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diately buried, articles that could have become infected were destroyed, and possible pollution of the local wellwater was dealt with by removing the handle of the pump which was in the room where the corpse lay. The incident supplies two lessons :-Firstly, the uselessness of the quarantine measures resorted to by the French authorities at Marseilles in preventing the diffusion of cholera by human intercourse; and secondly, the immense advantage of trust in sanitary measures such as have for years past been in progress in what was formerly a cholera locality, and of the immediate adoption of measures of sanitary precaution, which cannot be secured in a moment of panic, but which are the natural outcome of a properly organised system of sanitary organisation.
very moderate experienced in
creasing
dimensions, considerable difficulty will be
satisfying the needs of the number of students.
constantly
in-
AMENDMENT OF THE MEDICAL ACT. IT is announced in the middle of an almost unprecedented political crisis that a Medical Bill will be introduced. Of course, whenever such a Bill appears, it will receive from us fair and even favourable consideration. In the meantime it seems to us scarcely credible that any Bill can be passed just now pretending to meet the recommendations of the Royal Commission or the reasonable wishes of the profession. PROFESSOR TYNDALL.
THE LATE DR. ALFRED C. POST OF NEW YORK. THERE is a wonderful harmony in the tribute paid by all the New York medical papers to the late Dr. Alfred C. Post, who died at the ripe age of eighty-one, but who was - expected to have lived and worked much longer, and would have done so but for a sudden and sharp sickness. He had performed a very successful ovariotomy only four months before his death. He was the nephew of the celebrated Dr. Wright Post, the friend of Percival Pott, Cooper, Abernethy, &c., and the father of Dr. George E. Post, the able surgeon and devoted missionary of Beirut. He was happy, too, in his early education, in which piety and culture were combined. He was a good classical scholar, but his chief delights were in religion and surgery, and he once said, in no irreverent spirit, that the two things he enjoyed most’ Dr. Post were a surgical operation and a prayer meeting. of Beirut was in London last summer. Eager to be back at his Syrian work, and assured of his father’s health, whom he had not seen for eighteen years, he resolved to defer the pleasure of visiting him to another year. The father has been translated sooner than either expected, but in the exercise of the same beneficent art and with the same religious spirit Dr. Post will find consolation.
SIR WILLIAM GULL informs us that Professor Tyndall has for a long time suffered from sleeplessness, which at length, with hard scientific work, has much prostrated the nervous system. It is to be hoped that he will now take a long rest, which is so much needed for his restoration.
THE SUNDAY CLOSING BILL. WE regret the miscarriage of this measure. No one who has medical knowledge can doubt that a great curtailment of drinking and the hours for drinking would be for the advantage of this country, and that work on Monday would be infinitely better resumed if there were less drinking on Saturday nights and Sundays. The Bill has the support of the people, but the forms of Parliament are capable of abuse, and of enabling it to prevent good being done.
REFORM
OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF SCOTLAND.
ilrrrr HUNDRED of the graduates and members of the Council of the University of Glasgow have memorialised the Secretary of State for Scotland in favour of amending the constitution of the Universities of Scotland, so as to give more power to the general body of graduates, and to break down the monopoly of university teaching. There is much to be said for careful changes in this direction.
NERVOUS SEQUELÆ OF SMALL-POX. WE would draw special attention to the interesting paper contributed by Drs. Whipham and Myers to the last meeting A NEW ELEMENT: GERMANIUM. of the Clinical Society. The interest of the subject lies MR. CLEMBNS WINKLER writes to the Chemical Society simply in the fact of the occurrence of disorders of articulation after the small-pox has disappeared. Small-pox, like from Freiburg, Saxony, under date Feb. 21st, that he has other acute specific fevers, is liable to be forowed by discovered in the mineral argyrodite a non-metallic element various nervous sequelse, either of cerebral, spinal, or peri- closely related to arsenic and antimony, and that he has pheral origin. Dr. Barlow and Dr. S. Alackenzie con- named it germanium. Argyrodite is a new mineral distributed some interesting cases occurring after small-pox covered at Freiburg by A. Weisbach, consisting of silver, and during measles. We have much yet to learn concern- sulphur, and germanium. ing the disorder of articulation of which living specimens FOREIGN MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. Dr. Rughlings Jackson were exhibited the other night. was inclined to locate the lesion in the medulla oblongata, Dm. A. BOICESU has been appointed to the Professorship and to regard its nature as of thrombotic order. However, of Zoology, and Dr. Maldarescu to that of Clinical Medicine, at present there is but little to be said that is definite. in the University of Bucharest; also Dr. Rizu to the Chair of Therapeutics in the other Roumanian University, Jassy. -
Dr. L. Turnas, of St. Petersburg, has been appointed Professor of Pharmacology in Warsaw. Dr. G. Albertotti has DIFl<’ICULTIES are frequently experienced by medical been appointed Professor of Ophthalmology in Modena. schools in this country in obtaining sufficient subjects for dissection, and we are apt to envy continental schools which THE Museum and Lecture-rooms Syndicate of the Uniappear to us always to enjoy a profusion. This is not, howof is the at case. The ever, invariably versity of Cambridge have issued a report containing Dorpat University earnest appeals from Professor Foster and his assistant which has an order been present considerably agitated by made stopping the supply which had hitherto been obtained lecturers for more space, which is sadly needed for the from the hospitals and prisons of St. Petersburg. Subjects proper teaching of physiology. The plans already approved from these sources are in future to be monopolised by the for the new buildings provide for more accommodation for Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg, and as the the physiologists, but they are not yet taken in hand, and towns in the Baltic provinces where Dorpat is situated are of the object of the report is to hasten their commencement.
