950 the ointment has melted and reached every part the nasal cavity. This treatment he has found cut short an attack of whooping-cough and to away almost entirely with the violent paroxysms
of to
do of
cough. NEW PREPARATIONS. ABRODIL
(Bayer Products, Ltd., HI, St. Dunstan’s-
hill, London, E.C.) has already been described in the columns of THE LANCET in reviewing a paper on excretion urography by Drs. H. Bronner and J. Schueller, of Cologne. It is the sodium salt of monoiodo-methane-sulphonic acid. After intravenous injection of large doses no inorganic iodine is found in the urine of rats, cats, and dogs, and this shows that it is excreted by the kidneys without the splitting off of iodine. It is also strongly diuretic. The diuresis is mainly in the first half hour, and the best pictures
the Upper End of the (Esophagus (excluding PharynOpeners : Dr. A. Brown Kelly geal Diverticula). 8.30 P.M., ANÆSTHETICS. and Dr. D. R. Paterson. Election of Officers and Annual General Meeting’. Council. A Clinical Evening will follow. EUGENICS SOCIETY. TUESDAY, April 28th.-5.30 P.M. (at the Rooms of the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London, W.), Dr. A. J. Lewis : Genetic Problems in Psychiatry. WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. FRIDAY, May 1st.—8.30 P.M. (at West London Hospital
Hammersmith): Discussion Dr. Maurice Shaw.)
on
Cholecystitis. (Opener,
LECTURES, ADDRESSES. DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole-street, W. MONDAY, April 27th, to SATURDAY, May 2nd.—HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Great Ormond-street, W.C. Special post-graduate course in Diseases of Children, I , occupying mornings only with lectures, demonstrations,
and operations.—INFANTS HOSPITAL, Vincent-square, S.W.-Special afternoon course in diseases of infants. for the purposes of pyelography are therefore obtained Demonstrations, lectures, and special visits.-MAUDSLEY during that period, the ideal time being usually 15 HOSPITAL, Denmark-hill, S.E. An afternoon course to 20 minutes after injection. Drs. Bronner and of lectures in Psychological Medicine. Clinical instruction in the Hospital.—CENTRAL LONDON THROAT, Schueller have tested abrodil as a medium for NosE, AND EAR HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn-road, W.C. this for and recommend retrograde pyelography, All-day Course in Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, lectures, demonstrations, &c.-Further particulars from purpose a 15 to 20 per cent. solution. The fact that the Fellowship of Medicine. abrodil is compatible with oxycyanide of mercury MEDICAL SCHOOL, allows of its being used in conjunction with this UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL University-street, Gower-street, W.C. of is The antiseptic. danger sepsis thereby diminished, WEDNESDAY, April 29th, and the following THURSDAY and FRIDAY.-5.30 P.M., Prof. Otfrid Forster (Univ. of and the surgeon is relieved of one of the anxieties Breslau) : Neurology. uppermost in his mind when undertaking retrograde
LONDON
pyelography. SOMNOSAL (Messrs. H. R. Napp, Ltd., 3 and 4, Clement’s-inn, London, W.C.) is a combination of a brom-iso-valerianyl urea (grs. 5) with dimethylamido-phenyldimethyl-iso-pyrazolon (grs. 2-5). The
or
AND
TROPICAL
Births, Marriages, and Deaths BIRTHS.
two
DE
18th,
BARGUE HUBERT.—On April at Grosvenor-road, S.W., the wife of Dr. W. de Bargue Hubert, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
.
AITKEN—WEST.—On April 14th, at Macduff, Banffshire, Alan Boultbee Aitken, of Creigiau, Cardiff, to Dr. Gladys Mary West. FAIRLEY—ROSSER.—On April 17th, at Saint Augustine’s-road, Edgbaston, James Fairley, B.Ch. Camb., to Margaret C. Rosser, M.B., Ch.B. HOBBES—CAMERON.—On April 16th, at St. Mary’s, Selly Oak, Theodore H. Hobbes, M.B., B.S., to Janet Seaton Cameron, M.B., Ch.B.
Medical Diary Diary Information to be included in this column should reach us in proper form on Tuesday, and cannot appear if it reaches us later than the first post on Wednesday morning.
DEATHS.
