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characters and peculiarities it was his delight tc study. His success as a teacher lay not so muct in his knowledge of his subject, though that was thorough, as in the living personal interest whicb he took in everyone he taught. A friend writes of him :It was Dunn’s custom on the first day of the session to hold
for all the new men, perhaps number, and without making a mistake he would address each man present by his name aE The crowd realised at once the questions circulated. that to Dunn it was not a crowd but a group of individuals, and the knowledge had a salutary influence. The diffident were encouraged, the rowdy ones realised that the mantle
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a demonstration or more in
of anonymity had fallen from them. The team was in hand. Within a week, by a series of informal talks over the dissections with hand on the dissector’s shoulder, there was added to a knowledge of his name an acquaintance with his history, the name of his school, his achievements there in sport or work, and other such details never afterwards erased from Dunn’s memory. The private foibles of the students were an open book to Dunn ; he knew who visited the billiard saloon too often, who gambled, who drank. On one occasion he saw from his window in the College three students, well known for their idle habits, emerging from the College in suspiciously quick succession and going in the direction of a public-house. As a fourth emerged he went out and invited him in to tea, pressing on him many cups with whimsical persistence as an insurance against alcoholic thirst.
The story well illustrates Mr. Dunn’s quick observation and intuition. His preference for an attitude of friendly pressure was justified by results, and in later years he sometimes alluded with just pride to the " hard cases he had restored to the track. By his friends at the school which he served so well Mr. Dunn’s achievements are not measured by the work he did, hard and solid as it was, but by the influence he exerted on generations of students. "
THE CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASES. The American Journal of Syphilis. THE current issue of this useful journal (Vol. II., No. 2, April, 1918) contains an article on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis in Men, by Dr. Herman Goodman (New York), based on work done at the Hudson-street GenitoUrinary Dispensary. He emphasises once again the urgent need for treatment during thesilent generalisation stage," when the spirochætes are free in the blood but no metastatic foci have had time to evidence themselves. To delay treatment of a suspected syphilitic until the Wassermann is positive he holds far more blameworthy even than the older men’s motto, ’’Wait for the secondaries." Professor W. J. Hermann, of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, writes of counteracting the failure of individual prophylaxis by means of " social prophylaxis"; his summing up is as follows,:-
Syphilis is as easily preventable as any other infectious disease. It’ cannot be prevented by an appeal to individual reason, for man has counted the cost, and his knowledge has never frightened him into continence. With syphilis as an actual condition, it must be treated early if its economic consequences are to be averted. Thus the problem ol syphilis to the community resolves itself into the problem of controlling early syphilis. This is the period of maximum transmissibility. The disease can be combated only by recognising it and treating it intensively at once. This places the burden squarely where it should be-upon medical schools, hospitals, and clinics. These institutions must rise to the occasion by acquiring competent teachers. and The deDartment of must be equipment. physicians, syphilis centralised. Social service bureaus must he adequately conducted, the cases must be reported to the municipality whether by institutions or private practitioners, and finally, alien syphilitics must be excluded at our borders. The Educational
Campaign.
meeting of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases Lord Sydenham stated that the Council now had 54 branches, including three in Scotland and one in Ulster. While the educational campaign was thus developing well the means for diagnosis and treatment required to be pressed ahead ; more treatment centres were required, open for a greater number of hours. Mr. Hayes Fisher emphasised the great THE annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological need for safe and convenient lodging in the form of hostels Association of Great Britain and Ireland will take for domestic servants and shop assistants.-The subject of place in Edinburgh on July 23rd and 24th under equal moral standard for men and women claimed the the presidency of Lieutenant-Colonel John Keay, attention of the recent conference of the British Dominions Suffrage Union, at which Dr. Jane Walker and Dr. E. B. R.A.M.C. Turner took part.-At a meeting called to form a Nottingham branch of the Council Dr. John Robertson, M.O.H. for WE regret to announce the death of Mr. ’H. G. Birmingham, gave an address in which he related the extent Plimmer, F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Patho- to which lectures, both by men and women, had been logy in the Imperial College of Science, a late developed in the works and factories of Birmingham.-Dr. President of the Royal Microscopical Society, and David Newman gave an address on venereal diseases at a Glasgow meeting of ministers of the Church of Scotland and Pathologist to the Royal Zoological Society. the United Free Church. While the medical profession was engaged in attacking disease he called upon the Church to teach that unchastity was a serious sin in itself, quite apart THE Cavendish lecture will be delivered before from the danger of contracting disease.