SUBJECTS FOR DISSECTION IN RUSSIA.
diately buried, articles that could have become infected were destroyed, and possible pollution of the local wellwater was dealt with by removing the handle of the pump which was in the room where the corpse lay. The incident supplies two lessons :-Firstly, the uselessness of the quarantine measures resorted to by the French authorities at Marseilles in preventing the diffusion of cholera by human intercourse; and secondly, the immense advantage of trust in sanitary measures such as have for years past been in progress in what was formerly a cholera locality, and of the immediate adoption of measures of sanitary precaution, which cannot be secured in a moment of panic, but which are the natural outcome of a properly organised system of sanitary organisation.
very moderate experienced in
creasing
dimensions, considerable difficulty will be
satisfying the needs of the number of students.
constantly
in-
AMENDMENT OF THE MEDICAL ACT. IT is announced in the middle of an almost unprecedented political crisis that a Medical Bill will be introduced. Of course, whenever such a Bill appears, it will receive from us fair and even favourable consideration. In the meantime it seems to us scarcely credible that any Bill can be passed just now pretending to meet the recommendations of the Royal Commission or the reasonable wishes of the profession. PROFESSOR TYNDALL.
THE LATE DR. ALFRED C. POST OF NEW YORK. THERE is a wonderful harmony in the tribute paid by all the New York medical papers to the late Dr. Alfred C. Post, who died at the ripe age of eighty-one, but who was - expected to have lived and worked much longer, and would have done so but for a sudden and sharp sickness. He had performed a very successful ovariotomy only four months before his death. He was the nephew of the celebrated Dr. Wright Post, the friend of Percival Pott, Cooper, Abernethy, &c., and the father of Dr. George E. Post, the able surgeon and devoted missionary of Beirut. He was happy, too, in his early education, in which piety and culture were combined. He was a good classical scholar, but his chief delights were in religion and surgery, and he once said, in no irreverent spirit, that the two things he enjoyed most’ Dr. Post were a surgical operation and a prayer meeting. of Beirut was in London last summer. Eager to be back at his Syrian work, and assured of his father’s health, whom he had not seen for eighteen years, he resolved to defer the pleasure of visiting him to another year. The father has been translated sooner than either expected, but in the exercise of the same beneficent art and with the same religious spirit Dr. Post will find consolation.
SIR WILLIAM GULL informs us that Professor Tyndall has for a long time suffered from sleeplessness, which at length, with hard scientific work, has much prostrated the nervous system. It is to be hoped that he will now take a long rest, which is so much needed for his restoration.
THE SUNDAY CLOSING BILL. WE regret the miscarriage of this measure. No one who has medical knowledge can doubt that a great curtailment of drinking and the hours for drinking would be for the advantage of this country, and that work on Monday would be infinitely better resumed if there were less drinking on Saturday nights and Sundays. The Bill has the support of the people, but the forms of Parliament are capable of abuse, and of enabling it to prevent good being done.
REFORM
OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF SCOTLAND.
ilrrrr HUNDRED of the graduates and members of the Council of the University of Glasgow have memorialised the Secretary of State for Scotland in favour of amending the constitution of the Universities of Scotland, so as to give more power to the general body of graduates, and to break down the monopoly of university teaching. There is much to be said for careful changes in this direction.
NERVOUS SEQUELÆ OF SMALL-POX. WE would draw special attention to the interesting paper contributed by Drs. Whipham and Myers to the last meeting A NEW ELEMENT: GERMANIUM. of the Clinical Society. The interest of the subject lies MR. CLEMBNS WINKLER writes to the Chemical Society simply in the fact of the occurrence of disorders of articulation after the small-pox has disappeared. Small-pox, like from Freiburg, Saxony, under date Feb. 21st, that he has other acute specific fevers, is liable to be forowed by discovered in the mineral argyrodite a non-metallic element various nervous sequelse, either of cerebral, spinal, or peri- closely related to arsenic and antimony, and that he has pheral origin. Dr. Barlow and Dr. S. Alackenzie con- named it germanium. Argyrodite is a new mineral distributed some interesting cases occurring after small-pox covered at Freiburg by A. Weisbach, consisting of silver, and during measles. We have much yet to learn concern- sulphur, and germanium. ing the disorder of articulation of which living specimens FOREIGN MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. Dr. Rughlings Jackson were exhibited the other night. was inclined to locate the lesion in the medulla oblongata, Dm. A. BOICESU has been appointed to the Professorship and to regard its nature as of thrombotic order. However, of Zoology, and Dr. Maldarescu to that of Clinical Medicine, at present there is but little to be said that is definite. in the University of Bucharest; also Dr. Rizu to the Chair of Therapeutics in the other Roumanian University, Jassy. -
Dr. L. Turnas, of St. Petersburg, has been appointed Professor of Pharmacology in Warsaw. Dr. G. Albertotti has DIFl<’ICULTIES are frequently experienced by medical been appointed Professor of Ophthalmology in Modena. schools in this country in obtaining sufficient subjects for dissection, and we are apt to envy continental schools which THE Museum and Lecture-rooms Syndicate of the Uniappear to us always to enjoy a profusion. This is not, howof is the at case. The ever, invariably versity of Cambridge have issued a report containing Dorpat University earnest appeals from Professor Foster and his assistant which has an order been present considerably agitated by made stopping the supply which had hitherto been obtained lecturers for more space, which is sadly needed for the from the hospitals and prisons of St. Petersburg. Subjects proper teaching of physiology. The plans already approved from these sources are in future to be monopolised by the for the new buildings provide for more accommodation for Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg, and as the the physiologists, but they are not yet taken in hand, and towns in the Baltic provinces where Dorpat is situated are of the object of the report is to hasten their commencement.
SUBJECTS FOR DISSECTION IN RUSSIA.