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to the scientific study of his profession. It was not, however, till much later, when he had matured his extensive experience by reflection and study, that he submitted to the world those labours which gained him, in the world of letters, the reputation of an eminent scientific surgeon, as well as that which he already possesses, of an able practitioner. His principal work is one in three volumes, which he dedicated to Bichat, entitled Memoirs and Observations of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery." He has also written, in the medical journals of the day, a great number of papers on various subjects. Ribes was an extremely modest, retiring man, and lived away from the world, in the retirement of private life. At the latter part of his career he was placed at the head of the medical staff of the Invalides, the magnificent military hospital where he had held his first appointment more than half a century before. Here he found himself, to his great delight, amongst his old companions in arms. This appointment was, however, withdrawn from him a short time ago. The blow was a severe one ; indeed, he never recovered it. His health gradually declined, and on the 21st of last February, he died of a chronic inflammatory affection of the lungs. He was, at his death, in his eightieth year. Although so advanced in life, until within a short period of his death, he enjoyed all the physical and intellectual activity of a green old age, not a very common occurrence with members of our profession.
boon to all those medical gentlemen who have had the creditable ambition to possess themselves of the highest honours in physic and surgery, and whether it would not, on the other, be a hardship to those members of the profession who are looking forward to be enabled, in the downhill of life, and after having gained extensive experience in the general practice of medicine and surgery eonjointly, to practise in the higher walk of medicine only, to be compelled to pass any further ordeal the law at the time might require, when they may, at the present time, be entitled to be regis-
tered
both
as
physicians
and surgeons.
your petitioner, therefore, feels that he urge this subject on your kind attention. " And your
petitioner
will
ever
cannot too
strongly
pray."
SIMPLE METHOD OF ARRESTING HÆMORRHAGE
FROM LEECH-BITES. of THE LANCET. of LANCET THE SiR,—In February lst, Mr Hogg records a case, wherein he experienced much difficulty in stopping the bleeding of leech-bites in a child, and was obliged to have recourse to the actual cautery. As this is a difficulty of not unfrequent occurrence, it may be useful to mention that I have succeeded in arresting active bleeding from a leechbite, by encircling the bite with a section of quill, about the eighth M. OLLIVIER (D’ANGERS.) of an inch in height, and fixed in its situation by adhesive plaster. I place a fold of lint over the orifice, to prevent the edge of M. OLLIVIER (D’Angers) died on the 13th of March, aftera the quill being too sharp, and the little circle, so as to include the short illness, aged forty-nine. He was one of the most scientific bite in its centre, over that, a compress and adhesive plaster. and talented French practitioners of our times. His Treatise " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, On Diseases of the Spinal Cord," is universally considered to be LEWIS HENSLEY. one of the best monographs that have been written on the subject. Great James-street, Bedford-row, Feb. 28, 1845. He has also written on legal medicine, and was considered an authority on all subjects connected with that department of science. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine. To the Editor
REGISTRATION OF SCOTCH PHYSICIANS.
DR. EDWARDS, of Bath, has forwarded to us for publication the PROFESSOR DANIELL. following answer to a letter which he had addressed to the WE to announce the death of Professor Daniell, honourable the of the deeply regret right Secretary State, respecting registra- which occurred tion of Scotch physicians :suddenly while he was engaged at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society on the 13th of March last. Since Whitehall, March 31,1845. " Sir,-I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to ac- the decease of Dalton, science has sustained no loss greater than knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to this. According to the evidence given at the inquest by Mr inform you that under the Bill for the regulation of Medical Bowman, of King’s College, and Professor Owen, of the College Practice, graduates of the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, of Surgeons, who were among those present at the time, Mr St. Andrew’s, and Aberdeen, will be entitled to register as phy- Daniell had come to the meeting from his lecture at King’s Colsicians, without becoming previously connected with a college of lege, and had just spoken on a point under consideration, appaphysicians. rently in perfect health, when his countenance was observed to " They will be permitted to practise if they please, generally, become fixed and turgid, and his breathing stertorous. Immediate without also being registered as licentiates in medicine and sur- assistance was rendered, his cravat was untied, and he was brought gery ; but they will not be entitled as physicians to recover to the open window. He was utterly powerless from the first, and charges in a court of law. Their fees are quiddam honorarium. no convulsion was observed. The stertor increasing, with great I am, Sir, your obedient, servant, fulness of the vessels of the head and neck, the jugular vein was " " S. M. PHILLIPPS. at once opened by Mr. Bowman, with the concurrence of the " S. Edwards, Esq. M.D. 20, Walcot Parade, Bath." medical gentlemen present, and the blood flowed in a large stream for a minute, but the orifice was closed before a quart had been drawn, the respirations being performed at longer and longer intervals. He sunk almost immediately ; indeed in less than five OBITUARY. minutes from the onset of the attack. The feelings of those who M. RIBES. were witnesses of the painful scene may be more easily imagined M. RI[BFS was one of the most talented and one of the most cele- than described. The meeting of the Society which was to have brated of the French military surgeons of the revolution, and of taken place on that evening was instantly