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49 rise to much nuisance, they are also of of the plant by the Nottingham the that purchase opinion Corporation at the present time would be altogether premature, for they cannot but realise that it is only when used in conjunction with public abattoirs that its full utility could be manifested. At the same time it is suggested that if any private persons are prepared to establish aninstallation of such plant at their own charge and risk upon a suitable site in Nottingham the deputation are of opinion that a licence for such establishment should be granted. We learn later that an installation of the apparatus is about to be commenced in Nottingham.
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CORYZA APPARENTLY OF DENTAL ORIGIN. AT a recent meeting of the Manchester Odontological Society Mr. E. P. Collett brought forward an interesting case of coryza due apparently to dental irritation. The patient in question, a medical man, had suffered from persistent coryza, mainly unilateral, for three or four weeks. He consulted a colleague who carefully examined him and was unable to find any physical cause except some stigmata on the middle turbinated bone associated with general vasomotor dilatation of the membrane. A 4-per’cent. solution of cocaine was prescribed for local use together with general The coryza, however, did not lessen, and treatment. neuralgic pain in the region of the temple, over the malar bone, and subsequently behind the right ear, supervened. He then consulted Mr. Collett, who removed the first maxillary premolar which showed signs of chronic periodonNo pus was evacuated. The pain had entirely gone the morning following the removal of the root, the coryza by disappearing in the-course of three days.
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while she is held in "a close-fitting cage of whalebone and steel." If the wheel and the typewriter have done much for woman not the least of the blessings they may bring is in helping to set her free from what The New Education describes as "the cramping, uncomfortable, health-destroying, ugly, and barbarous mediaeval invention called the corset." This is vigorous language, but if the contention is good and capable of proof then the influence of the typewriter on the health of at least the female section of those who use it must, in spite of the risk of typewriter’s cramp, be regarded as beneficial.
AT this time of the year cases of ptomaine poisoning are comparatively rare, although in the summer they occur much more frequently. Some interest therefore is attached to an held at Halifax on the body of a child, aged inquest recently who was four years, put to bed on Nov. 27th apparently in her usual health bat was taken ill at seven o’clock the following morning and died in a few hours. A post-mortem examination was made by Mr. Strickland, who deposed that death was due to some poisoning the exact nature of which he was unable to specify. It was suggested that the sucked the have colouring from a doll which girl might she took to bed with her, but it was also further mentioned that she had partaken of some ice-cream which might have caused the symptoms. The coroner directed Mr. W. Ackroyd, the borough analyst, to make an analysis, ’and he expressed the opinion that the symptoms and postmortem examination pointed to poisoning by tyrotoxicon, a substance derived from unwholesome milk. He examined the ice-cream for tyrotoxicon but found none present. He gave some useful hints, however, that duly found their way into the press-namely, that this substance was destroyed by .a temperature of 90° C. and consequently, if milk were boiled, should tyrotoxicon be present it would be destroyed. This adds another warning to the community at large against ’drinking milk that has not been boiled, and points the necessity that farmers and milk dealers should scald out the ’utensils in which they place milk.
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THE TYPEWRITER AND HEALTH. THE typewriter has won its way so completely wherever much writing is done that any evidence of the influence which it may exert upon health deserves attention. The Phonetic .Tou.nal publishes a note from a correspondent who, in response to the question "Has anyone ever known of a genuine case of typewriters’ cramp induced in a normal constitution by the use of any standard machine2replies that he suffers from cramp so produced and has heard of two other cases. The Phonetic Journal was in the first instance disposed t3 doubt the existence of typewriters’ cramp, but admits that the case of its correspondent is a genuine example of the affection. Typewriters’ cramp belongs to what Dr. Poore calls the professional impotencies, and its occurrence after the nimble, oft-repeated movements of the typewriter’s hand and fingers is a thing no more to be wondered at than pianists’ cramp, compositors’ cramp or tailors’ cramp. In the course of timei it is but too probable that typewriters’ cramp will become, if not as well known, at least as recognisable as ordinary, writers’ cramp. But if the spread of the typewriter brings to its user the risk of cramp there is, if, an American journal is to be believed, a balance of, advantage to be set down in its favour. "The deathdealing corset," we are told, "has found in the typewriting machine and the bicycle two implacable foes." No) expert can manage either the typewriter or the bicycleI -
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ONE of the many unfortunate results of the present overworked and underpaid state of the profession is that it is unrepresented on the various public bodies which are the employers of medical knowledge in different capacities. When a medical man is asked to stand for the vestry or the board of guardians or county council of his district he naturally replies that he has not the time to devote The grocer or other tradesmen who to these matters. calls for his orders each morning can leave the counter in charge of an assistant to attend the board meetings. But if the medical man is out of the way at any moment he may be wanted, his patient does not hesitate to send for another practitioner just round the corner whose fees perhaps are a trifle less. The consequence of this unhappy state of things is that the medical officials of a board of guardians, for example, lack representation on the board, and our friend the grocer, or some other member of the board who seeks for cheap notoriety, moves a resolution that the advertisement for candidates for the vacant post of district medical officer shall stipulate that the person appointed must give an undertaking not to claim a pension under the recent Poor-law Officers Superannuation Act (1896). Something of this kind has, as a matter of fact, happened at Pershore. Surely such an act of palpable injustice as this would never have commended itself to a majority of the Pershore guardians if someone had been present to point out that the fund raised under that Act from which pensions are awarded is formed mainly, if not altogether-as it certainly will be in the futureby contributions compulsorily deducted from the salaries of Poor-law officials, including that of the parish medical officer, and not from the rates, as the guardian who moved the resolution seems to think. We sincerely trust that no member of the profession will so far forget the duty he owes to the profession as to apply for the post at Pershore
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CORYZA APPARENTLY OF DENTAL ORIGIN. AT a recent meeting of the Manchester Odontological Society Mr. E. P. Collett brought forward an interesting case of coryza due apparently to dental irritation. The patient in question, a medical man, had suffered from persistent coryza, mainly unilateral, for three or four weeks. He consulted a colleague who carefully examined him and was unable to find any physical cause except some stigmata on the middle turbinated bone associated with general vasomotor dilatation of the membrane. A 4-per’cent. solution of cocaine was prescribed for local use together with general The coryza, however, did not lessen, and treatment. neuralgic pain in the region of the temple, over the malar bone, and subsequently behind the right ear, supervened. He then consulted Mr. Collett, who removed the first maxillary premolar which showed signs of chronic periodonNo pus was evacuated. The pain had entirely gone the morning following the removal of the root, the coryza by disappearing in the-course of three days.
