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no service unless there be in the excessof oxydisablematerial tobeoxidised; secondly, that top energetic an oxidation in the body leads to feebleness’instead ofpower, and, to stupor instead of vitality; thirdly, that the quantity of oxygen in the healthy lung, always supplied in abundant quantity, is absorbed as required by an admirable process of regulation of supply to demand; and, lastly, that in respiration it is not that the oxygen taken into the lungs comes into immediate contact with the blood, as it comes into contact with the fire of a forge and is used up according to the vigour with which it is driven on by the bellows; but that a series of intermediate processes intervene’ for condensation and absorption, before the vital oxidation is completed. Perchance then, when they have mastered the study of respiration from the physiologist named, they will cease to turn up their noses bearing a framework " a third of an inch in diameter, shaped like a parallelogram with a rounded head,. and about an inch long," convinced that such an expander takes up a good deal of the normal space .of the nasal channel, and may easily lead to deformity before its uselessness is demonstrated.
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SENILE ARTICULAR CHANGES IN JOINTS AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. ’DR. KASANLI has published an account of some microscbpical observations he has made on the morbid changes of th’e various structures of the knee-joint which accompany old age, with the view of comparing these changes with those occurring in rheumatoid arthritis or arthritis deformans, as this affection is frequently called on the Continent. The morbid changes found in the synovial membrane were most marked in the adventitia, and consisted in hyperplasia of the cellular elements and the development of connective tissue in the adventitia, together with thickening of the walls of the capillaries lying beneath the intima synovialis, also in a varicose enlargement of the capillaries, in separation of adipose tissue in the synovial membrane, and in splitting of the adventitia into fibres. In the cartilages the cellular elements were found to be undergoing fatty degeneration, and the interstitial substance to have broken up into fibres, and to have become infiltrated with certain saline matters. In the spongy portion of the epiphysis of the femur the trabeculap had become very thin, and cavities had been formed by the absorption of the osseous substance of lamellae, into which the bone near the cartilaginous covering had split up. In the medulla of the bone there was a marked deficiency of medullary elements, the small vessels were affected by a varicose enlargement, and their walls were thickened. These changes, which occur normally in the knee-joint in old persons, are, according to Dr. Kasanli, very similar to those found in rheumatoid arthritis. ___
LONDON. WHATEVER their shortcomings in the past it cannot be PLAYING FIELDS FOR
said of Londoners that they have of late years been backward in urging the claims of a great and crowded city population to such remaining spots of open land as are available for public recreation. A few days ago representatives of the various associations which have been prominent in this work met with members of several athletic societies and workmen’s clubs to discuss methods of still further promoting this useful work. Despite the fact that vacant spaces in and near London have been largely utilised for public amusement, a want remains unsatisfied. There is a fields, especially of those adapted for deficiency of cricket, and it has been felt, naturally enough, that unless this wi1nt.can be made good recreation will continue to be of the quieter sort; suitable, indeed, to healthy though easy
playing
but lacking in much of the muscular energy so essential to the robust development of youthful vigour. Of the grounds available for cricket, and now open to the public, some are too small, others unsuitable, and yet others too remote to be of general utility. Additional purchases of land will therefore be necessary as well as extensive alterations in that which is now public property, and for these purposes money must be found. It has been proposed to enlist in the work the sympathies of the Charity Commissioners, of the ratepayers, as such, where not already too heavily burdened, and of the giving public in general. The proposed movement, it has also been suggested, should be encouraged by a reduction of travelling fares in favour of the civic athletes. In short, what is desired is the formation of a series of public playing-grounds, with easy access guaranteed. This is most desirable in the interests of health, and if extensively carried out will do much to abate the physical depression inevitably connected with the close unwholesome life and overwork of the poorer citizen. The project is, therefore, in its intention most worthy of support. We would only express a hope, by way of caution, that the work will not be done in a too charitable manner. Self-help, as well as muscle and bone, be it remembered, require the hardy education imparted by circumstances not wholly kind, and the workman, we feel certain, will value more highly the privilege of healthy exercise if his own pocket be laid under due contribution in order to obtain it. What he chiefly needs, perhaps, even more than the means of contribution, is such a shortening of the hours of ]abour as will allow some leisure for recreation.
