injection, being guided by the indication if the pains occupation of a site, and the state of the native bazaars have did not cease within that period. 2. The administra.all to be taken into account, as well as the water-supply of tion of anaesthetics he regards as quite unnecessary in the station. adults, and even in children the operation can be easily done without them, since the pain is merely that associated KISSING THE BOOK. with all subcutaneous injections ; indeed, they were slight and fugitive in character in almost all cases of his observaTHE Mayor of Ripon recently announced that anyone tion. 3. By observing rigid aseptic precautions the giving evidence in the County-court might, if he wished, be A new copy of the Gospels was appearance of swelling, redness, and signs of any insworn in the Scotch form. -also presented to the court, and it was suggested that flammatory reaction, as described by Professor Lannelongue, in the vicinity of the injected area are a bacteriological examination should be made of the cover taking -place avoided. Dr. Sematzky was accordingly able to employ of the old one, which had been in use for sixty years. an immobile dressing immediately after the injection, which The examination was accordingly undertaken by Mr. F. W. first covered Richardson, consulting chemist to the Bradford Corpora- proved to be exceedingly useful. The skin was with collodium elasticum or traumaticin, and a solution tion. The result showed that besides various moulds there of silicate of potash served for the immobile bandage. were present the micrococcus pyogenes albus and aureus, but it is comforting to know that not one of the specific germs Professor Lannelongue’s statement that this mode of treatcf the communicable diseases was found. Kissing the ment has no effect, or little, on the general health we find book is a filthy and useless custom, and the Scotch form of so far fully confirmed by Dr. Sematzky’s record, but in the matter of the action of chloride of zinc upon tuberculous oath-taking is, as we have over and over again insisted, tissues he greatly differs from the first-named observer’s infinitely preferable from every point of view. opinion. Of course, he acknowledges the fact that it gives rise to a condition of sclerosis, but what is fatal to the A NEW MEDICAL CORONER. existence, or at any rate paralysing to the activity, of the WE are glad to be able to congratulate Dr. Lovell Drage bacillus is, according to the writer, the great antiseptic upon his election as coroner for the St. Albans division of power of which that drug is possessed. At the conclusion Hertfordshire, in succession to Mr. Brabant, a solicitor. he remarks that this method of treatment, on account Dr. Drage was unanimously selected by the general purposes of its being very simple and easily accessible to every praccommittee of the Herts County Council. We have in- titioner, deserves far more attention than it has as yet in these columns for the variably pleaded principle that a received, and if employed at an early period, and especially held should be a medical and therefore while the formation of granulations sets in, good results will man, coronership by it is with pleasure that we record the result of the present always follow. election. Dr. Drage and his father are both well known and esteemed practitioners in the county, and especially INFECTED WELLS AND TYPHOID FEVER. at Hatfield, where Dr. Drage the elder has been established THE corporation of Great Yarmouth has just escaped for nearly fifty years, and the new coroner for some thirteen mulcted in damages for having been the unwitting years. In addition to his recently conferred office Dr. Lovell being means of causing typhoid fever in the course of its prosecuDrage has been re-elected for the eleventh time as medical officer of health of the Hatfield district, his salary being tion of a very necessary sanitary improvement, which was intended to have a precisely contrary result. The Court of raised by £20 per annum. Queen’s Bench was occupied for three days in hearing the evidence upon this point. It appears that in the first THE SCLEROGENIC TREATMENT OF week of January, 1895, a new sewer was being laid down in TUBERCULOUS AFFECTIONS. that shortly afterwards a resident in this WE are indebted to Dr. T. Sematzky1 for taking up and Queen-street, and street complained that the water in a well situated in fully discussing this subject. The method of treatment, the basement of his house was foul and that he and others which consists of deep injections of chloride of zinc around the had been made ill by its consumption. He attributed the diseased part, was first introduced by Professor Lannelongue of the water to percolation of sewage which of Paris in 1891. During the years 1893-96 thirty cases of contamination was alleged to have found its way into the trench dug for every variety of tuberculous disease were thus treated by the reception of the new sewer. A month later the comhim. From these, however, ten, the observation of which could Mr. Durrant, sickened with typhoid fever, from not sufficiently be carried out, must be deducted. Of the plainant, which he died on March lst, 1895. An action was brought remaining twenty, in ten cases highly satisfactory results were his executors claiming damages from the corporation for obtained, in seven fairly good ones, and only in three no by their negligence caused the pollution of the effect whatever resulted. It is noteworthy, that the presence having through well and the death of Mr. Durrant. Without entering into of pulmonary tuberculosis greatly reduces the chance the question as to whether the consumption of this water for this local treatment. The solution used by Dr. was the cause of his fatal illness or not, and even admitting Sematzky for these injections was of 1 in 10 strength, and this the defence went to show that the well according to the age of the patient from seven to ten drops couldpossibility, not have been contaminated by the temporary diswere injected in a number of places (from twelve to twenty) turbance of the soil thirty-six feet distant, but that it was, around the periphery of the affected area. As regards the form and technique of the operation he, on the whole, followed and probably had been long, fouled by leakage from a privy feet away. For after the rules laid down by Professor Lannelongue in his first situated at a higher level, only sixteen for well had out a month the water the been daily pumped detailed communication upon the subject to the Academy Mr. still As Justice Hawkins remained highly impure. of Sciences (July 7th, 1891). In some respects, however, of the contamination the well was a poisonous he was forced by experience to modify them. For instance : remarked, the time the at of coincidence progress of the works, singular 1 a reasonable view of a question in which the and jury, taking Ljetopiss Russkoj Chirurgyi, vol. xii., part i i., 1896.
