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THE CHOLERA CONFERENCE AT WEIMAR.
683 IT is a very remarkable fact, if true, that not a single scientific society in London was represented at the recent ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Hall of Arts and Sciences at South Kensington.
DR. ANSTIE will deliver two lectures " On the Prognosis and Treatment of certain Acute Diseases, with special reference to -the Indications afforded by the Graphic Study of the Pulse," at the College of Physicians, on the 14th and 17th of June. THE new Pharmacopoeia, is ready. After the appearance of the notices in the Gazettes the Act of Parliament requires that the British Pharmacopoeia, as altered and republished, shall supersede all other Pharmacopœias whatsoever.
VENEREAL COMMITTEE OF THE HARVEIAN SOCIETY. THE fifth meeting of the Venereal Committee of the Harveian Society was held on Friday, May 23rd. Returns were received from the Dreadnought, showing an average daily attendance of forty-seven male venereal cases, forming about one-third of the surgical cases. Venereal cases appear not to be admitted or treated in the majority of the workhouse infirmaries ; this is the case with the Strand, Poplar, City of London, Paddington, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, St. Martin’s, St. Luke’s, and St. Giles’s Workhouse, in which no special provision is made for venereal cases, which are sent to the Lock Hospital. In Whitechapel Workhouse there are ten male and fifteen female beds at St. Olave’s. three male and fiva female beds for vanereal cases; and at Lambeth about two cases are admitted a
week. At the Children’s Hospital, in Great Ormond-street, there were 93 male and 105 female syphilitic patients, or one in seven and one in four of the male and female patients reAfter a good deal of discussion resolutions were TOWARDS the end ’{)f December, 1866, a meeting, for the spectively. of the deficiency of accommodation afforded passed expressive elucidation of cholera questions, took place at Leipzig, at which by Lock Hospitals, and the necessity for an immediate inthe following eminent professors were present :-Drs. Grie- crease, either by enlargement and alteration of existing hosinfirmaries or the erection of new ones, and recomsinger (Berlin), Pettenkofer (Munich), Wunderlich (Leipzig), pitals andthat provisions should be made under Mr. Hardy’s and Hirsch (Berlin). These gentlemen, at the close of their mending bill. Dr.Stuart, who superintends the medical operation of meetings, considered that various questions bearing upon the Diseases Act at Woolwich, at the request of cholera epidemic should be farther discussed in an assembly of the President, explained how beneficially the Act had operated. Invita- In men who had paid special attention to the subject. 1866, the proportion of disease amongst the troops tions were, therefore, sent to well-known individuals residing was 1.75, only ’50 per cent., the disease being in London (Mr. John Simon), Amsterdam, Pesth, Vienna, Jena, milder altogether in character. Dr. Yandell, of Louisville, said that venereal disease was very common in America, Halle, Rostock, Elberfeld, Cologne, Stettin, St. Petersburg, U.S., had been as yet made to check it. He believed, Leipzig, and several other places. Sixty members altogether however, that a bill was before Congress with a view to remedy shared in the deliberations, and the meetings took place at the evil. A committee was then formed to draw up a report When this is clone it is proposed that a public Weimar on the 28th and 29th of April, lasting each day from for ten A.M. to nine P.M., with a short break in the afternoon. meeting shall be held, and that Mr. Hardy and other members Four questions had been specially proposed for discussion :- of Parliament and public individuals interested in the quesshould he invited to discuss the subject, especially the 1. The spread of cholera, including the causes springing from of the Contagious Diseases Act or some modificaapplication localities and the state of the atmosphere. 2. The advisability tion of it to the population at large. The report will also be of using disinfecting agents. 3. What are the disinfecting sent to the International Medical Congress to assemble in which shall henceforth be recommended? 4. What Angust at Paris agents for the future, be investigated, and on especial points should, what particular subjects should facts be collected? THE CATTLE PLAGUE. From very animated discussions, carefully recorded, it may be gathered that the meeting held unanimously, as concerns LAST week we drew attention, in reference to this subject, to the first question, that cholera is disseminated by means of the unsatisfactory manner in which the system of inspection is the sick from the disease. No proofs could, however, be carried on over the whole of the country. Who is responsible offered of the conveyance of the disease by goods ; but the for this ? Lord Robert Montagu doubtless would blame the linen of cholera patients, and even cattle from diseased locali- local authorities. It is impossible, however, not to perceive that ties, were declared dangerous. Mr. John Simon pointed out, the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council