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day Mr. Bell applied the same treatment for three Thorburn, and R. B. Wild. Auditors : Drs. J. Hervey Jones hours, but on removing the bandage the pulsation was and P. Yates. as distinct as ever. On July 23rd Martin’s bandage Multiple Exostosis.-Mr. A. H. YOUNG showed preparations from a case of multiple exostosis, and Dr. THOMAS was again applied, and Esmarch’s tourniquet over the femoral abovethe bandage, the whole limb being wrapped HARRIS showed a patient suffering from the same disease. in cotton wool. The pain was very severe, notwithstanding d EnellOndromCt.-Dr. HUTTON showed a specimen calcified enchondroma from the leg of a dog. hypodermic injections of morphia, and after about an hour of Dr. Thomson very kindly kept the patient under chloroform tJarcomaofScapula.-Mr. SOUTHAM showed two specimens for an hour and a half. The tourniquet and bandage were of periosteal (round-celled) sarcoma of the scapula. In one then removed, and the students in relays kept up compres- case, a male aged fourteen years, where the tumour was sion of the femoral for seven hours. All pulsation ceased confined to the suhspinous fossa, excision of the scapula on the application of the tourniquet, and never recurred. was performed. The patient made a good recovery from The patient was kept in bed, and for a few days wore a the operation, but afterwards succumbed to a recurrence of McIntyre’s splint, to prevent his walking about the ward. the disease, secondary deposits occurring in the lungs, liver, At the end of a week he was allowed out for an hour on and bodies of several of the dorsal vertebra, death being of the spinal cord. In the other case, a business, but stopped out all day, and returned at night due to none the worse for the exercise. On Aug. 19th-twenty- femaleaged eleven years, the growth involved the whole of six days after all pulsation had ceased-he was discharged the scapula and encroached upon the axilla. The scapula, cured. The tumour was quite firm, and had shrunk to less together with the arm and outer half of the clavicle, were than one quarter its original size. The rarity of this form successfully removed, and the patient was alive and well at of aneurysm may be judged from the fact that none of the the present time, which was two months subsequently to the nine medical men who were present at the consultation had operation. ever seen a case before. Angina Pectoris.-Dr. OWEN showed sections from the left ventricle and aorta of a case of angina pectoris. The muscular fibres, especially those of the musculi papillares, The aorta were in a state of marked fatty degeneration.
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inch from the base and in its whole circumference which rendered the wall rather more than double its normal thickness at this SHEFFIELD MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. part. The sinuses of Valsalva were similarly involved, and the orifices of the coronary arteries, especially that of the AT the first meeting of the session, Oct. 10th, the left, to some extent occluded. Isolated patches of atheroma PRESIDENT (Dr. Gwynne) delivered the opening address, occurred also on the ascending arch. The right posterior " The Children of the Poor and their valve was roughened with deposit, but the free edge was upon the subject of Diseases." He pointed out that the diseases generally intact. The patient, a woman aged twenty-nine, had preobserved among hospital patients can be in the main sented distinctive symptoms of angina, and had died somereferred to either the scrofulous, the tuberculous, or the what suddenly. There was no evidence of kidney disease rachitic diatheses, and maintained that these various types or syphilis. The cause seemed due to severe strain, to of disease had their origin in the unhealthy conditions under which the patient had been subjected for some months which children are reared. He sketched out in the case of previously to the onset of the symptoms. these three main types the relationship that subsisted between the causes that produced them and the effects produced. He maintained that, as society did not dis- NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM MEDICAL countenance, but rather encouraged, immature and reckless SOCIETY. marriages, the children of such marriages had a substantial claim to look to society for their protection. He deprecated AT the annual meeting, held on Oct. 4th, the President, the illogical expenditure of money by charitable organisa- Dr. in the chair, the hon. secretary, Dr. Oliver, tions in rescuing individual victims, and the utter readMurphy, the financial report for the year. There are now 175 neglect of the causes that produced such lamentable members in the Society. The oflicers were re-elected for He showed how inadequate medical art was the results. year. to deal with the enormous mortality among children, Professor LAWSON TAIT delivered the annual oration, and the vast amount of disease that resulted from causes the subject being "Ectopic Gestation." He dwelt at conthat were in the main preventable. He pointed out the want siderable length upon the pathology of this condition, and of systematic instruction in the diseases of children at the showed the relationship which existed between tubal medical schools, and recommended that attendance on a and desquamative salpingitis. The operative pregnancy course of lectures on this subject and bedside instruction in treatment of the accident was thereafter discussed.