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201 Several factories in the immediate neigh- moments’ study, and our advice is to all practitioners-send for the book, and they will thank us for the advice. an oily scum ; the water the of while more often colour animals all It is most astonishing how Dr. Neale, in the midst of a busy dead of was beer, sorts and sizes floated about according to the wind until they general practice, could have possibly compiled a book disappeared." True this refers to 1883, but we fancy matters involving such an enormous amount of literary work, but "The state of the Lea"is webelieve it has only been done by the devotion of nearly are not much better now. a fruitful source of correspondence in the press four hours a day of incessant labour to it for fifty years. generally about this time and the present drought makes it all the The profession have much reason to be grateful to Dr. Neale more necessary that some means should be taken to check for his unselfish work, but in the natural course of things he cannot carry it on for many years longer, and we trust that pollution. some provision will be made by which such a valuable work THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE SPREAD OF may be continued.
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TUBERCULOSIS FROM ANIMALS. TRANSIENT AMBLYOPIA DURING LACTATION. AN important Royal Commission has just been appointed. IV the last number of the Neurologisches Centralblatt Its object is to enquire into the administrative procedures available for controlling danger to man through the use appears a short abstract of a paper in the Beiträge zur He describes four as food of the meat or milk of tuberculous animals. The Augenheilkunde by Dr. Karl Heinzel. commission will further consider what should be the proper cases of transient blindness occurring during lactation action of the responsible authorities in condemning for the and traceable to interference with the functions of thepurposes of food supplies animal carcasses or meat exhibiting nervous system. Such a condition, according to Dr. Heinzel, any stage of tuberculosis. The commissioners are as is apt to occur in otherwise healthy women. The first follows :-Sir Herbert Maxwell, Dr. Thorne Thorne, C.B., symptoms may manifest themselves before the birth of the Mr. G. T. Brown, C.B., Mr. H. E. Claver, Mr. Shirley child or during the early period of suckling, and consist of F. Murphy, Mr. John Speir, and Mr. T. C. Trench. Dr. interference with the function of the eyes which may T. M. Legge will act as secretary to the commission, the proceed to complete blindness. With the ophthalmoscope work of which from a sanitary point of view should be of the may be found evidences of more or less inflammation of the nerve. The duration of the symptoms extends over months highest possible value to the community. and usually leads to a partial degree of optic atrophy with perhaps only a just perceptible interference with visual APHASIA IN POLYGLOTS. acuteness, and never to permanent blindness. The inference IN a recent number of thu Revue de Médecine Dr. Pitres that lactation is in some way connected with the symdetails a number of interesting observations with reference ptoms in these cases was arrived at by a process of exclusion. to the peculiarities of aphasia as it occurs among patients who were able to speak fluently more than one language. ;t PROTANDRIC HERMAPHRODITISM. appears that such patients do not become aphasic in the HERMAPHRODITISM of any form is rarely met with among At same degree for all the languages which they speak. first, as a rule, there is general aphasia, then, as improve- vertebrates, but in a few of the lower members of this large ment occurs, the patient is able to understand and then to division of animals one variety of hermaphroditism occurs. speak that language which he has known longest and with In the hag-fish (Myxine glutinosa) are found both an ovary which he was most familiar. The capacity for use of the and a testis, situated on the right side, those on the left side other less familiar languages was acquired later. Such not being developed ; yet though this fish possesses the a conclusion does not of course imply the existence uf generative organs belonging to both sexes they are not diferent centres for the different languages, but is merely functionally active at the same time, but the testis first an illustration of the fact that qualities and capabilities develops fully, while the ovary is still immature, and then which are acquired latest are most easily lost or impaired by later in life the testis atrophies and the development of any condition which interferes with the nervous structures the ovary proceeds to completion; thus the young act as males and the old ones as females. This form of hermawhich underlie them. phroditism is known as protandric or androgynic. Dissected THE MEDICAL DIGEST. specimens of three myxines, showing the generative organs in FOR many years the great value of Dr. Neale’s Medicalthe various stages of development, have recently been added Digest has been known to medical men engaged in literaryto the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. work. There are, however, many men in active general Protogynic hermaphroditism, in which the female organs practice who fail to avail themselves of its invaluable develop first, is almost unknown in animals, but is by no aid in their daily rounds. It is difficult, knowing what the means rare in the vegetable kingdom; it is met with, for Once the instance, in Euphorbia cyparissias. to understand the reason for this. work __
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infinite amount of information upon each and every branch INFANTICIDE BY MEASLES IN ENGLAND AND of medical science that can be gleaned by a glance is SCOTLAND. would be without the book at his no one realised, willingly so as to be able to consult it THE constantly. right hand, mortality from measles has proportions that call We can recommend it as a useful present, and our for more attention from sanitary authorities than it receives. knowledge of its great value is the reason why we wish to There is this most significant difference between this morbring it more under the notice of medical men, for it is tality in different classes of the community: in the better indeed worthy of its name, "The Busy Practitioner’s Vade- sort of practice the mortality from measles is almost nil. Mecum." Few works have ever been so unanimously and Some practitioners with well-to-do patients have possibly eulogistically reviewed, and that without a dissentient voice. never seen a fatal case of measles in their practice, though The Digest published in 1890 represented all that was the disease is often highly pyrexial. But the number of known in medicine and its allied branches during the deaths from it now in the large towns of England and Wales previous fifty years, and last year an appendix, bringing the and of Scotland exceeds greatly the number from scarlet work up to 1895, was issued at a cost of 10s. 6d., the com- fever or diphtheria, or from both of these put together. in the plete book being obtainable for 18s. 6d. Some, we know, This mortality has been described lately byItwriters is murder. of form a as sufficiently Nineteenth few of a is for want Century fail to understand its value, but this