SOCIETIES. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole-street, W. MONDAY, April 27th.-8 P.M., ODONTOLOGY. Paper. Mr. Wilson Charles : Full Denture Prosthesis. 5 P.M., MEDICINE. Short Papers : Dr. W. S. C. Copeman : Treatment of Chronic Arthritis by Blood Transfusion. Dr. Donald Hall: Two Unusual Electrocardiograms. Dr. Donald Hunter: HEematog’enous Myelomatosis. Dr. M. Schwartzman : Skeletal Muscular Extract in the Treatment of Vascular Diseases. Dr. D. C. Wilson : Osteomalacia with Cinematographic film. FRIDAY, May 1st.-10.30 A.M., OTOLOGY (Cases at 9.30 A.M.). Annual General Meeting. Papers. Dr. Schmaltz (Germany): The Physical Phenomena Occurring in the Semicircular Canals during Rotatory and Thermic Stimulation. Dr. H. W. Barber : Eruptions Involving the External Auditory Meatus. Discussion: Non-malignant Diseases of the External Ear and Auditory Meatus. Cases and specimens will be shown. 5 P.M., LARYNGOLOGY (Cases at -t P.M.). Annual General Meeting. Communication. Prof. Georges Portrnann : A Big Tumour of the Deep Regions of the Face removed by Operation with Cure. Discussion : Obstruction at
HYGIENE
HOSPITAL. WEDNESDAY, April 29th.-4 P.M., Dr. Hubert Oddy : Treatment of Gastric Ulcer. MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY POST-GRADUATE COURSE. TUESDAY, April 28th.-4.15 P.M., Mr. J. P. Buckley: Some Problems of Early Diagnosis. FRIDAY, May 1st.—4.15 P.M., Mr. P. R. Wrigley : Demorstration of Surgical Cases. MANCHESTER VICTORIA MEMORIAL JEWISH HOE’. PITAL, Elizabeth-street. Manchester. WEDNESDAY, April 29th.-4.30 P.M., Dr. W. Brockbank : The Medical Treatment of Asthma. UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. TUESDAY, April 28th.-3.30 P.M. (at the General. Hospital), Mr. S. Barling : Demonstration of Surgical Cases.
tablets, to be daily, according to medical one
OF
and FRIDAY.-5 P.M., Prof. F. A. E. Crew : Laws of Inheritance. HAMPSTEAD GENERAL AND NORTH-WEST LONDON
preparation dissolves in alcohol and the usual solvents but is only partly soluble in water. It is put on the market as a trustworthy sedative of negligible toxicity, whose employment is unaccompanied by secondary symptoms or habit forming. A considerable amount of medical evidence is adduced of the utility of the preparation, which is free from barbiturates and opiates. From the same firm we have received a sample of ANOTAL, a combination of phenyl-cinchoninic acid and ethyl-urethane. The manufacturers claim satisfactory results for the new preparation in the treatment of rheumatism, gout, and local inflammations, the analgesic action being rapid, while medical evidence is adduced that it is well tolerated by patients who suffer from no gastric disturbance or cardiac depression if the suggested dosage is observed. Anotal is put up in phials of 30 tablets, and in bottles
of 300, the dosage being taken in cold water thrice direction.
SCHOOL
MEDICINE, Keppel-street, Gower-street, W.C. TUESDAY, April 28th, and following WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
’
ACLAND.—On April 16th, at Bryanston-square, London, W., Theodore Dyke Acland, M.D. Oxf., F.R.C.P., aged 79. CHRISTIE.—On April l4th, 1931, at 1, Albyn-terrace, Aberdeen, John F. Christie, M.A., M.B., C.M., F.R.C.P.E. DEAN.—On April 14th, at Abinger-road, Bedford Park, Henry Percy Dean, F.R.C.S., M.S., M.B., B.Se., aged 66. HARRIS.—On April 16th, Major-General G. F. A. Harris, C.S.I., M.D.. F.R.C.P., I.M.S., in his 76th year. SMITH.—On April 18th, at Cobden-crescent, Edinburgh, James Lorrain Smith, F.R.S., Professor of Pathology, University of
Edinburgh.
N.B.—A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices oj Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
HARROW
HOSPITAL.—Last year each
in-patient
average of,c3 5s. 9d. per week, as against £2 12s. in the preceding year. The average total costs of each patientj67 10s.-includes 844 out-patients. The hospital was closed for six weeks last summer for alterations necessitated by the
cost
an
extension schemes.