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provided which have served to relieve overand to afford accommodation for further cases. The committee of directors states in its report that the additional wards above referred to form part of a new asylum which will shortly be completed. All the available capital at the disposal of the committee has been utilised to erect the new asylum and about ae:4000 have been borrowed to complete the furnishings. were
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definitely laid down as to what constituted a proportion of boric acid dangerous to health. In the other case, heard at the South-Western Police-court, the boric acid had been added to a churn of milk in the proportion of 38 grains per gallon and a warranty had been given as to the purity of the milk, the precise terms of which The dedo not appear in the Times report of the case. fendant, a farmer who had consigned the milk to dealers in London, gave evidence in his own behalf that he had bought the preservative used under the name of "Jack Frost," recommended by an advertisement as "tasteless, odourless, harmless," and that he had no idea that "Jack ]’rost" " was composed of boric acid. Mr. Garrett, the magistrate who heard the case, fined the defendant
l’ive 3ears’ Penal T’MMeOT’ Quack. THE case of the man Herring who was convicted at the last sessions at the Old Bailey, as recorded in THE LANCET of Nov. lst, p. 1214, had as its result his conviction for manslaughter, for which he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Herring had been a clerk in the employment of a railway company, he bad no sort or semblance of medical training or qualification, he pretended to be a medical man, going so far as to adopt the names of members of the medical profession. He was called in to attend a woman who was suffering from strangulated hernia-a condition which he had very likely never heard of ; he said that she had inflammation and he continued to pretend to give her medical aid until it was too late for the medical infringement of Trade-marks. practitioner ultimately called in to save her life. Herring Messrs. Wellcome and Co. have forwarded to Burroughs, was convicted of manslaughter, coming before a judge, Mr. Justice Bigham, who took care that the jury should us copies of judgments obtained by them in the Civil and Penal Tribunal of Milan and in the Court of Milan fully appreciate the case for the prosecution. Had Herring restraining certain Italian traders from Appeal their tradeinfringing for conviction he could have been escaped manslaughter tried for perjury, having sworn at the inquest that he was a mark and selling imitations of their well-known goods. The conduct of the defendants to have been extremely registered medical practitioner. His case was a heinous one barefaced and audacious, asappears we gather from the judgments, and he had no doubt added to the certainty of conviction by the aliases he had assumed and the false pretences of which which discuss the legal aspects of the case with great he had been guilty and if he had been detected sooner he elaboration, that they made use of the name of the plaintiffs, could no doubt have been dealt with for illegal practice. It imitated their"tabloid trade-mark, imitated their products, and imitated their bottles. Moreover, we fail to gather must be remembered, however, that if Herring had contented himself with practice without pretending to medical qualifi- from the judgments that the infringers were able to set up of defence or that they bad cations he would still have found patients and the law would anything worthy of the name their for We note, however, that those any appeal. ground have permitted him to go on until one of his victims died, while even then it would have been quite possible for him to who complain, often without reason, of the law’s delays in find themselves better off in Italy, for have escaped the conviction which in the circumstances has England would hardly Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. appear to have fallen to his lot. begun their action in or before September, 1900, to have Herring’s case is an apt illustration of the difficulties obtained judgment for an injunction and damages in the which are imposed upon coroners to which attention was called in an annotation in THE LANCET of Nov. 1st, p. 1209. court of first instance in June, 1901, and to have won their He might have been acting without any false pretence appeal quite recently-that is to say, in the latter part of We congratulate the plaintiffs upon their success of qualification as what the Home Secretary in the letter 1902. in every way to themselves, which we quoted called an medical prac- which, besides being satisfactory will firms in the encourage protection of their tradeEnglish titioner." Had his patient died in such circumstances withmarks and goods in the Italian courts. out the intervention of any qualified practitioner the coroner would have had either to permit the burial of the deceased without an inquest or to have formed an opinion chiefly upon such materials as the person most interested mightTHE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND afford him as to whether the cause of death was one which OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS. should be inquired into. Had the coroner on such an occasion ordered a post-mortem examination and held an AT a meeting of the local Society for the Prevention of inquest avowedly because he could not trust to information supplied by a person without qualification to give it he would Consumption held at Newcastle it was decided to build a have been liable to have his conduct laid before the Home sanatorium for consumptive patients in Northumberland and Secretary and would have received no support from that Newcastle. The proposed building is to accommodate 50 official. Coroners will, however, no doubt take note of the patients and will cost 50,000. Subscriptions amounting to case of Herring and regard cases of death in which quacks E8000 were announced, of which Mr. Watson Armstrong have been in attendance with careful scrutiny. gave .B4000, and Sir Andrew Noble, Mr. W. D. Cruddas, and Mr. Mitchell E1000 each. Boric Acid as a Preservati1’e. Dr. J. Cunningham Bowie of Cardiff, writing recently In two cases heard in London police-courts recently the in the CM"cliff News, argues that the money which use of boric acid as a preservative was called in question. would be necessary for one year’s maintenance of the conIn the one a firm of provision dealers were summoned under templated sanatoriums in the two counties of Glamorgan the Sale of Food and Drugs Act for selling cream which, and Monmouth if capitalised would approximately amount to according to the Daily Tele,ra7z report of the case, con- .BI0,OOO,OOO sterling, and it might be safely contended that if tained boric acid in a proportion equal to 51’2grains to the this sum was expended in acquiring suitable land at its agripound. They had, however, given notice to purchasers that cultural value for the purpose of rehousing the people in the the cream was not in its natural state by affixing to the out- towns upon the principie of "garden cities," and in proside of the small jugs in which it was sold labels with the viding healthy cottages in the rural districts, it would go a inscription, 11 This cream contains a small quantity of boracic long way towards solving, not only the problem of consumpacid preservative to retard sourness in accordance with the tion, but the other zymotic diseases as well. He believed no effective way of dealing with this subject would ever practice of the last ten years," and the summons against them was dismissed, Mr. Denman holding that the label be found inside cities and large towns as at present conprotected them and pointing out that there was nothing stituted. The people must be spread over the land upon -
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provided which have served to relieve overand to afford accommodation for further cases. The committee of directors states in its report that the additional wards above referred to form part of a new asylum which will shortly be completed. All the available capital at the disposal of the committee has been utilised to erect the new asylum and about ae:4000 have been borrowed to complete the furnishings. were
crowding
MEDICINE AND THE LAW.
definitely laid down as to what constituted a proportion of boric acid dangerous to health. In the other case, heard at the South-Western Police-court, the boric acid had been added to a churn of milk in the proportion of 38 grains per gallon and a warranty had been given as to the purity of the milk, the precise terms of which The dedo not appear in the Times report of the case. fendant, a farmer who had consigned the milk to dealers in London, gave evidence in his own behalf that he had bought the preservative used under the name of "Jack Frost," recommended by an advertisement as "tasteless, odourless, harmless," and that he had no idea that "Jack ]’rost" " was composed of boric acid. Mr. Garrett, the magistrate who heard the case, fined the defendant
l’ive 3ears’ Penal T’MMeOT’ Quack. THE case of the man Herring who was convicted at the last sessions at the Old Bailey, as recorded in THE LANCET of Nov. lst, p. 1214, had as its result his conviction for manslaughter, for which he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Herring had been a clerk in the employment of a railway company, he bad no sort or semblance of medical training or qualification, he pretended to be a medical man, going so far as to adopt the names of members of the medical profession. He was called in to attend a woman who was suffering from strangulated hernia-a condition which he had very likely never heard of ; he said that she had inflammation and he continued to pretend to give her medical aid until it was too late for the medical infringement of Trade-marks. practitioner ultimately called in to save her life. Herring Messrs. Wellcome and Co. have forwarded to Burroughs, was convicted of manslaughter, coming before a judge, Mr. Justice Bigham, who took care that the jury should us copies of judgments obtained by them in the Civil and Penal Tribunal of Milan and in the Court of Milan fully appreciate the case for the prosecution. Had Herring restraining certain Italian traders from Appeal their tradeinfringing for conviction he could have been escaped manslaughter tried for perjury, having sworn at the inquest that he was a