adjourned, as a mark of the empire. Born in 1766, at Bagneres, he first studied at Tou- respect to his memory. louse under Alexis Larrey, and then at Paris under Desault, PiWe believe we are correct in stating, in general terms, that no He was’the friend and fellow-student of Bi- sufficient cause of death was disclosed by the post-mortem exanel, S..tbatier, &c. chat, Richerand, Bretonnean, and of many other illustrious men mination ; that there was no extravasation of blood within the of the present century. In 1792 he adopted the career of military cranium, nor any morbid state of the heart or great vessels. The surgery, and, on the recommendation of Sabatier, obtained an ap- signs above enumerated, which accompanied the attack, and pointment at the Hotel des Invalides. The following year he was the discoverv of two small extravasations of blood between drafted into the army. From this epoch, until the definitive re- the cranium and pericranium, point to a sudden and vehement turn of the Bourbons, he was continually in the field, and assisted engorgement of the cerebral vessels, as the most probable cause at nearly all the campaigns of that eventful period. During his of the fatal result, which is certainly remarkable. The verlengthened military career he was present at twenty drawn bat- dict of the jury was Death by apoplexy." Few men ever commanded more general respect from the sintles, at seventeen smaller encounters, and at three sieges. He also took an active part in two disastrous epidemics of typhus, gleness of heart and openness of character by which he was so which raged the one in Spain, and the other in Saxony; and he eminently distinguished, whilst the kindliness of his feelings, and did not even escape participating in the fatal campaign of Russia warmth of his disposition, attached him strongly to a numerous in 1813. In the course of these numerous campaigns, the dan- circle of friends. In him were united a clear head and sound gers which he encountered, the narrow escapes which he expe- judgment to the still more important and higher qualifications of rienced, would alone fill a volume. Thus we may mention, that a sincere Christian. he was standing by the side of General Dugommier, of Marshal His scientific researches embraced a field of no ordinary exDuroc, and of General Kirschner, when, at different periods, they tent, and the results he obtained were of general and lasting imwere killed, the first by a shell, the two latter by cannon-balls. portance. Some idea of his labours may be formed from the subAfter the peace, Ribes returned to Paris, and devoted his leisure joined list of his chief papers and publications. "
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to the scientific study of his profession. It was not, however, till much later, when he had matured his extensive experience by reflection and study, that he submitted to the world those labours which gained him, in the world of letters, the reputation of an eminent scientific surgeon, as well as that which he already possesses, of an able practitioner. His principal work is one in three volumes, which he dedicated to Bichat, entitled Memoirs and Observations of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery." He has also written, in the medical journals of the day, a great number of papers on various subjects. Ribes was an extremely modest, retiring man, and lived away from the world, in the retirement of private life. At the latter part of his career he was placed at the head of the medical staff of the Invalides, the magnificent military hospital where he had held his first appointment more than half a century before. Here he found himself, to his great delight, amongst his old companions in arms. This appointment was, however, withdrawn from him a short time ago. The blow was a severe one ; indeed, he never recovered it. His health gradually declined, and on the 21st of last February, he died of a chronic inflammatory affection of the lungs. He was, at his death, in his eightieth year. Although so advanced in life, until within a short period of his death, he enjoyed all the physical and intellectual activity of a green old age, not a very common occurrence with members of our profession.
boon to all those medical gentlemen who have had the creditable ambition to possess themselves of the highest honours in physic and surgery, and whether it would not, on the other, be a hardship to those members of the profession who are looking forward to be enabled, in the downhill of life, and after having gained extensive experience in the general practice of medicine and surgery eonjointly, to practise in the higher walk of medicine only, to be compelled to pass any further ordeal the law at the time might require, when they may, at the present time, be entitled to be regis-
tered
both
as
physicians
and surgeons.
your petitioner, therefore, feels that he urge this subject on your kind attention. " And your
petitioner
will
ever
cannot too
strongly
pray."
SIMPLE METHOD OF ARRESTING HÆMORRHAGE
FROM LEECH-BITES. of THE LANCET. of LANCET THE SiR,—In February lst, Mr Hogg records a case, wherein he experienced much difficulty in stopping the bleeding of leech-bites in a child, and was obliged to have recourse to the actual cautery. As this is a difficulty of not unfrequent occurrence, it may be useful to mention that I have succeeded in arresting active bleeding from a leechbite, by encircling the bite with a section of quill, about the eighth M. OLLIVIER (D’ANGERS.) of an inch in height, and fixed in its situation by adhesive plaster. I place a fold of lint over the orifice, to prevent the edge of M. OLLIVIER (D’Angers) died on the 13th of March, aftera the quill being too sharp, and the little circle, so as to include the short illness, aged forty-nine. He was one of the most scientific bite in its centre, over that, a compress and adhesive plaster. and talented French practitioners of our times. His Treatise " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, On Diseases of the Spinal Cord," is universally considered to be LEWIS HENSLEY. one of the best monographs that have been written on the subject. Great James-street, Bedford-row, Feb. 28, 1845. He has also written on legal medicine, and was considered an authority on all subjects connected with that department of science. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine. To the Editor
REGISTRATION OF SCOTCH PHYSICIANS.