Presiding recently
at the third annual
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the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society by Major-General Sir Bertrand Dawson on Thursday I next, July 4th, at 8.15, at the West London Hospital. The subject will be the Future of the Medical Profession. There will be a reception at 8 P.M. at the hospital, and the annual conversazione will follow the delivery of the lecture.
Legislation in
Ontario.
An Act entitled The Venereal Diseases Prevention Act has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, providing for the examination by the medical officer of health of any person in custody or committed to prison in order to ascertain whether or not such person is infected with venereal disease, and for treatment where the disease is found to exist. Every hospital receiving aid under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act must now THE final report of the Health of Munition make effective provision for the examination and treatment Workers Committee on Industrial Health and of persons suffering from venereal disease. Persons other Efficiency has just appeared in the form of a Blue- than legally qualified medical practitioners are prohibited, book of 180 pages (Cd. 9065. Price 2s.). The under penalty of$100-400, from attending upon or prescribmatters with which it deals have, on account of ing for persons suffering from venereal disease. Advertisetheir practical importance, all been dealt with ment of any medicine or appliance for the cure of venereal seriatim in pamphlet form during the last 18 or genito-urinary disease is prohibited under similar penalty. Spreading infection on the part of one who knows or has months, so that the final report contains nothing reason to believe that he is infected with venereal disease is that is new. But it is, as we have already described made an offence punishable by heavy fine or imprisonment. it, a handbook of applied physiology which is likely Procedure is that of the Summary Convictions Act, except to alter the whole outlook on the industrial health that proceedings are conducted in camera. The Act comes of the nation. .nto force on July 1st next.
characters and peculiarities it was his delight tc study. His success as a teacher lay not so muct in his knowledge of his subject, though that was thorough, as in the living personal interest whicb he took in everyone he taught. A friend writes of him :It was Dunn’s custom on the first day of the session to hold
for all the new men, perhaps number, and without making a mistake he would address each man present by his name aE The crowd realised at once the questions circulated. that to Dunn it was not a crowd but a group of individuals, and the knowledge had a salutary influence. The diffident were encouraged, the rowdy ones realised that the mantle
80
a demonstration or more in
of anonymity had fallen from them. The team was in hand. Within a week, by a series of informal talks over the dissections with hand on the dissector’s shoulder, there was added to a knowledge of his name an acquaintance with his history, the name of his school, his achievements there in sport or work, and other such details never afterwards erased from Dunn’s memory. The private foibles of the students were an open book to Dunn ; he knew who visited the billiard saloon too often, who gambled, who drank. On one occasion he saw from his window in the College three students, well known for their idle habits, emerging from the College in suspiciously quick succession and going in the direction of a public-house. As a fourth emerged he went out and invited him in to tea, pressing on him many cups with whimsical persistence as an insurance against alcoholic thirst.
