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1373 blind upper sac measuring from 1 to 9 cm. in a lower sac opening into the trachea at or above the bifurcation. The two portions mayor may not be connected bv a thin strand of tissue of muscle fibre or fibrous tissue. Associated anomalies are frequent, being present in 59 out of 94 cases. The commonest is atresia ani, which was present in 24 cases. The period of survival which was noted in 120 cases has ranged from.1 to 14 days, five of the infants being stillborn and 15 dying on the first day of life. As regards the pathogenesis it is now generally conceded that the anomaly is due to a developmental error rather than to an inflammatory process as was once supposed, the condition being due to failure of closure of the tracheo-oesophageal septum. is
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had recorded a large number of compound sound curves of varying complexity, which he analysed by application of the " four stimulus theory-i.e., the theory that a sound waveis a pressure variation implying a stimulus in hearing of four phases of the curve at maximum and minimum, and at the crossing of the zero lines, at each of which points the direction of change is reversed. Briefly, the authors showed the cochlea to be a mechanism capable of registering every complexity of the compounded wave and of passing it on to the sensorium in accurate record as nerve impulses, the final process of appreciation of these impulses (simple or compound) being, of course, central. Wrightson’s work therefore gave to science an intelligible account of the genesis and nature of the peripheral stimulus concerned in the sense of hearing. "
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CONGRESS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. THE annual dinner of the Indian Medical Service, A CONGRESS on the history of medicine, initiated held on June 15th at the Trocadero Restaurant, is by Prof. Domenico Baduzzi of Siena, was held at a domestic gathering at which the Editor of the Rome from Oct. llth-14th, 1912, when the agenda British Medical Journal and the Editor of The Lancet, paper included addresses on prehistoric medicine and and they alone, are invited to share the salt. Leave mediaeval anatomy. Last year a congress was sumis scarce in the Service at present and passages still moned at Antwerp and next week, from July 1st to comes about that the dinner 6th, the Second Congres d’Histoire de la Medecine scarcer, and it therefore is representative of those who have seen ten years will be held in Paris under the patronage of the or more of the official practice of medicine in a countryI Minister of Public Instruction and on the initiative of which contains a sprinkling of Europeans and 450 the Société Francaise d’Histoire de la Medecine. Prof. millions of other races. In the nature of things there E. Jeanselme and Prof. W. Menetrier will preside is no possibility of a similar gathering in India itself. at the meetings, which begin at 9 A.M. on July 1st Hence the occasion is one of unique importance and in the historical museum of the Faculty of Medicine. the time that might have been wasted upon formal An " exposition retrospective medicale " is being put toasts and set speeches is free for the informal dis- together to include books, manuscripts, engravings, cussion of domestic policy. No one present asserted statuettes, instruments, or other objects of historical that the Medical Service is now a great reconciling value. A number of visits and excursions have been influence in Indian life, for no one doubted it ;nor was arranged to places of historical interest. The general any hesitation felt in mentioning the colour difficulty, secretary of the Congress is Dr. Laignel-Lavastine, for senior native officers were present as an integral part 12 bis, place de Laborde, Paris. of the Service. All agreed that as long as Britain was charged with the Government of India, so long would THE annual meeting of the National Council for British medicine find a worthy place there and nothing but the best possible service could be offered. Sir Combating Venereal Diseases will be held next Tuesday, Dawson Williams in a few wise words spoke of the June 28th, in the Morley Hall, Hanover-square, at support