strong
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bourhood covered the surface with
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TUBERCULOSIS FROM ANIMALS. TRANSIENT AMBLYOPIA DURING LACTATION. AN important Royal Commission has just been appointed. IV the last number of the Neurologisches Centralblatt Its object is to enquire into the administrative procedures available for controlling danger to man through the use appears a short abstract of a paper in the Beiträge zur He describes four as food of the meat or milk of tuberculous animals. The Augenheilkunde by Dr. Karl Heinzel. commission will further consider what should be the proper cases of transient blindness occurring during lactation action of the responsible authorities in condemning for the and traceable to interference with the functions of thepurposes of food supplies animal carcasses or meat exhibiting nervous system. Such a condition, according to Dr. Heinzel, any stage of tuberculosis. The commissioners are as is apt to occur in otherwise healthy women. The first follows :-Sir Herbert Maxwell, Dr. Thorne Thorne, C.B., symptoms may manifest themselves before the birth of the Mr. G. T. Brown, C.B., Mr. H. E. Claver, Mr. Shirley child or during the early period of suckling, and consist of F. Murphy, Mr. John Speir, and Mr. T. C. Trench. Dr. interference with the function of the eyes which may T. M. Legge will act as secretary to the commission, the proceed to complete blindness. With the ophthalmoscope work of which from a sanitary point of view should be of the may be found evidences of more or less inflammation of the nerve. The duration of the symptoms extends over months highest possible value to the community. and usually leads to a partial degree of optic atrophy with perhaps only a just perceptible interference with visual APHASIA IN POLYGLOTS. acuteness, and never to permanent blindness. The inference IN a recent number of thu Revue de Médecine Dr. Pitres that lactation is in some way connected with the symdetails a number of interesting observations with reference ptoms in these cases was arrived at by a process of exclusion. to the peculiarities of aphasia as it occurs among patients who were able to speak fluently more than one language. ;t PROTANDRIC HERMAPHRODITISM. appears that such patients do not become aphasic in the HERMAPHRODITISM of any form is rarely met with among At same degree for all the languages which they speak. first, as a rule, there is general aphasia, then, as improve- vertebrates, but in a few of the lower members of this large ment occurs, the patient is able to understand and then to division of animals one variety of hermaphroditism occurs. speak that language which he has known longest and with In the hag-fish (Myxine glutinosa) are found both an ovary which he was most familiar. The capacity for use of the and a testis, situated on the right side, those on the left side other less familiar languages was acquired later. Such not being developed ; yet though this fish possesses the a conclusion does not of course imply the existence uf generative organs belonging to both sexes they are not diferent centres for the different languages, but is merely functionally active at the same time, but the testis first an illustration of the fact that qualities and capabilities develops fully, while the ovary is still immature, and then which are acquired latest are most easily lost or impaired by later in life the testis atrophies and the development of any condition which interferes with the nervous structures the ovary proceeds to completion; thus the young act as males and the old ones as females. This form of hermawhich underlie them. phroditism is known as protandric or androgynic. Dissected THE MEDICAL DIGEST. specimens of three myxines, showing the generative organs in FOR many years the great value of Dr. Neale’s Medicalthe various stages of development, have recently been added Digest has been known to medical men engaged in literaryto the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. work. There are, however, many men in active general Protogynic hermaphroditism, in which the female organs practice who fail to avail themselves of its invaluable develop first, is almost unknown in animals, but is by no aid in their daily rounds. It is difficult, knowing what the means rare in the vegetable kingdom; it is met with, for Once the instance, in Euphorbia cyparissias. to understand the reason for this. work __
is,
infinite amount of information upon each and every branch INFANTICIDE BY MEASLES IN ENGLAND AND of medical science that can be gleaned by a glance is SCOTLAND. would be without the book at his no one realised, willingly so as to be able to consult it THE constantly. right hand, mortality from measles has proportions that call We can recommend it as a useful present, and our for more attention from sanitary authorities than it receives. knowledge of its great value is the reason why we wish to There is this most significant difference between this morbring it more under the notice of medical men, for it is tality in different classes of the community: in the better indeed worthy of its name, "The Busy Practitioner’s Vade- sort of practice the mortality from measles is almost nil. Mecum." Few works have ever been so unanimously and Some practitioners with well-to-do patients have possibly eulogistically reviewed, and that without a dissentient voice. never seen a fatal case of measles in their practice, though The Digest published in 1890 represented all that was the disease is often highly pyrexial. But the number of known in medicine and its allied branches during the deaths from it now in the large towns of England and Wales previous fifty years, and last year an appendix, bringing the and of Scotland exceeds greatly the number from scarlet work up to 1895, was issued at a cost of 10s. 6d., the com- fever or diphtheria, or from both of these put together. in the plete book being obtainable for 18s. 6d. Some, we know, This mortality has been described lately byItwriters is murder. of form a as sufficiently Nineteenth few of a is for want Century fail to understand its value, but this