mark and selling imitations of their well-known goods. The conduct of the defendants to have been extremely registered medical practitioner. His case was a heinous one barefaced and audacious, asappears we gather from the judgments, and he had no doubt added to the certainty of conviction by the aliases he had assumed and the false pretences of which which discuss the legal aspects of the case with great he had been guilty and if he had been detected sooner he elaboration, that they made use of the name of the plaintiffs, could no doubt have been dealt with for illegal practice. It imitated their"tabloid trade-mark, imitated their products, and imitated their bottles. Moreover, we fail to gather must be remembered, however, that if Herring had contented himself with practice without pretending to medical qualifi- from the judgments that the infringers were able to set up of defence or that they bad cations he would still have found patients and the law would anything worthy of the name their for We note, however, that those any appeal. ground have permitted him to go on until one of his victims died, while even then it would have been quite possible for him to who complain, often without reason, of the law’s delays in find themselves better off in Italy, for have escaped the conviction which in the circumstances has England would hardly Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. appear to have fallen to his lot. begun their action in or before September, 1900, to have Herring’s case is an apt illustration of the difficulties obtained judgment for an injunction and damages in the which are imposed upon coroners to which attention was called in an annotation in THE LANCET of Nov. 1st, p. 1209. court of first instance in June, 1901, and to have won their He might have been acting without any false pretence appeal quite recently-that is to say, in the latter part of We congratulate the plaintiffs upon their success of qualification as what the Home Secretary in the letter 1902. in every way to themselves, which we quoted called an medical prac- which, besides being satisfactory will firms in the encourage protection of their tradeEnglish titioner." Had his patient died in such circumstances withmarks and goods in the Italian courts. out the intervention of any qualified practitioner the coroner would have had either to permit the burial of the deceased without an inquest or to have formed an opinion chiefly upon such materials as the person most interested mightTHE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND afford him as to whether the cause of death was one which OTHER FORMS OF TUBERCULOSIS. should be inquired into. Had the coroner on such an occasion ordered a post-mortem examination and held an AT a meeting of the local Society for the Prevention of inquest avowedly because he could not trust to information supplied by a person without qualification to give it he would Consumption held at Newcastle it was decided to build a have been liable to have his conduct laid before the Home sanatorium for consumptive patients in Northumberland and Secretary and would have received no support from that Newcastle. The proposed building is to accommodate 50 official. Coroners will, however, no doubt take note of the patients and will cost 50,000. Subscriptions amounting to case of Herring and regard cases of death in which quacks E8000 were announced, of which Mr. Watson Armstrong have been in attendance with careful scrutiny. gave .B4000, and Sir Andrew Noble, Mr. W. D. Cruddas, and Mr. Mitchell E1000 each. Boric Acid as a Preservati1’e. Dr. J. Cunningham Bowie of Cardiff, writing recently In two cases heard in London police-courts recently the in the CM"cliff News, argues that the money which use of boric acid as a preservative was called in question. would be necessary for one year’s maintenance of the conIn the one a firm of provision dealers were summoned under templated sanatoriums in the two counties of Glamorgan the Sale of Food and Drugs Act for selling cream which, and Monmouth if capitalised would approximately amount to according to the Daily Tele,ra7z report of the case, con- .BI0,OOO,OOO sterling, and it might be safely contended that if tained boric acid in a proportion equal to 51’2grains to the this sum was expended in acquiring suitable land at its agripound. They had, however, given notice to purchasers that cultural value for the purpose of rehousing the people in the the cream was not in its natural state by affixing to the out- towns upon the principie of "garden cities," and in proside of the small jugs in which it was sold labels with the viding healthy cottages in the rural districts, it would go a inscription, 11 This cream contains a small quantity of boracic long way towards solving, not only the problem of consumpacid preservative to retard sourness in accordance with the tion, but the other zymotic diseases as well. He believed no effective way of dealing with this subject would ever practice of the last ten years," and the summons against them was dismissed, Mr. Denman holding that the label be found inside cities and large towns as at present conprotected them and pointing out that there was nothing stituted. The people must be spread over the land upon -
"
,
"unregistered
I that