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ATTEMPTED MURDER BY POISONING WITH CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. THE case of Sarah Kibler, the charwoman, who was convicted at the recent Warwickshire Assizes for attempting to murder her mistress by administering to her corrosive sublimate on two separate occasions, and was sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude, contains several instructive features. The lady whose life was attempted was Mrs. Horniblow, the wife of Dr. Horniblow, of Leamington. On March 7th, 1889, the prisoner, who was employed as a charwoman, brought her a cup of tea, which she noticed tasted very nasty; she was very sick, and brought up She had a pet white rat a large quantity of blood. which the prisoner fed during her illness, and it died. On March 23rd Mrs. Horniblow mixed for herself some brandy and water in’ the’ kitchen, in the presence of her son and the prisoner. It was in a tea-cup, but she did not drink it then, but went into the garden with her son. On her return after an interval of five nrinutes she found the prisoner in the kitchen, tasted the brandy-and-water, and at once detected the same taste as she had observed in the tea. She remarked this to the prisoner, who at once snatched up the table-cloth off the table, upsetting the contents of the cup over Mrs. Horniblow’s dress and - breaking the cup on the floor. Dr. Horniblow stated that his wife had suffered from an attack of paralysis, but was decidedly better on March 7th. After drinking the tea she complained of soreness for several days, and then her general health improved. The body of the rat was thrown into the fire, but on examining its cage on April 15th, the prisoner having left his service on the 6th, he found some crystals at the bottom, which on analysis proved to be corrosive sublimate, in quantity from fifteen to twenty grains. Subsequently his son gave him some pieces of the broken cup, the edges of which had traces of corrosive sublimate. This was subsequently confirmed by Dr. Bostock Hill, county analyst, who examined both the cup and the crystals found in the cage. The prisoner had access to the
no service unless there be in the excessof oxydisablematerial tobeoxidised; secondly, that top energetic an oxidation in the body leads to feebleness’instead ofpower, and, to stupor instead of vitality; thirdly, that the quantity of oxygen in the healthy lung, always supplied in abundant quantity, is absorbed as required by an admirable process of regulation of supply to demand; and, lastly, that in respiration it is not that the oxygen taken into the lungs comes into immediate contact with the blood, as it comes into contact with the fire of a forge and is used up according to the vigour with which it is driven on by the bellows; but that a series of intermediate processes intervene’ for condensation and absorption, before the vital oxidation is completed. Perchance then, when they have mastered the study of respiration from the physiologist named, they will cease to turn up their noses bearing a framework " a third of an inch in diameter, shaped like a parallelogram with a rounded head,. and about an inch long," convinced that such an expander takes up a good deal of the normal space .of the nasal channel, and may easily lead to deformity before its uselessness is demonstrated.
