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NEW AURAL AND THROAT MIRROR.
989
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.-NEW INVENTIONS.
appeared.
That is
now
three years ago, and
lthe
interval
affords full justification for a second edition of the work. The changes in the law are not, however, very momentous, and it can hardly be matter of surprise that the editor of these statutes has taken somewhat easily the task of preparing a second edition. The result, however, is a
I
little
disappointing,
for
although
the
new
matter is to
be
New Inventions. NEW AURAL AND THROAT MIRROR. WITH this mirror
an
enlarged,
well
illuminated, and
found by those who search for it within the book it is not distinct view of the tympanum may be obtained.
It is a three inches in with To take an illustramirror diameter a hole of concave sight always tion of what we mean. On page 69 the qualifications of 15 mm. and having a focal distance of about seven inches. parish councillors are set out from the Act of 1894 and A rotary disc at the back carries three lenses, + 2 D, + 3 D, comprise inter alia a twelve months’ residence. On page 396 i + 4 D, which in turn can be moved opposite the central the amending Act of 1897 is set out, and shows that this particular qualification has been abolished in the case of candidates who enter into residence before March 25th in any year. The amendment has not, however, been incorporated in the notes to the earlier statute and Mr. Lithiby’s text in one place is therefore misleading. The book is a great repertory of information, but the impression which it leaves upon our mind is that it would be greatly improved by careful re-editing. Liza of Lambeth. By W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. London : T. Fisher Unwin. Price 3s. 6d. The author of this powerful if somewhat sombre work is, the publisher informs us, a medical man. He hole. The best results may be had by holding the mirror certainly has one valuable quality for one in his pro- about midway between the eye and the object. If the fession-namely, the gift of observation and another observer be presbyopic he can use the mirror in the usual equally valuable, though not so common, literary skill. The manner, selecting the lens which suits him. Messrs. Arnold story inevitably invites comparison with Mr. Morison’sand Sons, West Smithfield, E.C., are the makers. THOS A. GOODCHILD, "Child of the Jago," which deals with a similar class of GooDCHILD, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Irel. society, and though not so much of a " story " is to our Queen’s-road, N.E. minds superior in that it avoids the somewhat Dickens-like A MOVING BED. pathos which is the blemish of Mr. Morison’s otherwise excellent book. Mr. Maugham’s picture of life among the AN ingenious method of communicating a gentle rhythmic poor is not a pleasant one, though wonderfully graphic, movement to a bed has been invented by Mr. Walker, Hartneither do we mean to contend that all the poor are like his wood, West Calder, N.B. It is so designed as to be easily characters. But that there are such among the lower classes adapted for use either in public hospitals or in private no one who has ever done any work among them will deny houses. The bed is fixed at its centre, and by means of for a moment. The way in which the women talk about hydraulic machinery of simple construction and noiseless their children, the number of I I misses " they have had, the action the head is alternately raised and lowered, so as to ghoul-like pleasure they take in funerals and deaths, are all give the bed a gentle movement upwards and downwards. admirably described, and the scene at Liza’s death-bed, where The accompanying illustration gives a good idea of the whole her mother discourses to a select circle of friends upon the arrangement. The bed was for some time in operation in difficulty she and her neighbours had in getting her the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where, through the kindness husband into his coffin, is true to the ife. The animal-like wooing of Jim and the death of Liza are the two most powerful scenes in the book, but should Mr. Maugham write another book-and we hope he will-he might choose a somewhat less sordid subject. to be found where it should be.
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JOURNALS AND REVIEWS. Ix the October number of the Pho nog’l’ap hie Record Dr. Griffiths narrates a case of rheumatism followed by pericarditis and double pnenmonia in which oxygen inhalations are said to have averted death, and Mr. Norman Porritt discusses the action of the coal tar derivatives. He regards the effect of this class of bodies upon the haemoglobin as the explanation of their toxic action. We learn from this number that Sir William Gowers has been elected Patron of the National Federation of Shorthand Writers’ Associations in place of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and that the Society of Medical Phonographers intends to entertain him at dinner to congratulate him upon the honour which Her
ferred upon him.
Majesty
the Qaeen has
recently con- I
of Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, many members of the medical profession have been enabled to witness its effects. In many neurotic affections it has been found to produce beneficial results, more particularly in cases of insomnia and restlessness. It has, moreover, been of use in digestive, and respiratory troubles.
circulatory,
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.-NEW INVENTIONS.
appeared.