given to the Indian Medical Service in the past 4.15 P.M. The annual report, the draft of which by the medical press of this country and of their com- is now being settled, brings the proceedings up to munity of interest for the future. To say more might May 31st. be to transgress the sacred law of hospitality. But WE are glad to print in full on page 1377 an we should like to commend the Dinner Fund to those members of the Service who do not yet subscribe to it. interim report of the X Ray and Radium Protection Committee, for it is well that safeguards and precautions, wherever they have been found useful, should receive immediate and wide publicity. London is SIR THOMAS WRIGHTSON. fortunate in having a sufficient number of recognised THE death of Sir Thomas Wrightson, at the age experts to constitute a representative committee of 82, removes a figure notable alike in science and which can meet frequently to confer and compare industry. Born near Darlington in 1839, Wrightson notes. Distance alone has stood in the way of choosing completed his education at King’s College, London, the committee from other centres of radiology. and took up engineering as his profession, serving his Liverpool and Manchester have been well to the fore articles with his cousin, Lord Armstrong, at Elswick. in precautionary measures, and the London committee After a period of civil engineering work at Westminster, has profited by their experience. he took employment at the Teesdale Ironworks of Messrs. Head, Ashby and Co., later joining the firm, THE last of the series of lectures delivered bv which then became Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd. For many years he was vice-chairman, and later authorities on different aspects of pathological research chairman, of this great business, being also a director in its relation to medicine at the Institute of Pathology of other companies and a prominent figure in the and Research, St. Mary’s Hospital, was given on 16th by Prof. W. Bulloch, F.R.S. His subject public life of the Stockton district. His political Junethe Use and Abuse of Scientific Medical Literawas career was not marked with the uniform success which attended him in other directions, but his services won ture, and among entertaining anecdotes and criticism. him a baronetcy in 1900. Wrightson’s great contri- destructive and constructive, of current medical bution to physiology and physics, his " Enquiry into journals Prof. Bulloch found opportunities to plead the Analytical Mechanism of the Internal Ear," was for a reduction in the mass of work published and an published in 1918,1 when he was in his 78th year. In improvement in its quality. The course of lectures this work were combined the results of many years of has been much appreciated by large and representative study of aerial wave-form, with an engineer’s survey audiences. of the cochlea considered as a machine. The comparative anatomy of the cochlea formed the subject THE SEMON LECTURE.—The Semon Lecture, a of a luminous appendix by Prof. Arthur Keith ; by foundation of the University of London, will be delivered " means of his own ingenious " ohmograph Wrightson on Tuesday, July 5th, at5 P.ji, by Dr. i-obson Horne, Presi---
1 See Review in THE LANCET, 1918, ii., 46.
dent of the Laryngological Section of the fedicine, in the house of the Society.
Royal Society
of
a
length with
composed
had recorded a large number of compound sound curves of varying complexity, which he analysed by application of the " four stimulus theory-i.e., the theory that a sound waveis a pressure variation implying a stimulus in hearing of four phases of the curve at maximum and minimum, and at the crossing of the zero lines, at each of which points the direction of change is reversed. Briefly, the authors showed the cochlea to be a mechanism capable of registering every complexity of the compounded wave and of passing it on to the sensorium in accurate record as nerve impulses, the final process of appreciation of these impulses (simple or compound) being, of course, central. Wrightson’s work therefore gave to science an intelligible account of the genesis and nature of the peripheral stimulus concerned in the sense of hearing. "
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THE I.M.S. DINNER.
