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factory or cut out of the under surface of the tortoise-shell itself, at hours after the occurrence of each side of the handle, which holds a probe and director the accident. Of such accidents there were reported during and these two latter are so arranged as to the year covered by this latest report a total of 6827, of respectively; of screwed together so as to form one piece. permit being which 5496 happened to male workers, and 1331 to women and girls. The total number of informations laid for breaches The convenience and utility of such a combination will be of the Act was 2777, which resulted in 2141 convictions, the apparent to anyone on a moment’s consideration. It not dismissal of 76 cases, and the withdrawal of 560 on payment only does away with the necessity of carrying in one’s pocket of costs. These figures are strong testimony as to the thorough- so many different instruments elaborately arranged in a ness of the work done by various inspectors throughout the but it also enables the general prac. United Kingdom, and Mr. Redgrave is to be congratulated bulky pocket-case, titioner -armed with this instrument, an artery forceps on the practical value of his last report. to cope almost with any and a clinical thermometer, case he is likely to come in contact with, either on sudden emergencies or in his daily rounds. Further, its neatness, its convenient size-being no larger than an ordinary pocket-knife,-and its compactness and cheapness, all tend to render it of special value to those whose ETHER MIXTURES INHALER. practice lies in the country. To infirmary students, also I AM guilty of adding one more inhaler to those in use for this knife would prove a great boon. the administration of ether and its confreres in our list of J. DODD, DoDD, M,B., M.B., C.M., Burnley. narcosis producers. It is simple and clean both to the administrator and patient. On removal of the coarse sponge, OPHTHALMIC CABINET. which is saturated with the compound when in use, there is THE accompanying illustration represents an ophthalmie no part of the inhaler which is liable to retain the odour of the ether. The only novelty is the double-acting valve, cabinet which I have devised for my own use, and which I find extremely convenient. There are ten drop-bottles for the following solutions: Strong nitrate of silver, weak nitrate of silver, chloride of zinc, sulphate of copper, perchloride of mercury, atropine, homatropine, cocaine, hyoscyamine, and eserine. Also seven glass pots for the following ointments: atropine, atropine with cocaine, cocaine, strong yellow oxide of mercury, weak yellow oxide of mercury, yellow oxide of mercury with atropine, and iodoform, The drawer A is for cotton wool, boracic lint eye-pads, adhesive plaster, needles, sutures &c. Drawer B is for the of of a series bottles reception containing " stock" in a concentrated form for replenishing the solutions in the dropbottles when these are exhausted. Drawer c is for such
injured by it from returning workshop within forty-eight
to his work in the
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which the instrument makers (Messrs. Down) have registered-on my making them a present of it,-and the position thereof, to be out of harm’s way, under the observation of the administrator, and constructed to carry the air admitted through the ether. I think practitioners who do not administer often, want to save their pockets, not savour of ether, and keep their patients unfrightened with display of appaTolu BIRD, TOM ratus, will like it. Instructor in the Use of Anesthetics, Anaesthetics, 1888.
Guy’s Hospital.
Brook-street, W., Feb. 8th,
THE PRACTITIONER’S KNIFE. I BEG to call the attention of the profession to the great utility of a new knife, made by Messrs. Arnold and Sons, West Smithfield, London. It consists of a tortoise-shell
small instruments as ophthalmoscope, scissors, probes, &c. Drawer D is for bandages ; drawer E is for brushes. The lid, which falls over the tiers, is made of such a size as exactly to fold back on to the top of the cabinet when opened. I understand that it is the intention of Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome, of Holborn Viaduct, the makers of my cabinet, to fill the " stock bottles" in future with tabloids (the base of which will probably be boric acid). Each tabloid will contain a stated quantity of active agent, and it will then only be necessary to dissolve one or more tabloids in distilled water (according to strength required) in order to form the solutions for the drop-bottles. This plan possesses an obvious advantage, inasmuch as the tabloids will preserve the active agents for any length of time. The cabinets are which arise from each end of it. The instruments are: in two sizes: one large, for hospital out-patient rooms. 1. A finger knife. 2. A finger saw. 3. Symes’ abscess knife. the other for smaller, private use 4. A gum lancet. 5. A tenotomy knife. 6. A sharp-pointed, CLAIR BUXTON, A. ST. CLAIR curved needle. Besides these, however, there is a groove, Assistant Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital.