The story well illustrates Mr. Dunn’s quick observation and intuition. His preference for an attitude of friendly pressure was justified by results, and in later years he sometimes alluded with just pride to the " hard cases he had restored to the track. By his friends at the school which he served so well Mr. Dunn’s achievements are not measured by the work he did, hard and solid as it was, but by the influence he exerted on generations of students. "
THE CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASES. The American Journal of Syphilis. THE current issue of this useful journal (Vol. II., No. 2, April, 1918) contains an article on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis in Men, by Dr. Herman Goodman (New York), based on work done at the Hudson-street GenitoUrinary Dispensary. He emphasises once again the urgent need for treatment during thesilent generalisation stage," when the spirochætes are free in the blood but no metastatic foci have had time to evidence themselves. To delay treatment of a suspected syphilitic until the Wassermann is positive he holds far more blameworthy even than the older men’s motto, ’’Wait for the secondaries." Professor W. J. Hermann, of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, writes of counteracting the failure of individual prophylaxis by means of " social prophylaxis"; his summing up is as follows,:-
Syphilis is as easily preventable as any other infectious disease. It’ cannot be prevented by an appeal to individual reason, for man has counted the cost, and his knowledge has never frightened him into continence. With syphilis as an actual condition, it must be treated early if its economic consequences are to be averted. Thus the problem ol syphilis to the community resolves itself into the problem of controlling early syphilis. This is the period of maximum transmissibility. The disease can be combated only by recognising it and treating it intensively at once. This places the burden squarely where it should be-upon medical schools, hospitals, and clinics. These institutions must rise to the occasion by acquiring competent teachers. and The deDartment of must be equipment. physicians, syphilis centralised. Social service bureaus must he adequately conducted, the cases must be reported to the municipality whether by institutions or private practitioners, and finally, alien syphilitics must be excluded at our borders. The Educational
Campaign.
meeting of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases Lord Sydenham stated that the Council now had 54 branches, including three in Scotland and one in Ulster. While the educational campaign was thus developing well the means for diagnosis and treatment required to be pressed ahead ; more treatment centres were required, open for a greater number of hours. Mr. Hayes Fisher emphasised the great THE annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological need for safe and convenient lodging in the form of hostels Association of Great Britain and Ireland will take for domestic servants and shop assistants.-The subject of place in Edinburgh on July 23rd and 24th under equal moral standard for men and women claimed the the presidency of Lieutenant-Colonel John Keay, attention of the recent conference of the British Dominions Suffrage Union, at which Dr. Jane Walker and Dr. E. B. R.A.M.C. Turner took part.-At a meeting called to form a Nottingham branch of the Council Dr. John Robertson, M.O.H. for WE regret to announce the death of Mr. ’H. G. Birmingham, gave an address in which he related the extent Plimmer, F.R.S., Professor of Comparative Patho- to which lectures, both by men and women, had been logy in the Imperial College of Science, a late developed in the works and factories of Birmingham.-Dr. President of the Royal Microscopical Society, and David Newman gave an address on venereal diseases at a Glasgow meeting of ministers of the Church of Scotland and Pathologist to the Royal Zoological Society. the United Free Church. While the medical profession was engaged in attacking disease he called upon the Church to teach that unchastity was a serious sin in itself, quite apart THE Cavendish lecture will be delivered before from the danger of contracting disease.
Presiding recently
at the third annual
____
the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society by Major-General Sir Bertrand Dawson on Thursday I next, July 4th, at 8.15, at the West London Hospital. The subject will be the Future of the Medical Profession. There will be a reception at 8 P.M. at the hospital, and the annual conversazione will follow the delivery of the lecture.
Legislation in
Ontario.
An Act entitled The Venereal Diseases Prevention Act has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, providing for the examination by the medical officer of health of any person in custody or committed to prison in order to ascertain whether or not such person is infected with venereal disease, and for treatment where the disease is found to exist. Every hospital receiving aid under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act must now THE final report of the Health of Munition make effective provision for the examination and treatment Workers Committee on Industrial Health and of persons suffering from venereal disease. Persons other Efficiency has just appeared in the form of a Blue- than legally qualified medical practitioners are prohibited, book of 180 pages (Cd. 9065. Price 2s.). The under penalty of$100-400, from attending upon or prescribmatters with which it deals have, on account of ing for persons suffering from venereal disease. Advertisetheir practical importance, all been dealt with ment of any medicine or appliance for the cure of venereal seriatim in pamphlet form during the last 18 or genito-urinary disease is prohibited under similar penalty. Spreading infection on the part of one who knows or has months, so that the final report contains nothing reason to believe that he is infected with venereal disease is that is new. But it is, as we have already described made an offence punishable by heavy fine or imprisonment. it, a handbook of applied physiology which is likely Procedure is that of the Summary Convictions Act, except to alter the whole outlook on the industrial health that proceedings are conducted in camera. The Act comes of the nation. .nto force on July 1st next.