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LIBERALITY OF THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES IN FRANCE.
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being a majority of fourteen hiindi-ed and grees, and the point of the foot is with great brought down so as to form aright thirty-three votes in favour of the Medical difficultyWhen this is done the tibialis antiangle. Candidate. After having taken the neces- ens, extensor communis, and extensor prosary oaths, Mr. WAKLEY addressed the prius pollicis muscles, are thrown into a of extreme tension. The integuments assembled freeholders, but Mr. ADEY’S state retreat was "mute and
inglorious." The
Attorney Candidate
did not present himself the hustings. A great victory, has thus been gained, almost, indeed, without a battle, but not without having entailed a heavy expense on the victor; for Mr. ADEY, faithful to his promise, has kept the poll open to the last day. on
LIBERALITY OF THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES IN FRANCE.
of the heel are thick and horny ; those of the rest of the foot are fine and thin, showing that the heel had to bear the entire weight of the body. The os calcis is di. rected somewhat outwards; the whole, foot also deviates outwards in a slight degree; the sole of the foot, instead of forming an arch, is nearly flat. The lateral peroneal muscles are shortened, but those which cover the back of the leg are elongated. The whole limb is remarkably wasted, the muscular fibres completely deprived of their colour, and presenting that peculiar fatty appearance which so often occurs in cases of club-foot. The operation of dividing the tendons, which has been practised with so much success in cases of children affected with clubfoot, has never, we believe, been tried on a patient far advanced in life. It was, therefore, a matter of some interest to determine how far the malformation, in the present instance, might have admitted of remedy by surgical means. The tendons of the anterior muscles were divided, and immediately the point of the foot was brought down to a right angle, the deformity almost completely disappearing.—Bul. of the Academy, Dec.
WE have frequently had occasion to praise the liberal manner in which the French hospitals, and all other medical institutions in France, are thrown open to foreigners, who are admitted to them as freely, and on the same footing as the natives of the country. An act of much higher liberality has been recently shown at Havre, in the appointment of an Englishman, Dr. Nicholas Tarral, as one of the physicians to the Havre General Hospital. We have every reason to believe that the addition which has been thus made 1838. to the medical staff of the hospital, will prove of great advantage to the sea-faring MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. portion of the population of Havre.
ANATOMY OF CLUB-FOOT.
THE determination of the period since which a fire-arm may have been discharged is a point of much importance in medical
jurisprudence, ALTHOUGH the malformations which are known under the popular denomination of club-foot are extremely frequent, and their treatment carried to a high degree of perfection, we possess but few accurate records of dissections of the affected limb. Thefollowing account of a case of talus, lately presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine by M. Bouvier, is therefore worthy of some attention :It occurred in the person of a man, who died at the age of sixty-six years in the Hôtel Dieu. The malformation had been developed in this individual when at the age of twelve months, and consisted in a forcible extension of the foot, by which the weight of the body was made to fall entirely on the heel. The angle which is formed by the axis of the foot with the leg, is sixty de-
and
evidently applicable to wounds, &c. The question has recently been examined with much care, by M. Boutigny, who has ascertained, by numerous experiments, that we can indicate very closely the period at which It may, a fire-arm has been discharged. however, be objected that as the barrel of a gun may be easily washed, all traces by which the medical jurist is guided may thus various
cases
of homicide,
be obliterated. M. Boutigny has provided against this objection, or rather determined the characters by which it may be known whether a gun-barrel has been recently washed or not. The author has discovered that the iron of a gun-barrel does not become oxidised for a considerable time, whenever the interior of the barrel has been lined, as it were, with the residue of the combustion of powder; and even when oxidisation does take place the traces escape
the naked eye, because the oxide is gradu.
being a majority of fourteen hiindi-ed and grees, and the point of the foot is with great brought down so as to form aright thirty-three votes in favour of the Medical difficultyWhen this is done the tibialis antiangle. Candidate. After having taken the neces- ens, extensor communis, and extensor prosary oaths, Mr. WAKLEY addressed the prius pollicis muscles, are thrown into a of extreme tension. The integuments assembled freeholders, but Mr. ADEY’S state retreat was "mute and
inglorious." The
Attorney Candidate
did not present himself the hustings. A great victory, has thus been gained, almost, indeed, without a battle, but not without having entailed a heavy expense on the victor; for Mr. ADEY, faithful to his promise, has kept the poll open to the last day. on
LIBERALITY OF THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES IN FRANCE.
of the heel are thick and horny ; those of the rest of the foot are fine and thin, showing that the heel had to bear the entire weight of the body. The os calcis is di. rected somewhat outwards; the whole, foot also deviates outwards in a slight degree; the sole of the foot, instead of forming an arch, is nearly flat. The lateral peroneal muscles are shortened, but those which cover the back of the leg are elongated. The whole limb is remarkably wasted, the muscular fibres completely deprived of their colour, and presenting that peculiar fatty appearance which so often occurs in cases of club-foot. The operation of dividing the tendons, which has been practised with so much success in cases of children affected with clubfoot, has never, we believe, been tried on a patient far advanced in life. It was, therefore, a matter of some interest to determine how far the malformation, in the present instance, might have admitted of remedy by surgical means. The tendons of the anterior muscles were divided, and immediately the point of the foot was brought down to a right angle, the deformity almost completely disappearing.—Bul. of the Academy, Dec.
WE have frequently had occasion to praise the liberal manner in which the French hospitals, and all other medical institutions in France, are thrown open to foreigners, who are admitted to them as freely, and on the same footing as the natives of the country. An act of much higher liberality has been recently shown at Havre, in the appointment of an Englishman, Dr. Nicholas Tarral, as one of the physicians to the Havre General Hospital. We have every reason to believe that the addition which has been thus made 1838. to the medical staff of the hospital, will prove of great advantage to the sea-faring MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. portion of the population of Havre.
ANATOMY OF CLUB-FOOT.
THE determination of the period since which a fire-arm may have been discharged is a point of much importance in medical
jurisprudence, ALTHOUGH the malformations which are known under the popular denomination of club-foot are extremely frequent, and their treatment carried to a high degree of perfection, we possess but few accurate records of dissections of the affected limb. Thefollowing account of a case of talus, lately presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine by M. Bouvier, is therefore worthy of some attention :It occurred in the person of a man, who died at the age of sixty-six years in the Hôtel Dieu. The malformation had been developed in this individual when at the age of twelve months, and consisted in a forcible extension of the foot, by which the weight of the body was made to fall entirely on the heel. The angle which is formed by the axis of the foot with the leg, is sixty de-
and
evidently applicable to wounds, &c. The question has recently been examined with much care, by M. Boutigny, who has ascertained, by numerous experiments, that we can indicate very closely the period at which It may, a fire-arm has been discharged. however, be objected that as the barrel of a gun may be easily washed, all traces by which the medical jurist is guided may thus various
cases
of homicide,
be obliterated. M. Boutigny has provided against this objection, or rather determined the characters by which it may be known whether a gun-barrel has been recently washed or not. The author has discovered that the iron of a gun-barrel does not become oxidised for a considerable time, whenever the interior of the barrel has been lined, as it were, with the residue of the combustion of powder; and even when oxidisation does take place the traces escape
the naked eye, because the oxide is gradu.