handle, in which
are
set six different
instruments, three of
factory or cut out of the under surface of the tortoise-shell itself, at hours after the occurrence of each side of the handle, which holds a probe and director the accident. Of such accidents there were reported during and these two latter are so arranged as to the year covered by this latest report a total of 6827, of respectively; of screwed together so as to form one piece. permit being which 5496 happened to male workers, and 1331 to women and girls. The total number of informations laid for breaches The convenience and utility of such a combination will be of the Act was 2777, which resulted in 2141 convictions, the apparent to anyone on a moment’s consideration. It not dismissal of 76 cases, and the withdrawal of 560 on payment only does away with the necessity of carrying in one’s pocket of costs. These figures are strong testimony as to the thorough- so many different instruments elaborately arranged in a ness of the work done by various inspectors throughout the but it also enables the general prac. United Kingdom, and Mr. Redgrave is to be congratulated bulky pocket-case, titioner -armed with this instrument, an artery forceps on the practical value of his last report. to cope almost with any and a clinical thermometer, case he is likely to come in contact with, either on sudden emergencies or in his daily rounds. Further, its neatness, its convenient size-being no larger than an ordinary pocket-knife,-and its compactness and cheapness, all tend to render it of special value to those whose ETHER MIXTURES INHALER. practice lies in the country. To infirmary students, also I AM guilty of adding one more inhaler to those in use for this knife would prove a great boon. the administration of ether and its confreres in our list of J. DODD, DoDD, M,B., M.B., C.M., Burnley. narcosis producers. It is simple and clean both to the administrator and patient. On removal of the coarse sponge, OPHTHALMIC CABINET. which is saturated with the compound when in use, there is THE accompanying illustration represents an ophthalmie no part of the inhaler which is liable to retain the odour of the ether. The only novelty is the double-acting valve, cabinet which I have devised for my own use, and which I find extremely convenient. There are ten drop-bottles for the following solutions: Strong nitrate of silver, weak nitrate of silver, chloride of zinc, sulphate of copper, perchloride of mercury, atropine, homatropine, cocaine, hyoscyamine, and eserine. Also seven glass pots for the following ointments: atropine, atropine with cocaine, cocaine, strong yellow oxide of mercury, weak yellow oxide of mercury, yellow oxide of mercury with atropine, and iodoform, The drawer A is for cotton wool, boracic lint eye-pads, adhesive plaster, needles, sutures &c. Drawer B is for the of of a series bottles reception containing " stock" in a concentrated form for replenishing the solutions in the dropbottles when these are exhausted. Drawer c is for such
injured by it from returning workshop within forty-eight
to his work in the
-
New Inventions.
which the instrument makers (Messrs. Down) have registered-on my making them a present of it,-and the position thereof, to be out of harm’s way, under the observation of the administrator, and constructed to carry the air admitted through the ether. I think practitioners who do not administer often, want to save their pockets, not savour of ether, and keep their patients unfrightened with display of appaTolu BIRD, TOM ratus, will like it. Instructor in the Use of Anesthetics, Anaesthetics, 1888.
Guy’s Hospital.
Brook-street, W., Feb. 8th,
THE PRACTITIONER’S KNIFE. I BEG to call the attention of the profession to the great utility of a new knife, made by Messrs. Arnold and Sons, West Smithfield, London. It consists of a tortoise-shell
small instruments as ophthalmoscope, scissors, probes, &c. Drawer D is for bandages ; drawer E is for brushes. The lid, which falls over the tiers, is made of such a size as exactly to fold back on to the top of the cabinet when opened. I understand that it is the intention of Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome, of Holborn Viaduct, the makers of my cabinet, to fill the " stock bottles" in future with tabloids (the base of which will probably be boric acid). Each tabloid will contain a stated quantity of active agent, and it will then only be necessary to dissolve one or more tabloids in distilled water (according to strength required) in order to form the solutions for the drop-bottles. This plan possesses an obvious advantage, inasmuch as the tabloids will preserve the active agents for any length of time. The cabinets are which arise from each end of it. The instruments are: in two sizes: one large, for hospital out-patient rooms. 1. A finger knife. 2. A finger saw. 3. Symes’ abscess knife. the other for smaller, private use 4. A gum lancet. 5. A tenotomy knife. 6. A sharp-pointed, CLAIR BUXTON, A. ST. CLAIR curved needle. Besides these, however, there is a groove, Assistant Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital.
handle, in which
are
set six different
instruments, three of