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140 from the portal end. This washing out was THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY. continued till the red tint of the muscles and other WE hear from a reliable source that the Crown Prince i organs had disappeared so completely that the spectrorabbit The other favourably. The reports which appeared in no lines. progressing detected scope haemoglobin was also deprived of blood in precisely the same way. the lay journals this week have been perplexing and conThe organs of the two animals were then examined tradictory, and one of the French newspapers contained a chemically, and the iron contained in them accurately esti- most alarming statement to the effect that fresh symptoms mated by the volumetric method. Ihe result showed that the of cancer had shown themselves, and that the disease only organ in which the percentage of iron was markedly was rapidly developing. It appears that on last Saturday increased in the animal into whose system the sodio-tartrate his Imperial Highness became affected with a feverish cold. had been introduced was the liver, the dry substance of the and the temperature was slightly raised on Sunday ana organ containing 0’0998 and 0’1723 per cent. of iron in the two Monday; on Tuesday, however, it became quite normal. animals respectively. A similar research was subsequently We are glad to learn that the general health continues carried out in the case of two kittens. Here the livers con- excellent, and that the Crown Prince is looking forward tained respectively 0’031 and 0’0895 per cent. of iron, most of with great pleasure to his return to Potsdam in the spring. the other organs showing more iron in the animal into which none had been introduced than in the one in which the sodioTHE HÆMOGLOBIN IN CHLOROSIS. tartrate had been injected. The most remarkable instance of DR. 0. BARBACCI, of Berlin, found by using FlE:icchls this was the muscular tissue, which in the kitten that had had hsemometer in a number of chlorotic patients that the no iron showed a percentage of O’020G, and in the one which varied from 39 to 50 per cent. of its amount in haemoglobin had had iron only 0’0073. Of this curious fact Dr. Zaleski health. After from two to four weeks’ treatment with iron does not sse his way to offer any explanation, and it certainly the patients all exhibited a marked improvement in their appears somewhat paradoxical. In both the rabbits and general condition, and at the same time the haemoglobin was kittens it was plainly demonstrated that the walls of the found to have increased from 10 to 30 per cent. It then stomach and intestines contained no more iron in the to remain normal amount not being the appeared stationary, animals which had been subjected to the intravenous reached even after a of and a very course treatment long injection than in the others. The result of the research great improvement in general health. would appear to suggest that the liver has some claims to be considered the excreting organ for iron. MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATION IN NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD. SMALL-POX IN YORKSHIRE. THE Newcastle Daily Leader announces the formation of WITH reference to the outbreak of small-pox in Barnsley a Medical Aid Association for Newcastle and Gateshead. and its neighbourhood, at a meeting a few days since of the The particulars given by our contemporary are limited. guardians of the Barnsley Union, sitting as the Rural Sani- B Lit those given do not look very promising. Eight medical tary Authority, an agreement with the Barnsley corporation men are said to have joined the association. Threepence a was signed and sealed, by which all cases of small-pox week is to provide for attendance on a whole family. This occurring within the sanitary district will be received and is an utterly inadequate sum, which we trust will be isolated in the Infectious Diseases Hospital owned by the reconsidered. The low compensation of medical services in corporation of Barnsley. It is proposed to use this hospital these institutions is bringing them, and threatens to bring as the nucleus for any temporary buildings which the the provident principle itself, into discredit throughout the exigencies of the epidemic may render necessary. The union country. We hope the medical men of Newcastle and or registration district of Barnsley includes five urban Gateshead will consider this question, and insist on terms sanitary districts, in addition to the borough of Barnsley more respectful to the profession. and the rural sanitary district of Barnsley. It is stated that the authorities of all these sanitary districts, excepting one, INTRA-MUSCULAR LIPOMA. have joined in the above-mentioned agreement with the EXCEPTIONALLY lipomata may develop in organs normally corporation of Barnsley, the only alternative to which in cellular adipose tissue. Their presence has been appears to be to admit small-pox patients to the fever wards wanting in the nerve noted centres, in the spinal cord, and in the of the union workhouse-an arrangement which experience even in the midst of the muscular thickness of muscles, has proved to be undesirable, and even dangerous. fibres. These intra-muscular fatty tumours are more common in men than women, and are chiefly found in very active MARGATE AND ITS SEWERAGE. muscles, like the tongue, the heart, and the sartorius. WE are glad to notice that a very decided attitude is taken M. Ribet has collected in his Parisian thesis many interesting by the Ramsgate and Margate Chronicle as to the need for observations on these tumours. a system of sewerage in Margate, in replacement of the cesspool system. In an article published in that paper, it is FOREIGN UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. estimated that there are probably some 3500 cesspools, into - BeWM.—Dr. Georg Frank, first assistant in the Hygienic each of which about 100 gallons are discharged every day has been appointed to take charge of the bacInstitute, when the houses are occupied. If the cesspools were waterteriological department of the zoological station in Naples. tight, they would, on an average, have to be emptied every His has been filled by the appointment of Dr. C. Frankel. post two or three weeks; but being permeable, 350,000 gallons of Innsbruc;.-Dr. Jarisch of Vienna has been appointed filth are received into the chalk stratum every twenty-four Professor of Dermatology and Syphilis. hours; and it is very properly contended that a soil receiv- Extraordinary Naumynof Konigsberg has accepted T’sM.—Professor ing this stuff can hardly be one which can form " a bait for the appointment of Professor of Medicine in Professor visitorsor "a platform to plant a flag on." Fortunately Kussmaul’s place. there are other indications that this reproach will before 31.n. H. D. ROLLESTON, B.A., of St. John’s College, has been long be removed from a seaside resort which has naturally some of the highest claims tc favour on account of health- appointed Demonstrator of Pathology in the University of

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