-On the children’s wards should be made compulsory on all can- the motion of Dr. Arnison, seconded by Prof. Philipson, didates for medical degrees. To check the reckless pro- a of vote thanks was awarded to Mr. Tait for his hearty creation of children among the pauper classes, he recom- address. mended the raising of the legal marriage age, and the A banquet was held at the Assembly-rooms, Newcastleimposing of other restraints that might be deemed advisable. upon-Tyne, and 140 members sat down to dinner, presided To relieve the congestion of the population in towns, he over Dr. Murphy. by recommended emigration and a systematic method of The first monthly meeting was held on Oct. 10th, the colonisation in such countries as Western Australia, and Dr. in the chair. Nine new members President, the establishment of industrial schools in connexion with were elected. Murphy, Professor Lawson Lait was elected an to such colonies, where children could be trained trades and member. employments most suitable to the country. He predicted honorary Dr. ROBERTSON exhibited a man suffering from Cancer of that the gradual massing of the population in large cities the Larynx, upon whom he had performed tracheotomy in and the resulting moral and physical evils would in the last. There were now severalsinuses above the February future compel the consideration of such social questions. wound leading down to dead cartilage. A vote of thanks for the address was passed on the Dr.DRUMMOND exhibited a man from Diabetes motion of Mr. Favell, seconded by Mr. Garrard. Insipidus. Six agothe patient was throttled by a fellow-workman. After the injury he bled at the mouth and nose. Seventeen pintsof urine were passed daily, PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER. sp. gr. 1003; pulse only 60-64.-Remarks were made by Drs. Gibson, Oliver, and Redmond. THE annual meeting of this Society took place on Dr. LiMONT exhibited a man suffering from Abdominal Wednesday, Oct. 9th, when the reports of the committee Aneurysm. The symptoms at first were pain and vomiting; now there are pulsation and well-marked bruit. He also and hon. treasurer were received. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :- exhibited a case of Aneurysm of the Right Carotid Artery. President : Dr. Dixon Mann. Vice-Presidents : Messrs. The physical signs were well marked. In both cases there G. A. Wright and C. E. Richmond. Treasurer: Dr. H. R. was a history of syphilis. Dr. Limont likewise exhibited a Hutton. Secretary : Dr. Thomas Harris. Committee : Drs. woman suffering from Cerebral Tumour who had been J. Collier, A. Donald, E. S. Reynolds, A. Robinson, W. trephined, with the result that she had regained consciousfor
was
an
roughened internally by atheroma,
suffering
months
day Mr. Bell applied the same treatment for three Thorburn, and R. B. Wild. Auditors : Drs. J. Hervey Jones hours, but on removing the bandage the pulsation was and P. Yates. as distinct as ever. On July 23rd Martin’s bandage Multiple Exostosis.-Mr. A. H. YOUNG showed preparations from a case of multiple exostosis, and Dr. THOMAS was again applied, and Esmarch’s tourniquet over the femoral abovethe bandage, the whole limb being wrapped HARRIS showed a patient suffering from the same disease. in cotton wool. The pain was very severe, notwithstanding d EnellOndromCt.-Dr. HUTTON showed a specimen calcified enchondroma from the leg of a dog. hypodermic injections of morphia, and after about an hour of Dr. Thomson very kindly kept the patient under chloroform tJarcomaofScapula.-Mr. SOUTHAM showed two specimens for an hour and a half. The tourniquet and bandage were of periosteal (round-celled) sarcoma of the scapula. In one then removed, and the students in relays kept up compres- case, a male aged fourteen years, where the tumour was sion of the femoral for seven hours. All pulsation ceased confined to the suhspinous fossa, excision of the scapula on the application of the tourniquet, and never recurred. was performed. The patient made a good recovery from The patient was kept in bed, and for a few days wore a the operation, but afterwards succumbed to a recurrence of McIntyre’s splint, to prevent his walking about the ward. the disease, secondary deposits occurring in the lungs, liver, At the end of a week he was allowed out for an hour on and bodies of several of the dorsal vertebra, death being of the spinal cord. In the other case, a business, but stopped out all day, and returned at night due to none the worse for the exercise. On Aug. 19th-twenty- femaleaged eleven years, the growth involved the whole of six days after all pulsation had ceased-he was discharged the scapula and encroached upon the axilla. The scapula, cured. The tumour was quite firm, and had shrunk to less together with the arm and outer half of the clavicle, were than one quarter its original size. The rarity of this form successfully removed, and the patient was alive and well at of aneurysm may be judged from the fact that none of the the present time, which was two months subsequently to the nine medical men who were present at the consultation had operation. ever seen a case before. Angina Pectoris.-Dr. OWEN showed sections from the left ventricle and aorta of a case of angina pectoris. The muscular fibres, especially those of the musculi papillares, The aorta were in a state of marked fatty degeneration.
partially
compression
Medical Societies.