is to a great especially, the perils connected with the state of the water extent responsible for that want of energy and activity which used for drinking. On the second question, which was warmly is manifested in stemming the current of the most contagious discussed, it was decided that the use of disinfecting agents of epizootics. The important fact has been overlooked that was really of great advantage. As regards the third question, we should have relied more on the prompt movement of the the meeting laid down very useful rules touching disinfectants most energetic men we have in looking after the various chan(in especial sulphate of iron and carbolic acid), and the manner I by which the disease could be reintroduced into this of employing them with reference to dejections, the cleansing country, and less on the general suspension of the cattle traffic. and disinfecting of clothes, the abandonment of infectedIt has been a blunder to allow the fresh meat from. Holland to houses, the management of drains, &c. Concerning the fourth be distributed in all directions. It has been a blunder to admit stock at all to the Londonmarkets, unless from Spain, the the question meeting agreed upon following propositions : is free from suspicion. It has been a blunder to keep 1. Investigations respecting the lower organisms in relation to I cholera. 2. The influence of water, whether used for drinking, those veterinarians inactivewho have contributed most to our of epizootics, and have proved themselves sound in household, or other purposes, in propagating the disease. 3. The study of the soil and springs. 4. The searching after advice they havetendered, and which has alwaysbeen facts which may show whether cholera can be conveyed by taken when too late. In statinglast weekthat the system out inspectorship must 5. The effects of the prevacontact, by articles of dress, &c. lence of diarrhœa. 6. On the spread of cholera by ships. 7. be modified, we simply expressed that which is very generally On the possible contamination by goods. felt—namely, that we have mt brought into the work the It may be added that Drs. Iilob -(Vienna) and Thome (Coat our command. Who rules the matter? Certainly logne) have discovered in dejections and the intestinal mucus not thosewho for years havebeen. advocating the cause of of patients who had died of cholera a peculiar fungus, which cattle-disease prevention, who had made the subject of cattle they minutely describe. Further researches are, of course, plague a special study, and who were endowed, with the qualities necessary to deal with sucha disease as rinderpest. indispensable on this head.
THE CHOLERA CONFERENCE AT WEIMAR.
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DR. ANSTIE will deliver two lectures " On the Prognosis and Treatment of certain Acute Diseases, with special reference to -the Indications afforded by the Graphic Study of the Pulse," at the College of Physicians, on the 14th and 17th of June. THE new Pharmacopoeia, is ready. After the appearance of the notices in the Gazettes the Act of Parliament requires that the British Pharmacopoeia, as altered and republished, shall supersede all other Pharmacopœias whatsoever.
VENEREAL COMMITTEE OF THE HARVEIAN SOCIETY. THE fifth meeting of the Venereal Committee of the Harveian Society was held on Friday, May 23rd. Returns were received from the Dreadnought, showing an average daily attendance of forty-seven male venereal cases, forming about one-third of the surgical cases. Venereal cases appear not to be admitted or treated in the majority of the workhouse infirmaries ; this is the case with the Strand, Poplar, City of London, Paddington, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, St. Martin’s, St. Luke’s, and St. Giles’s Workhouse, in which no special provision is made for venereal cases, which are sent to the Lock Hospital. In Whitechapel Workhouse there are ten male and fifteen female beds at St. Olave’s. three male and fiva female beds for vanereal cases; and at Lambeth about two cases are admitted a
week. At the Children’s Hospital, in Great Ormond-street, there were 93 male and 105 female syphilitic patients, or one in seven and one in four of the male and female patients reAfter a good deal of discussion resolutions were TOWARDS the end ’{)f December, 1866, a meeting, for the spectively. of the deficiency of accommodation afforded passed expressive elucidation of cholera questions, took place at Leipzig, at which by Lock Hospitals, and the necessity for an immediate inthe following eminent professors were present :-Drs. Grie- crease, either by enlargement and alteration of existing hosinfirmaries or the erection of new ones, and recomsinger (Berlin), Pettenkofer (Munich), Wunderlich (Leipzig), pitals andthat provisions should be made under Mr. Hardy’s and Hirsch (Berlin). These gentlemen, at the close of their mending bill. Dr.Stuart, who superintends the medical operation of meetings, considered that various questions bearing upon the Diseases Act at Woolwich, at the request of cholera epidemic should be farther discussed in an assembly of the President, explained how beneficially the Act had operated. Invita- In men who had paid special attention to the subject. 