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SIR WALTER FOSTER AND THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF IRISH PRISONS.
767 movable. It could be plainly separated from the liver, out here to medical men who were not present to answer stomach, and spleen, and was diagnosed as either a pan- for themselves. Surely medical members are expected to creatic cyst, or a retention tumour formed in the omentum. give, in the leisurely immunity of Parliament, judicial moderation to discussions affecting the professional character and the very humanity of members of the profession.
On an incision being made, a dark-brown fluid of alkaline reaction poured out. It was found that the cyst originated from the head and part of the body of the pancreas. Part of the external cyst wall was cut away, and the remainder stitched to the abdominal parietes. The patient left the hospital cured in eighteen days.
TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS IN CUBA.
AT the recent Cuban Medical Congress Dr. Saladrigas read a paper on Phthisis, in which he stated that twelve patients in the Hospital of Our Lady were treated by A PRESCRIBER’S LAPSUS PENNÆ. Dr. Bergeon’s plan of rtctal injections of sulphuretted A MEDICAL MAN has just been fined by a Berlin court for hydrogen, with the result that eight of them were very Of these eighu, two were known to A lady having much improved. a serious slip of the pen in a prescription. consulted him for night sweats, lie prescribed atropine pills, have maintained their health, three had returned to the each one containing 0’06 gramme (about a grain), instead hospital after having been comparatively well for seven of 0’006 gramme (about the tenth of a grain). The pre- months, and the remaining three were still under treatscription was taken to a "druggist," not to an apotheker or ment. These gaseous injections should not be resorted to pharmacist, and the assistant who dispensed it did not where there is much hemoptysis, or where there is vascular detect the evident slip of the pen ; the consequence was that disease or communication between the pleura and the lung. the lady took one of the pills and suffered severely from its In six cases of phthisis Dr. Saladrigas has employed tannin, from the results obtained, together with the fact that toxic action, for which she was treated by the prescriber and has appeared to him to hinder the karyokinetic tannin for a couple of days. The husband summoned both the medical attendant and the druggist, the result being that changes in cells affected by the tubercle bacillus, he is led to believe that tannin is a really useful remedy in phthisis. the former was fined E25 and the latter £ 10. I
THE LIVERPOOL PUBLIC ABATTOIR.
INFLUENZA IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
THE members of the medical profession of Liverpool have A CORRESPONDENT at the Military College, Guatemala, forwarded to the City Council a memorial signed by no writes that the influenza appeared in that city about the fewer than 337 medical men, condemning the presence of the end of January, first in the Artillery Barracks, and then in public slaughter-house and the noxious trades connected other barracks and large schools, but not in the Military with it in the heart of the city and in the midst of a dense College until a month later-first, the orderlies and servants population, and praying that the City Council would conThe firm the refusal of the Finance Committee to were affected, then the soldiers, cadets, and officers. grant a. attacks are described as commencing mostly with intense renewal of the lease to the Abattoir Company. It is frontal headache, the pain then passing to the back of the curious to note that this abattoir has been consistently head and lumbar region. Salicylate of soda and tincture of condemned by all the medical oflicers of health which aconite were mainly employed, and also quinine, but in Liverpool has ever had, and the signatures appended to the small doses and frequent intervals. Very little antipyrin memorial should afford ample evidence to Dr. Stopford was given. Most of the patients were able to resume their Taylor, the present medical officer, of the support of his duties in three or four days, but in many a troublesome, medical brethren, and render it easy for the Council to dry, irritating cough persisted. The absence of coryza is prohibit the perpetuation of an institution which is directly noted as being remarkable. The outbreak occurred very opposed to all just sanitary principles. suddenly and spread very rapidly, and, our correspondent adds, the place is situated ninety miles from the Pacific and STUDENTS AT THE PARIS FACULTY. 