inch from the base and in its whole circumference which rendered the wall rather more than double its normal thickness at this SHEFFIELD MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. part. The sinuses of Valsalva were similarly involved, and the orifices of the coronary arteries, especially that of the AT the first meeting of the session, Oct. 10th, the left, to some extent occluded. Isolated patches of atheroma PRESIDENT (Dr. Gwynne) delivered the opening address, occurred also on the ascending arch. The right posterior " The Children of the Poor and their valve was roughened with deposit, but the free edge was upon the subject of Diseases." He pointed out that the diseases generally intact. The patient, a woman aged twenty-nine, had preobserved among hospital patients can be in the main sented distinctive symptoms of angina, and had died somereferred to either the scrofulous, the tuberculous, or the what suddenly. There was no evidence of kidney disease rachitic diatheses, and maintained that these various types or syphilis. The cause seemed due to severe strain, to of disease had their origin in the unhealthy conditions under which the patient had been subjected for some months which children are reared. He sketched out in the case of previously to the onset of the symptoms. these three main types the relationship that subsisted between the causes that produced them and the effects produced. He maintained that, as society did not dis- NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM MEDICAL countenance, but rather encouraged, immature and reckless SOCIETY. marriages, the children of such marriages had a substantial claim to look to society for their protection. He deprecated AT the annual meeting, held on Oct. 4th, the President, the illogical expenditure of money by charitable organisa- Dr. in the chair, the hon. secretary, Dr. Oliver, tions in rescuing individual victims, and the utter readMurphy, the financial report for the year. There are now 175 neglect of the causes that produced such lamentable members in the Society. The oflicers were re-elected for He showed how inadequate medical art was the results. year. to deal with the enormous mortality among children, Professor LAWSON TAIT delivered the annual oration, and the vast amount of disease that resulted from causes the subject being "Ectopic Gestation." He dwelt at conthat were in the main preventable. He pointed out the want siderable length upon the pathology of this condition, and of systematic instruction in the diseases of children at the showed the relationship which existed between tubal medical schools, and recommended that attendance on a and desquamative salpingitis. The operative pregnancy course of lectures on this subject and bedside instruction in treatment of the accident was thereafter discussed.-On the children’s wards should be made compulsory on all can- the motion of Dr. Arnison, seconded by Prof. Philipson, didates for medical degrees. To check the reckless pro- a of vote thanks was awarded to Mr. Tait for his hearty creation of children among the pauper classes, he recom- address. mended the raising of the legal marriage age, and the A banquet was held at the Assembly-rooms, Newcastleimposing of other restraints that might be deemed advisable. upon-Tyne, and 140 members sat down to dinner, presided To relieve the congestion of the population in towns, he over Dr. Murphy. by recommended emigration and a systematic method of The first monthly meeting was held on Oct. 10th, the colonisation in such countries as Western Australia, and Dr. in the chair. Nine new members President, the establishment of industrial schools in connexion with were elected. Murphy, Professor Lawson Lait was elected an to such colonies, where children could be trained trades and member. employments most suitable to the country. He predicted honorary Dr. ROBERTSON exhibited a man suffering from Cancer of that the gradual massing of the population in large cities the Larynx, upon whom he had performed tracheotomy in and the resulting moral and physical evils would in the last. There were now severalsinuses above the February future compel the consideration of such social questions. wound leading down to dead cartilage. A vote of thanks for the address was passed on the Dr.DRUMMOND exhibited a man from Diabetes motion of Mr. Favell, seconded by Mr. Garrard. Insipidus. Six agothe patient was throttled by a fellow-workman. After the injury he bled at the mouth and nose. Seventeen pintsof urine were passed daily, PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER. sp. gr. 1003; pulse only 60-64.-Remarks were made by Drs. Gibson, Oliver, and Redmond. THE annual meeting of this Society took place on Dr. LiMONT exhibited a man suffering from Abdominal Wednesday, Oct. 9th, when the reports of the committee Aneurysm. The symptoms at first were pain and vomiting; now there are pulsation and well-marked bruit. He also and hon. treasurer were received. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :- exhibited a case of Aneurysm of the Right Carotid Artery. President : Dr. Dixon Mann. Vice-Presidents : Messrs. The physical signs were well marked. In both cases there G. A. Wright and C. E. Richmond. Treasurer: Dr. H. R. was a history of syphilis. Dr. Limont likewise exhibited a Hutton. Secretary : Dr. Thomas Harris. Committee : Drs. woman suffering from Cerebral Tumour who had been J. Collier, A. Donald, E. S. Reynolds, A. Robinson, W. trephined, with the result that she had regained consciousfor
was
an
roughened internally by atheroma,
suffering
months