CONGRESS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. THE annual dinner of the Indian Medical Service, A CONGRESS on the history of medicine, initiated held on June 15th at the Trocadero Restaurant, is by Prof. Domenico Baduzzi of Siena, was held at a domestic gathering at which the Editor of the Rome from Oct. llth-14th, 1912, when the agenda British Medical Journal and the Editor of The Lancet, paper included addresses on prehistoric medicine and and they alone, are invited to share the salt. Leave mediaeval anatomy. Last year a congress was sumis scarce in the Service at present and passages still moned at Antwerp and next week, from July 1st to comes about that the dinner 6th, the Second Congres d’Histoire de la Medecine scarcer, and it therefore is representative of those who have seen ten years will be held in Paris under the patronage of the or more of the official practice of medicine in a countryI Minister of Public Instruction and on the initiative of which contains a sprinkling of Europeans and 450 the Société Francaise d’Histoire de la Medecine. Prof. millions of other races. In the nature of things there E. Jeanselme and Prof. W. Menetrier will preside is no possibility of a similar gathering in India itself. at the meetings, which begin at 9 A.M. on July 1st Hence the occasion is one of unique importance and in the historical museum of the Faculty of Medicine. the time that might have been wasted upon formal An " exposition retrospective medicale " is being put toasts and set speeches is free for the informal dis- together to include books, manuscripts, engravings, cussion of domestic policy. No one present asserted statuettes, instruments, or other objects of historical that the Medical Service is now a great reconciling value. A number of visits and excursions have been influence in Indian life, for no one doubted it ;nor was arranged to places of historical interest. The general any hesitation felt in mentioning the colour difficulty, secretary of the Congress is Dr. Laignel-Lavastine, for senior native officers were present as an integral part 12 bis, place de Laborde, Paris. of the Service. All agreed that as long as Britain was charged with the Government of India, so long would THE annual meeting of the National Council for British medicine find a worthy place there and nothing but the best possible service could be offered. Sir Combating Venereal Diseases will be held next Tuesday, Dawson Williams in a few wise words spoke of the June 28th, in the Morley Hall, Hanover-square, at support given to the Indian Medical Service in the past 4.15 P.M. The annual report, the draft of which by the medical press of this country and of their com- is now being settled, brings the proceedings up to munity of interest for the future. To say more might May 31st. be to transgress the sacred law of hospitality. But WE are glad to print in full on page 1377 an we should like to commend the Dinner Fund to those members of the Service who do not yet subscribe to it. interim report of the X Ray and Radium Protection Committee, for it is well that safeguards and precautions, wherever they have been found useful, should receive immediate and wide publicity. London is SIR THOMAS WRIGHTSON. fortunate in having a sufficient number of recognised THE death of Sir Thomas Wrightson, at the age experts to constitute a representative committee of 82, removes a figure notable alike in science and which can meet frequently to confer and compare industry. Born near Darlington in 1839, Wrightson notes. Distance alone has stood in the way of choosing completed his education at King’s College, London, the committee from other centres of radiology. and took up engineering as his profession, serving his Liverpool and Manchester have been well to the fore articles with his cousin, Lord Armstrong, at Elswick. in precautionary measures, and the London committee After a period of civil engineering work at Westminster, has profited by their experience. he took employment at the Teesdale Ironworks of Messrs. Head, Ashby and Co., later joining the firm, THE last of the series of lectures delivered bv which then became Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd. For many years he was vice-chairman, and later authorities on different aspects of pathological research chairman, of this great business, being also a director in its relation to medicine at the Institute of Pathology of other companies and a prominent figure in the and Research, St. Mary’s Hospital, was given on 16th by Prof. W. Bulloch, F.R.S. His subject public life of the Stockton district. His political Junethe Use and Abuse of Scientific Medical Literawas career was not marked with the uniform success which attended him in other directions, but his services won ture, and among entertaining anecdotes and criticism. him a baronetcy in 1900. Wrightson’s great contri- destructive and constructive, of current medical bution to physiology and physics, his " Enquiry into journals Prof. Bulloch found opportunities to plead the Analytical Mechanism of the Internal Ear," was for a reduction in the mass of work published and an published in 1918,1 when he was in his 78th year. In improvement in its quality. The course of lectures this work were combined the results of many years of has been much appreciated by large and representative study of aerial wave-form, with an engineer’s survey audiences. of the cochlea considered as a machine. The comparative anatomy of the cochlea formed the subject THE SEMON LECTURE.—The Semon Lecture, a of a luminous appendix by Prof. Arthur Keith ; by foundation of the University of London, will be delivered " means of his own ingenious " ohmograph Wrightson on Tuesday, July 5th, at5 P.ji, by Dr. i-obson Horne, Presi---
1 See Review in THE LANCET, 1918, ii., 46.
dent of the Laryngological Section of the fedicine, in the house of the Society.
Royal Society
of