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while she is held in "a close-fitting cage of whalebone and steel." If the wheel and the typewriter have done much for woman not the least of the blessings they may bring is in helping to set her free from what The New Education describes as "the cramping, uncomfortable, health-destroying, ugly, and barbarous mediaeval invention called the corset." This is vigorous language, but if the contention is good and capable of proof then the influence of the typewriter on the health of at least the female section of those who use it must, in spite of the risk of typewriter’s cramp, be regarded as beneficial.
AT this time of the year cases of ptomaine poisoning are comparatively rare, although in the summer they occur much more frequently. Some interest therefore is attached to an held at Halifax on the body of a child, aged inquest recently who was four years, put to bed on Nov. 27th apparently in her usual health bat was taken ill at seven o’clock the following morning and died in a few hours. A post-mortem examination was made by Mr. Strickland, who deposed that death was due to some poisoning the exact nature of which he was unable to specify. It was suggested that the sucked the have colouring from a doll which girl might she took to bed with her, but it was also further mentioned that she had partaken of some ice-cream which might have caused the symptoms. The coroner directed Mr. W. Ackroyd, the borough analyst, to make an analysis, ’and he expressed the opinion that the symptoms and postmortem examination pointed to poisoning by tyrotoxicon, a substance derived from unwholesome milk. He examined the ice-cream for tyrotoxicon but found none present. He gave some useful hints, however, that duly found their way into the press-namely, that this substance was destroyed by .a temperature of 90° C. and consequently, if milk were boiled, should tyrotoxicon be present it would be destroyed. This adds another warning to the community at large against ’drinking milk that has not been boiled, and points the necessity that farmers and milk dealers should scald out the ’utensils in which they place milk.
CASE
OF
titis. completely
THE PERSHORE GUARDIANS AND THEIR MEDICAL OFFICERS.
THE TYPEWRITER AND HEALTH. THE typewriter has won its way so completely wherever much writing is done that any evidence of the influence which it may exert upon health deserves attention. The Phonetic .Tou.nal publishes a note from a correspondent who, in response to the question "Has anyone ever known of a genuine case of typewriters’ cramp induced in a normal constitution by the use of any standard machine2replies that he suffers from cramp so produced and has heard of two other cases. The Phonetic Journal was in the first instance disposed t3 doubt the existence of typewriters’ cramp, but admits that the case of its correspondent is a genuine example of the affection. Typewriters’ cramp belongs to what Dr. Poore calls the professional impotencies, and its occurrence after the nimble, oft-repeated movements of the typewriter’s hand and fingers is a thing no more to be wondered at than pianists’ cramp, compositors’ cramp or tailors’ cramp. In the course of timei it is but too probable that typewriters’ cramp will become, if not as well known, at least as recognisable as ordinary, writers’ cramp. But if the spread of the typewriter brings to its user the risk of cramp there is, if, an American journal is to be believed, a balance of, advantage to be set down in its favour. "The deathdealing corset," we are told, "has found in the typewriting machine and the bicycle two implacable foes." No) expert can manage either the typewriter or the bicycleI -
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ONE of the many unfortunate results of the present overworked and underpaid state of the profession is that it is unrepresented on the various public bodies which are the employers of medical knowledge in different capacities. When a medical man is asked to stand for the vestry or the board of guardians or county council of his district he naturally replies that he has not the time to devote The grocer or other tradesmen who to these matters. calls for his orders each morning can leave the counter in charge of an assistant to attend the board meetings. But if the medical man is out of the way at any moment he may be wanted, his patient does not hesitate to send for another practitioner just round the corner whose fees perhaps are a trifle less. The consequence of this unhappy state of things is that the medical officials of a board of guardians, for example, lack representation on the board, and our friend the grocer, or some other member of the board who seeks for cheap notoriety, moves a resolution that the advertisement for candidates for the vacant post of district medical officer shall stipulate that the person appointed must give an undertaking not to claim a pension under the recent Poor-law Officers Superannuation Act (1896). Something of this kind has, as a matter of fact, happened at Pershore. Surely such an act of palpable injustice as this would never have commended itself to a majority of the Pershore guardians if someone had been present to point out that the fund raised under that Act from which pensions are awarded is formed mainly, if not altogether-as it certainly will be in the futureby contributions compulsorily deducted from the salaries of Poor-law officials, including that of the parish medical officer, and not from the rates, as the guardian who moved the resolution seems to think. We sincerely trust that no member of the profession will so far forget the duty he owes to the profession as to apply for the post at Pershore