1866, the proportion of disease amongst the troops tions were, therefore, sent to well-known individuals residing was 1.75, only ’50 per cent., the disease being in London (Mr. John Simon), Amsterdam, Pesth, Vienna, Jena, milder altogether in character. Dr. Yandell, of Louisville, said that venereal disease was very common in America, Halle, Rostock, Elberfeld, Cologne, Stettin, St. Petersburg, U.S., had been as yet made to check it. He believed, Leipzig, and several other places. Sixty members altogether however, that a bill was before Congress with a view to remedy shared in the deliberations, and the meetings took place at the evil. A committee was then formed to draw up a report When this is clone it is proposed that a public Weimar on the 28th and 29th of April, lasting each day from for ten A.M. to nine P.M., with a short break in the afternoon. meeting shall be held, and that Mr. Hardy and other members Four questions had been specially proposed for discussion :- of Parliament and public individuals interested in the quesshould he invited to discuss the subject, especially the 1. The spread of cholera, including the causes springing from of the Contagious Diseases Act or some modificaapplication localities and the state of the atmosphere. 2. The advisability tion of it to the population at large. The report will also be of using disinfecting agents. 3. What are the disinfecting sent to the International Medical Congress to assemble in which shall henceforth be recommended? 4. What Angust at Paris agents for the future, be investigated, and on especial points should, what particular subjects should facts be collected? THE CATTLE PLAGUE. From very animated discussions, carefully recorded, it may be gathered that the meeting held unanimously, as concerns LAST week we drew attention, in reference to this subject, to the first question, that cholera is disseminated by means of the unsatisfactory manner in which the system of inspection is the sick from the disease. No proofs could, however, be carried on over the whole of the country. Who is responsible offered of the conveyance of the disease by goods ; but the for this ? Lord Robert Montagu doubtless would blame the linen of cholera patients, and even cattle from diseased locali- local authorities. It is impossible, however, not to perceive that ties, were declared dangerous. Mr. John Simon pointed out, the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council is to a great especially, the perils connected with the state of the water extent responsible for that want of energy and activity which used for drinking. On the second question, which was warmly is manifested in stemming the current of the most contagious discussed, it was decided that the use of disinfecting agents of epizootics. The important fact has been overlooked that was really of great advantage. As regards the third question, we should have relied more on the prompt movement of the the meeting laid down very useful rules touching disinfectants most energetic men we have in looking after the various chan(in especial sulphate of iron and carbolic acid), and the manner I by which the disease could be reintroduced into this of employing them with reference to dejections, the cleansing country, and less on the general suspension of the cattle traffic. and disinfecting of clothes, the abandonment of infectedIt has been a blunder to allow the fresh meat from. Holland to houses, the management of drains, &c. Concerning the fourth be distributed in all directions. It has been a blunder to admit stock at all to the Londonmarkets, unless from Spain, the the question meeting agreed upon following propositions : is free from suspicion. It has been a blunder to keep 1. Investigations respecting the lower organisms in relation to I cholera. 2. The influence of water, whether used for drinking, those veterinarians inactivewho have contributed most to our of epizootics, and have proved themselves sound in household, or other purposes, in propagating the disease. 3. The study of the soil and springs. 4. The searching after advice they havetendered, and which has alwaysbeen facts which may show whether cholera can be conveyed by taken when too late. In statinglast weekthat the system out inspectorship must 5. The effects of the prevacontact, by articles of dress, &c. lence of diarrhœa. 6. On the spread of cholera by ships. 7. be modified, we simply expressed that which is very generally On the possible contamination by goods. felt—namely, that we have mt brought into the work the It may be added that Drs. Iilob -(Vienna) and Thome (Coat our command. Who rules the matter? Certainly logne) have discovered in dejections and the intestinal mucus not thosewho for years havebeen. advocating the cause of of patients who had died of cholera a peculiar fungus, which cattle-disease prevention, who had made the subject of cattle they minutely describe. Further researches are, of course, plague a special study, and who were endowed, with the qualities necessary to deal with sucha disease as rinderpest. indispensable on this head.
THE CHOLERA CONFERENCE AT WEIMAR.
the Contagious October,in April,18ti7, but noattempt criticism. tion
nels I,
Iforeign which
knowledge the
brains