300 miles from the Atlantic seaboard. THE total number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Paris (La Fmllce Méd., No. 13), during this winter Medicine, SIR WALTER FOSTER AND THE MEDICAL session was 3793-viz., first year, 1067; second year, 481; OFFICERS OF IRISH PRISONS. third year, G16; fourth year, 317 ; fifth year, 1312. This WE have no intention of taking any side in the sharp number includes 121 female students, of whom 14 are of political controversies of the day, thankful as we are that French nationality, and the rest thus assigned: American 1, our function is to deal with questions which generate no high English 9, Austrian 1, Greek 1, Russian 93, Servian 1, temperatures. We see nothing to disapprove in serious ques- Turk 1 ; whilst of the male students 3151 are French and tions being put touching the treatment of prisoners, either in 622 foreign, so that about one-sixth of the Faculty is. England or Ireland, where there seems reasonable ground formed by foreigners. No doubt this number would have for thinking that they have been in any way neglected. been larger still had it not been that the Ecole d’Anatomie But we venture to question the fairness of a medical man has been compelled to refuse many applications from dealing out censure in a few lines, however smart, on his foreigners owing to the paucity of anatomical subjects. medical brethren. Sir Walter Foster is reported in the Liuerpool <7oM?*Mr as follows :-" Sir Walter Foster then INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. put a question as to twodeaths which had occurred in Irish prisons from heart disease. If the nature of THE following is the programme for the section of Larynthe case was not known, the prison medical officers were gology and Rhinology at the forthcoming Congress in guilty of negligence ; if it was known, the treatment was Berlin. Dr. B. Fraenkel of Berlin will open the proceedings barbarous. He inquired on which horn of the dilemma the with an address upon Laryngology since the last InternaChief Secretary chose to impale himself."Sir Walter Foster tional Congress, 1887. Discussions upon the following submay be imperfectly reported. But we submit that it would jects :-I. Diagnosis and Treatment of Laryngeal Cancer, require a great deal of knowledge of the prisons, of the to be opened by Mr. H. T. Butlin (London) and Dr. J. prisoners, and of the conduct of the medical officers to Gottstein (Breslau). 2. Deviations and Ridges of the Septum justify such short, sententious condemnation as is dealt Narium, by Dr. J. Moure (Bordeaux) and Dr. A. Hartmann
On an incision being made, a dark-brown fluid of alkaline reaction poured out. It was found that the cyst originated from the head and part of the body of the pancreas. Part of the external cyst wall was cut away, and the remainder stitched to the abdominal parietes. The patient left the hospital cured in eighteen days.
TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS IN CUBA.
AT the recent Cuban Medical Congress Dr. Saladrigas read a paper on Phthisis, in which he stated that twelve patients in the Hospital of Our Lady were treated by A PRESCRIBER’S LAPSUS PENNÆ. Dr. Bergeon’s plan of rtctal injections of sulphuretted A MEDICAL MAN has just been fined by a Berlin court for hydrogen, with the result that eight of them were very Of these eighu, two were known to A lady having much improved. a serious slip of the pen in a prescription. consulted him for night sweats, lie prescribed atropine pills, have maintained their health, three had returned to the each one containing 0’06 gramme (about a grain), instead hospital after having been comparatively well for seven of 0’006 gramme (about the tenth of a grain). The pre- months, and the remaining three were still under treatscription was taken to a "druggist," not to an apotheker or ment. These gaseous injections should not be resorted to pharmacist, and the assistant who dispensed it did not where there is much hemoptysis, or where there is vascular detect the evident slip of the pen ; the consequence was that disease or communication between the pleura and the lung. the lady took one of the pills and suffered severely from its In six cases of phthisis Dr. Saladrigas has employed tannin, from the results obtained, together with the fact that toxic action, for which she was treated by the prescriber and has appeared to him to hinder the karyokinetic tannin for a couple of days. The husband summoned both the medical attendant and the druggist, the result being that changes in cells affected by the tubercle bacillus, he is led to believe that tannin is a really useful remedy in phthisis. the former was fined E25 and the latter £ 10. I
THE LIVERPOOL PUBLIC ABATTOIR.