That is
now
three years ago, and
lthe
interval
affords full justification for a second edition of the work. The changes in the law are not, however, very momentous, and it can hardly be matter of surprise that the editor of these statutes has taken somewhat easily the task of preparing a second edition. The result, however, is a
I
little
disappointing,
for
although
the
new
matter is to
be
New Inventions. NEW AURAL AND THROAT MIRROR. WITH this mirror
an
enlarged,
well
illuminated, and
found by those who search for it within the book it is not distinct view of the tympanum may be obtained.
It is a three inches in with To take an illustramirror diameter a hole of concave sight always tion of what we mean. On page 69 the qualifications of 15 mm. and having a focal distance of about seven inches. parish councillors are set out from the Act of 1894 and A rotary disc at the back carries three lenses, + 2 D, + 3 D, comprise inter alia a twelve months’ residence. On page 396 i + 4 D, which in turn can be moved opposite the central the amending Act of 1897 is set out, and shows that this particular qualification has been abolished in the case of candidates who enter into residence before March 25th in any year. The amendment has not, however, been incorporated in the notes to the earlier statute and Mr. Lithiby’s text in one place is therefore misleading. The book is a great repertory of information, but the impression which it leaves upon our mind is that it would be greatly improved by careful re-editing. Liza of Lambeth. By W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. London : T. Fisher Unwin. Price 3s. 6d. The author of this powerful if somewhat sombre work is, the publisher informs us, a medical man. He hole. The best results may be had by holding the mirror certainly has one valuable quality for one in his pro- about midway between the eye and the object. If the fession-namely, the gift of observation and another observer be presbyopic he can use the mirror in the usual equally valuable, though not so common, literary skill. The manner, selecting the lens which suits him. Messrs. Arnold story inevitably invites comparison with Mr. Morison’sand Sons, West Smithfield, E.C., are the makers. THOS A. GOODCHILD, "Child of the Jago," which deals with a similar class of GooDCHILD, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Irel. society, and though not so much of a " story " is to our Queen’s-road, N.E. minds superior in that it avoids the somewhat Dickens-like A MOVING BED. pathos which is the blemish of Mr. Morison’s otherwise excellent book. Mr. Maugham’s picture of life among the AN ingenious method of communicating a gentle rhythmic poor is not a pleasant one, though wonderfully graphic, movement to a bed has been invented by Mr. Walker, Hartneither do we mean to contend that all the poor are like his wood, West Calder, N.B. It is so designed as to be easily characters. But that there are such among the lower classes adapted for use either in public hospitals or in private no one who has ever done any work among them will deny houses. The bed is fixed at its centre, and by means of for a moment. The way in which the women talk about hydraulic machinery of simple construction and noiseless their children, the number of I I misses " they have had, the action the head is alternately raised and lowered, so as to ghoul-like pleasure they take in funerals and deaths, are all give the bed a gentle movement upwards and downwards. admirably described, and the scene at Liza’s death-bed, where The accompanying illustration gives a good idea of the whole her mother discourses to a select circle of friends upon the arrangement. The bed was for some time in operation in difficulty she and her neighbours had in getting her the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where, through the kindness husband into his coffin, is true to the ife. The animal-like wooing of Jim and the death of Liza are the two most powerful scenes in the book, but should Mr. Maugham write another book-and we hope he will-he might choose a somewhat less sordid subject. to be found where it should be.
-
-
-
JOURNALS AND REVIEWS. Ix the October number of the Pho nog’l’ap hie Record Dr. Griffiths narrates a case of rheumatism followed by pericarditis and double pnenmonia in which oxygen inhalations are said to have averted death, and Mr. Norman Porritt discusses the action of the coal tar derivatives. He regards the effect of this class of bodies upon the haemoglobin as the explanation of their toxic action. We learn from this number that Sir William Gowers has been elected Patron of the National Federation of Shorthand Writers’ Associations in place of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and that the Society of Medical Phonographers intends to entertain him at dinner to congratulate him upon the honour which Her
ferred upon him.
Majesty
the Qaeen has
recently con- I
of Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, many members of the medical profession have been enabled to witness its effects. In many neurotic affections it has been found to produce beneficial results, more particularly in cases of insomnia and restlessness. It has, moreover, been of use in digestive, and respiratory troubles.
circulatory,