DR. EDWARDS, of Bath, has forwarded to us for publication the PROFESSOR DANIELL. following answer to a letter which he had addressed to the WE to announce the death of Professor Daniell, honourable the of the deeply regret right Secretary State, respecting registra- which occurred tion of Scotch physicians :suddenly while he was engaged at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society on the 13th of March last. Since Whitehall, March 31,1845. " Sir,-I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to ac- the decease of Dalton, science has sustained no loss greater than knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to this. According to the evidence given at the inquest by Mr inform you that under the Bill for the regulation of Medical Bowman, of King’s College, and Professor Owen, of the College Practice, graduates of the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, of Surgeons, who were among those present at the time, Mr St. Andrew’s, and Aberdeen, will be entitled to register as phy- Daniell had come to the meeting from his lecture at King’s Colsicians, without becoming previously connected with a college of lege, and had just spoken on a point under consideration, appaphysicians. rently in perfect health, when his countenance was observed to " They will be permitted to practise if they please, generally, become fixed and turgid, and his breathing stertorous. Immediate without also being registered as licentiates in medicine and sur- assistance was rendered, his cravat was untied, and he was brought gery ; but they will not be entitled as physicians to recover to the open window. He was utterly powerless from the first, and charges in a court of law. Their fees are quiddam honorarium. no convulsion was observed. The stertor increasing, with great I am, Sir, your obedient, servant, fulness of the vessels of the head and neck, the jugular vein was " " S. M. PHILLIPPS. at once opened by Mr. Bowman, with the concurrence of the " S. Edwards, Esq. M.D. 20, Walcot Parade, Bath." medical gentlemen present, and the blood flowed in a large stream for a minute, but the orifice was closed before a quart had been drawn, the respirations being performed at longer and longer intervals. He sunk almost immediately ; indeed in less than five OBITUARY. minutes from the onset of the attack. The feelings of those who M. RIBES. were witnesses of the painful scene may be more easily imagined M. RI[BFS was one of the most talented and one of the most cele- than described. The meeting of the Society which was to have brated of the French military surgeons of the revolution, and of taken place on that evening was instantly adjourned, as a mark of the empire. Born in 1766, at Bagneres, he first studied at Tou- respect to his memory. louse under Alexis Larrey, and then at Paris under Desault, PiWe believe we are correct in stating, in general terms, that no He was’the friend and fellow-student of Bi- sufficient cause of death was disclosed by the post-mortem exanel, S..tbatier, &c. chat, Richerand, Bretonnean, and of many other illustrious men mination ; that there was no extravasation of blood within the of the present century. In 1792 he adopted the career of military cranium, nor any morbid state of the heart or great vessels. The surgery, and, on the recommendation of Sabatier, obtained an ap- signs above enumerated, which accompanied the attack, and pointment at the Hotel des Invalides. The following year he was the discoverv of two small extravasations of blood between drafted into the army. From this epoch, until the definitive re- the cranium and pericranium, point to a sudden and vehement turn of the Bourbons, he was continually in the field, and assisted engorgement of the cerebral vessels, as the most probable cause at nearly all the campaigns of that eventful period. During his of the fatal result, which is certainly remarkable. The verlengthened military career he was present at twenty drawn bat- dict of the jury was Death by apoplexy." Few men ever commanded more general respect from the sintles, at seventeen smaller encounters, and at three sieges. He also took an active part in two disastrous epidemics of typhus, gleness of heart and openness of character by which he was so which raged the one in Spain, and the other in Saxony; and he eminently distinguished, whilst the kindliness of his feelings, and did not even escape participating in the fatal campaign of Russia warmth of his disposition, attached him strongly to a numerous in 1813. In the course of these numerous campaigns, the dan- circle of friends. In him were united a clear head and sound gers which he encountered, the narrow escapes which he expe- judgment to the still more important and higher qualifications of rienced, would alone fill a volume. Thus we may mention, that a sincere Christian. he was standing by the side of General Dugommier, of Marshal His scientific researches embraced a field of no ordinary exDuroc, and of General Kirschner, when, at different periods, they tent, and the results he obtained were of general and lasting imwere killed, the first by a shell, the two latter by cannon-balls. portance. Some idea of his labours may be formed from the subAfter the peace, Ribes returned to Paris, and devoted his leisure joined list of his chief papers and publications. "
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