INFLUENZA IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
THE members of the medical profession of Liverpool have A CORRESPONDENT at the Military College, Guatemala, forwarded to the City Council a memorial signed by no writes that the influenza appeared in that city about the fewer than 337 medical men, condemning the presence of the end of January, first in the Artillery Barracks, and then in public slaughter-house and the noxious trades connected other barracks and large schools, but not in the Military with it in the heart of the city and in the midst of a dense College until a month later-first, the orderlies and servants population, and praying that the City Council would conThe firm the refusal of the Finance Committee to were affected, then the soldiers, cadets, and officers. grant a. attacks are described as commencing mostly with intense renewal of the lease to the Abattoir Company. It is frontal headache, the pain then passing to the back of the curious to note that this abattoir has been consistently head and lumbar region. Salicylate of soda and tincture of condemned by all the medical oflicers of health which aconite were mainly employed, and also quinine, but in Liverpool has ever had, and the signatures appended to the small doses and frequent intervals. Very little antipyrin memorial should afford ample evidence to Dr. Stopford was given. Most of the patients were able to resume their Taylor, the present medical officer, of the support of his duties in three or four days, but in many a troublesome, medical brethren, and render it easy for the Council to dry, irritating cough persisted. The absence of coryza is prohibit the perpetuation of an institution which is directly noted as being remarkable. The outbreak occurred very opposed to all just sanitary principles. suddenly and spread very rapidly, and, our correspondent adds, the place is situated ninety miles from the Pacific and STUDENTS AT THE PARIS FACULTY. 300 miles from the Atlantic seaboard. THE total number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Paris (La Fmllce Méd., No. 13), during this winter Medicine, SIR WALTER FOSTER AND THE MEDICAL session was 3793-viz., first year, 1067; second year, 481; OFFICERS OF IRISH PRISONS. third year, G16; fourth year, 317 ; fifth year, 1312. This WE have no intention of taking any side in the sharp number includes 121 female students, of whom 14 are of political controversies of the day, thankful as we are that French nationality, and the rest thus assigned: American 1, our function is to deal with questions which generate no high English 9, Austrian 1, Greek 1, Russian 93, Servian 1, temperatures. We see nothing to disapprove in serious ques- Turk 1 ; whilst of the male students 3151 are French and tions being put touching the treatment of prisoners, either in 622 foreign, so that about one-sixth of the Faculty is. England or Ireland, where there seems reasonable ground formed by foreigners. No doubt this number would have for thinking that they have been in any way neglected. been larger still had it not been that the Ecole d’Anatomie But we venture to question the fairness of a medical man has been compelled to refuse many applications from dealing out censure in a few lines, however smart, on his foreigners owing to the paucity of anatomical subjects. medical brethren. Sir Walter Foster is reported in the Liuerpool <7oM?*Mr as follows :-" Sir Walter Foster then INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. put a question as to twodeaths which had occurred in Irish prisons from heart disease. If the nature of THE following is the programme for the section of Larynthe case was not known, the prison medical officers were gology and Rhinology at the forthcoming Congress in guilty of negligence ; if it was known, the treatment was Berlin. Dr. B. Fraenkel of Berlin will open the proceedings barbarous. He inquired on which horn of the dilemma the with an address upon Laryngology since the last InternaChief Secretary chose to impale himself."Sir Walter Foster tional Congress, 1887. Discussions upon the following submay be imperfectly reported. But we submit that it would jects :-I. Diagnosis and Treatment of Laryngeal Cancer, require a great deal of knowledge of the prisons, of the to be opened by Mr. H. T. Butlin (London) and Dr. J. prisoners, and of the conduct of the medical officers to Gottstein (Breslau). 2. Deviations and Ridges of the Septum justify such short, sententious condemnation as is dealt Narium, by Dr. J. Moure (Bordeaux) and Dr. A. Hartmann