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SENILE ARTICULAR CHANGES IN JOINTS AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. ’DR. KASANLI has published an account of some microscbpical observations he has made on the morbid changes of th’e various structures of the knee-joint which accompany old age, with the view of comparing these changes with those occurring in rheumatoid arthritis or arthritis deformans, as this affection is frequently called on the Continent. The morbid changes found in the synovial membrane were most marked in the adventitia, and consisted in hyperplasia of the cellular elements and the development of connective tissue in the adventitia, together with thickening of the walls of the capillaries lying beneath the intima synovialis, also in a varicose enlargement of the capillaries, in separation of adipose tissue in the synovial membrane, and in splitting of the adventitia into fibres. In the cartilages the cellular elements were found to be undergoing fatty degeneration, and the interstitial substance to have broken up into fibres, and to have become infiltrated with certain saline matters. In the spongy portion of the epiphysis of the femur the trabeculap had become very thin, and cavities had been formed by the absorption of the osseous substance of lamellae, into which the bone near the cartilaginous covering had split up. In the medulla of the bone there was a marked deficiency of medullary elements, the small vessels were affected by a varicose enlargement, and their walls were thickened. These changes, which occur normally in the knee-joint in old persons, are, according to Dr. Kasanli, very similar to those found in rheumatoid arthritis. ___
LONDON. WHATEVER their shortcomings in the past it cannot be PLAYING FIELDS FOR
said of Londoners that they have of late years been backward in urging the claims of a great and crowded city population to such remaining spots of open land as are available for public recreation. A few days ago representatives of the various associations which have been prominent in this work met with members of several athletic societies and workmen’s clubs to discuss methods of still further promoting this useful work. Despite the fact that vacant spaces in and near London have been largely utilised for public amusement, a want remains unsatisfied. There is a fields, especially of those adapted for deficiency of cricket, and it has been felt, naturally enough, that unless this wi1nt.can be made good recreation will continue to be of the quieter sort; suitable, indeed, to healthy though easy
playing
but lacking in much of the muscular energy so essential to the robust development of youthful vigour. Of the grounds available for cricket, and now open to the public, some are too small, others unsuitable, and yet others too remote to be of general utility. Additional purchases of land will therefore be necessary as well as extensive alterations in that which is now public property, and for these purposes money must be found. It has been proposed to enlist in the work the sympathies of the Charity Commissioners, of the ratepayers, as such, where not already too heavily burdened, and of the giving public in general. The proposed movement, it has also been suggested, should be encouraged by a reduction of travelling fares in favour of the civic athletes. In short, what is desired is the formation of a series of public playing-grounds, with easy access guaranteed. This is most desirable in the interests of health, and if extensively carried out will do much to abate the physical depression inevitably connected with the close unwholesome life and overwork of the poorer citizen. The project is, therefore, in its intention most worthy of support. We would only express a hope, by way of caution, that the work will not be done in a too charitable manner. Self-help, as well as muscle and bone, be it remembered, require the hardy education imparted by circumstances not wholly kind, and the workman, we feel certain, will value more highly the privilege of healthy exercise if his own pocket be laid under due contribution in order to obtain it. What he chiefly needs, perhaps, even more than the means of contribution, is such a shortening of the hours of ]abour as will allow some leisure for recreation.
life,
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ATTEMPTED MURDER BY POISONING WITH CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE. THE case of Sarah Kibler, the charwoman, who was convicted at the recent Warwickshire Assizes for attempting to murder her mistress by administering to her corrosive sublimate on two separate occasions, and was sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude, contains several instructive features. The lady whose life was attempted was Mrs. Horniblow, the wife of Dr. Horniblow, of Leamington. On March 7th, 1889, the prisoner, who was employed as a charwoman, brought her a cup of tea, which she noticed tasted very nasty; she was very sick, and brought up She had a pet white rat a large quantity of blood. which the prisoner fed during her illness, and it died. On March 23rd Mrs. Horniblow mixed for herself some brandy and water in’ the’ kitchen, in the presence of her son and the prisoner. It was in a tea-cup, but she did not drink it then, but went into the garden with her son. On her return after an interval of five nrinutes she found the prisoner in the kitchen, tasted the brandy-and-water, and at once detected the same taste as she had observed in the tea. She remarked this to the prisoner, who at once snatched up the table-cloth off the table, upsetting the contents of the cup over Mrs. Horniblow’s dress and - breaking the cup on the floor. Dr. Horniblow stated that his wife had suffered from an attack of paralysis, but was decidedly better on March 7th. After drinking the tea she complained of soreness for several days, and then her general health improved. The body of the rat was thrown into the fire, but on examining its cage on April 15th, the prisoner having left his service on the 6th, he found some crystals at the bottom, which on analysis proved to be corrosive sublimate, in quantity from fifteen to twenty grains. Subsequently his son gave him some pieces of the broken cup, the edges of which had traces of corrosive sublimate. This was subsequently confirmed by Dr. Bostock Hill, county analyst, who examined both the cup and the crystals found in the cage. The prisoner had access to the