prevalence of
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before the
monsoon
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commonly greatest in the hot Professor Lannelongue, but performed a second injection and directly after the monsoon. as early as on the seventh or even third day after the The cookhouse, filters, foulness of soil from continued first injection, being guided by the indication if the pains occupation of a site, and the state of the native bazaars have did not cease within that period. 2. The administra.all to be taken into account, as well as the water-supply of tion of anaesthetics he regards as quite unnecessary in the station. adults, and even in children the operation can be easily done without them, since the pain is merely that associated KISSING THE BOOK. with all subcutaneous injections ; indeed, they were slight and fugitive in character in almost all cases of his observaTHE Mayor of Ripon recently announced that anyone tion. 3. By observing rigid aseptic precautions the giving evidence in the County-court might, if he wished, be A new copy of the Gospels was appearance of swelling, redness, and signs of any insworn in the Scotch form. -also presented to the court, and it was suggested that flammatory reaction, as described by Professor Lannelongue, in the vicinity of the injected area are a bacteriological examination should be made of the cover taking -place avoided. Dr. Sematzky was accordingly able to employ of the old one, which had been in use for sixty years. an immobile dressing immediately after the injection, which The examination was accordingly undertaken by Mr. F. W. first covered Richardson, consulting chemist to the Bradford Corpora- proved to be exceedingly useful. The skin was with collodium elasticum or traumaticin, and a solution tion. The result showed that besides various moulds there of silicate of potash served for the immobile bandage. were present the micrococcus pyogenes albus and aureus, but it is comforting to know that not one of the specific germs Professor Lannelongue’s statement that this mode of treatcf the communicable diseases was found. Kissing the ment has no effect, or little, on the general health we find book is a filthy and useless custom, and the Scotch form of so far fully confirmed by Dr. Sematzky’s record, but in the matter of the action of chloride of zinc upon tuberculous oath-taking is, as we have over and over again insisted, tissues he greatly differs from the first-named observer’s infinitely preferable from every point of view. opinion. Of course, he acknowledges the fact that it gives rise to a condition of sclerosis, but what is fatal to the A NEW MEDICAL CORONER. existence, or at any rate paralysing to the activity, of the WE are glad to be able to congratulate Dr. Lovell Drage bacillus is, according to the writer, the great antiseptic upon his election as coroner for the St. Albans division of power of which that drug is possessed. At the conclusion Hertfordshire, in succession to Mr. Brabant, a solicitor. he remarks that this method of treatment, on account Dr. Drage was unanimously selected by the general purposes of its being very simple and easily accessible to every praccommittee of the Herts County Council. We have in- titioner, deserves far more attention than it has as yet in these columns for the variably pleaded principle that a received, and if employed at an early period, and especially held should be a medical and therefore while the formation of granulations sets in, good results will man, coronership by it is with pleasure that we record the result of the present always follow. election. Dr. Drage and his father are both well known and esteemed practitioners in the county, and especially INFECTED WELLS AND TYPHOID FEVER. at Hatfield, where Dr. Drage the elder has been established THE corporation of Great Yarmouth has just escaped for nearly fifty years, and the new coroner for some thirteen mulcted in damages for having been the unwitting years. In addition to his recently conferred office Dr. Lovell being means of causing typhoid fever in the course of its prosecuDrage has been re-elected for the eleventh time as medical officer of health of the Hatfield district, his salary being tion of a very necessary sanitary improvement, which was intended to have a precisely contrary result. The Court of raised by £20 per annum. Queen’s Bench was occupied for three days in hearing the evidence upon this point. It appears that in the first THE SCLEROGENIC TREATMENT OF week of January, 1895, a new sewer was being laid down in TUBERCULOUS AFFECTIONS. that shortly afterwards a resident in this WE are indebted to Dr. T. Sematzky1 for taking up and Queen-street, and street complained that the water in a well situated in fully discussing this subject. The method of treatment, the basement of his house was foul and that he and others which consists of deep injections of chloride of zinc around the had been made ill by its consumption. He attributed the diseased part, was first introduced by Professor Lannelongue of the water to percolation of sewage which of Paris in 1891. During the years 1893-96 thirty cases of contamination was alleged to have found its way into the trench dug for every variety of tuberculous disease were thus treated by the reception of the new sewer. A month later the comhim. From these, however, ten, the observation of which could Mr. Durrant, sickened with typhoid fever, from not sufficiently be carried out, must be deducted. Of the plainant, which he died on March lst, 1895. An action was brought remaining twenty, in ten cases highly satisfactory results were his executors claiming damages from the corporation for obtained, in seven fairly good ones, and only in three no by their negligence caused the pollution of the effect whatever resulted. It is noteworthy, that the presence having through well and the death of Mr. Durrant. Without entering into of pulmonary tuberculosis greatly reduces the chance the question as to whether the consumption of this water for this local treatment. The solution used by Dr. was the cause of his fatal illness or not, and even admitting Sematzky for these injections was of 1 in 10 strength, and this the defence went to show that the well according to the age of the patient from seven to ten drops couldpossibility, not have been contaminated by the temporary diswere injected in a number of places (from twelve to twenty) turbance of the soil thirty-six feet distant, but that it was, around the periphery of the affected area. As regards the form and technique of the operation he, on the whole, followed and probably had been long, fouled by leakage from a privy feet away. For after the rules laid down by Professor Lannelongue in his first situated at a higher level, only sixteen for well had out a month the water the been daily pumped detailed communication upon the subject to the Academy Mr. still As Justice Hawkins remained highly impure. of Sciences (July 7th, 1891). In some respects, however, of the contamination the well was a poisonous he was forced by experience to modify them. For instance : remarked, the time the at of coincidence progress of the works, singular 1 a reasonable view of a question in which the and jury, taking Ljetopiss Russkoj Chirurgyi, vol. xii., part i i., 1896.
prevalence of
season
before the
monsoon
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